Paul has offered me his old RME card at a very generous price and rather than go with another Focusrite I think I'll take him up on it. The Yamaha mixer, redundant for ages now, can probably go. It's a shame cos it's superb but I'm all about sub-mixers these days and using it for just 2 channels for the monitoring level from the Mac is, frankly, mad. Will also check whether the Focusrite is repairable.
I may drive over today and get the RME, just have to check on the ADAT interface which seems to have a different shaped connector. Had planned to do a bit of novel-fixing since it's Friday and officially a 'play day' but need to get this sorted so I can work next week.
Ah yes, sorry to anyone who bought 'From Beer To Eternity'. Really, I apologise. I tried to read it on holiday and realised that people who have been struggling, usually people for whom English isn't their first language, are quite right - it's incomprehensible. My policy of explaining the stuff that's irrelevant and skipping past the things you need to know has been a disaster, plus the story is completely unbalanced by the (last minute) grouping of chapters I performed, plus the expansion of certain less relevant areas at the expansion of the real meat. In short it needs a very thorough edit, of the sort one would have if one were a real writer. Real writers use 'one' so I apologise for that too.
So what I'll do is make it free when I redo it, hopefully at the same time as Liminal Entity. When this mythical time will be I dunno cos it all takes time and I have to work. Darn!
I have still no real idea what I'll be doing at the Binar gig or even the gear I'll take. It'll be true spontaneity based around random contents of the Electribe and Analog Four, that's all I know right now. I suspect Elektron might not do much to add the different track speeds in the Analog Four anytime soon so I'm stuck using that for chords running at 1/8th speed. Tried doing sequences with the arpeggiator on the CV track but it really isn't very satisfying and I'd rather use a stand-alone sequencer if it can't be made to work better. Either the P3 or possibly the new Arturia will be handier than trying to sequence on the stuff I'm taking, assuming the Arturia handles well. Hope to see that in a few weeks, fingers crossed.
I don't think we'll do a Canaries break next year. The hotel didn't impress me quite so much this time, which is probably because you shouldn't do the same thing year after year. Weather wasn't as good either, a few cold days and rain. Bloody pilot stopped off on the way back to refuel too, and pilots really should not do weird things. A UK holiday for us next time, if Pat will go for it.
So, some random snaps just because:
