I figured out how to make a passable bass sound. I just can’t find a bass synth I like anywhere you see. (yes I know, I could just use real bass – but it’s the principle of the thing now….) My friend Josh and I are going to make a sample based bass VSTi next year – but until then I have a solution. Playing low notes on MDA piano – then using a compressor like ME Compressor; Bring up the frequencies that sound most like a bass guitar, and scrap the ones that are excessively piano.
Or you can also just do that in the EQ then use a bass guitar preset on a compressor such as Blockfish. I tried both ways, and through my currently crapish speakers it sounded far better than any bass synth for a natural sounding electric bass sound. Let me know if it’s any good – I totally need new moniters…… My current ones are my stereo speakers from the early nineties.
This morning there was about 1/8 of a teaspoon of coffee floating round the bottom of the jar. I tipped it all into a cup, added hot water sugar and milk, and it tastes like a warm milk drink. Yuck. Not waking me up at all.
Lately I’ve been working on a few different versions of a new song. I suppose it’s really starting to occur to me that without the instrumentation implied by a rock band, there are unlimited ways of producing a song. I have the folk version – mostly just acoustic guitar and vocals, the silly “trying out lots of VSTi’s” version, the modern pop-song version with drums, bass and lots of vocal layers and just a few other bits here and there, the dub/reggae version etc. The problem is, I’m liking lots of versions and now I can’t really decide what kind of style to go for. I’m spending a lot of time experimenting, and not really doing anything productive. I have tons of rough copies of a song I probably only need one rough copy of 
(the odd thing is – every version so far is at 120bpm. Not just because it’s the default metronome speed on cubase, but because I wrote the first riff for this song in time with the ticking of my very loud kitchen clock.)
Anyway – that hideous coffee has finally gone so I shall go get on with my day 
