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Tuesday, 16 August 2005
Forgetting everything ::
Spent the weekend procrastinating on doing my procrastinated taxes by rearranging my apartment to accommodate new shelves for CD’s. That involved completely unwiring my studio (not that it had been completely rewired since coming back from Sweden 7 weeks ago).
I did get the taxes done Sunday night and spent tonight connecting everything and actually trying to record some tracks—we didn’t get around to replacing Agents of Change’s melody parts, and I know we can do better.
I realized that it’s been over two months since I was spending most of my spare time in Logic, feverishly polishing tracks. I’d forgotten so much; even simple stuff like what keys to press in what order to start recording. That was after I spent an hour or so trying to figure out why Logic was ignoring my UC-33 control surface. (Logic’s control surface support cares about which source sent the message, and if you added a MIDI device since the last time you opened the document, it’s listening to the wrong one. And it doesn’t show you this in the Key Commands window, you have to go to Control Surface Setup.)
Then I found myself doing funny things like deleting long takes because of one bad note. (I got accustomed to recording direct-to-audio in Sweden.) And not checking to make sure a track was record-enabled before doing a 4-minute take. Ah well, this is the price of letting oneself get rusty. It’s good to be recording again.
(The new studio arrangement is great in that the desk chair and the keyboard bench aren’t in a perpetual argument about which one gets to sit in its proper spot. But it looks I’ll need to use the UC-33 more since the computer is a little further from the keyboards.)
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