Freezing tracks was one of the most helpful things I've learned how to do a couple of years ago. It truly does let you be able to get by with a cheap computer.
The freezing tracks function is so helpful to me because At the minute I’m stuck to using a crappy old laptop that I have had for 5 years now and some of the songs I have been working on have had 15-20 tracks on them with some heavy plugins, freezing tracks will save me a lot of frustration haha thank you, Adam!
Glad to see Adam mention freezing tracks. I found that incredibly helpful when I was working on a core2duo that was beyond showing it's age. It's also wicked helpful for learning to dial in a tone and stick with it. I'm lucky to have a much better setup now, but I still freeze tracks out of habit and it helps me not constantly fuck with plugin parameters.
@@BellsCuriosityShop It's hugely helpful. When I think of old school 4 track recordings, the level of commitment is maddening but I don't know that digital recording has really made for better music. Whatever little things we can do to commit, and learn from those commitments, seems like a strength. We have the versatility to go back and correct mistakes, which is incredible, but there's so much to learn from tracking a shit tone, trying to make it work, and realizing what went wrong.
@@Zoidberg696 I used a four-track cassette for demos thirty years ago. It was tough trying to get everything into four tracks - drum machine on one, bass, rhythm guitar then vocal and lead guitar on final track. That's what worked best for me as I used cheap tape that sounded terrible on bouncedowns. No effects afterwards and threeband eq, with every mix sounding like mud.
Adam was my first in depth tutor for Reaper when I was new to that DAW and I never understood hiw he got so few credit for it. That new collaboration with Glenn will give him proper recognition I hope. Reaper is surely one of the best DAW's out there. I love it and I'm not interested in switching to another one.
Reaper is available on Linux too! Not Perfect Linux Audio Recording Setup: Jack Audio Connect Kit into Aurdor (Vocals) > LMMS (Drums) > Pug-ins > Master Mix
Just bought Reaper and the course because Studio One crapped out on me which im heated about and also Cakewalk by Bandlab crapped on my mix too so I bought Reaper in hope it wouldn't fail me and I love it so far. Cant wait to dig into Adam's course and master it! My first mix in it came out splendid
So here is a weird one. Starting Reaper takes at least 5x (1.5 min) as long at starting studio one. Both are loading the same plugins. Studio one basically just opens and I go to town, But for whatever reason Reaper is pokey. FYI I run a older Lenovo ThinkServer with two processors and 16gig of ram. No lack of HP. :)
Considering the sales ads; At a certain point it is hard to tell who gets the most brown finger award, but I like it anyway. It means we get to see more stuff at both your channels :)
Can you do a video on how to create a DDP Master in Reaper? If this is even possible in Reaper, as some do suggest, it may be a bigger threat than previously stated to all other DAWs.
There's a whole other way you can save cpu on reaper *on top* of this. Settings > Audio > Buffering > Thread Priority: Time Critical; Behavior: 0. This reduces the CPU amount by an *unbelievable* amount. The prompt at the bottom of the settings window suggests that low latencies may be unstable, but I've been having *zero* issues!
I used to run reaper on a Pentium 4 with 1 Gb ram 2-3 yrs ago. 15-20 tracks at 1024 or 2048 sample buffer On asio using a zoom G5 as my interface. Couldnt use any mid leve vsts though.
I should've been interviewed here, ran reaper on a 12 year old( bought in 2008 ) win 7 laptop for 3 years. It had 2gb of ram and a b960 processor. Didn't do anything productive because I was lazy ass but if it comes down to running, Hell Yeah did it run. It ran like a normal DAW even with 9-10 tracks and could handle light plugins( non reaper vst were the ones that took up the RAM) Great interview btw, it's always good with Adam Steel
The baking in of the effects is a great plan, I used to do this. Used the Spitfire audio LABS which takes a lot of ram so I recorded it entirely, then used the audio instead of the plugin and midi to free up space. The freezing he shows is a great idea that I didn't know.
Hey Glenn, I’m 14 and I share a room with my 17 year old brother. I want to turn my room into a studio, but he doesn’t like the idea of me putting foam squares on the walls, putting my desk in the prime acoustic spot and stuff like that. Do you think not doing those will change the quality of my songs, or does it not matter that much? Also, I don’t have much money, and do you have any recommendations for some cheap gear? Thanks!
Ubuntu Studio is 100% free and open source, everything is tailored for recording. My laptop is 7 years old and runs without issue recording a full band live.
