Wildfire season
By Continuous Nonlinearities on July 19, 2026 11:13 pm
It didn't used to be wildfire season, but that's a thing now.
I've been tired lately, everything has felt like work, and I am trying to figure out how to make everything not feel like work all the time. For my songs, this is probably in part because I keep getting new gear and then I need to learn it and figure out how to fit it in with everything else, hah. Such blunder! That being said, the Digitone got returned this week on account of not being enough for me in multiple ways.
Anyway this weekly's beat is pretty last minute-ish, with only a marginal start on Saturday but mostly done in a few hours on Sunday. In an attempt to figure out how to integrate my recently-acquired Tonverk with my Digitakt, I started with that, but the Pulsar-23 quickly got dragged in because my drums were nonsense. Tonverk has this weird problem where it doesn't pay attention to the count-in on my recorder when I am recording, so some melodic parts on it ended up being a bar ahead and I could not figure out why they were weird until after I finished everything. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.
Lead part is Prophet 6 with hand-performed arpeggios, delay help from maybe the best simple delay pedal ever, the Ibanez DE-7. Why is it so good? Unknown; it is a cheap digital delay but performs so far above its paygrade (if it was released today and had modulation built in it would be sold for $400 as a fancy boutique thing, I swear). That part then got put through the OBNE Parting for glitchy weirdness. My human-played arps could be a little tighter, but as it goes, it goes.
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