Just been entertaining myself with Reason's Matrix. Although truth be told I have little experience using the Matrix and the CV outputs so I have no idea if the screaming noise was down to its influence on the Subtractor filters... or just my sound design.
Not satisfied with the screaming coming from Reason, I then added not one but two instances of MFM2 onto the audio in Sonar. Ouch. But I like it. Lots.
Just getting ready for this coming Saturdays ICS session... A little familiarisation with aspects of my software as yet untried. Fun!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
The great choke
I have been trying to upload my old material from Elka CR99 floppies.
First I tried Sonar PE (6.2.1). I got quite a few tracks loaded but the biggie. The huge 'medley' we used to perform live, well that was just too much. Sonar go boom. It had already done this on some of the other tracks but had scraped through on subsequent attempts. Not this time. Same thing each attempt: boom. Sonar died.
So I loaded up Ableton Live (6.0.7). The medley recorded ok but the following tracks killed Live as well. Gah!
Its late and I have had enough for now. It does make me wonder that stuff I did around the early 90s on far less capable computers and software causes such difficulties now. My current PC and software is in a different universe. And therein lies the problem I guess. Power and complexity bring their own problems.
First I tried Sonar PE (6.2.1). I got quite a few tracks loaded but the biggie. The huge 'medley' we used to perform live, well that was just too much. Sonar go boom. It had already done this on some of the other tracks but had scraped through on subsequent attempts. Not this time. Same thing each attempt: boom. Sonar died.
So I loaded up Ableton Live (6.0.7). The medley recorded ok but the following tracks killed Live as well. Gah!
Its late and I have had enough for now. It does make me wonder that stuff I did around the early 90s on far less capable computers and software causes such difficulties now. My current PC and software is in a different universe. And therein lies the problem I guess. Power and complexity bring their own problems.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Skint
Every damn month there seems to be some additional expense that kicks snot out of any plans to recoup.
June was the month I shut down my old web business and, working through some accountants, it has cost a fortune.
This month or perhaps August it will be the collapsed ceiling. Since the insurers have decided not to pay (in dispute so more about that later) we will have to cover the repairs. The collapse happened in APRIL! It is getting beyond a joke it really is.
Meantime my current employer seriously underpays me. I guess it is time to move on but that will almost certainly mean moving to the SE. Not exactly a positive spin is it?
June was the month I shut down my old web business and, working through some accountants, it has cost a fortune.
This month or perhaps August it will be the collapsed ceiling. Since the insurers have decided not to pay (in dispute so more about that later) we will have to cover the repairs. The collapse happened in APRIL! It is getting beyond a joke it really is.
Meantime my current employer seriously underpays me. I guess it is time to move on but that will almost certainly mean moving to the SE. Not exactly a positive spin is it?
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