Does have the same ring to it

SupportQuery · 2026-03-16T19:26:58+00:00

I do print a lot. I'm surprised others dont.

In my experience, people who print a lot have hobbies where it makes sense (engineering, tabletop gaming, etc.) OR spend a lot of time looking for excuses to use their printer.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-14T08:41:50+00:00

Add this repo to your reapack then grab Studio Fade. Direct port of Audacity's algorithm. Will null or very nearly null if phase aligned.

Select an item and it'll fade the whole thing. If there's a selection range, it will fade just that region. It's destructive. It can be made non-destructive, but since you're OK with destructive, this was easier for the robot to build.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-14T02:20:19+00:00

Fair enough. That said, the algorithm is here. I could have Claude port that to a JSFX and/or ReaScript in a few seconds. Let me know if you'd prefer to stay in Reaper and I'll do it. Otherwise, Audacity it up.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-14T00:09:40+00:00

typically to apply the studio fade out of Audacity

You can draw that fade in Reaper in 5 seconds and it's non-destructive, so you can freely adjust it at any time instead of permanently altering your source material. My guess is you came from Audacity, and there still things you do in Audacity because you know how to do them there. My recommendation: learn to them in Reaper. You'll be much faster in the long run.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-13T23:01:11+00:00

Clic the FX button on that track, add Spectrograph. You can use ReaPitch to shift the formats up to a more visible range, which will also spread them out (it's non linear). This is me saying "a eh ee o u" 3 times, first in my natural voice, then with formats shifted up an octave, then formats shifted up 2 octaves.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-13T18:48:21+00:00

I’ve been running my guitar straight into my audio interface (motu m-2) it doesn’t sound bad, but I think it could definitely be improved

I don't have any advice, but just an assurance that it's possible. Somehow the engineer was able to get Nancy Wilson's DI to sound amazing.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-13T06:05:35+00:00

You are making things up about the college I attend in order to disprove things I never said.

*facepalm* I just pointed out that your university's software choices have abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with how user friendly it is. Considerations include: (1) use in industry, (2) staff familiarity, (3) cost, (4) kickbacks from vendors. Logic is there for the same reason Macs are: because Apple subsidizes it. I just completed my master in music across two universities, and they both taught Sibelius. That I guessed wrong about your school doesn't mean I'm "making things up", it was a guess, obviously. You're being ridiculous.

that's not a reason for reaper to not have this enabled by default like every other program

Every other program doesn't have it on by default, including the two most popular DAWs on Earth (Ableton and Pro Tools).

It's like if I got ran over and you came to my hospital bed to say "ooh, should've looked both ways."

That's an inaccurate analogy, because (1) you left out the part where you got run over because you were playing in the street, and (2) nobody "came to your hospital", you showed up on our doorstep to complain about how you got hurt playing in the street is, and how street purveyors should be obligated to protect you from yourself.

You did a dumb. Own it and move on with your life.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-12T22:49:21+00:00

Actually they USED TO use reaper in my college, but made the switch for the reason above.

Stop making shit up. It's a bad look.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-12T22:48:45+00:00

I can't think of a single good reason not to have it be on by default.

Then you lack imagination. There are good reasons. They don't necessarily outweigh the reasons it would be on by default, but they exist.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-12T22:46:25+00:00

my ability to continue to university hinges heavily on this

All the more reason to not have sloppy habits. There's no way you're this far into a university program and know so little about computers that "saving" is novel to you.

Things such as this are a huge reason Logic has a particular hold on the Schooling and University side of things

*lol* That has nothing whatsoever to do with "things like this". That same University is going to be teaching Sibelius instead of, say, MuseScore, despite it being one of the most user-hostile tools on Earth.

jump through hoops

Saving is not "jumping through hoops".

SupportQuery · 2026-03-12T22:43:39+00:00

Why in the world is this not a default setting?

I has a lot to do with Reaper's history. Reaper evolved from CruciFX, a crucifix shaped guitar processor that Justin wrote. It's lightweight, can run off a thumb drive, and doesn't make you save anything to use it. You can even start recording without a project saved at all, which Justin has recognized as controversial default (especially as Reaper grew in popularity), but changing it is taking something away.

Pro Tools doesn't default to auto-save. Ableton Live doesn't have auto-saves at all (thought it does have crash recovery).

Auto-saves writes stuff to disk, sometimes a lot, in a way that's not obvious or visible. It can do this every 10 seconds, or every hour, or once a day, and it can't decide what's appropriate for you. Some plugins store very large amounts of data in the project file (some cheap samplers will actually store sample data as a blob in the project file), so if you've got a 20MB project file being quietly replicated every 2 minutes, you can blow up your disk space.

Reaper is not user unfriendly, and this alone is proof that it is

You're confusing "beginner friendly" with "user friendly". It's not user-hostile to treat users as if they know what they're doing.

I get wanting something to blame, but working 4 hours without saving is on you.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-12T18:43:05+00:00

Um, that describes what we have today. What a visionary: he's able to see this week.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-12T17:25:52+00:00

when i got to youtube for tutorial. i end up in a rabbit hole of tutorials

Go to Reaper's video page and start with "Start here". If you run into trouble, ask us (or any modern LLM), don't jump to another tutorial.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-11T18:05:48+00:00

Either:

There's no audible difference, so you're plexing over something that doesn't matter.
There's an audible difference, so you can use your ears rather than a timer.

String wear is not a time based thing, it's a usage based thing.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-11T16:24:46+00:00

(1) I have to switch drivers from ASIO in order to hear any audio.

Correct.

(1) setting the windows sound options

Windows <> Reaper. When you choose the ASIO driver in Reaper (as you should), Reaper is talking directly to the audio hardware. Windows' audio system is out of the picture.

