Returning As A Hologram

I have a working computer again. Hooray! And all it took was a new motherboard. It took some time to figure out, but I'm glad I worked it out myself. Speaking of which, here are some (no doubt elementary) ways I have improved my workflow while working on this album:

• I've started aggressively multi-tracking parts. I realized that as individual instrument dynamics change from section to section in a song, a new fader balance is usually needed. So now if I decide I want the acoustic guitar 3db quieter on all of the verses, it's easy.
• I've also started using multi-tracking to apply special effects to only certain moments of a part. For vocals, I'll set up an identical track where I'll just put the words I want delay or reverb applied to. Then only one instance of the plugin has to be run as opposed to a new instance for every clip.
• I've started sending these multi-tracked parts to a single bus. Having individual busses for each major instrument part is great, because you have a fader for the whole instrument and if you want to limit the whole bass part, you can use a single instance of a plugin on the bus. Additionally, it also makes it super easy to export mix stems, if you solo the appropriate bus beforehand.
• I've started panning reverb. Never did that before, for some reason. But it goes a long way towards creating a believable stereo image.
• I've started using the nudge function. I used to always line up waveforms by hand but now I've customized the nudge lengths to times that work for me. I have them mapped to my number pad so that 1 means nudge 1 left, 3 means nudge 1 right, 4 means nudge 2 left, 6 means nudge 2 right, etc. It takes me a while to realize when I need hotkeys for things, but I'll get there.