Getting ready for Scotland (or not)

Yeah, I'm not really a 'ready' kinda person. I should check out the car though to make sure it's up to the trip. 

Anyway. I think I consolidated my Arranger knowledge today by sussing locators and the use of Q-Links in that page. Really speeds up getting around and also the copy/paste thing works far better now I have the navigation sorted properly. There seem to be little jumps if I create a loop between markers then activate it but perhaps that's just more practise needed. This does give me an easy way to set up areas of a song I can use and I'm surprised I didn't notice the pad display during Locator setup which really helps in navigation generally. Also discovered some preset keygroup instruments, didn't think there were any. Gives me some new sounds to play with anyway reducing the need to make a load of my own from the connected synths. So all good, really.

Not looking forward to drive to Scotland, you can probably tell. Will look at the tyes, oil etc. beforehand, make some chilli, may miss my Friday sesh. Probably taking the MPC along. Was gonna get a case but may wait and see if better options appear.  Haha, the old P3/camera case fits.

Version 3.7.1 of the MPC firmware dropped today. Sadly it doesn't sort any of my issues although does acknowledge one partly (running status - doesn't mention active sensing). I also noticed some odd pauses using legato mode switching between audio clips today. Will check that next session. Also still struggling with import of long audio chunks and truncation. Lots of faffing about with audio editor and the audio edit button on the main page, both of which have their own end value. I don't really know if I'm going to do much of the long audio streaming given it's a zillion times easier on the Octatrack. And there's something flat about the audio playback of these files too - seems to me the OT sounded better. 

Found a use for my bandcamp paypal payments - plugins for the MPC. Accordingly I just bought Ether, a posher, zanier reverb than any it has. No instruments I want, sadly, as they all sound a bit ordinary, plus I'm waiting to see if they fix the Minimoog as a test of their committment to do good shit. 

Note to self, don't bother buying plugins from Thomann. It's a very long-winded process compared to Pluginboutique. Now almost an hour later and I'm waiting for a second email, this time from "plugivery" whoever that is... eventually came almost 2 hours after expected. It's a good plugin though, phew. 

Went to High Cup today. Incredible landscape.