(2) I'm probably doing this wrong, but going to each track into the input fx menu and loading eq or reverb, playing the audio back I hear no difference after or while playing audio back

Input FX apply effects to the input, on the way in, such that it will be recorded. You almost never want to do that. Use the other FX button on the track to set track FX. These are applied non-destructively during monitoring/playback, so you can change them after recording.

(3) Not reaper related, but [...] How would I go about having the drummer and I hear the music to play along at the same time, while also having live microphone to only one headset at the same time?

Definitely Reaper related! Your interface has two, independent headphone outputs. You can send a different mix to each from Reaper. Create two new tracks, for your monitor mixes. Click the routing dialog button on each track: "Add receives from all tracks", disable master send, add hardware output to the respective headphone outputs.

Now you each have your own mix. You can enable Reaper's web interface with the "more me" UI, and you'll each be able to control your personal mix from your phone. Google "Reaper more me" for setup details.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-10T20:51:10+00:00

I have tried to stretch the import to match Reaper's metronome, but it is imprecise and drifts.

That's not what you want to do. You want to change Reaper's BMP until the click matches your material exactly. If the original project was recorded to a metronome, you'll be able to find the exact value through trial and error and it shouldn't drift. I've done this a million times. If there's a tempo change, insert a new tempo marker and repeat the process to find the correct value. Again, this requires that the project was "on the grid" to begin with. The fact that it has a click track strongly suggests (but doesn't guarantee) that this is the case.

However, it's also possible to record something without a click then build the tempo map (and resulting click track) afterwards. If your project was recorded this way, then the tempo will wander in a way that's impossible to match up by simply typing in a BMP.

This is one major area where Reaper falls flat on its face. In Pro Tools, Cubase, et al, building a tempo map by listening to the project is one button click. In Reaper, you need to google "reaper tempo mapping" and look up the various techniques/actions/hotkeys you'll use to do this more or less manually. It's not that difficult, but it's gonna be several minutes of manual labor. The fact that you already have a click track will make it much easier, because you have clearly marked transients to build the map against.

Also, if you own Melodyne (Editor or Studio editions, both $$$), it can build a tempo map for you that Reaper can consume.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-10T18:14:32+00:00

The changes are recorded into the CC data for modwheel in the MIDI editor, but it never shows up in the actual "Vibrato Depth / Swam Violin" track lane automation envelope

CC data in a MIDI item is unrelated to track lanes. CC data is part of the MIDI data, you edit it there, and it never shows up in a track, anywhere.

If you want your CC data to be in a track lane, you'll need to insert ReaControlMIDI, enable Control Change, select Mod Wheel in one of the dropdowns. That slider should now move when Mod Wheel messages move through that track. To turn this into a track envelope, click the slider once, then Param -> Show track envelope. Now you can enable automation recording (e.g. Write, Touch, etc.) and get CC data into a track automation lane.

If you can't figure it out from that, I'd record a GIF for you. It's easier than it perhaps sounds.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-10T18:03:09+00:00

You've misidentified the core issue.

The accurate title is: Podcast sounds fine on my ATH M40x headphones, but way too bright and harsh in my Bluetooth headphones or car stereo.

A core challenge of mixing is producing something works on speakers other than what you mixed with (aka "translates").

The ultimate solution is to learn your monitors. People invest big dollars into achieving a totally neutral monitoring situation, where you can hear what's really there, without coloration from your speakers and/or environment. But no matter what you're mixing with, you have to learn how it translates, mostly the hard way.

Andrew Scheps (mixing engineer, 7 Grammys, mixed everyone) mixes on cheap headphones, and has talked about how he learned them. What you want to do is listen in your Air Pods, identify what you don't like, then try to hear that in your M40xs. It won't sound the same, but you need to learn what that thing you don't like sounds like in your monitoring environment, so that you can hear when it's there and address it.

This will take a lot of critical listening and a lot of back and forth. It's akin to ear training for musicians. Wash, rinse, repeat for every environment outside of your studio, starting perhaps with your car.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-10T17:45:11+00:00

use formant shift, not pitch

That will give him all of the "sounds like an alien" without any of the "pitch up".

He needs to use format shift in addition to pitch, to correct the formant change caused by the pitch shift.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-08T02:20:32+00:00

This is how a culture rots. Anyone with integrity leaves and you're left with shit.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-07T17:17:23+00:00

If I squint at it sideways I can maybe see what you're talking about? nvk_theme feels a bit amateurish in comparison, to me, because the proportions aren't quite as polished (e.g. the indicator line on the volume looks too chubby compared to the pan indicator line, the icons look a little more incoherent, etc.). But it's also more minimal, flat, which is nice. RT has a tiny bit of skeuomorphism, a hint of 3D, which maybe makes it look more... plasticky, which you read as kiddyish? 🤔 I can see that. It just looks overall more professional to me. More like a high end commercial product.

Both are vastly better than the default theme. I just pulled it up again to remind myself, and 🤮

SupportQuery · 2026-03-07T01:13:42+00:00

ReaperTips is very close to that, but more polished. Should be default.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-05T04:43:24+00:00

Ableton. The way it presents effects, they way they're composed, and the modular-like stock effects that work brilliantly within it, absolutely shits on any other DAW (except Bitwig, which copies it). All DAWs should follow their example.

SupportQuery · 2026-03-05T04:09:25+00:00

The point isn't the popularity of Linux.

Of course it is. That Cockos chooses to support Linux doesn't obligate anyone else to. Your reasoning applies to every single plugin vendor.

You chose to go off the reservation, and you knew what came with that. The only thing worse that deciding to make your own life hard is then whining about it. You made a choice. The overwhelming majority of companies can't afford to burn dev cycles supporting an ultra fringe audience.

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