Friday, January 30, 2004

Budding Rockstar This morning, Jackson came into my office while I was gathering things for work, and started playing with the keyboard. I set him up on my knees, and he sat still while I placed the headphones over his ears. Then he played with a bunch of instruments, and kept looking at me with glee and wonderment whenever the instrument/sounds would change. Perhaps one day he'll use the picture above as an album cover ;-) 11:49:28 AM    trackback []

Recording studio, kinda I set up a bunch of my musical equipment last night. Got my Mackie mixer plugged into the Line In on my PowerBook, and got my mic and Prophecy hooked into the mixer. The Prophecy is also sending MIDI data to the PowerBook, so in GarageBand, I can either control a software instrument, or record Prophecy instruments into an audio channel. I also discovered that the Prophecy, while being a monophonic instrument, sends polyphonic MIDI data. My ultimate goal is to start recording some vocals and songs that I've been developing over the last year or so. I've got the ability, but I'm woefully out of vocal shape, and the office isn't very conducive to vocal recordings. Besides the constant grind of the iMac server fan, there are precious few times when the house is empty enough for me to belt out some lyrics. On the other hand, I don't have the budget to rent a practice space. 11:48:50 AM    trackback []