Metablog

I looked into software piano synths a while back, and by far the neatest one was Pianoteq. Amazingly realistic and responsive, and ideal for integration into the MIDI editor I was writing at the time. The only problem with it was that the sound wasn’t quite calibrated correctly. It lacked a little something, hard to put one’s finger one. Well, with their new major version, I now fully approve of the sound, and may in fact buy the product at some point. (I may get a cracked version before then, and then go ahead and buy it if I ever release my project.)

Of course, me using this would mean that I would have to actually start working on this project again, which is unlikely to happen. There are many projects vying for my attention. (Some more productive than others.)

Watching some movies is like having schizophrenia. And not in a good way. Now, I liked Paranoia Agent. That managed not to have too many loose ends, and in the end, it sorta actually made sense. And I liked Paprika. While it was a wild, wild ride, it had a definite frame around the schizophrenic madness, and a real plot running through it, and eventually you could sort it all out. But Perfect Blue? Let’s see… Cuckoo Nest, Schrodinger’s Butterfly, oh and definitely In the Mouth of Madness.

Satoshi Kon, congratulations.

Runners up would be NGE, FLCL, and perhaps Jacob’s Ladder, although those first two managed to be entertaining enough to laugh off the lack of coherency.