The Diaries of Scaredy Horse

The landmark of perseverance is… (obsessive compulsive disorder?) victory! Lexicon is up and running and playing nicely with Cubase 4. It’s almost completely transparent, quiet and as of press time latency-free. Record a track = check. Playback a track = check. Record and playback even more tracks = check. All in all, great news. Now to start writing some material – but that’s going to have to wait until later… I’m heading to VQ to meet with Tripwire’s awesome front-end programmer and welcome him to town for a couple weeks.

In family news: The twins are both out of the incubators and into their own cribs. Both are over 4lbs now, and are starting to learn how to drink from a bottle. They are both doing outstanding, considering they were born 8 weeks early just 2 weeks ago – tenacious little rascals… Cheers!

Last night I told my roommate that if I didn’t start my recording project tomorrow (today) that she was to bludgeon me with her tennis racket. So with that in mind, I sat down around 10am this morning and started firing up the gear. Starting with my antique Alesis SR-16 drum module. I promised myself that at the very least I could start getting drum sounds. After about 2 hours I had one kit built to my liking = progress.

Unfortunately, when I went to start test-tracking to review the audio, my current laptop + USB interface was working intermittently. I could record one track and then would need to restart Cubase before I laid another track. Additionally, the monitor/playback routing was not working either. As I watched the sun slowly going down this evening after hours of troubleshooting, I refrained from tossing the computer out the window and decided to unpack my trusty desktop I have recorded with for over 6 years. One word, dead. Not even sort-of dead, but completely-not-even-turning-on-totally-dead. So that’s that for today, major bummer.

It wasn’t a completely unproductive session since I at least have some drum sounds to start working with. The great news is that J has generously donated an unused desktop to the good cause.