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Chimpazilla versus Timaeus? Your sorting algorithm has a sense of humor.

Honestly I just work through muscle soreness. once you start exercising you'll find the soreness actually diminishes.

Not sure about opening with the clarinet ensemble, sounds a bit empty. Mix is dead and muffled when the rest of the orchestra comes in. timpani is too lofi, cymbals are too sharp and weird sounding. synth and drum kit sounds too loud compared to the previous section. drums sound fake and unprocessed. guitar sounds pretty bad, not at all powerful like it should be. sorry for all the negativity, but I think the track needs a lot of work from the mix and sound selection standpoint.

XPRTnovice is to blame for making me buy the whole thing. I hate him. I have just realized... I am a soundware hoarder. If I use 0.1 percent of these sounds it will be a miracle.

NVA specializes in loops, and as such most of their products don't really appeal to me. That's just my personal bias and doesn't reflect on them. That said I own Shimmer and Shake and it's really nice. I'm definitely going to pick up their ethnic multisampled instruments. You can buy most of their stuff separately on sale. A few titles are only available if you buy the whole enchilada.

Nine Volt Audio is having a going-out-of-business group buy. http://www.ninevoltaudio.com/

There are four different envelopes you can apply on a per-item basis: volume, pan, mute, and pitch. Of the four, pitch envelopes are by far the most interesting and useful. By default the range is +- 3 semitones. That's ok, but you can change that, allowing you to do wild pitch swoops. Additionally you can quantize the pitch. The limitations of pitch envelopes is they are item-only, and don't work on MIDI. But for MIDI pitch bending you can refer back to the ReaControlMIDI post. So yep, pitch envelopes, give them a try.

It's easy to miss, but you can actually search the Preferences page! Great if you're looking for a possible preference but don't know where it is located.

I really need to finish my Christmas album track. After that I can knock together a beat. What you can do for me is tell me if you want a specific structure... number of bars in verse, number of verses, if you want a chorus or not.

Banjo punk.

Interesting, I've never bothered to check out those adult free to play games, for an erotic fap-fest it looks dreadfully boring.

I would love to do a hiphop track. I've wanted to collab with a rapper for awhile, have had one in the works for the last year but it seems to be stalled. Any ETA for this?

Ok that's enough heavy shit for now, let's do some quick tips to unwind. No doubt you are aware of splitting items by S. That's an ok way to trim items, but I prefer the trim left and right commands. Bind them to a couple of ergonomic keys and you'll find yourself using it all the time rather than splitting and deleting.

I've concluded the MIDI is to blame. Whoever made it must have not exported time and tempo changes with the MIDI. So it starts off correct but by the end is off the grid.

tabatas are awesome, fast and killer. Even simple exercises become crazy tiring by the end of the set. 4 minutes means you can spend only 20 minutes and do five different exercises. Nice short workout if you're crunched for time.

Try burpees, I'm not sure if it's actually proper cardio, but 5 minutes of them and you'll feel like you ran a marathon. Nice thing about burpees is you can make your own variations, like adding push ups.

You would start a big genre war and probably piss off the remixers when their songs got classified wrong.

To round out this mini discussion on themes, let's talk about WALTER. This is very advanced. If you want to create themes, mod themes, or have an itch that existing layouts can't scratch, this is for you. Otherwise you can safely use Reaper without worrying about it. WALTER stands for something, I forget what. When you think about themes or skins, you think about graphics. WALTER is the next level; it controls the behavior of elements in the TCP, mixer, and master track. This is how layouts are made. By using WALTER the themer decides what elements (mute, solo, pan, IO, meters, etc) are visible in the layout, where they are placed, what size and shape they are, and what happens to them when the window is resized. So you could decide to have - buttons pinned to the center of a mixer strip, or pinned to the top. - a wide squat volume meter, or a tall narrow one. - a very minimal TCP with a couple buttons (volume, mute, and solo), or a TCP loaded with all the elements available. - a long volume fader, or a compact volume knob. These are only a few examples of the power of WALTER. So how do you use it? Everything is contained in the rtconfig.txt file for a theme. Here's how to find it. By default Reaper themes are associated with Reaper; for this purpose you want to open themes with a zip extractor like WinRAR. No examples this time, not sure it would really help. Thankfully though the designer White Tie has put together the definitive guide to WALTER. Read it. Many times. It seems overwhelming at first, but it's quite straightforward once you learn it. The easiest way to get started is to create a blank TCP layout in WALTER. Then place a single element and try to move it around and stuff. I have custom WALTER layouts for my TCP, mixer, and master track. That way I have only the elements I need, laid out exactly how I want. Fun, challenging stuff.

What the shit is the time signature for this?? It seems like triplets in 4/4, but then the "chorus" part gets completely out of sync with the grid.

Yeah, I'm going to take at least 2 weeks off, until the shoulder pain is gone. Whatever it takes. I've read that tendon strength increases much more slowly than muscle strength, so it makes sense that I have probably gone overboard. Rest, recovery, then dial it back a bit.

I must have bad form with something to have gotten tendinitis. Either that or I should have taken time off before now. Maybe both. Either way I'm going to be more careful from now on.

So did this stop after episode 5, or is no one bothering to update the first post? Like catching the shows, don't feel like hunting for it.

Holy shit! Just the other day I was thinking, what was that 16-bit game that was like a comic book. And I was drawing a complete blank. This is it!

To follow up from the previous post, within each theme there are various layouts. A layout is a way of displaying information on the TCP, mixer panel, or master track. The number and style of layouts that come with a theme is up to the theme creator. Let's take a look at a few TCP layouts. Now for a few mixer layouts. As you can see layouts are very useful for changing the look of tracks. You don't have to change the global layout either, you can change the layout of individual tracks. Useful for certain tracks that have a specific purpose. Lastly, there's a cool thing that I just recently learned. I don't want you to wallow in ignorance like me, so know that some themes (not the default one) have "separator" tracks for the mixer. Let's check it out. Pretty useful for organizational purposes. All you gotta do is create a single track with the separator layout, hide the TCP, save it as a track template and bingo, you got a mixer separator ready to go. Separators layouts exist for the TCP as well. Play around with layouts and have fun.

The main theme is good, but Auriel's Ascension is my favorite.