[RWP] a few reaper questions

[Gianluca Apollaro]

Hi Michael,
before playing your midi keyboard make sure to insert a vst on your 
track and to arm and monitor it, hit f7 and f8 to do that after 
selecting your track with the up/down arrow keys.
Hth,
best regards,
gianluca
SkypeID: gianluca8815

Il 06/05/2013 05:40, Michael Taboada ha scritto:
> 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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