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Since MindWandered mentioned it, here are some ideas for setting up a dual monitor setup. You can do good stuff with a single monitor and various screensets, but dual monitors give you more freedom than a single monitor ever can. The windows of most importance are the arrange window, mixer, and MIDI editor (for people who do MIDI). Those are the ones you will always be switching between, so we need a good setup for them. The simplest setup is to simply extend the Reaper window to cover the second screen. Simple but IMO not the best setup, since you have to split your gaze vertically as well as horizontally. Better to have different windows in the two monitors. Let's keep the arrange window on the left monitor and have the mixer on the right monitor. One way to do that is drag and drop the mixer as a right-docked window off the arrange window, then adjust to fill the screens. Much better. The other important screen is the MIDI editor. I like that to go in the secondary screen as well. This is a million times better than trying to split the arrange window and MIDI editor on one screen, which is almost unusable. For added quickness use the action to toggle the mixer (Ctrl-M by default), and you can bounce between the mixer and MIDI editor. Lastly you can have separate windows, rather than have them docked onto the main window. Remembering back to the docking tutorial, you ctrl-click and drag on a window's tab to create a floating docked window. This allows you to have a floating docked window in your secondary monitor. So there we go, ideas for dual monitor setups. Pretty straightforward. I recently added a third monitor and that's a bit more difficult deciding what to display on it. Currently I use it for the navigator, which looks pretty dreadful when you squash it down, but nice and usable in a full screen.

I've been thinking about doing a post on using dual monitors. It's really pretty straightforward, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt doing a writeup. I've been thinking about that as well, since the first post has turned into a complete mess. If you're speaking of parameter modulation, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you can modulate a volume envelope, only plugin parameters. So you would have to modulate a gain knob in some plugin to achieve a sidechain sound. Yes that works, but is rather a lot of work compared to loading up an FX chain of CamelPhat that has been saved with a sidechaining preset. Parameter modulation is awesome though, definitely plan to do a post on that.

It doesn't really sound synthesized to me, feels like it was originally some kind of acoustic recording before being severely degraded. It was probably sampled from one of the old Roland hardware sound modules, those were de rigueur in the 16 bit era.

The spoon reflection is terrible. Have some pride in your work for god's sake.

I don't want anyone listening to my remixes. I'll carry business cards that link to XPRTnovice's page.

I would be interested in Komplete if they offered pricing for people who already own a bunch of NI products. Otherwise I just don't feel like rebuying Kontakt, Battery, Guitar Rig, Reaktor, and a bunch of other things. As for Alicia's Keys I bought it, seems pretty good. I'll have to use it in something.

I went there for one product and ended up buying four. Goodbye sweet money.

There is a really cool step sequencer being actively developed called sequencer_baby. All thanks to the Reaper forum user jnif for taking an utterly barebones and not very useful toy, and transforming it into a wicked tool. To see what an amazing accomplishment this has become, take a look at the original sequencer_baby plugin (included in Reaper). Then take a look at sequencer_baby_v2 (included in v4.5). Then look at jnif's current iteration of the plugin. Check out the forum thread here for links and general discussion. The current version is 35 (!), and it's only been developed by jnif for a month and a half. To install it you'll want to download the zip, unpack the plugin and copy it to your Reaper folder\Effects\MIDI. Some great features about this step sequencer is the drum mode, the ability to select the number of rows you want, each row can be set to a custom MIDI note, freely resizable GUI, and in the latest iteration, automation lanes. So, yeah, keep your eye on this plugin for damn sure. It's not much to look at, but it's already been packed with features. Here's a quick demo I made showing the basic features.

It would probably be much more time consuming. There would be no deadline by Dec 17, release album the next week. Would have to be done months in advance, and how can people write holiday songs in July?

Good grief. These responses make it seen like some horrible event to prepare for. Just start making music and have fun, don't worry about all this serious shit.

You tempt me, sir. Must resist, I have too many other things to work on.

Vita is a beautiful handheld system, a pity there are literally no games that interest me. Don't feel like rebuying all my psp games, either. I just finished Jeanne D'Arc recently. Well almost finished it, I couldn't beat the final boss. A bizarre ramp up in difficulty of an otherwise pretty easy game. Yeah it's a great game. There are a number of awesome turn-based strategy games for PSP - Jeanne D'Arc, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Final Fantasy Tactics, etc.

Track finished and sent. Some random video game theme just got co-opted by the spirit of Christmas.

Damn, I almost ruined the compo but people had to come through in the end. I was hoping for the distinction of singlehandedly destroying a competition.

There was some big clusterfuck with iLok this year IIRC. As someone who owns an eLicenser though I can't say no way to how to dongles, since I eventually relented. When I look for new stuff I always look for non-DRM/serial number stuff first, then challenge/response, lastly dongles. So far the only concession I've made is VSL. I try to reward companies who don't use odious DRM.

Seems to me 2014 in general would be fine for a game boy 25th anniversary. The north American and European releases were later anyway, who cares beans about Japan?

I have it but I've only used it for ahs and ohs and stuff. Building words is extremely unfun. There's probably newer stuff out there that uses Kontakt and not a crappy proprietary player.

Vienna requires elicenser which is slightly better than iLok. Still, you're paying extra to inconvenience yourself. You could give the Kirk Hunter orchestra a look if you want non dongle Kontakt samples. Also ProjectSam? Not sure if they use a dongle.

I'm going to finally get a start on this, but yeah, Mr Willrock seems missing.

Sorry guys.

I've had my current one for a few years, it plays new games fine. I think we've reached a point of limited returns in the last few years.

Honestly I think sit ups are a bit of a time waster. I've heard they can cause back problems, even though I've never experienced that personally. If you have a pull up bar you can do hanging L-sits, those will provide you at least as much benefit as sit ups. Or for a great compound exercise do L-sit pull ups! All the benefits of pull ups, with added core work. You can try a static push up hold as well, at the top of the movement. Slide your arms forward until the tension shifts to your core. Hold as long as you can. Just a couple ideas for sit up alternatives.

That is just disturbing. You've ruined Thanksgiving.

I have the After Years on my PSP version of FF4, I've never played it because I'm not sure I want to potentially ruin the FF4 experience by playing a mediocre add-on.

Screensets are a good way to economize your windows and workflow. If you have only a single monitor they will be of particular use, since there are way too many useful windows to reasonably keep on the screen at any time. But even multi-monitor setups can benefit from screensets. I'll go over window screensets which I think are the most immediately useful, but there are track view and selection sets as well that you can look into. Ok, so here is a basic setup, the arrange window and mixer. Let's save it as the first screenset. Next is a sort of track inspector screenset. Only a single mixer channel is shown at a time, the one that is currently selected. To give more arrange space you can hide the master track. This will be the second screenset. Last we'll create a screenset with the track list and project media bay. Save as the third screenset. Now because the first 3 screensets have default key mappings of F7/F8/F9 (can be changed from action list), let's switch between them. Pretty sweet. People working on a laptop or single PC screen will find immense use from screensets. Of note on the screenset page is auto-save when switching screensets. Enabling this will automatically save changes to your current screenset when switching, but you can potentially screw up a screenset.