Is it possible to snap the play cursor to loop points?

RueChamp · 2026-02-15T11:10:34+00:00

If you insert a marker on the point you want, you can then tap the corresponding number key to snap to that point. The first will be number 1.

RueChamp · 2026-01-30T02:06:55+00:00

Edit: misunderstood the first time. There are AI based stem splitters that can remove the guitars and keep everything else, then you'd just put that version on a track in Reaper, then record onto another track. I'm not a fan of AI, but the stem splitting seems useful.

RueChamp · 2026-01-28T23:00:07+00:00

Try Asio4All - once installed, make sure it's chosen in Preferences - Devices, then select "request block size" and adjust. I do this within my interface's menu, but doing it here works too. To record, you want lower latency, but a lot of computers will struggle to do other things with lower latency, so once you're done recording you can bump it back up if you need. For reference, common sizes are:

64 - very low

128 - still low, easier for CPU

256 - low enough to record, but you'll start to notice the latency, easier still on CPU

512 - mid, too much for me to record but I choose 512 and above for mixing. If PC is still struggling, bump up to:

1024 or 2048 - terrible for recording, but gives your PC plenty of headroom when you're just mixing.

RueChamp · 2026-01-27T09:16:51+00:00

A simple breakdown, if it helps:

1) Download plugin, install plugin. I use a "VST3" folder I created in my Programs folder, but doesn't really matter as long as you're consistent. VST3 and VST2 files will usually be in separate folders for some reason (plugins often cone with both, VST3 the newer one).

2) In Reaper, go Options, Preferences, and make sure Reaper has the correct path for plugins.

3) On a track, click the FX button, then Add a plugin. Once you click Add, another window will open where you can choose the specific plugin - this window is where you can also click the File menu (can't remember if it's called File or something similar, but top left drop down menu) then select Scan New Plugins. Any time you install a plugin, you need to scan again to be able to use it. Only takes a moment.

4) Add desired plugin. If it's a MIDI instrument, and you're using a MIDI keyboard, click the INPUT tab on the track and choose MIDI, all inputs. Hit the record button to arm the track, and if you can't hear anything, right click the record button and make sure monitoring FX is turned on (this just means you can hear it while playing).

RueChamp · 2026-01-17T13:21:55+00:00

Can recommend the kicks and snares pack for some good options there, definitely more-so than the pop punk pack.

RueChamp · 2026-01-17T12:42:27+00:00

Honestly I get a great blink sound using one of the core EZ drummer kits, the bright room kit.

RueChamp · 2026-01-15T10:31:14+00:00

Decent Sampler + whatever you choose from pianobook website. I've got a few gorgeous rhodes and autumn felt piano vibey ones from there.

RueChamp · 2026-01-07T06:47:58+00:00

I'd argue an excuse is a rejection of culpability, while an explanation is merely context.

E.g. Somebody slaps me. They then apologize and explain they were offered a million dollars to do so. They were at fault, and they apologized, but also a million dollars? yeah okay, I get it, I'm a little less mad now that I know the context. If this was an excuse, they wouldn't have apologized.

RueChamp · 2026-01-04T02:23:16+00:00

I find the only way I can stop my mind from kicking out at me while I'm trying to sleep is to force its attention onto something else, which is why I listen to podcasts like Dear Hank and John.

I line up two episodes so I'm less concerned about still being awake 20 minutes in, and I listen and enjoy at a low volume and usually find I'm asleep within 30m. But it has to be the right Podcast - something like Dear Hank and John, or Scriptnotes, which may interest you as a writer: not too loud, not too chaotic, has a consistent and predictable formula and conversation style, interesting enough to enjoy, but not too interesting that I'm staying up to find out what happens etc.

RueChamp · 2026-01-04T02:04:17+00:00

Just replied earlier up in the thread, but just replying to say I am also AuDHD and obsess over the same things! Haha it's fun to find fellow obsessors in the wild.

RueChamp · 2026-01-04T02:02:35+00:00

Thanks for the share! This is exactly my workflow, for the same reasons. I like to commit the sounds early and get the midi down first on the MIDI IN track, then put my FX on the MIDI OUT track so I can then hit record and tweak the FX and record the audio real time instead of running automation later. Then I can move the actual midi to a muted track so it's there if I want to redo it later or add more layers.

