It's official, I'm stupid

 By which I mean that jamming with Dave Spow and wanting to immediately hear what we'd done was something I thought of yonks ago but never did owt about. Anyway, hearing the Zoom (by connecting it to spare inputs on the audio i/f) in situ is handy as it cements how it should sound in my mind. 

Recorded a pretty sweet track with Tim, lotsa DFAM in it. 

Monday, I tested some Cirklon updates that I'd been needing - mostly relating to the (longer) Ck patterns that I'm using quite a lot now. Also a tweak to the Soma Cosmos, plus I tried the BlackBox v1.9 but got stuck on one screen and regressed. I was hopeful for some of the extra MIDI control for pads but the tiny text and pointless knob graphics just don't work for me on such a small screen. It has a master EQ and more parameters on the delay, neither of which are vital to me. I was interested in the granular changes but not enough to bother. Just confirms that my use of the BB is very different to most. A bug meant the Back button wasn't working properly and I found myself stuck on this page.

Oh yes, it has LFOs too but, again, don't need 'em. 

Tuesday I had a go at setting up mum's new laptop. Knew it was gonna be some weird chinese thing but didn't guess it'd come with Windows 10 Pro (subtly different to Home). It was also set up for the USA, including some stupid time zone. Thought I'd fettled most of it but mum was still ending up on websites wanting payment in dollars. Arse. Hopefully I needn't return again before Sunday. Guy did our gutters - replaced with new, wider ones, just got to see if the alternate downspout is better or worse.

Wednesday, having a Vaughan Williams morning; heard some on the radio the other day and mistook it for Elgar so time to bone up. Last night I worked on novel a bit, think I worked out a few useful things. Had beers in the sun with Tim and Tony. Drunk and non-functional in the evening. 

Friday again. Cooler so will try and do something for the Sequences compilation. Wanted to use a Headshock track but most are probably too challenging for the audience. Will see though - takes a while to listen through everything and if I start doing alternate versions would get really confusing. Actually the track I'm playing now (HypoChil) sounds pretty suitable.

We didn't walk this week so here are some shots from last week...