David’s Music Blog

I’m in LOVE!

I’ve spent this weekend leaning over a Mackie Onyx 1640 mixing Joachim Rogalski’s upcoming EP. I’ve also done a remix of “Kosmopolit” which might be a bit weird if you’re not familiar with what I’m sometimes working with - but I got free hands so don’t blame me! ;o)

Besides that I’ve mastered Electro Nova’s EP, been fighting a bit with the 4.5.2 update for Cubase and seen Strangers in Wonderland live at Alcazar, Nalen.

It’s been a good weekend after all even though I’m a bit behind thanks to Cubase…

I’m going to through Cubase out the window any day now. It’s full of bugs, it’s crashing right before my eyes and bouncing mixes might fuck up my UAD cards so I have to reboot to get it working again. It’s a piece of crap actually!

A few things:
When mixing down an arrangement to an mp3 file - do you think the mp3 tag editor actually works? Nope.
When adding the MIDI Intert “Track Control” - do you think those settings will be saved with you project? Hell no!
When mixing down different soloed busses - do you think that you will get anything that sounds? Well, sometimes…

What should I be using? I don’t have time to spend almost 3 hourse bouncing loads of tracks and then find out that they don’t contain anything except silence.

I’m right now bouncing a song for the fourth time hoping it will actually contain something that is audible… *sigh*

Arturia has a nice offer this month (and last too, if I recall) which I wrote about here. But I’m skipping that one in favour of an Akai EWI 4000s. I need to get back to the roots and find new inspiration and I think that can come from another way of playing music.

I’m also waiting for the Spectrasonic Omnisphere which seems to be a killer. So that’s on my list instead of the Arturia stuff.

A lot going on at the moment, so I’ll try to recap some of it later this week. Stay tuned.

We’ve updated the Ypsilon 5 webpage with a flash based mp3 player featuring four tracks.

Tracklist:
1. Ground Zero
2. Titanium
3. Technetium
4. Beta Pictoris

The Ypsilon 5 logo (as well as the cover for the “Binary Sky” album) is done by Micael Forsberg over at Monowaste and the picture is shot by Estethia at Det Mystiska Hålet i Marken ‘08.

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