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>>i just find myself fascinated by the 'runaway' spy satellite projected to crash into the earth in march. i just read that the pentagon is planning to shoot it down. i imagine this satellite like one of my repeaters when it gets jammed. all it can do is go round and round, gradually slipping out of sync towards the destruction of your performance...until you 'kill' it.<< missed a few digests due to being in the studio, playing with one of my repeaters some of the time. I still use mine from the front panel, though I have addressed it with midi notes before now (long before the o/s upgrade) & I got all four channels to hop around quite briskly with only a hint of glissando.... but back to the satellite. when I started at MTV, a long time ago, I used to sit in the playout suite ("the sharp end of the boat") as it was the most entertaining place to be for an engineer/musician on night-shift. we would often change the playlist entirely, or mess about with odd transitions between music videos.... like bringing up the audio from a third clip during a video mix between two other clips.... sort of like a vinyl DJ would do during a live set, only with a betacart & video/audio mixers... but my favourite trick relied on the fact that, for reasons lost in the mists of time, the off-air monitoring was brought back onto the vision & audio routing, & so the audio returning from the satellite could be brought up on the audio desk whenever we wanted. of course, we had to pick music running at the right tempo, but when something appropriate came on, it was a real blast to create a dubby remix of something using this multi-million dollar delay system & the forces of nature..... never mind the roland reissue, this was a real space-echo! duncan. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This e-mail (and any attached files) is confidential and protected by copyright (and other intellectual property rights). If you are not the intended recipient please e-mail the sender and then delete the email and any attached files immediately. Any further use or dissemination is prohibited. While MTV Networks Europe has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus free, it is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are virus free and do not affect your systems / data. Communicating by email is not 100% secure and carries risks such as delay, data corruption, non-delivery, wrongful interception and unauthorised amendment. If you communicate with us by e-mail, you acknowledge and assume these risks, and you agree to take appropriate measures to minimise these risks when e-mailing us. MTV Networks International, MTV Networks UK & Ireland, Greenhouse, Nickelodeon Viacom Consumer Products, VBSi, Viacom Brand Solutions International and Comedy Central are all trading names of MTV Networks Europe. MTV Networks Europe is a partnership between MTV Networks Europe Inc. and Viacom Networks Europe Inc. Address for service in Great Britain is UK House, 180 Oxford Street, London W1D 1DS, UK.