Monthly Archives: January 2009

Missouri S&T Alma Mater
The University of Missouri-Rolla changed their name in 2008 to the Missouri University of Science and Technology.  Beyond all the logo and sign changing they underwent they also contracted Seguin Sound to create a new vocal (SATB + piano) and wind band arrangement of their alma mater to accompany new text and generally “update” the score while still making it recognizable to past alumni.  You can download the first page of the wind band conductor score by clicking here.

Well folks, I’ve done it.  The old site (still available, for now, here), has been completely converted into a WordPress site!  Hopefully this will make it easier to update as well as be able to be a bit flashier in appearance.  Enjoy!

I’ve been noticing a trend lately.  It seems that many folks (and this may have happened two years ago and I’m just totally out of touch) are running their entire sites using WordPress!  In other words, they don’t have a “site” and then a “blog”, they just run WordPress and bend it to their will to make it more of a CMS than just a blog.  This is entirely reasonably, of course, as you can create pages which act a bit differently than “blog posts”.  I will definitely work at experimenting with this.  Potentially soon you will see a transformation of the old Seguin Sound site into the brand new one based off of the current WordPress theme I am using – which I like quite a bit!  Stay tuned!

Ah, finally!  Per Sweetwater’s handy NAMM summary, I just learned that EWQL will be releasing updated versions of both RA and Symphonic Choirs on the PLAY interface!  For many of us who use Intel Macs now this is a HUGE deal as these libraries essentially STOPPED working (unless you transferred things to Kontakt 3, etc.).  The new interfaces look very cool, especially the promise of WordBuilder being integrated INTO the plug-in and not a seperate application!  Here’s hoping!

Anyone who is using the new version of WordPress might appreciate this!  There is some issues with the new “captions” feature for images.  I found a great fix here which I am simply reposting below.

Paste this to the bottom of your style.css.  Worked like a charm for me!

/* Captions */
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
/* End captions */