Thanks for the great thread. It's all really helpful. Now what I'm also interested in knowing is when should I start using Reverb in my workflow. I recently laid down a few tracks and i knew that a few of them really really needed reverb but after I added all of this stuff all of the tracks started choking. So I've spent the last couple of days researching buffers, and rendering tracks. So my question to you is what is your overall process or strategy to keep your computer from choking? When do you render, or increase buffer? When do you add reverb and other effects? Do you wait until the end at the mixing stage or do it from the beginning?