So Xipetotec and I only managed to spend last night in the studio. We spent our time working on “The Punisher” and while I’d love to say the latest version is up, I can’t. As to why, well that is a fun little story. Seems that I’m still learning the new features in cubase now that the motu 828 is hooked up. Actually I think I’m still just learning the Motu 828. I should probably backtrack to last sunday first to explain.
Last weekend I somehow managed not to record the first take of Alyce’s vocals. The joy of using a computer and not tape is the ability to very quickly do it again. In my case, doing it again means exactly that: not recording the vocals for a second time. Seems I hit the wrong key and instead of recording it just played. The third take we did get, and I spent a bit last night working with it in terms of effects programming. I’m a bit closer, but it still requires a bit more finesse with the overtones.
Well when I exported it out last Sunday, the first pass was wrong. Well last night I was able to record a mix down without issue, but I bussed the channel incorrectly and ended up with nothing but silence. Now this didn’t occur to me until this morning when I read a message from Xipetotec stating that the version on the site wasn’t updated. Now I knew I’d copied it up. Apparently I didn’t copy the right track to cd, so I went into the studio and burned the one from last night. When I got inside I discovered it was nothing but silence.
Well the second trip out turned into me pulling the g3 out of the rack as it refused to boot. I think it has something to with the battery on the motherboard having finally died after seven years. So on the way home I’m picking up a replacement for it. I remembered ready somewhere that this is something that does happen, and after a couple quick google searches my memory proved correct. If it’s not the battery, well blue and white G3s are dirt cheap these days.
We did manage to get some adjustments in for “The Punisher” last night. The most notable was bringing the bassline in key with the synth. We also added a snare into it, and had planned to add in an agogo bell but it appears that the Procussion doesn’t use the velocity with it. I might bus it out to the Akai and just deal with it there. I started into the arborous task of programming our own kit last night, but that is going to require a few hours with the manual.
All points bulletin: The updated version of The Punisher is now posted. Mosquito spent his evening after work digging into the timbales track in the break, improving it one hundred percent, and then managed to get the song recorded and uploaded to this site. Everybody say “Hell yeah, Bugwonder!” Skeeter rocks.
i need to figure out a good way to make it noticable when tracks are updated. i think i know of a good way to do it, so we shall see.