ProTools 9 is out now. It should allow me to use my MOTU I/O instead of having to dongle their DIGI00X interfaces. And they apparently finally bundled the OMF capabilities! That’s a saving of $500. Actually, that’s them finally realizing their [disparaging adjectives deleted] pay-to-play, ala carte, if-you-ave-to-ask-you-can’t-afford-it business model isn’t working. I did finally have to buy an iLok USB key, but it’s better than an iLok plus a $1200 dongle called a DIGI003. So it’s back-up and install time at G.O.Recording Studio.
Also, SONAR X1 has been announced and they appear to have made some very nice work-flow improvements. SONAR is my go-to software so I am pretty excited about some of the new GUI features. It looks like they’ve also improved the file structure and ability to share files between projects. Yay! That’s a December purchase, tho, so it gives me time to sell my plasma and pimp my services.
Yes, it’s 3:30am. Yes I started working. Hey: the coffee maker says 9:00 so I’ll go with that. I happen to know it’s wrong, but the coffee maker has great weight in my household nad I will overlook it’s overly enthusiastic concept of time for the moment.
Download my Entangle Mental, the entire CD <–there , or better BUY IT at CDBaby or iTunes under “Entangle Mental” or “Balsa Racers”. Thank you!
Picked up a gig at Taco garage in San Antonio, TX at 410 and Broadway from 6 to 8PM. Acoustic solo thing.
I have three new songs I’ve done the proof of concept recordings on. One is just plain silly, but I’ve decided not to censor such inanities. Look for new songs- at least the POC’s- next week!
Written by Joel Williams (website) and produced by me, Joel, and Patrice Villastrigo (website).
That’s two for G.O.Recording Studios! The first was with Monkey Soop.
Huzzah!
You may still get the entire album FOR FREE as a single MP3 (no commitment, no signing up for a mailing list, no worries) here:
Entangle Mental, the entire CD
Better (for me and for any artist) is to buy it from CDBaby.com (see sidebar to the left)
Very exciting that someone purchased “Entangle Mental” from CDBaby.com! They didn’t get the full magnificent glory of the CD, but they bought the download! Thank you “DE”, whoever and wherever you are. i am unsure if ‘DE’ is the country, state, or initials of the purchaser.
No worries. It’s a start.
In the meantime, you can still right click and download:
Entangle Mental, the entire CD
Huzzah!
Better (for me and for any artist) is to buy it from CDBaby.com (see sidebar to the left)
You may still get the entire album FOR FREE as a single MP3 (no commitment, no signing up for a mailing list, no worries) here:
Entangle Mental, the entire CD
http://www.cdbaby.com/balsaracers
I must have had a hell of a brain dump, because tracks 8 and 9 have the wrong names (it’s correct on the CD, but the digital downloads track 8 should be Open Eyes, and 9 should be Parable…meh). But if these CD-Rs sell enough, I will fix that with the replicated printing.
And you can still download the entire CD in mp3 form here:
http://www.balsaracers.com/Free%20MP3s/entangle%20mental%2096.mp3
Here is the entire CD in a single download. It is slightly lesser quality than an MP3 you might get from iTunes, or make yourself, but certainly good enough for you to get the idea. All you have to do- should you want to- is cut it up. This can be done using Audacity which is a free audio program a relatively easy to use.
The link to get Entangle Mental is:
Entangle Mental, the entire CD
Right-click and Save As… as you see fit.
The CD has basically escaped as a high quality demo CD rather than the finished and near-perfect CD I envisioned. I hope you will enjoy it. It will be available in two weeks (30Oct2010) on iTunes, CD Baby, and Amazon, (among other places) for purchase and last.fm for live streaming. I hope you enjoy it enough to do so.
Mock-ups of the cover soon.
now all i need is a title for the album. I was going with the title “5 Color Photographs” for the longest time, but now i am thinking of doing something different and not using a song title as the album title.
So the names I’ve been tossing around are: "
– Defenestrated
– A Treatise on the Efficaciousnous of Non-Convoluted Exposition
– Euphemistic Elipsis
– Pop Shot
– Pander
– Hodge Podge
– Controversially Agreeable
– Schroedinger’s Cat Was Bored
– Maxwell’s Equations Make Horrible Coffee
– Verschraenkung or Entanglement
– Entangled
I like the second one, but it’s a bit too silly? I do like the last two as well (the previous to last is Schroedinger’s word for “entanglement”)
Hmmm…entanglement could have some nice visual possibilities as well.
