The Blue & The Green

 May or may not get the Wave next week. Decided not to part with the System 8 and withdrew from sale. 

Monday, the BPG arrived. I have made some notes but I won't add them here...in case I do like it enough to write a review. Haven't taken the screen covering off yet ;) Can report that it sounds good

Tuesday I recorded some sounds

https://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/wave-hello

I like it, despite making quite a list of issues and recommendations. Tony, I think, will return his. He's very demanding. Tomorrow we get new broadband and I have to wait in to direct. Hoping they won't bugger it up. Dunno if we're walking but I want to do more PPG. It sounds nice in recordings, I think.

Friday is here. Good week really. Didn't walk yesterday due to weather so had more time to explore Wave. Have now loaded some of my samples and this morning I even designed my first wavetable - 64 waves drawn, created, fiddled with and generally bearing little or no relation to their neighbour. I'm sure creating good wavetables is an artform but it's fun (and easy) to try - better tools available now than when I had my first Microwave. Also discovered a hanging note problem that may be related to the Wave's handling of Running Status - Colin doing me a Cirklon firmware today that turns it off to test. Oddly enough, some of the hanging notes produced good results that I recorded and may use. 

NAMM show announced the expected Jupiter and Prophets plus a surprise - a BX1 - the DX1 with CS80 filters. Blimey! Did not expect that and probably cheaper than my OpSix, or maybe just a bit more. But with a 5 octave poly AT keyboard, like, wow!

Good day. Dunno if what I recorded will survive tomorrow. I like the Wave. 

https://wilyepeyote.bandcamp.com/album/enzari

Well now

 Today I played the piano a bit. It was nice. I've really got worse at it though, can barely play my own tunes these days - and they aren't hard. 

Tim found this cool old pic he took. 

Tuesday was a cool aimless sort of day, felt like lots of time to relax as I didn't have Broc to walk this morning. Noodled on the Opsix and made this very cool ocean sound by sampling it on the S-4 then playing it back with tons of modulators and randomly missed notes, turning the reverb mix to full so it was just a swooshing now and again. Recorded a loop that sounds grand to me. Tried to make a mediational repeating pulse but couldn't get it quite right. I think it might be something I have to sit and play for an hour rather than have a machine set the timing. 
Yesterday's painting is looking more and more interesting - the quick dry via the dehumidifier worked even better than I hoped it would, gave me some lovely patterns. Some of the dried-out watery dots have lost some of their distinction though but I can paint those back in - the parts that were supposed to be ephemeral look great. Will let it stew a while now before I tackle the next layer. Mixing oils and acrylics a good idea, who knew?

Don't think that does it justice as you need to zoom in to the good bits. 

Wednesday night after a chilled day. Walking with Tony tomorrow and then it's Friday again. Time is zipping by and I have this urge to do some nice relaxing, meditational drones. 

Thought for the day. You don't need complicated phrases if you have someone who can break your heart with a single note. Friday did some things that I hope to give to Rick and John 

This basically

https://wilyepeyote.bandcamp.com/album/quonlage

Happy New Year!

 Will it be? We shall see. Wandered down to the river, like many others, to gawp at the water filling the fields.

Yesterday's release of Through Morphic Fields may contain the single best hour of spontaneous noodles I've made to date. I initially rejected it and deleted the video from Youtube because the crackles and loss of signal in the middle made me angry - but I've done whatever restoration I could and I'm actually really chuffed with the results. I added the latest livestream too because it sorta fit and was in the same Sheldrake-themed space. Made available free as my winding up of 2024 before embarking on something musically different, but similar (inevitably).

Ordered Vodaphone broadband - cheeky Virgin charging me a disconnection fee despite the contract ending at month end. Not sure if I should have ordered the wifi booster - Tim reckoned it was way better than Virgin already but never mentioned if he had the booster to make it so. Should've asked I guess. Will need to sort out email for myseld and Pat and maybe I can add booster later if necessary. Sent in my S-4 review, hope I'm not too rusty.

Friday now, new SQ1 knobs arrived from Thonk - very thin and the black dot is small but visible.We'll see how they handle. Indeed, going to get started very soon. 

This basically

Monday and I spent another day just playing after a disappointingly rusty session yesterday in which my fingers just weren't into it at all. Today was better and the Osmose seemed to tolerate my fumblings and open up for me. Started to think that the Wave might fit into setup 1 somehow, since setup 3 is hanging together nicely, well apart from the irregular velocity output of the Super 6. I was getting a bit better with the ribbon the other day too (Saturday), still a way to go but at least some intervals seem easier to find than they did. Drama next door though and I fear we may have new neighbours in 2025. Pat stepped in, as usual, to help but it cost her the morning and then the afternoon was spent trying to sort out Margaret's move with the council and housing association. And there was me doing my usual shit. Must ring mum tomorrow and see how she's getting on.