If you go into the project again and add some tracks or plugins, save it to the same name but with a new date (first: Song123, next time Song123 6-10-13, etc) When I render a song, I will put the date in the render title.
When you finish a song, you can delete all/some of the previous versions (projects and renders) if you have space considerations.
Some folks may say 'you don't need to do that' as in Reaper you can always revert to previous versions, but I'm anal that way.
That's a cool dual set for 16 channels on the Steinberg's... ADAT...whatever happened to Alesis ADAT's?
I've been continuing to implement the new "save" functions for better organizing.
I seem to have some of it working ...but...... a couple more questions-
1)what are these files ? and did I miss a save or something? because they aren't in the folder for the song, I was trying to keep all the songs stuff in one folder....
2)another question I want to move my Reaper to my portable harddrive so I can record from another location, a different pc, and just run the Reaper from the portable USB HD...is this possible?
Im re-reading this again and searching around in the meantime....thanks for all the help on this, its working!
I think you may run into speed issues if you run Reaper from the portable drive, but I've also heard that some people do this.
I've run Reaper from a USB stick, recording onto that stick, and also onto a separate removable drive. It worked fine.
I've run Reaper from a USB stick, recording onto that stick, and also onto a separate removable drive. It worked fine.
Those are your individual track files (sound = wav, and peak file) reaper needs both for each track when loading up the project.
When do I get the option to save these files?
Seems the other files went into the folder I created for that song...
I made a folder called REAPER SAVE FILES
inside that folder are folders with Song names...
then within that folder I try to save all the different mixes and mp3 renders etc....
but I found these individual track files in the main folder not the song folders...can I highlight them and move them to a folder or will that screw up the path or something?
I'm not lazy, really, but yesterday I finally got around to doing a full backup. Hadn't done one since July 28 last year! I had backed up a lot of my music files to DVD-R, but not to my external drive. For some reason I was thinking it was full, but in fact half of it was the stupid 'image file' I got when I tried to used the backup software.
Yeah, now I know I should pick up a 2nd external drive and be redundant about backing up, but one thing at a time!