Thought Sausage

Or something like that...(random Drive-By Truckers wisdom)

I've come to one conclusion in my forray back into music. And that's that my current software arsenal is shit. Gear Box (the Line 6 stuff) is actually quite good, but my drum samples are shit, my sample sets are shit and I need a DAW that isn't a heaping piece of latent garbage.

Problem is my previous computer rig is loaded with software that's 7 years old that doesn't acknowledge the existance of things that came along in the past 7 years (go figure). Said computer rig is sitting in the closet doing a whole lot of taking up space. So that's no good. I'm not going to stray too far from home, which means I'll load up a new version of Reason and Cubase and call it square. So long as they'll let me run an ASIO soundcard, fuck it...

So basically I'm in a holding pattern until I get software that doesn't make me wanna throw my computer off the balcony. I've got some things accumlating, but I can't like be all that constructive until the environs are suited for it.

In other news, if you haven't bought Patterson Hood's Killers and Stars and Jason Isbell's Sirens of the Ditch whack those Amazon links or go to itunes and remedy that shit. Had both on rotation all day @ work (at least the parts of the day that didn't have me bogged down in meetings...jesus christ meetings are the cancer of productivity). Fucking awesome. Southern acoustic/blues rock for what ales ye.