[RWP] a few reaper questions

[Indigo]

Are you sure your soundcard and midi keyboard are enabled?
Press ctrl+P to go to preferences; arrow to audio device and enable your 
soundcard.
Then arrow to midi device and enable your midi keyboard.
Press apply and OK.When you have enabled the soundcard and midi 
keyboard; the word "Enabled" will appear after their name.

I don't really understand how you installed the Cakewalk plugs for 
Reaper to find them.
I'd say don't expect for Reaper to find them in Sonar's folder, but 
reinstall them just for Reaper; in a folder you create in your program 
files, called Steinberg\VSTPlugins\
When installing Dim Pro or Rapture, don't accept the default Cakewalk 
location the installer provides, but instead browse to C:\Program 
Files\VSTPlugins\ and also add the words Dimension Pro to that path, so 
Dimension Pro will go into its own folder and not scatter its files all 
over the VSTPlugins folder.
I add a destination folder each time I install a big plug from an 
installer, to keep some reasonable order in VSTPlugIns.
In Reaper's preferences you must type in the path to your third party 
plugs; or Reaper doesn't know where to look for them.
In VST PlugIns; tab down until you find the field to type in the path.
The path must be totally exact, no spaces, and you can add a backslash 
to the end if you like.
You can create more than 1 path; separated with a semicolon, no spaces 
between paths.
Then press apply and OK.
Close Reaper then open it again and it will rescan for new plugs, or you 
could force a rescan in that same VST PlugIns  in preferences.

If you have done all this and still can't hear your midi keyboard 
playing a synth you have loaded; select the track with the synth on it; 
then tab down until  you find Midi Output.
Use your arrow keys to select your soundcard's ports.
After you make that assignment, press enter to keep the setting and to 
return to track view.
Indi




On 5/5/2013 12:11 PM, Michael Taboada wrote:
> Hi,
> A few questions here:
> 1. I can’t seem to figure out where to choose what output the output of reaper goes to, E.G. when playing on a midi keyboard, etc. I believe I have a vst set up correctly to play some audio, but I can’t hear anything when I play my midi keyboard.
>
> 2. There’s something odd whenever I try to add cakewalk’s vstplugins directory to the vst directories under preferences. When I do that, one or more of my other directories seems to disappear from the list. It’s still in the edit box, but anything in it just doesn’t show up in the insert instruments list.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,
> -Michael.
>
>
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