Saitek X52 Pro Not Being Detected by Driver Installation Program (Windows 8 and 10)

My X-52 has been a real pain in the butt in Windows 10. It’s hit or miss if after a reboot the joystick is going to be detected by Windows. Attempting to re-run the driver installer doesn’t help. I found the following tip at the Windows Support site and seems to do the trick.

I finally found a Solution, when I try to load the driver and it gets to the point that it asked me to plug in the device I went to the device manager and when it asked me to install the driver I clicked “browse my computer” then”let me pick from a list” from there it gave me 3 choices, 2 of them were X52 Controllers, the 3rd was a generic USB device, I selected the Generic Device and then the Saitek Driver installer was able to finish its installation

Marketing is Too High a Priority at Apple Today

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-apple-users-really-hate-apple-software-20160208-column.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

Conjectures about why Apple can’t get its software act together abound. The most common is that the company has become so trapped in its cycle of annual hardware upgrades — a new iPhone had better appear every September, or else — that it’s simply incapable of keeping its software maintained. Programmer Marco Arment, in a widely-read comment last year, speculated that “the rapid decline of Apple’s software is a sign that marketing is too high a priority at Apple today: having major new releases every year is clearly impossible for the engineering teams to keep up with while maintaining quality. … They’re doing too much, with unrealistic deadlines.”

Quick Joyo Classic Flanger Demo – (Van Halen Settings)

Quick recording using my iPhone :

Amp : Blackstar Stage 60, channel 2, a little reverb

Pedals : EVH 5150 Distortion, Joyo Classic Flanger, Biyang Time Machine Analog Delay

Using 3D Touch on Apple 6s

http://www.macrumors.com/how-to/iphone-6s-3d-touch/

Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus has been selling strongly since its launch last month, thanks in part to a number of new features including 3D Touch. With it, users can access Quick Actions from the home screen and Peek and Pop from within a variety of stock and third-party apps.

 

  • Quick Action
  • Peek and Pop
  • Turn your Keyboard into a Trackpad
  • Activating Live Photos
  • Multitasking
  • Pressure-sensitive drawing

James Taylor – “Acoustic Guitar is Not a Precise Instrument”

Tuning your guitar to counteract the bass strings’ larger gauge, and tendency to go sharp.

Mitch Malloy Could Have Been VH’s Singer

I’m pretty sure that Ray Danniels, along with Eddie’s alcoholism is what ruined Van Halen in the post Sammy era. Eddie and Sammy fighting over the management of the band was one of the biggest issues that caused Sammy to leave. Danniels had  recently become the manager during that time. While searching for new singers, VH auditioned Mitch Malloy who was eventually turned down for the gig in favor of Gary Cherone, whom Danniels also managed. The video below is a previously unreleased demo track with Mitch on vocals.

https://youtu.be/9pfFErkwbFA

Joe Satriani’s Guide to Stacked Fourths

http://www.guitarworld.com/joe-satrianis-guide-building-chords-stacked-fourths-video/25929

If someone had mentioned the term “stacked fourths” to me years ago, I would have had no idea what they were talking about.

But I later learned that it is really quite simple and represents a cool approach to constructing chords. In this lesson, I’d like to show you some interesting things you can do with stacked fourths.

In music theory, every note in a chord can be assigned an intervallic number. Typically, we’re dealing with scales built from five to eight notes, and each note is given a number to represent its placement within the given scale.