tangentbot

...with a blog! Check it out! I've actually postponed my music writing to put this thing together, and now that I can start writing music again this will be the place to hear it! I'm also going to try and sell (gasp!) some CDs (remember those?), maybe some t-shirts... we'll see. it's all a big work in progress. If nothing else, I'll post pictures of headphones and kimchee recipes and complain about mass transit in Seattle. You love it!

Since I got a DSLite recently, it usurped my previous friend codes... so to all who apply, here you go!

Animal Crossing Wild World
Friend Code: 2448-9929-7059
Name: Tangent
Town: Natto

MarioKart
Friend Code: 515459876732

Here's number 40! The 40th song I've written all year! YAY! Well, it's called Sine Break, and its full of good stuff... so check it out!

Check out the new song I just posted on my site called cobe. More to follow!

love, tangentbot

For those of you who love me and missed all my little songs while I was in Japan, have I got a treat for YOU! Song of the Week Number 38! Hot off the presses! Enjoy!

I need to write something like 5 songs.... but I'm in Japan, so it'll be awhile for that to happen.

If you want to read my japan blog and see all the cool pictures I've taken, got to japanbot!

Bye!

Last week's song this week! Hopefully, this week's song this week too... Anyway, check it out. It's my 37th song this year, and it's called pengy toots, and it's all beepity and boopity and drum and bassy and all that yummy stuff. Go download it already.

-tangentbot

this one is called beetle triumphant and it has all those drums and that bass that you kids love so much. I made sukiyaki tonight and it was YUMMY! And, it's pronounced "skee-yaki", so now you'll stop making a fool out of yourself at your neighborhood Japanese restaurant.

...and don't rub your Gorram chopsticks together, you moran, that's like calling the sushi chef a cheap bastard! And don't use so much shoyu and wasabi... ok, I'm done.

I'm going to rant a little bit. I KNOW 43Folders is a great site, there's lots of good info to be had there, lifehacks, productivity, blah blah... Merlin Mann is so Mac-centric. I'm a Gentoo linux user first, and I have a windows box to write music on, and I've always considered Macs a "rich kid toy". They are shiny, easy to use, and they cost much more than a standard PC. Sure, they (guessing?)probably do a marginally better job at graphics rendering, and they use them in video editing, but come on. Macs, like iPods, are primarily college kid jewelry. (Hardcore Mac power-users probably despise that image too...)

He (Mr. Mann) also seems to think (according to a recent post) that his readership is entirely Mac and (misguided) Windows users. If he focused more on productivity and a bit less on how k-rad f'ing badass Macs are, I may, as a LINUX user, be tempted to stick around and read on... but as of now, it grows weary...

Secondly, I finally found myself in the possession of Reason 3.0, and talk about badass! I don't even know what to say, this program is so awesome... my little O2 M-Audio MIDI controller is getting a workout from it too...

this(last) week's song is called tele! it is a weird.

Yummy tiger soup!

I've been using Skaletracker for a few days now and I love it. It is mapped just like FT2, accepts MIDI/VSTi/ASIO, and sounds great. It has an on-demand file browser just like fasttracker and it is slick as hell. My only complaint is the little title screen that you have to wait for, but other then that it rocks. My search is finally (hopefully) over.

Oh, P.S. - Don't expect it to play your old XM files spot on... I couldn't care less, as I've transferred my XMs to WAV anyway, and all the stuff I'm writing on Skale will be new... but just a warning, it effs up portamento and stuff.

song of the week this week (okay, this is last week's - so i'm a week behind) is called dnkypnch. Enjoy.

Last week, that is :( Well, it's called trainer, and I hope you like it as much as I liked making it.

Number 31 is up in time for the week to end... it's called august moth, and I do hope you'll all enjoy it.

I am a hardcore Fasttracker 2 fan way back since 1996 (That's eleven years ago, kids!). Trouble (benefit?) is, it will only run in native DOS, not even fakeDOS that XP uses, nor linux. There are several win32 substitutes, and some decent linux trackers, and I have used them all. NOTHING works for me like FT2. I even set up a DOS box just to run it!

Anyway, I recently heard about Milkytracker and I flipped out. They were claiming they had an FT2 clone. So I tried it out, thinking "Wow, I can have all my audio software on one machine finally!". Not so. When you click the icon, it throws a ridiculous graphic up that you have to look at for 2 seconds. You are then treated to a squatty window with a completely different layout. I tried to browse my samples and instruments, and I find I have to load a file before I hear it. In FT2, you could preview instantly, which lets you fly through your thousands of samples quickly to find the one you want. The whole program crashed without warning when I tried to open a different directory. FT2 at least (when you figure out how to crash it...) saves a backup of whatever you are in the middle of called BACKUP.XM. I'll just jump to the worst part of this "FT2 clone" experience... YOU IDIOTS REMAPPED THE KEY LAYOUT!

Now, since I've been tracking on the same piece of software for eleven years, naturally I can maneuver the keyboard in my sleep. The play is always Ctrl. The stop is always Space. If you change this crap, I have to re-learn a different program. Why would I do that when I am an expert at this one?

Somebody tell me when a real FT2 clone is released, like a 1:1 copy that runs on Linux or winXP. Until then, time to fire up my win98 lite box :)

The song of the week is called trogbog. Enjoy every bit of it!

This is my excuse. It is my excuse for not yet releasing last week`s Song Of The Week. I got my laptop(tangerine orange) in the mail, and I`ve been busy formatting it for musical purposes. I just picked up a bunch of stuff tonight also, so I`ve kept busy. I bought a PS/2 to USB adapter, so I can use my KVM switch with the laptop, and a 4 port USB hub so I can connect my digital camera, printer, midi controller and any sound modules I plan on picking up in the future.

I also bought two excellent books, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, and Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS by Ian Lloyd. And lastly, I FINALLY picked up Disc 7 of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (the metal box with a rad t-shirt).

So, back to the song I need to finish; oh yes, I started writing it last week, but I was derailed and sidetracked and a whole slew of locomotive terminology was applied to my self-imposed situation. But I WILL bring you guys TWO songs this week. Tomorrow, maybe. Or possibly Thursday.

New update over at the Pacific Northwest Diner Blog. It is hot today, but not like yesterday. Yesterday was awful, and hopefully it will cool down and rain in the near future.

We ate at a diner in Des Moines this morning, to be reviewed by "Eggs". Also, Mike H. and I played Mariokart DS (Mike's first time playing multiplayer on his DS) so that was fun. Oh, and I got to see two episodes of the newest Ren & Stimpy, "The Altruists" and "Stimpys Pregnant". Beautiful and brilliant stuff, soon to be added to my DVD wishlist.

So today is for cleaning, cooking, and not spending any money. I have to organize files across two computers, and build a workable database, so that will consume a chunk of time. I'm also 2/3ds of the way through the Foundation trilogy by Asimov, and it is awesome sauce. That's it for now!