Year ends, novel complete and . . . BOUM

 Yeah, I ordered a BOUM from a guy in Northern Ireland. I didn't even dare do the joke. I'll open it carefully though. 

Completed the novel. Still awaiting artwork. Where have I heard that before?

OK, the BOUM arrived - great comms and packaging, all good. I'm bound to overuse it at first, indeed I have already. As the artwork is going to be a while I'm doing another very quick pass and, of course, still finding things I want to change. I suppose that process could go on indefinitely. 

Did some Osmose/MPE recording into Cirklon today (Saturday) but, as usual, realised how little pleasure I get from doing even basic stuff on Cirklon these days, especially with Ck patterns. Some days I dream of replacing it with an Atari running Cubase. Or an Octatrack, an RC-505 and a P3, even if that would be a little complex. Oh well, struggle on I guess. Concentrate on the good shit and stop moaning.
New Year's Eve tomorrow. 

A Top Idea!!

 Yeah, it was. I turned on that TC Electronic finaliser thing I have and put the BB output through it. So when I do my final mix now on the Ck system I can give it some oomph as I record. It was so cool today I immediately thought of a BOUM for setup 4. 

https://wilyepeyote.bandcamp.com/track/enator

Spent the morning rodding the drains (Saturday) - after neglecting to check them last week. Problem seems to be new carers two doors down and wetwipes. No novel work or review done but I know what I'm gonna do now so that's something. 

Sent off my review, seems OK on a quick read this morning so hopefully David is happy with it. Ordered new mixer, same as my other two, arriving tomorrow (Tuesday). Hate to waste money on that stuff but can't be avoided. Still looking for a random new toy that will amaze and delight. Torso S4 and Vectra thing candidates although maybe more granular not sensible. Then again when has sensible mattered? I like that KO thing Tim got and it'll be nice to try the OP-1 field when that arrives as its improved tape engine very attractive. Still shit MIDI though. 

Pat's going off on Monday to take prezzies and dog back. Hoping she takes Broc so Tim and I can have a good sesh - Xmas day has produced some good results in the past, Will see how Logic new mastering helps our tracks before ordering a BOUM. With extra subgroups on the mixer I could route stuff to that and its output back to a pair of tracks so could either master with it or route individual stuff through it. RD9 sounds nice with a few instruments extracted and treated. 

Well, it's Christmas day and my plans to get novel complete have been scuppered by the early arrival of Margaret. Oh well, I'm close to the end anyway, should easily finish tomorrow. 
Here's last Friday's thing, dunno if it's the last of the year, possibly not knowing me. 

https://paulnagle.bandcamp.com/track/its-that-time-of-year

Bah humbug!

A new window, some review writing and PRS

 Yep, Pat's window in the ex-library was done in a day. Good work too. I worked on the Arp review - new firmware meant to be here early next week so that's cool. Pat away tomorrow so hopefully a good sesh with Tim. Been doing 5 novel chapters a day too, made quite a few changes to one today that felt necessary - hope I didn't introduce more errors. 

Did a track on this, all in a good cause

Been walking Broc quite a lot - cyst seems to be swelling again, which ain't great. Oh and PRS was still OK - around its usual level. Wish there was some cool gear I could get enthusiastic about buying. 

OK, new Arp firmware here but I can't report what it has cos it won't be released for a while. Can try it and complete review anyway so all good. Friday tomorrow but today we had a shorter, better walk cos I got to pick the route. Arrived home not feeling broken although my boots are finally breaking. 

I might buy one of those KOII things too, seems a load of fun. 

Some studio days

 Yeah, Pat was away and I had a very nice Friday and Saturday chilling and noodling. Tim and I made 'Dav' in homage to Davros. Review work paused while firmware worked on. Pat arrived home sneezing pretty much non-stop. Hey diddly ho. 

Well now it's December and Pat's been helping her pal with her horse so I've been walking Broc a fair bit, all good fun. I did manage to start editing the novel, did five chapters of corrections today and hope to keep at it this week. If I do five a day that's a decent goal and actually this is the easy bit. Will still need cover doing though. 

Dunno if we're walking this week but Friday's sesh may be scuppered as it's the day Pat's having her window done. She's off on a trip with Margaret that day and possibly Saturday too, calendar not clear. May try and have one tomorrow. Been doing more with the arpeggiator and really enjoying some of the mayhem it can create - today was running four separate scales, not necessarily scales that like each other but by messing with the offsets and modulation, some rather incredible textures appearing. Next I plan to try it with the P2K as modulating MIDI channels is a rich source of fun so why not try 16 of them?

Right, some pix from last week should see this entry done. 

Oh look, Oasis! Can't remember which gig.