Worked on my latest chilled/house/lifestyle album for Abs today. A bit of a drag doing all the 48kHz stuff (cos Logic can't remember in between bounces that's what you want) and the various edits. But I've made a good start, even contemplated adding a couple more tracks but will settle for the dozen I have. They go well together I think and should be OK for holiday/travel type progs too. Have compiled some metadata and all I need to do is write some album notes, tempii etc.
Did 10 tracks out of 12, some of the ones I've done may need further tweaks but I prefer to plough on fast and fix later.

Would rather be playing but such is life. Colin working hard too, hopefully cracking the final tough hurdle so it'll be on to the good stuff at last!

Good day. Well, worked on some details of the two short reviews I'm writing, dropped a line to someone about another article and got the news that one of my tracks was used on a channel 5 program "10 things I hate", which I unfortunately missed. Seems like progress, obviously need lots more but it's cheered me up.

Did another piece for Glade today, just some basic beats and ambience to be made into something, hopefully. Used a long synthi static sample plus a library piece that blends in for a couple of minutes of normality before I slide it out again as if it never happened.

Well well a good evening because I have a new "song" to play which is actually two headshock songs but joined together using Octatrack. Very, very pleased with what I'm doing with the two of them at the moment. Big love!
http://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/rumping-excerpt

it actually can last forever and nearly did...

Fantastic family wedding yesterday, couldn't have been better. Saw some family members I hadn't seen for years and years. Feeling a little delicate today so cooking myself a vindaloo for tea.

Asked what to be billed as for Glade, didn't realise I'd be mentioned anywhere. Settled for smokyfrog and now thinking of maybe taking a keyboard of some sort, Virus maybe, just so I have some way of jamming along. Aiming to play from thursday midnight until friday 6am with CDs to play whenever I run out of steam. Won't be able to do much if it's too light as can't see LEDs etc. Was gonna mainly wing it but now thinking of possibly preparing a bit more. Time permitting.

Lots of royal shit on telly today. We're all to celebrate queen not being dead or something. Old people seem to like this stuff though so no room for my cynicism. If they were a bit less into the cruelty and bloodsports I might be able to stomach giving 'em forty million quid a year to sit on, or whatever...

This evening continued to go through my songs, trimming here, pruning there.
http://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/letgo-improv
I think I need more Synthi - loops and noises. Aim to make each of the songs I have last 30 mins (do-able). Hey ho!

Swapped my old Proteus for the new one. It seems to run cooler and its screen is dimmer but I can live with that. Had to upgrade the OS and transmit my patches over then, interestingly, had to swap the rack ears because my screws wouldn't go through the holes on the new ones.
All running well though. No actual work done except a small amount of song tweaking. A bit of a pointless week it has to be said. But hey!

Had fun playing the Prodigy, still haven't calibrated the theremin. Getting Dave's Arturia thing as he bought another version. Hope there's no faffing about getting the reg transferred, I remember Paul's hassle with them.

Considering which keyboard to gig with this year. I think if I could get MIDI out on the Prodigy I'd take that. Don't think Colin will have time though.

Being able to backup Octatrack banks is good - odd you can't restore to a different bank though. I also see they added the fast audition keystrokes I suggested yonks ago. Reckon I wasn't the only one though, ditto for the long file name views. All good stuff. Haven't played any more with looper, not necessary - making good use of all that extra flex memory instead. Finally I have a way to work I like. And songs are taking shape.

A number of Cirklon annoyances starting to build, some have been on my tits for about 2 years now!

Excellent day, agreed to do an article I'm rather looking forward to researching, a couple of reviews that look like fun too. Then got a call that my Vietnamese tracks are liked and will be used in the documentary, so I uploaded the wavs. Got contracts for my car ad tracks through so will sign and return.

All good! And a bloody hot day. More offers of Proteus 2000 but I should wait and see what the first guy comes back with as the price including postage. If he's too greedy I'll go with one of the others as one guy offered to do it inclusive. And I'm not exactly rich right now!