By fdodds
Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:24 pm
So I've used Reaper in the past for mixing large scale audio projects, and for making beats with vst's like shortcircuit etc. with an MPD, and while Reaper can be set up well for composition, I personally didn't have the patience to keep setting up and tinkering with stuff, it was a pain for me to unarm tracks, rearm tracks, select vsts, etc.
Now we all know the ren's mixing is confusing at best, but at it's core it's sequencing, sampling ability is really tight (at least on my setup) and it's flow is great for constructing tracks quickly. Using Dazastah's tip to use ReaRoute, you can route your audio straight into reaper, and from there you've got reapers amazing system to actually achieve a mix, quickly apply lfos, go crazy with vst experimentation.
Once I set up Reaper like this I knew straight away I had to track out my beats to it to mix and master them so they all sound similarish so they mix together for a release. I figured I would just use my old saved sequences in the project song modes, but once I actually started doing some edits on tracks with reaper connected I realised there's really no point to use song mode at all any more. when i'm happy with my sequences recording direct to reaper is way better than the song mode since you can now actually make use of the live next-sequence effects (next sequence has a use!!)
if you haven't checked out reaper I strongly advise you to. it's cheap with a free trial that includes a nag screen but no lock-out for saving or rendering. honestly, i'm not interested in the 1.7 update anymore, i could use reaper with 1.6 and be happy forever
Now we all know the ren's mixing is confusing at best, but at it's core it's sequencing, sampling ability is really tight (at least on my setup) and it's flow is great for constructing tracks quickly. Using Dazastah's tip to use ReaRoute, you can route your audio straight into reaper, and from there you've got reapers amazing system to actually achieve a mix, quickly apply lfos, go crazy with vst experimentation.
Once I set up Reaper like this I knew straight away I had to track out my beats to it to mix and master them so they all sound similarish so they mix together for a release. I figured I would just use my old saved sequences in the project song modes, but once I actually started doing some edits on tracks with reaper connected I realised there's really no point to use song mode at all any more. when i'm happy with my sequences recording direct to reaper is way better than the song mode since you can now actually make use of the live next-sequence effects (next sequence has a use!!)
if you haven't checked out reaper I strongly advise you to. it's cheap with a free trial that includes a nag screen but no lock-out for saving or rendering. honestly, i'm not interested in the 1.7 update anymore, i could use reaper with 1.6 and be happy forever
Last edited by fdodds on Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.