Roll on weekend. Oh, it's here...

An odd week in some respects. Not much work done, lost my studio amp to some kind of smoking death. So had to dig up the old Alesis one I have - now missing my sub though, you really get used to that low wub!

Colin came to stay Tuesday and we did the curry thing, turned up unexpectedly last night too and stayed - better than trying to drive back to Scotland in the foul weather. Hopefully all production issues now resolved and development can burst into life at long, long last. Optimism returns!

Anyway, my Cirklon display replaced so I'll tuck the P3 away and force myself to get back into it with the prospect of getting stuff slicked up. Colin's taken my CS30 with him to drop off with Tony so I'll finally get that crusty knob replaced, something I should never have had to do. Won't buy anything from RL again.

Listening to the new Jarre album. Wasn't massively impressed on first listen (with a few exceptions) but maybe it'll grow on me. The TD track sounded bland, which is disappointing, but maybe it has hidden depths. I have to keep reminding myself it takes 3-4 listens of a newly-hatched Headshock session before I understand it - and I have a vested interest!

Another day waiting for men to come and brutalise our kitchen. Meant to be here 'in the morning' but they have 30 mins before that's untrue. Another day wasted as far as I'm concerned. At least Colin left some beer in the fridge. :)

Some beta testing to do when I get chance. Since this blog is public I can't say more, but good shit is coming for one of my fave pieces of gear.
Also, I reported to Korg again about the delay sync bug they've now spread to both machines. I found a workaround that involves changing the tempo of the external source, which seems to kickstart the Electribes into taking a proper look and resyncing. Most obvious in 3/16 delay IFX which, when wrong, sounds truly horrible. Apparently nobody else has complained, which is bloody typical innit.

Would love to get stoned and work on my novel today but doubt I will be able to. Hey ho.

My fave two pix from this week.
Right, now to choose a new laptop. This one is making bad noises. Colin suggested imaging the disk onto SSD as a better solution. He's probably right, as usual.

Just some dog pictures

That's all...

Hey I snook in the SMR cos I like it.

So lots of updates coming for things. The Electribes got an update with minimal stuff in it, the only biggie being you can opt out of the accidental pattern changes AND (so far) it seems the delay sloppy sync of the E2 is resolved. The rest of the update seems intent on preventing the machine hack, which is sorta petty by Korg given they have yet to address all the real issues. The main one for me is still the inability to save smoothly during playback, a given on the X versions. It's starting to look like this will always be the case.

Elektron have sequencer updates in the pipeline too, probabilities and fill type functions. Yay. Hope also the individual track clock divs are gonna be there and I still dream of basics like a universal CV/Gate def, universal External input def as it's a PITA to do that stuff per kit. I thought I was on the beta team so should know something but maybe they dropped me. I didn't even whine so they shouldn't have.
Arturia have updates for the BSP too - supposedly soon. I guess I didn't get on that beta team, even though they need me. Maybe I should have made more of a case.

Tim's P3 hanging didn't help our sesh yesterday. Hope it's not too serious. My Cirklon has been out for months and I'm surprised to say I'm not missing it at all. Except for its MIDI thru capabilities it's doing nothing for me, although I've got back into the P3 so much I could easily consider just having two of those (again).

Very sluggish response from Roland to my (many) questions about the gear I'm trying to review. At some point I'll have to just give in with them. Headshock recording today.