This week seems to have started well. Pat took Broc a nice walk allowing me a bit of time to potter about and listen to music before the day kicks in. The new drive for the MPC arrives tomorrow - so I guess I'll be putting a lot of material on that to draw from, material I could probably have put on the SD card in there, hehe. Oh well. Will keep going, do some more sampling and generally prepare lots of stuff to have to hand.
I may have a couple of days to myself as Pat going south and maybe taking the pooch. I've already stocked up on beer just in case as a couple of days solid music feels like a treat I deserve. Must take some frog spawn tomorrow as there's a pond full of it. The world appears to be getting even madder outside my little bubble but doing my best to keep my head down and pretend it's all going to turn out fine.
Came to the conclusion yesterday while editing Liminal Entity that I just wasn't feeling it. The story either needs a completely new angle (which I have thought of but not sure it's good enough yet) or I just leave it as a dead end. It's not like anyone's going to chase me for it. That would also save me the much more difficult task of fixing 'After Life'.
A very productive Monday. First I sampled some Minimoog (bass notes then made a drum kit of hits) and System 8 - mostly to give myself some unique sounds to work with and process. Then I made a long ambient track based on one of the Kinlochewe recordings with System 8 overdubbed on a couple of tracks. Gave me the opportunity to use the Learn function for assigning track FX to the Q-Links and try importing random field recordings as clips then into arranger. All worked well enough, no glitches with the longer audio and a nice clearly visible display of where everything was. I may do a few different mixes of that in different sequences, trying out recording of fx, volume etc. but no actual need as I know all that works already. Only anomaly was that it records muted tracks into the arranger, which I hadn't expected. Guess it doesn't matter but feels untidy. I need to explore the stock effects more as I keep falling back to that Delay Pro I bought, which has already revealed most of its delights. Some more complex effects needed if it's ever to compete with what Logic offered many moons ago. Still, there's more than enough really, just picking fault due to force of habit. Sampling or recording my synths as part of an arrangement working very smoothly so all good.
Well, I installed the SATA drive easily enough (a tight fit with the cable supplied). But it needs to be formatted on a PC first - meaning I have to order a fucking cable to do it. Sigh. And even with a cable the thing isn't seen immediately. Googled what to do and Windows 11's Disk Management was the answer. What a faff! Good day recording clips though.
Now I'm watching the Sakamoto DVD Opus, which s wonderful and poignant. Didn't get to the end but will watch again tonight, assuming Pat coming home tomorrow.
Well, it's Saturday morning and Friday went very well. Tried some new Cirklon code that sorts the screen colours rather nicely (and font). Then I played with the MPC all afternoon and worked on yet another of the KSP projects. The skipping between patches and patterns until I find something that works is a great process for making loops in the MPC. I have yet to arrange them all but all the chunks are there and promising indeed. Didn't post yesterday's thing so will have to go find it and listen.
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