Had a deadline to send a couple of demos off to my publisher today. I already had one recorded and planned on doing another. But whilst playing around I came up with a really cool idea for another song, so just sat down and produced it! Yeah! So I sent all three off, let’s see…

Took the morning off today ( as I won’t get much holiday this week). Then in the afternoon went out to Yodobashi Camera, where they have a massive selection of sound libraries. Now that I have a decent computer I’m like a kid in a toy store with all these great sample banks I want!!…

I was in a good mood today and after playing around with the synths and stuff in 15 minutes 3 really cool songs just popped into my head – excellent! But ideas are no good in my head, I’ve got to get them recorded. I started off with Cubase, but it is just far too…

Things have been going a lot better today, it’s nice to be able to breath. I also got all my music gear set up and it’s fun being able to jam around and play all these funky new sounds – great!!! I also had a load of business stuff to do, and all the emails…

You can tell it’s getting cold now, because no sooner did I try to get to sleep last night than my asthma started. This always happens in the winter in Japan and it’s not fun! : ( It didn’t actually help that my girlfriend had decided to tidy everywhere up so there was dust flying…

Got my new computer today – yeah!! The thing is that until I put all my stuff on it, it’s not that much fun!! The first impression was “eh… it’s huge and noisy!”. It seems like computer technology has gone downhill over the last 2 years, with machines much bigger but only slightly faster than…