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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.

As I get older I mainly want to play a game, enjoy it, and move on. I don't do much replaying anymore. I've never liked fighting games so I can't speak to the desire to get really good at them, but doing endless item runs in a game like Diablo 2 no longer appeals to me.

You may like the default look of Reaper, you may not. But either way there's no reason you have to keep the default theme. Let's see what other themes are available. Eh. The v3 one's ok but the other two are pretty awful. Fortunately though that's the tip of the iceberg. Enter the Reaper stash. No pot, just loads of user generated content including themes. I've been using RADO VOX for a couple years, so let's try that one. Download the zip and unpack it. Locate the theme file and place it here. Restart Reaper and let's check it out. Almost looks like a different DAW. And that's only one theme, there are hundreds of them in the stash. You can begin your search here. Outside the stash is the monstrous Imperial theme. Have fun!

Capitalizing a few letters doesn't change the nature of anything.

I'm going to go with OverClocked ReMix.

you lucky bugger, getting a birthday mix post.

New in v4.5 is a large overhaul of MIDI, most notably you can now view and edit multiple MIDI items at once. Disclaimer up front, I am not an expert in these new changes, so I'll give you the basics, but there is tons more nuance in the various ways of handling multiple MIDI items. First things first, if you open up the MIDI editor you can use the track list on the right to navigate all MIDI items in your project. They are arranged per-track, and if you click on the diamond icon on the left of a track entry, it will expand to show all the items on that track. So, there are some icons we must become familiar with. First is the eye icon, which unsurprisingly controls visibility. An item that is visible is not necessarily editable. You may want certain items displayed as a reference, but have no intention of working on them. You want those items simply visible. Next is the lock icon, which controls editability. Notice that an editable item has solid notes, while an item that is only visible has faint transparent notes. Obviously an item that is made editable will also be made visible. Last is the arrow icon, which sets the active track. While you can have multiple tracks editable, you can only draw new notes on the active track, and only one track can be active at a time. An item that is made active will also be made editable and visible, obviously. So that's the basics of dealing with the track list. If you wish you can select multiple items in the arrange window and double-click on them. The item that you click on becomes the active item, while the other items are visible. Then if you click on any of the selected items you can change the active item. Note that if you click on an item not in this group, the entire group will disappear from the MIDI editor. Lastly, if you open a single item and then ctrl-click on additional items in the arrange window, they will be added to the editor as visible items. So there's a crash course on multi-MIDI editing. There are a lot more options that you can do with it, so explore. I didn't go into the media item lane, which is a different way to select the items you want to view. For more in-depth info check out the manual.

So in case you don't know, the way you loop a section of project in Reaper is to first make sure looping is enabled. Then you draw a time selection around the area you want to loop, and voila. You can do the reverse as well, skip a time selection. To accomplish this press Alt-spacebar to play the project rather than spacebar. A use for this is if you wanted to record while skipping a certain section.

I would consider entering, but I literally don't know a single Disney game soundtrack.

Some things you can do - boost the highs. - choose a different sample. - play with the ASDR, make it less sustained. - apply effects - have 2 or more different hat patterns going at the same time. - take a random drum loop and highpass it until you just have the top end. Instant cool hi hat pattern. What you call cheating is nothing of the sort.

Screw them. Screw them all. We're too good for them anyway.

Well I did something to my shoulder. I've been noticing it when I push my car door open. Like, wow, am I getting weak cuz it's a bit hard to push the door open? Nope, just pain. Yesterday was pretty bad. Pain when I raise arm out to shoulder level height. Not sure if it's rotator cuff something or other. Before I freak out and go to the doc I'm going to discontinue the exercises that hurt in their range of motion, particularly pullups. That's my best guess as to the cause, since I just started doing weighted and explosive pullups. Let's see if it'll get better if I'm careful in my range of motion.

I think it sounds decent, would not sound out of place at all in a video game. For guitars you could probably get better results from Shreddage, which is the bees knees for chugging rhythm work because it was recorded direct. The drums do seem kind of wide panned. Not sure how much control MOR gives you over that.

djp hasn't even started his track yet. Or so the wall of color says.

The thing about being a soundtrack composer in this day and age is, how many indie composers actually do that as their sole source of income? Show me one and I'll show you a rare animal. Take someone like Zircon. He doesn't just do soundtracks, he has a soundware company, releases albums, does license/production music, teaches (I think), and probably a lot of other endeavors. He has diversified. Trying to become the next Nobuo is a fool's errand IMO. Either prepare to do a lot of different jobs like Zircon, or just be content with having a fun hobby.