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Ive only tested it using 2x enhanced (on both a Windows Desktop (Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 4070), and an M2 macbook pro) and on both machines the exact same thing happens: Timeline wont play or export. If I try to export it freezes the entire program with the exception of the Remaining time just keeps going up with no export actually happening, and is stuck frozen until it is force quitted.

This was working fine yesterday on DR20.

Any idea if/when these will be restocked? I'm seeing posts 10m and 4m old with this issue, did it restock and sell out since then, or have they been unavailable for the past year?

Going VIP to Raleigh NC. Yes I know its probably APWD, Smiles, and Scarlet. If I had the special super power of being able to request ANY 3 songs stripped down:

Smiles, Absolomb, Lune

I would literally cry if I heard Acoustic Lune.

(I will be perfectly happy with whatever they choose to play)

So back when the track list first dropped and all we had were song titles with no music yet besides 2 singles, I stumbled across this post, ranking the songs based solely on guesses by song title. I thought the idea was fun so I chipped in in the comments with this prediction, and then forgot about the post until this morning:

1. heaven on high
2. everyone dies alone
3. a pale white dot
4. carry on
5. subhuman
6. neon valley
7. Talk
8. blackwall
9. Unlocking
10. Mr God
11. Obsession
12. Malevolent

Well, I have listened to the album probably 30 times in the past week, and I have an idea of a ranking atm:

1. Heaven on High
2. Everyone Dies Alone
3. Carry On
4. Talk
5. Unlocking
6. A Pale White Dot
7. Blackwall
8. Malevolent
9. Mr God
10. Neon Valley
11. Obsession
12. Subhuman

Funny to see I was right about Heaven on High, but the title just sounded like it could be the next It's Only Smiles, and man did the riff and the chorus and solo not disappoint.

EDA is the only song on the album to make me cry so far. That 2nd verse and pre-chorus goes hard. Part of me wants to rank it first, but I just like the chorus and riffs and solos in HoH a tad more, and I really mean just barely. Shoutout to matt's sick drum solo bit in EDA.

Carry On and Talk are also pretty much tied, but I find myself singing that last chorus to Carry On all the freakin time, and vibing to it just a hair more than Talk. The "I Refuse I rebuke" section of Talk goes hard tho.

Unlocking has been bouncing around the top of this list, but I think I just prefer Carry On and Talk, and those have grown on me and even surpassing Unlocking, which a few days ago was in 3rd.

Not sure what I was expecting from the known to be instrumental track. I think my brain was expecting like an acoustic instrumental Lune style song with lots of strings and synths and acoustic guitars. Now, APWD is the perfect closer for this album, and I do love it, but it turns out that I just liked the others above it a bit more.

Blackwall and Malevolent are close to tied, but again the chorus in Blackwall just gets stuck in my head all the time. Ive also been listening to more 4SA and Nik Mystery recently.

Malevolent is a song that didn't click with me immediately, but now around 30 listens is starting to grow on me. The riffs are sick, the violin part is lovely. I think the melody style for the chorus is more of a grower, similar to how Dracul Gras' chorus was a grower for me. Itll probably shoot up with time, but for now its still in 8th.

Mr God and Neon Valley are close calls for me. The chorus of Neon Valley doesn't quite scratch that itch for me and Mr God just goes so hard and is so groovy. That said, if this was an instrumental list, Neon Valley would probably be top 5.

Obession and Subhuman. Im not huge on death / deathcore / black metal. I love these songs, spencers vocals go hard. Will Ramos' part is brutally heavy. That said, the black / death elements to it are not typically my thing, and as such the songs happened to land bottom of the list. Again, still bangers.

There isnt a weak song on the album. The list is bound to change again over the next year.

Ive been listening to the entire album about 4-8 times a day for the past near 7 days 😅

Anyone else just have it playing on repeat?

First of all to the boyos: great record. You set out to make the record you wanted to make, and you killed it. There is not a single weak track on this album.

I have listened to the album probably 10-15 times now in the past 2 days, and have hit the point of being able to sing along with a lot of the choruses. Again, there is not a single weak song on the album.

That said, I think it lands for me somewhere in the bottom 3 of albums for me. And here is why:

Periphery doesn't have a bad song. All of their songs are at least "Great" to me. But sometimes, some songs hit that level of high euphoric bliss of just being indescribably good.

P1 - Letter Experiment

P2 - Luck as a Constant

Jugg: Heavy Heart, Alpha, Rainbow Gravity, Bad Thing, Omega, Stranger Things

P3 - Marigold, Flatline, Absolomb, 💦LUNE💦

P4 - Reptile, Smiles, Sentient Glow, Satellites

P5 - WIldfire, Atropos, Wax Wings, Dying star, Zagreus, Dracul Gras

For me I think APWD has a bunch of great songs, and even a few I think that are a bit above great, but not a single song for me on this record stands out yet as that euphoric level of experience I get from some of these other songs listed above. I think the album excels at a lot of things, and in a lot of ways it is the next iteration and improvement (hello Spencer's vocals holy moley).

Overall, I am happy they made the record they wanted, I appreciate something a little different from them, and it will have a special spot for me still. I just kind of hope that this album is a 1-off for short but punchy songs through and through, and in the future we get some more epic euphoric noodlyriffage we know and love. If not, well, everything they create is gold anyways, so Ill be here for it.

So yeah, APWD is bottom 3 album for me from them, but this band is the GOAT so that isn't saying much.

S: P3, P5, Juggernaut

A+: P4

A: P2 APWD

A-: P1

B: Clear, Icarus

P.S. Just realized Goon and Lune rhyme and I dont think that is a coincidence 💦

Asking because I'll be moving from Church & Bedroom guitarist to doing corporate gigging soon and I would love to figure out how to get this all setup. I already own a Helix LT, but am not sure if it can be used with a Macbook and like Reaper to control the Presets by linking to a track. Was considering a QC Mini due to the easy size, but read another thread of the midi controller stuff not working well.

If LT doesnt work for this, would I be better off looking at Axe FX or something?