Ice Trance

Also for everyone who follows me who just woke up with this massive (eh only 21 tweets) thread popping up on your feeds, I want it to be known it is entirely @foone.bsky.social's fault for inspiring me. It would've stayed in discord and an extensionless text file otherwise.

after rewiring Reason and FL for years just to never even touch them cause I'm so obsessed with T-Force Alpha Plus you could rip it from my cold dead hands. Reaper is so fucking Arch coded holy shit, how did I not realise this before in my fifteen years of using it.

Also Reaper is so perfect for filmmaking, it integrates flawlessly with NLEs and video files, yes you can even use it to edit videos entirely within it if you really fucking want to. And scriptwriting too! And yes ofc you can load other DAWs inside Reaper, why couldn't you, watch me Reap my Strudel

Want a track to do some weird shit? Code. New VST? Code. Everything can be coded, everything can be moved and imported, everything can be everythinged. Arch btw: DAW edition. Obviously pristine native Linux support. And from the WinAmp devs nonetheless?? Which I still use ofc, I'll never give it up.

When I say it's customisable, I don't just mean skins and shortcuts. You know how in like Adobe and OBS you can move everything like a window or tab? Take that to 11. You can just write code into literally anywhere. Want a window that doesn't exist? Start typing the code for it.

Forget just buses and folders and multi channel tracks with different effects on each channel, you can even layer multiple items over each other within the same track because yes you can free-form shit in Reaper and have multiple takes within the same item and shit and it's insane.

Who else have I not roasted?
Yes this was absolutely just an excuse to preach about Reaper to a non-music friend that evolved out of control. That DAW literally allows you to achieve the same thing in dozens of different ways, the absolute depth of minutia and convenience you can achieve is mental.

Adobe Audition: Have you heard Audacity is free? *And* DAW-capable now so twice better?

Audacity 4 or whatever it is today: wtf when did this become a DAW????

Soundation: Your name is ten layers of abstraction from a German high speed train. It was useful to make music at school but you moved from a heavily paywalled website DAW to an actually useful program.

Cubase: You're fucking old and clearly never saw a VST in your life, you pretentious prick. (Specifically addressed to my pop singer classmate in 7th grade who used to deride me, YEAH, LOOK WHO'S POOR AND UNEMPLOYED NOW it's me. I am. Ahem.)

lots of idiots who never made music before asking you to master their piece of shit not at all pre-master-compliant files. Your words not mine, I swear I'm not trying to be mean towards anyone :3

Pro Tools: I feel you mate, but what can you do, work is work, a job's a job. But you also earn six figures so fuck you I have no sympathy, at least one thing must bring you suffering in this life and it's either gonna be this or

Reason: You still have the CD box from twenty years ago, good for you, maybe your garage rock band will make it some day. Underground ftw tho, send me your bandcamp, I'm sure I'll love it!

GarageBand: Yeah you have a Mac, poor you. Either that or you have a fire ass soundcloud making insane jazz riffs on an iPad and who am I to judge then you're clearly better than me, hi @danthemak.bsky.social

Logic Pro: Yeah you have a Mac, good for you.

(But no, seriously, if you're transfem you use one of these four. In order of how seriously you're taking it. Okay fine so sue me I actually use Reaper with the Reaction theme on Ubuntu Budgie, but I'm only demifemme so that's why I'm a step down alright?? I just wanted to sound cool. uwu.)

Strudel: Definitely uwu as shit wtf, you're even using the archBtw theme aren't you? ...same. Actually no I use Aura, but hi @switchangel.bsky.social I mean uhh... I... hi :3

niche music, but extra nerdy compared to Ableton. You scrutinise over every detail instead of going with the flow. You never have any clue if a fellow Reaper user uses Reaper when you look at their setup and you haven't touched a mouse in about thirty years, ThinkPad tit not counting. nyarch btw uwu

Reaper: You have decades worth of history behind each track. You heavily use the freeze feature so it doesn't consume any processing power, but you know it's all there, just one click away, if you want to modify one note fifty layers of track freezes deep. You also like neatly organised folders and

Ableton Live: You *make weird shit.* You're a sound designer. You record irl sounds and turn them into full instruments. You never keep any files, everything gets rerecorded over fresh each play. You don't even know it *can* keep a full history. Also you ghost for pop stars in your free time. UwU.

The type of people I think use each DAW:
FL Studio: You pirated to make dubstep in 2012 and never moved on. The demo project is by Veela so at least you heard cool shit. I expect you to make generic repetitive music unless you're trans. Also you pirated Massive before FL even finished downloading.

Such glam, much mysterious!

Wow so quirky, it's like the Finnish telly girl!

If you read the alt text for the Hitman Blood Money posters, this one's like that. Not the actual visual end result, just the alt text.

Did I mention there was also a little Enterprise on my cheek this entire time? So dramatic omg!

Some more glam shots while we're at it

Finally arrived (this Monday, blegh fatigue) holy shit it's actually real!! now GO READ THE FUCKING BOOK ALREADY IT'S REALLY COCKING GREAT IT'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND ALL COME ON GET A BLOODY SHIFT ON anyway enjoy defacing Unbound and 2019 throwback
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accidental caps sorry (definitely not) (sorry) (or accidental idk) (yes I'm still holding shift to uncaps this it's VERY confusing)

wHAT'S EVERYONE'S MOST USED KEY MINE IS CAPS LOCK

I remember Jessie Gender tweeting about it and I've been following your art since, must've only caught like a video or two prior to that so it felt like a completely fresh introduction

Oh that's nice to hear! I'll probably get an SMS then the morning it arrives in my city from whatever courier it lands on here, that's how it usually goes. At least I won't have to deal with national post lol

Holy shit they're real! I'm still waiting anxiously to find out whether I'll get any notification whatsoever from the post before either someone rings my doorbell or I need to go pick it up from somewhere