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All of a sudden today I am unable to highlight any bars. I am totally unaware of something which I might have done, but this most important feature has suddenly stopped working. When I drag my cursor along the bars (or, part of a bar), nothing happens. What on earth can have caused this. I...

I am using JS De-esser in Reaper. I have it set up as shown in the picture below. When in "Monitor" mode it plays any sounds in a given frequency range. I have significant "S's" in my recording. When I, when using Monitor mode, move through the frequencies, the "S's" are still heard quite...

The trim volume knobs on my MIDI tracks do not work - they indicate "Velocity". Is this normal. Is it possible to get Volume knobs on MIDI tracks. I have attached screen shots of my Preferences and a MIDI track.

Being a guitarist, my piano skills are limited. Therefore, when playing piano I play in C and transpose on input. However, I seem unable to do this correctly. I am trying to play as if in D (as I play in C on the actual piano with Local turned OFF). The screenshot shows how I set this up. I...

I normally have no problem when mastering. Today I successfully mastered a project and got my WAV file. When I tried to do it again for an MP3 file it would not work. The screenshot shows "No output" when I tried to do the MP3 mastering. (I have done this quite often without a problem. I...

Recommendations for mastering suggest that we aim for a LUFS reading of between - 12 and -14 LUFS (approx). However, in Reaper, when rendering/mastering, three different LUFS readings are shown in the Render/Master window i.e. LUFS-M, LUFS-S and LUFS-1. To which of these does the...

I have just completed my first project and have been trying to enter basic metadata when I render e.g. project name, my name etc. I enter information in the first line. I then click the second line to enter that required data there but when I do so, the entry in the first line disappears and...

My first project. Facts are: Master track fader set at -1dB: master track peaks at -7.1dB: there is no clipping on any track; I normalized to LUFS-1 -14dB: I De-selected Brickwall Limit. When I Rendered this, I had >999 clips. Question 1: Is this normal i.e. I realize that the aim of...

While mixing my current project I have serious crackles which occur only on my vocal tracks. I have read a number of articles but they seem rather technical in their recommendations (i.e. require a lot of technical computer knowledge which I lack). Please see the screenshot below. You will...

The Freeze option in Reaper seems very simple indeed. However, when I try to use it, it simply does not work. I click in the track TCP, go to Track/Render Freeze and Freeze to mono. Nothing happens. I tried also using the FX display for the track and r-click on the lowest level FX. Again...

I am using Reaper V6. In a current project I have moved a Region (first time I have ever done this). When I did this, the project became noisy (like a severely scratched 45" record - I'm an old-timer). I listened to each track separately and each one was noisy - even those parts which were...

I have set up a second video monitor and it works fine. However, when I open an existing project the panning knob is not there. Also, when I open a new track, shown in Panning 1 below, it shows panning to the centre (in words), but no way to change it. I have shown also the Mono setting as...

I am using a (small-screen) laptop for Reaper. I have just bought a 27inch monitor which looks great. (Unlike some folks, I am happy with using a small screen with a large screen). What I wish to do is (a) have my TCP with tracks in the small screen and the mixer in the larger screen and (b)...

I would like to arrange my floating mixer with each fader extending up the full length of the screen. Instead, I have the "double-decker" arrangement shown below. Is it possible to have all faders full length even if the number of faders is such that they may extend beyond the left or right of...

I am doing punch-in for the first time. I recorded a test track of 7 bars. I punched-in the 6th bar successfully. However, I have set up the metronome as shown. I had expected the pre-roll to start at bar 4. However, when I hit "record" the pre-roll went right back to the beginning of the...

I have recorded 8 contiguous items (bars) on acoustic guitar (musically error-free). Rather than continuing recording I copied the original 8 bars to the next 8 bars on the same track (now have 16 contiguous bars). However, the volume on the copied 8 bars is lower than on the original 8 bars...

Assume I paste an item into bar 9, a second different item into bar 10 and a third different item into bar 11. I now want to copy and paste bars 9, 10 and 11, in a block to, say bars 16 to 18. How do I select bars 9, 10 and 11 as a group. I try selecting the three bars in the usual way by...

Hi: I wish to test the use of VST sax, trumpet and trombone. I have downloaded the free VSTs as in "Downloads". However, I simply cannot unpack them. When I double-click on the downloads I get the screens "monster 1", "trombone 1" and "trumpet 1". I simply copied the monster 1 files to the...

Hi: I have downloaded the Antares Harmony Engine evo free version. However, when I try to install it, I encounter problems. If anyone has had this issue and knows a solution I would be grateful for help. I have attached the various screenshots as I proceeded through the download process...

Hi: I have an Audiobox USB 96 with Reaper. Even though everything seems to be working just fine, I regularly get the message below, screenshot A. I show also screenshot B which is how my Audiobox setup looks. Why do I keep getting theses messages. Many thanks, Brian