I recorded and mixed (with the skills of a cheap combo amp user) two EPs with a computer that had only 2 gigs of ram. The EPs included: 4 distorted rhythm guitar tracks, 2 lead guitar tracks, 2 clean guitar tracks, 3 vocal tracks, 2 bass tracks, one virtual drum kit but all the parts were mixed separately , 2 reverb guitar tracks, and I don't remember the rest. But yeah, the computer I was using at the time could handle that rather easily. However, whenever I had to mix, I had to take a listen to the tracks outside Reaper so that there would not be any "visuals" going on (the tracks moving over time, etc), then pause and do the changes that I felt were necessary. So yeah, couldn't mix as I listened, but still, the computed got the job done. As for the quality, well, let's put say they were two fun projects.
After hearing about Reaper here for years I took the plunge as I'm finally starting to need a DAW. It seems super optimized, my 10 year old CPU never broke a sweat on my projects. I run into issues with Chrome gobbling all of my 8 GB of memory. I was curious how much Reaper would pile on to my memory woes so fired up Task Manager to have a look. My jaw dropped when I saw Reaper only using about 10 MB, even with a project loaded. It looks to me like Reaper will virtually unload a project if Reaper has gone out of focus for a while. When you bring it back into focus you can see your project getting loaded back into memory super quick. These guys are my kind of programmers (I do almost the same thing for a living). I'm totally sold on Reaper and will happily fork over the miniscule $60 when I finally get time to use it again.
I have got to start doing this. i got iZotope Neutron at the start of Lockdown and some tracks turn to sludge when I've got that applied to every track. That and the Hammond I have a tendancy to use on everything!
Hey Glenn, could you do a review of Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio? I've been using Mixcraft for almost 10 years, and since moved to Pro Tools as well. What I've found is that at less than 1/3rd of of the price of Pro Tools, Mixcraft is still the more user friendly DAW, and way easier to be creative with. It's definitely built with the musician in mind. Love to see your thoughts on it.
I like Logic Pro. When away from the studio, I use Garageband and a tiny travel guitar -that cannot stay in tune- to sketch on an iPad. There are many AUv3 third party plugins now. The reasons to use Reaper *instead* on this channel last week (promoting a ProMix course that I own and intend to study) were not convincing at all. “Complicate things to customize workflow!” The reason touted here (limited budget) makes a lot more sense.
Amazing work Adam Steel, was really surprised about the $150 laptop recording a song at namm part. On my approach for reaper on a potato, I like to go through on tracks and use trim on the tracks Fx and trim the bypass for parts that don’t need that specific Fx at all, it’s been pretty helpful with my potato computer🤘🏻
Just compared Reaper and Cakewalk in terms of low-latency DI tracking of a guitar using an ampsim as insert plugin along with one instance of GGD Invasion. I could run Cakewalk with 128 samples buffer at best, Reaper runs smoothly at 32 samples. Everything else in the project being identical of course. Interface use is a Behringer UMC204HD. Impressive performance and the first deciding point to make the switch to Reaper.
I will totally try this one. I'm recording a full album in a fricking netbook and I'm using mostly virtual instruments and sims, so I have to render every midi instrument into a individual wav file, then create another project just for mixing. If I want to change something? Got to re-render everything again, it takes so much time and space so thank you for this one!
8 year old Gateway laptop with 8g of ram, maybe a 1.6g processor but I’m not sure maybe less, can run Reaper decent. Can definitely handle 8-10 tracks but will start to struggle if you start piling up the plug-ins. But I’d say you could do a decent simple mix. $100 would probably get you more power than that now days especially refurbished
Hey Glenn, hey Adam! Very informative vid! :-) Thank you! I've got one question: Glenn once mentioned, that you can control what starts with windows, using 'msconfig' (I remember him saying, he wanted to make a video about how to optimize / change windows settings for audio tasks)... So is there a way to set up a script (or something like that), that let's you start windows without all the stuff you don't need for recording / audio stuff? Greetings from Germany ;-)
One thing I always do when mixing and don't need to hear anything back in real time, is I put my buffer size up to the max. There's normally no reason to keep it way down when mixing, and the only thing you will get from doing that is worse performance.
Running Reaper on a 2012 laptop, usually around 30 tracks, I print fx as i go so most tracks have no plugins, maybe some js plugins here and there that use tiny cpu amount. Reaper is great!
I've always found most machines are fine with Reaper having stacks upon stacks of tracks! It's when you start side-chaining a lot that it goes "naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... I'm going to misbehave now"! Freezing tracks is essential if you're on a weak computer with a high-track content!
I remember back in college. Had a $1500 desktop using PT for audio editing, but thanks to the license edition i couldn't handle simple video cuts REAPER, though? Totally fine on a 5 year old, 4GB mem laptop. Literally the entire reason I graduated. Use REAPER, friends. It saves grades.
My stupid friends want me to use FL Studio for our trap/rap project and I’m kinda lazy to learn another DAW for recording my loved Metal...any experience with it?
