Update & WIP (Patreon)

Hello there!

I here have a peek at a work in progress for Chapter 6 of HTP for you guys. This kind of WIP is something I will start doing for the Lydian tier more regularly. But for this one time, all of the tiers will have access to this one to introduce it to everyone.

I sing in two languages here. One I know very well, one I've never even spoken before. Can you distinguish which language is being sung where?

New Content for Lydians

Going forward, anytime things take longer to create for me I will post a WIP on the Lydian tier. Now this may vary, because sometimes I will create a thing from start to finish in a single work day. Sometimes It takes a few more days. But anytime it takes longer than a week I will post a WIP, no matter how little or how, much I have accomplished with that track. This means that you will probably hear very "naked" versions of my tracks, and probably even some embarrassing states of the tracks, with mistakes and all, since the music creation process has several stages. And will undoubtedly vary a great deal in both quality of writing, sound quality and just production quality in general.

New Content for Phrygians

I will now also have the Phrygian tier have access to the finished tracks, mostly long before they are released on my YouTube channel and in the actual episodes themselves. The Lydian tier have had access to this content since I started this Patreon page, but now I think it's only fair to also have the Phrygians have access to that since the Lydians will now get WIP.

Apology

Let me finish with the biggest apology I can possibly give.

I am very sorry for me taking such an extremely long time to publish anything at all, and even avoiding making any kind of small update on my situation here. There's no real excuse for it, rather I just have a bad explanation even though it's not an excuse.

The first reason is that I changed the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) I work with and so I had to take an online course to try to learn the ins and outs of the new DAW, which took a little while. I went from Apple's own DAW called Logic Pro to Steinberg's DAW called Cubase. I went with the latest version, Cubase 15 Pro and at this point in time I am comfortable enough to create in Cubase Pro 15 almost as efficiently as I did in Logic Pro.

The reason that I changed from Logic Pro to Cubase was that in Logic Pro there was a limitation on how many MIDI tracks and Audio tracks you could have in any given project. The limit there was 1 000 MIDI tracks and 1 000 Audio tracks. Now, that may sound like plenty enough. Why would you even need more tracks than that? Well, that brings me to my second reason for it taking such a long time for me to post any music here.

The second reason is that I wanted to create a huge template with all of the sample libraries and plugins I have bought ready to be used in every project I open so that I wouldn't have to waste any more time looking and waiting for them to finish loading and then having to adjust the settings of the given track and plugin every time and so fort and so on. So instead of having to essentially waste time doing that I thought I'd just make a huge template so I wouldn't have to do that anymore, or at least not nearly as often. What I didn't know was of how long this would take for me. I had many thousands of tracks and each I had to adjust the settings for. It was a very slow process and took a long time to finish and I finished it a while ago now.

So, now I am back with creating actual music again. And those are the reasons it took me so long to post any music here.

Now, for the reason I didn't even post a small update with information I can't actually say. I have no reason other than that I just pushed it and pushed and thought "I'll do it tomorrow" and "I'll do it next week" and "I'll do it soon" and "Anytime now". And that just got way out of hand. And so, here I am. I've got no real excuse, only the truth about it. So I deeply, deeply apologise about all of that and all I can say is that it won't happen again. If I for some reason get set back with music creation I will at least keep you guys updated about it and let you know what is going on, at least.

So again, I'm very, very sorry.

But also extremely grateful for your amazing, incomparable patience. It's a patience like nothing else and I cannot thank you enough for that!

Now, here's to having more updates and posts here 🍻

// Mackeerre