So someone gave me a Akai S6000 to replace my aging S4000 unit, it was given to me after someone local saw one of my new tunes on youtube, which is excellent. I have spent the moring installing a HHD in the unit then loading it up with samples, some new from a studio visit last week, which I got a load of male vocal samples which I will and have been using on some of my new dance tunes; an example o this sis my new song "vapour" which I used a local "shot" which really brought out the song and made it whole. I believe the song has a anthem vibe about it and I think it should go down well as it much cleaner than most of my other tracks I've released in the genre, even though I haven't changed DAW or other software. 

I located a demo of Sylenth which Avicii uses in his tracks, so will be adding new sounds to my tracks by using this new synth mainly by sampling it as the limitations of the demo mean it has a audio reminder which plays randomly throughout the song to prevent any recordings, which is annoying to say the least, but until I purchase the full version i'm kind of stuck with this, 

I have ne sound packs for Vanguard, Nexus and Serum, so I will be updating my overall soundset in the coming weeks. I want to produce more DnB, Dance and may try a bit of Techno to see what I can do in that genre. Hopefully I can develop a sound and hone my original sound that I've been working on, but I expect that to take a while to achieve. 

Newgrounds is an amazing platform and hope people which are making videos and games take advantage with what I have to offer as its now rare that I make a no usable track "this track can't be used by anyone" 

I will be making more drum and bass, namely staring my partner Jane, who has been slowly learning keyboard from me over the years and is ready to have a crack at composing, she made a tune a few years ago which was a dance tune using a Japanese Vocal which turned out really well, but this was using chord samples and was was kind of cheating in a way.

I have taught her to use Cubase so we can both work in the same environment, as before she only had used ableton live a handful of times and I haven't ever used that DAW, I guess I should as it would be an excellent platform to play gigs with (unless I an get a old version on Nuendo working as that's very good at live applications and I'm familiar with the structure of Nuendo as Cubase is pretty much the same program. But steinberg dropped Nuendo in favour of a more complete version of Cubase, I believe Nuendo is good for live apps as its more stable, but Cubase is still, even at this point liable to crashing. My version for example has crashed three times today, all with different errors, which I won't bore you with!

I made a DnB song today called "Kick the Licker" (resident evil reference there), which I made using my MPC in conjunction with my Yamaha A3000 sampler and used the MPC to fire off all the drum samples. It was a pain in the bum to setup and wasn't the most stable thing in the world, but the resulting song was well good and if you get the chance have a listen and tell me what you think. 

That gets me to the next thing and thats lack of comments, I know people's lives are hectic, but when you have a video/song with 300 views and no comments it makes you wonder if the tune is good, same goes for the rating system. I guess there is no incentive for people to score songs as there's no reward system in place like if you vote on a video or game, which I think is a little bit unfair, there's got to be a reason why, personally I'm not sure why, but there must be reason surely?

I will still continue to post on Newgrounds as its ow my platform of choice and I seem to get more views on here than on Youtube and Soundcloud :( 
Youtube as a channel I've only started to post too again I have a few songs which are out with samples of video games and Cinematics/TV which I know is not allowed on Newgrounds, and I don't like to get blammed, for a silly mistake, so unfortunately don't have as much free will to be creative on this platform, but im still making good original music anyhoo but wish there was more leeway to be more creative within these realms. that's my rant over.

There maybe one more tune out tonight, but I'll have to see what I can cook up. I may not so don't sit on your hands.