Eduardo Larez – sound engineer

I’ve been using the new Logic Pro 8 . User friendly is the goal of apple’s new Logic 8 version, it haves new instruments too and the good loop browser from ver 7 that reads rex files and midi files . Logic 8 comes with a new program main stage to create live instrument environments its nice too . for more info go to apple site and browse the logic 8 powerful new tools.

I will be using 9 in the near future  .

Jan 29 2008: Albert Hofmann passed away at his home at 9am on Tuesday
Apr 29, 2008 of a heart attack at the age of 102. He will be missed.

Summary
Albert Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland in 1906. He graduated
from the University of Zürich with a degree in chemistry in 1929 and
went to work for Sandoz Pharmaceutical in Basel, Switzerland. With the
laboratory goal of working towards isolation of the active principles
of known medicinal plants, Hofmann worked with Mediterranean squill
(Scilla maritima) for several years, before moving on to the study of
Claviceps purpurea (ergot) and ergot alkaloids.

Over the next few years, he worked his way through the lysergic acid
derivatives, eventually synthesizing LSD-25 for the first time in
1938. After minimal testing, LSD-25 was set aside as he continued with
other derivatives. Four years later, on April 16, 1943, he
re-synthesized LSD-25 because he felt he might have missed something
the first time around. That day, he became the first human to
experience the effects of LSD after accidentally ingesting a minute
amount. Three days later, on April 19, 1943, he decided to verify his
results by intentionally ingesting 250 ug of LSD. This day has become
known as “Bicycle Day” as Hofmann experienced an incredible bicycle
ride on his way home from the lab.

In addition to his discovery of LSD, he was also the first to
synthesize psilocybin (the active constituent of ‘magic mushrooms’) in
1958. Albert Hofmann, known as the ‘father of LSD’, continued to work
at Sandoz until 1971 when he retired as Director of Research for the
Department of Natural Products. He continued to write, lecture, and
play a leading role as an elder in the psychedelic community until his
death at the age of 102.