Welcome to Episode 213 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest. And it is Tuesday ninth of February 2021. Today was good, because I actually managed to start work I think it's seven o'clock and woke up around six and then go I bet half six started work at seven o'clock, and actually managed to fit in the first hour was writing. So working on my screenplay one night in Soho the second draft of my screenplay. And it's a bit of a psychological barrier to get started as it often is you know starting the hardest thing restarting. And I noticed the last time I opened it was 25th of September last year so it's taken me like four months just to open the script, but I did it, and I spent an hour and it was good I made good progress I went through about a third of the script, doing the edits that I wanted to do, basically just the dialogue really capital plot points I need to just move, I could make better. Yeah, made the pay off a bit better later in the film, or in the script but yeah that was good and then after that, I was on music. And finally, I discovered something so exciting for me at least. There's a thing in music so I'm working on a song called take what you want, I think, from my album, a blind eye to love. And there's, there's two types of entry for music, if you will. One of them is analogue or acoustic instruments which you might plug in and play and they're recorded as like waveforms you might have seen them they're the kind of things that go up and like a wave that goes up and down showing the sound, and the other type is called MIDI and MIDI is just all it is is information basically on or off and media itself doesn't make any noise but the information in it, and triggers sounds in other things that are usually digital can be analogue as well but. So with MIDI you have huge control over where you place those notes and you can make the computer divide up in a bar of music perfectly into whatever divisions you want and place those notes exactly etc. And there's a thing called quantize, which is where you basically just press a button on the computer and it will automatically move the MIDI notes to the timings that you want so all of a sudden if you play a bit sloppy as I often do with things like piano. If I've done it in MIDI, then I can straighten it up so it sounds more rhythmically correct. Today I discovered. There's a same functionality for audio for like, if I plugged in a guitar and I'm playing something I can basically just press a button and it will move it into time. And that's a bit of a revelation for me I never knew I could do that. I don't know what version of the software I use they started that it might have been six years ago and I didn't even realise, but said that was very exciting because basically what it means is, I can take the bass guitar, the electric guitars, and the MIDI parts cables etc and I can make them all really locked together. So they sound much more tight, is exactly the word. So, that was a great discovery huge discovery, I cannot over overstate the discovery of hugeness that that was basically finished the drums, so more or less now I've got the, the bed track. The original bed track done. And now I'm going to with the next couple of sections sessions add other sounds and instruments into it to give you a bit more depth and width and interest and whatnot. But that should be fairly swift now so hopefully that track will be done pretty soon ready for the vocals, and then I'll only have I think one or two more tracks on the album to do. And then the vocals for the wall, but, you know, it's getting there. So again, my process one hour on the writing was great one hour on the music that was great. Then I had a tonne of where the time went actually but then I had, you know, client work and stuff. And I worked through till two o'clock. Didn't get as far into the work as I'd want to you know there's still stuff that's pressing client stuff. And I feel like it's just a constant thing w