{"id":20,"date":"2005-01-28T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T01:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2005\/01\/28\/yuube_eye_bay_e\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-29T01:31:49","slug":"yuube_eye_bay_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2005\/01\/28\/yuube_eye_bay_e\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuube, eye bay, eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that was reckless of me.<br \/>\nI was trying to reconstruct some of the music that was lost in the Burglary of 1998, and after spending a few minutes trying to finding the right timbres, I just was not feeling it.<br \/>\nSo I jumped on eBay last night and plugged in a search for &#8220;Kawai K4&#8221;. Exactly one person was selling it. I thought about waiting till Tuesday to see who else would bite in the bidding, and maybe saving a few bucks from the &#8220;Buy It Now!&#8221; price of $200.<br \/>\nBut the more I thought about it, the more I knew I wanted it. And the seller lives up near Dallas anyway, which means shipping shouldn&#8217;t take too long. So I bought it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: smaller\">(Acutally, I have this nagging suspicion UPS is going to route the package from Dallas through Ottawa before sending it back down to Austin.)<\/span><br \/>\nHowever much I felt that old Kawai K-4 of mine was limited &#8212; the damn thing has only 16 sounds, compared to the 500 on my Korg N364 &#8212; the timbres I used to create those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregbueno.com\/ghost\/\">first demos<\/a> nearly 15 years ago are the ones I&#8217;ve lived with the most.<br \/>\nI just didn&#8217;t feel like messing up what already turned out all right. (I can&#8217;t say that about all the songs on my demo.)<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t think about where I&#8217;m going to put the thing or whether I can hook it up to my interface. I just felt I wanted <i>something<\/i> back from that lost era.<br \/>\nBesides, some of the preset sounds on that machine might work well with the arsenal I have at my disposal now.<br \/>\nI mulled a little bit on why I was so impulsive about this purchase, and I remembered &#8212; I&#8217;m not saving up for a downpayment any more, and I actually have some savings.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to spend forever waiting for the next economic downturn.<br \/>\nNow I just have to keep myself in check so I can get a new desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just didn&#8217;t feel like messing up what already turned out all right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkir-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}