September 4th, 2006
Holding My Thoughts in My Heart
Tonight, after much effort and a little luck, I at last took a great step forward into my little personal renaissance. I finally got the Edirol, Cakewalk, Sound Canvas, and microKORG to all work together. What this means is I can bask in eighteen voice MIDI polyphony to my heart’s content, or have percussion back my performance on the synth and record all of the sound to digital audio.
Unsurprisingly, as a helpful poster noted in a reply to my post on Usenet, I have “experienced serious ‘lost time’ episodes.” However, despite his concerns, I believe that I can generate enough music for the show in time, as now that I have the Edirol working, I plan on trying to get in a little playing time each night. The other thing my astute colleague noted was that hobbyists often end up spending thousands of dollars before they know it. I must not be a serious hobbyist yet because I can only count about four hundred. I have a monitor, mixer, and synth all donated to my collection. [Don't ask me how much I've put into photography this year, though.]
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Of course, true to my introverted, sentimental gamer roots, the first thing I did to test the KORG and Roland working together was play a selection of the more touching ballads from Final Fantasy VII. But enough of that…I have to spend just a few minutes with the Edirol and the KORG, to make sure we’re all on the same page.
This is definitely a very exciting time indeed. I don’t want to sleep, but I know I have to if I’m going to make it through the next few weeks.
Like my boss always reminds us, “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.” If only I could come up with something that didn’t look totally tasteless for my personal business cards, though.
