Sunny day...

Pete's headed for home, shame about his computer thing but a very pleasant visit all the same. Agreed to alternate sequencer tracks live rather than combine them which should work well I think. Some nice ideas about things to do in the set.

Right, walkies :)

Practice didn't go too far yesterday, computer problems for Pete and lack of prep for me. Need for more channels on Cirklon pressing - so I can have some part set up to play. Colin working on it and seeming confident he can make a change soon. Which is amazing even for him. He's talking a change from 16 to 256 tracks (top secret, good job only I read this blog!).

Today we will make more progress.

Would love to know where my OSX system disk is.

Uh, last night's curry making its presence known...

Good day, found lots of shrooms and later went to watch Phil fly his planes. Very impressive stuff - he sure can make it do clever things.

Last night I worked on a few of the "not quite there" tunes in advance of Pete coming next week. Will do more on Monday night. Review is almost there, just a few phrases are ugly and a few low quality paragraph starts and vocab can be improved. I'm hopefully in a position to go see Mick's band tomorrow night though.

Completed "Earth Dreams" for Abs, posting data DVD this morning. Review going well, may even be able to go to Mick's gig on Sunday. Good discussions with Colin over Scene Chains and an extra 32 tracks, hoping I'm being persuasive enough.

Pete coming next week, gotta sort when (and tidy up!)...

Even got a spot of DIY done yesterday, including fixing that gutter (inevitably it rained later so dunno if the sealant fully dried) and getting Dave round to look at trees. Today I'm helping Les's pal with a broken multitracker, although I've already told him what's wrong he needs me to see it for myself. Hey ho.

Cirklon took significant step forwards with the introduction of the instrument fdac. Has opened up lots of arrangement possibilities. I need a few things still for Berlin but we're getting close. For my needs anyway, I know Colin has other priorities such as the card file system. Bless.

Got most of my first review draft done, also got an interesting snippet about the 303 filter I could work in maybe. Always wanted to nip that 18dB thing somewhere, a bit like in QI where you answer the obvious thing and the light flashes cos it's actually not so...

Abs2 given thumbs up so starting on the edits. Not totally sure what title to use, either Earth Dreams or First Breath (or something else) seem workable, will see what Mike thinks. I think I've settled on the track titles now and have created logic versions of each edit I'll do.

Pat working until midnight (getting a bit too often this I think) so I guess I have time. Will do edits this afternoon, review tonight (unless Colin sends new OS over).

Managed to get SokkOS loaded into Xoxbox which is good as it gives me more to say.

No reply from P.Origo (again) so I'm starting to think that's gonna go bad. Wasn't happy initially after they "lost" all those Headshock CDs and really didn't seem to give a shit. Will I ever learn about dealing with these folks? Anyway, their "agreement" (the one that talked about regular statements!) says I can get my CDs back at any time. Well, assuming they reply to my emails that is...

Well, we've reached Friday morning and I'm knee-deep in the Xoxbox review having completed all tracks for Abs2. Been trying to get alternate OS loaded with lots of pratting around with COM ports and shitty toytown software. Given that the review is gonna have plenty of words (I've already banged in a lot of notes) I probably don't even need to mention the alternatives but I want to try it for myself.

Anyway, easy day today I think. Cirklon sysex via USB looking good and fast too, which will help lots. Those full dumps were taking a long time. Hopefully will have something to test for the weekend with new fdac per-scene functionality so I can work on my intros and outtros. Then I'll start pestering for scene re-ordering. :)