Migration and music
A while back I switched from my old host over to MediaTemple and I’ve been nothing but satisfied with the service. Now I’m even more satisfied though. They recently put their “grid server” system online which I’ve been waiting for and migrated over very easily. Also, I now just have a obscene amount of storage and transfer, so I’ll be able to probably code up (or find/use) a nice little flash player for my music! That will be pretty cool I think. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for some time, so when I get a little free time (my current project has me swamped) I will begin the process.
Speaking of music, Ableton Live 6 did come out and I did buy it (ouch, pricey) and I absolutely am in LOVE with it. I keep thinking of other cool stuff I want to do though, like get Ms. Pinky timecode vinyls and a deck or two so that I can scratch. But, I have to remind myself the reason I went with Live was because you could do so much more than with decks. Scratching (and a few other DJ type necessities like a easier way to do beat juggling, a view where you can see all your effects chains and two waveforms at once, etc.) is unfortunately missing but it might make it in to a future release, who knows. There’s enough I don’t know how to do with the software already that I don’t need to put any more on my plate.
I am excited about one thing though. As soon as I knew it was coming out I pre-ordered the Novation Remote Zero SL (pic) and I found it finally shipped today and would get to me tomorrow! This thing is completely sick. It’s bigger brothers have semi-weighted piano keys, lockable X-Y joystick, trackpad, and a much bigger price tag. I really wanted the trackpad and joystick on this thing, but I suppose it isn’t that big of a deal. I do have the excellent M-Audio Ozonic which had a 3 octave keyboard, plenty of knobs, and faders as well as a (non-lockable) X-Y joystick. It also has a firewire audio interface. On top of that I use the M-Audio Trigger Finger as sort of an analog controller with the pressure sensitive pads for sweeps and ramps and stuff. You can set the velocity curves many different ways, so it’s not hard to get the effect you want and just wail on two pads at once.
I love this music stuff so much.
