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The BBC website is currently featuring a documentary with lots of interview footage of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013s7xf

I’m not sure how long it’ll be available, but in case you miss it, don’t worry – I chopped up some of the audio, then programmed a computer to play randomly-selected chunks at a quarter of normal speed, so the individual vibrations of Stockhausen’s vocal cords sound like electronic percussion sounds.

I’m trying to save time with Cubase Track Presets, but I’m starting to hit limitations in what they can do… I’ve already posted about gotchas from tricky virtual instruments (EG Native Instruments Reaktor), but there are limits on Cubase’s side, too. I’ll try and dip into this post and update when I discover new issues, workarounds and other approaches.

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Some virtual instruments – I’m looking at you, Native Instruments Reaktor – let you save patches to your computer in the instrument’s own library folder. So… how does that affect Cubase Track Presets based on those instruments?

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I want to organise how I create tracks, so I can spend less time creating the same track types again and again; and get in control of Cubase’s Media Bay. Here’s how I do it right now.

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We got to visit Paris again this October (2019), and I was able to jump on the Métro again with a portable recorder.

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Some years ago we visited Darjeeling in India. We spent an afternoon walking around Mahakal Monastery, with its views towards the Himalaya. And then I heard something…

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I love walking around cities, and phonography / location recording is one of my favourite things: it’s a chance to listen carefully to the sound textures and rhythms of a place. Here’s some sound recorded in Paris, late 2017.

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