[RWP] Reaper Quick Start first time using.

Indigo 33indigo at charter.net
Fri Feb 1 11:04:48 EST 2013 

I don't have an external soundcard on this online computer, so I just 
now went to Reaper x64 with NVDA as the screenreader.
Okay, itcan be  even simpler than the the method I described.
I went to the insert menu and inserted media: an mp3 track.
I arrowed to the track to make sure it was selected, and pressed the 
letter F.
I was immediately taken to that track's effects routing page, already in 
the effects loading dialog.
I selected Reaper's folder for VST effects.
I tabbed to the list of effect plugs in that folder and pressed enter on 
ReaEQ, the bundled equalizer.

The mp3 track was very bright, so I chose the high shelf setting, and 
set it to minus 40 db, because I was bound to hear that much reduction 
of the highs in the mp3 track.
After loading the equalizer; ReaEQ, be sure to tab around and look 
carefully at its parameters, which include several frequency bands; and 
edit boxes at the arrow keys to raise or lower the level for the 
selected frequency band.
There is no okay or apply to click on.
I pressed escape to go back to the track view, and pressed w to rewind, 
and the previously very bright mp3 was now very much softer in high 
frequencies.
The equalizer went onto the same track as the mp3 was on.
Try that; and what you want should be really easy, with very few steps.
In fact, you should be able to mute the other tracks and hear the 
equalization changes as you make them.
Set the selected audio track to repeat, with ctrl+R.
Start that track playing and then press F to go to effects routing and 
load the ReaEQ equalizer, and you should be able to hear the results in 
real time; as you change the parameters of the equalizer.




