What Up Hummingbyrd

i'm switching.

first of all, i'm switching jobs for the first time in over six years.
maybe it's just that i spent so much time in my current company, but i feel my job has become a bit too easy at times. it feels like i'm a part of Standard Equipment in here. complacency makes jacko a dull boy and drains away energy ... and i need that energy for my extracurricular activities. if i spend eight hours staring at a screen or doing something i could do in my sleep, i'll be brain dead in the evening when i try to focus on music.
this has been the best company i've been in and it's been a great experience to watch it grow but i suppose change is good. i want to stay active and keep my professional (i.e. graphic/game design/whatever) skills up-to-date.

the other switch is like an apple ad: i have pretty much stopped using pc:s. and my life's better for it.
after the 20" imac i bought the licenses for Logic Express and Ableton Live and I couldn't be happier with my purchase. making music on a computer has become something i look forward to instead of something that seems to sap away creativity. i'd like to go home now so i could transform a song that was previously boring and unstructured into a blatant hit. can i go now? please?

in these past weeks Logic has become my favourite multi-tracking workstation and the Express version seems to have all the features i really need at the moment. here's the first Ghost Monkey track I've fed it:

Dreamscape (Cheese Mix)

... and Ableton Live is probably the best piece of software i've used (at least seeing that it cost me less than 20% of a single user Photoshop license). this is a piece of software that works like my favourite hardware does plus some added bells and whistles. learning it has been fun in itself, a bit like learning new synths or drum machines has always been for me. because of this enthusiasm i end up using the characteristic features of the said instrument and thus, with Live ,the results will at first sound cold and computer-y as with this one-day-in-the-making-too-long-digidub:

Aero Dub



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