Cubase and Such

Hello myself and Danielle.

We are the only ones who read this? Isn't that neat? Not that you get to be the audience to write to Dan or Danielle, the audience is the interwebz. You know, the bits and bytes that frequent the site while on their way to loading others? They, Dan and Danielle, are the true audience. They are the greats who read this site.

I salute you, bits and bytes, and if I were more tech-savvy, I'd write this blog in binary, just for you. <3

In any case, life has been somewhat uneventful, which is good, yet boring. It means I get to take care of business and not get caught up in the craziness of the crazy days. Dave's birthday was a few days ago and we went to his work at Davio's for dinner. It was good. I tried some good wines and the ultimate chick-drink: The Chocolate Martini. It was fun. Good people, good atmosphere, a good mix. If there's one thing I can give to Dave, I can say that he knows how to mix a group of people to make whatever event is going on work. He doesn't get all biased and weird about having or not having certain people around, he just gets who needs to be around, around. it's good.

Mike got me a program called Cubase recently. It's pretty much emazing. It's a recording program that isn't limited like reason. It has all of the frills of a program like Pro-Tools for professional level recording and mastering. I'm stoked. In fact, I'm so stoked that I busted out my keyboard and started messing with stuff. Not that I've really learned much of it yet, but I've begun to mess around. I found an amazing website, and the treasures within it have sustained me through the mediocre days. It is http://www.tweakbench.com/ and it is great. What it is is a website devoted to putting up VST's and VSTi's. What that means is they put up effect and instrument plug ins for programs like Cubase. There are no limits. It's awesome. Here's a few that I got from tweakbench, who specialize in old school video game/vintage sounds:

http://www.tweakbench.com/mp3/toad.mp3
http://www.tweakbench.com/mp3/tapeworm.mp3
http://www.tweakbench.com/mp3/peach.mp3
http://www.tweakbench.com/mp3/triforce.mp3

Oh joy. It's so much fun. Using these patches has convinced me that I was born into the wrong era. I would've been one of the most amazing video game composers of the early to mid 1980's. Oh fate, why did you procrastinate on me?

The steps to Koi are rapidly being taken. Good things are coming. I'm excited.

Hope you've enjoyed this window, bits and bytes (And I guess Danielle too if you're watching).

-Dan