Good news: The Korg Collection 2 went on sale this week, so I bought it . This song features the M1, Polysix, Wavestation, and the MS20. It feels really good to just be able to leave the project open and step away to go do other things without having to close it all down, reload all the instruments, and reassign the patches I was using just to pick up where I left off. I'm tagging this tune as "Vaporwave" mostly because Cocainejesus was a source of inspiration, not that it's really a true example of vaporwave.

Best News: My dad appears to be cancer free. Early this year, Week 5 to be exact, was when we got the pretty awful news that he had a malignant tumor in his throat. The news was like a ton of bricks that fell on me and when I get particularly bad news like that my defense mechanism is to mentally shut down while I try to process everything that I'm feeling. It wasn't until somewhere around week 30ish that my dad was finally able to begin treatment which entailed a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. I was remaining hopeful at the time that the treatment was going to be a good thing overall but you don't really know how bad that kind of treatment is until you see it firsthand. My dad's body composition seemed like it changed in just a week, he lost so much weight that even the muscle mass began to go. He was miserable all the time and constantly vomiting, so much so that he began to vomit blood just from the constant irritation. He thankfully made it through all 6 weeks or so of the treatment and he's been slowly recovering. He still has difficulty swallowing but he just got back from a recent PET scan and the good news was that they don't see any recurrence of the tumor. Very awesome.

Meh News: I am pretty fucking tired of working so much fucking over time. I swear I've complained about it every post but seriously, I've been working either 56 or 60 hour work weeks for nearly FOUR god damned months now. I'm frustrated and mentally drained. I'm tired of being tired and I'm pissed that when I'm done with my work days that I can't seem to unload and do what I want to do. I feels like I hardly have time to even destress. Furthermore, I live with my girlfriend and she's been having a tough time for other reasons I can't get into here but I've been unable to spend any amount of significant time with her. We used to go on hikes and stuff but I'm pretty tied up every weekend now, I can barely even muster the strength to make us a good dinner. It's bullshit. Anyways, the title of this track is more related to the current mindset I've been in the past few weeks. I'm trying to hang in there and make it to the end. 5 more weeks. Lets fucking do this.

BTW, for those of you who have read this far (thank you), how do you go about building your personal libraries of samples? I wanted to add some atmospheric wooshes and synthy sweeps and all manner of ambient sounds to this track but my library didn't really have anything that fit the bill. I know about places like looperman but are there good locations to purchase high quality sample packs or whatever?

Tags: vaporwave, week 47 2020, View by:ViridianLoom