In December I did a consulting call with producer Joey Sturgis to help him get up and running and understand the sometimes bizarre default settings of REAPER. We recorded this as a video to share on the Joey Sturgis Tones channel.
When I first started with REAPER I had a really hard time with it and had to spend a lot of time setting it up. Joey was about to give up on REAPER and through this consulting call I saved him months of frustration and trial and error on his own and completely flipped his perception of REAPER.
In this long video we look at many things like autobackups, zooming and scrolling, cross fade settings, timebase, and much more. Sorry I don’t have time stamps for each topic.
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4 responses to “Configuring REAPER’s essential settings with Joey Sturgis”
Jon, this walk through is bitchin! Thank you.
One weird thing: When I vertically ctrl-drag a selected portion of either midi item or audio item, Reaper isn’t creating a new track under/above like it is for you guys. Any thoughts?
not sure. what it should do is create up to 1 track below the last track if dragged below the arrange view/track area.
Jon, I tried to add a VSTi and for some reason I re-downloaded Reaper and now it is the trial version. I can not locate the license key, I’ve followed many youtube videos with no prevail. Any suggestions ? I have emailed cockos registration.
Hey, I’m having clicking and popping in my playback that was never there before. The only difference on my end is I was using the evaluation license and now I’m not. I imported my license key, and that’s literally the only change I made. I know that doesn’t sound like it makes any sense, but that’s what’s happening and changing my sample rate and block size makes no difference.
My setup:
Dell laptop with 16gb ram, core i7 processor, 256gb sdd
Boss GT-100 multi effects unit setup as my audio interface.
Obvioiusly this is a little discouraging. When I was using the evaluation license, I could have multiple project windows open, editing 10 or more tracks with fx applied and midi drum tracks for each. I’ve updated my ASIO drivers and installed the newest version of Reaper but I’m still getting the clicks and pops. The product key really shouldn’t have anything to do with it, should it? That doesn’t make any sense to me. I love using Reaper and I just paid for the thing, so like… what the? Hope to hear from you, thanks
Jason