Intruder Alert!

It seems one of the others cats in the street has seen our cat jump up n the kitchen window ledge and get let in and is having a go as well, not bloody likely mate!

DIY all day today. I have a shelf in the bathroom and risers for my monitor and printer, increasing my available deskspace almost twofold and reducing the crick in my neck about 25°.

Discovered a couple of new softsynths this evening, both made by reFX.

QuadraSID is a rather nifty SID chip emulator with extra bells and whistles. It emulates four SID chips (the sound chip in the Commodore 64) giving you 16 note polyphony, though each note has on a separate channel which makes it a bit of a pain to program (I suppose really this is 16 monophonic synths). All of the instantly recognisable sounds from classic games are pre-programmed as presets for instant nostalgia. Bargain at $70

Nexus on the other hand promises to be a fantastic bit of kit, especially as it is nearly 3GB to install, but in reality you can only really program the effects and arpeggiator. All the oscillators and oscillator combinations are in the 3GB of presets. You can fiddle around with the effects applied to each waveform combination but you can't create new ones. Far too limiting for me (especially at 3GB of disk space) and that has been binned, no way it can justify its $350 price tag.