I don't know how he does it...

[sathor]

Trent Reznor keeps getting better.

Discipline is totally old-school with regards to his style; cut up, distorted, with beautiful if intermittent piano melodies.

I really enjoy that song, at least. I've heard worse out of him.


Also, good news! I worked today, and I work tomorrow. And things should be getting better in the coming weeks. The mill is back up to 40 hours a week day and night shift.

Which means dry line will be too, soon.

Things are looking good, good, good. As soon as I get back to work, I buy that diploma, I wait a month or two, buy a kickass korg synth workstation and then work entirely on loans (after maybe FL Studio) while working out details on my future college enrollment.

Honestly. Gods, I really want to go to music school. I really, really do. My heart is with music. I'm in love with music. Making it, producing it, playing it. Everything about it.

I remember when I was a kid, and this is a really vivid memory from when I was still very young.

I was in this candy shop two houses from my grandmother's, unwatched by adults excepting the shop owner (I think my mother trusted me a lot more than most mothers) and I think I had just finished up on the arcade game (Yeah, I was totally a gamer kid. I used to spend time in the Arcade at the mall, too. A /lot/ of time. Anytime I was there. I got first on Soul Caliber 1.

Anyway.

This candy shop. I was doing air guitar to the music, right?

The woman says to me, "Hey, what do you think you are, a rock star?"

And I reply, cooly and without thought, "Yeah, I'm going to be a famous musician when I grow up."

That memory has stuck with me my whole life.
Sometimes I wonder.

If this has to deal with me channeling "something". Been channeling.

If you don't get my drift. Or I am that something unaware.

Atman maybe. Or something.

Whatever. LIFE IS GOOD!

Comments

[sathor.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go open source or free.

I wouldn't want too.

I've been using FL Studio for years now. I like the program, I like it's capabilities. The only thing I need is a workstation and some hardware so I have a wider array of sounds, filters and production utilities at my disposal.

I'm pretty positive once I go from circa 1980s synthetic sound to 2,000s I'm going to really blow people away. I think I make the 1980s shit sound sweet as hell, but it's not what people want, and it's not even really what I want.

Modular FM synthesis is great, don't get me wrong. But there's not enough modern day tech in the VST I use and the filtering and mastering effects aren't enough in FL. That's where the hardware comes in.

[sathor.livejournal.com]

LOL, you must not have noticed they only make versions for Mac and Unix...not interested in installing a new O/S just to use a new utility that can do the same thing as FL :P

I would be interested if I had a Mac, but i don't. They say it's the best for sound work, but I seem to do alright with windows.

[sathor.livejournal.com]

For some reason, high-grade developers like to use Mac when developing software. Technical software, that is, for sound, graphics, and video. Likely even 3D modeling and the like.

And then they never port it to Windows. That's all.

I don't know why that trend has existed for so long - but the production studios nowadays are starting to catch on, and more programs are showing up for Windows. There ARE more windows users, so I've never really figured out why they would constrain themselves to the smaller consumer base.

[sathor.livejournal.com]

I suppose that means I should buy a mac at some point.

Ah well. Maybe a mac laptop with the right hardware would work for sound. And then I could do stuff live with it too, instead of having a bulky pc.

And it would double as good for future school.