> was "sketching" out songs that I might somebody revisit to remaster or clean up with better instruments Haha big time - I didn't really have the kit for such

> was "sketching" out songs that I might somebody revisit to remaster or clean up with better instruments Haha big time - I didn't really have the kit for such things, but I remember trying to "finish" a few tunes by rendering them out (not as stems) and then adding crap over the top in a non-real-time sample editor Whole thing of course became a mess of reverb :) > writing out by hand effects that are done nowadays with VSTs Yeah, VSTs made it so appealing and flashy Making manual flanges by copying a track and using sample offset on one was... not super convenient, but boy was it satisfying "real" effects opened up so many powerful sound design options that it was easy to forget about actually composing things :) And the amount of times I then wanted tracker level micro control you got with manual approach and just gave up after a bit..