#21

This Reaper 6 video was especially helpful to me. It’s about setting up project directory structure defaults. One can configure things however they’d like, but I went with the layout Kenny suggests because it’s inline with the way I’d like to do things.

Each new project gets a folder, project audio goes into a subfolder called audio, peak files into a “peaks” folder inside the audio folder.

\ NewProject
|- NewProject.rpp
|- \ Audio
|-- file_name_01_date.wav
|-- file_name_02_date.wav
|- \ \ Peaks
|---- file_name_01_date.rpk
|---- file_name_02_date.rpk
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#22

I use Reaper like a glorified tape recorder and I couldn’t be happier with it. I have a couple friends trying to convert me over to Ableton but the value is incomparable. The scripting stuff is amazing, and I might use it for video some day, but as long as they keep the download small, the startup time fast, and the workflow pretty straightforward, they’ve got a customer for life. Keep the upgrades comin’.

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#23

I’ve always known the benefits of a robust multitrack set-up but never had the wherewithal / workflow in place to actually record that way, but the time has come. I spent the morning going back through some Kenny Gioia tutorials to help me set up a new project template and my excitement is building. Being able to easily route / group in the tracks and have it make sense visually is actually making me look forward to a workflow I once felt was too complicated.

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#24

Anyone used the Tracker “Hackey Tracker” yet?

Wondered how well it runs.

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#25

Just found out about this free (as in freedom and beer) EQ for Reaper (JS format, so Reaper only) and I’m impressed:

It’s got a lot of advanced features and things I was previously missing in Reaper (like LR / MS EQ). They say it borrows a lot from Fabfilter’s EQ plugin, so now I’m very inclined to check that one out more closely as well.

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#26

That EQ is great! I almost never use VSTs so I’m glad to have such a useful EQ for Reaper.

#27

Howdy! If you feel like going into the sound on sound territory with Reaper (or reajs vst wrapper), a simple js:delay can be supercharged into a sos beast!

If you set the 24th line of code in the js plugin like this:
delaylen=min(slider1 * srate / 1000,4000000);

then your buffer length would be up to a minute! Pair that with careful feedback patching, decent tape emulation or any fx, and a master limiter to protect your speakers, headphones and ears - and you’ve got yourself a nice virtual tape that sounds (to my ears) very close to a real deal. The feedback inside the js:delay should be at zero in this case, as you would be managing feedback outside of the plugin (with levels, compression, etc).

Of course you can use it as clean sos delay. With feedback at zero it will just layer whatever sounds you feed into it, with no decay.

Many many tracks of mine were based around this little delay, but with a 10 seconds buffer. 1 minute opens up a whole world of possibilities.

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#28

The other day someone told me Reaper is by the people behind Winamp, which makes me love it even more :heart:

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#29

Indeed, Reaper really whips the llama’s ass.

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