[RWP] Hi all and some questions.

[TheOreoMonster]

Under  the mac OS 5400RPM drives does not pose the same issues to audio as it does on windows. Yes 7200RPM drives are better and apple usually offers it as an upgrade option for about an extra $50 which isn’t a bad deal in the grand scheme of things considering it comes preset up in your laptop for you. Yeah audio is a virtual machine isn’t something you should even consider trying. Reaper can handle most midi task,the only caviot is it doesn’t come with a ton of instruments like sonar so the issue is most have a hard time finding accessible instruments.
On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:

> Reaper offers all that can be done with midi, it's just another learning curve for users of other gear.
> The gear we already know is always the easiest to use.
> 
> On 1/3/2014 7:52 AM, Keith Hinton wrote:
>> Just to add to this, GarageBand while you can bring .mid files in that
>> exist, does not allow you to save them. For that, you would need to
>> use Logic Pro on the Mac. GarageBand is a basic DAW, where as Logic is
>> a DAW plus MIDi sequencer, giving you many features that GarageBand
>> being a basic taster to Logic Pro does not, including the ability to
>> generate .mid files right ont he Mac. Also, why not try Reaper on the
>> Mac itself? As far as sound lagging in your virtual machine, their
>> isn't much you can do about this.
>> You're also running into the  virtual machine Winodws guest having
>> high DPC latency.
>> Chris Bell can chime in here regarding the consequences of DPC latency.
>> Also, just so you know, while you may hear some audio folks say a
>> 7200RPM or faster hard-disk will get rid of that DPC latency on the
>> Mac regardless of if Windows was ran in Bootcamp mode or in a virtual
>> machine in Fusion, your still going to encounter extreme DPC latency.
>> This ultimately will cause dropouts inside Windows and blue screen
>> kernel crashes.
>> This has been verified from several Mac friends I know of, including
>> one who does not run Windows inside a VM, but directly on the Mac
>> hardware as far as the too high DPC latency effecting Windows music
>> applications.
>> Sonar is just one out of many.
>> Reaper is not unaffected by DPC latency either by the way, and a
>> majority of people, like Patric, only use Reaper for audio editing, as
>> that's what its really good for.
>> The number of people using Reaper for MIDI is pretty low, as far as I
>> know, though maybe somebody can correct me on that.
>> As far as the latency of your sound as I say, their isn't much you can
>> do about that without using OS X itself.
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/3/14, TheOreoMonster <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> iF the goal is to use Garage Bands Sounds, then you wouldn’t want to save it
>>> as a midi file. Export the audio and then work with it as audio in Reaper or
>>> another Daw. If you save it as .mid and bring it into reaper you will still
>>> have to run it through a soft synth in reaper to get whatever instrument
>>> sound you want.
>>> On Dec 29, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Jonathan Candler <jonathancandler_msa at q.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I thought about doing that, but how would I save it in a .mid file so that
>>>> I can interact with it in reaper. And also, do my mixing in there. Sent
>>>> from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On 29 Dec 2013, at 3:36 pm, TheOreoMonster <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> may be easier to use in terms of knobs and buttons you have direct access
>>>>> to. But interns of sounds, VST’s can iterate much faster than hardware
>>>>> versions. TO answer the question asked here initially, Garage band has
>>>>> awesome sounding instruments, and the new ones in GB X rivals paid VST
>>>>> synths. Why not record in GB and then switch to a more powerful DAW for
>>>>> mixing and etc. Can you give us a better idea of how garage band is
>>>>> falling short for you?
>>>>>> On Dec 29, 2013, at 3:50 PM, trahern culver <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> well i think its more tactile and  in turms of sound the current crop of
>>>>>> modern analogue synths coming out rite now give most vst's a run for
>>>>>> there money kind regards trey.
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