corporate memo no. 000014
my brain hurts. *ungh. i was going to sleep-in, and then...
9.42am *knock x3 "UPS!"
i went from horizontal to verticle to the door in 4 steps. i grabbed the tablet to sign for my delivery and i forgot my name, and how i signed it. i wasn't even really awake yet. it ruined my plans for sleeping in and/or taking it easy today. REAKTOR ARRIVED!!! and i was so right, all of the problems i've been having with it are due to not having a legit version of it.
time to start reviewing their version of how to get started. my wizoo book started out all nice and cheery, holding my hand each step of the way. then, in the breadth of 2 pages, it casts my hand aside, and bludgeons me. i think i was somehow supposed to come to some conclusions about some things in reaktor, before i moved on. or maybe they expect me to be experimenting on my own, and then slowly, really, really, really, slowly they would reveal more things for me to try. i don't know. all i know, is that they're suddenly treating the reader as though he should've have figured some things out on his own. for example, initially they teach you how to make the macros (components>macros>instruments>ensembles... tada!!! that's the logical heirarchy), but then later on they just get sort of goal oriented and are like "we made this module as a variation to another one. you just have to make it so that it logrithmically scales the range of the pitch by the number of positive zero crossings registerred by the carrier input and then compensate with an offset of .5. it's simple really.". ya, *hmph, simple. and the manual that comes with the software is worse. although it does provide some explanations of the 200 modules you use to make macros, you use to make instruments, you use to make the ensembles *inhale.
it's like i told greg, as i incessantly tried (and eventually succeded in) getting all of the crazy taxi 2 secrets by finishing all the test courses. if something eludes me, then i sorta just zone out and focus on only that one thing. the more i fail, the more determined i become. i'm sure i'll make one lucky lady a very obsessed stalker one day. ;p
so ya, anyway. i did cross over a bit into the additive synthesis today, and peaked into the wavetable synthesis section. i've decided that for now, it's more important to concentrate my efforts on setting up cubase, so that i can record. although, at the moment my head is full of synth concepts. i felt pretty good today, cuz i wanted to try something out, and then just threw together a synth from thin air, and it worked.
^_____^
i think there is a limit to how much i can learn in one day. i'm sure of it now. like the neurons need a while to "set" the new info into long term memory so that you can dump the cache (short term) memory, and then fill the buffer once again. asdfasdfasdfasdf i'm in front of my computer wayyyyyy to often. minor victory, i got the soundcard and cubase to be friends again. right now i'm trying to figure out why everything shows that cubase should be recording, and yet it's not tracking any of the sounds. more importantly, why i can't get reaktor to operate as a vst intstrument, and why none of the vst instruments are outputting any sound... also i got my qy70 to work through cubase last week... this week, zilch. it's like all the love has left.
so ya, as far as reaktor goes, i've been running around the base level for a while now, i'm going to try some top>down learning for a while. play with the ensembles and instruments that came with it, so that i get a picture of what's available, different possibilities. get an idea of what i like and then figure out how it was made. i really can't wait to get my knobby. it'll be two weeks though. why am i so focused on reaktor? well, i honestly believe it's the future of music making, in some form or other. cuz it binds all that has been and most of what will be, in terms of electricity producing sounds (ex: all modern instruments). regardless, i know that in the end, music still comes from someone's ideas, from someone. i have some ideas, so now i'm getting them out.
i have this little dream that i'll be on stage one day with my keyboard controllers and knobbys and slidemates, a couple of apple power books (maybe there'll be g4 imacs by then), a mixer, of course my qy70 (i think it's new nick-name is "qy" pronounced "kyoo-ee". i love you qy!), and lots of software. and it'll be dark, and my face will glow from the monitors and i'll not be running around. instead, i see it much like nobukazu takemura, i'm up there clicking away turning knobs and moving around my mouse, hitting a few chords on the keyboards here and there. meanwhile the audience is at once intrigued and confused by what exactly it is i'm doing? ya, that's nice.
i saw brian online today, and he told me that one girl... hmmmm,,, what's her name... what's her name? maybe neu would remember? that girl that stopped by the apartment over at carriage house? she was justin's (r.a.w.) ex, and she was very interested in vintage synths... AMBER! ya, i think that's her name. so, ya, she's looking to start a new band. brians going to let her know i'm interested. wonder what it would be like? i better do it now while i'm still completely obsessed with music mekin'.
damn it's late... why do i take so long to update? and where are the mp3 updates i promised. i must be a liar.
