My new track “Tumbleweed” is now available on my Myspace artist page and on my Last.fm page. Since releasing it last Friday, I have only had one (!) person listen to it. I’m going to need a better way of getting the word out other than Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. This track was created in Ableton Live 8 using mostly the Predator soft-synth. I’m quite happy with the result. It sounds pretty good in my car, which means the mastering job is somewhat passable. I might also have to change the name, “Tumbleweed” was not as original as I thought (some 300 songs with that name on Last.fm).

Also, I bought Native Instruments Maschine a few weeks ago. It’s not quite usable as a VST plugin just yet. Hopefully the next update will allow MIDI triggering of scenes within Ableton (and Logic). It is quite cool on it’s own. It’s sort of like the Akai MPC machines, but as a weird software/hardware-controller hybrid. If I only did hip-hop, I’m sure this is all I would need. It just needs better integration with the rest of the world. It also acts as a Ableton Live controller, but not nearly as good as the Akai APC40 – which I’m probably going to purchase eventually.

My next purchase, however, is the Novation SL mkII 61 key controller. This thing is beautiful. It’s Automap software will be a blessing to cure my thousand knob stare. I still have to sell off all my older equipment.