Friday, 22 August 2025

Summer heat continues

Well, it does. 
Setup 1 working sweetly at the moment. I think it has pretty much all my favourite stuff in it. 







Well, Monday was cooler so what do I know? Went to Brinscall and the waterfall was dry, except for a weak trickle. 




Listening to Morton Subotnick's The Wild Bull. Pretty wacky - sounds like one of my very stoned Friday afternoons though, just more frantic. Tuesday I had a brief mess with Wavestate but it didn't inspire so moved into other room, updated my Ableton 12, put MPC in place of S-4 (fed by Cirklon, could work, I think, tried and worked better than Octatrack). Pottered aimlessly with System 8, Wave and Opsix but wasn't really inspired or had any direction. 
Walking tomorrow and Pat off south Thursday. I was gonna go (William's birthday) but having Izzy here means I can't. I therefore plan to do some music, maybe some drones and abstract stuff as the whole sequencer business is feeling like it's getting in my way at the moment. Fed up with sequences and drum grooves, not sure why. Ennui, think I caught it off Tim. Will see if he minds me updating that MPC One to latest firmware, assuming I can find a stand-alone install. 




Good MS20 sesh Thursday. Recorded lots of chunks for arrangement tomorrow as have ideas for overdubs and whatnot. Used S4 as I used to, wished for a way to slew the pitch quantize to scale function. Made some spooky shit to which a few small additions will be groovy. New weed working nicely. BB looping like a tape recorder. 




Friday could be a good one as, unusually, I have a plan. You see, Thursday's MS20 recordings were ace and I was even thinking about things to add in arrangement later, which I will do. The first lot was especially good. 

Very happy with today's work


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