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▶ Music Diary ◀
●2024/Mar/24● In a desire to branch out from SoundCanvas but without throwing out my knowledge and attachment to Roland synths, I bought a JV-2080 on Ebay, with a slight upmark in price coming with two expansion boards (hip hop, bass & drums). After being stuck in USPS shipping hell for a month, seemingly being routed in an endless loop that cycled atleast 3 times, it arrived about a week ago with no tracking update! The seller neglected to notice that there were actually many extra cards housed inside, which I seemingly sniped for free! Super excited to break into these sounds, it is going to be an omnipresent factor in the rest of my music for the forseeable future. ●2022/Dec/16● The big switch is almost complete. I have finished my first song in Reaper, and now that I'm in an environment conducive to recording hardware, I can actually dig into hardware synth manipulation outside of the SC-88Pro! I spent the night making custom patches on the JD-08 (A compact version of the JD-800). I'm finding it very nice for constructing lo-fi ambient pads that evolve. They will work well with the new music I am working on post-album, which is more electronic. ●2022/Oct/01● My brother gifted me one of the last, if not last copy of Distorted Reality 2 being sold directly by Spectrasonics! It comes just as am getting back into making music that uses more than one synth source. I'm using Reaper as a new home for this, but it has a learning curve. I'm optimistic, because I was able to get used to Sekaiju—widely considered to be unintuitive. ●2022/Aug/31● Finally making this website "public". I don't know why I never had it linked anywhere until now. The song I'm playing over and over today is "Menu" from Kaze No Notam. ●Passenger Album Jorunal● ●2022/Aug/05● Everything happend so fast, I didn't even think to update after my album came out on the 18th of July! It's here on Bandcamp! The days leading up to it were a blur. I was making all of the visuals in PowerPoint for the youtube upload. In the end, even though the album premired with less visuals done than I had envisioned, It was worth it. I am so happy that the album resonated with so many people as it really is the most passion I have put into a personal project... ever? Yes. I think easily >< . I certainly felt like I put as much work into it as I did my master's thesis I was completing at the same time. ●2022/Mar/09● About a month ago, I "finished" the album! I have only showed it to one person so far and it was a hit! There are still minor tweaks I want to make to the midi files to make the end product when being recorded through the module more consistent. There are some dropped pitch bends and portamento I need to tweak before I can make the final recordings (Espesially on Passenger, ;w;). Once those final recordings are done, I will send it off to master! ●2022/Jan/08● All space on the album has been filled... completely. The total running time right now is about 80 min exactly, and because I so strongly value physical CDs, I won't go any longer. Now I am just tidying up some of the parts on a few songs that were in a WIP state. I started working on this album seriously three years ago a bit before I got my SC88Pro, and only now can I finally listen to it all the way through to gauge pacing. After doing so, there are definetly some sections of the songs that I would like to loop, but it's not an option now! ●2021/Sep/29● Update on Birdhouse: The atmosphere of the warpy sections is coming together nicely and is a much needed contrast from the rest of the album. I want it to feel like worms burrowing in soil. I added a low choir melody sampled from a goofy sound of a guy from a Presentation Audio CD. It really adds to the atmosphere. I also made some calculations on how far I am on the album. Right now, I'm about 87% done with both "Act 1" and Act 2" of the album. At (probably) 75 minutes, I'm really pushing the length of a CD compmared to my previous album. ●2021/Aug/25● Zuntata is such a big inspiration for its playful use of samples. It's fun trying to get use out of the limited vocal samples I have within the self-imposed limitations of my album. ●2021/Aug/21● Haven't worked on the album in a while, but I am developing some ideas for the song I call "Birdhouse". It's intended to be the (relatively) slow break towards the end, and I am especially being inspired by subtle warpy pads and synths from early 2000s anime (think Hip Tanaka Pokemon music). Right now it's probably 75% done. I basically need to find a graceful way to graft the beginning and end of the song together.

