Just a quick update…and an experiment in “mobile posting”. (I’m on a break during jury duty.)
I posted 30 seconds of this track to SoundCloud almost a month ago. (Check out the “Current Music Projects” page link in the first column on the right near the top of the page.) At the time I thought I would have it finished in another week or two. Ha! Hardly. It’s taken me longer for a couple of reasons:
- Life happens. This being a new dad thing requires a lot of time!
- I’ve been pushing myself to use more of my tools. This means I’ve been burning some time making things a bit more complicated than they need to be so that I can try using these tools. For example, I lost a solid week trying to use an instance of Battery3 in a multi-output configuration with KORE2 inside Digital Performer 6. Not really necessary as you can accomplish much of the same thing without KORE. And in the end I just set up Battery with multiple outs not using KORE at all.* Now I knew how to do that from the start, but I don’t consider it a waste of time as I learned quite a bit (though it was a tad frustrating).
- As I work on this piece, my conception of it evolves. A downside to working “organically” I guess. (Ok, here’s a confession: I’m not one of those people who conceives fully realized pieces in their head.)
In any case I finally made a breakthrough of sorts on the percussion and have finally moved on to arranging the song structure. After that I’ll finish up vocals and work on mastering. It should be two more weeks tops….!
Cheers
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* - There are several reasons — the main one being some sort of audio channel assignment weirdness with DP I think — but I want to explore it a bit more before I write anything.
