It was one of those days! Nothing went according to plan & I had to catch myself before I got too frustrated. <br /><br /> As everything else was going wrong... of course the Robots mutinied! <br /><br /> Getting any given box to act as the Session Clock seems to be way harder than it should! ...continually, I find myself falling back on the Wolf. It just does the job, no questions asked, no bullshit! <br /><br /> As such, it was officiating this scenario ...despite lack of any Sonic Contribution. <br /><br /> Another similarly silly situation is trying to clock Volcas. Particularly the Vocla Modular. <br /><br /> I was running Gate out of the Sh--01a & that worked for awhile... but then it suddenly didn't. Fucking gremlins! :[ <br /><br /> ...so you'll see the Volca Beats sitting there, doing nothing save for acting as a MIDI to Korg Sync Convertor. <br /><br /> ...& fuckery doth abound! <br /><br /> Roland & Behringer Sequencers are some other things that I feel tend to be too complicated. In the case of the Roland JU-06a, it's just too damn short, stepwise! Also you have to memorize all these key combinations... or have the ( stupid hard to read, weirdly laid out ) manual at hand. <br /><br /> With the SH-01a some of the most important functions, like Clock Divisions... aren't even mentioned in the Manual! <br /><br /> The MS-1 is a similar story to the JU-06a. <br /><br /> Is it really so hard to just have a dedicated set of Record/Play/Save/Erase Buttons? Why should I have to hold 3 Buttons, then press another, hold 2 Buttons, press another then hold 2 more buttons...<br /><br /><br /> JUST TO SAVE A PATTERN!?<br /><br /> ...that's bullshit. <br /><br /> Another thing with the Sh-01a... is now that I've started to get the hang of where all the "under the hood features" are hiding... I accidentally erase my progress looking for them! <br /><br /> By the time I started over thrice... my inspiration was near sapped & I resolved to make things short & simple... lest the whole venture wind up a waste! <br /><br /> As such, you'll kindly excuse this sub par offering & pretend it's the Cinematic Backing Track for a Low Flyover Shot as we descend from the Clouds toward an Alien World & then near some large, curious Machinery... chugging away. <br /><br /> As the Camera weaves & snakes through the tangle of hoses, conduit & moving parts... we zero in on a bit of sludge encrusted Clockwork... <br /><br /> fade to black. <br /><br /><br /> See ya next week...<br /><br />( SH-01a: Bass [DRY] • JU-06a: Chords [DRY] • MS-1: Sequence [EchoBrain] • Volca Modular: "Sludge Encrusted Clockwork" [Built in Reverb/Delay thing] • Yellow Sony Sports Walkman: FM Radio Static [Fuzzy] • Robots: Foreboding Cloud of confusion, false starts, mistakes & discouraging nonsense [With Smirks on their stupid circuits] • Caalamus: poorly steeped Green Tea, Procrastination & copious expletives!!! [That is how the Callamus do] ) :P
