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so, I've been having alot of trouble sleeping lately. I can get up early in the morning, stay busy all day, get nice and tired, and then lay in bed until 4 or 5 am before I even start feeling sleepy. I just end up laying there with my eyes closed in darkness and silence, unable to drift away from conciousness. And this is made especially annoying ( Read more... )

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Well, it's looking like my best bet for audio production software is a combination of Reason, Cubase and FL Studio. So my current goal is $800. And I'm not even thinking about hardware yet... I'm probably just going to focus on software based production. I've been reading through various trance production forums and learning more about the software ( Read more... )

synthesizer - Propellerhead Reason v2.5 $349.95
sequencer - Steinberg Cubase SL v2.0 $299.95
mastering - Screenblast Soundforge v4.5 $399.95
sequencer - Steinberg Wavelab Essential $199.95
sequencer - FL Studio Producer Edition $149.95

Grand Total $1,399.75

damn... that number keeps growing

something to think about...

"He made his own bungie jumping rig with foot long bungie cords."
"Oh man, the rope totally broke didn't it?"
"Well, it probably would have. But he didn't measure the bridge first, there was still fifty feet of bungie loose when he hit..."

-Sealab 2021

I guess you had to see the episode for that to be funny.

ah well...

So, I've come to a very interesting turning point. I think I might finally know what I want to do with my life. Or, atleast the next couple years of it. I want to create Psy-Trance music. I've been playing around with some various software on my computer recently, and toying with different sound effects. I know I have the necessary Hardware, and ( Read more... )

Such a strange mix of emotions I've been dealing with recently. Thoughts that I haven't had in what seems like forever. Feelings I haven't experienced in years. It's as if I've been blindsided by my own heart, though it's been there all along, beating the same steady beat. I can't seem to figure out how I'm supposed to deal with this. In Elementary ( Read more... )

I've been getting more and more anti-social recently... I don't know why, I just haven't felt the need to be around people as much recently. In fact, I've been feeling the need to withdraw from human interaction more than usual recently. I haven't hung out with my usual friends in several weeks, I've just been hanging out with 2 or 3 of my closet ( Read more... )