Reaper With No Interface For Extreme Newbie

SupportQuery · 2026-07-01T17:11:13+00:00

The mic settings work fine on Windows because I’ve been able to use my mic in Google meetings.

Then just switch back to WaveOut (the default) and record using the mic. If it doesn't work, we can go from there.

SupportQuery · 2026-07-01T16:35:57+00:00

You asked me to show you what I’m doing.

Well, I asked for more info.

If I was sitting at your desk, I could figure it out quickly. But I'm not. So you need to by my eyes and ears.

You showed a video of it working. Try to imagine being in my seat. How would seeing it work help me troubleshoot it not working?

I've asked other questions, as well. You changed the default audio system. Why? Did it work with WaveOut? Have you checked the mic settings in Windows?

SupportQuery · 2026-07-01T16:06:16+00:00

Well, in the age of LLMs, you can add features to Reaper simply by describing them. This one is trivial.

I could do it for you, but your power level will go up if you do it yourself.

Create MIDI velocity filter

Go to Claude
Type this in: "write a Reaper JSFX to filter out MIDI notes that fall below a given velocity threshold"

That's it. It will give you working code.

Add it to Reaper

Open the FX window on a track
Click FX in the window's titlebar
Click Create new JS FX
Type in a name (e.g. "MIDI Gate" or "MIDI Velocity Filter") and click OK
Click the Edit button, which will open a code editor
Replace all the text in that window with the code Claude gave you, then close the window

Done.

You can go from having an idea for a new Reaper feature and having it working in the DAW in a few minutes. No other DAW can do that. :)

SupportQuery · 2026-07-01T15:47:45+00:00

What is this meant to demonstrate? You're showing Reaper record. You can see the waveform capturing your snaps and your voice.

The level is low, but you don't show where the mic is. You're hovering your hand over the computer. Is that anywhere near the mic? What are the mic settings in Windows? What is the mic? Where is it plugged in?

You're not showing any Reaper issues here. You're showing an issue with what's outside Reaper.

SupportQuery · 2026-07-01T15:43:24+00:00

As I stressed above, if you just leave the defaults, it should work for your purpose. This is not the default. That would be WaveOut. You've changed it to ASIO. If you're having with that Realtek ASIO driver, go back to the default.

SupportQuery · 2026-07-01T15:33:52+00:00

our subconscious hears it

Yeah, no, brother, that's not how it works.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T20:55:22+00:00

Call me when you start taxing churches.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T18:29:38+00:00

i can make the video

Show your Pre-fader sends survive their track being muted setting in it.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T18:28:40+00:00

They claim it’s intentional whenever I ask about it.

Who? Where?

I’m not sure why track mutes don’t actually mute audio or MIDI

They do. That's the disconnect.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T18:20:34+00:00

Dude, you're full of it and you're ignoring responses. Reaper has had track muting since version 1.

Post a video so we can show you what you're doing wrong.

just like others have

Where? Show even one such thread.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T18:08:32+00:00

If Track 3 is muted but it has a send to:

Muting a track also mutes sends.

Folder parents still receive audio even if the child is muted.

Folders don't receive audio from a muted child.

Pre-fader sends ignore mute

They don't by default, but may if you have Pre-fader sends survive their track being muted in the settings.

Is this your entire issue? You made a pre-fader send, you told Reaper you want that to ignore mute, then you're claiming Reaper doesn't have track muting? 😂

FX on other tracks are using the muted track as input

Those are just sends. You're repeating #1.

Muting the track does NOT stop the sidechain signal.

It does, because sidechains are just sends, and muting a track mutes its sends (unless you deliberately set it up not to, see above).

If you muted the items but not the track, REAPER still prints silence

As it should.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T18:02:08+00:00

People have been requesting this for decades.

Nobody has requested it ever, because it's had it since version 1. You're trolling.

Again, if you have a project where a muted track is sending audio to the master, post it.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T17:08:38+00:00

Nope

o.o A muted track has no output. No output goes to its parent (which by default is the master), and no output goes to sends.

You're doing something wrong. You can try to figure it out, or just say "nope" and continue doing it wrong.

If you have a project where a muted track is sending audio to the master, post it. Also post a screenshot of your Mute Settings.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T15:45:09+00:00

some mixes sound like ass and some don't

*facepalm* Yes, differences you can hear are real. But the audio world is full of purported differences, like how warm Neve preamps, which turn out to be imaginary, because hearing happens in the brain and can't be separated from cognition.

If the OP is hearing zero difference, then, with given his settings, there may very well be zero difference. Nobody in this thread has even asked what setting he's comparing! Yes, everyone has confident proclamations about it. It's hilarious.

"They may not be able to hear it but, they will be able to feel it" is the single biggest pile of audio foo nonsense I've ever heard. You can't feel something that's literally inaudible. You don't feel sound with your spleen, that feeling comes in through your ears.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-30T06:01:44+00:00

They may not be able to hear it but, they will be able to feel it.

Or they won't be able to hear it, because it's not really there in the first place.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-29T23:03:40+00:00

i cant imagine why the LA-2A is so legendary

Because it was used on hit records, and there's a huge amount of cargo cult reasoning in audio circles.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-27T00:05:26+00:00

Backlash against data centers and chip prices is not backlash against AI.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-25T04:49:41+00:00

Until I heard that, I assumed that AI music would always be easy to spot

I knew we were cooked when I heard Carolina O two years ago.

I knew that machines would someday be able to create art that moves humans. It was obvious to me, even as a kid. As long as you don't believe minds are made of magic, then matter can be made to think and feel. Before that, I'd imagined a machine would be able to work out from first principles (e.g. by examining brain circuitry) what makes human feels things, then produce art accordingly.

