Monthly Archives: January 2018

The Joy (and Terror) of Not Knowing

Posted on January 28, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Sometimes your friends can be absolute pains. Here I am, late on a Sunday night, with a half-finished blog post, a glass of red wine in me and my twitter friend advising me to get my blog post finished. All … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk About Latency

Posted on January 23, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

This post is all about music production using computers and it’s going to get quite technical, so if this is not for you, thanks for reading this far, but catch you another time. If you care about music production at … Continue reading →

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Minimum Versus Optimum

Posted on January 19, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

It happened this morning while we were eating cheese. It was a particularly good cheese – an extra-matured Red Leicester that my wife had bought on a whim, just to see if it was any good. For those of you … Continue reading →

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On Self-Determination

Posted on January 14, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Being in command of your own destiny is a funny thing. Too little and you have no freedom or liberty. Too much and you harm yourself and the community around you. There is a delicate balance to be struck between … Continue reading →

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Uncontaminated Creative Time

Posted on January 8, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

The productivity experts tell you it’s easy. We all have twenty four hours in a day, so finding creative time is just a matter of priorities. If you want to find the time to be creative badly enough, you’ll find … Continue reading →

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Confelicity

Posted on January 8, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There is a very beautiful word that isn’t much used, in the English language. The word is confelicity. If you’re like me, you wouldn’t have encountered it much either. It’s so rare that my spelling checker is complaining about it, … Continue reading →

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