You can't reach the end - so enjoy the ride. I think you might need to be patient with yourself, because there will always be something more to learn with Reaper. I learned by doing - always learning more as I needed more. When I got to Reaper I was very overwhelmed, but I kept it simple - I recorded a very simple song : guitar bass and vocal. Sometime I get lazy and rather than re-record a bad bass guitar take, I simple adjust so it fits. Seriously, it is so easy, transparent, and does such a good job that it feels like cheating.

Making a guitar fit to the tempo of a drum track, or the bass fit to the guitar tempo WAS A NIGHTMARE! In Reaper it's almost too easy.

One thing I also remember from Audacity was how frustrating is was to edit audio tracks. and by some great magic it is always using the same audio track - never actually changing the source. In Reaper I don't do this anymore - it is very very low CPU usage and you add many FXs - duplicate audio to other tracks - cut into pieces - stretch - distort - route a signal to other tracks - etc. If I remember my Audacity days I used to add effects, render, and re-import. You can add STRETCH MARKS and move sections of the WAV audio to adjust the tempo to beats or another audio. You can split a track onto pieces and move them around anywhere in same track or a new track. If I can get the hand of these operations I will be more or less where I was with Audacity and ready to use some of Reaper's more sophisticated features and probably come back and bombard you with more questions. Reverbs: I used some of the presets in Audacity (Vocal I, Vocal 2, Small-sized room.), which I liked but do not know how to incorporate the different values into Reaper.Īre the separate tracks recorded in mono? How to increase/decrease volume on just one part of a track?ĥ. New model is that once only play is the unusual case instead. Move one part to another part of a trackģ Make a part of a track silent without deleting the space and shortening the length of the traceĤ. Old model in Audacity is that once-only play is the default, but loop enabled play is the unusual case that you start with a modifier key. In Reaper, I can record, overdub, export, even import a track.Ģ. You see I started looking at some of the instructional video but they all move ahead to quickly. So if someone could explain just these simple operations in Reaper (which I used all the time in Audacity) I would be very grateful.

However, what seemed dead simple in Audacity seems very complicated to me in Reaper.

Record, overdub, adjust the volume, take of some of the unnecessary bass in the Eq, a bit or rev and tiny bit of compression. I did not do anything very complicated in Audacity. I have been recording myself in Audacity for a couple of years (vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, acoustic bass) but would like to take advantage of Reaper's obvious advantage of being able to be adjusted in real time. It does say do not be embarrassed to ask any questions.

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