So the other week I made a song called "No Sleep" which ended up being the last song I could produce on Cubase 5 as it decided to corrupt itself! Instead of reinstalling it, I installed Cubase 8.5 (Which I haven't particually got on with in the past), a handful of VST's and am in the process of relearning to use the software. It nearly the same, but there are some new features which have upset my creative work flow and adapting to this new softwrae is taking longer than I intiially expected.

I do have a few dance (EDM) pieces in the pipe line, as well as a ew New wave pieces. But may take me a while before I release anything. Im also having an issue with the exporting feature built into the new edition of Cubase, as you only get around twenty exports beore you have to pay for a license to export to MP3 which personally I think it is stupid.   

Im also having problems with my older VSTs like Hydra, Pentagon and Vanguard as it seems they are not compatible with the VST bridge and VST control built into Cubase. So thats a bummer, I've found updates for newer VST's like Serum, Nexus and Sylenth, but haven't at this point had the last two installed as im not sure were I put the disks.

I'm installing Wavelab tonight on my new windows partition and Lame MP3 converter, so hopefully will be able to get a tune up by someotime tomorrow. Probably a HalionSonic SE test song, with some usage of Nexus. 

I've in the meantime done a research project on Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis, to try and hone my electronic styled 80's music as well a disco styles. The project I have running at the moment, is a New Wave disco hybrid tune and I think it sounds quite good even though im only using HalionSonic SE (which is a very basic softsynth and not a very good one either). 

I'm also having problems with my newly insgtalled Kontakt which I will have to rectify before I can make any more classical, orchestral or singer song writer pieces. Which is a bummer as it my main sample based VST and I need it to play back my extensive directory of samples for added darkness and SFX to my songs. 

I'm also working on some progressive rock pieces, so I do have a few projects on at th moment, I will try to release someting tomorrow, but I just don't know when...