Opsix progress

 Some anyway. The app is a bit crashy but if you're careful and import one bank at a time then send to the synth after each merge, it works. Colin managed to find a great resource - loads of banks, including the PPG sound used by the KLF that I was looking for. It didn't convert perfectly but I should be able to tweak it. So many banks I'll never play most of them but I've noted a few I want to audition. Great thing is whatever I stick in there can soon be made into useful noises. Setup 3 is pretty darn solid now. Ordered another HX One. I mean, why not?

Discovered that most of the DX7 banks are full of very similar material, surprise surprise. Am already making more interesting sounds though so no matter really. I added the HX One to that setup and it works beautifully instead of the rather lacklustre Opsix FX. Thought I was getting a day to myself this week but turns out it's gonna be next week, which is cutting it rather fine for the Nov 10th deadline for that video. Will start woking on something to film anyway and I guess it'll feature the S-4. Contemplating swapping out the RD-8 as the DRM-1 is really more interesting for percussion especially as the DFAM is in there too. We'll see. 

Pat's been in a miffed state for a couple of days now, hopefully not for too much longer. Tried to find out what's eating her but she won't tell yet. She went to bed early so I'm watching a program about David Bowie's early years. Must do something about that video but I do need a better general atmos in the house. Finished that sci-fi I was reading (Firefall) but can't say it really engaged me. Started another that's simpler and better, something about Reality and it has Merlin in it, yeah, I know. I closed the Twitter tab on my browser and gonna leave it a while as it's really depressing me at the moment. 

Happier house today. Nice walk this morning and chat. In the afternoon I pottered in the studio, not really getting brilliant results yet but I think I may make some progress tomorrow. Really miss the P3. Cirklon is so slow in comparison and I miss the fast interface, knobs and simplicity - but most of all I miss playlists. And Ck patterns are really, really inferior to recording into an RC-505. The S-4 isn't a replacement for that... yet.