Sunday 25 January 2009

I've spent most of this morning (through the fog of my cold that won't go away) trying to figure out how to get my laptop setup to reliably boot up and work: I'm using it to route MIDI and also to give me delays on a mic for dub effects. After various experiments, I've discovered that I need to switch everything on in exactly the right order, and re-boot one device halfway through the process, otherwise MIDI messages don't get passed along the chain. They never tell you these things in the manual, they just assume that at some point in your life you've got a couple of stress-free hours available for laborious trial and error. 

There was some light relief in the middle of all this when DG called from New Zealand to skype over his fiddle part for the Joe Raposo track. So I should be able to mix that this coming week.