I finally got around to re-working “World Spinner”. It was the first full song I made in Ableton Live back in 2006. Back then I didn’t really understand the power of the program. I’m still learning it, but I think I have a really good grasp on what Live can do.

I also think I need to redesign my website. I haven’t been drawing as much lately, and my bi-yearly webcomic updates seem to bum me out since most of my posts lately have been either about my music or Lost.

Anyway, I joined SoundCloud.com to make my music more available to people to listen to, as my Myspace page seems to have zero listeners. Are my songs really that bad? I’m not sure, since I’ve been getting almost nil feedback. More songs are on their way, maybe I can ratchet up the exposure to more places on teh interwebs…

So I got my Novation SL61 mkII yesterday. It surpassed my expectations in every way. I’ll forgo the specs and just say, the feel of the keys rocks. They’re semi-weighted, solid, and have a bit of a bounce to them. The first thing I did was load up my Predator soft-synth and loaded a patch that utilizes aftertouch. I thought that the aftertouch mechanism would lend itself to a “squooshy” feel, but it’s quite firm.

The AutoMap software is a bit of a different story. It “AutoMapped” my Predator synth in a weird way, making parameters that otherwise would be knobs mapped to toggle buttons. I’ll need a few days to tweak all that out. In fact, I need quite a few days of nothing but me and my sounds – it feels like there is never enough time in the day to learn all this stuff…