Couple REAPER questions/customizations

[CarlWonderful]

Hello fellow Jammers.

I've been getting deep into reaper abd love it but having trouble with a few things.

Q & A.....

1. Can I easily make the horizontal scroll bar for th etracks bigger. Its so small!!

2. I record onto Tascam model 12 with its click track/BPM set, then dump the files into reaper to mix/edit them. For some reason reaper doesn't pick up on the "Midi clock SPP" or time-code which was set on the tracks from the model 12. I assumed reaper would just detect this but doesn't seem to be the case.

3. What does the "dry" slider in reapers main compressor do?

4. I changed to the option to multi-color the waveforms. But having trouble understanding what the colors are representing exactly. While listening, it doesn't always seem to read like I would think. It is more complicated than all frequencies are diffreent colors "running through the spectrum like a rainbow)?

THANKS!!!

 

[TalismanRich]

1) The Scroll bar is relative to the zoom level you have. There is a + and - on the right side which will change the Zoom level, which will change the slider's width.

2) I can't help with the midi... I don't really use midi. Do you set the BPM in Reaper to the same rate you used with the Tascam?

3) The wet is amount of adjusted audio. The dry slider is the original signal. So you can have a compressed signal and blend it with an uncompressed signal. I don't often use the dry with the compressor, but it's there if you need it.

4) I'm assuming by multicolor wave forms, you are talking about representing the pitch by color. I've seen video of someone using it to try to detect sibilance, by setting a color change for frequencies in the 5K and up range on a vocal. Others might have a different use for it. That's not a function that I have used for any of my work. The spectral display is more useful to me, but 99% of the time I just leave the standard waveforms.

 

[CarlWonderful]

1) The Scroll bar is relative to the zoom level you have. There is a + and - on the right side which will change the Zoom level, which will change the slider's width.

2) I can't help with the midi... I don't really use midi. Do you set the BPM in Reaper to the same rate you used with the Tascam?

3) The wet is amount of adjusted audio. The dry slider is the original signal. So you can have a compressed signal and blend it with an uncompressed signal. I don't often use the dry with the compressor, but it's there if you need it.

4) I'm assuming by multicolor wave forms, you are talking about representing the pitch by color. I've seen video of someone using it to try to detect sibilance, by setting a color change for frequencies in the 5K and up range on a vocal. Others might have a different use for it. That's not a function that I have used for any of my work. The spectral display is more useful to me, but 99% of the time I just leave the standard waveforms.

Thanks for the feedback.

1. I'm aware of what you mentioned on the scrollbar, but I was looking for a way to permanently make the whole bar and slider bigger, no matter what level of zoom I'm in.

2. I was hoping to have Reaper recognize it so I don't have to make notes of all my BPms for every project. I have a lot of projects and it just seems silly to have to remember my bpm when I have timecode and mide clock setting on everything ya know.

3. So where the dry setting is by default...that is 0% dry signal? Little confused.

4. Yes, pitch by color. Whats the spectral display?

Thanks for you time friend

 

[CarlWonderful]

Also cant figure how to make a complex shortcut (side (thumb) mouse button + mouse scroll wheel) do horizontal scrolling in reaper? I can make it so the mouse wheel scrolls horizontal but I want it to be a combo with the thumb mouse button + scroll wheel..so I can scroll normal with my mouse wheel regularly.

 

[DM60]

Thanks for the feedback.

2. I was hoping to have Reaper recognize it so I don't have to make notes of all my BPms for every project. I have a lot of projects and it just seems silly to have to remember my bpm when I have timecode and mide clock setting on everything ya know.

Once you save the project, it will remember the BPM, but not when it is a new project unless there is some BPM detection setting somewhere.

 

[TalismanRich]

Thanks for the feedback.

1. I'm aware of what you mentioned on the scrollbar, but I was looking for a way to permanently make the whole bar and slider bigger, no matter what level of zoom I'm in.

2. I was hoping to have Reaper recognize it so I don't have to make notes of all my BPms for every project. I have a lot of projects and it just seems silly to have to remember my bpm when I have timecode and mide clock setting on everything ya know.

3. So where the dry setting is by default...that is 0% dry signal? Little confused.

4. Yes, pitch by color. Whats the spectral display?

Thanks for you time friend

I don't know if the slider can be permanently changed. Perhaps someone on the Cockos forums can answer that.

Again, I don't use much midi at all (only MT PDK), and one once have I even connected a midi device to my interface.

0% means no dry signal, just the compressed audio. 50% would be unaltered track at 50% level blended with whatever you have the compressed signal set.

Re: spectral display, maybe this can help you understand the differences.

5 Ways to Display Audio in REAPER

REAPER allows you to display waveforms in five ways

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