[realmusicians] Re: Reaper on Win 7/64?
- From: Indigo <33indigo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:08:48 -0500
Hi Tom,
Rare that I get a chance to repay you for all the helpyou've provided
for me.
On win7 64, Wineyes 7.5.1 runs Reaper any version 64, but not while
ReaAccess is running.
With both running, Reaper freezes as soon as you open it.
You need to wait for application manager to come up, close Reaper, and
the whole system doesn't collapse if you back out that way.
Meantime, NVDA, jaws and system access all run both Reaper 64 and
ReaAccess simultaneously.
You know, I think one's first and best experience of Reaper should be in
XP, with Windoweyes 6.1.
I mean true XP, not a virtual XP.
The oldest machine you have around the house will probably run Reaper
just fine, it was written to run on almost anything, 2 ghz, half a meg
of ram, does just fine.
You'll totally appreciate what ReaAccess is doing for you, with nice
tracks you just arrow to to select, move anywhere along the time line
with right left arrow keys, plus page up down for bigger jumps, press R
to record, very much reminds me of Sonar 4, only with a million more
options.
ReaAccess lets you easily route any track to any track, literally
anything to anything, press the letter I to enter the IO routing dialog,
which is very intuitive.
Tab through its settings, just hit escape to return to the tracks, no
need to save settings made in the routing dialog..
At your tab keys you find recording options for the track you have
arrowed to.
After making your selections hit enter to keep them.
The only stumbling block is configuring your audio and midi, in Reaper's
options, preferences.
You can get to the menus with F10, when they're not opening with the alt
key.
In preferences, you can read all the topics at your number pad, left
click any topic to open it, then go to the tab key to move through settings.
.
All of configuring your audio and midi device speaks, just requires a
tiny little extra move to get it done.
Audio is the main topic, under that is midi devices, then buffering.
When you tab to
the edit box to enable your default midi device, you arrow down and it
will read, but it will be disabled.
To get it enabled, do the pointer routed to cursor command, find the
name of your midi device at the number pad, right click it, go back to
the arrow keys and check enable, and also enable for midi controller.
Those are 2 separate checks to put in.
There are 2 separate edit boxes where you need to enable your midi
device. Keep on tabbing down until you've enabled both, then do the
usual apply and okay.
Other than that one little spot where the move over to the number pad is
required, all else in Reaper's options preferences seems straight
forward and more or less obvious.
There are a ton of settings you don't need to change, they are for later
use.
To enter learning mode, so you can hear what all the keyboard shortcuts
do without causing them to act, press F12, press F12 again to exit
learning mode.
The qwerty keyboard is not quite full of useful commands provided by
ReaAccess, and more shortcuts at the number pad with numlock on, and
there is a list of hundreds of possible actions not yet assigned to
shortcuts, just plug in the shortcut key combination you want.
Hope this is enough to get you going, but I'll gladly help up to the
limits of my knowledge in Reaper,
Indigo L
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11/26/2011 12:27 PM, Tom Kingston wrote:
I've been meaning to give Reaper a whirl seeing as I'm not really doing
anything in my studio and I don't feel like battling Sonar bloat,
complexity, and accessibility. But someone on the GW list said that
Reaper 64 wouldn't run on Win 7/64 and blamed it on Window-Eyes. Then
one of the guys at GW installed Reaper 64 on Win 7/64 and it ran fine.
That is until he installed ReAccess. Then it blew up. And it didn't
matter if Window-Eyes was running or not. I'm not sure, but I think he
said he even tried it on his laptop at home which doesn't even have
Window-Eyes installed and the same thing happened.
So, knowing absolutely nothing about Reaper, I'm wondering if installing
the 32 bit version will work on Win 7/64, where to get the latest (or
best) builds, and any documentation, tutorials, podcasts, etc.
And while we're on the subject, has anyone compared Reaper versus
Audacity? From what little I've heard I get the impression that Reaper
is the better of the two. Any comments?
Thanks much,
Tom
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