Hi rick:)
Since I also need blip, align, etc. which are shared by all 12 runs, so a single preprocess batch until regression would be great.
I don't really understand what do you mean by "done in a single regression". If you're suggesting to use an omnibus design matrix like the following:
[A .. ..
.. B ..
.. .. C]
My main concern is that, would it be a waste of degrees of freedom to include irrelevant regressors, given that A, B, C are actually independent tasks?