Sunday, Nov 2
It is Sunday, and I'm very nervous about Tuesday's election. While poll numbers aren't supposed to carry any weight, I am cautiously hopeful that Obama will be unquestionably elected, but it ain't over until it's over.
At this moment, I've quite tired. I'm back in a physical exercise regimen, and am enjoying it. Three years of drinking and net surfing have made my midsection swell, and I'm fixing that along with the rest of me.
I have a backlog of music pieces that I must get to work on. It requires getting "into the right head."
I'm starting a new account with a company that produces audio magazines in four different western European languages. The product is available as a download, a CD, or cassette (wow). They soon will offer it on DVD, with a feature that lets you slow the playback of certain phrases in order to learn the phrase in that particular language. My job will be to master pre-edited material shipped here from the respective producers. More details as the situation unfolds. I'm very happy about the prospect of more income.
Daylight Savingtime ended today, and it feels late.
The Tennessee Titans remain undefeated at 8-0.
At this moment, I've quite tired. I'm back in a physical exercise regimen, and am enjoying it. Three years of drinking and net surfing have made my midsection swell, and I'm fixing that along with the rest of me.
I have a backlog of music pieces that I must get to work on. It requires getting "into the right head."
I'm starting a new account with a company that produces audio magazines in four different western European languages. The product is available as a download, a CD, or cassette (wow). They soon will offer it on DVD, with a feature that lets you slow the playback of certain phrases in order to learn the phrase in that particular language. My job will be to master pre-edited material shipped here from the respective producers. More details as the situation unfolds. I'm very happy about the prospect of more income.
Daylight Savingtime ended today, and it feels late.
The Tennessee Titans remain undefeated at 8-0.
Thursday, Oct 9
Stupid MIDI tricks department....or cheap thrills...anyway, I have a piece of groove music sketched around a real-time drum track I recorded. Initially I wanted to run the drum track through the Virus, in search of some interesting filtering or modulation. That didn't manifest as I'd hoped, but I kept it anyway, as the treatment of Elastic Time had imparted some slight artifacts that lent a raw-ish trip-hop element.
I decided to trigger the Structure soft sampler for sound replacement. I inserted Drumagog on a bus, and routed kick and snare tracks through it. Drumagog will translate incoming audio to MIDI triggers of a selectable note number, but it will only recognize the instruments and routings in your MIDI setup. It will not recognize instances of Structure. So I set Drumagog to output MIDI through (thru) a hardware synth and back into a ProTools MIDI track, which then triggered Structure.
So, I can use Structure as a sound source for drum replacement.
I decided to trigger the Structure soft sampler for sound replacement. I inserted Drumagog on a bus, and routed kick and snare tracks through it. Drumagog will translate incoming audio to MIDI triggers of a selectable note number, but it will only recognize the instruments and routings in your MIDI setup. It will not recognize instances of Structure. So I set Drumagog to output MIDI through (thru) a hardware synth and back into a ProTools MIDI track, which then triggered Structure.
So, I can use Structure as a sound source for drum replacement.
Friday, Oct 3
Did a gig for the Tennessee Lottery.
I think this is something that runs on the local evening news when they announce the winning numbers in the "Cash 3 Cash 4" games.
A Quicktime reference movie was provided to me, and I went to work. Space whooshes, explosions, and a banging techno track...all over-the-top stuff that I enjoy doing but pity the person whose TV blasts this crap into their home.
I worked on it during the day, the ad agency production director came over in the afternoon, liked everything, took a copy for others to approve, and they called me later and said "everybody loves it - mix it." Boy, it's great when it goes that easily.
I posted a small clip with the audio mix (no voiceover) here. Even though I compressed the audio, it might take a few seconds to load. If you have a subwoofer with small computer speakers, you might want to turn it down a bit; it's pretty bass-heavy.
I think this is something that runs on the local evening news when they announce the winning numbers in the "Cash 3 Cash 4" games.
A Quicktime reference movie was provided to me, and I went to work. Space whooshes, explosions, and a banging techno track...all over-the-top stuff that I enjoy doing but pity the person whose TV blasts this crap into their home.
I worked on it during the day, the ad agency production director came over in the afternoon, liked everything, took a copy for others to approve, and they called me later and said "everybody loves it - mix it." Boy, it's great when it goes that easily.
I posted a small clip with the audio mix (no voiceover) here. Even though I compressed the audio, it might take a few seconds to load. If you have a subwoofer with small computer speakers, you might want to turn it down a bit; it's pretty bass-heavy.
to top of page