Argle

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.

The beginning of the end.

You may be familiar with Slate Trigger or Drumagog. They are (expensive) programs that let you take recorded drums and overlay or replace them with drum samples. You can actually do the same thing with a stock Reaper plugin! Granted it's not nearly as powerful, but if you're in a bind and need to do drum replacement this could be just the thing. It's called drumtrigger. Load it up and check it out. Here's a preset that I made. Threshold depends on the level of your signal. I set this based on a signal that has been normalized. Set the retrigger interval high enough so you don't get unwanted flams. Original signal mix, easy enough. 100% if you want to hear the original drum, 0% if you want to replace the drum. For MIDI note, 38 corresponds to the GM snare specification. Set it accordingly. Trigger align can be used to nudge the timing. So, you strap this to your live track. Then you create a MIDI send from the live track to your drum virtual instrument. Give it a try, it works surprisingly well for quick and dirty drum replacement. In case someone sends you awful quality live drums to mix, this gives you a way out.

Wind instruments can have peaky midrange resonance that needs careful EQ. Most specifically flute (all types) and oboe. For live recordings, plenty of compression is usually needed for non orchestral contexts.

ok, I was just wondering.

How is it that there are other claims with no WIP?

That's true, but what other products on the market can create Rex files? Almost none, if any. Propellerhead has the lock on Rex file creation because it's their format. So until that changes, Recycle has a place.

Yeah I'm thinking heavy beats and orchestration. But I might need some heavy guitar palm muted stuff. I could use Shreddage but that's kinda boring. Let me see how the track unfolds. btw I'm done w/ the Christmas track so I'll get a start on this.