It felt like time, although I did almost immediately have loss pangs for the JD-XA. I have a feeling I should sell the Minimoog as it's wrong to hang onto it without really using it much. It did sound great of course but it's the great I've known for so long I don't know what else I can do with it. We'll see how it goes.
Tried the MPC looper. It works fine, dunno how much use it'll get but I think that just leaves me to try and mod matrix and XY pad in detail and I've had a go at everything. Well, I've barely touched the effects bar the obvious ones so I guess I should do that, plus set up some more Q-Links in my template project. Then I need to make more of my own programs, use a ton of those Easel samples I made for a start, perhaps make some of them velocity-layered.
Went to this last night but missed the EMOM, which I'd possibly have preferred. But it was nice going out with Pat and getting food and gawping upwards. Took a wrong turn on the way home, which is maybe excusable as it's been decades since I made the regular trip to Blackburn each day and some of the roads looked very different in the dark. It is NOT a sign I'm losing it. Anyway, cost us 10 mins heading towards Clitheroe before I admitted my mistake.
New phone working well as a camera.
Really enjoying Jon Hopkins' Music for Psychedelic Therapy (well, apart from the spoken word nonsense). Interestingly, it's a direction of minimalism I've been heading towards and which at least one recent Ideation track strayed into. The other one I got (Ritual) had some good moments but also a relentlessness in places that grated. Will see what I think on a second, more prepared, listen. Today, thursday, we paid for the kitchen and I plan to spent the afternoon doing a little studio pottering, perhaps on the V-Synth. I should maybe work on some MPC tunes/sounds but a day off that also appeals.
Well, I did more MPC - made a new keygroup but it's tortuous and I must find a faster/slicker way. I then made real progress with my loop/clip problem and decided two tracks will cover it, one for regular drum loops and the other for the vintage drum machines, latin loops and other supporting stuff. As long as I leave gaps here and there I can stop them without going through and setting every one to toggle, which really should be possible as default. Did some basic jamming with my default song and using the KSP to bang in simple stuff and arps. Tried a few backing track songs but feel increasingly like those will be the minority of any live performance. One was truncated and I couldn't immediately see why. Also sorted the power situation so only setup 5 <g> is on with the mixer/speakers and nowt else. May bring in the R24 as recorder or get one of those wee L6 Max jobbies and leave the big mixer entirely off for setup 5. Could not suss the MIDI thru so it would drive the MIDICake Arp. Turned on soft thru on Sys8 so it at least lets me sequence it and the ML-xd if I want. Friday may be a solid jamming day.
And it was. Getting slicker with the clip mode and recorded
a basic song. Saturday we took Fred's recommandation desite getting up late. Full english breakfast for me - couldn't actually eat it all (left the hash browns, inevitably). Felt so bloated I didn't have lunch. Later on did a bit of MPC, basically the CV/Gate stuff, autosampling and the XY Pad. Autosampling proved easy once it dawned that you start from the track you're using as base (the field cannot be edited, which isn't clear from manual). Sampled System 8 and Minimoog - Mini was 7 semitones out for some reason so I just transposed it until I suss why. All worked smoothly. Only crash was when using the XY and just selecting presets to try them out. Probably not worth bothering reporting although I will do that bank select one sometime as it annoys me.
I think there's only the mod matrix I really need to send time on now. And look for the CV adjust page, hopefully there is one as Cirklon could play the Minimoog in tune perfectly so the Mini can't be far out.
A good day. Started a simple tune based on an old drum loop and using my Mini samples alongside the Mini plugin. Mine sounds more out of tune of course,
Blimey. It's March. I ordered a 1Tb SATA drive for the MPC even though the L6 Max may have been wiser.
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