Friday, January 12, 2007
Music and Things
Well, that last post was supposed to go out last month some time, and I just upgraded my account to the new Blogger system, and that kinda screwed up w.bloggar a bit. It's all good now (for anyone who wants to know how, check out http://samishra.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/getting-wbloggar-to-work-with-blogger-beta/ where I found the solution - the server is beta.blogger.com and the user name is your gmail address - all else is the same.)
Anyway, this entry is about music and the legend Lord Bass, who played LD 120's new track Archipelago (he even got the pronounciation correct), on his podcast and radio show Trance Lab. It certainly bought a smile to my face. Archipelago is the track mentioned in the previous post, and is now finished. Jamie and I have started on a new track now.
Also music related, my new toy arrived the other day - a Roland TR-909. Yep, I now have THAT kick drum in the studio, and man am I happy about it. Samples really don't do that kick drum justice. I've got a few modifications to do to it (like removing the 9V battery, which hopefully hasn't fried the SRAM chip, and replacing it with a 3V battery supply, adding some new controls and modifying the existing ones and finally doing the 240V conversion (which seems to be as simple as moving a single jumper and getting a new cable.
I don't think I'll be able to find an Australian cable to fit the existing receptacle, so I'll likely change over to an IEC connector and earth the chassis (like all good electrical equipment should be). Anyway, it works as it is, and I'm getting my head around the sequencer at the moment. I'll likely use it to also sequence my DMPro using the 909's external instrument function, so it's actually an astoundingly good match for my studio.
In other news, the wedding preparations are going pretty smoothly. Jode's is a bloody legend for working so hard at it. I try to tell myself that I'm contributing by paying for it all, but even so, my efforts pale in comparisons to the amount of time that she has ploughed into it. It's certainly going to be a day to remember (as it bloody well should be).
Work is pretty darn busy. I've got a procedure that is seemingly taking forever to complete. I was hoping to get it finished today, but I found a couple of niggly little things that I need to fix, and a few revisions that need to be done on an earlier, related procedure as a result.
Anyway, it's nearly the end of the day, and there's a cold beer with my name on it.
Till next time...
Anyway, this entry is about music and the legend Lord Bass, who played LD 120's new track Archipelago (he even got the pronounciation correct), on his podcast and radio show Trance Lab. It certainly bought a smile to my face. Archipelago is the track mentioned in the previous post, and is now finished. Jamie and I have started on a new track now.
Also music related, my new toy arrived the other day - a Roland TR-909. Yep, I now have THAT kick drum in the studio, and man am I happy about it. Samples really don't do that kick drum justice. I've got a few modifications to do to it (like removing the 9V battery, which hopefully hasn't fried the SRAM chip, and replacing it with a 3V battery supply, adding some new controls and modifying the existing ones and finally doing the 240V conversion (which seems to be as simple as moving a single jumper and getting a new cable.
I don't think I'll be able to find an Australian cable to fit the existing receptacle, so I'll likely change over to an IEC connector and earth the chassis (like all good electrical equipment should be). Anyway, it works as it is, and I'm getting my head around the sequencer at the moment. I'll likely use it to also sequence my DMPro using the 909's external instrument function, so it's actually an astoundingly good match for my studio.
In other news, the wedding preparations are going pretty smoothly. Jode's is a bloody legend for working so hard at it. I try to tell myself that I'm contributing by paying for it all, but even so, my efforts pale in comparisons to the amount of time that she has ploughed into it. It's certainly going to be a day to remember (as it bloody well should be).
Work is pretty darn busy. I've got a procedure that is seemingly taking forever to complete. I was hoping to get it finished today, but I found a couple of niggly little things that I need to fix, and a few revisions that need to be done on an earlier, related procedure as a result.
Anyway, it's nearly the end of the day, and there's a cold beer with my name on it.
Till next time...
New Toy
[Listening to: Return To Forever - Global Cee - Trancemaster 2009 (8:15)]
I just received my SPL Tube Vitalizer, which has been on my dream list for about 5 years now. A big thumbs up to Lewis at Awave, in Melbourne, who is the best place in the world to buy good audio gear from.
I'm going to have to rewire and reconfigure half my studio to fit this in, but it is going to be soooooo worth it.
I've started doing some music every 2-3 weeks with an old friend of mine, Jamie Syde who writes some of the best tunes that I've yet heard. He's a genius on the wavestation and programming effects, though he doesn't get along very well with computers, which is fine, because my computer is playing nice at the moment.
In other news, the wedding preparations are moving along nicely, though we've still got lots of work to do on the invitations. I'm not very good at cutting out butterflies. They are really, really tricky and the good scissors have holes that are very tight on my fingers, which doesn't help much. Jode's has been the real butterflies stalwart though. She's done heaps of them. I help as best I can (I wield a mean heat gun :D), and I am getting better and faster at cutting out butterflies. I think we still have about 250 butterflies to go.
Just about everything else is finalized for the wedding. We just need to organize the cake, the suits, some shoes for Jodes and the Honeymoon flights, though we do have 5 months still to get all of that sorted.
The settlement of the house has come through at long last, though I'm still in the process of sorting all the accounts out. What a nightmare this has been, though it will allow me to set things up properly now. You learn so much from experience. We're about to go on a bit of a shopping spree for some stuff that we kinda need (like a new laptop, and new mobile phones), which is kind of exciting.
Anyway, work beckons, so till next time....
