Just taking a break as we approach deadline on the Brain Fitness Program. What’s left to do? Well, nearly everything. I’m throwing together random compositions to buck up an overly quiet pledge break set, rendering fixes to 3D animations on another computer and hoping that sometime tomorrow all of the pieces will come together to make a coherent whole so that I’m not laying things back for final masters ten minutes before the FedEx deadline on Monday. So far, I’m not optimistic since there’s a ludicrous amount of sound mixing to be done and a very finite amount of time to do it. I’m thrilled, though, with the overall sound quality of the pledge breaks which are mixing almost in real time because the source is so clean. The full length program, though, features sound sources from ten different interview locations all over the country and will require quite a bit more finesse. And there’s still no music to go with it so far. Not to mention the sound effects that need to appear.

And I won’t even get into the captioning of it…

I still find it remarkably cool that I can flip open my laptop and knock out a quick riff on a tiny desk sized keyboard (the versatile Ozone keyboard) into GarageBand and create rough mixes of music that could pass for library music… except it’s even subtler and more useful than library music ever is. I do like that.