Two weeks in...

[Martin Naef]

Hi all

It's mostly home office for me, which works pretty well though I do miss the personal interaction with the team. Work keeps me busy, but there is a bit more family time which I certainly enjoy. The lock-down isn't quite as strong here compared to other countries in Europe, so I can still get out of the house to do some cycling.

As we had to close the airfield, I do get to spend the hobby time on sorting through some video material that's waiting on my hard drive for editing. As I ran out of archived sound material sometime last year, I occasionally start up the home studio to create background music for my videos, which is quite fun as it provides a certain direction to the tracks but poses less need for them to stand on their own. It actually takes a lot less time to finish something useful. 

My studio hasn't changed much since I returned from Scotland eleven years ago besides the occasional software upgrade. I'm still using Sonar for sequencing and Samplitude for the mixing work. I treated myself to the VST version of the Korg Triton over the last Christmas break which has provided me with a huge sound library as it comes with all extensions they ever released for it. It's funny to see how much quality you can get with "only" 230MB of samples, compared to the gigabytes that came with Sonar's and Samplitude's sound libraries. Of course there's a bit of nostalgia involved, as the Korg Trinity was my first ever synth and the Triton nicely builds on top of that.

As for things to come, I recently thought about organizing a get together for the 20 years anniversary of the Zurich Bar jam. That would be in April 2023... 😉

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: music-bar <music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org> On Behalf Of Jay Vaughan
Sent: Sonntag, 29. März 2020 10:35
To: Music-bar <music-bar at lists.music-bar.org>
Subject: Two weeks in...

Well folks, we’ve reached the first stage of our self-isolation: 14 days - and everyone is healthy and vibrant in my household, if a bit antsy.  We’re fortunate to have a garden and decent surroundings for the kids to escape into every now and then.  I’ve set up a small at-home studio, since the Villa and Sky Studio in the city are inaccessible at the moment - got a Neutron/Virus/OP-1/SKULPT/CRAFT rig that is really pretty sexy, and the new version of the Endlesss app [*] all loaded up.  Only trouble is, my kids hate my jams, haha .. oh, groan.


How are you guys holding up?  I’ve been thinking a lot about the music-bar crew the last 48 hours, I’m really glad we’re still together after all these years - we’ve survived some crazy madness before (remember 9/11?) and somehow I’m sure we’ll be here in 10 years even still .. what are your plans/dreams/hopes/thoughts about what’s to come?

I’ve had some fun setting up NINJAM on REAPER to get my Jam allotment in - just waiting for the rest of the Restless Ear Syndrome jam crew to get set up too (they’re slow, grr..) - have you guys been remote jamming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cUmSw7nF4

(See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjam)

Today I discovered this amazing little script for REAPER:

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=182233

.. which has inspired me to get into a bit of REASCript hacking .. anyone got any inspiration/idea’s for what else might be useful in this department?

[*] - Endlesss has started its Launch countdown - if you’ve got it already (Beta) then please be sure to update it and use it in the next 48-hours, somehow - this will have the effect of putting you in the ‘grandfathered materials’ list, which means your stuff will roll over when the release is done and won’t be lost, hopefully.  All indications from Tim E., and the team are that its going to launch on the 31st - Denmark will get it first, as part of the launch ramp-up, so if you’re Danish and don’t have it yet, look for it on April 1/2 or so…

Anyway, hope you’re all well guys, stay safe, and happy music-making.  And if anyone else is jamming, lets hear all about it guys!  

Music-bar lives forever!


j.
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