FL sucks. It’s so weird. And one thing that you should remember: DAWs don’t make music. People do. It shouldn’t matter what gear or programs you have. The only thing that matters is what you make. I’m coming from Ableton and Logic, so take my advice with a grain of salt. ;)
Used to play around with FL Studio years ago. Always found the interface kind of confusing but it has a ton of built in toys (synths, sequencers, samplers, drum machines, etc.) Not sure how well it would do as your primary DAW as it seems more focused on midi and electronic based production. I never tried interfacing it with real instruments and mics, it was just a fun distraction. You'd probably be better off sticking with the DAW you're familiar with. I believe FL Studio can be run as a plugin through other DAWs if you're just wanting to use some of its synths, samplers, and other modules for your current project. Stick with the workflow that you know imo.
I know this sounds stupid, but I would KILL for a quick tutorial on how to get a *decent* recording of guitar with a smart phone (i.e. general placement towards an amp? free or cheap recording app?) this would be cool for these isolated times! *I'm trying to get a riff off my buddy to use in just a studio logo (much like your opener, but much shorter) and all I hear is percussive string noise, and his gorgeous distorted gear-head setup in the background. He has zero home studio setup, so no direct in.
Coming from Cubase 5, I must say that Cubase handles MIDI editing a little bit better than Reaper. I've also tried many DAW e.g. FL, Ableton, Cakewalk, and etc, yet I still think Reaper is one of the best in terms of MIDI editing capability. Or maybe that's just a matter of getting used to, as I just switched to Reaper on April this year.
I'm on Logic and score orchestral music so I have the choice of £1,500 for an out of date 2nd hand 12 core Mac or £50,000 for the new Mac which, oh, is a boat anchor in 5 years when they stop support for Intel based systems :o/ Apple - Liv'in the dream.
Slightly off-topic question: i have stumbled upon a plugin that claims to perform some kind of auto-mixing (iZotope Neutron 3). Have you had any experience with such a thing, and how do you think it would perform with metal tracks? Cheers from Italy.
Are these going with a Enterprise class CPU with proper support? Is the the RAM ECC? Are those drives also Enterprise Class? Is the chassis made of magnesium? You should ask about those things to the male kids who like to hang around you...
I have a question, how many cores do I realistically need to have to run software? I have reaper but some of my vsts still make playback stutter like crazy?
Can somebody please compare this to ableton live and cubase in terms of processing power needed to run a project of around 32 track with fairly decent amount of vst.i have ableton live 10 that came with my motu interface but its limited to 8 tracks and its having some hiccups already.it tried to optimize my 10 year pc(3770k i7,32 gb ram and 500 ssd) .would like to try reaper but I'm hesitating to learn a new daw.
I've been having issues with my project lately. It makes a garbled sound when I run a couple amp sims together in a mix. My specs are 3.3 ghz amd processor, 16gb ram, and a tb ssd and a 500gb hhd. I use a focusrite 18i20 to record and my buffer settings are 512 and 44.1 24bit (doesnt matter if I use 1024 for my buffer settings either). Why does this happen? What should o do to fix this? Doesnt matter if I have 3 tracks with guitar trying to write and just using 3 amp sims no other effects.
Check general CPU usage. Kill any background processes you don't need. Update drivers and Focusrite firmware. Try another USB port or get a USB expansion card with a better controller chipset.
i have 2 questions . what is the regular price for this coarse and will Adam will be supporting via chat or email if i need to ask him something . will he help ?
Hey Glenn, I was wondering if you guys think it'd be worth switching to Reaper midway through an album. I've been wanting to give Reaper a go, and I often always suggest it to people but I've never used it. I'm wondering would it just be better to finish what I'm doing in the DAW I have, despite the limitations of it, or lose time learning a new DAW but in the end of a possibly better result?
Probably wait, you know your current DAW, then start from scratch on a new project while running tutorials. If you haven't started mixing yet and can hold the exported/consolidated project maybe, but if part way you'll probably be starting all over again
Um probably not the best idea. I'm working on my own album right now and keeping things consistent in terms of the process is important to making sure everything sounds fluid and cohesive and helps makes things run faster. Change up the DAW and you have a HUGE change. Sets you back if you aren't already comfortable with the software. But if you're up to it and adaptable then it could work. It would just take patience.
So I recently bought a Zoom H4n Pro recorder for field recording interviews for a podcast. With the recorder you get Wavelab LE and Cubase LE for free which is awesome. I like free stuff. Anyway, I went and tried to download the Wavelab LE so I could edit my recent interview and get to know the software. Included in the box were download codes for the software so I just went on with it. OMG what a frickin' nightmare. You would think that the company behind the software would be interested in me succeeding in my download and having such a great time with my free edition of the software that I eventually would buy the full edition. Apparently not. First, I watched an outdated video of how to get around to it, where I was asked to make a profile on Steinberg's homepage. Then I had to confirm my email via a confirmation code and via link. Then I had to download their installation guide. Then I had to download their elicenser. Then they sent me a new verification code to put in my elicenser, and behold - the elicenser software that they requested me to download was apparantly now outdated. I then had to download a new elicenser via their homepage. This one was not outdated, and I succeeded in entering the code. I was now ready to download... CUBASE LE which not at all was the software I had requested for downloading. LOL. I then got angry and deleted all of their crap and installed Reaper in two clicks. They can stick their Wavelab and Cubase up their respective behinds. Cheers from Denmark, fuck them, and knep dig selv Glenn.
