There is something soothing about coming back to my own little audio-suite space on a Monday morning. I had a good weekend, and was sad to bid Sunday farewell, but being able to come in, switch on the kettle & the genelecs (and increasingly often, the heater), and sit down with a coffee while I mentally gear up for the day is quite pleasant.
I spent a goodly portion of the weekend converting Clare’s old laptop into a music production workhorse. She recently bought a shiny new silver Core Duo thingy, which means her perfectly serviceable Pentium M 1.8Ghz goes to me (for a modest fee of course). I loaded Reaper and a bunch of my favourite low CPU VST instruments & effects, and I’m all set for portable demo recording goodness. I was going to hook up my Mbox 2 Mini with the ASIO drivers (Slow-Tools would bog that machine down to a mollasses-like-crawl) but I’m actually finding the Asio4All driver is doing the job perfectly well for the intended purpose. Admittedly I won’t be tracking any hit songs with the on board sound hardware, but for donning the headphones and jotting down a quick idea, it’s perfect. Like a glorified 4-track, pretty much. Now I’m looking for a solution to use some VSTs in rehearsals/live. I was messing around with the demo for Brainspawn‘s Forte software, but it seems to have much higher perceived latency than REAPER does under the same buffer settings. Still playable, but a bit laggy feeling. Oddness…
We’ve done a couple of interviews for the T3E album this past week or so, plus the reviews are starting to trickle in, and they’ve been very positive for the most part – very exciting. It’s nice to feel the promotional juggernaut swing into action, with the ensuing promise of perhaps DOZENS of extra sales. Marvellous. Album #2 is shaping up nicely as well. Of course now that’s underway, all the ideas I’m coming up with are completely unsuitable for a nouveau-prog outfit such as ourselves. I’m sure I’ll come up with a use for them somewhere.
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