{"id":60,"date":"2012-10-04T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2012\/10\/04\/September-went-fast"},"modified":"2020-08-12T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:00:57","slug":"september-went-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/04\/september-went-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"September went fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so close, I can taste it. After finishing up <a href=\"\/blog\/post\/2012\/08\/28\/Into-The-Shade\">Into The Shade<\/a>, I moved on to Interlude #1, re-recording all the guitars and replacing the string pad with a string quartet (thanks to <a href=\"\/blog\/post\/2008\/09\/24\/Cakewalk-Dimension-Pro\">Dimension Pro<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve left Slaying The Dragon as-is for now &#8211; but it is only 70% complete so I will have to come back to it eventually &#8211; and have jumped into Future Imperfect, re-recording the bass; revising the &#8220;trumpet&#8221; synth with CS80V goodness; and re-doing the drums with my current <a href=\"\/blog\/post\/2005\/07\/24\/Roland-SPD-20-Pad-Controller\">SPD-20<\/a> + <a href=\"\/blog\/post\/2008\/12\/08\/XLN-Audio-Addictive-Drums-VST\">Addictive Drums<\/a> combo.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Cakewalk released a new version of their flagship digital audio workstation software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/products\/sonar\/\">SONAR X2<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t expect to adopt it (because I hated the X1 release) but I&#8217;ve been impressed with the changes &#8211; look out for my review\/criticism write up in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing: I&#8217;ve decided to give Strange But True another look. I think I rushed the process of review earlier this year, and when I hear it in context of other work I&#8217;ve finished recently, it&#8217;s not holding its own. That&#8217;s depressing for me (see the first sentence in this post) but I think it is worth the extra effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so close, I can taste it. After finishing up Into The Shade, I moved on to Interlude #1, re-recording all the guitars and replacing the string pad with a string quartet (thanks to Dimension Pro). I&#8217;ve left Slaying The Dragon as-is for now &#8211; but it is only 70% complete so I will have [&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-60","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\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}