March 10, 2009

• Daniel's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

  I had a dream that I got a very important job, and not only was I feeling oh-so creative for this job, I also had the right tools at my disposal in order to complete the job and make the client happy with me.

  Then I woke up.

  And even though I spent large amounts of cash on studio monitors, displays, cables, controllers, fancy sample libraries, and even some last-minute RAM to try and make it happen...it did not...happen...

  Although after many hours of trying and trying again and driving all around buying this and that and charging up my visa and guitar center cards, my computer still decided to crash and/or glitch every other 5 minutes.

  Now let me clarify--all ye who wish to speak ill of the Mac--the problem was not necessarily the 5 year old PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 Processor with 2 matching HD 23" displays and 8GB of RAM, the problem was more with the interface (or plugin--called "Play") that I was using in Logic for the expensive EastWest samples. It's a beast. And I was using it on several tracks...using up ALL of my processing power and memory, and making my work sound like trash due to the constant malfunctions.

  Blarg.

  So then in order to make a decent sounding product, I had to bounce each track to an audio file and disengage the plugin on each track as I went. So yeah, basically I spent at least half of the day doing THE LONG, TEDIOUS, ARDUOUS thing that my computer could have done on its own if it were newer...

  Poop.
  Time to upgrade.

  Anyone got an extra 6k?

  Footnote:
  Sorry for the rant. I'm frustrated...but I'll be fine in the long run...

  • 7:54 pm
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