Category: Using Reaper

Waves Element & Reaper Slowing Down and Crashing

Weird one this, installed Waves Synth plugin Element and it all went foobar. First off I couldn’t find it in Reaper as it doesn’t install as a VSTi instead it installs as a VST effect. When I did get it running it was dog slow. So I decided to uninstall and do a fresh install. […]

Getting the most out of my home studio

Feels like such a long time since I last put anything on here. Funny how life has a habit of getting in the way. But it’s time to get back to business… A brand new setup: So the best way I can get started is to outline what I have in my studio and what […]

Reaper – Useful Tip 1: Editing Shortcuts

A useful tip in using Reaper is to develope keyboard shortcuts to try and eliminate having to use the mouse. One shortcut I alter is the ‘Record’ shortcut. As its stands to record you have to either use the mouse and click record or use the shortcut ‘Ctrl + R’ With tasks like record it […]

Render Track – Reaper – Beginners Lesson 3

Quick and simple lessons on how to use Reaper. Basic lesson 3 – Render. When you’ve finished recording your track/tracks in reaper and you’ve mixed you can render the project. Unless you’ve got lame installed to work with Reaper you will probably need to render to wav and then use another peice of software to […]

Recording Track – Reaper – Beginners Lesson 2

Quick and simple lessons on how to use Reaper. Basic lesson 2 – Recording a track. Open Reaper on your PC or Mac. Start a new project – Insert a new track – Insert Track – Tutorial Once a track has been added you can ‘arm’ it to record   Click the button – it’s […]