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It's always a joy to slow down and reset and just be a human. 3 baths a day sounds amazing.

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Welcome back to Aotearoa. It really is beautiful.

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Sometimes good things just take time and you have to sit on it. Give it space to grow into something. Beautiful snippets, thanks Kimbra

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I had been listening to "Without Knowing" last week. I had heard it previously and decided to go back to it, for I found it to be quite soothing.

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We are often bombarded with shiny products. Raw and imperfection is the human value of what we love to do. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to that mysterious art

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of course, it is never finished, just finished enough to let go.

Like children.

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I spent this week finding the most economical Black Friday deals on new music plugins to improve my music productions. It's been so nice using them. I have seen the value of what I was missing in my earlier recordings. Most notable a Pultec EQ and LA 2A. So much so that I have gone back and brushed them off to remaster them using the new plugins. And I started to craft a brand new song as well. Although I'm still getting used to the jarring acoustics in my new recording space...aka my home recording bedroom.

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What DAW do you use?

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I have used FL Studio, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cakewalk, Cubase, Reaper, Reason and downloaded Pro Tools at one point. I have also experimented with mobile apps. I haven't used Pro Tools yet despite downloading it. But my go-to DAWs are Ableton Live and Mixcraft Pro Studio for the last few years. I like Mixcraft Pro Studio because U can print out music notation for your songs if U are collaborating. And in version 7 it had an Apogee Pultec EQ plugin. I've had to find EQ alternatives since the current version doesn't have it anymore. But overall, I just love how Mixcraft Pro renders my sound (especially vocals) and I love how Ableton allows me to play my LM-1 and Linn drum samples and instrument plugins easily.

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Up through 2012 I used Traction 3, Band in a Box, a number of plug ins. Would do midi arrangement with instrument collections and edit bass and piano to suit.

Two years ago I downloaded Waveform and is not intuitive at all. Am using Ntracks, BinB and some other plug-ins for my current demos.

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Hamiltron, city of the future!

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