Sound Forge - How to Record Audio

Thanks for this. It has been quite a few years since I looked at Sound Forge.  While I thought not much had changed, it seems some things have.  It did take me a minute to realize, you can not have any windows open when you want to change your preferences.

Masterclass :: Dominique Ansel

Was looking forward to this class for some time, so was excited when I could clear away things and spend some time with it. I have been a baker and chef in the past but nowhere this level. I wanted to improve my techniques, gather new recipes, and fix and inaccuracies i had in my own cooking.

Going in, I had actually never heard of the cronut. I had no idea who Dominique was or why he was famous.  This was going to be fun.

His mission is very simple. Be creative, love your work, and love food.  Since being a dad, sharing these flavors has always been a thing for me. Baking is precise and ordered.  It is simple and easy to do, if you do the steps, follow directions, and remain calm.

He is a very calm teacher and slow.  He goes into why he does certain things and the stories about how he learned.  Reading past these stories is helpful as you never know when a moment can teach you the lesson you were not expecting.

Lesson 2 he shares the secrets of his success. Don't listen to others, and follow your own sensitivities.  The world is big enough that everyone can have the success they are searching for.  This lesson is also in Steve Martin's masterclass.

The pastry cream is very close to how I was taught.  There are definitely some finer technique that was missing from my method.  This will be recipe fun to practice and master, especially since he uses it in many of the other recipes in the class.

The chocolate mouse was very much how I was taught, except I always whipped the cream too much. I always went to the point it would hold on the whisk. Can't wait to fix this one, and see look on small faces as they eat it.

Ableton :: Evolving Pads in Wavetable

Thanks for this video!

I very much like how you went into more detail about why you made such choices.  The explanation between high and low settings for various settings was great.  Moving the slider so you could hear it, and giving some words to it.

Ableton Tips

Bound 2 Divide

Masterclass :: Mira Nair

Get out and see the world.  Yes practice your craft.  Hone your craft.  Know the history of your craft.   Now spend time doing other things.  Taste the food you make.  Read the book you just bought.  Sit under the tree in the park.  

Don't wait for someone else to write your story, you need to write your story.  You can also find a story in anything, but think of the different dimensions of that story.  

Never apologize for your work.

Burn Out & Overworked

How A Freelance Music Career Can Support Your Mental Wellness

Wow. This hit close to home. Especially looking at my short stint as a working musician in early 2000s.  The relentless need to work harder to prove something to all of the "naysayers" in my family.  There is so much of this article in me.

It also sound like some "burn outs" I have seen/ witnessed/ heard about in the Computer Incident Response field.  Especially those that work in a Security Operations Center or SOC.  As this role changes with work from home, some of these habits could be beneficial to those folks as well.

Ableton Collections

Discovered a new thing this morning in Ableton. Collections.

So when I hovered aroudn the word, a little 'edit' button became visible.

Of course I clicked it.
This lead me to a series of colors, that I enabled.

I then surfed around to a plugin, and was able to add a color to it by right clicking on that plugin. I went back, and right click on the color, or 'Ctrl + R' let me rename it.

Freddie Joachim - Made in Ableton series

Grabbed some tips from this. 

Thank you.

https://youtu.be/kadQYV3yLwU