This one’s actually been sitting on my computer for a month or so now — I just haven’t been able to render it to wave, because my system just wasn’t fast enough. Today, though, I got a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and everything just purrs along, barely touching the processor.

Anyway, about the music itself. This piece is basically me having fun with Kontakt — each of the eight instruments has fairly complex insert effect chains, a couple of send effects, and a couple of modulated group inserts, too. Basically, lots of effects, for some nice sound degradation.

Because I’m still not a fan of OpenMPT’s automation handling, I managed to find a nice little workaround, that I used on a couple of instruments: I modulate various effects using the MIDI volume. This means that working with the modulation is much more immediate, and it also means that I can modulate a couple of different effects simultaneously completely independently.

The piece is, hopefully, quite fun to listen to — it was definitely fun to write. Let me know what you think!

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Ryan North, of Dinosaur Comics fame, has crafted an awesome little webapp: The Regret Index. Essentially, you vote on whether or not you regret certain things. You can even add your own regrets or search for regrets.

Most of them aren’t particularly serious, and a lot of them are kinda fun. It’s worth having a browse through the archive of regrets, looking at the votes, and reading the comments people have left. Some of my favourite ‘regrets’ on the site include

• Eating a kitten just to prove you’re evil
• Supergluing your foot to the bathroom floor
• Constantly fearing regret
• Starting to think all these questions are addressing you specifically

Check it out — it’s well worth a look.