My wife Eva composed a song. She has made other melodies but this one was the first she came up with that has lyrics. Today I put the vocal in the mix. I did the backing track on the DGX-670. She isn’t a professional singer, and I made some mistakes, mainly in the drum track,… Continue reading The Star of the Show
Author: thespyde
Why Do I Do It?
Today, while I was updating Reaper to its latest version, I pondered in my mind, why do I do it? Why keep updating software I’ll never be able to use anywhere proficiently? At one point I was following someone on Twitter, now X, who said he could teach me some things, but that never came… Continue reading Why Do I Do It?
My First Attempt on the Yamaha DGX-670
Yesterday I decided to dive into doing a song. The recording process went very well but when I tried to save it I found I couldn’t do it without sighted help, so wife Eva’s assistant Pekka helped me. The song wound up in the internal user drive on the keyboard, rather than on my USB… Continue reading My First Attempt on the Yamaha DGX-670
An Exciting, New Aventure in Music for Me
A couple days ago I made a deal with a friend of wife Eva, selling my Yamaha P-115 to her for 300 Euros. Her husband came yesterday evening, paid me for it and took it and its wooden stand with him. I don’t think his wife was with him. The evening I made the deal,… Continue reading An Exciting, New Aventure in Music for Me
A Project for Wife Eva
Recently, an Internet radio station Eva listens to, Windy Radio, a German station, announced that it would be possible to win a seal, possibly a stuffed one, if one could figure out a way to convince them to give said seal to him/her. So, Eva decided to write a text and enter it into their… Continue reading A Project for Wife Eva
Fireworks
I’ve seen that some folks like fireworks. I haven’t been to many fireworks shows but I have a few recordings from when I lived in the states. These are from Monroe, Louisiana, a street on the east side, rather in the suburbs. I’ll just post the first one here. I don’t know if time will… Continue reading Fireworks
A Note on the Audio and Braille German Courses
When I was in high school and took a year of French, I had tapes and a book that went right along with those tapes. I could listen to the pronunciation and read how it was spelled at the same time. I’m finding the Braille and audio German courses to be a bit of a… Continue reading A Note on the Audio and Braille German Courses
At Long Last
Well, this is a short post. Last night I saw that the Braille material was finally available on BARD for the two German courses, so I’ve downloaded it at long last. It does remain to be seen if I can learn anything significant from this method.
Braille Display Woes Continue
I really thought I’d done it, paired my Braille display with my iPhone as it was using iOS 15. Back in those days, I was able to turn on the display, and anytime the iPhone came up with some kind of activity, the display would instantly react. Now, when I pair them together, the next… Continue reading Braille Display Woes Continue
Update Failure, Orbit Reader 20
The last firmware update I had on my Orbit Reader 20 Braille display was b0.00.00.69r18. Having seen version b0.00.00.69r22 on Orbit Research’s site, I decided to update. After the update I immediately noticed the display, when powered on, showed, not the file I had open last, but one I’d never opened, a file called Welcome… Continue reading Update Failure, Orbit Reader 20