[RWP] introduction and a question?

[Joe Paton]

Hi Indigo,

I remember you from the midimag list, which I left because it was way 
above my head.  If you trawled enough messages there were usefull 
tips and tricks, but boy! it was time consuming.  I'll have a crack 
at what you advise, and If i crack it, guess who'll be the first to know.

Thanks for such a detailed response.

Joe
At 21:20 15/03/2012, you wrote:
>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
>>
>>
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