Reaper compatability issues?

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I just dumped Cubase 4 Essential for Reaper. I had Halion 3 and NI's Kontakt 3 installed on it. The software worked fine. When I downloaded Reaper, (only $40.) neither vst programs would be recognized by Reaper. I uninstalled both programs and reinstalled them and again Reaper still would not recognize them.

Has anybody ever had any compatability issues with Reaper/Kontakt and am I doing or, not doing something wrong here? {I understand where Reaper might not dance with Steinberg's Halion 3 because of the stupid dongle however.} Or, can someone point me in the direction of some inexpensive or free vsts' that Reaper will recognize?

HP 720 GB HD, 4 core proc., 3+GB ram, Tascam US-144 SC, M-Audio Pro Key St.

Thanks for any clues.
 
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REAPER should recognize all VSTs, but you'll need to tell REAPER where to find your VSTs.

Go to Options > Preferences
- Plugins/VST

You could try hitting the "Auto-Detect" button to have REAPER search your computer, or you can either type in the path name or click the "Add" button to browse to your VST folders.

I'm not sure about the Steinberg plugin, but I know Kontakt works.


My guess is that if you ran an installer, most of your plugins installed somewhere in C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VstPlugins (but I could be wrong..)


If you can't get it working, I'll post some screenshots :)
 
^What he said.

I use them in Reaper with no problem.

The problem is behind the keyboard.... ;-)
 
nah, i'm seeing threads popping up about this. check this out, then search the forum. i don't use reaktor so i haven't followed it closely, but i think it has something to do with windows7. again, not sure.
 
and yes, i realize it's a different problem, and it probably is that he's not pointing reaper to the right folder, but something to look at anyways.
 
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nah, i'm seeing threads popping up about this. check this out, then search the forum. i don't use reaktor so i haven't followed it closely, but i think it has something to do with windows7. again, not sure.
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Exactly. Every time I load Kntkt 3 it crashes Rpr. "ASIO DLL' something or other messages etc... then.... the deep freeze. If this isn't a compatability issue, I guess I'll be going back to hardware recording/editing. (until I can afford starting all over again with a new pc with W-7 or Apple's Logic and dedicate it toward music production projects only. Here, I'm looking at around 3 1/2 to 4K for what I need to do.)

"you'll need to tell REAPER where to find your VSTs" What??????????????:laughings:
 
BMWerks said:
"you'll need to tell REAPER where to find your VSTs" What??????????????:laughings:
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Just trying to help. What's wrong with starting at the beginning?

*shrug*

Crashing a plugin/asio driver and not recognizing a plugin are two completely different things.
 
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No. Please understand. I am very grateful for your input and any help I can get here. A lot (to me) depends on getting a great daw up and running. $$$$ cha-ching included. Which is why I dumped Cubase.

I had issues with Cubase too For about 18 months-12 of which, I stuggled with latency issues. Again I'm facing latency issues with no work-arounds in sight and software that doesn't communicate with each-other.

I didn't know I would have to go to computer tech school in order to get this software to dance with each-other. It is my impression that W-Vista isn't helping much either.

The good support folks at Reaper were kind enough to lay out directions to help solve this issue. About 9-10 steps toward a solution give or take.

If I uninstall NI's Kontakt, shouldn't Reaper recognize it when I load it up again? If not, I'm certainly missing the knowlege to make these programs work together.

www.soundcloud.com/bravenote

All I really need to produce my music is about 48 tracks and automation. I can do without MIDI and the issues that all the DAWs' present in producing it.

Thanks to everyone for their input here.:o
 
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Exactly. Every time I load Kntkt 3 it crashes Rpr. "ASIO DLL' something or other messages etc... then.... the deep freeze. If this isn't a compatability issue, I guess I'll be going back to hardware recording/editing. (until I can afford starting all over again with a new pc with W-7 or Apple's Logic and dedicate it toward music production projects only. Here, I'm looking at around 3 1/2 to 4K for what I need to do.)
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dude, give it a couple of weeks. it'll get resolved, trust me.
 
reapers one of these open scource packages.. it has more updates that you can throw a stick at.
 
dude, give it a couple of weeks. it'll get resolved, trust me.

