Didn’t sleep well — weird intense dreams, no doubt caused by stress. We’ve had some heavy rain over thee past few days and the phone keeps alerting with flash flood warnings. Election day. Still dealing with cold symptoms; each time I feel like it’s getting better it gets worse and vice versa. This morning it’s headache more than anything. And then the cat demanded pre-dawn affection in his usual, in-your-face (literally) way.
I had the idea of taking my parents out to dinner tonight, partly because we haven’t visited them since before vacation and partly to get them away from TV news for a little while. Hopefully we’ll be feeling well enough to do that. After that… I’ll need other distractions. Maybe turn off the router for the night? Or start a new game (Abzu looks nice).
Music is certainly going well, though. In my last post I had 4 recordings done; today there are 7. Shorter tracks than my recent average though, so that’s 29:33 so far.
The more minimalist nature of this project is going to make my gear usage stuff look weird. Some of these tracks consist of a single software instrument processed by software. Whatever 🙂
QPAS arrived yesterday. Missing the promised power cable, and with bent pins on the header from not-careful-enough packaging. I had spare cables and managed to get things straightened out, so it works fine.
At least to me, QPAS isn’t as much of an “instant wow” module as one that needs a bit of patience, the right material, and the right combination of settings and modulation. And then it really can shine… like slightly luminescent liquid sloshing in a beaker.
It’s funny how much it requires a different mindset to make it shine — but it really does help to think of it in terms of its peaks primarily, rather than as a standard multimode filter. Audio rate modulation of the !!¡¡ inputs is worth playing with, as is negative voltage into the Q CV input.
Thanks to playing with QPAS a bit while (slowly) writing this, I already have track #8 patched up and ready to record.