Wednesday 29 April 2009

Decisions, decisions...

I'm really interested in getting Battery 3 whilst it's still on offer for €99, but I've not long had Linplug's RMIV which I waited almost a year for (and hardly use for that matter). I really like NI's stuff and Batt3 sounds really good, where RMIV sounds really dull - but then there's the matter of getting my upgrade to Live 8! - curse the p155-poor euro exchange rate!!!

Got a few weeks before the offer ends to decide, but I have a feeling that I'll succumb to my weak-willed needs :-)

Friday 24 April 2009

Inspiration

I've been playing around with a great application called Nodal, which is a kind of modular sequencer that transmits MIDI signals. What's really cools is that besides having your basic 16 note sequence, you can put in random markers that go off and play different sections like so;















Brilliant for trying out new ideas, I even have a copy at work running quicktime synths that I use for coming up with drum patterns.

Tuesday 14 April 2009

new old additions

The company I work for just had a clear out of old equipment - all SCSI stuff and now I have more storage then I can shake a stick at for my samplers and G3 desktop. Two mag-opitical with 100 230Mb disks, two hard-drives, two Zip drives, a cd read/writer and a syquest drive. Great stuff! Now all I have to do is get some more SCSI cables from E-bay.