the list

1. the cure – untitled
2. cannibal corpse – i will kill you
3. dead horse – eulogy
4. fugazi – reclamation
5. the legendary pink dots – kingdom of the flies
6. the misfits – skulls
7. peter gabriel – sledgehammer
8. pigface – suck
9. slayer – piece by piece
10. the smiths – i wont share you

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another record? so soon?

yep.
probably by early april at the current rate of production
to be released by the illustrious [theres a frilly word for you]
n5md label

the working title is kinda iffy for me

proem – first.last.always
a bit much of a nod to sisters of mercy…
which is not much of an issue
but im not sold on it yet
maybe once everything is finalized and out the door for mastering
it will make more sense
until then [ie. this week] ill be punching myself in the headpiece trying to come up with something thats more appropriate.

as for the material:
it might seem a bit thin in comparison to you shall have ever been
personally, i think it comes across as rather delicate in parts
mostly due to all the piano pieces
theres some harp and some strings in there as well
no text to speech vocals this time though
im saving those for the next record
which wont be for a long while
three years or more maybe
why?
cuz i’m getting married
AND
having all the babies

“real life” will ultimately take over
[even though between you and me and whoever else i’ve already started material for the next one]

I’ll be hopefully rolling out the proemland store just prior to the release of the record

and i’ll sleep when?

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template / dashboard setup

the problem:
i have about 40 CC’s that i commonly map
in FL i have to do this twice [at minimum]
once for mapping the hardware to the dashboard controls
and once to dashboard controls to the instrument/effect
every time i start a new project

it sucks to say the least
i hate spending what time i have for music making
mapping and keeping track of CC# assignments
bo-ring.

now
i know
that cubase and logic and whatnot
will automatically do this once you set the proper midi channel
but fruityloops
not so smart
it requires trickery

the solution:
a project template
which includes a custom two page dashbaord setup
that merges and automatically sends CC#
to and from all three of my controllers
the trigger finger
the mk-249c
and my tablet2midi setup

the data
but first
a couple of analog[pencil & paper] prototypes

and the result…
my new dashboard/template
stock controls mapped
joy
rapture
confusion.

ill attempt to explain in detail
this page that has the cc# from the hardware mapped

then the internal controllers from the first page are mapped to duplicate controllers on page two
these duplicates send CC# to whatever instrument is matched to the master channel of the dashboard.

for example say i want to control a filter in kontakt
the old way i’d have to create a link from trigger finger slider1
to dashboard and then the dashboard to filter parameter in kontakt
i could bypass the dashboard but
that gets messy

so the new way
because i started this project with my new fangled template/dashboard thing
all i have to do is set the CC#in kontakt

score!

questions?
additional hacks?
please
suggest away

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