[RWP] Introduction and basic questions about reaaccess

[colin McDonald]

this is excellent information.
I was wondering about the same as well.

Regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <khoath at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Introduction and basic questions about reaaccess


>
>
> 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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