{"id":545,"date":"2019-06-29T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2020-08-31T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:51:23","slug":"may-aug-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/29\/may-aug-19\/","title":{"rendered":"May &#8211; June &#8217;19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Progress is slow but there <em>is<\/em> progress. It&#8217;s Drum Week. Again. I&#8217;m replacing the guide drums on a track called &#8220;Enlightenment&#8221;. I don&#8217;t have the original MIDI, just a rendered stereo track of rather monotonous samples that was created by a lot of cut-n-paste back in the day. This allowed me to build up a pretty complete &#8220;demo&#8221; with keyboards, bass, guitar, vocals, etc\u2026 all sitting on this temporary drum track, which has to go. By playing along with a cut-down mix of bass plus a few keys, we can get some very nice results including a few creative tempo variations. Onward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with Overloud&#8217;s TH3 and I&#8217;m seriously considering re-wiring my bass in stereo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working on drum tracks here at Casa Prodigale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a diversion, here&#8217;s a fabulous live rendition of a song by Official Frost*; the music might not be to your taste but you have to admire the tight vocal harmonies, and that drum part! I&#8217;d say it is inspiring but mostly it is just sad how good it is. I can see why Steven Wilson snapped up Blunders for his live tour\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Numbers\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FktFXzW691o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress is slow but there is progress. It&#8217;s Drum Week. Again. I&#8217;m replacing the guide drums on a track called &#8220;Enlightenment&#8221;. I don&#8217;t have the original MIDI, just a rendered stereo track of rather monotonous samples that was created by a lot of cut-n-paste back in the day. This allowed me to build up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}