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The major manifest

#THE MAJOR MANIFEST SERIES#

But now that season 2 is in the books, let’s take a look back and go over what we learned this year as well as whatever questions we might still have leading into season 3.īefore we get into the details of the finale, let’s not neglect the Al-Zuras connection that’s still out there.

#THE MAJOR MANIFEST SERIES#

After it jettisoned unnecessary characters like Danny and Lourdes and the relationship drama they brought with them, the series went all in on its sci-fi mystery and ended up the better for it. “There could be a spooky haunting!” Karkanis suggests.When Manifest wrapped up its second season, our reviews overwhelmingly marked it as a more successful overall story than the show’s first run, and the finale was certainly a big part of that. Her character lives on through Cal, through Olive, through baby Eden, and of course through Ben as he tries to carry on without her.” And yes, the door is open to possibly see her again. This was part of our story, and her significance in Manifest remains as strong as ever. What the creator wants to make sure fans know is that they “did not make this decision lightly,” he says. And it’s why I’m sure people are tearing their hair out all over the world right now having seen what happened to Grace in that Season 3 finale. She, in that moment, and in so many moments, perfectly captured the power and the pain of every mother, every wife, every woman, and her ability to channel that emotional state again and again and again is why the audience is so deeply in love with Grace as a character and with Athena as an actress. Rake agrees, adding, “Athena basically broke her arm and still managed to give that unbelievably powerful performance. “It made the audience just lock in and realize the significance of them being in a way and how important those characters were to her character.” “That moment was so important because it made the audience realize that we can love these characters through her because of her love running towards us and her emotions that were coming out towards those characters,” Dallas says. That was also true of the family’s reunion in the pilot when Ben and Cal returned after 828 disappeared for five and a half years. Athena just knows where the heart and soul of a scene lies,” Rake adds, pointing to her performance in that scene, the last one they shot for the season, and remembering looking at the director and saying, “What Athena is giving us right now is exactly what this moment wants to be.” “I don’t know that I’ve ever worked with a more intuitive actor. “Also it would have been wrong to play that moment as, ‘Oh my God, Cal, look at you, you’re so tall now!'” “A mother knows her child,” Karkanis says. If you thought Grace didn’t look as shocked as she should have been by the new Cal, that was by design. The sacrifice he made in giving up those years is one “he’s made for everyone in the world,” not just his family and the other passengers.īut one person who didn’t really need an explanation was his mother. “It’s for Ben and the others to figure out where he’s been, why he was there, what happened there,” Rake says. Speaking of the inexplicable, there’s the matter of where Cal was after he disappeared near the end of Season 3 before returning, having aged. … So you can imagine Ben in Season 4 seeking vengeance for his wife, seeking meaning for the inexplicable, and it becomes the absolute driving force for his character not only in Season 4 but in the back half of the series.” “Why did this happen? Why would the Callings allow something so terrible and devastating to happen? And of course, it’s tied into so much other complicated stuff. “A Season 4 of Manifest for Ben is absolutely centered around processing, digesting, coming to emotional terms with such an unspeakable loss, and then trying to find a way to seek vengeance, to kind of justify the act in terms of finding some meaning out of it. It’s “the most fundamental, life-altering, devastating thing that could happen to ,” the creator says. We have to keep it to ourselves and let them be shocked when they turn the page.”īen still has to find out about Grace’s death at the end of the finale, he only suspects something has happened due to a Calling. He left it up to Karkanis, who said, “No, absolutely. “When Athena and I talked about it, we said to each other, ‘Should we tell the other actors?'” Rake recalls. The rest of the cast was as well, and that’s due to Karkanis. If you were shocked by what happened to Grace, you weren’t the only ones.

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Focusrite saffire mixcontrol

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol drivers

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol driver

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol full

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol series

A loopback function allows you to return audio from other applications directly to your DAW via MixControl.

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol driver

A computer app called Saffire MixControl handles the basic setup of the interface, allowing you to set the clock source, lightpipe configuration (ADAT or S/PDIF), sample rate (up to 96kHz), Firewire driver latency (with short, medium, long, and very long options) and ASIO buffers (anywhere from 32 to 2048), and I/O routing, as well as using its 18 x 8 DSP-assisted virtual mixer for setting up ultra low-latency monitoring that is independent of your DAW's mixer and monitoring functions.

