The usual Thursday Bullshit...

Updates! Updates! We got ’em. Whether you want ’em or not is another matter entirely.

First up, the next AD product is coming along nicely, except that Adam has run in to one of those things that he has a knack for running in to, the which I don’t fully understand. I code vicariously through him. But we’re truckin’ along. That will be next, then the other half of the Discord3 update.

Speaking of the other half of the Discord3 update, a note came through the VST dev list today that 64-bit Cubase 5.5 for Mac is available as a dev preview. We’ll have D3 OS X 64-bit ready before it is actually released.

In other news, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that our good friend Hugo has released a new sample set, volume 3 in his excellent Taped Drum Machine series. ’Tis here. This one is my current Goldbaby Favorite, because he thought to include an RZ-1, which is the drum machine I used to make my very first demo, back when I was knee high to a short goat. There’s also a Kawai XD-5 up in that bitch, which is a hidden gem in the world of drum synths. Or at least it was, until I mentioned it. Go watch the eBay prices rise now.

And finally, in non-synth news, as a late birthday present (because on my birthday I was, you know, in Idaho) I got the Camera Of My Dreams, a Mamiya 645. It isn’t exactly the model I wanted–I was eyeballing a Pro, because I’m pro as fuck and having a camera that says “Pro” on it really just sums that up nicely–but it came up on Craigslist here for a price I couldn’t refuse. I just ran an expensive roll of film through it, and it is now getting expensively processed. I decided to forgo the expensive scanning; I thought it best to wait and see if I could actually take pictures with the damn thing and if they were actually worth looking at. We’ll know this afternoon, I guess.

EDIT: As you can see from the image above, I got the roll back. This camera takes fucking amazing pictures, but is unforgiving as hell. Gonna take some learning.