i'm still alive. i really think this ought to be done by the next sleep. really. seriously.

it's close. and i've got a while before sleep, still.

this melodic line is eating so much of my time. it's the same line i spent two weeks on for the first vst mix, comparing guitar synth outs for. and i suspect it's going to be messy when i get to the ambient mix, too. then, when i mix the final i'm going to have fifty parts to squeeze into thirty seconds...

i'm stuck between a pizzicato string part, a harp part and a full string section. and i'm considering just blowing it up for a simple vibraphone line. but the point is that it's supposed to be overblown, so i want these intersecting strings and horns.

so, i've got lots of hair to pull out, but i expect this to be done in a few hours.

when it clicks, i'll know it.

this is something composers could really not do until recently, swapping parts in and out like this.

you have to think beethoven was just like "this is going to be a harp" and that was the end of it.

did he ever write anything for harp? never mind, back to work....