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol drivers

The software bundle for the Saffire Pro 26 doesn't come in the box, but instructions for downloading the drivers and applications is provided, and it's all relatively pain-free and easy to get everything going.There's also MIDI input and output on 5-pin DIN jacks, so you can connect and use external MIDI devices, even if they lack MIDI over USB.Having enough outputs can also be important for sending cue mixes to external headphone amps, multichannel monitoring, patching in outboard effects processors and for other tasks, and the Saffire Pro 26 doesn't disappoint here either, with six balanced 1/4" TRS line outputs on the rear panel.This can be configured for ADAT lightpipe or S/PDIF optical, so you can easily add something like a Focusrite Octopre Mk II to increase the amount of mic inputs to 12, which is enough to record an entire rhythm section simultaneously. Still not enough inputs for you? You also get two more rear panel balanced 1/4" TRS line inputs, as well as coax S/PDIF I/O and a optical digital input.48V phantom power is also provided, and is switchable in banks of two. You get four very solid sounding Focusrite mic / line inputs / preamps, two of which also have switches for configuring them as high-impedance instrument inputs, as well as 8dB pad switches. The Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 is well-equipped with lots of I/O. While two inputs may be fine for you today, you may find yourself needing more tomorrow, and realistically, anything less than four channels prevents you from effectively recording more complex sources, such as drum kits. One thing I frequently advise people to consider when purchasing an interface is the number of simultaneously available input channels they'll need.The front panel is well laid out, uncluttered, and features five-segment multicolored LED meters for all six main input channels.

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol full

At approximately 12.5" W x 8.5" D x 1.625" H (including the knobs and jacks) the hardware is more compact than a full rack space unit, and designed for tabletop use.A front panel power switch is provided, which is always nice to see. The Saffire Pro 26 can be bus-powered by the Firewire bus, although Focusrite does recommend using the supplied power supply when connecting it to a Thunderbolt port via an adapter.It can also be connected to a Thunderbolt equipped Macintosh computer with a Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter, which is sold separately. A Firewire 400 to Firewire 800 cable is included. The Saffire Pro 26 (which should not be confused with an earlier interface that shared a similar moniker) is an 18 input, 8 output, 24 bit computer audio / MIDI interface that connects to the host computer (Mac or PC) via a Firewire 400 connector on the back of the interface.

#Focusrite saffire mixcontrol series

Their Saffire series of Firewire audio interfaces has long been a hit with users too, and today we'll be taking a look at the latest product in that series, the Saffire Pro 26, which is designed with studio recording and live performance use in mind. The Focusrite name has an illustrious history, and the company has made some of the most respected large frame mixing consoles and outboard processors ever released. Multi-channel Firewire / Thunderbolt Interface By Phil O'Keefe

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Timetracker at home

While I indicated (or inferred in above post, image 1) that one account register might accommodate time tracking for multiple clients, I think that this is not scalable in a number of ways. Now, insert "Time-Tracker" between these two business processes with a similar goal of facilitating flow of information: That is, "Estimate" hours and associated activities > turn into "Time-Tracker" planned hours v actual hours and associated activities > turn into "Invoicing" actual and billable hours > turn into "Payment" receipts.Īs a workaround using existing register functionality, there are a number of ways to structure - probably most flexible but can be wrought with user frustration. "Estimates" and "Invoices" are designed similarly to expedite turning these estimates into invoices in Quicken. Quicken's "Estimates" feature would be a good place to start the cycle. In the mean time, have a look and let your curiosity run. And, because you are using existing functionality and fields, there is a ton of standard and custom reporting available in reports center ( Image 3). Needless to say, by using a checking account register, there is a rich selection of fields to repurpose for time tracking. Open in new tab to make bigger and much more legible.Ĭategories can be a good place to track structured phases and activities as well ( image 2). Then, I repurposed most fields to align with my Excel spreadsheet that tracked daily billable hours against project phase and project activities within that phase. I used "manual" checking account, with display properties set to "separate". IMO, even though I showed time tracking for a project, I have no doubt one can repurpose for other relatively smallish efforts as well. Perhaps on my next gig, I will try it real-time, with some refinements. So.I built a tracker of sorts that mimicked a real-world project - Single consultant, one labor rate, 800 staff-hour, 5 months. Perhaps there is a clever way of forcing this transfer as well. Of course, the billing milestone (hours to be invoiced), shown in image 1, would have to be manually carried over to the invoicing dialog showed. Was curious to build what described using snippets from an old consulting project and my associated Excel hours tracking/summary spreadsheet to see what it might look like in Quicken using existing functionality. Building a Time Tracker Using Existing Quicken Functionality.