I can testify!!! I found out about Reaper in 2015.... Ran it on a Dell Laptop with 2 GB of Ram and 500 GD HD....have a better laptop.... Stuck with Reaper since.
Hi glenn, so i have recently been receiving problems with my audio interface. before the problem i was able to use the wasapi audio(only) system with my scarlett 2i2 2nd gen on reaper with the only problem of slight latency. i use my laptop headphones output because i don't have audio monitors and the interface headphone output is not functional. something happened after that and now i use the same preferences as before and it says audio device closed and i can only use the asio preference which stops me using the laptop output. is there anything you can think of other than spending more than 100$ that can help me get out of this situation? thanks and fuck you glenn
Freezing tracks is something I've never heard of before. While I don't use reaper, I found this option is available in most DAWs. Don't think I'll be switching any time soon, bit I appreciate the video regardless. Thanks, guys!
wow how! my amd fx 4ghz "8 core (its not really 8. its 4 cores 8 logical) would crumble witth that project ive had to increase my buffer quite a bit with no way near as many tracks and plugins.....
oh come on, video about Reaper performance metering and you completely ignored entire RT CPU % usage,and RT-longest-block latency? those are the primary indicators of when and why computer struggles with audio and results in crackling... right-click the Performance Meter and see those infos ;)
Adam can you call around and sort my shit out... and while you are there record our band.. and as you are there you might mix it and why not master it.... awaiting your response 😋... and before anyone says so I know this is smg's channel
Reaper will also save your marriage, do your taxes and save you 15% on your car insurance. Skipping another video Glenn, I get it you have to make your money to pay your bills. Be back next video 👍.
Reaper Was good but latelly it crash alot ....and I mean alot that is why I used Ableton 9 which actually captures much better audio sorry reaper I love you from years and years but it is true.
Freezing tracks was one of the most helpful things I've learned how to do a couple of years ago. It truly does let you be able to get by with a cheap computer.
Reaper is just the best DAW on the market, imo
I have tracked acoustic drums with 7 mics using netbook Lenovo Ideapad S10-2 with Intel Atom 1.6GHz and 1Gb ram. Yes, using Reaper.
Reaper is the only daw that lets me run multiple vst's at once. Blessed.
The freezing tracks function is so helpful to me because At the minute I’m stuck to using a crappy old laptop that I have had for 5 years now and some of the songs I have been working on have had 15-20 tracks on them with some heavy plugins, freezing tracks will save me a lot of frustration haha thank you, Adam!
Glad to see Adam mention freezing tracks. I found that incredibly helpful when I was working on a core2duo that was beyond showing it's age. It's also wicked helpful for learning to dial in a tone and stick with it. I'm lucky to have a much better setup now, but I still freeze tracks out of habit and it helps me not constantly fuck with plugin parameters.
I like what you're saying about forcing the mixer to stop messing with something that's probably already good enough.
@@BellsCuriosityShop It's hugely helpful. When I think of old school 4 track recordings, the level of commitment is maddening but I don't know that digital recording has really made for better music. Whatever little things we can do to commit, and learn from those commitments, seems like a strength. We have the versatility to go back and correct mistakes, which is incredible, but there's so much to learn from tracking a shit tone, trying to make it work, and realizing what went wrong.
@@Zoidberg696 I used a four-track cassette for demos thirty years ago. It was tough trying to get everything into four tracks - drum machine on one, bass, rhythm guitar then vocal and lead guitar on final track. That's what worked best for me as I used cheap tape that sounded terrible on bouncedowns. No effects afterwards and threeband eq, with every mix sounding like mud.
Hey Glenn just wanted to tell you I enjoy your channel and I hope your trip to LA was good and safe
Adam was my first in depth tutor for Reaper when I was new to that DAW and I never understood hiw he got so few credit for it.
That new collaboration with Glenn will give him proper recognition I hope.
Reaper is surely one of the best DAW's out there. I love it and I'm not interested in switching to another one.
Reaper is available on Linux too!
