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The final payment was made on my MPC Key 61 early last week. It took me over a year to pay this thing off, but she’s all mine now! I’m happy that I own it, and I don’t see the need to upgrade to a different MPC at this point. This thing has 4GB of RAM in it, just like the MPC X SE, and it does everything fast and quickly. It’s held up very well even with me setting plates and headphones on top of it! I wish Decksaver would release one of their units for it, but that’s wishful thinking. Hopefully sometime soon they will release one, but we’ll see how that goes.

I am trying to start making some Dub style beats on my Key 61, as I’ve found that I like the sound of Dub samples a lot. I’m looking forward to the next time I have some money to go to the record shop and search for some good dub/reggae vinyl records to sample. For now I’m using Splice.com and I’ve got some good stuff to work with in the interim. I’m already working on a banger of a beat on the Key 61 this Sunday AM, and I’m going to flesh it out and use some vocal samples on it as well. Maybe some will be me and others will be vocals I pull from Splice.

Music has really been a great savior of my sanity. It keeps me grounded, and I need to make sure I keep doing it even when I’m tired after work and just feel like gelling. It’s very important to be creative in your life, whether that’s painting, making music, coloring, carpentry, or whatever you’re into. Creativity is what separates us from the animals, so we need to hone and cultivate that part of our makeup. It really sucks that with the 9 to 5 wage slavery most of us are caught up in, we don’t have very much free time to be as creative as we’d like.

If you’re a young person reading this, make sure you take advantage of living at home with your parents and only needing to work part time or not at all. Use your free time to pursue creative endeavors and find your passion. I was trying music when I was at home, but I didn’t go at it full bore and ask questions about it like I should have. Otherwise, I would have gone after it more vigorously in my youth. If you like to play video games, that’s fine too. Just use your time to get a stream going, advertise it, start a Youtube channel, and find a way to monetize what you enjoy doing. That will be the new hustle in this technological age we’re in right now. Jobs of the past will go to AI and robotics, so people will need to earn income by having a popular Youtube channel or Twitch stream. The Future is Here!

Today it’s a rainy fall/winter day in SoCal. We get rain so rarely here I really enjoy when it happens. I don’t necessarily enjoy driving in it, because people here act like they are stuck on stupid when it starts raining. They either speed and won’t slow down or they drive so slow you’d think they have Ms. Daisy in the backseat.

However today, I’m sitting here with a cup of nice coffee and messing around with my music gear. I can hear the pitter patter of the rain outside and it’s very therapeutic. I look forward to times like these, and it’s the reason I refuse to believe anymore that we are in some type of “hell realm”. Yes, life can be rough sometimes. We live dull workaday lives and slave away every day, but there are times where we get to enjoy time with our families and have fun doing our hobbies. There is peace amidst the storm, and you just have to be able to find it and hold onto it.

I have the TE EP-40 Riddim and Ting devices, and they are pretty good. It has a reggae vibe to it and it’s a lot of fun to play around with. I have a pretty good Jamaican accent, so I use that when I’m talking into the Ting. All together, my music equipment is the MPC Key 61 at the center, the Roland SP 404 mk2, the Teenage Engineering KO II & EP-40 w/ Ting FX device, as well as the Roland GAIA 1 synthesizer. I think that between all those devices, I should be good to make whatever type or music, wherever I want to. I will stop buying music gear and just hold onto my dough to pay my debts off. I can keep my Splice.com and Tracklib.com subscriptions and just use the samples/sounds I get on there to make my music.

I don’t really have aspirations of trying to become notorious for my music, but I would like to share it with more people. Perhaps I need to put a bit more effort into it, then market it on social media. I want to make sure it’s at least listenable, and not something that would be annoying for someone to listen to at least one time through. I’ll move towards doing that, but I would like to incorporate some other people into it as well. My friend Aaron in Chicago is a good emcee, so I’d like to make beats for him to rhyme over and put those out as a emcee w/ producer/DJ, ala Eric B. and Rakim. I’ll talk to him this weekend and see what would be the best way for us to pull that off.

