Wow, I reached the grand old age of 64 still mostly alive. Result, yes? Been increasingly tempted by an MPC after reading about the Live III and its pads, clips, audio tracks and much-increased plugin count. They stupidly don't seem to have added program changes for plugins BUT the limit of 8 has been increased to 32, which I guess I could just about work with. All the drumming articulations and those new pads make it quite a different beast but my main reservation now is the sheer amount of time it will suck not just to learn it but to fully use it and keep doing so. If I was doing lots of live stuff it'd be a no-brainer as I'd just work with that, transfer my samples from the Wavestate for playing and my songs and loops from the OT for a more friendly front-end of my usual backing material.
Will keep dithering a while yet, I expect as it seems a frivolous idea given the way I work now and am quite happy with. And, really, I don't need anything at all, should flog some stuff really or try and swap my Digitone for a Digitone II.
Monday and the tree men are here doing their stuff. So I'm lurking around the house for the morning at least. May work on 'Beer'.
Hurt my back just emptying the air conditioner of water. Not sure quite how it happened but struggled to walk today. No option but to mooch around and do some writing but hoping to be fit for weekend. May miss walking on Thursday though as Scotland is coming up.
Wednesday, pain relief helped my back but hindered my cooking. I didn't do much except add a section to 'Beer' that was needed before the Curiosum leg begins.That now done I can tidy it later as it's not exactly new but introduced a bit sooner and retrofitted so the later Curio chapters make some kind of sense, or at least are less annoying.
Not walking tomorrow. Another decent PRS day, golly!
I quite like this week's album ;) - even on Saturday morning
And on Sunday, instead of going to Scotland with Tony, I went to the hospital where I've been going daily ever since. My mother had the fall we'd all been expecting, not ideal timing. Broken bone in her pelvis and long recovery time to come will mean the hell she thought she was waking up to is being visited upon us all.
I think I'm gonna blow my PRS on an MPC Live III. Even though I'm not totally convinced that's wise.
Here's one of Tony's pictures (sure he won't mind) a sort of "this is what you could have won" scenario. I wonder if I'll ever get to that lovely forest of ancient oaks?
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