A full day with two primary tasks. First, updated SFXEngine by adding to it the wonderful 'Stone Compression' and the marvellous 'Gothic Limiter'. These will be useful for general processing, particularly for mass processing of things like audiobook readings, which is something I'd like the use it for myself, and more importantly make it useful for others. As long as it sells, I'll keep updating it and adding more.
Then, started work on making basic Arcangel videos for each track on the new album. All are animations based on the logo. The MIDI files can be used to approximately synchronise parts of the music, but the results aren't as accurate as in Prometheus sequences. I guess that the MIDI using MED and the SY-85 was not quite at the correct speed. Here's a still from 'Inside Messiah':
I wanted simple videos, a YouTube equivalent of Spotify Canvases, but of course I want some sort of feeling connected with the music, beauty, awe and sadness despite the constraints of time. They certainly have an 2000-era feeling, something like Quake and those other corroded-metal style of game-art of the time. All are now complete in draft. The new distribution via Emubands is smaller; it will be limited to iTunes, Amazon, Facebook for the content registration more than any royalties (which they do not pay), and YouTube. I have new features, and will now use this as an opportunity to remaster each album in turn, ensure full sheet music for each, full resolution album artwork, 24-bit hi-res files, and videos for each track.
This evening, I transferred the lyric reading videos of We Robot from my music channel to my art channel. This meant rebuilding those in higher quality, 8000kbps, temporarily. The process took an hour or two. There are 4 or 5 more albums worth of reading videos on there, but I'll move those as each of those older albums are remastered.
My success in art and music is inevitable, though my battle often feels like one of attrition. I'm full of new ideas and will continue to create new things as well as care for, support, promote, and document my older artworks too.
The day has flown, and how the week has flown. The best I can do is fill it, and so I have and shall.
Onwards I charge, towards victory with strength and joy. Onwards to a new and greater sunrise.
