Btw, I was looking over the thread and I wanted to apologize for the "drama" right before the thread closing and some other silly stuff I have said through out the thread. I meant to say something and wish you a happy holidays too then but then it got closed. So just thanks for putting up with me and coming back to keep giving everybody all this info.
It's been a while but I guess I'm the kind of guy who stuff like that can eat at a bit if I don't address it and not being able to judge emotion over the internet compounds it. I keep opening Reaper up, pulling my hair out and then closing it these days so I think I'm basically dawless until Bitwig comes out and looking at this stuff helps tide me over. Reapers multitrack midi editing is so convoluted and so is their window system right now especially with bridged plugs. Reaper is supposed to be this powerhouse but you can't do this simple stuff we are talking about without so much preparation and futzing around. There are two separate track list type things in the midi editor but you can't add tracks with either of them, tracks don't show up in the midi editor until you add an item first due to the track agnosticism, you have to modify you mouse commands if you want to be able to add notes outside the bounds of an item to move forward in time, you don't have a track inspector visible in the midi editor so you have to make a screenset with a tiny mixer on the side which means you have to make another screenset to switch to if you want your mixer to go back to normal afterwards. It doesn't even have a unified browser that you can browse instruments with; you've got your media browser and then your track templates drop down menu and then your fx browser window... Bah, so on and so forth. Just a real clusterfuck. And maybe you can fix all that stuff somehow but it's all hidden in a checkbox in a menu inside a menu... The other day I found you apparently can't use the onscreen keyboard with a bridged plug because clicking on the keyboard causes the plug window to be buried so you can't tweak anything until you call it back up.
/rant.Bitwig will be a welcome reprieve, it looks so intuitive.
Edit. Actually I think just fixed the keyboard window issue, no idea why it was bugging out on me in the first place though...
Works great in the feedback loop of a delay for instance to make it a bit, well, blurry, more open, more natural, less dry/dead 
