Blimey it's Sunday. I must have been busy. Have been absorbing the new blue keyboard and this evening I should start to type up some of my notes. Haven't sorted a date and wordcount yet but I could write anything up to 4,500 words I think.

No time to work on any of the tracks in progress, alas, and still no sign of Morphestra. More pratting around with those eternal arseholes at 1&1.

Probably more to note but no time and this is enough for my memory jogging anyway. ESX-1 with Tony for repair, snow in Northumberland with the castle weekend coming up soon.

OK, those tracks not really grabbing me so I totally stripped one of them down to practically nothing and started again. The other two will get the same treatment but will probably get interrupted by new synth arrival tomorrow - gotta do that before owt else.

Calvin and Hobbes Complete arrived - large and very heavy! And way too good for loo reading.

Last night did new track "Silent Witness". Tidying some of its excesses today but it's OK, sorta atmospheric.

Gonna spend time processing a few loops today, could really do with those Moogerfoogers back, must drop Phil a line. Gonna use the Biscuit and Synthi and possibly some pitch-screwing via the Eventide and some final filtering from the VF-1 and Restyler. Should be able to gather some useful new material.

Well, that was the plan. In the end I got sidetracked polishing Silent Witness and then worked on DNA and "a single drop of blood" both of which ended up in the useable bucket, may need some polish but both have some potential. Couldn't get twilight working, I think cos it was originally done for something else it just doesn't stand reworking. The only rework that might come out OK is "toxic terry" as I'll keep the same mood/aim and possibly change the title to "toxicity" or just "toxic".

Managed to find someone who'd match the morphestra offer. Not entirely sure they really have it in stock though as they got a bit cagey once I asked when it would be shipped.

A nice day in Witton Park and some minor testing of Wavelab and Cirklon in the afternoon. This evening I'll crack on with new tunes, once my hair dries!

OK, I need 20 tracks for this project so I'm only halfway through. Will buy Morphestra just to keep me in sounds. Hey ho. Onwards and upwards.

Lovely day for it but will knuckle down to some work later, no need to do the horse so can spend a lot of time.

Aaaargh! Time and Space's £90 offer on Morphestra supposedly ends at midnight - but I can't order as they're now out of stock! Grrrrrrrrrr.

Cool, M likes the latest tracks, especially "fibres" so I may do something else in a similar vein.

Another glorious day, should press on I guess instead of blogging. Or have another cup of tea...

Good day, lovely weather so ran up Rivington Pike first thing.

Got 11 tracks now, Paul likes new ones; sent to M. Also contacted new library, will see if he likes 'em. Octatrack looking closer, looks a good thing.

Cirk 042, some fixes but Colin preoccupied with the fact he broke main board and has to repair. I nagged him a bit about stuff, just to keep him ticking over. Phil still offering to do work.

Listening to some smart stuff on R3 including a really good piece from jonny greenwood and a rather reserved thing from Will Gregory - hope he does more though and gets a bit adventurous. Always wanted to do the synth orchestra thing too, all monosynths of course. All with their own little speaker. Never did though.

One toot on the bong and stoned tonight. Not smoking owt much these days obviously a good thing.

Contemplating Morphestra or Symphobia. Not cheap but...

Excellent, Colin has tracked my "row bug" and also the drum editor is progressing nicely. Now all we need is for his broadband to be restored and I can update.

I think I probably want to push for more "arrangement" stuff to go in next, after a few more realtime refinements. It's getting to the stage where I really could compose entire Cirklon tunes and as a result more and more of my hardware is getting defined to it.

Cirklon updated - very impressed by the drum editor even in its current state. Realtime record has moved on too. But even better, we're getting a new royal hanger-on to support. Brilliant. Let's hope we hear loads and loads and loads and loads about it.

Let's go to the beach..

It's a sunny day so we thought "why not?". Good decision. Jasper had fun, sun was gorgeous and I coulda walked for miles. Went for lunch and now we're home. It's half three and already the light is fading. Why the hell did they move that hour?