Not Perfect Linux Audio Recording Setup:
Jack Audio Connect Kit into Aurdor (Vocals) > LMMS (Drums) > Pug-ins > Master Mix
Just bought Reaper and the course because Studio One crapped out on me which im heated about and also Cakewalk by Bandlab crapped on my mix too so I bought Reaper in hope it wouldn't fail me and I love it so far. Cant wait to dig into Adam's course and master it! My first mix in it came out splendid
So here is a weird one. Starting Reaper takes at least 5x (1.5 min) as long at starting studio one. Both are loading the same plugins. Studio one basically just opens and I go to town, But for whatever reason Reaper is pokey.
FYI I run a older Lenovo ThinkServer with two processors and 16gig of ram. No lack of HP. :)
Considering the sales ads; At a certain point it is hard to tell who gets the most brown finger award, but I like it anyway. It means we get to see more stuff at both your channels :)
the intro, the roasting among peers, superb
Funny you just released this, I juststarted recording drums with an old shitty laptop using a two input interface and Reaper works great!
Bro what are your laptop specs?
Still waiting for you to bring back the Rule #2 shirt
Bob? Is that you? Me too!! 🤣🤣
If you use all VST3 plugins (if possible) they'll only use CPU power when In operation. Freezing tracks also works well too yeah.
Pretty cool and useful
Thanks for the video!
Can you do a video on how to create a DDP Master in Reaper? If this is even possible in Reaper, as some do suggest, it may be a bigger threat than previously stated to all other DAWs.
Yes its possible and you can add CDTEXT stuff.
@@djazz0 I figured this all out not long after this comment, Reaper kicks ass in being capable of creating DDP Masters.
@@dreaminglifepodcast yeah! :D
There's a whole other way you can save cpu on reaper *on top* of this. Settings > Audio > Buffering > Thread Priority: Time Critical; Behavior: 0. This reduces the CPU amount by an *unbelievable* amount. The prompt at the bottom of the settings window suggests that low latencies may be unstable, but I've been having *zero* issues!
I used to run reaper on a Pentium 4 with 1 Gb ram 2-3 yrs ago.
15-20 tracks at 1024 or 2048 sample buffer On asio using a zoom G5 as my interface.
Couldnt use any mid leve vsts though.
wow dude
Freezing tracks to free up resources? Wow, i had no idea you can do that. That's fucking awesome.
Do you have a video where you compare DAW's with mac and pc?
I should've been interviewed here, ran reaper on a 12 year old( bought in 2008 ) win 7 laptop for 3 years.
It had 2gb of ram and a b960 processor.
Didn't do anything productive because I was lazy ass but if it comes down to running, Hell Yeah did it run. It ran like a normal DAW even with 9-10 tracks and could handle light plugins( non reaper vst were the ones that took up the RAM)
Great interview btw, it's always good with Adam Steel
The baking in of the effects is a great plan, I used to do this. Used the Spitfire audio LABS which takes a lot of ram so I recorded it entirely, then used the audio instead of the plugin and midi to free up space.
The freezing he shows is a great idea that I didn't know.
Hey Glenn, I’m 14 and I share a room with my 17 year old brother. I want to turn my room into a studio, but he doesn’t like the idea of me putting foam squares on the walls, putting my desk in the prime acoustic spot and stuff like that. Do you think not doing those will change the quality of my songs, or does it not matter that much? Also, I don’t have much money, and do you have any recommendations for some cheap gear? Thanks!
Headphones my guy. But also.. Just stand your mattresses up when recording. Clean the floor and washes your laundry and everybody will love you
Thanks for the advice.
Please, tell me more!
Ubuntu Studio is 100% free and open source, everything is tailored for recording. My laptop is 7 years old and runs without issue recording a full band live.
Thanks for the heads up! Will definitely check it out. Never heard of it before.
I recorded and mixed (with the skills of a cheap combo amp user) two EPs with a computer that had only 2 gigs of ram. The EPs included: 4 distorted rhythm guitar tracks, 2 lead guitar tracks, 2 clean guitar tracks, 3 vocal tracks, 2 bass tracks, one virtual drum kit but all the parts were mixed separately , 2 reverb guitar tracks, and I don't remember the rest.
But yeah, the computer I was using at the time could handle that rather easily. However, whenever I had to mix, I had to take a listen to the tracks outside Reaper so that there would not be any "visuals" going on (the tracks moving over time, etc), then pause and do the changes that I felt were necessary.
So yeah, couldn't mix as I listened, but still, the computed got the job done. As for the quality, well, let's put say they were two fun projects.
After hearing about Reaper here for years I took the plunge as I'm finally starting to need a DAW. It seems super optimized, my 10 year old CPU never broke a sweat on my projects. I run into issues with Chrome gobbling all of my 8 GB of memory. I was curious how much Reaper would pile on to my memory woes so fired up Task Manager to have a look. My jaw dropped when I saw Reaper only using about 10 MB, even with a project loaded. It looks to me like Reaper will virtually unload a project if Reaper has gone out of focus for a while. When you bring it back into focus you can see your project getting loaded back into memory super quick. These guys are my kind of programmers (I do almost the same thing for a living). I'm totally sold on Reaper and will happily fork over the miniscule $60 when I finally get time to use it again.
