Home Is Where The Algae Is...

Home from my travels, at last. That was an interesting week. In no particular order:

1. I strongly recommend the Hotel Modera if you have to stay in PDX. Reasonably priced, yet with all the normal trimmings of a nice boutique hotel. Very happy with my stay there.

2. Between all the photos I took on the trip and that Roland thing, I have a lot of scanning to do. I’m going to put the books up one at a time, I guess. I’m just going to put them up as PDFs, since everyone with an iPad uses GoodReader.

3. The Monotron Duo and Monotron Delay are both finally available in the U.S. US$49.00 each. I’m thinking of putting all three in a single case, and breaking out some of the obvious patch points. I’ll let you know how that goes.

4. Regarding the AI Comp, I have now listened to every submission in its entirety, and whittled the list down to 30 or so. This was difficult because I know a lot of you personally; I ended up renaming all the submissions with a numbering system so I wouldn’t be swayed by friendships or whatever. The main things that got tracks axed off the bat were either obvious musical and technical flaws, or failing that, tracks I felt were too derivative. The purpose of this comp is to move things forward, not look back at what has already been done. I hope to have the final list done tomorrow or Monday, at which point I will put it up here.

Anyhow, that’s it for now. I have a lot of work to catch up on. Phase Two is the next one out of the chute for 32/64 update, probably on Monday, or maybe today if I can talk Adam in to booting his compilers to fix one little thing. The only ones left are Ronin, Axon, Tattoo, and the two remaining freebies. This long nightmare is almost over.