ROLI Dashboard is used to control certain aspects of ROLI instruments such as the Seaboard and Lightpad. In particular, it can be used to change the Lightpad’s mode, going from the drum pad to the RISE controller. Unfortunately, sometimes, apparently more and more often, the Dashboard won’t work at all, showing the following error. This… Poursuivre la lecture The broken ROLI dashboard
Étiquette : Windows 10
Will it remain possible to upgrade laptops with SSD?
Last year, I upgraded my sister’s Thinkpad G500 with a SSD, which greatly increased its performance. The laptop also suffered from hardware issues because of its faulty DVD drive; removing the drive surprisingly cured it. After this success, I was thinking about improving her boyfriend’s laptop, an HP machine that happened to be slower than… Poursuivre la lecture Will it remain possible to upgrade laptops with SSD?
Bumpy Windows 10 activation
It’s been months I was thinking about a way to upgrade my parents’ computer to Windows 10. The machine was running a copy of Windows 7 that failed to activate so required a crack. I wanted to both upgrade to Windows 10 and get it a fully activated genuine copy. However, the machine was four… Poursuivre la lecture Bumpy Windows 10 activation
A dying laptop
My Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 15 is dying. It happened the second time today, and that’s quite concerning. Suddenly, the machine freezes, keyboard is not responding, the mouse is moving but clicking does nothing. There is no way out other than rebooting, and when I did it, the screen became black with an error message displayed… Poursuivre la lecture A dying laptop
Trying to salvage a lemon
My sister got a Thinkpad G500 from Lenovo pretty much at the same time I purchased my Ideapad Yoga 13 from the same brand. My Ideapad, while suffering from battery life and wi-fi issues and being stuck with a too small SSD, still performs reasonably. It still boots fast and doesn’t exhibit hardware issues. The… Poursuivre la lecture Trying to salvage a lemon
Bumpy Ableton Live session
Yesterday, I tried upgrading to latest Ableton’s Live, the 9.7.1 version. Everything went well, but I got other issues, not related to Live, that made my work session quite bad and frustrating. S/PDIF not working great A month ago, I got a new audio interface: the Focusrite’s Scarlett 18i20. This amazing device provides eight analog… Poursuivre la lecture Bumpy Ableton Live session
Windows 10: a new hope or not?
Since I moved to Windows 8 two years ago, I experienced several issues with my system. There was nothing major, and only suspicions that the cause was Windows 8 itself, so I was worried about finding the same issue after downgrading to Windows 7. I thus kept that Windows 8 installation and lived with the… Poursuivre la lecture Windows 10: a new hope or not?