Review sent off this morning, hopefully OK. Got some good loops from my electribe and the B and will try to get more before it goes back. Sounds much better than Logic's bitcruncher that's for sure.

Progressed the new track DNA, it's gonna be fine I think.

And now a new Cirklon OS to play with, promising to be a good weekend. Pat working quite a lot so I have loads of studio time and no new review gear until sometime next week. Press on with tunes boy! But tonight, it's shortbread and Cirklon all the way.

Very windy last night, garage door hanging off. :(

Curry tomorrow, reminds me must book.

Review done and I got some good electribe apple loops by using B on it. Really quite versatile and I do like the sound.

Also started a new track, called DNA. I didn't realise until later but there's this big drum thing happening that sounds just like D N A. Well, it's three hits and it sorta hints...

Made decent progress last night and tonight, have a first draft and it's about the right wordcount too. Must make sure I haven't forgotten anything and get it all tidied up tomorrow night then the final polish can happen Thursday. A fast one eh!

Eyes starting to struggle, too much screen. I think my cold is finally gone.

LOL, Prodyssey now working. Was the D-Beam. No idea how those other keyboards also had problems, did I turn off in between connections? Anyway, all good and turned off V-Synth controllers (then turned on some - pad now sets env retrigger mode, c1 does one effect, 2 the other.

Lost much of the evening tweaking the Prodyssey - a darn good synth that and still one of the best interfaces ever. I do keep saying that even though I'd change the top row of sliders for knobs. :)

Review going well, words flowing. Cirklon improving now with inroads into realtime and quantization. Not enough hours or Colins in the day.

Odd day. Confirmed ESX is knackered but didn't resolve Prodyssey weirdy. It plays fine from Cirklon/thru but when I connect V-Synth, PC200 or Korg Microsampler, it don't wanna play. WTF? I mean, it does play a bit but chokes, envelopes sorta stop working. Is there a stay CC coming from every one of those synths? Unlikely. Very. No active sensing either. Only thing I didn't check to the nth degree was MIDI cables. Have long suspected that Prody's MIDI In; some cables seem to need to be really pushed. I bet that's it.

Would be good as my main synth connected to V-Synth rather than Minimax. Minimax is so good for sequencing, the Prody is an awesome polysynth, plus the interface is almost perfect - I can get modulation without holding the V-Synth's stick too! Those sliders and backlit buttons rule so I want to solve it.

Think I worked out everything about the new toy today and did some mixes of Wally for John. Hopefully there's something of value there. No writing and no Cirklon (Colin kiddy minding!) progress. Today woulda been an excellent day to work with it too.

Wine and chocolate this evening.

OK, Friday arrived and with it a cute little box for review. Upgraded its OS and have tinkered with it all afternoon - fortunately very easy and hands-on so don't see any difficulties getting stuck right in this weekend with some writing.

I have 6 tracks for the forensic project now, the last one (Hookers) needing some tweaking still because it's got some very odd key liberties, even for me. Might be too strange generally but we'll see.

Pat working tonight so have time to do a few things. Sadly she swapped shifts for tomorrow which rather scuppers my planned curry night with Carl and Dan. Hey ho.

Sam won his journalist thing - which is pretty damn awesome! Don't think he was expecting it but now he's in some bigger national thing. Could go all the way, the boy done good. Bet Dawn chuffed to hang with the celebs. :)

It's going well, really. Three tracks into the new "forensic" project and having fun doing it. Not entirely sure what the boundaries for this one will be although M suggested from the first track (Sicko) out as far as the two new ones (the miracle of science, the evidence).

Probably need some new sounds, just as soon as I get a better handle on what I'm doing. Started a new one today (chemistry) but we'll see if that gets too tuney, it might.

Got first taste of Cirklon's realtime record last night. Man, this is gonna be so awesome. Totally a new realm, especially if the aux stuff works out too. Drool!!