I have got to start doing this. i got iZotope Neutron at the start of Lockdown and some tracks turn to sludge when I've got that applied to every track. That and the Hammond I have a tendancy to use on everything!
Reaper is so legit !
Alright alright alright I'll go buy something from promixacademty. You win.
Hey Glenn, could you do a review of Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio? I've been using Mixcraft for almost 10 years, and since moved to Pro Tools as well. What I've found is that at less than 1/3rd of of the price of Pro Tools, Mixcraft is still the more user friendly DAW, and way easier to be creative with. It's definitely built with the musician in mind. Love to see your thoughts on it.
I like Logic Pro. When away from the studio, I use Garageband and a tiny travel guitar -that cannot stay in tune- to sketch on an iPad. There are many AUv3 third party plugins now.
The reasons to use Reaper *instead* on this channel last week (promoting a ProMix course that I own and intend to study) were not convincing at all. “Complicate things to customize workflow!”
The reason touted here (limited budget) makes a lot more sense.
Amazing work Adam Steel, was really surprised about the $150 laptop recording a song at namm part. On my approach for reaper on a potato, I like to go through on tracks and use trim on the tracks Fx and trim the bypass for parts that don’t need that specific Fx at all, it’s been pretty helpful with my potato computer🤘🏻
Just compared Reaper and Cakewalk in terms of low-latency DI tracking of a guitar using an ampsim as insert plugin along with one instance of GGD Invasion. I could run Cakewalk with 128 samples buffer at best, Reaper runs smoothly at 32 samples. Everything else in the project being identical of course. Interface use is a Behringer UMC204HD. Impressive performance and the first deciding point to make the switch to Reaper.
Glenn would you consider making a video on how to get a good unique metal tone with VST's?
I will totally try this one. I'm recording a full album in a fricking netbook and I'm using mostly virtual instruments and sims, so I have to render every midi instrument into a individual wav file, then create another project just for mixing. If I want to change something? Got to re-render everything again, it takes so much time and space so thank you for this one!
Is there a full version of the intro song? It’s so good.
I'm finna boutta get this shit Glen
8 year old Gateway laptop with 8g of ram, maybe a 1.6g processor but I’m not sure maybe less, can run Reaper decent. Can definitely handle 8-10 tracks but will start to struggle if you start piling up the plug-ins. But I’d say you could do a decent simple mix. $100 would probably get you more power than that now days especially refurbished
I see a lot of potential in the content
Hey Glenn, hey Adam! Very informative vid! :-) Thank you!
I've got one question: Glenn once mentioned, that you can control what starts with windows, using 'msconfig' (I remember him saying, he wanted to make a video about how to optimize / change windows settings for audio tasks)... So is there a way to set up a script (or something like that), that let's you start windows without all the stuff you don't need for recording / audio stuff?
Greetings from Germany ;-)
One thing I always do when mixing and don't need to hear anything back in real time, is I put my buffer size up to the max. There's normally no reason to keep it way down when mixing, and the only thing you will get from doing that is worse performance.
OMG, this freezing tool is so useful!!!!!
Running Reaper on a 2012 laptop, usually around 30 tracks, I print fx as i go so most tracks have no plugins, maybe some js plugins here and there that use tiny cpu amount. Reaper is great!
I've always found most machines are fine with Reaper having stacks upon stacks of tracks! It's when you start side-chaining a lot that it goes "naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... I'm going to misbehave now"! Freezing tracks is essential if you're on a weak computer with a high-track content!
Ayyyyye the video I'm looking for! My laptop is a Dell Inspiron with an i3 laptop
I remember back in college. Had a $1500 desktop using PT for audio editing, but thanks to the license edition i couldn't handle simple video cuts
REAPER, though? Totally fine on a 5 year old, 4GB mem laptop. Literally the entire reason I graduated.
Use REAPER, friends. It saves grades.
My stupid friends want me to use FL Studio for our trap/rap project and I’m kinda lazy to learn another DAW for recording my loved Metal...any experience with it?
FL sucks. It’s so weird. And one thing that you should remember: DAWs don’t make music. People do. It shouldn’t matter what gear or programs you have. The only thing that matters is what you make. I’m coming from Ableton and Logic, so take my advice with a grain of salt. ;)
Used to play around with FL Studio years ago. Always found the interface kind of confusing but it has a ton of built in toys (synths, sequencers, samplers, drum machines, etc.) Not sure how well it would do as your primary DAW as it seems more focused on midi and electronic based production. I never tried interfacing it with real instruments and mics, it was just a fun distraction.
