Monday

I have been a bit bad and haven't updated my blog since December so i decided that as we have just started another unit of study i should post about what has been going on.

during the MIDI sequencing project i ran in to a few problems to start with i only have 1GB of hard drive space on my college home drive this is a real problem because when using Cubase after editing an audio track that track is saved with the edits as a .WAV this became problematic extremely quick as the project folder would grow to extremely large sizes.
another problem with using Cubase was that any MIDI drum beats that i created myself would not be converted during the mixdown proses. There was a work around for this problem but the resulting sound after this was not as good as before.

After the snow had stoped and we all got back to classes we were given a new task to remix a MIDI track of our choice. This task was meet with the same storage space problems as the last task. (i need to invest in a new USB memory stick (thanks to who ever found mine and didn't turn it in))
we also ran in to a host of new problems regarding the Cubase software the most annoying of these were that any MIDI tracks that i made would not mixdown and i ended up having to hand in my whole project folder.another problem that the class ran into was that after choosing a MIDI track and changing the instrument and then selecting a new MIDI track would reset the last track making it impossible to remix the project the way we wanted.

all in all i think that this project could have gone better despite how well it started and given the choice i would have chosen to use a different software package

this morning during Key Skills we were studying the use of capital letters in sentences this sort of thing is helpful for me because its the sort of thing that i do tend to over look when writing.

after break we had a look at adobe sound booth and how it worked it reminded me of how cool edit worked and so i felt comfortable with it straight away. i would have liked to have spent more time looking at this software and I'm hoping to be able to use it again in the future.

after lunch and for the rest of the day we started on our latest unit "Recording"
our goal is to buy a dream recording studio with an imaginary £10,000. this started with john giving us a rough guide as to the sort of items we should get for our studios including hardware and software. i spent the rest of the day looking at the difference's in microphones and amps to give myself a better understanding of where my money would be going tonight i will put together a spreed sheet to help balancing the spending that should be fun relearning excel functions (i wounder if excel still has a hidden Easter Egg.