Despite my last entry, cussing Macs, Windows has been driving me batshit mental recently. My Akai MPD24 simply would not work. I put this down to my Logitech webcam, which I have now destroyed. Logitech seem to install things tha you can’t get rid of – I read about problems between their drivers and Akai’s, but most people simply uninstalled the drivers and that was that. It wasn’t that simple for me.
To cut a long, tedious story short, I found this link and after some tinkering in XP’s regedit my MPD worked again.
I know Logitech’s webcam drivers messed it up, and many people’s advice was don’t use a webcam on your DAW but fuck you. I’m a bedroom producer and have one PC and a girlfriend who lives 4,000 miles away from me. I’m not going to sacrifice a webcam because Windows/Logitech/Akai are too incompetent to make things, you know, work in tangent.
My Hue HD webcam seems to work fine with it, but then again, so did my Logitech for a while. Only time will tell.
In other news, I’ve decided to cover Nick Drake’s sumptuous ‘Pink Moon’. Vocoded vocals and everything. Expect it in 2050.