Kaoss abounds

Kaossilator Pro coming for review - could be fun to have synced motion patterns with my KP3. Should press on with MiniAK really, no reply to my questions so will ring.

Pat and Dawn as bingo tonight so will work on review then. This afternoon I feel I should do something new.

Wednesday today. Upgraded Omnisphere - loads of new patches apparently but no idea which. Ain't heard all the ones it has already.

Did more work on the dance one but then decided to knuckle down to the MiniAK. Trying to contact Akai to ask a few questions. I notice the Micron is still available. Time to google for the reference manual in case Akai don't get back to me (no sign yet). Cycled into the park and along the river, not as tiring as the other day but must keep doing it or become lazy slob. Lazier slob.

Shame I'm not getting the SEM to review, woulda been good to hear it alongside my Two Voice. Must ask John about his mate's Synthi.

Aimless Tuesday

Pottered a little more with the FSOL track using flex to do passably what Ableton does well. Started a fast psy-trance sorta track but I'm sure I've ripped off the main sequence from somewhere. Sounds like a classic chillout riff to me but I can't place it 100%.

Ultimately did very little today. Rang W but he hasn't listened to the stuff, which is better, I guess, than his having listened but not subsequently getting in touch. Damn cold persisting, still snotted up. Must ring Tracy about whatever gig it was they were on about. Why do I keep forgetting?

Sesh

Saturday night's birthday sesh was entertaining enough - saw Robert, no Harvey though. Eventually crawled into a bed around five/six and slept until ten. When home, went up and helped with horses; snowing and quite lovely up there. Evening: studio pottering if I feel up to it but still quite tired. We'll see.

Reckon I'm not up to these all-nighters anymore. Nose and much of my head gradually starting to work again. Sis still going strong when I left... no idea how she does it.

Sussed Logic's flex out (it doesn't have the elegant simplicity of Ableton but then what does?) and got the FSOL-type track into it. Should be able to quickly develop it into something. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Friday = Freedom

Had to reinstate FF, about time! Still nowt back from W. Hey ho. Gonna submit one more track to Y then work on some new stuff.

Went up with Pat to help do Murphy. Spent a nice day working with him in the school.

Later Betty across the road had problems with her alarm (burned her tea) and couldn't get anyone to sort it - company gone home and no emergency number on unit or in docs. Left message but eventually guessed the code to disable it.

Bam coming later, can't be late though cos party tomorrow and that will be full-on. Sigh. Getting old.

Noticed Cirk could be sold (in small quantities) as early as March. Was sure it'd be lots longer than that. Feel bit bad about selling P3s - will look like I knew it was coming.

Pulling finger out

Well, a bit. I realise I could wait weeks for a response re: my chilled exotica tracks so rather than spend my time poking around the corners of Logic/Live/Softsynths, I've joined another library where you can upload stuff yourself and get going. Carl uses it and he's doing great - it also frees me a little to do my own thing. Initially gonna use the tracks not quite up to scratch for the other library but having a place to put things means I now have an impetus to record new things for it.

Should go to bank today and sort business account but feel I should work on this instead. Wrote basic biog and looked at my PRS stuff for getting ISWC number. Think I understand it all.

Started a FSOL-ish track yesterday in Ableton, roughly called Papa's New Guinea Pig. Should probably tone down the silly titles.

Carl has helped a lot - his stuff is brill and in a totally different way to Paul's. It's closer to what I could manage although I have a long way to go to catch up. He ain't bogged down with this copy and paste of sampled performance thing, which appeals to me. So that's how I'll approach this library too - will dare to be more original there.

Cirklon making interesting progress but I guess, even if nobody except me knows about this blog, I shouldn't reveal how much.

Another day passes. Didn't do much other than sort the sidechain problem (routed via a bus) on Logic, get a few Strobe presets installed in the right place, check out those supposedly good patches in Absynth (still nowt special, alas) and go to Eileen's funeral. I almost missed it as I went to the wrong church (and forgot to take any money for the collection or for drinks later). Didn't know any of the hymns and it was strange seeing so many people present for such a lonely old woman's passing. Still, she'd have been pleased. :)

New Cirklon OS delivered and installed.