You'd probably be better off sticking with the DAW you're familiar with. I believe FL Studio can be run as a plugin through other DAWs if you're just wanting to use some of its synths, samplers, and other modules for your current project. Stick with the workflow that you know imo.
I know this sounds stupid, but I would KILL for a quick tutorial on how to get a *decent* recording of guitar with a smart phone (i.e. general placement towards an amp? free or cheap recording app?) this would be cool for these isolated times! *I'm trying to get a riff off my buddy to use in just a studio logo (much like your opener, but much shorter) and all I hear is percussive string noise, and his gorgeous distorted gear-head setup in the background. He has zero home studio setup, so no direct in.
So how much ram would be ideal so that I won't have any problems, unless I do something truly extreme?
I got an old acer laptop from 5 yeara ago.
Guess I'll download reaper now then.
Tho i need cubase for all dem midi
reaper can do midi, but might need a few external plugins etc
Reaper is excellent for midi.
Reaper is great for midi, I don’t know where this stigma has come from
Coming from Cubase 5, I must say that Cubase handles MIDI editing a little bit better than Reaper. I've also tried many DAW e.g. FL, Ableton, Cakewalk, and etc, yet I still think Reaper is one of the best in terms of MIDI editing capability. Or maybe that's just a matter of getting used to, as I just switched to Reaper on April this year.
@@VocasoGK any tips bro
I have a 8 year old thinkpad w/4gb ram and seamlessly multitrack in. Just did a mixdown out of the box, 16 out, 12 in. Not one single hiccup.
I had 13 year old Toshiba computer when i started recording. Reaper works better than any daw that i used with that computer.
i mix on an old laptop with mixcraft pro and it works fine. how much is reaper paying to push their stuff so heavily lately?
People can run the Linux ARM version on Raspberry Pi and devices like the PineBook Pro.
I'm on Logic and score orchestral music so I have the choice of £1,500 for an out of date 2nd hand 12 core Mac or £50,000 for the new Mac which, oh, is a boat anchor in 5 years when they stop support for Intel based systems :o/ Apple - Liv'in the dream.
Id reccomend looking into hackintosh
Reaper is so good !
MIX 'n FREEZE,,, story of my mixing life.!!!
Slightly off-topic question: i have stumbled upon a plugin that claims to perform some kind of auto-mixing (iZotope Neutron 3). Have you had any experience with such a thing, and how do you think it would perform with metal tracks?
Cheers from Italy.
I have a kick ass i7 Intel processor and lots of ram…. It still crackles. I’m so clueless now…
Hey Glenn, any way we can get the smg logo on a SnapBack?
Are these going with a Enterprise class CPU with proper support? Is the the RAM ECC? Are those drives also Enterprise Class? Is the chassis made of magnesium? You should ask about those things to the male kids who like to hang around you...
I have a question, how many cores do I realistically need to have to run software? I have reaper but some of my vsts still make playback stutter like crazy?
Can somebody please compare this to ableton live and cubase in terms of processing power needed to run a project of around 32 track with fairly decent amount of vst.i have ableton live 10 that came with my motu interface but its limited to 8 tracks and its having some hiccups already.it tried to optimize my 10 year pc(3770k i7,32 gb ram and 500 ssd) .would like to try reaper but I'm hesitating to learn a new daw.
Think I am going to move to reaper from Logic X, don't like what apple is doing with CPU change.
I've been having issues with my project lately. It makes a garbled sound when I run a couple amp sims together in a mix. My specs are 3.3 ghz amd processor, 16gb ram, and a tb ssd and a 500gb hhd. I use a focusrite 18i20 to record and my buffer settings are 512 and 44.1 24bit (doesnt matter if I use 1024 for my buffer settings either). Why does this happen? What should o do to fix this? Doesnt matter if I have 3 tracks with guitar trying to write and just using 3 amp sims no other effects.
Check general CPU usage. Kill any background processes you don't need. Update drivers and Focusrite firmware. Try another USB port or get a USB expansion card with a better controller chipset.
Glen I have an issue. When I try neural DSP products it doesn't sound right. Could this be from my CPU?
It even runs on a fucking Raspberry Pi. Like, barely, but it DOES.
I run reaper on a powerful computer. I'm happy to report it also works.
I use reaper on a weak laptop and even that struggles keeping up with more than 2 wav files at once 😭 still love reaper though
i have 2 questions . what is the regular price for this coarse and will Adam will be supporting via chat or email if i need to ask him something . will he help ?
Hey Glenn, I was wondering if you guys think it'd be worth switching to Reaper midway through an album. I've been wanting to give Reaper a go, and I often always suggest it to people but I've never used it. I'm wondering would it just be better to finish what I'm doing in the DAW I have, despite the limitations of it, or lose time learning a new DAW but in the end of a possibly better result?
