Quiet week. Wasted too much time watching long Diablo 2 videos and scrolling Reddit. Talked about superbowl half time show. Listened to a lot of news. Feeling a bit doomer. VTC and G went to hospital. G struggling with unknown health issue. Since has returned home. Talked to VTC on the phone. Late call with retirement advisor. Out of depths. Shared health news and informed of travel to a politically tense country. Uninterested in learning. Lost a lot of respect and infinitely disappointed. Can't see past home town relationships. Nothing I can do. Too self preoccupied to reflect or know me. TM's Bday, nice dinner w/ friends. KB's business set up soon. Took turns playing with L&R's kid so they could eat. Nice seeing, T&D and A there too. Regular walks. Picked up new book. Valentines day plans set w/ wife. Looking forward to it. Need to set up health check up and finish filings. Avoidant. AL deep into Animal crossing again. Talked about New contract potential. currently fell through. Bad health week for eating. Getting used to long hair again.

Media Consumed: Eddington (2025), Cheers, Star Trek Voyager, The Age of Magical Over thinking by Amanda Montell, Ochre - Lemodie, Nullsleep - Boundary, Apparations - Forrest Drive West, 1, 2, 3,

Gear used:

84hp Eurorack (Moog Mother 32, Erica Synths DIY Polivoks VCF and Black VCA)

Polyend Tracker

Tascam DR-40

Software used:

Nanoloop (sampled)

Ableton

Ozone 10

Same sampling processes as last week. Used PE Tracker this time to compose over a few days of light tinkering in down time (15 minute chunks here and there). Recorded stereo to Tascam (probably can export). Mastered with ozone 10 in Ableton. Probably could have fleshed this track out more but remembered my desired to take it easy this year and go with the flow. Track started with slicing old Nanoloop drum loop made previously. Likely made from from drum machine samples and NL's synths engines. Combo of old last week and this week's eurorack samples used w/ additional sample library on tracker. A few old Alpha Juno and syntakt samples. Lots of metalic linear FM patches from Mother 32. Sequence sampled and sliced. Main synths Made from basic waves recorded from M32, triangle and square (lfo tuned up). Waves looped and sculpted w/ tracker. A bit of an extension of the "test song ethos".

File Name:

02_10_2026 New Project Ableton, New Project 2_9_2026 Polyend tracker,

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