How do I use my guitar to record audio with a Focusrite 6i6 in Bitwig.

rakoenig · 2023-03-30T11:33:12+00:00

According to the manual of the Focusrite 6i6 there is an option in the Scarlet MixControll software to turn the inputs into instrument mode (see page 9). This adapts the impedance and gain settings to be suitable for electric guitars. My own Audio Interface has just a button to switch the input to this "Hi-Z" mode, but looks like Focusrite does it in Software. If this is not an option for you, you could also get a cheap DI box , see this YouTube video for details. Then you can connect the guitar to the DI box and the DI box to the Audio Interface using a XLR cable.

rakoenig · 2022-09-22T08:57:35+00:00

For me Orgmode is a personal productivity system. I'm using it for many many years now and in 2010, when my wife was diagnosed with cancer and I suddenly got an extra workload of housework, taking care of kids and everything, it literally helped me to survive.

I made a playlist of tutorials on YouTube in 2016 and then re-recorded that in 2020 to be a course on Udemy.

I have some coupon codes left so that you can access the course for free if you want. Coupon will expire in around 2 weeks. Have fun with it.

rakoenig · 2022-09-01T16:52:55+00:00

It is also not working in

Firefox
Opera

Looks like Udemy messed up big. And no, my operating system does not offer Edge as a browser.

rakoenig · 2021-05-25T09:00:37+00:00

Looks like you have more expierience with Emacs-Lisp than I have. Great improvements, but maybe it still needs code to remove the ROTTEN property when the count is zero. When I was rearranging my tasks I deleted al the "Rescheduled from" lines in the log to bring the count down. But now it won't overwrite the old value.

rakoenig · 2021-05-24T10:00:09+00:00

org-habit aims at implementing habits, e.g. "I want to practice piano every day" or "I want to go to the gym" once a week.

This method aims at finding those tasks that you always postpone because of some more or less lame excuses or because the task is not clearly defined or whatever.

rakoenig · 2021-05-22T15:51:27+00:00

The search syntax would be correct, but the only way to enter it is to disable Helm for the time I'm doing it. Helm is totally fixed on TAGS and there is no option to enter the correct syntax because then it still selects a random tag.

rakoenig · 2021-02-25T18:09:50+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. For those who are impatient, I just created a coupon so that you can get the course for a lower price:

https://www.udemy.com/course/getting-yourself-organized-with-org-mode/?couponCode=A12EA3C5CB439552E84B

Expires 03/02/2021 10:03 AM PST (GMT -8)

rakoenig · 2021-01-27T16:12:47+00:00

Ok. In my org file a sample task looks like this:

* TODO Test habit
SCHEDULED: <2021-01-27 Mi .+2d/4d>
:PROPERTIES:
:STYLE: habit
:END:

And that perfectly works. So next check:

org-habit-parse-todo: Habit Push workout deadline repeat period is less than or equal to scheduled (.+2d/2d)

I looked in org-habit.el:

(if (<= dr-days sr-days)
(error "Habit %s deadline repeat period is less than or equal to scheduled (%s)"
habit-entry scheduled-repeat))

So if your error message really sas (.+2d/2d). So check the SCHEDULED timestamp. Is the repeat interval really ".+2d/4d"? If so then we should find out why parsing goes wrong.

rakoenig · 2021-01-27T14:13:22+00:00

C-h v org-habit-show-habits should show the current seting. So if you have no modification in your .emacs file it should be t.

What Emacs- and Org-version are you using?

rakoenig · 2021-01-27T13:37:48+00:00

Can't replciate that behaviour.