Anyway, let me get back to my chill weekend. I’m about to run to the bud dispensary and pick up some Indica weed to help me chill through this weekend. I hope it’s a good strain I’m getting, and that it doesn’t make me feel weird or anything. I have a pretty good tolerance, and I know that meditation and respect for the plant always leads to a good experience. Til next time reader! Have a good one!

So I had to pick up a replacement Razer Ornata V3 gaming keyboard on sale at my local Micro Center today. It’s a nice keyboard, and I really like the click clack of the keys. I tried to use a Red Dragon keyboard, but it sucked, so I’m going to return it to Micro Center. I now have an all Razer setup with the keyboard and mouse. My mouse is a Razer Death Adder, which is an amazing gaming mouse like I mentioned in a previous post.

People complain about the Razer Synapse software, but I haven’t had any issues with it. It lets you setup the RGB lighting for the devices, and its really easy to setup shortcuts on the mouse AND keyboard. I want to do my best to keep this keyboard from getting gunk and grime in between the keys, as well as I don’t want to use it with food on my fingers in general. I think doing that caused some of the lettering to rub off the keys on my old Ornata keyboard.

I got off work early today to go get an oil change. We really need a new vehicle. This one is on its last legs, and I think it’s time. I’m nervous about having a car note, but we need something that doesn’t have leaks and isn’t as badly damaged as our current Honda Civic is. Hopefully I can find a good deal on a decent vehicle that will reliably get us from point A to point B. My wife doesn’t drive anymore, so it will mainly be me driving the car around to work and so forth. Maybe if we get a nicer car, it will motivate her to renew her license because she’ll want to be able to drive it without fear of being pulled over with no license.

I’m looking forward to having time off at the end of the year, even though I’m sure it will fly by like a fart in the wind. The company I’m working for as a contractor closes for one week around Christmas going into New Years, so I’ll be able to stay home and enjoy some time with my family. It should be a nice time, and maybe we can get out and go to one of the old Missions to do something out of the ordinary. We used to go to those all the time but we stopped going. I’ll find a list to print out of all the Missions in the area and we’ll go to them and get a souvenir at each one as a keepsake.

Anyway, tomorrow is Friday and it’s been a long week. I’m looking forward to the weekend and getting some much needed rest and relaxation in. I hope you enjoy your weekend as well reader, and I’ll catch you in the next post! L8r!

So I am playing Battlefield 6 and its a great First Person Shooter. I’m having a lot of fun playing it and its very enjoyable. The gunplay is amazing, and what really stands out is the environment. There’s bullets flying, helis and jets flying around. It’s a real off the chain battlefield. Well, one of the most important things to being able to survive in a virtual battlefield like that is being able to control your character with a good gaming keyboard and mouse.

I was using a very old Razer Ornata I bought from Walmart on sale a long while ago for the longest time. I’ve also had a good mechanical Corsair keyboard put away for a while too. The two mice I have is the Razer DeathAdder and a Corsair M65 Pro. I’m finding that I like the Corsair setup much better than the Razer setup. The DeathAdder is a cool mouse, but it doesn’t have enough buttons to do what I need to have shortcuts for in game. The M65 has a bunch of buttons, feels heavier in my hand which I like, and it’s very precise. The Corsair keyboard wins over the Razer Ornata because a while back I replaced all the keys on the Corsair and I love the mechanical clickity clack of the keys on it.

I’m typing on the Corsair right now and the tactile feel and the sound is very satisfying. I think I’m going to stick with the Corsair setup over the Razer, and if anything ever happens to my M65Pro I’ll bring in the Razer DeathAdder to the rescue. The DeathAdder feels good in my hand as well, but I just find I’m able to control the crosshair on screen with the M65Pro much better. The M65 is an older mouse, it was out in 2014 if I’m not mistaken. That’s around the time I got it, but I hadn’t used it much and recently brought it out of retirement, lol!

Gaming can be very relaxing and a lot of fun. I’m finding I don’t have the patience to play through a lot of the story driven games, and the fast twitch games of FPS are much more suited to my liking. Anyway, I need to get ready to start work. I will probably jump on some BF6 after work if I have the energy and inclination to tonight. Have a good week and don’t stress! L8z!

