September sun, general malaise and sorta preparing for EMOM

 Sorta preparing is right as it involves this Wavestate and I know I've wasted way too much time on this thing already, in terms of making it do multitimbral stuff anyway. It should sit quietly in a rack, mostly forgotten, for pads, like god intended. Oh well. Had a sesh yesterday and came up with precisely nothing of value - can't imagine ever doing that with a synth that naturally, easily sounds good - e.g. the Perfourmer, Model D, Odyssey, Uno, System 8, Super 6, Minilogue XD etc. And all I do is whine about this thing, have you noticed? I wonder if tomorrow I'll love it again, and if so it's because I was triggering samples of the Minimoog or Easel? 

Off into town today for some beers with John. A nice change. 

And it was too, although we had one more beer than I could usually cope with in the daytime. 

Still haven't managed to return the Easels, apparently someone came on Tuesday but didn't put a card through. Trying again for Monday when I'll sit in the front room until someone comes. Grrrr. Had forgotten that faffing process with gear reviews.

Turned studio on yesterday and played with the Osmose as I was missing playing it. That and the Super 6 made me very happy - would be much nicer to do a gig with but not lugging a full-sized keyboard for 20 mins of noodling in a pub. Sticking with Octatrack/KSP/Wavestate but probably gonna drop the Electribe as all the left/right arrow shit for selection is a drag and getting all the levels right between the two things is a PITA really. Might slop in a small monosynth like the Model D as just one thing that sounds good would make a difference. Will program some simple patterns into the Octatrack rather than disrupt the Wavestate but at some point I'll stop using that multitimbrally and just do fucking pads on it, like you're supposed to. ;)

Good day Saturday

https://wilyepeyote.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-hope-optimism

Hmmm been reading a Stephen King book so didn't practise yesterday. Tried a bit today but everything sounded a bit shit to me. If I'd done it yesterday I may have changed to an ambient looping set but hey, it is what it is. 

I added Friday's track (setup 1) to the optimism album, called it The Weather. We had some weather that day. Saturday and it was promising stuff, including a lovely Virus sequence (I added some stoned overdubs while it was recording but enough of it is good). I had a thing with some different-sounding Performer (HX-One playing a blinder here) and some VF-1 filtered Opsix, Super 6 bass I could not get right at all so will return another day. Maybe tomorrow.