yep, another great thing about reaper, love the imperial theme!cakes wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:39 am Another rabbit hole you can find yourself in: Reaper themes. I think for some of us who are coming from different DAWs or used to certain layouts, this could be really helpful. For instance, there's themes that replicate UI from Protools, Logic and Ableton.
here's another great reaper function: in preferences Audio you can rename your input and output channels. I have my channels named after my mic preamps and guitar preamps I use. so when I drop down the input menu on a channel I can choose from Studer 169 1-4 mic pre, Mila mic pre, Iridum L/R, Lyra synth and so on. same with the output channels, to external mixer ch 1-16.......Kniferide wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:44 amThey do it so you can monitor input independent of your DAW without latency. Some recording apps don't even offer monitor input (or did in the old days) so it is default so that out of the box, if you plug in headphones you can hear something hitting the IO. Your software monitoring application works completely independent of your DAW and does not take into consideration whether you have a track armed. Think of the IO control App input monitoring as being PRE-DAW line taps. When you use the monitoring built into the DAW it is Post DAW and will be Latent by how many ever milliseconds the buffer size of your ASIO/Core audio setting dictate. You cannot monitor this way without latency usually, to monitor free of delay, you have to disable DAW monitoring and monitor the input from the IO control Panel.tommy wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:20 amKniferide wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:14 pm
This. Sounds like you are monitoring your IO inputs directly. I don't know Focusrites mixer that well but you should be able to change that. P.S. what I have used of the Focusrite software at work with our 18i20's... I hate it a lot. It's bad and I dislike how they work all together.
Fixed it. For those playing along it was their Control software. Despite actually reading the manual it still wasn’t clear to me. Basically, within the app you can have inputs always going to the monitor outs headphones included. I’m guessing this is set up as a default for inputs 1 and 2 because lots of people use these to play guitar through plugins. Why they feel the need to have to do this all the time without arming a track or two for recording is beyond me. I guess maybe there’s a scenario where you want to do that without a DAW? I had two really hot live mics on inputs 1 and 2 that made it sound like all mics were live.
For the record I do have the 18i20. Which doesn’t have the direct monitoring button. Turns out it’s a DIM button that I will never use.
Fixed!
bassdriver wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:02 pmhere's another great reaper function: in preferences Audio you can rename your input and output channels. I have my channels named after my mic preamps and guitar preamps I use. so when I drop down the input menu on a channel I can choose from Studer 169 1-4 mic pre, Mila mic pre, Iridum L/R, Lyra synth and so on. same with the output channels, to external mixer ch 1-16.......Kniferide wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:44 amAdd the SWS auto color by name to this and you got a stew going.tommy wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:20 am
Fixed it. For those playing along it was their Control software. Despite actually reading the manual it still wasn’t clear to me. Basically, within the app you can have inputs always going to the monitor outs headphones included. I’m guessing this is set up as a default for inputs 1 and 2 because lots of people use these to play guitar through plugins. Why they feel the need to have to do this all the time without arming a track or two for recording is beyond me. I guess maybe there’s a scenario where you want to do that without a DAW? I had two really hot live mics on inputs 1 and 2 that made it sound like all mics were live.
For the record I do have the 18i20. Which doesn’t have the direct monitoring button. Turns out it’s a DIM button that I will never use.
Fixed!
They do it so you can monitor input independent of your DAW without latency. Some recording apps don't even offer monitor input (or did in the old days) so it is default so that out of the box, if you plug in headphones you can hear something hitting the IO. Your software monitoring application works completely independent of your DAW and does not take into consideration whether you have a track armed. Think of the IO control App input monitoring as being PRE-DAW line taps. When you use the monitoring built into the DAW it is Post DAW and will be Latent by how many ever milliseconds the buffer size of your ASIO/Core audio setting dictate. You cannot monitor this way without latency usually, to monitor free of delay, you have to disable DAW monitoring and monitor the input from the IO control Panel.
Oh hell yeah, definitely going to do that because I’m using external preamps.bassdriver wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:02 pm here's another great reaper function: in preferences Audio you can rename your input and output channels. I have my channels named after my mic preamps and guitar preamps I use. so when I drop down the input menu on a channel I can choose from Studer 169 1-4 mic pre, Mila mic pre, Iridum L/R, Lyra synth and so on. same with the output channels, to external mixer ch 1-16.......
Using the best rated Pro Tools theme was the FIRST thing I did to try to make the transition easier. Unfortunately it isn’t close enough and made the graphic interface cluttered AF. I tried several others but went back to the default 7 theme as I think it’s the cleanest. I did use that B layout tip kniferide mentioned, though that point size was WAY too much for my monitor. I wish there was something between the B and C. I like B but wish it had the slider for track volume. C’s track meters are too ginormous.cakes wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:39 am Another rabbit hole you can find yourself in: Reaper themes. I think for some of us who are coming from different DAWs or used to certain layouts, this could be really helpful. For instance, there's themes that replicate UI efrom Protools, Logic and Ableton.
This can be fun but I stopped doing it because I hated everything being different on everyone elses Reaper install. Imperial looks cool but you lose some on the face functionality and I makes someone not familiar with it feel like they have no idea how Reaper works. I strictly use the Default theme now, which is a bummer because the Default 7 theme is ugly as hell. I've been putting Reaper 7 in Reaper 6 mode because the volume and pan knobs look so flippn stupid now. Props to Reaper for letting you change it though. Any theme that hides anything is dead to me.cakes wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:39 am Another rabbit hole you can find yourself in: Reaper themes. I think for some of us who are coming from different DAWs or used to certain layouts, this could be really helpful. For instance, there's themes that replicate UI from Protools, Logic and Ableton.
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