Last night I got three tracks complete including one new and two newish. Will see what Paul thinks as they may be straying off course, but interesting tracks anyway. Possibly a bit too much complexity creeping in, always a chance of that.

Life is good.

Review sent off this morning, hopefully OK. Got some good loops from my electribe and the B and will try to get more before it goes back. Sounds much better than Logic's bitcruncher that's for sure.

Progressed the new track DNA, it's gonna be fine I think.

And now a new Cirklon OS to play with, promising to be a good weekend. Pat working quite a lot so I have loads of studio time and no new review gear until sometime next week. Press on with tunes boy! But tonight, it's shortbread and Cirklon all the way.

Very windy last night, garage door hanging off. :(

Curry tomorrow, reminds me must book.

Review done and I got some good electribe apple loops by using B on it. Really quite versatile and I do like the sound.

Also started a new track, called DNA. I didn't realise until later but there's this big drum thing happening that sounds just like D N A. Well, it's three hits and it sorta hints...

Made decent progress last night and tonight, have a first draft and it's about the right wordcount too. Must make sure I haven't forgotten anything and get it all tidied up tomorrow night then the final polish can happen Thursday. A fast one eh!

Eyes starting to struggle, too much screen. I think my cold is finally gone.

LOL, Prodyssey now working. Was the D-Beam. No idea how those other keyboards also had problems, did I turn off in between connections? Anyway, all good and turned off V-Synth controllers (then turned on some - pad now sets env retrigger mode, c1 does one effect, 2 the other.

Lost much of the evening tweaking the Prodyssey - a darn good synth that and still one of the best interfaces ever. I do keep saying that even though I'd change the top row of sliders for knobs. :)

Review going well, words flowing. Cirklon improving now with inroads into realtime and quantization. Not enough hours or Colins in the day.

Odd day. Confirmed ESX is knackered but didn't resolve Prodyssey weirdy. It plays fine from Cirklon/thru but when I connect V-Synth, PC200 or Korg Microsampler, it don't wanna play. WTF? I mean, it does play a bit but chokes, envelopes sorta stop working. Is there a stay CC coming from every one of those synths? Unlikely. Very. No active sensing either. Only thing I didn't check to the nth degree was MIDI cables. Have long suspected that Prody's MIDI In; some cables seem to need to be really pushed. I bet that's it.

Would be good as my main synth connected to V-Synth rather than Minimax. Minimax is so good for sequencing, the Prody is an awesome polysynth, plus the interface is almost perfect - I can get modulation without holding the V-Synth's stick too! Those sliders and backlit buttons rule so I want to solve it.

Think I worked out everything about the new toy today and did some mixes of Wally for John. Hopefully there's something of value there. No writing and no Cirklon (Colin kiddy minding!) progress. Today woulda been an excellent day to work with it too.

Wine and chocolate this evening.

OK, Friday arrived and with it a cute little box for review. Upgraded its OS and have tinkered with it all afternoon - fortunately very easy and hands-on so don't see any difficulties getting stuck right in this weekend with some writing.

I have 6 tracks for the forensic project now, the last one (Hookers) needing some tweaking still because it's got some very odd key liberties, even for me. Might be too strange generally but we'll see.

Pat working tonight so have time to do a few things. Sadly she swapped shifts for tomorrow which rather scuppers my planned curry night with Carl and Dan. Hey ho.

Sam won his journalist thing - which is pretty damn awesome! Don't think he was expecting it but now he's in some bigger national thing. Could go all the way, the boy done good. Bet Dawn chuffed to hang with the celebs. :)

It's going well, really. Three tracks into the new "forensic" project and having fun doing it. Not entirely sure what the boundaries for this one will be although M suggested from the first track (Sicko) out as far as the two new ones (the miracle of science, the evidence).

Probably need some new sounds, just as soon as I get a better handle on what I'm doing. Started a new one today (chemistry) but we'll see if that gets too tuney, it might.

Got first taste of Cirklon's realtime record last night. Man, this is gonna be so awesome. Totally a new realm, especially if the aux stuff works out too. Drool!!