So no idea when Tim and I will do any prep for this gig thingummy. My Minilogue XD has been randomly powering itself off too, possibly due to the heat. Today we walked to Brockoles and back, which Tony had estimated at 6-7 miles but it was actually 12.2. No wonder my bunion is screaming at me. I don't think those trainers helped, nor did going commando on those rough cut-off jeans, old knobbage was rubbed - and not in a good way. Been a long time since it was rubbed in a good way, I feel morosely inclined to point out. Oh well.
I fear it may be too hot for the studio tomorrow. If so I guess I'll work on the review.
It was hot but I got in a couple of hours then did some review work. Didn't record what I did but it should be OK, I think. May even get similar tomorrow. Review flowing nicely thanks to sweetie.
Saturday and I did some more Keystep.Wavestate messing. Making progress learning my way around and finally starting to get the modulation system, which is terrible but terribly powerful and hidden, mostly, from my eye. I am starting to assign knobs though, not at performance level given I'm using it multtimbrally although I will explore that eventually. Wavestate has RTZ envelopes, which I discovered just not trying it in mono mode. You can blur notes into each other using wavesequencing though so maybe just needs a different mindset.
Monday again. Mum not in a great mood yesterday, hitting the morphine quite hard now too. Janet tried to get her to talk to district nurse who popped in but that cause some unpleasantness. This morning I got pretty much my first draft - and it's a bit longer than planned at 5,000 words. With luck I can whittle it down a bit during this week. I got some time in with Wavestate and managed to overwrite a useful performance - really must be more disciplined there and copy things often. I'm still learning stuff though - took ages, for example, to find the reason for some unknown reverb in a patch I'd copied from the presets. I really should set up lots of base programs and wavesequences with my own stuff in so I'm not forever stumbling around in search of things.
Made a worthwhile discovery that you can make very different sounding waveforms by sticking a load next to each other and having very, very short transitions. More to explore there. I also realised I should have named my own stuff with some kind of easy prefix so I can find it easier. The category thing is a PITA cos it resets every time you do a search rather than remembering your last selection. Stupid.
Tuesday and I got my first draft finally done - only 1,000 words over what I guessed it should be. Oops. Spent some time renaming my Wavestate performances and setting up a base program featuring a simple wavesequence of my own with a few transitions and mapping the speed of transition to a knob, octaves to another, main volume to the master knob for each layer. Think I did something else too but there's still more to prepare before I can just fire up and go. It will never be a spontaneous thing, I accept that. I also made a few extra FX programs, an alternate ring mod etc. Starting from my own base was slower at first but at least I know what everything does and don't have to go searching for mod routings that baffle me. It does make me wonder if the MultiPoly might have been better but I didn't really look at that in any detail as it's a bit expensive. Reading the MP manual it has far more synthesis options, still has 60 notes of polyphony and features wavesequencing of a sort that would probably be easier and faster to use. No sample RAM and still the same inability to tweak FX though so I dunno. Did notice yesterday how quickly my ears get tired of hearing samples of the WS. They can probably be mulched together and disguised better if not used as 4 separate layers though. Anyhoo, the KSP was being temperamental too, refused to record again so I powered off and on. Next time I'll see if loading a new project then reloading the current one works as I don't really like on/off solutions. Starting to think I should've taken the MPC37 route.
May walk tomorrow, not heard. Pat and I went to Tockholes in the morning, got a lunch at the cafe there as the pub didn't start food until 12 and we were too early. I decided to withdrawm the S-4 from sale, at least for now. Was listening to some of the things I did in January and realised just the Tape recorder and granular thing still produce effects I like and would want to keep. So I'll keep it at my old version and Torso can do what they like. Maybe one day there will be an Open Source firmware.
Friday tomorrow and a Guy Called Gerald. Should still get a decent afternoon sesh in.
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