OK, I overran. Didn't dare to slip into Song mode because I wasn't sure I'd saved all the scene status as Man again after trying out the new scene chain test OS. Therefore I had no idea of total played time and when the end of the film came we were miles off the one place we'd planned. In future either ditch all plans or, well.. :)
A few interesting challenges, not least fitting everything into the car on the way home. Scenes as songs is no good though the way Cirklon is now. I struggled to relate the on-screen two columns of scenes to the 16 lit buttons, I think the selected scene should be inverse video on-screen so I have a better idea of where it is. So I selected a few scenes that were totally wrong - sometimes with interesting results. I'm using the word "interesting" a lot, I note.
The vid looked great, what I saw of it. Was hard to hear ourselves clearly and I think Tim struggled too. I filled in, inevitably adding sequences. Often I'd turned the Octatrack down on the mixer but forgot - having to go to the mixer for that one device is shite, frankly when it has a totally unused "volume" knob sitting there. I'm having a pine for P3/ESX-1 simplicity today.
Got into bed just before two, very tired but content.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Friday, 12 April 2013
OK, last practice before tomorrow's gig
I shouldn't really call it a practice though. Yesterday we set up the mixers how they'll be and finally compiled the DVD. I'm still tempted to re-render and make it smooth and seamless rather than 3 joined parts but we'll see. It works as is despite Tim's being not quite what he hoped (either not enough or too many Cybermen, I can't remember). I think it looks great.
Interesting how gigs increase music sales - sold 6 albums yesterday, three of which were the live solo gig I did. Also got my PRS, showing most of my money comes from channel 5. That's something I have to tackle next week, put together a better showreel and hit De Wolfe again.
The German guy putting out the old stuff on vinyl has discovered 1981's Tree & Leaf. He likes a lot and wants to get it cleaned up and reissued on CD. Which is nice.
Have been laying off the smokes. Don't think that bong is helping my throat.
Right, time to do something. Frustratingly, I have a pile of new ideas for the Eternity Program but no time to write them down.
Excellent day. Decided on a start piece and an end piece and the rest we'll make up. Recorded a few things just to test the new mixer setup and sounded fine. In fact a few new, cool things made up that I think we're gonna really like. Will be different tomorrow though as a fair bit of sh101 sequencer. Could easily use just two of those instead of cirklon and Perfourmer, wild idea but like the old days when I did just that.
Interesting how gigs increase music sales - sold 6 albums yesterday, three of which were the live solo gig I did. Also got my PRS, showing most of my money comes from channel 5. That's something I have to tackle next week, put together a better showreel and hit De Wolfe again.
The German guy putting out the old stuff on vinyl has discovered 1981's Tree & Leaf. He likes a lot and wants to get it cleaned up and reissued on CD. Which is nice.
Have been laying off the smokes. Don't think that bong is helping my throat.
Right, time to do something. Frustratingly, I have a pile of new ideas for the Eternity Program but no time to write them down.
Excellent day. Decided on a start piece and an end piece and the rest we'll make up. Recorded a few things just to test the new mixer setup and sounded fine. In fact a few new, cool things made up that I think we're gonna really like. Will be different tomorrow though as a fair bit of sh101 sequencer. Could easily use just two of those instead of cirklon and Perfourmer, wild idea but like the old days when I did just that.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Mellowed out again, over my spoilt brat, insecure phase and back in the appreciating what I've got phase where I'm most comfortable. So what if I'm lowly, I'm a happy lowly! :)
Phew, hate it when I'm miserable so decided not to be. Today there's a new Cirklon OS to play with, I went on the roof to potter with the wobbly aerial, I booked my car in for two new tyres, I rendered the video again with extra scenes and less pratting about.
I should now turn my attention to those tracks I planned to fix and make some progress with the one review I have outstanding. Easy one though so just a matter of time and discipline.
Correction, wound up again. Gig Saturday and my Prodigy throws a sickie! Nasty distortion, suspect main volume pot and dearly hope I can get it sorted in time. Bloody typical! Please let that be it for the month, please, OK? This is why I want good new synths, practically all the Prodigy really needs replacing.
I look around my classics though and I ask myself: how many would have been better with a 2 octave keyboard???
Answer: fucking none of them!
I think my film is gonna be OK. Made it simple, didn't overcook. Enough amazing visuals - that's why I chose it after all!
Korg - wow can those be real. Glad I realised I was being a nob rather than whining.
Afternoon - disaster Prodigy making distorted noise. Suspect main volume pot. Intermittent though. May have to visit Tony before gig. :( Or borrow Tony B's Prod, would miss my mods too much now).
Later, after Tim came Prodigy had behaved. Tim's new synth wicked - put through Digisound filter and even better. Not used that thing for too long. Note to self. Didn't mean to drink/smoke again tonight, not getting work done. Doing the one review I have now, for an hour or so. Planned gig shape. Follows classic symphony actually, maybe a Mahler with the whole brooding gradually growing thing going on in the middle. Right boy, work!
Ahem, pretty sure there was something important I'd planned to write down. Braindump instead. Work!
Wow, quite a day. My 1980-85 vinyl cover looks fab. Some changes to text but very impressed. The 7" will have a best of T&L also, real shame I never found those other tapes. A feeling there's better material still unused, story of my life though that heh. Guy doing the covers sounds like a sound bloke, or as stoned as me. :)
Phew, hate it when I'm miserable so decided not to be. Today there's a new Cirklon OS to play with, I went on the roof to potter with the wobbly aerial, I booked my car in for two new tyres, I rendered the video again with extra scenes and less pratting about.
I should now turn my attention to those tracks I planned to fix and make some progress with the one review I have outstanding. Easy one though so just a matter of time and discipline.
