I think i complained about cubase crashing constantly today or yesterday, and then lo and behold

Been stumped on an orchestration problem so I pulled up histoire du soldat and instantly there's so, so many brilliant ideas and colors in that piece. He really was pretty clever, it's all so simple but it's also very much not as simple as it sounds

I built a little android tuner with an implementation of the YIN algorithm, and it was a lot more challenging than I thought. Audio programming really goes from "this is a signal, this is gain" to "you have to convolve and correlate and derive filter expressions" in one step 🫠

I really should mount this cloud panel but I'd need to remove a ceiling fan, cover that hole, and then put the toggles in the ceiling and mount it. I'm fairly handy but something about cloud panels just makes me nervous

Do any audio engineer/music/sfx people use webtet for ear training? I feel like it's the best resource for it, and it's free, but I never hear people talking about it

I'd really love to get a violin and take some lessons. It's hard to understand how things are supposed to be phrased and what feels natural on a string instrument without a background in it. Are beginner instruments worth it or should I get something better to learn on?

I made a quick mockup from Pictures at an Exhibition with infinite brass this morning. Thought it sounded great so i left it for a while to reset. it does not sound great. it sounds OK but definitely not great. Exposed solo brass is so hard to get right in the box, blech

Reading the regular news usually feels pretty apocalyptic, but those decisions today, oh no

Alright I'm gonna get a violin, iget this clarinet and flute i got at a thrift store to an instrument repair person so I don't get sick from the old cork pads, and then i'm gonna go sign up for lessons. Who needs free time anyway, that just means there's more time for practicing

Fine fine, I'll read the groove agent manual but i'm gonna complain the whole time

I need some new classical music references for monitoring, it's so tricky because sometimes I love the room and production but the performance isn't my preference and vice versa. On the plus side, classical is one of the few genres where you can easily get an actual CD still

Even though my template loads at 99% of my computer's memory, I'm still gonna load another instance of CSS on accident and roll the dice on crashing Cubase. There's no reason for it, I'm just dumb

Quick transcription and mockup of the intro from "I Will Wait for You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, it's such simple and gorgeous string writing, love it

Can we write more goofy irreverent stuff? I know we live in the darkest timeline but I want more dumb fun stuff, less grimdark edgy angsty realism. The pendulum can go back to whimsy, it's ok, we'll get back to grimdark in the next 10 years again i'm sure

Every company is testing their disaster recovery and resiliency today whether they want to or not lol, good luck everyone

I got to work on a Nuage today, and I gotta say it made the time put in to learning the stock steinberg plugins completely worth it. Sometimes being fast is just more important than everything else and you can't be fast fiddling with waves plugins

So Finale is going away, and they're supporting Dorico, and there's a massive sale on the full version of Dorico if you've ever bought Finale or MakeMusic? I did not expect that to start the week, but it is a really really good deal