Some Assistance...

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A relative just asked me to do the following, and in order to save time(I don't have any!) I thought I'd get some quick instructions here. Here is the scenario: they want me to record a voice over some background music. I'll be using REAPER to do so. I need to record the song from a CD. How do I get the music from the CD onto a track on REAPER? I have a CD/DVD player on my computer. Would I need to record the music onto two tracks so that it will play back in stereo, or is mono good enough. I have the 405 page REAPER manual, but don't have time to read it at the moment. Once it voice over the music is done I need to render it back to a CD. Can someone give me a quick walk through on this? I'm not making a dime off of this. I'm doing it as a favor. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
 
Just rip the song from the CD using whatver music player you use on the computer. Then just drag it into a Reaper project. It will create it's own stereo track. Do your voiceover, then Render it out to burn to CD. Reaper can handle all of that. Bam, done.
 
Thanks Greg! Knew it was a relatively easy process, but in all my years of recording I've never done anything like that. Thanks!
 
It most likely does, it does everything else, but until just now I've never had any reason to do so. And probably never will again after this! LOL I guess if I had ever done any voice over work I'd have already known how to do this, but I've just never done any voice over.
 
Reaper will export into a CUE file, then burn the CD. I've done this for a compilation CD, it is a nice feature. If you save the Cue file and get a program like ImgBurn, you can make several copies from the CUE file. You will need to read up on it in the Reaper Doc (just do a search on CD), it will step you through it. Media Player will rip it, I suggest wave and then back out as CUE/CD export.
 
That is how I know you are not gay. It is with the 's' es that makes a sincere really gay voice. 'th' is a lisp. sssuper gay would be more appropriate. Trust me, I have sssome friendsss that ssspeak like that. It iss not jussst funny. They know they do it.

As long as my ass isn't a target, I don't care how they talk.
 
I'll be very much surprised if Reaper doesn't have the ability to rip CD audio but, if not, may I recommend EXACT AUDIO COPY.

It's a very flexible ripper and, unlike a lot of basic players, allows you to end up with a WAVE file, not compressed MP3. It also has really good error correction for dodgy CDs.

It's freeware, at least for non commercial uses.
 
You can do it all in Reaper. The manual explains it on page 74 section 3.37.

Basically browse to CD Drive and select the track you want. Done.
 
What Mr Clean says. No need to wonder anymore. Click and drag from CD, or import media file from Reaper menu
 
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