Another idea emerged, almost fully formed, and I need to get some of these things finished.

I've got a couple of hours tonight so I'll see what I can accomplish, but I'm not placing too much pressure on myself.

I'm deliberately trying to pare things back, to limit my focus, and hopefully be more productive through the act of constraint.

# It only took an hour. I continued with the tangent and have got something almost ready to record.

I think the idea of things fading as they get older and it would fit the new aesthetic on the blog.

I do an initial query to find those feeds with posts within the last week, then loop through those feeds. Only, I wasn't limiting that second query to a week.

That's fixed now.

I figure, if I've not read something within a week I'm either not going to or not going to do it justice.

I don't have to worry about uploading files to cloud storage, instead I can go direct from my Mac to the phone or vice versa.

# I went upstairs with every intention of working on a new track idea from last night. For some reason, I just wasn't feeling it and got distracted.

I ended up diving down a sound design rabbit hole on the WASP.

Still, a few usable patches came from it so it wasn't a total waste. They're all stored in the 'patch library' that is the photos app. 😆

95 BPM, raw acid. Perfectly imperfect.

You can grab it on Bandcamp here.

# I think part of my problem has been gear paralysis: too much choice, trying to do too much.

Limiting myself to just the RD-6, TD-3s, and WASP meant that I could focus better and not have to worry about what would fit where.

Since reviewing the LM Drum, I've not been doing the "learning one device at a time" thing, instead trying to throw myself at everything all at once. I need to get back to that, or at least limit myself to a subset of gear to make using it second nature.

There's also an element of disrupting my workflow by rearranging everything with the new studio layout. It'll just take some time for my brain to adjust, and I may have to be a little flexible around where things sit.