Sometimes it can feel good to get away from the studio. It's unfortunate that ideas will happen at these times. I do have a laptop, loaded up with my music software, but without a nice small portable controller, I don't have much desire to get the ideas down. The QWERTY keyboard MIDI driver is a neat idea, but too much of a pain to work with. But now it looks like Korg has answered my prayers:



The only one that I feel that I'll really need is the nanoKEY (the keyboard one, duh). If I'm on my laptop somewhere and need to get some drums down, the keyboard will work just fine for that, and no need to mess with the nanoKONTROL either(the mixer looking one). From what I hear, these are going to be reasonably priced as well. I saw some European prices on some other site, all around £49, which puts it at around $96 here now, at the current exchange rate...wow that's really sad. Still though I think it's worth it.

i'm getting a little sick of getting into a rut every so often when it comes to writing music. it really happens far too often, and takes far too long to get out of. Sometimes the constant weeding through samples, presets, synths to use in a song can take precedence, and can wear you out rather quickly.

so my experiment for today, is to start a new song. i'm going to leave my VSTs either all at their default setting, or do the entire song in piano tracks. For drums, just going to pick the first samples I see and get to work on concentrating on patterns.

i'm fighting to split apart the two parts of the musical process that have been going head to head in my...head. composition. then production.

we'll see how that goes.

"when the sky begins to fall"

we've been digging the hole
for far too many years
and it'll be time to say goodbye
when we all just disappear

C:
so is this how it ends
doesn't really matter at all
i'll be right beside you
when the sky begins to fall

the world grows silent
and time slows to a crawl
i'll be right beside you
when the sky begins to fall

what have we done
it's only begun

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"reflection"

1st chorus:
the reflections that you see
are far too faded for me
i'm fighting to break free
you're not what I'll ever be

2nd chorus:
the reflections that you see
are far too faded for me
i'm fighting to break free
you're not what I'll ever fucking be
it's become so hard to believe
the reality that we perceive
oh how much you've been deceived
I think it's time for you to leave