It's Monday

Purchased new router for the studio. Back up and running wirelessly again.

Have to contact Tiffany re: pay for male vocalist & send demo MP3 of Neon for Inna.

Started working on this months lessons. Figure I'll do a tutorial similar to those 'rip-off' ones you see advertised all the time "Learn Guitar in 10 Minutes". Except this time it's free and actually works. :)

Need to do a series of backup tunes in all keys for the Jam Station & MP3 files at GT. Good chance to check out OmniSphere and Miroslav Philharmonic to see how they sound together.

May need to get the new Giga library of orchestra stuff after waiting...what? 5 years for the Mac version? Depends on whether Miroslav has the 'real' sound I need for Eventide.

Of course, all this hinges on the copyright clause at iPhoto. Apparently, they have it both written into their contract that all samples must be owned by yourself but that you can't be a member of a rights organization.

Unfortunately, they don't understand my question as to whether that includes Samplers and Drum Machines containing sampled sounds. For instance, Miroslav uses sampled orchestral sounds to play the notes. iPhoto is saying that I would have to get a release from each member of that original orchestra in order to use that instrument on their site. (which I think they've legally misinterpreted because they aren't musicians)

Basically, if I can use sampling drum machines, string machines and other instruments using samples, then it might be worth temporarily getting out of SOCAN and put all my music with them. If they think I'm gonna hire a 40 piece orchestra, a drummer, bass player and keyboardist to play all the sounds on "real" instruments requiring a signed release from each person... ferget it. They're obviously misinterpreting the law because they don't understand what samplers and drum machines actually are and how they differ from using "samples" in a song.