Life is full of hardship. We lose people, things don’t go our way. It can be very rough to put a smile on your face sometimes. The thing to remember is that no one said life would be easy. It’s a trial for something greater I believe in the afterlife. Dolores Cannon used to say in her books that life is a test and this realm we call Earth is a “school” of sorts. We are here to learn unconditional love and the power of forgiveness.

Even when you feel slighted by someone, you have to learn to forgive them and don’t hold grudges or hate in your heart for people. My mother-in-law Geraldine once told me that “To forgive is divine”. She is absolutely right about that and I believe she’s graduated on to the next existence because she was definitely loving and forgiving in her lifetime. That is my goal as well and I am constantly working on it.

My step-daughter is going through an issue where her dad is passing away very soon. I feel sympathy for her, and I wish her mom and I could be there for her just to provide emotional support. It’s really crazy how life changes so drastically all of a sudden. We grow older and our parents pass away and leave us on this Earth with whatever instruction they instilled in us when we were younger. I’m not looking forward to the day my mom passes on. It’s going to be rough, because we communicate almost daily and she’s a major part of my life.

I have my paranoid ideations about my mom sometimes, but I still love her as a person. I like her personality and we get along well. Life is definitely not a joke, but you can’t take it too seriously. So many things are going to befall you in this lifetime, the most important thing is how you handle them. You have to be mature and take things head on. Never be afraid, and always stand tall when the dust settles. Whoever might be reading this, I wish you the best in your life journey and hope you find the resolve to be the best, most loving, forgiving, and righteous person you can be. God bless you.

-Saraph

So I’ve had my SP 404 mk2 for a while now, and its a great little device. I haven’t been brining it to work with me this summer, because its too hot in the car to leave it in there, and I don’t want to bring it into the office because I can’t keep an eye on it the entire time. Not saying that anyone at my job is a thief, but you never know. People “get got” like that all the time. I think I’ll bring it with me and lock it in my desk drawer since I have a key for it now.

I am considering selling it though, because AKAI released some plugins that make the use of the 404 mk2 with my MPC Key 61 obsolete. You can do stutters, brakes, lofi, and a bunch of other stuff with this plugin called Fly Tape II. Maybe I’ll take the 404 to work with me this week and see if I fall in love with it again. If I do, I’ll keep it. If I don’t, Guitar Center here we come to get ripped off on the price you’ll give for equipment, KEKW.

I have some debts to repay, so I could use the money towards that and feel better about things in that regard. I don’t like “owing”, so I gotta get that knocked out somehow. I was thinking about picking up a second job, but its hard to find a part time job on the weekends. I’ve tried applying at gas stations, 711s, and smoke shops before but I never hear back from them. I don’t know if its because I’m big and black, or if they feel I’m overqualified when I give them my resume, but it sucks. My wife tells me I can be very intimidating to people at times, but I’m a super mellow dude.

When I’m walking down the street and a white chick is coming the other way, she’s probably intimidated, but she don’t know I’m probably singing Hulk Hogan’s theme song “Real American” to myself as we walk by each other KEKW. That or thinking about getting home, vaping some herb and making music or playing Battlefield 6. Anyway I’m going to enjoy this Sunday off and get some good R & R in. Have a good start to your week and don’t sweat the small stuff. L8r!

-Saraph

So I started a beat yesterday and it’s turning out real nice! I like how it’s developing a lot and I’m looking forward to mastering it and making it sound the best it can. I used stems to pull the instruments and bass away from the drums and vocals, and it turned out really well on standalone MPC. The standalone MPC has a weaker stems algorithm than the Desktop MPC 3.0 software does, but it came through this time, so I’m happy with it.

I want to write some rhymes to go along with this beat, and I have to push myself to get it done. I feel good this Sunday AM, so I think I can do it today. I’m going to vape some herb, take a CBD gummy, and put pen to pad. I always have good ideas in my head for some cool rhymes, but I am not in a position to write them down at times. Hopefully today I can tap into the Akashic records and I can pull down some dope ideas. I’m wearing my pyramid on my head this early AM so I can prepare my brain to work at it’s optimal ability.

