Over this past week, I worked out some technical issues in my updated recording setup and spent some time getting myself better acquainted with the software. In doing so, I recorded a very rough version of a new song.
This is the first step. I expect that by the time get through recording another full album worth of material, I'll go back and re-record a lot of it, just because I will likely have learned quite a bit in the process. This is how it goes. Still, having something recorded at this point, even if it's not perfect, is infinitely better than nothing.
With all six of my other self-produced albums, I used GarageBand on an old MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, ever since the most recent update that I did of the operating system, that computer has been ridiculously slow. I suspect that this is part of Apple's planned obsolescence, intended to make people think that they need to invest in a new computer.
Rather that play into that nonsense, I bought a refurbished desktop PC that I can upgrade myself as necessary. However, it has taken some time and effort to get everything working properly, and I'm still trying to figure how to do a lot of the stuff that I was able to do in GarageBand, namely the sequencing of realistic-sounding drum tracks.
It has been a rather steep learning curve so far, but my recordings on the PC are gradually getting better. The song that I recorded this past week is the first one that I've done on there that sounds like a complete song, albeit rather unpolished at this point.
Once I have something from the work-in-progress album that seems worthy to share, I'll post a link to it on this site.
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