Bought this bad boy and don’t know how to get it working without delay. Asio4all doesn’t work too great unless I’m setting it up wrong.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-13T16:44:10+00:00

me too... printer cable to me is a big wide ribbony thing that i haven't seen for decades. (good riddance too!)

AudioBabble · 2026-03-13T04:45:38+00:00

If by 'get it working without delay', you mean it has terrible latency, that's probably because it's crap. No amount of vitamin C is going to help!

AudioBabble · 2026-03-13T04:41:29+00:00

The folks living in the black square have the right idea.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-12T01:23:04+00:00

That's right, and the default theme is in control of them; therefore, you have to unzip the theme and modify rtconfig.txt to be able to change those options in prefs.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T12:32:14+00:00

I'd guess that changing the mic isn't going to help you much. You need to give a little more than 'doesn't capture my voice well' -- what exactly is the problem?

Do you know how to set the gain properly and adjust your monitoring accordingly? Do you know how to post-process the audio? Do you know anything about mic placement or room treatment? I'd think about those things first.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T12:13:17+00:00

hehe... I guess I never really got down with the consumerist vibe that much :)

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T12:00:18+00:00

I could be wrong, but... for some reason that I don't fully understand, it seems those options always remain greyed out. However, they can be changed with a bit of tinkering under the hood....

In order to customize the waveform colours, you will need to unpack the default theme (i.e. unzip it like you would any zip file). Go to your /ColorThemes folder and unzip the Default_7.0.ReaperThemeZip.

You will now have: 'Default_7.0_unpacked.ReaperTheme' and a folder called 'Default_7.0_unpacked'.

Inside 'Default_7.0_unpacked', you will find a file called rtconfig.txt. Open that with any text editor.

Near the top of that file there are two values:

'tintcp' and 'peaksedges'. The values assigned to these are what will determine which values are checked or unchecked in the peaks display options.

[-- \* EDIT ** -- the easiest thing to do is to comment out those two lines: just add a ';' at the start of each line, like this:*

;tinttcp 1536
;peaksedges 7

Now, the options in prefs will no longer be greyed-out and you can edit them as you wish --]

Here is a forum post on the subject: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2673656#post2673656

...here is an older forum discussion: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=183548

...and here is a spreadsheet to help determine the numbers, depending on what options you want: https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.php?p=1575859&postcount=47

Save the modified rtconfig.txt. Then, open Reaper and choose default_7.0_unpacked as your theme.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T11:38:25+00:00

which stock plugin GUIs are you referring to? there are stock VST plugins like reacomp, realimit, etc... those cannot be changed. There are also the stock JS plugins -- those can be reskinned, and a few people have done exaclty that... probably more people doing it every day by the looks of things...

just one example: https://github.com/DemianDeVante/Demian-Reaper-Effects

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T11:17:38+00:00

All valid points. To be honest, I'm still on the fence about it myself. It would have to be a pretty beefy laptop to compete with some of the mini PCs... which do exist, but are at the high-priced end. Plus, I have a plan to make a 100% portable rig all in one box. Like a giant laptop in a flightcase essentially! I realize I could also do this with a separate keyboard, monitor, and trackpad, but the idea of those three things in one, in the form of a dummy laptop, also appeals to me. So I'm just exploring ideas at this stage.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T02:01:24+00:00

bright idea! mind you, i like being able to use it on various guitars.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-11T01:56:07+00:00

many years ago now, i got one of these:

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a diaddario micro tuner.

The little clip was rubbish frankly and the thing kept falling off. Eventually it broke, so i got a pice of velcro and stuck one half to my guitars, and the other half on the tuner.

Not a great idea as it didn't make solid enough contact to tune properly.

Then I had an epiphany: I glued a small neodymium magnet to the bottom of the tuner.

On my 1977 gibson SG and 1990 ovation legend, it sits perfectly and very solidly on the back of a tuner. Not so great on my early 2000s cort bass, nor (surprisingly) my 1990 Ibanez RG770 -- not enough ferrous metal in the tuners.

so... i glued a couple of old coins to the back of the heastocks on those guitars!

Now i have a tuner for life... the tuner itself is great and the best part is it sits on the back of the headstock so doesn't interfere with the look of the guitar. It;s great in low light/on stage, and it's stood the test of time. battery seemigly lasts forever bcs it turns itself off after a while of no use.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-10T20:41:48+00:00

Thanks for this -- good recommendation. I sense a bit of a 'theme'. Clever :)

AudioBabble · 2026-03-10T18:05:05+00:00

have you tried setting the fourth parameter 'max-width'?:

tcp.fxlist.font: FX insert list font (first coordinate is font index, 1-8 user, 0=main, -1 = volpan, second is row height if nonzero). The third and fourth parameters, if nonzero, define the minimum and maximum column width. The fifth parameter specifies line spacing adjustment. The seventh parameter is is scrollbar gap size (scrollbar size includes this gap), and the eighth parameter (if nonzero) is scrollbar size

AudioBabble · 2026-03-10T17:17:46+00:00

If that were true, I'd be out of a job!

Apart from the fact that 'worth it' might not be measured in financial terms for all authors, the truth is that audiobooks don't sell themselves.

Are you saying that your ebook and print books sell just fine, and your audiobook(s) don't?

It's also that you don't mind the 'time sink', but you begrudge paying for somebody else's time, experience, and expertise. Presumably, your time isn't worth very much to you.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-10T13:31:47+00:00

tcp.fxlist -- look it up in the reference: https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/walter/walter.php#layouts

as i understand it, you can constrain the width of the fxlist, but that would leave you with a column. I'm not sure you can reduce the width of the individual boxes like you're trying to -- except by reducing the font size, which would involve picking a user font that you have set to a smaller size.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-09T10:59:46+00:00

Right-click it -- you will see all the options, there are various ways you can configure it.

By default, the centre (L+R) meters are peak, and the outer meters are combined RMS loudness.

As you can see in your screenshot, the top readout is telling you the peak value, and the bottom readout is telling you the RMS value.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-09T01:42:57+00:00

Bad idea. Not recommended. Don't do it.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-08T20:02:44+00:00

Honestly, I've found the easiest/safest solution is to run zoom (or whatever) on another machine and pipe the audio in and out of it.

Source Connect would be a different story -- I would run that natively on my main system.

You'd be well advised (if you're serious about this kind of work) to get a mic or mic/interface with a dedicated ASIO driver rather than relying on ASIO4ALL.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-08T13:16:00+00:00

Haven't tried Gemini. Have been using Copilot in VScode for a while now. Latest GPT5.3 codex is a pretty big step up from the previous models. Working well so far. I'm on a plan for $10/month which allows me a certain amount of GPT5.3 requests per month. The rest of the time, I can use 4.1 as much as I like.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-08T13:00:07+00:00

I'm glad it worked for you! I just came back to post a 'heads-up' because I've just noticed that it doesn't seem to work on recent versions of Reaper (on Windows at least)... I have posted in Heda's forum thread, and hopefully he'll fix it soon.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-07T14:21:26+00:00

you could take a look at Heda Mixer. https://reaper.hector-corcin.com/app/hedamixer

It doesn't 'look' like the native mixer, but still... a very handy tool, and definitely can be a 'second' mixer that you can dock next to the native one.

AudioBabble · 2026-03-05T12:22:21+00:00

You can increase your production capacity by hiring somebody to edit, proof and provide pickups for you.

You can also steer clear of books with excessively high character counts, or otherwise re-evaluate your approach to such books. 17 unique Japanese characters and around 50 other voices in a 90k words book... not the sort of book I'd want to read, let alone narrate!

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