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Fifteen Iron

By Sir Bunting on January 10, 2026 11:15 pm

I used the Super Mario 64 bowser drums, can you tell? LOL .. Oh, and BassMidiVsti has my full endorsement for using .sf2 files in a DAW. I really like it. Wish I knew about it earlier. Plus there's this interesting feature in Reaper where you can assign the channel to notes on an individual basis, so you can have the MIDI drums on channel 10 while another instrument is on channel 1 within the same MIDI item. It saves a ton of space. And you can superimpose MIDI items to make them overlap. Reaper is really good to have. Even the VST scanner, which runs on startup, actually sees everything unlike Ableton which locks up half the time and only views one directory. You know, these things love to install to various parts of your machine in their own company or product themed folders, or in the Steinberg folder, etc. so like, I had to this huge vsts_master folder where I tried to group them together, but yet and still Ableton doesn't see a majority of them. Reaper just, boom, instantly sees every VST on my whole computer. I don't even have to do a manual scan or tell it what directories to look in.

glad you are enjoying Reaper!

the arp had me locked in - really enjoyed the slightly wonkified ending

Man, I've always wanted to try out Reaper! Nice work smile

love the drum solo! so fun!

Reaper, I've been told, is one of the most powerful DAWs ever, so it's a good pick
it's also a little obtuse, so it's one to take time to learn well
Seems it's working well for you so far, certainly different from the Anvil days
- Ebrit

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