The debut album entitled “1st” by Alexander Lindo is out now.
Featuring hits such as “Power” and “The Fight Is Ours” which embarks upon an operatic / classical take on rock. “Love Yourself” moves into hard rock territory with words of self-empowerment accompanied by driven power chords creating a wonderful vibe that is sure to please. The journey doesn’t stop there…
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Alexander Lindo’s EP entitled “Progression” is Out Now on all major online music stores.
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All songs were written, composed, mixed, mastered and performed by Alexander Lindo. Released: September 23rd, 2016. ⓒ 2010-2016 Alexander Lindo. All Rights Reserved.
Alexander Lindo performs “Miracle” from his debut album “1st” live at Next Door C&I in Fort Lauderdale. Filmed by lu_hound Thanks to the Art Prevails Project for making this possible. Check it out and do not forget to like, follow and subscribe on social media. Rock on!
WWDC 2019 was packed with great upgrades to macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS but the most exciting update in Alexander Lindo’s opinion was the re-introduction of the modular Mac Pro.
Based on Intel’s Xeon processor, the new Mac Pro enables professionals to configure up to 28 cores of processing power. Of course, all of those cores require a great cooling solution and Apple have done just that. There is a massive heat sink attached to the processor with heat pipes designed to move heat away from the processor. The heat is then transferred by the heat pipes to a stack of aluminum fins. 3 massive fans located at the front of the Mac Pro’s chassis pull in cool air and transfers it throughout the entire chassis. There is an additional fan near the rear for heat extraction. If that was not enough, you can configure the Mac Pro with up to 1.5TB of RAM. That is truly remarkable.
The new Mac Pro’s processing power was demonstrated by David Earl at the WWDC keynote when he loaded up a massive 1000+ track Logic project with a variety of virtual instruments and plugins on each track. The project ran natively without a hitch. He further progressed to show us the 8k video editing capabilities of Final Cut Pro whilst on the new Mac Pro. Very Impressive, indeed.
For users of Pro Tools, the new Mac Pro features eight PCI Express expansion slots. This will allow Pro Tools HD users to install HDX cards in the Mac Pro’s chassis as opposed to the expansion chassis that was required with the previous model. Video Editors and Graphics designers will be able swap out/add/combine graphics cards, yielding even faster workflows and rendering times. The machine is powered by a 1.4kW power supply with 300 watts powering to the CPU, leaving plenty of headroom for expansion.
From its stainless steel frame with a solid aluminum body, lattice design with massive fans for superior airflow, to its powerful internals, the Mac Pro of 2019 is a truly a remarkable machine. The new Mac Pro is coming this Fall. Visit apple.com for more information. Do not forget to subscribe to and follow Alexander Lindo on social media.
Alexander remixes Crave by Madonna
Alexander remembers the first computer that he ever owned: the Apple II. What a fascinating machine that was back in the day. Fast forward to 2018 where technology is at its pinnacle. We are at the point where even a slim fan-less 12” MacBook can run Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X. Looking at the history, Apple has always made the best products in the industry and that remains true today.
macOS Mojave has been shaping up to be one of the greatest releases of macOS from Apple. After using the beta for quite sometime, Alexander Lindo is thoroughly impressed. Featuring a polished interface, along with some welcome refinements to “Internet Accounts” in System Preferences and the “Share Menu” under Extensions. The clean up is much appreciated. We have improved privacy settings, allowing us to have better control over the data that applications have access to. The new “App Store” looks brilliant with large screenshots, live previews, enhanced editorial and an overall more structured modern appearance. The “News” app, ported over from iOS provides you with the ability to follow topics and sources of your choice thus enabling you to stay up-to-date with the content most relevant to you.
Mojave has quite a few features that will appeal to creative professionals starting with Dark mode. “Dark Mode” converts all windows and menus to a space grey appearance, embracing influence from professional applications such as Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X. While Alexander much prefers using “Light” mode (most of the time), he has found “Dark” mode to be quite useful at night or when in a dark area. The new “Gallery” view in Finder is very handy when looking through multiple photos before importing them to your “Photos” library. Within this new view, we have the ability to peruse extensive file metadata without having to use the “Get Info” function. This is a huge time saver. We can rotate the photo, export one or multiple photos as a PDF among other quick actions configurable under “System Preferences > Extensions > Finder”.
With Mojave, Apple has fixed FileVault disk encryption. After enabling it, it took less than a few hours for a full disk encryption to complete, just like it did in macOS Sierra and previous versions of macOS. In High Sierra it took two full days to complete. It must be noted however that initially when enabling FileVault for Mojave, Alexander did encounter a bug which resulted in the spinning beachball, at which point he was forced to reboot the machine. After that, the process completed without an issue.
Logic Pro X works well (like it did on macOS Sierra). The interface feels snappy and CPU usage has improved significantly. While Alexander Lindo tries to limit his dependency on third party plugins, (especially those with unnecessarily hefty requirements), from what he has tested, plugins from the likes of: FabFilter, Focusrite, Blue Cat Audio and Audio Damage among other third party AU plugins work well in Logic Pro X on macOS Mojave. Alexander has also noticed an improvement in the audio quality of his Focusrite audio interface since upgrading to Mojave.
After using the final release of Mojave along with all its welcomed updates for a week now, it can be concluded that Mojave is one of the best macOS releases since Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The OS feels more responsive and more stable than its predecessor: High Sierra. The new cosmetic and performance enhancements along with its new features place Mojave even further into the realm of excellence.
