uncle sixer
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So my only real daw experience is about 10 days with reaper. I have it running on a laptop with windows 10, i5, 12GB RAM and SSD. My AI is Behringer UMC 404HD.
I am (slowly) working my way through the REAPER manual and watching videos... I am having a lot of fun, but also feeling a little bit overwhelmed.
Right now, my first question is this... out of the box, everything just defaulted to 41000 hz and I left it there. Sometime in the last 24 hours, it changed to 48000 and the songs I am working on say the previous tracks have been resampled to 48000. No big deal since I am still just messing around, but in the future I want it to stay set at one rate (right?).
So did I change a setting (without realizing), or did it switch to 48000 automatically for some reason I am too dumb to understand yet? I think I would rather have it at 41000 and just STAY THERE.
Second, given my computer, what buffer size should I be using for A: recording and B: mixing, etc? Just a starting point would be helpful.
Third... when the Behringer is connected, I can set audio preferences to Audio System:ASIO, then I have choices of Realtek ASIO or UMC ASIO Drivers.... I assume I should use UMC ASIO, right? When the Behringer is not connected, ASIO doesn't work and I am left with choices: WDM Kernel Streaming, DirectSound, WaveOut, Dummy Audio, and WASAPI.... which one is best to use if I want to listen to playback on computer speakers or headphones? I have noticed that playback through computer speakers sometimes has a moment of drop-out so I am wondering what is optimum for listening to my mixes.
Finally, is switching my Audio System in reaper possibly the reason my previously recorded items got resampled (back to first question)?
Anything else to watch out for as I am trying to get things sorted-out here?
I am going to go back and go over the relevant sections of the manual again when I have time, but my eyes are tired and I thought I would check-in here, too.
Thanks for any help!
I am (slowly) working my way through the REAPER manual and watching videos... I am having a lot of fun, but also feeling a little bit overwhelmed.
Right now, my first question is this... out of the box, everything just defaulted to 41000 hz and I left it there. Sometime in the last 24 hours, it changed to 48000 and the songs I am working on say the previous tracks have been resampled to 48000. No big deal since I am still just messing around, but in the future I want it to stay set at one rate (right?).
So did I change a setting (without realizing), or did it switch to 48000 automatically for some reason I am too dumb to understand yet? I think I would rather have it at 41000 and just STAY THERE.
Second, given my computer, what buffer size should I be using for A: recording and B: mixing, etc? Just a starting point would be helpful.
Third... when the Behringer is connected, I can set audio preferences to Audio System:ASIO, then I have choices of Realtek ASIO or UMC ASIO Drivers.... I assume I should use UMC ASIO, right? When the Behringer is not connected, ASIO doesn't work and I am left with choices: WDM Kernel Streaming, DirectSound, WaveOut, Dummy Audio, and WASAPI.... which one is best to use if I want to listen to playback on computer speakers or headphones? I have noticed that playback through computer speakers sometimes has a moment of drop-out so I am wondering what is optimum for listening to my mixes.
Finally, is switching my Audio System in reaper possibly the reason my previously recorded items got resampled (back to first question)?
Anything else to watch out for as I am trying to get things sorted-out here?
I am going to go back and go over the relevant sections of the manual again when I have time, but my eyes are tired and I thought I would check-in here, too.
Thanks for any help!