Ugh! Pleeeeeeeease...

I'm sick... I'm bored... I gotta work tonight... geez... kill me.

That's it for the complaints.

Ah! A "Funny" thing happened yesterday though...

I bought a new external hard disk drive yesterday, cause I was - again! - short on storage space... music making is a really disk space intensive hobby/passion/job. It's the third (additionnal!!!) storage device I had to buy in about 3 years. This one is even bigger than the last two drives (with 320gigs), still, it's pretty fast ... it contains a Western Digital Caviar hard disk drive, fact I wasn't even aware of when buying it, since the package is from another manufacturer (TEAC). It's kind of gambling when purchasing such drives, since you never really know what hardware is inside (not all manufacturers put the brands on the packaging)... anyway... While transfering my precious audio data from one drive to the new one, I realized that I had breached the terabyte mark of storage with all my drives together.

Wow! Over one (fucking) thousand gigs of data! I mean, about 15 years ago, when I started making music, all I needed was a lousy 720kb floppy disk to store a track. Sure, the quality wasn't half as good and I wasn't relying on digital recording as much as I do today. But boy! I need at least 250-500megs MINIMUM to make a single track, and that doesn't even take the whole mixing and producing into account, which eats up at least twice as much in addition to that. Add vocals, instruments recordings and such to the whole and you get something like 2gigs of data to store for a single track!?! That's totally insane...

On the other hand, I really don't use as much external music/audio/midi hardware as I did before. Actually, I barely use any, if at all, since software plugins do a fine job in replacing utmost expensive hardware which gets obselete quite fast (or of which you get bored of hearing). The software counterparts really do a pretty fine job in replacing the whole bullshit you'd usually need to produce a half-way decent track and their price is (mostly) reasonnable...

Well... whatever, ey? He he... I mean, all the bucks I once spent in audio hardware, I spend in computer parts and software to actually get to a very similar result as I did before...

This is just depressing...