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SubYeoman
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I have one day left on my trial version of Reaper and I’m still not sure if I want to buy it because I haven’t been able to do exactly what I want with it yet. I was hoping some of you could point me in the right direction, because I think its more lack of knowledge on my part than shortcomings of the program.
I am recording music by myself, so real time recording of complete songs isn’t really what I’m looking for. I would prefer to build songs a little at a time using short 3-10 second clips that I can record and arrange individually, especially with drums. I have a complete drum recording setup and I play all my own drum tracks, but I’m not really a drummer and I find I get better results if I record isolated portions and then loop or combine them. Around 10 years ago I used to play around with Acid, so I got used to making music that way. When I decided to get back into recording I was going to just go out and buy Acid again, but so many people recommended Reaper that I wanted to at least give it a try. I really like the interface, how smoothly it runs, and the price, and I want to buy it if I can get it to do these things I want. But so far I can’t figure it out… the program seems to be more geared toward real time recording from beginning to end to create songs. I want to be able to record a track, trim it in an editor to create a perfect loop (Reaper keeps saying “no external editor installed” or something like that), then copy-paste it for however many bars I want it; doing this a couple hundred times with multiple instrument tracks to make complete songs. Is this out of the scope of this program? If so, does anyone have any recommendations for a program that is made to do this?
I am recording music by myself, so real time recording of complete songs isn’t really what I’m looking for. I would prefer to build songs a little at a time using short 3-10 second clips that I can record and arrange individually, especially with drums. I have a complete drum recording setup and I play all my own drum tracks, but I’m not really a drummer and I find I get better results if I record isolated portions and then loop or combine them. Around 10 years ago I used to play around with Acid, so I got used to making music that way. When I decided to get back into recording I was going to just go out and buy Acid again, but so many people recommended Reaper that I wanted to at least give it a try. I really like the interface, how smoothly it runs, and the price, and I want to buy it if I can get it to do these things I want. But so far I can’t figure it out… the program seems to be more geared toward real time recording from beginning to end to create songs. I want to be able to record a track, trim it in an editor to create a perfect loop (Reaper keeps saying “no external editor installed” or something like that), then copy-paste it for however many bars I want it; doing this a couple hundred times with multiple instrument tracks to make complete songs. Is this out of the scope of this program? If so, does anyone have any recommendations for a program that is made to do this?