Correction, wound up again. Gig Saturday and my Prodigy throws a sickie! Nasty distortion, suspect main volume pot and dearly hope I can get it sorted in time. Bloody typical! Please let that be it for the month, please, OK? This is why I want good new synths, practically all the Prodigy really needs replacing.
I look around my classics though and I ask myself: how many would have been better with a 2 octave keyboard???
Answer: fucking none of them!
I think my film is gonna be OK. Made it simple, didn't overcook. Enough amazing visuals - that's why I chose it after all!
Korg - wow can those be real. Glad I realised I was being a nob rather than whining.
Afternoon - disaster Prodigy making distorted noise. Suspect main volume pot. Intermittent though. May have to visit Tony before gig. :( Or borrow Tony B's Prod, would miss my mods too much now).
Later, after Tim came Prodigy had behaved. Tim's new synth wicked - put through Digisound filter and even better. Not used that thing for too long. Note to self. Didn't mean to drink/smoke again tonight, not getting work done. Doing the one review I have now, for an hour or so. Planned gig shape. Follows classic symphony actually, maybe a Mahler with the whole brooding gradually growing thing going on in the middle. Right boy, work!
Ahem, pretty sure there was something important I'd planned to write down. Braindump instead. Work!
Wow, quite a day. My 1980-85 vinyl cover looks fab. Some changes to text but very impressed. The 7" will have a best of T&L also, real shame I never found those other tapes. A feeling there's better material still unused, story of my life though that heh. Guy doing the covers sounds like a sound bloke, or as stoned as me. :)
Monday, 8 April 2013
Arse Feck
Today I am pissed off. Some you lose but this one, well, nowt I can do so move on.
Cheered myself up with a nice curry, working on V2 of Die Nibelung which is taking shape the more I look at it. With more time it might even have been good.
Didn't do owt else though. Curry didn't cheer me up that much! Everyone is crowing about Margaret Thatcher in a way I don't really like. Not from the love and peace generation. I dunno, seems to me that hate is a sword without a handle. If you use it you have to grasp the blade you're using against others. And that after but a single bottle of San Miguel.
So April hasn't started well. Wonder what else it has to throw at me? Possibly a seriously stupid question to dare to ask but on a day I'm struggling with my own mundanity, I'll go with it recklessly.
Cheered myself up with a nice curry, working on V2 of Die Nibelung which is taking shape the more I look at it. With more time it might even have been good.
Didn't do owt else though. Curry didn't cheer me up that much! Everyone is crowing about Margaret Thatcher in a way I don't really like. Not from the love and peace generation. I dunno, seems to me that hate is a sword without a handle. If you use it you have to grasp the blade you're using against others. And that after but a single bottle of San Miguel.
So April hasn't started well. Wonder what else it has to throw at me? Possibly a seriously stupid question to dare to ask but on a day I'm struggling with my own mundanity, I'll go with it recklessly.
Sunday, 7 April 2013
night in...
Didn't go to System 7 last night after all, the man wasn't so good and I think his other pals might've cried off too. Don't mind not going but was a waste of money and I coulda gone to Hawkwind after all, just didn't feel like doing both. Hey ho. Made some music with Tim, which was ace fun as usual, may try and get some padding footage tonight from Fritz Lang, recorded from the phone then messed with in Movie Studio. Won't be as class as "the film" but will be suitably atmospheric.
Dr Who was a bit naff. I think he'd be unable to do anything at all without his sonic screwdriver now, was he always such a one tool wonder? Not the best story ever but hey I don't wanna be a complainer. Oops too late.
Friday, 5 April 2013
Ugh
A cold Friday, a PRS day, sent off review started in 2011. Afternoon was an Octatrack one, made more Cirklon requests and felt bad cos how many things have I asked for in the last three years? One solution for a different type of gig would be saving song in cirklon as a "version", so HS2 and HS1 existing in parallel. Keeping the first two chars consistent I should be able to make projects and songs with those numbers that play together in any combination, say HS1(Ck) with HS3 (OT).
If Colin ever adds the tempo change between scenes thing then that will be even better, plus if he allows a "ignore stored tempo" as a song playback option, well better again. My set is scalable now though from OT by itself right up to the whole studio and owt in between. Spent a lot of time with a dubbly bass, a long synthi sample, a single drum loop with different delays today, a sure sign it was an old-style friday afternoon.
No reason for that picture, just thought these blogs getting really dull and pointless. It's worse than a bloody diary and has less in. Ludicrous. Not going to Hawkwind tonight, lazy I know but can't be arsed. Sorta wish I wasn't going to System 7 tomorrow but such is life...
If Colin ever adds the tempo change between scenes thing then that will be even better, plus if he allows a "ignore stored tempo" as a song playback option, well better again. My set is scalable now though from OT by itself right up to the whole studio and owt in between. Spent a lot of time with a dubbly bass, a long synthi sample, a single drum loop with different delays today, a sure sign it was an old-style friday afternoon.
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
BDABR
Got the awful news about Iain Banks today, absolutely gutted. Wrote him a quick note and was humbled to get a reply. He's gonna see exotic places and buy a big fast car - good luck to him!
Doesn't seem worth writing anything else. Oh, I recorded a dream memory thing for a project of Dean's. Not sure he'll use it cos my dream wasn't that exciting and my voice is a bit rubbish.
Otherwise worked on review. Tim updated our website with interview text.
Headshock
Doesn't seem worth writing anything else. Oh, I recorded a dream memory thing for a project of Dean's. Not sure he'll use it cos my dream wasn't that exciting and my voice is a bit rubbish.
Otherwise worked on review. Tim updated our website with interview text.
Headshock
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