Full Day in New Studio/Office

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Yesterday was a day off from the University and a day home in the new studio/office. This was the first full day in the new studio/office. I have noticed being on the main floor of the house meant more coffee consumed during hours spent in the studio/office than normal. HHMMM I think there is a correlation there. :-) Most of the hours were spent working on an arrangement of music for the Library at the University. However it proved too difficult a task for the amount of time I have. During that same time period I have to produce a video showing off the Microsoft Surface installation in our "Declaring Independence" exhibit at the Harrison Institute. I spent the morning putting together the monitoring system and loading some more software on the computer. Mostly yesterday was trying to figure and configure which ever DAW system I was going to use. I have an older Cakewalk Plasma DAW, but it doens't support VSTi's; I also have the latest Reaper DAW. Reaper crashed serveral times on me which lead to me not wanting to use it. I have the whole day was frustrating in that I couldn't get VSTi's to work with hardware consistantly. I actually was thinking of chucking the whole virtual synth stuff and use my vintage gear and record digital audio with FX in the box. I realize that may be limiting but less frustrating. I did record a few tracks in Plasma before running into a problem with it allowing me to record audio on a 4th track. Very strange! All of this will have to wait till after Thanksgiving.

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