I. While I am quite committed to open-source, I did find Ardour crashing and getting in my way even more often after an update reach the point where I would no longer recommend it to people. Reaper, while not open-source, largely stays our of my way. And the older I get, the more weight I put behind music that inspires, as opposed to music that has been made 100% with open-source software.II. In layering different sliced loops from previous tracks, they can cause quite heavy dissonances. Sometimes by EQing out overlapping frequencies, it can help reduce the muddiness of these dissonances to feel more rich, and less over-the-top. III. SKYREST ended up being the closest to simply taking the multi-layered “ambient” loop from The Grassworks and repeating it. I felt it was very strong and deserved its own time and space.
