I just discovered the 'perfect timing' reapack extension thing, and it works quite nicely.
The drummer in our band mentioned she wanted to re-track some drums for a particular song we've been working on, so we took a swing at it the other day. Solid performance but playing along to a pre-recorded bass track that was tracked to a drum track which was tracked to a scratch guitar track which was tracked to a click is definitely tricky. So, there's some drift in the tempo throughout, I was trying to go through and nudge things a bit, as the dynamic split-quantize to grid thing in reaper usually sounds terrible.
Anyway, turns out some smart person programmed a beat-detective-ish equivalent called perfect timing that has a percentage quantize option in it, so you can pull stuff closer to the grid but not completely travis barker ize it. Worked well! I still had to go through and fix a few fades here and there, but it definitely saved me a lot of time.
Re: Reaper for assholes
Posted: Sun May 19, 2024 10:14 pm
by numberthirty
mdc wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 7:05 am
I just discovered the 'perfect timing' reapack extension thing, and it works quite nicely.
The drummer in our band mentioned she wanted to re-track some drums for a particular song we've been working on, so we took a swing at it the other day. Solid performance but playing along to a pre-recorded bass track that was tracked to a drum track which was tracked to a scratch guitar track which was tracked to a click is definitely tricky. So, there's some drift in the tempo throughout, I was trying to go through and nudge things a bit, as the dynamic split-quantize to grid thing in reaper usually sounds terrible.
Anyway, turns out some smart person programmed a beat-detective-ish equivalent called perfect timing that has a percentage quantize option in it, so you can pull stuff closer to the grid but not completely travis barker ize it. Worked well! I still had to go through and fix a few fades here and there, but it definitely saved me a lot of time.
Leave it to Reaper to fix a problem that you don't even know that you have...
Re: Reaper for assholes
Posted: Thu May 23, 2024 2:37 pm
by c jury
Idiot question from someone who barely knows how anything works:
I got myself a little Akai midi keyboard. Fought my way through the ilok and software minefield, and now have a working instrument that I can connect to my computer and makes bleeps with. Now how do I get Reaper to recognize/record this thing? Tried all the 'maybe this will work' sort of things.
Re: Reaper for assholes
Posted: Thu May 23, 2024 3:21 pm
by bassdriver
c jury wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 2:37 pm
Idiot question from someone who barely knows how anything works:
I got myself a little Akai midi keyboard. Fought my way through the ilok and software minefield, and now have a working instrument that I can connect to my computer and makes bleeps with. Now how do I get Reaper to recognize/record this thing? Tried all the 'maybe this will work' sort of things.
Is your Akai keyboard connected via USB or via midi cable to your audio interface?
Go to preferences and look at midi devices. You possibly have to enable your keyboard as midi input. Off the top of my head you have to double click on the midi device.
Then you insert a new track, arm it and instead of choosing an audio input you choose midi in omni. Instead of selecting an audio output of your interface you select the midi output.
c jury wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 2:37 pm
Idiot question from someone who barely knows how anything works:
I got myself a little Akai midi keyboard. Fought my way through the ilok and software minefield, and now have a working instrument that I can connect to my computer and makes bleeps with. Now how do I get Reaper to recognize/record this thing? Tried all the 'maybe this will work' sort of things.
Is your Akai keyboard connected via USB or via midi cable to your audio interface?
Go to preferences and look at midi devices. You possibly have to enable your keyboard as midi input. Off the top of my head you have to double click on the midi device.
Then you insert a new track, arm it and instead of choosing an audio input you choose midi in omni. Instead of selecting an audio output of your interface you select the midi output.
mdc wrote: Sun May 19, 2024 7:05 am
I just discovered the 'perfect timing' reapack extension thing, and it works quite nicely.
The drummer in our band mentioned she wanted to re-track some drums for a particular song we've been working on, so we took a swing at it the other day. Solid performance but playing along to a pre-recorded bass track that was tracked to a drum track which was tracked to a scratch guitar track which was tracked to a click is definitely tricky. So, there's some drift in the tempo throughout, I was trying to go through and nudge things a bit, as the dynamic split-quantize to grid thing in reaper usually sounds terrible.
Anyway, turns out some smart person programmed a beat-detective-ish equivalent called perfect timing that has a percentage quantize option in it, so you can pull stuff closer to the grid but not completely travis barker ize it. Worked well! I still had to go through and fix a few fades here and there, but it definitely saved me a lot of time.
Leave it to Reaper to fix a problem that you don't even know that you have...
All hail Reaper, queen of snakeskin software
Re: Reaper for assholes
Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 8:50 pm
by jorsh
numberthirty wrote:
Couple of "How To..." videos...
numberthirty wrote:
Couple of "How To..." videos...
Kenny Gioia 4ever
Every single person that does Reaper videos has a really weird cadence in their way of speaking. Every ... single... one...
Re: Reaper for assholes
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:04 am
by bassdriver
My new PC arrived. Everything‘s working fine so far, still have a bunch of plugins to download and reinstall….
The one thing that I didn’t get to work is the Presonus Faderport V2. Was anyone able to get it to work with Reaper on a window 11 PC?
I installed Presonus universal control software and was able to update the faderport. It also appears in the Reaper preferences as either midi device or controller device. At one point the fader did some crazy up and down moves, but that’s about it.
Re: Reaper for assholes
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2024 11:10 am
by Nate Dort
Is it plugged directly into one of the motherboard USB ports, or through a hub? I've had problem with certain devices being plugged into hubs.
Don't you have to configure it in Reaper to assign its MIDI outputs to certain actions? I remember having to do that with my Tascam FW1884.