Winter Time on da land
Yesterday did a soft & mellow cover on Moonlight Sonata, using piano and Synplant. Needless to say, I have a tendency to do classy things, classy like in “very old school”. Yet I think I finally found my vocal formant filter, played with it and it sounds great, finally. Maybe it’s even worth to re-record some of my older stuff with this new finding, yeah, it’s that good.
A couple words about keyboard stands. I used to have 2-level Ultimate for a few years and it was ok until it just crashed (!) one beautiful Sunday morning with all the equipment I had on it: laptop, Nord, Launchpad etc. Luckily the laptop screen didn’t get hurt or I would go berzerk. So now after a bit of research I’m a happy owner of Quik-Lok with a third level laptop holder. I guess I need to show it off someday.
Speaking about Nord, I never updated its guts since Reykjavik Weekend back in 2003. Of course, even all the connectors are lost. So I had a misfortune to find out that Fry’s don’t carry MIDI cables! After a 15 mins dialog with a sales rep who’s knowledge about MIDI starts and ends somewhere around 70s synth wizardry of Keith Emerson.
Songs finally start to shape up. I have to drop many of the earlier ones, but that’s all pros and cons of hitchhiking experimentation with sound.
