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Pretty much every sound card should work fine in Reaper. Reaper has been tested with a wide variety of sound cards, from very low end ones (laptop integrated sound cards) to high end ones (RME, Motu, etc...).
Pretty much every sound card should work fine in Reaper. Reaper has been tested with a wide variety of sound cards, from very low end ones (laptop integrated sound cards) to high end ones (RME, Motu, etc...).
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But if you are deciding about what to get, the Reaper devs are using [http://www.motu.com Motu]'s 896 and are EXTREMELY happy with them :)
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But if you are still undecided about what hardware to get, the Reaper devs are using [http://www.motu.com Motu]'s 896 and are EXTREMELY happy with them :)
== Playback ==
== Playback ==
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* Defragment your hard drives.
* Defragment your hard drives.
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* Switch to ASIO output (In Options -> Preferences -> Audio -> Device). If your soundcard doesn't support ASIO, try installing and using ASIO4ALL.
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* Switch to ASIO output (In Options -> Preferences -> Audio -> Device). If your soundcard doesn't support ASIO, try installing and using [http://www.asio4all.com/ ASIO4ALL].
* Change the track buffering options (In Options -> Preferences -> Audio). Try incrementing the number of threads, buffers and buffering.
* Change the track buffering options (In Options -> Preferences -> Audio). Try incrementing the number of threads, buffers and buffering.
* If none of this helps, then there might be an effect processing that takes all the CPU power. The amount of CPU used by the effects is displayed in the Effects dialog box per track.
* If none of this helps, then there might be an effect processing that takes all the CPU power. The amount of CPU used by the effects is displayed in the Effects dialog box per track.

Revision as of 10:18, 18 February 2006

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General

What OS does Reaper support?

Reaper has been tested successfully on Windows XP. It should run fine on Windows 2000 and maybe runs under Windows 98/ME.

Some people have reported to successfully run Reaper on Linux using WINE.

What soundcards does Reaper support?

Pretty much every sound card should work fine in Reaper. Reaper has been tested with a wide variety of sound cards, from very low end ones (laptop integrated sound cards) to high end ones (RME, Motu, etc...).

But if you are still undecided about what hardware to get, the Reaper devs are using Motu's 896 and are EXTREMELY happy with them :)

Playback

My playback is stuttering, how do I fix that?

There are a few things that can help smoother playback in Reaper:

  • Defragment your hard drives.
  • Switch to ASIO output (In Options -> Preferences -> Audio -> Device). If your soundcard doesn't support ASIO, try installing and using ASIO4ALL.
  • Change the track buffering options (In Options -> Preferences -> Audio). Try incrementing the number of threads, buffers and buffering.
  • If none of this helps, then there might be an effect processing that takes all the CPU power. The amount of CPU used by the effects is displayed in the Effects dialog box per track.
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