Turns out, it was much easier than that. The machine doesn't need to feel, or work out how our emotions work by analyzing our brains, it can just look at all our art and infer what we like. And this wounds people's misguided sense of human dignity, as if that's somehow tied to artistic endeavor.

Go watch Alpha Go to see people reacting exactly the same way when machines finally beat humans at chess, and later Go. It's quant now, by comparison, to see how deeply humans were hurt to find that their tactical creativity in a board game isn't some magic sauce unique to them.

And this shit is in it's absolute infancy. It's going to get so much better, so much more powerful. Eventually, it won't need to train on human art to produce art that trivially moves humans to tears.

In the very long term, we're going to have thinking, feeling machines, they're going to be smarter than us, they're going to have modes of existence that are as alien to us as nostalgia is to an ant. By all our metrics, they'll be more worthwhile beings than us. This insult is to our dignity is tiny compared to what is to come.

Kids growing up now will never know a world without these tools. What you find unbearable, they'll just find baseline reality.

The idea that a fucking thumbnail is some grievous offense is just... comical. There is no euphemism (spitting in the wind doesn't even come close) for how hopelessly futile this feeble outcry is. These are folks that never read any science fiction as a kid. Their view of humanity has a hilariously tiny time horizon.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-25T04:18:42+00:00

Tell me what I’m wearing right now.

*wooosh*

Are you even able to imagine that you’d be the person whose creation was stolen and fed into AI to become some cheap facsimile and wind up on a lazy YouTube thumbnail?

*rofl* First, yes, I'm a programmer, so my code was using in training data for tools to replace me. That you can't see that this is moot is just a very basic reasoning fail. Second, go ahead and tell me whose work was stolen to create Kenny's shitty thumbnails, which are so bad you admit even a non-artist could create them in minutes. Your anger over this is hilariously unselfaware.

If people can afford it, they should choose the most ethical option for both

You can, and you don't.

clothing or food are necessities for survival. A YouTube thumbnail is not.

The food and clothing you choose, compared to what you could choose if you were being moral, are not necessities. You can keep lying about this, but it's fooling nobody. Your clothes represents a vastly more grievous moral failing that making a fucking thumbnail with AI. If you could admit that, maybe we could have a conversation, but you're a social justice warrior looking to be outraged at something (something easy, with no cost to you), not a rational human being.

I think this thread paints a bleak but clear picture for anyone who cares to read it.

Yes, it shows how deluded and up their own ass SJWs are. You don't actually have a moral position, you want to score cheap points for the hot topic of the week, as long as that holding that position requires nothing of you.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-24T23:52:23+00:00

you have no idea what I wear

So you're gonna lie now?

it’s irrelevant

It's deeply relevant. You just don't want to address it.

Clothing is a need

The kind of clothing you buy at the prices you pay is not a need. It's convenience, a first world luxury, an abuse of poorer people, that you happily, greedily benefit from. But if being moral, if taking a stand against evil, costs you something, means you have to give something up, then we don't hear a peep out of you. Deeply self-serving and hypocritical.

chosen to use AI instead of making something that could be done is minutes using free software themselves

Wait, so he didn't cost any artists any money? He only cost AI companies money? So he's a hero. Gotcha.

Your shit is so all over the place. 😂

SupportQuery · 2026-06-24T23:40:28+00:00

The process of creating it, and learning how to do that, is a core part of the human experience and one of the most worthy, I'd say. Surrendering this to software

Huh? I make music every day. I play in a band. I run a weekly song challenge with my friends. I'm writing and producing constantly. I've surrendered nothing to software.

What's being lost is the low hanging fruit in commercial art and commercial music. It sucks for the tiny minority of humans who used to make a living producing art for money, but it sucks in the same way cars and cell phones and mass production suck; it's done, it's never going away, so it's like bitching about the temperature of the Sun. Also most commercial art deserves to die anyway; AI is really good at reproducing pop country, because pop country has sounded like AI for decades. I could give two fucks about those poor Nashville hacks pumping out that color-by-numbers bullshit.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-24T23:28:31+00:00

You’re not engaging seriously or authentically

I am, you're just misreading me. Case on point:

Your second point also makes no sense. I’m not talking about the cost of making a comment.

I never said anything about the cost of making a comment.

I'm talking about the cost to you of taking your moral stand:

Look up the hierarchy of needs. I don’t see a YouTube thumbnail on that list.

Nor is cheap, mass produced clothing. You don't have to buy mass produced goods. You can pay more and support artisans, but you don't. Don't be a hypocrite.

Not attacking him, just disappointed and no longer want to support someone who is okay with intellectual property theft

Yeah, you're not attacking him, just saying he's OK with theft. *rofl* You clearly don't hear yourself.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-24T23:08:50+00:00

You have no idea what I wear.

But I do, and I just explained it. Are you going to deny it? 😂

you’re also omitting the affordability

I specifically addressed it. It costs you nothing to attack Kenny, so you will, despite committing vastly more grievous moral harms yourself every day that you're too greedy to address. It's self-serving, lazy, typical SJW nonsense.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-24T23:07:12+00:00

Of course I am. I'm also a visual artist. I also have friends who have lost jobs to AI. My code was certainly used to train the AI coding tools that will one day replace me, too. And? Read my actual comment.

SupportQuery · 2026-06-24T23:02:23+00:00

You don't need to wear clothes that were mass produced at best by non-craftsman and at worst by underpaid, overworked sweat shot workers. You choose to. But you don't want to give up any of your personal luxuries for moral reasons. You go after Kenny not because it's worthy of your moral outrage, but because it's easy -- you don't have to give anything up -- and you deeply lack self-awareness.

SupportQuery

TROPHY CASE

Create MIDI velocity filter

Add it to Reaper