Yes, Oh Yes........I'm a Digital Dumbass!

[Slowrider]

Exactly WHAT do you use from your guitar, to record in Reaper?

I bought the program 2 weeks ago, and still can't figure out how to monitor and record a second track. First track went just fine.

Downloaded ASIO, but there's something I'm not doing right.

If you can't monitor you're first track, while recording a 2nd track.........what good is it?

Been doing analog for over 40 yrs., maybe I'm not cut out to work with digital stuff.

Somewhere I read to use the mic input, another said use {line in}.

Another question, can I put Reaper on a disc, so I can take it outside and shoot it with my 12 gauge?

 

[ssscientist]

If you can't monitor you're first track, while recording a 2nd track.........what good is it?

Are you trying to use Reaper with your stock soundcard?

That's the only thing that I can think of that would prevent you from being able to hear your first track while you record the second.

We used to call the minimum soundcard you need to use Reaper 'full duplex', meaning it could reproduce sound while also recording sound...


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[Farview]

Yup, you realy need to get a recording interface. A lot of stock soundcards don't let you listen and record at the same time.

m-audio makes decent stuff for cheap.

 

[Slowrider]

Recording interface, what all can that do? Is it like Firewire?

 

[Slowrider]

I put Firewire 410 in favorites, thanks.

$300.00 for something that has {Near-Zero} latency?

For that price, it should have absolute.......zero latency.

 

[Farview]

A recording interface is just a fancy soundcard that was designed to record with. There are USB and Firewire interfaces, but there are also PCI interfaces. If you are using a desktop, you could get something like the M-audio 2496. I think the thing lists for $120.

There is no such thing as zero latency, even in analog.

 

[Slowrider]

Thanks, I checked out the 2496 and it says [Zero-latency monitoring]?

 

[Trell Blaze]

That's what they all claim...

 

[danny.guitar]

I use the 2496 and have no audible latency. The ASIO drivers it comes with are great.

A lot of stock sound cards do support full duplex which is playing back and recording at the same time, however, some don't.

Did you try turning on input monitoring for the 2nd track?

 

[Farview]

Thanks, I checked out the 2496 and it says [Zero-latency monitoring]?

The 2496 lets you monitor the analog input mixed with the output. Just like monitoring through the board in an analog setup.

Latency comes from monitoring your input signal through the program, which is how most stock soundcards will work. (the ones that are full duplex)

 

[pipelineaudio]

first things first: Unless you are a glutton for extreme pain and frustration, use ASIO drivers for your card. If there arent asio drivers for the card, try www.asio4all.com

If the asio4all drivers dont work, get rid of the soundcard

Please see this video: http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorial_2_-_Audio_Hardware

Assuming you have your audio hardware all set up, be sure you have the monitoring button in reaper set to either "monitor on" or "auto input"

In this picture, using the classic theme (old default) track 4 is monitor off, track 5 is monitor on, track 6 is monitor auto input

 

[Slowrider]

Tascam FW1804 Firewire Audio MIDI Interface


Nice looking unit. Does anybody use this?

 

[ssscientist]

Tascam FW1804 Firewire Audio MIDI Interface

Looks good. If you've got the money, buy it.

We'll be here if you need help setting it up.


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[theblackBay]

hey slowrider

what are you going into? have you got Firewire?

MAC or PC?

LAPTOP or Upright?

Liquidity?

 

[Slowrider]

It's a PC with a SPDIF out.? No Firewire port.

Soundcard is a: NVIDIA(R)nForce{TM}Audio, if that helps.

 

[RocknRollOver]

Exactly WHAT do you use from your guitar, to record in Reaper?

I just bought an Alesis io26 firewire audio interface (whew....!) that's proving to be invaluable to me.
Work's like a charm with minimal fussing around from me, which is a good thing.
Might be a little overkill depending on what your needs are.

Another question, can I put Reaper on a disc, so I can take it outside and shoot it with my 12 gauge?

Yes !...

 

[ssscientist]

It's a PC with a SPDIF out.? No Firewire port.

Firewire cards are cheap. Any good computer store will have a selection in stock.



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[legionserial]

It's a PC with a SPDIF out.? No Firewire port.

Soundcard is a: NVIDIA(R)nForce{TM}Audio, if that helps.

Sounds like onboard sound. If you are using a pc box as opposed to a laptop, you could always get something PCI. My M-Audio Delta 44 only cost me £90 and it has 4 in and 4 outs.

 

[andyhix]

Firewire cards are cheap. Any good computer store will have a selection in stock.



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Buy online. MUCH cheaper. I looked at a few of the big box computer stores, and they were 2 or 3x as much as online.

 

[RocknRollOver]

Make it a Texas Instruments based firewire card too.

From all the research I've done, it seems these (TI based cards) are less problematic.

I have a laptop card (PCMCIA) Texas Instruments based that was not only cheap (22$ w/a 10$ rebate @ CC) but was completely painless to install.

I don't remember the brand name off the top of my head.......wait......it's in my P.C......(puts on dunce cap)

Ah there it is.....Pyro, by ADS technologies, they make a couple different versions, mines cheap but effective.

Also, try to get a firewire card with firewire only, no combo cards.