I'm going to just refer to this project as '30 years.' The album is songs written, and some previously recorded over a 30 year time frame. 

Progress: Very familiar issues. I use Sonar Producer X2 software on a quad core PC I built. It has a 64 bit version of Windows that is strictly for recording, but has a boot menu for two other operating systems that all share file data from a secondary internal hard drive. Right, it's boring stuff. 

Today I scratched the surface of the song 'Alison' , meaning the start of sequencing the drum tracks. It's painfully slow because I no longer know the best way to do this. It's nice Sonar includes 1.4 million different drum kit combinations, and dozens of ways to access and record them, but really. I just wanted to do a human sounding 80s drum track, not launch a Space Shuttle, which has less buttons I'm sure.

I'm sure if I survive, all those options will be nice. I've already got about 500 hours logged in doing overdubs and post production with Sonar X, and am very impressed with the power. But as expected, no creative flow at the start line, just tech issues. Partly, cause I don't want to just use sample loops. I knew this going in. Much of this week will be spent referencing tech manuals. The glamorous side of recording.

This won't hurt the song production in this case. It's been looping in my head non-stop. I hope it doesn't sound as annoying once tracked. Usually not. Once the tracks are down, the song loop in my head will stop. And then it will go to the next one I left unrecorded over the 30 years.