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Twilight - Analog vs. Digital

Tentative final draft.

I added a few slight twists as I combined the cybergrunge and analog variants.

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... and once again, a few hours after something goes up, it suddenly stops working. And it doesn’t matter how much I try to re-upload the file, the post just stops (*&%ing working.

Gyah. I’m glad I thought to check by the blog after I got home from work today. I’ve been under a lot of stress at work, but after tomorrow I’ll be out of work for the summer. (My day job is on a college campus.) Which... actually kinda sucks. I’m not sure how I’m going to survive. I haven’t had the energy to look for another job. I haven’t had the energy to keep up with this blog. I normally try to keep 2-3 weeks of posts in the queue, and I’m down to one more post in the queue. Instead of my usual 14 to 20+.

So... yeah. I’m going to be trying to figure out something for a side hustle this summer, I guess. Welcome to our cyberpunk life.

And of course, I have some added stress because of political bullshit at work. But that’s a rant for another day.

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Rough draft of a new piece. Trying to go for a slightly more synthwave/retrowave style. For once, I decided to step away from the typical 808 and 909 drum machine, and I used samples from an Alesis HR 16. (Thank you, DSK.)

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*Post stopped working for some reason. Yay Tumblr. repost is here.*

Neon Streets - Sync draft

Not sure how much I like this one… but I’m continuing to play with the Neon Streets theme. Sticking with a somewhat blues/jazz style for the actual music itself, but using the cyberpunk instruments to transform it into something else.

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*Fixing previous post*

Cyberpunk/noir writing prompt:

The asphalt soaks up the heat from what little sun makes it down here past the towers. The rest of the heat comes from the air conditioning from the towers. It’s not just warm down here, it’s damp too. The sweat sticks to things. You feel gummy. But that’s just how life is down here.

Originally posted on my personal blog. For some reason every now and then when you post an audio post to tumblr... you can’t fix it. If you realize you uploaded the wrong file, or if you decide to replace it with a better version, it will keep the original. No matter what you do. No matter how many times you edit the post. It will never, ever change. Apparently the original post was one of those. I accidentally uploaded the wrong sound file on the previous one. I fixed it before it ever got through my queue to post. And when going back over stuff, I realized it still had the wrong damn song. I tried editing and re-uploading it when I noticed. But it’s still got the wrong song.

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*Accidentally posted the wrong sound file. D’oh. Tumblr won’t let me fix it, so I reuploaded the post here.*

Cyberpunk/noir writing prompt:

The asphalt soaks up the heat from what little sun makes it down here past the towers. The rest of the heat comes from the air conditioning from the towers. It’s not just warm down here, it’s damp too. The sweat sticks to things. You feel gummy. But that’s just how life is down here.

Originally posted on my personal blog.

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Cyberpunk/Noir writing prompt

That was it. We were too late. It was all gone.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how hard you work. How much you want it. Sometimes, you lose.

Yaddah yaddah, old writing prompt, originally posted on my personal blog. I don’t think I really need to keep copying and pasting this stuff at this point. Anyway, I almost didn’t get something uploaded today... kinda because of this polar vortex thing. But not really.

I didn’t have to work today because of it. When I found that out yesterday, I decided to make today an experiment day. Instead of posting something old, I’d try to whip up something new. And I knew exactly what I wanted to do. We got one of the Mad Catz Rock Band Pro guitar controllers for the Wii, which is actually a pretty damn good MIDI guitar, believe it or not. But my desktop computer which had the MIDI card in it went kaput a few years ago, and I’ve been fine working with my laptop since then because almost all of my MIDI devices use USB now. So last week I ordered a cheap little MIDI to USB connector from Amazon. I got it right before the storm hit us.

So I figured I’d see if I can do something better on guitar than on keyboard, since I’m kinda crap on piano/keyboard. But... this USB to MIDI adapter... doesn’t work with the guitar. It works with every other MIDI device I own. And I can run a cable from the guitar to one of my MIDI keyboards and get sound out of that. So there’s nothing wrong with the MIDI port on there. Just for some reason, there’s some kind of feedback it needs to know that there’s a MIDI cable plugged in to tell the guitar to switch from Wii controller mode to MIDI controller mode. And it just doesn’t get that from the adapter. It gets it from the MIDI out line on it just fine. But that doesn’t help, because I’m not trying to send MIDI signals TO the guitar. I’m trying to get them FROM the guitar. I suspect that there was just some shitty wiring in the cheap USB thing and maybe the ground isn’t properly grounded or something. It works fine on my other MIDI devices, because they don’t bother to check to see if they’re plugged in. They just send a signal anyway. But the guitar needs to check. And it doesn’t work.

So... yeah. Posting something old for now.