▶ Music Diary ◀

●2024/Mar/24● In a desire to branch out from SoundCanvas but without throwing out my knowledge and attachment to Roland synths, I bought a JV-2080 on Ebay, with a slight upmark in price coming with two expansion boards (hip hop, bass & drums). After being stuck in USPS shipping hell for a month, seemingly being routed in an endless loop that cycled atleast 3 times, it arrived about a week ago with no tracking update! The seller neglected to notice that there were actually many extra cards housed inside, which I seemingly sniped for free! Super excited to break into these sounds, it is going to be an omnipresent factor in the rest of my music for the forseeable future.

Many cards

●2022/Dec/16● The big switch is almost complete. I have finished my first song in Reaper, and now that I'm in an environment conducive to recording hardware, I can actually dig into hardware synth manipulation outside of the SC-88Pro! I spent the night making custom patches on the JD-08 (A compact version of the JD-800). I'm finding it very nice for constructing lo-fi ambient pads that evolve. They will work well with the new music I am working on post-album, which is more electronic.

●2022/Oct/01● My brother gifted me one of the last, if not last copy of Distorted Reality 2 being sold directly by Spectrasonics! It comes just as am getting back into making music that uses more than one synth source. I'm using Reaper as a new home for this, but it has a learning curve. I'm optimistic, because I was able to get used to Sekaiju—widely considered to be unintuitive.

●2022/Aug/31● Finally making this website "public". I don't know why I never had it linked anywhere until now. The song I'm playing over and over today is "Menu" from Kaze No Notam.

●Passenger Album Jorunal●

●2022/Aug/05● Everything happend so fast, I didn't even think to update after my album came out on the 18th of July! It's here on Bandcamp! The days leading up to it were a blur. I was making all of the visuals in PowerPoint for the youtube upload. In the end, even though the album premired with less visuals done than I had envisioned, It was worth it. I am so happy that the album resonated with so many people as it really is the most passion I have put into a personal project... ever? Yes. I think easily >< . I certainly felt like I put as much work into it as I did my master's thesis I was completing at the same time.

●2022/Mar/09● About a month ago, I "finished" the album! I have only showed it to one person so far and it was a hit! There are still minor tweaks I want to make to the midi files to make the end product when being recorded through the module more consistent. There are some dropped pitch bends and portamento I need to tweak before I can make the final recordings (Espesially on Passenger, ;w;). Once those final recordings are done, I will send it off to master!

●2022/Jan/08● All space on the album has been filled... completely. The total running time right now is about 80 min exactly, and because I so strongly value physical CDs, I won't go any longer. Now I am just tidying up some of the parts on a few songs that were in a WIP state. I started working on this album seriously three years ago a bit before I got my SC88Pro, and only now can I finally listen to it all the way through to gauge pacing. After doing so, there are definetly some sections of the songs that I would like to loop, but it's not an option now!

●2021/Sep/29● Update on Birdhouse: The atmosphere of the warpy sections is coming together nicely and is a much needed contrast from the rest of the album. I want it to feel like worms burrowing in soil. I added a low choir melody sampled from a goofy sound of a guy from a Presentation Audio CD. It really adds to the atmosphere. I also made some calculations on how far I am on the album. Right now, I'm about 87% done with both "Act 1" and Act 2" of the album. At (probably) 75 minutes, I'm really pushing the length of a CD compmared to my previous album.

●2021/Aug/25● Zuntata is such a big inspiration for its playful use of samples. It's fun trying to get use out of the limited vocal samples I have within the self-imposed limitations of my album.

●2021/Aug/21● Haven't worked on the album in a while, but I am developing some ideas for the song I call "Birdhouse". It's intended to be the (relatively) slow break towards the end, and I am especially being inspired by subtle warpy pads and synths from early 2000s anime (think Hip Tanaka Pokemon music). Right now it's probably 75% done. I basically need to find a graceful way to graft the beginning and end of the song together.