This evening I got a little further with the track I started yesterday, but the bulk of my time was spent fixing some technical issues. I was having problems recording sound onto the computer via USB from my Vox Tonelab ST effects unit. I was having latency issues with the ASIO4All driver I was using, the best I could get was about a 1/2 second delay between playing and hearing a note, which is unacceptable. The solution was to use the ASIO driver written by Vox for the Tonelab unit rather than the ASIO4All driver. With this I have to use the Vox as both my input and output (the playback comes through my headphones plugged into the Tonelab rather than the sound card, which feels odd) but once I got it working it sounded absolutely fabulous. I built a new computer since last year and didn’t quite get everything set up correctly, hence all the technical issues.
I’m behind now since I need to keep up a pace of completing one track every other day to “win”, but I hope to catch up this weekend. Actually I’m positive I could catch up. If I wanted to I could knock out 15 improvisations this weekend. But that brings up a great question, should I? What do I want to get out of the FAWM experience this year? Quantity? Quality? I’ll have to give the matter some thought tomorrow and come up with a plan of attack for the rest of the month.