[RWP] Introduction and basic questions about reaaccess

[Kerry Hoath]

Whilst this answer is by no means complete I hope it will be useful to some.

I did not figure this out myself, Derek showed me in one of our reaper 
demos. These are freely available from
http://www.cucat.org/cavicasts/ in the 2011 folder and cover reaper 3.77 
on the pc.

here is how to use the meters in reaper with reaccess and yes there is a 
hold function.


j and k will give you the current level of the current track if you hit 
them at the current point in time.
These are level meters with no hold.

For hold meters:

To bring up the peak inspector press Alt-shift-p.
the first combo sets whether you are monitoring the last touched track, 
the master or a specific track.
If monitoring the last touched track there is a check-box for with 
master so that you can check the peak level of the master track also.
the slider after this sets the maximum volume which is by default at 50% 
or 0db.
following this there are a reset and hide buttons.

There is a button to toggle off the peak inspector and the levels for 
the tracks are shown in the inspector window.

If your level exceeds the maximum volume you will hear your default beep 
sound and reaccess will read out the level that caused the trigger to go 
off.

As this is a hold meter, it will not change this level until you either 
exceed the level or reset the hold with alt-f8.

Once the peak inspector is enabled and hidden you can press alt-f8 to 
reset the values  and alt f9 through alt-f12 for the levels on channels 
1 2 3 or 4.

I find this function invaluable when recording material to avoid digital 
clipping.

regards, Kerry.

On 11/09/2011 5:43 AM, Michael Kuhlmann wrote:
> Hi Colin and indigo,
>
> thanks very much for that interesting information. After subscribing to the list, I was so curious and installed reaper on my mac OSX partition. The result was quite frustrating, because I wasn't able to access the menus or navigate between the different windows. Well, it was after midnight, and perhaps I was too tired :-).  Before
>   I try it in windows with Jaws, there's one thing I would like to know, nearly the first thing I'm testing when trying a new DAW: Is it possible in reaper to read the input-levels while recording, for every track as well as for the master-section?
>
> Thanks and regards.
>
> Michael
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