ReaperFAQ
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General
What OS does Reaper support?
REAPER has been developed and extensively test on Windows 2000 and XP. REAPER also runs on Windows 98SE and ME, as well as Vista.
Some people have reported to successfully run Reaper on Linux using WINE. It has also been reported to run fine on Windows XP x64.
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 developers are using Motu 896s and are EXTREMELY happy with them :)
Usage
How do I use my VST effects? How do I record my VSTi instruments?
Follow those instructions on the Effects page.
Why Can't Reaper find my VST effects?
Go to Options -> Preferences -> VST Plug-ins, and point Reaper to your VST effects folder. Then, click on Clear cache and rescan directories.
What does the preferences/plugins/reduce normalization from plugins (recommended) box do?
http://www.cockos.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39995&postcount=2
It adds a small (VERY small, i.e. -300dB) DC offset and/or nyquist noise to signals. It uses a little more CPU to do this, and is slightly less precise, but can have big performance advantages. It is recommended that most users leave this option enabled.
Playback
My playback is stuttering, how do I fix that?
There are a few things that can help smoother playback in Reaper:
- You may wish to increase your audio device buffer sizes.
- 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.
- Make sure the selected devices in the audio configuration are the proper ones.
- If none of this helps, check to see if there's an effect that's hogging CPU power. The amount of CPU used by the effects is displayed in the Effects dialog box per track.
- Also check for the memory usage displayed in the Performance Meter window (Ctrl+Alt+P to show/hide). Make sure that there's some System memory left for REAPER.
- Defragment your hard drives.
Rendering
How do I render to MP3?
You must download an MP3 codec and place it in the main Reaper directory.
- Download the LAME encoder here.
- Unzip the downloaded file and extract lame_enc.dll into the main Reaper directory (usually "C:\Program Files\Reaper").