I'm too impatient. I know. Thanks.
Well, I went throught the sequence of directives the good folks at Reaper tech laid out for me and low and behold, CHA-CHING!!! Knotakt is now working in Reaper and I'm happy to say there's a MIDI piano test track on it now. A cause for cellebration! -:drunk:

Next challenge will be to eliminate this nasty latency issue. I overcame it once with Cubase, I guess it's just a mater of time I overcome it here with Reaper. Every ASIO4ALL adjustment I make doesn't do anything. It seems to have a mind of it's oun and sets itself to default positions no mater what changes I make to it.

I don't know what I did to eliminate it with Cubase. However, the last six months I had relatively few issues with it. Now however, it's back with a vengence. (very ominous :eek:)

Again, thanks to every one and all your input. :)
 
What are you playing your sounds back through?

If you are getting latency, it could bebecause you are playing the sounds back through your computer's soundcard. If you playback (and monitor) through the interface, you should not experience as much latency.
 
Glad you got it working!

I think Cubase has something called direct monitoring which works with your audio interface if it supports it (not zero-latency monitoring using the mix knob.) Unfortunately, REAPER doesn't have DM (it's been requested though!)
 
Hey gecko zzed, thanks for your input here... I'm using a Tascam us-144 for the external SC USBd' Audio from the SC cabled to my active mons. I just installed the latest Realtec windows drivers but the Tascam card is not in production any more so, no new drivers were available for it. It says the drivers are "up-to-date" anyway. (the latest drivers are installed)

The tech at Reaper suggested to download the latest US-144 drivers. As of this post, nothing has changed and the latency is about one full second.

Unfortunately, REAPER doesn't have DM (it's been requested though!)

OK d bop, Thanks for tuning in. What work arounds does Reaper have for such a crippling issue? And how do pianists and other performers trigger imediate?? You might think that, all the basses would be covered especially where performance is concerned. Perhaps, even before the first release of a new daw host??
 
Holy cow! Your latency is near 1 second?

Check the buffer size in your tascam's control software. You should be able to run at way less than a second -especially- with a quad-core cpu. Also make sure you're using ASIO in REAPER's preferences and not WDM or DirectSound or any other audio system.

Trust me, REAPER (or any other DAW) wouldn't cause latency like that. I'm running at around 5ms on a AMD 3-core CPU.
 
Thanks d bop I went into the Tascam panel and adjusted it. However, it turns out that Reaper's default asio settings were set to "all media" instead of to Tascam us-144. I should have known:spank:

Maybe not. Small price to pay for this software though. I'm noticing a few other annoying glitches. One is the pause and stop buttons on the transport will freeze up and crash the project. It's totally crashed the whole pc a couple of times as well. Must be something I'm doing wrong or, not doing to make this happen. again....:spank:

I'm sure that when all the bugs are cleared out, I'll be able to focus on some serious recording. It's a really great looking program and shows a lot of promise providing I can learn it properly.:o
 
Hmm.. I'm not sure why that's happening. I've never had any problems with the transport. To tell you the truth, I've never had REAPER crash on me, heh.:eek:

You can grab the user guide here: http://reaper.fm/userguide.php
It's pretty big so you'll probably want to right-click and save it instead of opening it in your browser.

Also there's a website called http://tutorialsforreaper.com that has a few good videos on it.

Kenny Gioia made some great REAPER videos for the Groove3 website here: http://www.groove3.com/str/reaper-explained.html
They cost about the same as the REAPER license ($40). It's 26 tutorials/4 hours long.


Lastly, you should definitely hang out on the REAPER forums once in a while. You'll get a lot of questions answered with hardly any "RTFM" responses. It's a really great community over there :)


Welcome to REAPER! :D

(p.s. v3.69 is out)
 
Problem solved. I built another pc from scratch. Win 7, X64 Intel i7, 4 GB ram, 750 w amp, 1.2 TB HD W/3 drives and Cubase 6. All issues behind and production has resumed. It wasn't free software but I have big guns support and no OS issues. My music is worth that.

Thanks for everybody's help and suggestions.
 
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