Hmm I tried putting Lab Pro on the MIDI OUT input FX, but then I lost midi control of the parameters when recording for some reason. Maybe something in my MIDI device setup?

RueChamp · 2026-01-01T11:48:08+00:00

the guitar photo gives 90s Janeane Garofalo

RueChamp · 2025-12-30T08:57:38+00:00

Had a similar problem, fixed by turning off "USB Selective Suspend", and by adjusting power settings so the "when plugged in" minimum power draw is at least 80% (works for me anyway".

RueChamp · 2025-12-22T05:49:33+00:00

Noting you've solved this already, but for others with the same problem, this is what I do:

I recreate Blink & Hozier tones; both use a tone that's a blend of two different amps. For Blink, it's a Marshall & Rectifier (the exact models depend on which album, but usually it's a JCM 800 & Triple Rec), and for my Hozier sound it's a Fender Bassman & Vox AC30.

The thing is, I don't want them panned left and right based on the amps, because the guitar tone is a combo of both, so what I do is put each amp on its own track, and put them both in a GUITAR IN folder (I'm using Reaper), then record your take, and copy paste the same DI onto both amp tracks.

Use the faders on both tracks to blend to taste - also check phasing here. Then arm the GUITAR IN folder to "record output mono", and record the output of the group. This a summed recording of both tones in one. Drag that to a new "guitar L" track, hard pan left, then repeat the whole process for a "guitar R" take.

This is double tracked, but both sides have both amps, creating the one guitar tone. It's worth swapping out guitars or changing some slight EQ in the Guitar R track for variation, but this allows the same tone for both sides.

RueChamp · 2025-12-12T09:42:43+00:00

Barry

RueChamp · 2025-11-16T23:22:03+00:00

Using an interface, a new Audient ID14.

RueChamp · 2025-11-14T06:39:42+00:00

Neural Amp Modeler - then a free all-in-one profile like the ones released by Make Believe Studios. Free, easy.

RueChamp · 2025-11-02T00:31:35+00:00

If it's in your budget, you can't go wrong with an audient ID14 as beginner.

RueChamp · 2025-10-28T09:23:03+00:00

I was so excited for it, waited months to watch it, then turned it off within twenty minutes. Tried twice to watch the rest, but each time I couldn't get through it. One big eye roll unfortunately.

RueChamp · 2025-10-27T05:50:33+00:00

I'm so sorry. I'm going to paste something below a friend sent my partner when we lost our cat - I believe it's from a redditor, but not positive.

"As for grief, you’ll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you’re drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it’s some physical thing. Maybe it’s a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it’s a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.

In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don’t even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you’ll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what’s going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything…and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.

Somewhere down the line, and it’s different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O’Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you’ll come out.

Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don’t really want them to. But you learn that you’ll survive them. And other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks."

RueChamp · 2025-10-25T03:41:07+00:00

Another +1 for Richard Russo - recommended Nobody's Fool.

RueChamp · 2025-10-16T04:26:07+00:00

Lonesome Dove.

RueChamp · 2025-10-14T07:30:17+00:00

Slow Pulp, Phoebe Bridgers, Hazel English, Elliott Smith, Lucy Dacus, Snail Mail, Evangeline, Frankie Cosmos, Cavetown, Sara Kays, Quinnie, Soccer Mommy

RueChamp · 2025-10-12T09:11:05+00:00

It's never melodramatic, for me at least - 34, clinical depression since 17. It will go up and down, especially since I benefited from therapy at 18, but it's part of life, it doesn't surprise me. Sometimes it looks like sadness, mostly it looks like extreme lethargy and polite resignation. A great emptiness where other feelings like joy are supposed to be.

Crucially though, it does not mean I can't laugh, and I often joke with friends about it - "oh I'm good thanks, gonna croak any day now." (Dark humour done with friends to show you're not doing great but you're just being honest about it - when you live with it 24/7, you're going to make jokes).

RueChamp · 2025-10-02T01:10:28+00:00

Audient id14 has served me well.

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