spoke too soon. the drums sounded good, but the latency got really bad with more tracks...

i have a dozen drivers to try. i'm going to hope that the problem is that they're windows 7 drivers. they advertise these things as xp/7, but there's a big difference. a few tracks, it would sound fine, but do anything complicated...

so i think i need to find a middle point.

on second thought, i found it.

user error.

apologies to cubase. you know i love you....

had to update the drivers to get it to handle this high a load.

working now.

but can anything else go wrong?

fuck you, cubase.

changing your soundcard out doesn't mean deleting all the tracks that are attached to the previous soundcard. and, no, i didn't think to back it up or check that all the tracks were there before i saved it. honestly. what the fuck?

that's a lot of work that just disappeared. not happy about it.

i was in the process of building the track back up from scratch, anyways. i didn't lose any notes. and i'm not sure what i would have kept and what i would have replaced. it's just sound font info.

but, damn it, that reference was nice to have.

ugh.

need cigarettes.

at the least the vst instruments are still there. but, now i need to write out thirty vst settings by hand before i start again...

this track is actually straining the card. i mean, that's a lot of vst instruments running all at once, which is why i switched the card from the m-audio to the alesis in the first place.

grargh. a lost day, nothing worse.

it's all the guitar tracks that are just killing it. they each need their own instrument. it should be less of a problem once i get the guitars played out manually.

yup. it's spring.

*groan*

march, smarch.

lousy smarch weather.

i saw the sun hit at that special spring angle this morning, though! looks like it's at least going to be habitable starting tomorrow.

which means i should expect that gnawing stomach ache in the next few days.

i'm closing off my second-phase playlist as existing between my zeroth and second symphony.

phase three was a short serious music phase, whereas phase four was a psychedelic folk project that got a little out of hand. to be properly contemporary, i'd have to label it as 'freak-folk' (although i had no idea such a thing existed at the time). four should up quick but three needs some love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C65VadHnXN4&list=PL3JSjmqp0cbtYmywctLw8KaXgXG3A2ZOF

actually, that's premature - there's two further tracks to add, that i'm working on right now.

headstart on the serious phase (all overlap right now):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-2_duUjaw&list=PL3JSjmqp0cbuMnSLyxGUzsdB_vip3GPbH

it looks like the phases are going to be roughly 3-5 hour chunks. the number of tracks and track lengths are going to vary substantially, but that's going to remain roughly constant. there's also going to consistently be some overlap. that's a time length that allows an idea to be fully developed over a few "albums".

phase five is the trivial group phase, which ran from about '03 to about '06. after that, there's actually not much that i've completed. the proverbs project i started in '06 is only about a quarter finished.

and that's a long time, actually. eight years. yikes.

getting there...

i'm really hoping there's not another eight year black hole, but life's a funny thing.