The Reaper Q&A Thread

[rubiconguava]

fair enuf, this is something thats so simple youd think reaper would make it obvious! iv struggled with this for ages, tried finding out from their forum etc. anyone reccomend any gd freeware stereo imagers? dnt think i can afford waves plugins!

[sackley]

Well my input would be... (and I've never done this so it's theoretical)

create a new track (B)

Route stereo audio from the first track (A) onto track B and turn off parent/master send of track A.

Set Track B recording setting to "Output:mono"

Record the section of Track A onto track B as mono (hopefully).

See if that works...

[futures_untold]

Or use steroid bouncer or otiumfx basslane to monofy yer track innit. Both are freeware vst plugins.

[rubiconguava]

yeh that was the workaround i use if i need to, just thought there would be a way to make a track mono without having to record it into mono. Its a tricky one, reapers really made for audio, then theres no problem can just right click and change any audio clip to mono.

[alphacat]

Or use steroid bouncer or otiumfx basslane to monofy yer track innit. Both are freeware vst plugins.

Antress Monoizer is excellent and free too.

http://antress.er-webs.com/

[rubiconguava]

Or use steroid bouncer or otiumfx basslane to monofy yer track innit. Both are freeware vst plugins.

Antress Monoizer is excellent and free too.

http://antress.er-webs.com/

wicked, gna pick one of those up - missed those suggestions from futures post earlier! sound guys, thats exactly what i need, probs solved.

[topmo3]

got to ask because this is beyond me.. i only recently have paid more attention to sidechaining, and especially compression sidechaining, so that the synths and samples duck for the drums. as it turns out this makes tracks sound much better so i opened an old project to apply my newly aquired production skills to it, only to find out that it doesn't work. i set up the recieves and compressors as normal and group the synths so it would affect all of them simultaneusly but it just won't work. no ducking whatsoever. what's wrong?

[rubiconguava]

on your input from the track you want to supply the signal to the compressor, the channel must be set to 3/4, and then in the REAcomp youv gotta change the signal in the drop down menu to Auxillary

[topmo3]

on your input from the track you want to supply the signal to the compressor, the channel must be set to 3/4, and then in the REAcomp youv gotta change the signal in the drop down menu to Auxillary

yeah yeah, of course, i know. but it still wont work.

but nevermind that cause now the shit has really hit the proverbial fan. i finished an awesome track (to my liking that is) yesterday and now i opened it to listen. first it plays well but at 30 seconds or so, everything mutes, all i hear is weird crackling noises in tempo help!

[futures_untold]

Is there anything being automated that you've forgotten about?

Does the full project render correctly?

[rubiconguava]

i have had this problem before once when i had a sample loaded into it that was very long,i think i bounced my entire drum track so 5 mins long sample, and it cudnt handle it after 30 secs for some reason. Also do you have an external soundcard as often just shutting reaper turning on and off soundcard and re-opening reaper solves this problem. Also its worth checking your drivers are up to date.

[sackley]

Yea, this happened to me recently too. I freaked. Hadn't saved recently. I took the chance and saved the work even though all that was coming out was crackling (I think it was saying that my shortcircuit track was clipping as soon as I hit play). Luckily when I closed and opened it again everything was fine. Hasn't happened since.

[AlexC]

Ok I have a drum beat and I want to add some swing. I select my midi notes, go into edit - quantize... put settings to manual and tell it to quantize all selected and have strength at 100%. Snapping to grid is turned off so everything should be fine right?
I add swing and it does nothing. I've tested everything and found out that the quantizing doesn't work unless I only go edit - quantize position to grid. The humanization works.
So can anyone tell me why I can't quantize and add swing to my midi notes?

[alphacat]

Ok I have a drum beat and I want to add some swing. I select my midi notes, go into edit - quantize... put settings to manual and tell it to quantize all selected and have strength at 100%. Snapping to grid is turned off so everything should be fine right?
I add swing and it does nothing. I've tested everything and found out that the quantizing doesn't work unless I only go edit - quantize position to grid. The humanization works.
So can anyone tell me why I can't quantize and add swing to my midi notes?

Check this thread and lemme know if this is what you're talking about:

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=16087

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On another note, Justin & Christophe (the primary architects of Reaper) are featured in this month's Tape Op - and while I love Tape Op, I hafta say that the magazine almost did them a disservice by failing to point out just how radically wonderful Reaper really is: Reaper is [imho] too good to be true, and yet... it's true.

One thing that I really respect is their opinion on developing for Macs, which they do despite Apple's increasing rate of OS upgrade clusterfuckery. Read the article for more on that, though.

Feel like if I ever met them I'd wind up gushing and go all fanboy on 'em... try to buy them many rounds of booze....

[futures_untold]

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Mac

[qwaycee_]

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Mac

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com ... acuser.jpg
what the fuck man?!?!?!? i clicked on that pic thinking it was a man/monkey or some shit.

fucking hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and lol at the linux thing. next year sometime when i have sad enough money to build a comp, i'm gonna look into linux.

[futures_untold]

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Linux

[qwaycee_]

hahahaha

Fun things you can do with linux:

keep your virginity

fuck thats funny!

[alphacat]

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Mac

If I had the choice between being gay and owning a Mac, I would rather be gay because if I owned a Mac, I would be both gay and own a horrible computer.

—Reliable source

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EDIT: So as regards my earlier question (about batch replacement of source files) it looks like v.4 will have this in the new Media Bay feature.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=69725

[Nielsfest]

Each channel has a VU meter for monitoring its audio input. Clicking on this brings up a drop down menu where you can tell that lane what to record. The options basically include your soundcard audio inputs and midi inputs.

I'm already stuck at the MIDI Hardware Output, it currently says <no output> and so I wanted to change it but I can't choose any option at all.
Don't blame me for being so noobish, only thing I used to do was game on my PC and that didn't really educate me on stuff like this.

Awesome thread however, in fact I love this whole website. So MUCH usefull information stomped into such a tiny spot :p
Haven't read this much in ages!

Regards