Nice, new Cirklon beta to test as soon as window guy comes and does his measuring. Two features I've been waiting for so what the heck if it's almost time to go out and play?

I went through the live stuff in Octatrack last night and rearranged all the drum parts to be more suitable for "old-style chillout". So they're less thumpy now. Well, mostly. Will I still incur the wrath of the Noise Police? Taking Virus not Prodigy as it has built-in delay so less time required to set it up, plus if a disaster with rain etc. I'd rather the virus got wet, it's more easily replaced.

Glow in the dark knobs finally arrived. No slider yet though but the knobs are nice and green and will try them under UV later.

Very groovy trick on the Octatrack: have an entire song set to loop in ping pong mode. Freaks you out after 7 mins when it suddenly goes into reverse. Until you remember doing it, that is. Doesn't seem possible to do it and have it stay in perfect time in reverse but the slight slip is "interesting".

Sweet, deviated from app review for a couple of hours and a new track appeared. Well a new section for one of the tracks that was a bit dull. It has quite a simple but nice groove and bassline. Well, I'll listen again in the cold light of day. Recorded video of recording it in case I like it as much as last week's track.

Right back to work :)

Worked on a track using the (knackered) tape delay and SH101, Moogerfoogers, Synthi and so on. It may well be the final track of "And Darkness Falls", will see how it holds up to repeated listenings.

Spent the day fasting again, not hard at all. 24 hours I can do. My body can prepare for curry assault on Saturday.

Paul doing some groovy music with his modular and spring reverb etc. Would like to think I've inspired him a bit and turned him onto Conrad Schnitzler. Good things can only come from it and sweet things for me to hear, done by a proper composer. :)

Ordered OT glow in the dark knobs. Will have a go with that copicat later and pay Nick. A few reviews lining up so that's good. No replies from any library companies, gonna do a bandcamp page for Ideation with "One Sea" as its first entry. Waiting for Pete's OK, have mixed the track and done a very small amount of boost via The Glue. One day I may invest in some mastering s/ware but not really necessary at the mo.

I may work on another track tonight, seem to have a rare focus right now that I should use before it fades away. However, I also have bought more beer...

Phil came, good visit, then recorded this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/WilyEPeyote?feature=discovery

Basically I remade a track tonight from scratch with Shamania in mind. It had been a disembodied library track but never quite worked 100% even though the Cirklon sequences around it did. Now the whole thing is a good 139BPM gig finish. Result!

I drank some beer too. That was the evening for me. Octatrack can play back the whole thing but I have lots of prepared scenes with decorations and drastic changes, plus Ck patterns to bring in and out as I feel like. Peachy!

A bit of Vaughan Williams now while we wait for the rain.

Extended the track "Hashtag" to gig length for Shamania, starting to listen through things to see what needs to be done. Considering moving stuff into the slim flightcase which is so much smaller than "the box".

Another day loafing, booked hol in January. Seen the Shamania poster, seems I'm definitely playing so will have a think about how. And if I can take the smaller flightcase rather than the big sequencer box. Two hours, should be do-able and in between Dave and Pascal, which is nice.

a photo from this morning's walk