[RWP] a few reaper questions

[Michael Taboada]

Hi,
When I go to audio/midi in preferences, I have my keyboard enabled. However, 
when I go to audio/device, it is a different format of options. Where the 
midi section had a treeview with the possibility to press aplications and 
enable devices, the audio/device section has for combo boxes, the first two 
which I assume are inputs, and the second two I assume are outputs. However, 
there is no way to select one and hit applications on it. I'm not sure how 
else to enable the audio devices.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
-Michael.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Indigo
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:42 AM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] a few reaper questions

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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