Monthly Archives: October 2009

Monster Ball is now live in the iTunes App Store! Download your copy today!

Sure, I know what you’re thinking… “when would I have to do that!?!”

Well, that’s what I would have said until lately when this became an issue!

Right now, in the studio I am running a “samples only” slave machine without a monitor or keyboard, relying simply on Apple’s built-in screen sharing feature to help me manage Kontakt on that machine.  All is going well until I decide to load another sample library onto the slave computer from some DVD-ROM’s I have and I run into this issue!  Using the eject key on my main computer’s keyboard does NOT translate “through” screen sharing to mean “eject the SLAVE MACHINE’s optical drive”.  Instead, it only ejects the master machine.  Oops!

After some searching around, I found that a feature DOES exist to create what is shown in the screen shot above – a way to eject the optical drive tray from the menu bar!

To set this up, simply navigate on your system to:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/

There will be a file in there called “Eject.menu”

Simply double-click this and presto!  You will have the option to click and eject!  Enjoy!

Seguin Sound has been added to the Kansas City Film Commission’s Production Guide!  With entries in both the Composer and Sound Recording Services category, we hope to work with some film makers in the local Kansas City area soon!

An interesting read over at Gamasutra about the theory behind audio “ducking” for games.  Give it a read!

Hooray!  The final acoustical installation is finally complete!  The acoustical “cloud” as shown here takes care of primary reflections coming from the ceiling in order to give a more “true image” of the sound before it hits my ears in the listening position – drastically tightening up the sound!