{"id":1379,"date":"2013-12-31T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2014-01-27T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T01:20:35","slug":"woof-woof-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Woof Woof. Books."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sick as a dog. When we got together at Christmas, we not only exchanged presents and shared Christmas cheer, we also swapped viruses around, it seems.<\/p>\n

I have a nasty fever and generally feel like the bottom of someone’s shoe.<\/p>\n

The worst part of it is that my SO and I aren’t going to be able to go out for New Year’s. I don’t want her to get sick. That would suck. She has a lot of lawyer stuff to do, and being sick would just make it a lot harder to do it.<\/p>\n

And no, I haven’t made any progress on the monitor stand. I don’t think inhaling fumes would help any.<\/p>\n

Books!<\/h3>\n

Being sick didn’t stop me from ordering a really cool book. Robert Anselmi runs Reason101.net<\/a>, and he’s one of the long-time posters on the Propellerhead User Forums. He’s forgotten more about Reason than I know. Anyway, he has put together a huge book<\/a> on how to get the most out of Reason’s standard instruments, as well as a few of its Rack Extensions. It’s called “Robert Anselmi’s Reason101 Visual Guide to the Reason Rack.”<\/p>\n

He’s self-publishing it through Lulu<\/a>. I managed to find a discount code, so I ordered the book. I can’t wait to read it when I’m feeling better.<\/p>\n

The best part? You can get spiral binding! If you’re a musician, you know how awesome spiral bindings are. That version also comes with a free ReFill, too. It should get here soon.<\/p>\n

Another book I got recently (for Christmas) was Daniel R. Mitchell’s book, “BasicSynth: Creating a Music Synthesizer in Software.” It’s an interesting read so far, but I realize I need to get better at programming before tackling parts of it. Someday, I’d love to make my own synthesizer. That would be so cool. And it would have the shiniest<\/em> knobs and buttons ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In Closing<\/h3>\n

Happy New Year, everyone. Be safe. I’m just going to go in that corner over there and be sick some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sick as a dog, so no New Year’s going out for me this year. I ordered what looks like it will be a great book on Reason, and I started reading “BasicSynth,” a book about synthesizer programming. Good times. Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,904,791,792,903,799,668,542,661,798,744],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-books","tag-diy","tag-making-stuff","tag-monitor-stand","tag-music","tag-programming","tag-reason","tag-shopping","tag-software","tag-synthesizer","tag-vst","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}