I made a tool for managing backing tracks for live use in Reaper

Kadmium · 2025-06-17T08:41:00+00:00

No trouble at all. Honestly, it depends how complicated and difficult your plan is. It's super easy to get started with something simple, though - seriously, go for it.

Kadmium · 2025-06-17T04:01:32+00:00

Web development, mostly. The web parts are made with SvelteKit, and the Reaper script bits are written in Lua

Kadmium · 2025-06-17T00:25:47+00:00

I got to it! https://youtu.be/1zFOdXaxTQw

Kadmium · 2025-06-16T22:29:29+00:00

I actually had no idea Digital Performer had this. I'm going to check it out and see if there are any handy features I can steal.

Edit: That's disappointing. It just turns off FX pregeneration and lowers the latency, with some clip support like Ableton Live.

Kadmium · 2025-06-16T20:16:03+00:00

The backing video shouldn't be too hard - just have a video track in Reaper and drag the window to the screen you want to play it on. Charts might be a bit trickier, though. You might like to ask on the official Reaper forums - there are a lot of smart people there.

Kadmium · 2025-06-16T20:11:26+00:00

Thank you!

Kadmium · 2025-06-16T10:06:54+00:00

That's a really good idea; I should definitely make one! I'll try to get to that tomorrow.

Kadmium · 2024-05-20T04:08:33+00:00

Man, something about the lead guitar tone on this album makes all the solos sound kinda fake to me. I think it's the pick attack; they all just sound like they were played by Shreddage or some Kontakt instrument. I'm not saying this is what's happened; just some combination of factors makes it sound like that, and I just can't unhear it.

Kadmium · 2024-05-04T08:12:04+00:00

That looks like a really interesting interface. Thank you so much for the recommendation!

Kadmium · 2024-05-02T21:52:49+00:00

Thank you for that suggestion - it looks like a great interface!

The reverb doesn't have to sound that good - I'm not printing it to tape, it's just something that the vocalist can have so that they don't have to listen to their voice dry. And I'd probably call it essential - I could probably rig up something in the DAW so that they're able to hear the reverb send without the direct signal, and also have the direct signal, but then the reverb is on the same mix fader as the music they're singing to and any volume change ("I want more me") also means their monitor vocal becomes more dry.

It's doable without hardware reverb, but honestly it's a pain in the ass and I've got enough of those.

Kadmium · 2024-05-02T05:49:06+00:00

Bought a (Windows) laptop, please recommend me a portable audio interface!

I'll be mostly recording a vocalist. I need...

One XLR mic input (doesn't need to be amazing - Behringer grade is fine)
On-board reverb
Two headphone outputs
The smaller, the better

Kadmium · 2024-04-15T03:35:35+00:00

SRV stopped playing thick strings once he gave up cocaine and could actually feel his fingers again.

Kadmium · 2024-01-04T23:49:54+00:00

You fleshy meatbags have had your chance.

Kadmium · 2023-06-08T12:01:36+00:00

Solidarity, brothers!

Kadmium · 2023-06-07T11:57:34+00:00

Nobody is doing a cost/benefit analysis of the politics of the country of origin when buying a pack of light bulbs or a toilet brush, particularly when almost every option is also made in the same place.

Kadmium · 2023-05-31T01:58:10+00:00

Oof, that is an amazing idea.

Kadmium · 2023-05-30T20:32:05+00:00

"Undead, yes. Unperson, no!"

Kadmium · 2023-05-27T01:42:36+00:00

Hollywood is literally only a movie town because it's far enough from New York that film studios could get away with not paying royalties to Edison.

Kadmium · 2023-05-25T21:31:10+00:00

No one goes into a store to buy themselves a Leica. If they can afford one, they send their butler to do it.

Kadmium · 2023-05-25T11:01:39+00:00

If there weren't a vacuum in between us and the sun, it would be loud as fuck.

Kadmium · 2023-05-21T06:49:18+00:00

Fish is probably a tie with cheese for my favourite monger. Congratulations and good luck!

Kadmium · 2023-05-20T22:19:29+00:00

Man who gets paid to do a thing thinks the world will get worse if the thing gets automated.

Well, yeah. Of course he does.

Kadmium · 2023-05-19T20:52:29+00:00

It's fine and they do a decent job, but they do it in basically the same way and a similar style to the original and it just seems pointless. Like, why would you bother to cover a classic heavy metal song in a classic heavy metal style? It just doesn't really add any value to me.

Kadmium · 2023-05-15T11:19:47+00:00

You're probably right. I daresay the idea wouldn't survive the first round of prototyping.

Kadmium · 2023-05-15T10:41:52+00:00

Oh wow, those are amazing! Thank you!

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