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My First Song

My guitar amp simulation software of choice has been BIAS FX 2 on my iPad and it's pretty great, but I'm starting to get the point where I'm outgrowing the iPad for what I want to do, I think. I've bought a selection of BIAS FX 2 stuff on desktop, and it comes with Audio Units plugins that you can use in GarageBand and such. It turns out you can get a 90-day trial of Logic Pro, so I'm giving that a red hot go and we'll see if I can manage to make some sort of song! I recorded some drums yesterday today but my biggest issue there is keeping in time, even with a metronome going. 😛

But today I recorded my first song in Logic Pro, with me playing both guitar and drums! 😁 Granted it's less than a minute long and is pretty repetitive, but whatever. Yay!

Big thanks to @[email protected] for pointing out Logic's "quantize" functionality that will automatically move your slightly-out-of-time notes to be back in time, very helpful for getting a good drum track. The drums were was just recorded straight into Logic then quantized, rather than playing back again with any of the built-in Roland drum controller kits that the drum kit comes with (I haven't even looked into how that's done yet), and the guitar was recorded with one of Positive Grid's "BIAS Pedal" effects.

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Posted on 15 May 2022, 15:49

A photo of four miniatures from Warhammer 40,000, they're heavily-armoured human warriors wielding various guns, but the stock male heads have been replaced with a third-party set of female ones from a company called Statuesque Miniatures. The skin tones on all four are Black and they look wonderful.

Progress has been slow, but I finished the faces of the next four of my squad of Scions tonight and I am pretty damned happy with how good they look!

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Posted on 12 May 2022, 22:37

A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app showing the summary of my workout, which was 43 minutes, 1,979 active kilojoules, and an average heart rate of 150 beats per minute.

For the first time I think possibly this year I've actually been able to watch an entire episode of something on my iPad while using the elliptical! 🎉

You have no idea how happy this makes me, since COVID hit I was doing it every day after work until I buggered up my right knee towards the end of last year. Ended up going to a physiotherapist followed by like two months of twice-weekly exercise physiologist. Tomorrow's my last regular visit, then I'll just pop in for a check-up every fortnight for a bit, then it should be smooth sailing!

I'm still not at the amount of incline and resistance on the elliptical that I was doing before, but that's just a case of building up to it now.

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Posted on 12 May 2022, 18:40

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The board itself is covered in hexes with the artwork underneath looking like deep within a cave, and at the front closest to the camera are six savage beastmen all yelling and wielding weapons like they're about to charge, and facing them across the board are four lithe and elegant aelves.

We were going to go play some X-wing at a friend's place with my new play board, but he wasn't feeling up for it so Kristina and I played some Warhammer Underworlds instead! Aelves versus filthy goatmen, and despite a strong start, it all fell apart at the end for me thanks to some terrible rolling on my part (and some really lucky rolling on Kristina's), and she won 11-9.

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Posted on 11 May 2022, 21:49

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside-down with his legs in the air, staring unblinkingly at the camera.

I went out to make a cup of tea, came back and turned around the corner to come into the office, and was greeted with this. Just full eye-contact the entire way back to my desk.

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Posted on 11 May 2022, 10:30

A photo of a big wooden board, about one metre by 1.3 or so, painted shiny black with a bunch of white paint spattered on it so it looks like stars. The board has miniatures from the Star Wars tabletop game "X-wing", the Empire on one side and a rag-tag squad from the Scum & Villainy faction on the other, with all their cards laid out on the section at either end that's separated from the main play area by a small raised piece of wood.

Today I painted up my X-wing board so it looks like it's an actual star field, rather than just being plain black. Pretty stoked with the results!

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Posted on 8 May 2022, 17:49

A photo of two cardboard containers, one has three slices of beef brisket along with potato chips, some pickles, slaw, and a container of barbecue sauce, and the other has hot chips in it.

We met up with some friends for lunch at Black Bear Barbecue today. It's always so damned good, and I apparently have a mental block about the fact that I really don't need to order chips to go with it because just the brisket box is more than enough food. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Posted on 5 May 2022, 15:37