Tomorrow I have to go back to work and I just really wish I didn’t have to spend my best hours in the day working for a corporation. I know I don’t HAVE to do it, but the alternative is really no choice at all. You have to get up and go to work to make money to pay your bills. It’s a part of life in this society, and if you don’t get with it you’ll be left behind. Sure, you can become an entrepreneur, but everybody doesn’t have the startup capital to do something like that. Many entrepreneurs started their business from capital they earned at a well paying 9 to 5 job. They didn’t spend a lot and were able to save money. They lived frugally and eventually they had enough money saved to fund a business venture.

I love music, and I sometimes wonder why GOD didn’t allow me to get involved with it at an earlier age. Who knows what would have happened, but perhaps it would have been very bad for my life. I trust that GOD has my best interest at heart, and that me discovering DJing and beat-making in 2015 and 2018 was probably for the best. The music industry is a grimy place and there’s a lot of wolves, snakes, and spiders in that space. I would like for my music, right now, to gain a bit of traction and garner me some followers, but I need to advertise more, stream, and stuff like that to get people onboard.

I just got approved for another year contract at my IT job. That’s cool to know I’ll have a job in this climate for now, but I would really like to be able to work from home. I was much happier when I was doing that and it was nice to be able to work on my MPC on my lunch break in a comfortable setting, or go to the grocery store and grab some food for lunch while it’s not that busy/crazy in there. I keep applying for work from home jobs, but none of those have come to fruition. If I could get that type of job, we could look to move to a much cheaper area and I could stay home with my wife and we’d be fine. Hopefully, GOD will see my want in this and make it happen.

Take care of yourself reader, enjoy your Monday, and don’t let life stress you out. Til next time!

So the MPC Live 3 dropped today and it looks pretty cool. I almost bought one, but the universe let me know that wasn’t a wise decision, so I cancelled the order and kept my money. With the MPC 3.6 update, you get a lot of cool new features on the “regular” MPC models, so I think I’ll rock my MPC Key 61 a while longer. My Key 61 is pretty nice as it is, and the main differences with the new MPC Live 3 that would matter to me is an 8 core processor and 8GB of RAM, which enables them to offer the “Pro” version of the stems algorithm in standalone mode. That’s cool, but I can get the same thing by hooking my current MPC up to my computer and using it that way.

Anyway, the Live 3 looks dope. If I had disposable income like that I probably would be waiting for mine to arrive right now, but I don’t, so I’m just going to keep it pushing. Hopefully one day I’ll get to a point where I can drop $1.7k on a whim, but right now I’m not in that space. I bet if I could maintain the current wages I earn but in a different, less expensive state than CA, I could do that sort of stuff for myself and my wife. We want to get to Connecticut, which I’m not sure if its a lesser cost of living, but I don’t hear people complaining about that place like they do Cali, so there must be something better there.

I’m going to work on a new beat over the weekend, and i intend to rhyme over it. We’ll see how all that goes. I should call my buddy Aaron and go over the lyrics I write to see if he has any input on them, since he’s a pretty good rapper himself. Anyhow, I just wanted to chime in and add a blog entry on the site here. I’ll post more coming up in the near future. L8r.

-Saraph

So now mass media and social media are portraying the idea that people in America want a race war. I don’t think that’s the case. Sure there are ignorant people out there of all races, but the average person just wants to survive and live a decent life. These people and actions that are being highlighted don’t represent the identity of the majority of the public. Most people just want to be happy, take care of their family, keep a roof over their head, and food on the table. From what I can tell, a lot of the people yelling about a Civil War/Race War look like do nothing people who are just angry at the world because they feel like they were dealt a bum hand or they aren’t happy with themselves.

That’s about what it boils down to. People need to stop being so angry all the time and wanting to watch the world burn. I understand their anger about having to work, having to pay bills, but that’s the way things are right now and you have to learn to cope and adapt to them. Maybe one day there will be a change, where people can have more free time and can spend time pursuing their hobbies and enjoyments, but for now it’s 40+ hours a week and doing what you have to do. Just take sanity days off occasionally and you’ll be fine.

