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I think that there is a "Fruityloops syndrome" that is often mistaken for synaesthesia. Perceiving lines, colors and boxes along with sound and music could as well be a result from too much sequencing or playing guitar hero, IMO, just like a manic tetris player would obsessively try to mentally fit tetrominoes into every architectural crevice around (been there, done that ). I wouldn't consider myself a synaesthete, but I definitely suffer from the fruityloops syndrome.

But I think that most people around me have made occasional synaesthetic-ish observations. There are "loud colors," "soft sound" etc. that don't really make sense from any logical standpoint (and you can go even further, thinking about "sharp" and "flat" tones, feeling "blue" -- there's really a whole lot of cultural baggage that comes with colors, sounds, emotions and shapes). Most people are also able to intuitively translate music into motion and moods into colors, maybe because of cultural training.

My advice is to start out small and slowly and use what you have to the greatest possible degree: Your exact needs will be naturally apparent after a while and that way you don't have to waste a ton of money on a bulk of gear that in the worst case will just be collecting dust.

As for computers, I recommend getting a quiet stationary one in any price class and getting a sound blaster audigy. The noise floor might not be professional quality, but I remember doing 4 track recording with an audigy 2 using the unofficial kX driver. The DSP is made entirely modular, and you can patch inputs to outputs however you want, load external effect plugins, mix and equalize without throwing anything at the processor. There's also soundfont support, modular synth DSP plugins etc... In many cases you'll find that it's more than enough.

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I agree with Sycamore Drive about the content.

- The entertainment/word ratio is way too low.
- The lists and images seem redundant to me.
- The tone throughout the whole article might seem a bit too assertive.
- I think that the harsh criticism in the beginning conflicts with the notion that artists get the "praise they genuinely deserve" on, frankly, very culturally biased sites like 8bc or chipmusic.org.
- Mixing a rant and an artist review is confusing, and the whole article seems unfocused.

As for the layout, the color contrast between the text, links and background is distracting, the margins are too narrow and the grey background adds to the generally cluttered and dense feel. I didn't realize that the dinosaur heads are links until just now. The site also doesn't resize very well, and I have to scroll sideways in anything less that 1200 px width, while the actual content width is just above half of that. The red glow around the headlines looks like something from 1999 (for better or for worse ).

But yeah, it seems like a good first effort for a blog!

Dunno, the I/O delays were enough to suspend my disbelief

I think that they are meant for splitting, so unless you want to short the inputs it's probably no good (a passive mixer should have some resistors to prevent short circuit)... But I think that you can get away with it!

EDIT: Turns out that they are indeed intended for mxing. Should work just fine with a small quality loss and lower total volume.

How's the noise compared to a normal PSU? Buzzing, humming etc.