Wave-reinstated

OK, it's like this: before I started on Friday I spent a while importing some multisamples - just a part of my regular collection that goes everywhere. Then I faffed around with the new laptop (and a magnifying glass) until I'd made half a dozen effect presets of my own. Then I had a musical stoned bonding session. 

Result: I think the Wavestate is staying. It does a lot of things, interesting things, that mean four parts of it would be more than enough for what I want from it. Have now made a dozen or so performances, getting a bit deeper all the time and making progress in areas that were initially puzzling. 

Saturday today but local field day so roads closed, no music day with Tim. We had a beer and a g&t and a noodle, Jupiter sounding good. 

Worked on Easel review, well I actually just got sucked into playing with it. Again. 

I also did a bit of sampling - lots of short LPG stuff, some raspy wavefoldy stuff, some pure stuff. For the Wavestate. May as well load it with interesting noises. One downer about the way it handles samples is you have to send the whole lot every time you load any - meaning you have to keep everything you ever want in it available and accessible all the time. A bit stupid, like the blanket reverb and a few other annoyances. Still, what can you do?

At least my theoretical workaround for the Keystep bug does seem valid. Basically, if it doesn't save a Scene successfully, you should save a Chain instead of a pattern for the failing track(s) and then it will save correctly. A chain of just the one pattern you wanted will suffice. You can even go back later and save just the pattern and that seems to save properly too. The thing has all kinds of weird corruptions that happen though and I don't expect those to be ever sorted. Would I dare trust it live? I'd like to...

Review going well after a bitty start. Seem to be getting a shape I like now and it's flowing reasonably well. 

Got an offer for my S-4 - an MPC Key37 - but I think I'll either hold out for cash or keep it in the faint hope it may one day be sourced to a more competent (or less overworked) programmer. Surprised at so little interest, possibly it's due to my over-honest advert. ;)