My issue is the fact that a lot of us are willing to get up and participate in wage slavery, but we aren’t being compensated enough to truly do what we need to do with the costs of the things around us. I’ve heard that there are people in San Francisco who earn $100k yearly, but they still need to have a roommate to live in a decent, safe part of the city, because they couldn’t afford to on their own. That’s crazy and things like that need to stop. If you’re willing to get up and go to work, you should be rewarded with enough money to pay for your home, pay for food, pay for gas for your vehicle, and have some disposable income to have some fun in your life. I don’t know what needs to happen to resolve that.

Capitalism is a huge part of the problem. The greed of a lot of companies makes things the way they are here. From banks, to leasing offices for rentals, to gas station/oil companies, to food service/grocery stores, everyone wants maximum profit no matter what it’s doing to the balance of society. The grocery stores aren’t going to lower their prices just so people can afford more food to eat. They don’t care. The people at the top of the chain of that grocery chain want as much money as they can get so they can buy their yachts, mansions, supercars, and live the life of Riley. That’s fine that they want those things, but at a certain point you’re just being gluttonous with money. What’s the difference between 1 billion dollars, and 500 million with the cost of most things in the world?

If I owned a company and I had the option to really tighten up on things and pay my employees shit, not give them decent benefits, hire contractors instead of making them a part of the company – all in order to make a profit of 1 billion I wouldn’t do it. If the flipside of that was that I make 500 million, but I can give my employees bonuses, pay them a decent living wage, give them great benefits, provide them with free snacks to eat in case their money is tight and they need to eat at work – I would do that instead. The latter company would have a good “business karma” as well. There is karma in everything and you will pay the piper at some point. With the way America is doing things, the country’s karma is in the crapper. At some point it’s going to fall because it’s built on greed, negativity, lies and deceit. We could change that, but it would take a massive effort from the people sitting on top, and I just don’t think they care enough to do that. Anyways, til next time reader!

Well it’s my birthday today, and I’m 44 years old. I don’t feel much different than I did when I was 21. I’m wiser and understand more about the world around me, but I’m still “me”. I feel like I should be a bit further ahead in life as far as financially and things like that. A lot of that has to do with where I live right now. Me and my wife are in SoCal, and it’s VERY expensive to live here. Rent, food, gas, anything you NEED costs too much. We want to move to Connecticut, but that’s easier said than done. We gotta pay to get all the stuff we want moved across the country, as well as our car and our bodies. You need capital to do all of that and it’s just not showing up.

Hopefully GOD will make a way. I’d like to live closer to my step-daughter and step-grandson. I think we could all really help each other out and look out for one another. I want to help raise my step-grandson, and explain to him the things he’ll encounter as a young man into being a man. I don’t want him to make the same mistakes I did, and I want to be a male voice of guidance for him so he can be the best he can be. Hopefully I’ll get that opportunity in this life, as my wife is too old for us to have kids ourselves. I’d also like to help out my step-daughter and give her a break from being a mom sometimes.

Life is very interesting and I think your mission is to grow and try to understand people and the world around you the further you go along. That’s why it’s so sad when people die young. They never get a chance to correct the mistakes of their youth and learn and grow from them. You have to find peace and love in this world and once we ALL find that, I think things will get better for the world as a whole. Right now, the programming and drama going on in mass media is debilitating to young people. It’s teaching them horrible ideals and morals, as well as fostering proclivities toward negative vibrations and frequencies.

Nikola Tesla said that if you want to understand the secrets of the universe, think in terms of frequency and vibration. Everything is in motion, and everything has a frequency. You can raise or lower your mental frequency, to rise above the negativity that seems to be permeating throughout our physical spaces. On this 44th birthday of mine, I take a vow to rise above the negativity, and stay in a positive mindset. When “stinking thinking” starts to take hold in my mind-space, I will change the channel, and think of something positive. It’s the only way to fly, and the only way you can hope to achieve happiness. Peace, love, and light to you reader, and have a good one!