When making highly technical dance music one technique is to build a synth riff, EQ'd and effected up. Then the riff is frozen, chopped up, effected more, reversed, etc. Maybe that gets frozen and the tweaking and trashing repeats. At each iteration, the musician listens for gold nuggets. The best clips get utilized in the song.
In Reaper there is an amazing tools that makes this technique super-powered. A synth can be added to a project, if it makes the sounds the musician wants, a riff can be written. That track can then be 'opened in a subproject'. The subproject opens in a new tab. Effects can then be added to the track. When the project is saved the riff is rendered as a wave. At any time the riff in the main project can be double clicked to open the subproject. Notes can be changed and effects tweaked etc. When it is saved the riff is re-rendered.
It's amazing, and makes the whole process much less painful, and adds complete flexibility.
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