Mac crash, Pedro's organ and Leslie control kit
Vanessa's Mac has developed some unfortunate quirks (that's my polite way of saying that it's irreparably cursed). This morning ProTools wouldn't talk to the MIDI interface. Any application that touches MIDI now hangs or crashes. That includes Audio MIDI Setup and Garage Band. Good thing Vanessa had bounced most of MIDI parts to an audio track.
Then a few hours later the external drive with all her ProTools sessions decided to commit suicide. Finder goes into an infinite loop and then dies when trying to copy files off of the drive. Meanwhile Disk Utility says that everything is fine. sigh
I managed to salvage most of the session files off the drive. I hope this will teach Vanessa to leverage the amazing powers of my SCSI-based backup RAID in the future...
Pedro called in panic. His organ had suddenly started to emit unwanted harmonics. I went to the church and had to wait for a couple of hours until rehearsal was over. Broken drawbar wire on the lower manual B preset. Easy fix. And the Montréal Jubilation Gospel Choir is awesome! Well worth the wait.
Back home to muck some more with the Mac and rebuild the 428 Leslie Control Kit from the Chinese Alliance Church. The components had gone way off causing a volume drop when switching speeds. Hope this fixes it...
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