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| - | [[Lowering volumes of many tracks at once|Go Here]] for more info | + | Select multiple items or tracks by holding down Control. [[Lowering volumes of many tracks at once|Go Here]] for more info. |
| + | You can also put the tracks into their own folder track, and adjust the volume on the folder track. | ||
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Revision as of 04:44, 3 March 2007
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General
Which OSs does REAPER support?
REAPER has been developed and extensively tested on Windows 2000 and XP. REAPER also runs on Windows 98SE and ME, as well as Vista. Some people have reported successfully running Reaper on Linux using WINE. It has also been reported to run fine on Windows XP x64.
Which soundcards does REAPER support?
Pretty much every sound card should work well 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...).
If you are undecided about what hardware to get, the REAPER developers are using Motu 896s and are EXTREMELY happy with them :)
There is an ongoing discussion about working soundcards here: [1]
My Soundcard Just Doesn't Work - What Do I Do?
Well - start from the beginning.
- Go through the instructions for your soundcard again (I know, you did already) paying particular attention to the "before you start" section. Does it say you need a particular service pack or version of Windows?
- Use the ASIO driver that came with your card, if there was one. Use ASIO4ALL if there wasn't one.
- Fix one thing at a time. Don't think of firing up REAPER until you have your sound card playing system sounds and playing CDs.
- Audio recording is a CPU/Memory/Disk/Resource hog. Accept that you may have to dedicate a PC to use just for recording.
- Try a clean install of Windows, don't install all of the supplementary cool looking drivers and things that came from the manufacturer of your PC. Install as little as possible, then get the soundcard working for system sounds and CDs, then the get soundcard working with REAPER.
- Once you have it working you can start to install other s/w you need. Test at each stage. Be prepared to go through the whole thing again if something stops your soundcard working.
Usage
How do I use my VST effects? How do I record my VSTi instruments?
Follow the 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?
This option adds a small (VERY small, i.e. -300dB) DC offset and/or nyquist noise to signals. It uses a tiny bit 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.
How can I lower the volume of many tracks or items at once?
Select multiple items or tracks by holding down Control. Go Here for more info.
You can also put the tracks into their own folder track, and adjust the volume on the folder track.
Playback
My playback is stuttering, how do I fix that?
There are a few things that can help to give smoother playback in REAPER:
- Increase your audio device buffer sizes.
- Switch to ASIO output (Options > Preferences > Audio > Device). If your soundcard doesn't show ASIO, try installing and using ASIO4ALL.
- Change the track buffering options (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.
- 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. You can also temporarily bypass all effects (see these directions for mapping a keyboard shortcut) in your project to reduce CPU usage.
- 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.
- Are you trying to work with too many tracks at once? See if you can combine some tracks into one - render all of the vocals into one track for instance. If you're keeping kick, snare, hi-hat etc. all on separate tracks think about mixing (rendering) them down to one stereo track instead of the eight that are currently making your PC gasp for breath.
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").
How do I create a CD of my final mix with REAPER?
Select Audio CD Image (CUE/BIN format) in the Render dialog. Check the Burn CD image after render option.
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