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Got my hands on a used Korg Electribe. It’s the older one, but who cares? I love reading about how the Electribes have “old” sounds–well so does a 65 Les Paul, but I’ll gladly take one off your hands if you no longer want it.

I’m already having fun with this little sucker. It’s very intuitive and inspiring. After making all my beats on my laptop, this feels a lot more natural. I love getting up early before work, going to my room and programming a raw beat before I have to get ready, while my mind is fresh. Then I can come back later and listen to what I’ve done.

The only issue I’ve had so far is that it wiped my patterns and reverted back to factory settings. It only did it once, and I’m not sure if it was something I did, if there was a power surge, or if there’s a glitch. Since then, I’ve been recording it directly into Ableton Live. If it wipes now, at least I have the audio files. It’s a duct-tape way of doing things, but it also adds a little bit of immediacy to my productions. I plan on upgrading to a newer Electribe in a year or so anyway (when I can find a good used one). The I can store my patterns on an SD card.

I look forward to many hours of beats!

I’m in love.

Got some damn malware on my blog. Not sure how it got in, I’m thinking through one of the themes I was testing. So now I have to take everything down and do a clean install of WordPress. Grrr! I’ve had so many issues with running this blog that I sometimes question if it’s worth the trouble.

–Edit–

Looks like I found the culprit. I did a clean install with the exception of  the theme folder. Sure enough, the redirect still existed. So I trashed the themes and re-installed those form a backup. That’s where the problem was. Now I’ll go through and check the theme file and see if I can actually find the code. Hopefully my site is all clean now. I’m installing some extra security measures.