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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.

yeah that's what I was referring to Glitch and Effectrix. Glitch and Geist are two completely different things. Geist is a drum sampler and loop slicer with MPC style pads. Glitch is an FX sequencer. They don't replace each other at all.

Effectrix is like Glitch, an fx sequencer. If you want in depth loop slicing, something Geist will fit the bill. My preference for sliced beats is Stylus, but you can't really import random audio in that.

Those are buffer effects, not tools to slice and rearrange loops. Just so the OP is clear.

If I do modest workouts 3 times a week rather than soul-draining ones, should I up the number of days? I know the common advice is to work out 3 times a week. But they don't specify the intensity of the workout.

definitely turn that shit off while mixing. Otherwise it's a total crap shoot.

I've never played this game, but my mom just finished it. So I asked her which of those remaining songs she liked the best. Problem is I already have many other WIPs going, not sure it would be right to take on another track.

Winamp feels too bloated to me, and I don't really like the GUI. It dates back to the bad old days of the internet though, so RIP.

The SNES ones have actually aged better than FF7. Oh god, those club hands.

ITT every Final Fantasy ever is listed.

Are these still being sent out? I thought album remixers were getting a copy, but I've heard nothing on that front.

Something that would be a lot more interesting to me is seeing remixers showing posted mix projects in their daw, the different parts, how everything was constructed. But even that to the average listener is probably dull as dirt.

That is a nice looking cover art.

Theory is boring as shit. If you want to function as an insomnia aid, by all means put up theory videos.

ReCycle is the quintessential loop slicer. I think Geist does slicing too.

Almost done with my track. I'm really digging it. The source has nothing to do with Christmas so it was fun molding it into a wintery holiday sound.