| Glee. |
[Apr. 28th, 2006|06:06 pm] |
Wow, I can't say I've ever been this giddy in my life. A bit of background.
A few weeks ago, I began a track, saving the FLP as "shinygoa.flp." I work on this little number for a few days, eventually completing the writing phase. Note that this is probably one of the best tracks I've ever written. 14:02 long, and beautiful psychedelic soundscapes throughout. I'm crying while I write it because it's so awesome. Just then, Buffer Override decided to act up, causing FLstudio to crash. I tried to open it again, because floops makes these kinds of mistakes from time to time. But when I opened the file, I was told that my file was corrupted, or one of my plugins caused an error.
"Well," I told myself," If one of the plugins caused an error, I'll just move all of the plugins to another location. They won't be at the flp's pointer locations, and therefore, they won't load. I tried this, but floops refused to budge. I begin to get worried, trying to see if it will load with samples removed, but still no change.
At this point, I've exhausted my own ideas, so I decide to seek professional help. I go to the tech support forums on flstudio.com, and jump through a few hoops to tell them what's up with my system, what my computer looks like, etc. They ask me to do a bunch of stuff that I've already done, probably because they're assuming (quite legitimately, I suppose) that I'm just some luser n00b whose rich parents spotted him a couple hundred so he could make techno shit. Once I've jumped through all of their hoops, they finally cave and say, "alright, we'll look at it." Six days later, they come back and say, essentially, "You're fucked, start over."
Oh, FL support team, ye of little faith. Because the guys were so damn nihilistic, I despaired for about a week. Eventually I started to go crazy, raving about going into the guts of the FLP, comparing it to other FLPs, and actually trying to make them follow the same protocol, make sure they do the same stuff. I scared several people, walking along the street, mumbling incoherently about doing hex, safe hex, unconventional hex methods, hexual prowess, etc. Eventually, my madness drove me to wonder if there were others like me, who had gone insane with the anguish of their lost digital lovers. And lo, there he was.
I followed his method, more or less. I downloaded the free hex toy he suggested, and worked the main problems manually. And when I had worked the hex to its full, I was filled with joy; I heard my love's sweet voices calling out to me once again. She was crying out in ecstasy. Apparently, it was the best hex she'd ever had.
I emailed the guy who made that post, cataloguing a few of the differences I had seen, and thanking him for bringing me and shinygoa.flp back together. And we lived happily after.
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