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Questions tagged [cockos-reaper]

Questions pertaining to REAPER (an acronym for Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software created by Cockos.

Questions pertaining to REAPER (an acronym for Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software created by Cockos.

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Replacement on Reaper for garageband's virtual drummer?

Recent versions of garageband have a "virtual drummer" that can "follow" a midi song and provide accompaniment in one of several styles (e.g., "rock", "pop", "reggae", ..), and with a 2-dimensional high-level control ("complexity" and maybe…
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How to render midi stems trough a single intrument track in Reaper?

I have a project in Reaper with 255 individual midi tracks all nested under a folder track on which I added Virtual instrument, to avoid aving to configure each track individually. This way I can play any track and since they all route to the…
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Is it possible to load and automatically play a project in Reaper?

I'm working on an art installation which features Unity, VR and Reaper. Ideally I'd like to be able to start Reaper, load a project and start it playing from the command line. I don't have much experience with Reaper, but given its popularity and…
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Ableton live RACKS: is there an equivalent, or better, functionality available in reaper?

I'm an ableton live user (only because I received live bundled with my keyboard) but now i'm considering trying out reaper out of frustration with various design decisions in live which those guys are simply unwilling to fix, so i have a couple of…
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Reaper, VST, Linux

All. I'm wondering how developers have addressed what I'd think is probably a tricky aspect: if I understand correctly, Reaper is basically all about VST, but VST is strongly Windows oriented. Has anyone tried Reaper's native Linux version? Does it…
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I have a problem with the strummer in Ample Guitar M (used in Reaper)

When I create a riff using the plugin and drag it in the timeline (as a midi file), it's played with no legatos or really anything I set up in the riffer. It sound terrible, all the chords are played in a sort of staccato and the guitar doesn't…
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How can I return to normal view (View Track Waveforms) in Reaper

I switched to "Peaks View" for moment. Now I can't get back to tracks looking like standard Waveforms. Will only show Peaks, Spectral Peaks, etc. Anyone know how to get back to normal?
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How do I see the kick drum on a sampled track in Reaper?

I edit many drum-fiddle duo samples to make loops in REAPER. The fiddle moves ahead and behind the beat and syncopates. The drummer plays a simple 8-beat pattern. The samples are on a single mono recording, but if I could see where the kick is…
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Safety of using Reaper extensions

An important feature of Reaper DAW is large database of user-written extensions. How safe they are to use, regarding either malicious intent or bugs? What is the extent of the potential danger, e.g. can an extension possibly install a virus or…
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Switch General MIDI instruments from device? (Roland Sound Canvas, Reaper)

I have an Swissonic EasyKey61 MIDI keyboard, and it is connected to the VST plugin "Roland Sound Canvas" via Reaper. I am wondering how sound banks/instruments (e.g. "Piano 1", "Piccolo", "Tinkle Bell", ...; i.e. those available in the VST plugin)…
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Configure RME TotalMix to record the PC's output into Audacity

I would like to record in Audacity or Reaper the output of my PC. If you configured my PC to send all the sound to the output to ADAT(3+4) I can't figure out how to say in TotalMix that this must be routed on any of the inputs I could record in…
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