[RWP] introduction and a question?

[indigo]

Well, here's the way I'm working in Reaper right now.
Instead of rendering, you can insert an empty track.
  Arrow to the empty track to select it, hit the I key to go to IO 
routing, tab to add returns.
  Arrow down to the bottom selection, add returns from all tracks.
This will cause all the tracks you've already recorded to send their 
output to your blank track.
I believe you will need to add a send from your empty audio track to 
your sound card, so you can hear it during recording and playback.
There is no okay button in IO routing, just hit escape to return to 
track view.

With the empty track selected, tab through its track properties.
Select all channels if your already recorded tracks are on several midi 
channels.
  Select record mode as input, record arm on.
Hit enter to save your settings.
Now here's something I found works to make sure you get a stereo 
recording, if your already recorded tracks are in stereo.
Select the empty track.
ctrl+up arrow, then press applications key.
You will get another menu with more detailed properties for your empty 
track.
Arrow down and you will find record mode input already checked.
Arrow farther down and you'll find a selection called Input Stereo.
Hit enter on it, then hit enter on okay, and you'll be sure to record a 
stereo audio track in the empty track.
You may not need this extra step, so, if you don't, ignore it, but I 
ended up with a mono track without this step.
Here's how to record your empty audio track in several different media 
formats, so you don't need to render in Reaper's file menu.
Press alt+enter for Project settings.
Get on the Audio settings tab.
Arrow down to the format you intend to use for recording.
Select whatever format you want your empty track to record in, .wav, 
flack, whatever, though I found mp3 doesn't work until you go online to 
import lame MP3 into Reaper.
Select your bit rate, etcetera, then hit okay; and you are returned to 
track view.
Select your empty audio track, press W to go to beginning of project, 
press R to begin recording.
Hit spacebar, or press R again to stop recording.
  Press ctrl+up arrow.
  Press alt key and arrow down in the file menu to the selection: Save 
Output to Disk Bounce.
Press enter and you get a very complete menu for saving your audio track 
in its selected format.
When you are sure your settings are correct; tab down to Start; Press 
enter and saving begins.
Now, I'm not saying you may not find easier ways, I hope you do; but 
these steps are intuitive enough, and are working for me.
As I understand Reaper better, I'm sure I'll find quicker methods, I'll 
probably eliminate steps that aren't actually required in all instances.
Don't let Reaper's complexity spook you.
You don't need all its thousands of selections to do simple recording, 
but they're waiting until you need them.

Indigo L




On 3/16/2012 12:01 PM, Joe Paton wrote:
> Hi,,
>
> Mine is beautiful right now, at least I can't hear any delay working 2
> guitar parts and 2 vocals four tracks. simple music, but still timing
> critical.
>
> Great you guys, thanks indigo. I know i'll be back with more.
> so here's more.
>
> Here's a quickie, can I save the four recorded tracks to say 1 stereo
> tracks, I know I can render the four down to a saved file, and I guess I
> could do a media file import to bring the song back to a stereo track
> but that seems round the houses a little bit. How do you use master tracks?
>
> seems like a life times work this stuff, and I've had more than I've got
> left.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
>
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