Tonight is part one of the season finale of Warehouse 13. Do you know where your favorite nerd will be at 9:00 PM? (I’ll be folding laundry in front of the television. Booyah!)
I spent some time yesterday reading reviews of the new Resident Evil movie, and it sounds as though most people took from the movie exactly what I saw in the previews. What I haven’t heard is that the CGI is effing atrocious, which makes me feel that either the trailers are really misleading, or that the effect is lost on the big screen. Needless to say, any movie that was “written for 3D” can suck a stale fart out of Gene Siskel’s desiccated ass*. All I know is that the trailer could have been half as long as it was, if the scenes weren’t all in slow motion. I just don’t know how the guy who brought us Event Horizon could end up such a horrifyingly bad director…
In other news, I got Drone Structures up this morning. What reminded me of the fact that this sample library ever existed was an entry in my visitor stats from a site that is hosting edited versions of the library. I remembered that someone took the free version, added some loop points and converted the samples to software-specific formats and then made them available on their own website. They’re freely available, but only after you have signed up for a mailing list. Which, in a way, rubs me wrong – to use my efforts as incentive for people to sign up for your newsletter? I don’t want to start a pissing match over it, because I already acquiesced years ago, but I can just host the files here, without that hassle. After all, fuck it. They’re my sounds anyway.
I’ll be uploading those files throughout the day.
Still haven’t recovered from Sunday night. The good news is that I’m making more progress on the new sample library. I’m just not really sure what will be useful and what will not. Most of what I have is interesting by virtue of being atonal and noisy, which doesn’t lend itself to traditional keyboard mapping samples. The other option is just a straight-forward sample of the sound, but that doesn’t necessarily provide a sample that can be looped or played in some manner other than a simple sample trigger. What I have so far is largely the latter. Hopefully that will be sufficient.
I’m considering caffeine. It’s that kind of morning.
* Sorry Gene, wherever your voodoo animated corpse may reside. I could think of no better insult for such an atrocity; a travesty to the great art of film.
Actually, now that I look a little further, I originally released Drone Structures with a CC 2.5 license, which doesn’t require that altered copies be released with similar licensing. I’ll just compile a new set of the samples, with loop points, whenever I get time. Then upload that under the new license, instead. That way people can access looping versions of the library, without subjecting themselves to spam.