[RWP] newbe with reaper, really stuck

[Monkey Pusher]

give us some more info on your computer and more importantly sound
card or audio interface please.

On 8/13/10, Raymond Grote <musicalman1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just downloaded Reaper and have ReaAccess working. I have never used a
> program like this, but I know this is the program I am looking for.
> But I am having a myriad of problems.
>  first, no mattter how I set my sound settings, I hear no sound when I play
> a file. I tried Direct sound, I don't have any working asio, and I tried
> direct wav or whatever it's called, and wdm said that there was an error so
> I couldn't use that. Nothing works. I tried starting a new project,
> inserting an audio file, then going to the action menu and pressing the play
> option (space doesn't always work), absolutely nothing.
> Now I'm trying to record a track, I press control t to make a new track,
> give it a name, turn on the arm recording option, then press control r. Jaws
> says canceled and then then the setting I last adjusted is turned back to
> where it was before. So if I arm the track, and press control r, it turns it
> off.
> Then, after we fix that issue, if I wanted to put effects on the track, for
> example the reapitch or the reaverb or whatever, how would I do that? The
> documentation, at least what I could find, wasn't very specific on that.
> I probably should've looked around before I dove into this, but what I did
> find wasn't helping much. I thought that other peaperless reaperians might
> be able to fill the gaps *smile*.Any help, even a website somewhere that
> helps with getting started with rea-access, is appreciated as I am truly
> stuck.
>