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Tuesday, 16 March 2004
Drama ::
I read this this—I mean yesterday—morning: (Updated - found the cause of the “extra note”)
Some people have interpersonal drama issues. No matter what they do, or how much they try, they always seem to be involved in some kind of clusterf-—or another. You’ve known these people: everything they get near turns into a disaster, and no matter how nice they seem, they are best avoided.
Me? I have computer drama issues.
I have completely dysfunctional relationships with machines. The simplest thing, that normal people do every day, starts a big screaming fight.
And I have music software drama issues. I’m trying to make a rough mix of my current 10-minute, 20-track opus, and I discover that something is getting creative and spontaneously adding an extra note! It’s a repeat of a note that is already sounding, so it’s not horrible-sounding, but I’m supposed to be in charge here, not my gear! I compiled a debug version of the driver and verified that neither Logic nor my code in the OS were to blame. So it’s either deeper in the OS (highly unlikely that a bug there would manifest so predictably), this old prototype MIDI interface (prime suspect) or my JV-1080 (hasn’t let me down yet). And Absynth is freaking out when Logic bounces to disk. This was happening Sunday night too, and I ended up bouncing a track via my 828's digital I/O and back. Time to be a good platform policeman and see if I can debug this enough to send a report to the right party, with enough detail to help it get fixed.
Update (17 Mar): the cause of the “extra note” became immediately obvious when I turned on display of the track automation. I’d done a fade, to make some high notes disappear gracefully, then bumped the volume back up to full. It made the bass drone played with the same patch sound like it was being retriggered. There I go inventing non-existant software dramas again!
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