Doc and dog duties. Oh and MR 57 happened ;)

 Into the second week of Pat's chest infection, and this morning I waited at doctor's to get her an appointment. She's now got some strong antibiotics and hopefully we'll see an improvement soon. Meanwhile I'm still dog walking and other stuff like a goddamn hero. I hope to find time to do something for this livestream at the weekend as the material I had doesn't sound good to me now. The S-4 still behaving itself, phew, so will get the review completed, although possibly not this week. Actually it's all done bar a couple of hashes (my way of indicating something needs double-checking, testing, verifying whatever) but I'd like to polish it a bit since I haven't done owt for a while. 

I suspect I won't be walking again this week but actually fine with that. Time is just leaking away, like blood down an abbatoir grating. I'm tired from not sleeping, so if the coughing subsides that'll be nice. 

Trying to get nice, clean audio through my camera and OBS. Trying different bitrates and now the highest seems to work ... so hopefully will be OK for Saturday as I'd rather do it live than record in advance. 

The last one is the highest bitrate but can I really hear a difference? And is that the answer? I dunno.
These are unlisted at the moment, may keep it that way as I haven't listened to whether there's anything musically interesting, probably not too coherent. 

Anyway, the Morphic Resonance gig went OK - Synthi was misbehaving though and I should have dropped it really. Otherwise some bum notes and think the monitoring was less good/familiar than normal due to faffing with camera levels. Audio sounded much better from those who didn't do it live, at least those whose DRM1 may have been boosted too much. Listening to my recording, sounds nice enough though so all good. 

The Udo ribbon arrived Saturday morning so I used it - but it's actually quite hard to control. It will do one octave of pitch shift provided you get your finger at the very far extreme to the other -seems that's how it's calibrated. It will also continue pitch raising if you do lots of short movements - so basically I'm gonna have to practise with it. I did manage a kind of vibrato that sounded like a dying bee, so that's something...