[Rwp] student, newbie... where to start.

[blake tracy]

Thanks. 
You have given me a basic where to start list, so I don't save up for the
wrong thing. I was planning to maybe buy sonar some day, but wanted to see
if I could even do the midi thing first. It would be horrible to save up and
buy a professional application, only to find I can't use it because x y z. I
decided reaper was the best stepping stone, especially after vipaudioaccess,
when I asked them my questions, redirected me here instead of sonar for, I
think price purposes. I will check out these websites, and any others I hear
about on this list, and figure out when I can get what. However,
clarification? The digital audio machine you spoke of... would I use that in
place of my keyboard? It is hardware, like a controller? In the meantime, I
will look at that website.


-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Chris Belle
via RWP
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 12:23 AM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [Rwp] student, newbie... where to start.

Hi blake?

First of all, welcome to the list.

Reaper is great, but it's sort of the linux of the recording world, if you
aren't a self starter and used to digging a lot it can be frustrating.

There's no one book to buy to find out everything, you have to put a lot of
pieces together.

When you first start doing this, and if you want to pursue it seriously, it
can be very daunting.

I've been at this professionally for 35 years, and it's still frustrating
sometimes.

I primarily use sonar, and a number of screen-reading options to get my work
done, and reaper is something I am learning and using more and more in my
tool kit.

I also provide low priced tutoring from the perspective of all three major
screen-readers.
dealing with recording technology,
so if all else fails, come see me, and we'll try and put some of those
pieces together in a friendly relaxed manner.


I can tell you from experience, that if you want all the headaches taken out
of the hardware side of things, then indeed, do save up and get a purpose
built daw from someone like Jim Roseberry over at studiocat.com he has
provided fine machines for many of my colleagues and students, and they are
top knotch.

Audio machines are special, with the BIOS EUFI tweaked to give the lowest
DPC latencies, and real time like performance.

yes, you will need more than jus your on board sound card to get good
performance, depending on what you are doing, you can get by with casual
mixing sometimes on a generic device, but windows consumer level hardware
will not give you the low latency performance you need for laying tracks,
and you need a card which can do asio these don't have to cost the earth,
you can get an entry level device like the lexicon alpha for 60 dollars,
which also has basic TRS line inputs, and a mic pre, another reason to get a
better audio device is the type of connections, as consumer level hardware
usually only has the 3.5 mm unbalanced connectors, and they are prone to be
noisy, and most pro gear is either TRS or XLR so getting some basics right
from jump street is a good idea.

You don't need a 10 million dollar studio to make music, but you do need
some basic decent tools unless you want to be constantly stubbing your toe,
as you've discovered, reaper is a good bargain at 60 dollars, sonar cost
quite a bit more, but is a much more documented, and well trodden path for
blindy's, doing this professionally, as there is caketalking from dancing
dots, and the JSonar project, ct is paid and uses jaws screenreader while
Jsonar is free, donation ware, but sonar is several versions behind the
latest, you can still buy it from Dancing dots, Jamie one of the main
developers of NVDA screen-reader is developing a great new plug-in for
reaper to replace the aging and abandoned reaccess plug many here are still
using, it is called Osara, but it is a work in progress, there is no hand
holding, except on this list a little bit, I personally think reaper is more
slanted toward audio editing than midi, where as sonar is the gold standard
for midi and maybe in time if enough people are using reaper, there will be
an easier path to follow for new reaper users.

there are a couple of websites with some reaper info, will let someone else
chime in with that, but the Osara stuff is at
https://github.com/jcsteh/osara#start-of-content

YOu can find jsonar at
jsonar.org

You can find ct at
dancingdots.com

happy learning 'smile'.

On 4/12/2015 11:25 AM, blake tracy via RWP wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have just joined the RWP list. I am a blind college student and I'm 
> very interested in audio production. I'm especially good at editing 
> audio. I feel like a detective when it comes to Daws, and I've been 
> uselessly buying a lot of things that I don't need or can't use unless 
> I have something else. I have a normal windows 8 computer, and a 
> Yamaha YPG235 keyboard that I use for midi. I've downloaded reaper 
> just to try, and am now afraid to buy because of all the misguided 
> buying I've done lately. So I've tried it, and have half second delays 
> in between what I play and what I hear. Google told me to get a 
> soundcard. True or false? And if so, I don't want to buy the wrong 
> sound card. It's a windows surface pro so it'll have to be external.
> Should I just give in and save up for a computer just for music? And 
> are there any books that will take the detective work out of this 
> field once and for all?
>
> Thanks for any feedback. Sorry to take a lot of people back to newbie 
> topics, but google stinks at telling me what I need instead of what 
> others need.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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