Probably wait, you know your current DAW, then start from scratch on a new project while running tutorials.
If you haven't started mixing yet and can hold the exported/consolidated project maybe, but if part way you'll probably be starting all over again
@@jasonmullinder ^yes, this, PROBABLY NOT worth starting from scratch. Get familiar with it before the next big project.
Um probably not the best idea. I'm working on my own album right now and keeping things consistent in terms of the process is important to making sure everything sounds fluid and cohesive and helps makes things run faster. Change up the DAW and you have a HUGE change. Sets you back if you aren't already comfortable with the software. But if you're up to it and adaptable then it could work. It would just take patience.
Newbie question here - for high latency plug-ins, do you still get the latency on the final render?
No, Reaper knows how to compensate for latency. Unfortunately doing it live is impossible because you can’t go back in time!
I totally concur.. my laptop is pathetically underpowered, but I do full mixed without a hitch.
So I recently bought a Zoom H4n Pro recorder for field recording interviews for a podcast. With the recorder you get Wavelab LE and Cubase LE for free which is awesome. I like free stuff. Anyway, I went and tried to download the Wavelab LE so I could edit my recent interview and get to know the software. Included in the box were download codes for the software so I just went on with it. OMG what a frickin' nightmare. You would think that the company behind the software would be interested in me succeeding in my download and having such a great time with my free edition of the software that I eventually would buy the full edition. Apparently not.
First, I watched an outdated video of how to get around to it, where I was asked to make a profile on Steinberg's homepage. Then I had to confirm my email via a confirmation code and via link. Then I had to download their installation guide. Then I had to download their elicenser. Then they sent me a new verification code to put in my elicenser, and behold - the elicenser software that they requested me to download was apparantly now outdated. I then had to download a new elicenser via their homepage. This one was not outdated, and I succeeded in entering the code. I was now ready to download... CUBASE LE which not at all was the software I had requested for downloading. LOL.
I then got angry and deleted all of their crap and installed Reaper in two clicks. They can stick their Wavelab and Cubase up their respective behinds. Cheers from Denmark, fuck them, and knep dig selv Glenn.
I can testify!!! I found out about Reaper in 2015.... Ran it on a Dell Laptop with 2 GB of Ram and 500 GD HD....have a better laptop.... Stuck with Reaper since.
i got it on awesome and shit machines both. fuckin love it!
Btw what is the actual spec of the computer tho
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That was tj!
"Can it run Doom?"
No, can it run Reaper?
Can it run Crysis?
Hi glenn, so i have recently been receiving problems with my audio interface. before the problem i was able to use the wasapi audio(only) system with my scarlett 2i2 2nd gen on reaper with the only problem of slight latency. i use my laptop headphones output because i don't have audio monitors and the interface headphone output is not functional. something happened after that and now i use the same preferences as before and it says audio device closed and i can only use the asio preference which stops me using the laptop output. is there anything you can think of other than spending more than 100$ that can help me get out of this situation? thanks and fuck you glenn
Just run Reaper period! (on any machine) :)
Hey Glenn, you should try mixing a song without listening to it or any of the tracks in the process.
Freezing tracks is something I've never heard of before. While I don't use reaper, I found this option is available in most DAWs. Don't think I'll be switching any time soon, bit I appreciate the video regardless. Thanks, guys!
Great tutorial. Adam kind of reminds me of Stephen Merchant, just a little.
wow how! my amd fx 4ghz "8 core (its not really 8. its 4 cores 8 logical) would crumble witth that project ive had to increase my buffer quite a bit with no way near as many tracks and plugins.....
I want adams shirt
Yeah, just don't use VSTs or ReaInsert !!
hmmm, whats that song called? oh yea,, money money moneeeyyyy. moneyy
oh come on, video about Reaper performance metering and you completely ignored entire RT CPU % usage,and RT-longest-block latency? those are the primary indicators of when and why computer struggles with audio and results in crackling...
right-click the Performance Meter and see those infos ;)
But...but...REAPER IZ 4 AMATUREZZZZZ
with ryzen 9 3900x & 32gb ram. no broblemo :D
Adam can you call around and sort my shit out... and while you are there record our band.. and as you are there you might mix it and why not master it.... awaiting your response 😋... and before anyone says so I know this is smg's channel
the only thing that i dislike from this videos. is that i already use Reaper. so....
is geting a little boring.
btw Reaper is amazing!
Reaper will also save your marriage, do your taxes and save you 15% on your car insurance. Skipping another video Glenn, I get it you have to make your money to pay your bills. Be back next video 👍.
Weak computer? Buy one that is fit for the job you are using it for. There issue solved.
Give it up already Glenn.
Reaper Was good but latelly it crash alot ....and I mean alot that is why I used Ableton 9 which actually captures much better audio sorry reaper I love you from years and years but it is true.