If You Have To Ask....

( ... on some level you already know the answer. )

Squee?

Serious tech question: Has anyone noticed the high-pitched noise that some people heard on The Last Hero On Earth on any of the iTom songs? Or the new version of Rich Fantasy Lives, or the recording of cadhla's parody of it?

TruePianos

KVR Audio has had a thread going for a few months now about an upcoming piano VSTi that just sounds incredible -- a hybrid instrument, so that it hasn't got nearly the drive footprint or streaming delay of a fully sampled piano, none of the processor overhead or choked notes.

The name of the beastie is True Pianos. That web site is just a placeholder... but this is a video of musician Dave Rich playing with it. (You might also want to listen to the two MP3s in the first post on that thread.)

ME WANT NOW.

Apparently Someone Was Hit In The Head With A Crate Of Sam Peckinpah Films

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (AP) -- Police warned Las Cruces residents that they've received two letters threatening random shootings if city leaders fail to hand over a "substantial" ransom.

I'm sorry, but whoever is threatening this, besides being evil, is a bonehead. I'm very specifically thinking Richard Pryor in Superman III-level stupid. "Hey, Clem! Where'd ye get the Hummer?" "Uh, found it."