On 2/1/2013 10:25 AM, Matt Diemert wrote:
> Ok,
> I'm attempting to follow the directions below to experiment and just add a
> simple EQ to a vocal track.
> First, After adding the eq, I press I as you indicated, however, I don't see
> an option here to add a return to my track. I do see something that says,
> send parent tracks check box checked. Now when I up and down arrow, I hear
> the plug in on track seven and not the other tracks. Next, when I tab
> through the simple track view to insure the track output is set to my sound
> card as you indicated, the only option I see that sounds like what you meant
> is midi out none, and the only other option there is Microsoft wavidable
> output.
> Sorry for all the questions, but just hoping to figure out some basic
> editing techniques.
> Thanks again all.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:04 AM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Reaper Quick Start first time using.
>
> Hi,
> I put everything on its own track, to make it easy for me to comprehend what
> I have before me; so here's how I'd add effects onto 1 track.
> I'd load the effects plug onto its own track.
> You can select the audio track you want to add effects to with up/down
> arrows, then press F to go to the effects routing page, click on add which
> you find at your tab key, and load the effect.
> I'm sure there are other methods to route the audio track through the
> effect, but I'd go back to track view, select the effect plug's track with
> up/down arrows, then press the letter I to bring up Reaper's IO dialog.
> I'd add a return from the audio track I wanted the effects on, then exit
> back to track view with escape.
> At the tab key, in that simple Track recording Options Dialog; I'd provide
> an output for the effects plug, so it can be heard, probably your sound
> card, and press enter to save the settings I just made.
> Now, I should hear the selected audio track going through the effects plug.
> If you want to tweak the effects plug's parameters, select its track with
> up/down arrows, then press F to return to the effects routing page.
> Tab down and you should find various parameters of that effects plug, with
> edit boxes at the arrow keys.
> If you don't find parameters, tab down to the parameters combo box, then
> press ctrl+down arrow, or maybe ctrl+page down to force the parameters list
> to appear in that combo box.
> One of those tricks  usually works, and you'll be at the bottom of the
> parameters list.
> Reaper is very good at displaying parameters, and you can usually find them
> all in a single list, in that combo box; also you find parameters 1 by 1 by
> tabbing in the effects routing page
>
> I don't fully understand how to use it yet, but I know that, with a synth,
> if you click on Param at your tab key, either with enter, or by routing to
> your numberPad and left clicking on Param there; you reveal a list of
> actions you can apply to parameters.
> That's where you find Midi Learn, if you have a control surface, also more
> actions, plus there's a complete list of the plug's parameters there.
>
> Please feel free, anyone, to augment or correct this, and provide your
> favorite method.
> Regards,
> Indigo
>
> On 2/1/2013 8:12 AM, Matt Diemert wrote:
>> Good morning all,
>> This is my first time really delving in to reaper with rea access.
>> Prior to now, I've recorded my work on an Olympus ls100, and moved it
>> in to audacity or garage band to do editing mixing that sort of thing.
>> So, this past week I decided to give reaper a shot since it seems to
>> be such a robust product.
>> First, I took a project that I had worked on in audacity so I knew how
>> I wanted it to sound. I took the raw wave files from audacity and
>> inserted them in to a new project with reaper.
>> Here's where things got interesting.
>> I opened reaper and under insert, selected media. I highlighted the
>> seven files I wanted to insert, and when I pressed enter, reaper asked
>> me if I wanted them as individual tracks. I chose yes, and they all
>> imported in just fine.
>> Now, I pressed space bar to play, and while jaws did state playing,
>> nothing happened. With the jaws cursor I saw that something by the
>> tracks said off line? SO I attempted to click this with the jaws
>> cursor to see if doing so would create change. After doing so, I
>> pressed space bar again, and the song began to play.
>> My questions are, how in fact did the song begin to play? Was it
>> something I did, or just sheer luck.
>> In audacity, I was easily able to pan the tracks as needed however, it
>> seems like when I panned in reaper, when I tabbed back over to the pan
>> control, jaws reported centered. What am I doing wrong here.
>> Lastly, How can I add affects to one individual track?
>> I'd appreciate any help. I promise I'm not as much of a novice as I
>> seem, but this one just felt over my head which was disappointing as
>> I'm truly excited to try the product out.
>> Thanks much guys.
>> Regards:
>> Matt D.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
>> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:35 PM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Reaper Quick Start
>>
>> okay, You press the letter M mother to set a marker at whatever point
>> in a track you want.You can set up to 10 markers per track.
>> Press the 1 key on the top row of the qwerty keyboard to jump to
>> marker 01,
>> 2 to jump to marker 02, etcetera, and the zero key to jump to marker
>> 10
>>
>> In training mode, I hear the letter C saying that it sets a marker
>> near the cursor.
>> I think you can use that when you are scrubbing with the left/right
>> arrow keys and hear that you are near where you want the marker to be.
>> The cursor moves along the track's time line as you scrub.
>> I haven't tried C for that, try it and let us know if C places a
>> marker close to where you sstop scrubbing.
>> If you want to split the item at that point, press the letter s.
>> To do this, first select the track by arrowing up/down to the track.
>> Then select the item on that track with ctrl+shift+right arrow.
>> Note that there could be more than 1 item on that track, but you will
>> hear the item number announced.
>> When you have selected the item you want; arrow to where you want to
>> split that item, and hit S.
>> You now have an item to the left of where you split, and the remainder
>> of the item to the right of where you split.
>> This is useful like if there's silence to delete, or other unwanted
>> material.
>> You can select either of the split items with ctrl+shif+right/left
>> arrow, then cut it to clipboard with ctrl+X, then paste it onto
>> another track if you want.
>> Create a new track to paste an item onto with ctrl+T.
>> I have set markers and split items, but haven't nudged markers yet,
>> but think you can nudge a marker left or right to get it exactly where you
> want.
>> Press F12 for learning mode, and check out comma and period, which I
>> think nudge left or right.
>> Comma says time selection nudge left, and period says time selection
>> nudge right.
>> The letter N nancy toggles the nudge set dialog for how much you want
>> to nudge.
>> After pressing N press your tab key to hear the various nudge increments.
>> Somebody please correct or expand on this; as I have no experience in
>> nudging markers.
>> Indigo
>> On 1/31/2013 4:28 PM, Rylan Vroom wrote:
>>> Hello listers, so I've read through the reaper quickstart wiki and am
>>> now trying to find out how I can better use ReaAccess. I discovered
>>> that hitting shift f1 gave me a list of "mouse modifiers", but how
>>> can you perform tasks by just using the ctrl, shift or alt keys on
>>> their own? Or are they meant to be used with a mouse? If that's the
>>> case, how do you use the mouse to perform tasks on a track if you
>>> can't see it? I'm picking up reaper because it does one crutial thing
>>> JSonar doesn't, allow access to a "clip view" wherein I can edit
>>> individual tracks in a multitrack audio project. Am I correct in
>>> assuming that reaper's word for clips is "items"? Also, when I was
>>> using goldwave for single track audio editing, I would use the left
>>> and right brackets to drop in start and end to a selection I wanted
>>> to modify/add an effect to. How would I accomplish that in reaper?
>>> I've noticed I can add a marker, but that doesn't seem to be the same
>>> thing. I've discovered that my left and right arrow keys "scrub"
>>> through a track and if I hold down the shift key I'm able to select
>>> chunks of audio, but I can't figure out what to do with it once I've
>>> selected it. Also, how can I select a section of a track while its
>>> playing? While I'm on the topic of selecting things, my sighted radio
>>> producer colleagues are able to take a huge file that might have 5
>>> minutes worth of someone's voice (different intonations of a
>>> station's call letters for example), import it into an audio track
>>> and only make one small part of that track play as part of a final
>>> mixdown with other tracks containing the background beat/explosion
> sounds/whatever.
>>> The only way I can think of to do this is to delete anything and
>>> everything on that master voice track save the small voice snippit
>>> that I want. Now if I do this, will it kill my master wave file? Is
>>> there a better way to go about it? I've found out that f12 triggers
>>> "training mode", which tells me what the ReaAccess key bindings are
>>> for a given press of the keyboard, but is there a list on line that
>>> has a complete list somewhere? I've noticed the main reaaccess site
>>> is down.
>>>
>>> On 1/30/13, Rylan Vroom <dj.sonr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thank you so much! I'll be reading that later today.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You'll need to adapt what you read in the Reaper Quick Start to the
>>>>> ReaAccess equivalents of the moves for sighted users; but it's a
>>>>> less intimidating guide than the huge Reaper manual.
>>>>> http://wiki.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/ReaperQuickstart
>>>>>
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