Reaper 4 Released!

[Electric_Head]

I`ve also been running v4 from a flash drive on other computers.
Such a dream.

[SunkLo]

Spent 8 minutes now trying to draw a loopable region. YES!

Hahah yeah man it takes a bit to get used to the behavior, but it's tuned for speed and efficiency when you do. I remember the first time I tried Reaper I was like what the fuck is this shit? Took me sooooo long to figure out you need to ctrl-drag to draw a midi clip! Couldn't do anything with it As per usual rtfm, once you get over the initial bump, it's pretty smooth sailing.

Somebody tell me whether or not the vst version of reaEQ also has specrum analyzer now. If it does, I will be happy.

checked for myself, it doesn't. I am not happy. Well I guess I still am happy, because I have Voxengo Span.

This is the one thing I hate about ableton's EQ. Otherwise it's awesome. Logic spoiled me. haha

Fabfilter Pro-Q!

Sunklo - you know that it has a filter at the bottom of the fx window.
Type in the first few characters of the plugin and it filters all your plugins to only display the relevant plugins.

Yeah but most of the time I just want to see what all my options are for a specific task all grouped together. After a while you forget all the plugins you have so I just end up using the same ones when there could be some more suited to the job.

Although I've realized you could edit tags into each plugin's name to make them easier to search for... Many ways to circumcise a cat I suppose.

[Electric_Head]

I remember being able to create folder names within Cubase and group each vst accordingly.
When the vst window was loaded it displayed everything the same as your folder structure.
I`m almost certain Reaper has this functionality but never thought about it until you mentioned it.

[nowaysj]

FL Studio Advertisement: You can group your plugins in any category you want, each plugin has a graphical picture of the plugin which you can drag and drop into the appropriate location. One click brings it up, one drag instantiates it. Very very smooth and nice.

Re the loop indicator: some loop lock function was activated somehow, can't change the loop when in this condition. I can't imagine the utility of a loop lock, but whateves.

Is there a cpu indicator in reaper? I'd like to know how much juice I've got left.

[press]

FL Studio Advertisement: You can group your plugins in any category you want, each plugin has a graphical picture of the plugin which you can drag and drop into the appropriate location. One click brings it up, one drag instantiates it. Very very smooth and nice.

Re the loop indicator: some loop lock function was activated somehow, can't change the loop when in this condition. I can't imagine the utility of a loop lock, but whateves.

Is there a cpu indicator in reaper? I'd like to know how much juice I've got left.

dunno about the loop issue but performance meter is in the view menu.

[SunkLo]

I remember being able to create folder names within Cubase and group each vst accordingly.
When the vst window was loaded it displayed everything the same as your folder structure.
I`m almost certain Reaper has this functionality but never thought about it until you mentioned it.

Yeah reaper does this but my vst plugin folder is organized by company, I want them organized by compressors, reverbs, instruments, etc. Some plugins fall into multiple categories too so for instance I can have Vintage Warmer 2 in the compression group and also in the saturation group.

Nowaysj: What do you mean loop lock? It just loops whatever your time selection is. Drag your cursor on the timeline to make a selection.

[nowaysj]

There is some function that locks the loop in place, you can't create a new one, or move the existing one. I don't know why that would be, but it was puzzling, to say the least.

[hudson]

Is anyone else having troubles with copy/pasting?

[nowaysj]

What do you mean?

I had a few crashes today. One from a flakey plugin. And a couple when reaper was not letting go of my laptops soundcard.

[nowaysj]

dee dee dee news flash, this just in, it appears reaper's ui is fucking helluv configurable.

Helluv.

Question for you knowledgeable people, any way to prevent the little starter icon from being placed when you click into a midi clip or something on the playlist? I remember that little fucker annoying the shit out of me last time I tried reaper (said I'm evaluating for close to 700 days, lolz, that is a serious evaluation).

Honestly though peoples, I've been doing a lot of audio stuff, every now and then my workflow shifts from audio to midi or whatevs, and I seem to be in an audio zone right now. Have been doing a lot of recording, and actual mixing. Was thinking about jumping onto logic for the audio handling (and just for tickles), I cannot stand cubase, literally infuriates me when I tried it at 5. But reaper might be the realio dealio. A very cheap, very customizable multitrack audio editor. I'm on my laptop right now, but when I get back home, I'm going to install reaper on my real machine and work my next track in there, a recording/audio based track. Can't wait to see how it goes.

[amphibian]

Fabfilter Pro-Q!

I would absolutely do this, seeing as I love fabfilter's plugins, however... no cash atm

[jrisreal]

Fabfilter Pro-Q!

I would absolutely do this, seeing as I love fabfilter's plugins, however... no cash atm

[hudson]

What do you mean?

I had a few crashes today. One from a flakey plugin. And a couple when reaper was not letting go of my laptops soundcard.

I'll copy something with command+c, then try to paste it wit command+v, but it ends up pasting it in some totally random place on the grid, like, 20 bars away from the cursor :s Sometimes it won't even paste at all.

[Electric_Head]

What do you mean?

I had a few crashes today. One from a flakey plugin. And a couple when reaper was not letting go of my laptops soundcard.

I'll copy something with command+c, then try to paste it wit command+v, but it ends up pasting it in some totally random place on the grid, like, 20 bars away from the cursor :s Sometimes it won't even paste at all.

I have found that some plugins disable keyboard entry.
It`s frustrating but not the end of the world.
Just save the project and open it again.
I have never had an issue with pasting unless when I copy and my cursor is not at the start of the loop.
It pastes it the way you copy it.

[hudson]

I've never had a problem with pasting until I got this :/ Worked fin in every other Reaper.

[Electric_Head]

I've never had a problem with pasting until I got this :/ Worked fin in every other Reaper.

Yep, It seems to be a v4 thing.
Knowing Cuckos though, they`re on it already.
Post you issue over at the Reaper forum to get faster results.

[sackley]

Noways -

I don't have much other DAW experience, but I love working with audio in Reaper. I'll do my break mangling and midi stuff in Buzz and then bounce out to Reaper just so I can do the little audio additions (samples, one offs, etc).

And it's really good for resampling. Get the SWS extensions. You can right click and "Apply track fx to item as new take", and now in V4 you can "Render grouped tracks to stem track" which saved my life when I upgraded and a project with about 20 tracks of percussion and as many EQs, gates, comps, etc. wouldn't play (pretty sure that's new, if it's not I never saw it before...).

-Sack

[nowaysj]

Think I'm trying to figure out what you're talking about. Last night had an 8 bar loop that I wanted to resample off of the master. I know I could have rendered it, but that is a little clumsy. Wanna just resample into the playlist/arrange page, whatever you reapoids call the main page.

I went to that sws page, but I didn't know what the heck it really, but the ability render busses sounds dope. I'll install those.

Think with reaper, you have to do a lot of customization upfront to get things going the way you want. But the mere fact that you can, like all the options the way the mouse handles media items, and all the modifiers you can apply to the function (ctrl shift alt) is awesome.

Fixed my laptop monitor, and yeah, this thing does look good. Smooth and shinny.

Does reaper run a little heavy. I was running a couple of massives and fx and I thought it was running heavy?

[sackley]

That project I just referenced was running no problem in 3.76, then would totally rape my cpu in 4.0.

And I rendered the whole song length of the drums to a stem track, not a loop, so I can't really comment on that (although that'd be nifty). The one I was referring to (the stem track rendering) is found by right clicking a parent track of a group and going to 'render...>render to stem track and mute originals'

They've already done 4.01, although I didn't check what the changes were...

-Sack

[nowaysj]

thanks bro