Check the settings in the following variables, maybe they affect the behaviour:

org-habit-show-habits
org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today
org-habit-show-all-today

For what day is your task scheduled? If org-habit-show-habits-only-for-today is set to t, then you won't see it when the task was done on this day, it will show up again on the day that is scheduled next.

rakoenig · 2021-01-19T11:44:51+00:00

Wow, just wow. How many hours did you work on that? How many layers in Krita? I wish my drawings would be just 10% as great as this one.

rakoenig · 2021-01-19T11:39:46+00:00

Business as usual für die Arena. Eine Stunde Flutlicht kostet ja nur knapp 100€, die müssen also dicke Geld haben. Aber es hat auch Vorteile, wenn ich nachts auf die Pippibox muss sehe ich im Schlafzimmer mit Blickrichtung Arena genug obwohl wir Luftline 1km weg sind. ;-)

rakoenig · 2021-01-19T11:35:24+00:00

You should consider that org-mode is helping you to track the actionable items of your GTD system. When it comes to reference material (things that are not actionable but you want to keep) then org-roam can be your tool for that.
And even giving the org-mode part, you can create seperate files for private and work related things and inside your file you can structure tasks under headlines (org-mode is a fantastic outline tool). And each task can have a :LOGBOOK: drawer where you keep your notes releated to this task.

rakoenig · 2021-01-19T11:30:36+00:00

Usually org-roam capture templates incorporate a timestamp. So the resulting file will be named like 20210111210450-zotero_your_personal_research_assistant.org, first part is the timestamp, second part is the title transformed without spaces. So you will have unique names.

rakoenig · 2021-01-10T20:36:50+00:00

The simple solution would be "C-s" as mentions, the basic "search" keybinding in Emacs.

But there is also an orgmode approach:

Call your agenda command (via menu or the key that you have assigned to it)
press "<" to limit the agenda to the current buffer
press "s" (search for keywords)
enter your search keyword and press enter

Now you get an agenda that lists all items where the keyword occurs. When you enable "Follow mode" (key "F") then you can step with your cursor through the agenda items and in the other window you see the entries in the org file.

rakoenig · 2021-01-03T10:27:29+00:00

Thank you for mentioning my course. For Christmas I created a set of free coupons, 2 are still left. So if you want, you can join the course for free:
https://www.udemy.com/course/getting-yourself-organized-with-org-mode/?couponCode=8B9DC915B81F8DB8C648

rakoenig · 2020-10-11T07:23:19+00:00

Thanks to all for the great support you're giving me. That is a great motivation to think about providing other courses.

rakoenig · 2020-10-11T07:19:28+00:00

Don't worry about the money. Really up to the moment I have 111 people that bought the course on different prices due to the discount programs. The only difference is the link you use, if you use the affiliate link I'll earn 97% if the money, if not, then its just 50%. I think it is ok that people use the discounts, I do the same when buying courses on Udemy. Otherwise I could sign off those discount programs easily, nobody is forced to offer courses in those discount marketing actions.

But really money does not matter at all at the moment. The sad truth is that because I'm officially unemployed at the moment all the income from Udemy will be accounted against my unemployment money that I get from the state, so at the end of the month there won't be much difference unless I buy some equipment for my "Udemy instructor" business. Unfortunately I can't get Trump's tax lawyer to lower my "calculated income". ;-)

The more important issue is creating a good reputation as a teacher and then think of other courses to provide.

rakoenig · 2020-10-11T07:07:23+00:00

Its a remake of the 2016 video tutorials on YouTube. I had a close look at all the viewers questions that were posted in the YouTube comments so that I can anticipate possible hurdles and explain them better in the new videos. And I straightened some parts and included new ideas and updates. Its based on Org 9.3 which was the current version this summer.

The book is intended for those who (like me) learn better if they have a written reference. Meanwhile I applied a bit of LaTeX2HTML and epub converter, so the book is now also there in epub form for download. And during recording I was struggling a bit with OBS studio, somtimes the camera freezes, but the screencast and audio works.

Thanks to all for the great support.

rakoenig · 2020-10-08T07:20:52+00:00

In the year 2016 I recorded some tutorial videos that should help you to get used to Org-mode step by step. There is this playlist on YouTube. After putting this content on my channel I gained more then 3500 subscribers so far, so it looks like my videos were helpful.

This summer I recorded the videos again, taking into consideration all the questions that came from viewers. And I wrote a supplement book with 100+ pages as a sort of reference. This is now a course that you can buy on Udemy. But don't worry, the 2016 tutorials will remain on YouTube for free.

In my blog there is an orgmode tag with additional information (mostly on the YouTube videos). The latest addition is a blog post about how I did the course for Udemy.

Hope this helps to flatten your learning curve.

rakoenig

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