Uvula
By Cosmic Cairns on February 11, 2022 8:03 pm
I was originally thinking I wanted to do something with some vocals this week, but then last weekend I got invited to a bit of an impromptu class reunion. It was fun but we ended up spending several hours in a really loud bar where I had to shout the whole time to talk to people. I kind of strained my vocal cords and partially lost my voice for a couple days afterward. Then just as it seemed to be getting better, I woke up with a bit of a scratchy throat one morning. That seemed to resolve itself after a couple days, but I felt like maybe it would be a good idea to just give my voice a rest this week and do another instrumental.
Last week I played around with my microkorg, so this week I decided to play around with the iris2, a virtual synth that Chrisfoo hipped me to back in WB 2020. I haven't used it in over a year either, so I was kind of just reacquainting myself with it and playing with some different sounds. There was a bit of frustration because at first I could hear sound from it, but I couldn't seem to get Reaper to record any of the sound I was making. After some quick online research I figured out I didn't have some input/output box turned to the correct setting. Once I figured that out it was pretty smooth sailing.
I was using Uvula as a placeholder title mostly because I think it's a neat sounding word. In case you don't know, it's what that thing that hangs down at the back of your throat is called. I was going to change it to something else, but nothing was popping into my head that sounded right and then it occurred to me with the throat/voice issues I'd had this week, maybe it was an appropriate title anyway. So that's pretty much the deal for this week.
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