It's Tuesday!

Nothin but paperwork and money stuff tonight. Managed to record 2 notes on the synth before I got called away to the phone tho :)

Paid Tiffany for the male vocals on Going Home. Pulled out a couple of older recordings. 'Neon Lies' and 'Goodnight My Love' for Inna, the female vocalist. Goodnight needs a major redo. Nice music but it's a $23 guitar through a Radio Shack mic and sounds like it. The other instruments sound pretty good so I may keep most of em. Slow going though. OS9.2 isn't compatible with OSX on Cubase, so I have to export each track from Cubase 5.1 to a .wav file on an external drive, then import them each to separate tracks on Cubase 4 on the other Mac, then redo all the mixing from scratch again. The Cubase 5 upgrade still hasn't arrived yet.. neither have the backdrops for the videos. There's also a custom attenuator on order somewhere so I gotta check into that.

Dave's coming down from Calgary in a few weeks so I have to go to Barrie.

Have to write the lyrics to "I Don't Know Why" as well as verse 1 of Angel. 2 new film projects to bid for and something called an 'IPI' number that I don't have a clue about.

Gotta top up the CD's at CdBaby cause they're sold out & send 5 CD's to Jessica.

Then add Inna's vocals into CM and GM7 songs. Gotta contact Tiffany again about that one word that needs changing. Gotta redo 'Stringing an Acoustic' as well as get a new photo taken for my bio. Update the Track Metas and MP3 links. Send a DVD to Anr in Australia? i think?

At some point I gotta get back to 'Game is Over' as well.

Just finished typing out the problems I've been having with CopyPaste to Julian.

Gotta do the list of lessons for the forum area & double check to see when my contract minimum is up. Have to contact that other site about doing lessons for them & send the Hi-Fi versions to CyberFret. Also gotta contact Rogers Cable cause they've been charging me for the friggin Howard Stern On Demand service for the last 6 months & I've never even watched the guy before. Psnl. Doc/Lic visit 19 dys. bldtst..send reg. mail.

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.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Shut down the studio for the weekend. Purchased a new synth and spending my free time learning how it works and how to tweak it. Also getting caught up on paperwork and stuff. Got my new mixing board working (finally) but had a problem with a low output again. Some kind of conflict in my software between iMovie, Cubase, Firewire410 and the output channel.
Also looking at bass modules as the next purchase. Pretty much outfitted the studio with everything I can think of at this point. The next thing after Cubase 5 arrives is to get some new harmony software, a bass module, symphony module (already got Miroslav Philharmonic but there has to be something better out there). After that it's a final purchase of some new guitars and hopefully a move to a larger studio cause this one's already starting to feel cramped now that I've got the video studio permanently set up.

May get a new keyboard as well. I'm finding the modulation wheel is completely lacking on this Roland PC-200 and Omnisphere uses it quite heavily to tweak sounds while playing.