-1000pt. for me
xoxo
nik
9.42am *knock x3 "UPS!"
i went from horizontal to verticle to the door in 4 steps. i grabbed the tablet to sign for my delivery and i forgot my name, and how i signed it. i wasn't even really awake yet. it ruined my plans for sleeping in and/or taking it easy today. REAKTOR ARRIVED!!! and i was so right, all of the problems i've been having with it are due to not having a legit version of it.
time to start reviewing their version of how to get started. my wizoo book started out all nice and cheery, holding my hand each step of the way. then, in the breadth of 2 pages, it casts my hand aside, and bludgeons me. i think i was somehow supposed to come to some conclusions about some things in reaktor, before i moved on. or maybe they expect me to be experimenting on my own, and then slowly, really, really, really, slowly they would reveal more things for me to try. i don't know. all i know, is that they're suddenly treating the reader as though he should've have figured some things out on his own. for example, initially they teach you how to make the macros (components>macros>instruments>ensembles... tada!!! that's the logical heirarchy), but then later on they just get sort of goal oriented and are like "we made this module as a variation to another one. you just have to make it so that it logrithmically scales the range of the pitch by the number of positive zero crossings registerred by the carrier input and then compensate with an offset of .5. it's simple really.". ya, *hmph, simple. and the manual that comes with the software is worse. although it does provide some explanations of the 200 modules you use to make macros, you use to make instruments, you use to make the ensembles *inhale.
it's like i told greg, as i incessantly tried (and eventually succeded in) getting all of the crazy taxi 2 secrets by finishing all the test courses. if something eludes me, then i sorta just zone out and focus on only that one thing. the more i fail, the more determined i become. i'm sure i'll make one lucky lady a very obsessed stalker one day. ;p
so ya, anyway. i did cross over a bit into the additive synthesis today, and peaked into the wavetable synthesis section. i've decided that for now, it's more important to concentrate my efforts on setting up cubase, so that i can record. although, at the moment my head is full of synth concepts. i felt pretty good today, cuz i wanted to try something out, and then just threw together a synth from thin air, and it worked.
^_____^
i think there is a limit to how much i can learn in one day. i'm sure of it now. like the neurons need a while to "set" the new info into long term memory so that you can dump the cache (short term) memory, and then fill the buffer once again. asdfasdfasdfasdf i'm in front of my computer wayyyyyy to often. minor victory, i got the soundcard and cubase to be friends again. right now i'm trying to figure out why everything shows that cubase should be recording, and yet it's not tracking any of the sounds. more importantly, why i can't get reaktor to operate as a vst intstrument, and why none of the vst instruments are outputting any sound... also i got my qy70 to work through cubase last week... this week, zilch. it's like all the love has left.
so ya, as far as reaktor goes, i've been running around the base level for a while now, i'm going to try some top>down learning for a while. play with the ensembles and instruments that came with it, so that i get a picture of what's available, different possibilities. get an idea of what i like and then figure out how it was made. i really can't wait to get my knobby. it'll be two weeks though. why am i so focused on reaktor? well, i honestly believe it's the future of music making, in some form or other. cuz it binds all that has been and most of what will be, in terms of electricity producing sounds (ex: all modern instruments). regardless, i know that in the end, music still comes from someone's ideas, from someone. i have some ideas, so now i'm getting them out.
i have this little dream that i'll be on stage one day with my keyboard controllers and knobbys and slidemates, a couple of apple power books (maybe there'll be g4 imacs by then), a mixer, of course my qy70 (i think it's new nick-name is "qy" pronounced "kyoo-ee". i love you qy!), and lots of software. and it'll be dark, and my face will glow from the monitors and i'll not be running around. instead, i see it much like nobukazu takemura, i'm up there clicking away turning knobs and moving around my mouse, hitting a few chords on the keyboards here and there. meanwhile the audience is at once intrigued and confused by what exactly it is i'm doing? ya, that's nice.
i saw brian online today, and he told me that one girl... hmmmm,,, what's her name... what's her name? maybe neu would remember? that girl that stopped by the apartment over at carriage house? she was justin's (r.a.w.) ex, and she was very interested in vintage synths... AMBER! ya, i think that's her name. so, ya, she's looking to start a new band. brians going to let her know i'm interested. wonder what it would be like? i better do it now while i'm still completely obsessed with music mekin'.
damn it's late... why do i take so long to update? and where are the mp3 updates i promised. i must be a liar.
-1000pt. for me
xoxo
nik