[RWP] introduction and a question?

[indigo]

Hi Joe,
I'm trying to learn to edit midi in Reaper right now, and haven't 
tackled audio recording, except creating an audio track from a midi 
track, but maybe you have enough audio latency to delay your second track.
If you look in options/preferences/audio, you should use asio as your 
audio driver if possible.
Asio drivers usually provide the lowest recording latency, or delay.
  Under buffer set the size of the audio buffer as small as you can get 
away with.
If you have a fast sound card, you might try 64 or 128 samples.
If you set the buffer size too small, you will hear crackling in your 
recordings.
If you don't hear crackling, reduce the size of your audio buffer until 
you do, then increase it until crackling is gone, plus add a little more 
for a safety margin.
128 samples should give you a fairly low latency, or delay, but try 64, 
or even smaller if your sound card is fast enough.
If you are still hearing the second track delayed in comparison to the 
first track, you can look farther down in options/preferences/audio and 
find the offset settings, where you can cause Reaper to offset, or 
neutralize your latency.
You should also have the option checked for Reaper to use the reported 
latency sent from your soundcard.
Many soundcards transmit a report as to how much latency they are 
running at, and Reaper used its reported latency to automatically offset 
the latency.
I hope I worded thisclearly enough, and you find the settings.
Feel free to ask questions here anytime,
Indigo L


On 3/15/2012 4:57 PM, Joe Paton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to reaper rea access and this list, so if I may can I pose what
> I hope is a couple of simple questions?
>
> I want to record multiple tracks of guitar parts and vocals. So I record
> shal we say the first vocal track on track 1, then the second vocal on
> track 2. I set the metronome to give me a count on each track, and I
> then want to listen to the first track play, while the second is
> recording. When I do this, the second track is slightly behind the first
> track; I know I can nudge but that takes time i'd rather get it down in
> that particular take along with the third and subsequent harmonies.
>
> I would also like takes to overwrite the previous rather than be placed
> ahead of the previous take.
>
> So when i've achieved this, how will I drop the four parts on to 1
> track, then add the various instruments, guitar bass and what ever else
> I fancy and place the final mix in to an audio file?
>
> Hope you can help with all this stuff.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Joe Paton
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> RWP mailing list
> RWP at reaaccess.com
> http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com
>