The other night I registered the Virtual Singer plugin for Harmony Assistant, so now I can compose Pete Drake-y vocal parts without even recording ‘em.  I also ordered the high-quality sounds CD; the default sounds are kinda crummy even for demo purposes.  My obsession now is to find a tiny MIDI keyboard that’ll hook up to my computer, so I can control the software that way instead of trying to do it with the mouse-pointer and "virtual keyboard".  I want something pocket-sized, like the old Casiotone toys ("Pocket Calculator"?), but it needs MIDI, which of course those things never had.  I’m trying to find something like that on the web, but they’re all so huge.  Definitely not pocket-sized.


John and I are in Cincinnati right now visiting his folks, but we’ll be back home later. Fine time to be obsessing over music when I’m not even home!  Well, I’ll be able to wallow in it as much as I want when we get back to Chicago.  Maybe I can take a trip to Zzounds or (god forbid) Guitar Center and see what they have.  Or, maybe I’d be better off trying Toys’R'Us first, I dunno.

Creative, the folks who make SoundBlaster, just came out with a cool combo PC-music keyboard called ProdiKeys.  I kinda want it, but it only works on Windows, not Mac!!  Pffffft.