David’s Adventures Through the World of Music Creation and Sonic Exploration

I’ve uploaded the complete Pretorium album Melodies of Illusion to the iLike site so it can be streamed. I did a quick (not kidding) cover art for it and if you think you can do a better one that suits the album, just drop me a line. Alright? ;o)

Melodies of Illusion is musical journey that started in late 2000 when I composed the track Falling Leaves after some heavy influences by a Bonzai Trance Progressive demo from late 1999. The journey was complete when In the Land of the Golden Butterflies was produced and put in the middle of the album to, sort of, divide it in to two pieces. That was early 2003. I later shortened the name to just Golden Butterflies.

A second album is in the pipeline - and that’s an even longer journey, now spanning over 5 years. Three tracks are not yet finished, but as soon they are you’ll find them too on iLike.

Now I just need to figure out how to sell the album for a few US$ over at iTunes Store. That’d be something!

Edit: The new album, which I just gave a new name, is spanning from 2004 until today. So that makes it around 4½ years, and not 5. And, if I’m lucky - only one track is remaining…

I’m no longer a hexadecimal teenager. Today, I’m turning 0×20. Yey!

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*