REAPER's First Run - Windows - REAPER DAW Tutorial

hi there this is steven gonzalez how are you doing today well we have installed reaper we have installed the sws extension for reaper and we've installed those four enhancement programs and now it's finally time to run reaper for the very first time and that's what's next on reaper for voice talent in this video we're going to be tackling reaper's profile basically that's the brains of reefer where it stores all its information and how to run things like themes and key maps and project and track templates and effects presets all this good stuff we'll see what that looks like in windows explorer in just a few minutes then we're going to be tackling connecting and configuring your interface to use reaper and along the way we're going to be looking at the configurator for your interface and what sample rates and block sizes are and all that good stuff then we're going to be looking at the repack acknowledgement window this is the easiest thing inside this video basically we hit okay and then finally we tackle cocosys three-tier licensing system remember kakos is the company that puts out reaper and this three-tier licensing system is one of the reasons why people are coming to reaper in droves as is usual whenever we are in this part of the video there are a few caveats the first is that i have multiple interfaces connected to the machine that's recording this video i'm going to be presenting them to make a point about of all things labeling and when we get there i'll explain a little more the second caveat is that i have third-party vsts from waves and from izotope which i use in my professional vo work that will be enumerated during the first running of reaper now this will cause my reaper profile generation to take a bit longer than yours should so don't freak out whenever you know you're finished and i'm still only halfway that's because it's enumerating all those vsts and such finally if this is your first time in this video especially if this is your first time in reaper for voice talent do me a favor and like this video subscribe turn on that notification bell sending it to all and be sure to watch the video all the way through in fact watch this one particularly multiple times so that you don't miss anything and of course always if you have comments or questions drop them in the comment section below and i'll try to get to them as quickly as i can and with all that said and without further ado let's get started here on the desktop i have two things the desktop icon for reaper and the reaper dash license.rk and this dash license should give you a hint as far as what i'm going to be doing with this in just a few minutes i would also like to draw your attention to this this is that directory that we created whenever we install the repack.dll now for those of you who have been successful in installing at the sws extension you may also have a grooves directory that's nothing to be worried about if you don't the user plugins with the repack.dll is important however so then we're going to put this to the side for a second whenever i double click on this desktop icon i want you to notice what happens whenever reaper starts running the first thing that's going to happen is that this flash screen is going to take place and it's going to start enumerating all my stuff within the within my system and it's going to organize it into the reaper profile and you're going to see all kinds of folders and ini files and text files in this area watch what happens whenever i double click on this desktop icon in three two one here's the splash screen and here's the reaper profile look how it's starting to populate and be organized and all this good stuff we have color themes which is how reaper looks in the colors and format and all this good stuff we have effects which is where literally the effects are and they're presets and such of course we have repack we have scripts of course notice what's missing however we don't have a directory called project templates we don't have a directory called track templates that will be covered in future videos but notice we have ini files and text files all this good stuff here this is the reaper profile if you ever want to start from scratch again as we are doing the easiest way to do that is to delete all of this stuff and start from scratch i've had to do so in the past and some of my clients have had to do so in the past as well so we hit x out of here here is the repack acknowledgement window i guess it wants to be first so i'll take care of that i hit okay and like that it's gone now let's talk about connecting and configuring your interface to use reaper right now reaper is saying look i don't know that you have an audio device so do you and if so which one do you want me to go for well we hit yes we do have an audio device and we're greeted with the reaper preferences window now a short note about this particular window notice that it has a bunch of sections within it in a whole series of videos i'm going to be tackling manipulating some of these settings within the preferences so that reaper is not so much a music production software package which again is primarily meant for and be much more vo friendly suffice to say there's a lot there your interface may have come with software or you may have had to download and install it either way you probably now have what's known as an audio stream input output driver well this allows your interface to speak through windows to reaper and with that driver may have come what is known as a configurator my configurator is an external program altogether but some of them may be integrated within windows itself and i'm thinking specifically of the steinberg ur12 mark ii it uses the yamaha usb asio driver that's integrated within control panel go into control panel in the upper right hand corner you would say show me the large or small icons and then the last option would say yamaha whatever that will get you to your configurator i say that because of what's coming up whenever i click on the asio driver drop down you'll see that all of my interfaces are here now i'm going to hit the audio id14 driver notice that the input labels have changed as well as the output range watch what happens whenever i choose the presonus notice that the labels have changed again and then in the mackie again they have changed your labels may not look the same as mine and probably they won't and that's okay if all you're going to be doing within reaper is voiceover work and that's it then it's okay to choose one channel for input one channel for output the way that you do that is simply make the first and the last pointer if you will the same like that so i'm using one channel of input one channel for the output now if i'm doing something that requires stereo sound effects for example or music or i'm actually producing a music bed so that i'm within copyright or whatever then maybe i want a stereo type of thing and that's where i would choose a second channel for the last now before we get into sample rate and block size we need to go to that configurator which is what i mentioned earlier when i click on the asio configuration here's my configurator and i'm looking for two specific numbers sample rate and block size and that block size is sometimes called buffer size now a sample rate what exactly is a sample rate well that's the number of times per second that the interface is listening to the audio coming from the microphone the first two 44.1 and 48k are more accepted than 96k however if you're going to be doing some high-powered processing then it's okay to record in 96k now in the previous version of the fundamental sequence i did use 96k however software and hardware have both risen to the challenge and now i use 48k as my mainstay i do sometimes still go into 96 but the majority of my recordings are now in 48k now the buffer size or sometimes called the block size how many samples is the interface going to hold before it gives it to the computer that's why it's in powers of two you'll notice 16 32 64 128 blah blah the computer only knows two digits right zeros and ones and so it's in the binary numerical system which means powers of two in reaper i could put a thousand but it would not be nearly as effective as if i put 1024 because again a thousand is not a power of two whereas 1024 is i remember 1024 and 48 and i get out of my configurator and i put those numbers in the sample rate 48 000 and my block size 10 24. now i have connected and configured my interface so i hit ok and now let's talk about caucus's licensing system for reaper there are three levels to carcasses licensing system the first one is the one that we're in right now which is the evaluation or the demo licensing and you can tell because this nag screen is always going to come up at least well once a day at least whenever you get into reaper you'll see that there's this button here that can't be clicked yet because it's waiting for your cursor to actually be activated within the window and then it starts counting down and once it stops counting down it'll say still evaluating now kakos is so confident that you'll love reaper that they're willing to give you 60 days of full-blown version of reaper none of this well you can only record 30 seconds of audio and oh by the way you can't save or render anything you can only just kind of record and see if you like it no no no you get a full blown version of reaper now that's the demo version and by the way this this licensing system is on the honor system if you're still using reaper after 60 days you probably have joined the ranks of the reaper rights or the reaper heads or whatever the name is that reaper users call themselves and in this case you want to go ahead and buy a license and there are two licenses which are the second and third levels of licensing now how do you get a license well you go to the reaper website and you click on purchase and whenever you do that you greet it with this web page this list enumerates the eligibility requirements to use the discounted license which is at the time of this recording is only 60 bucks for a license that lasts for two full versions so at the time of this recording which is 6.12 you're good to go all the way through six and seven and whenever version eight comes out then you'll be asked to buy another license the last time that i had to buy a license was about six or seven years ago that's about eight to ten dollars a year compare that with other dolls and i'll just leave you there with it if you want the discounted license you click this link if you make above 20 000 then it's really okay to hit 225 you would hit this and this is where you would put in your information making sure your email address is accurate because that is what they're going to use to send you a reaper dash license.rk file now that we've done that let's say and we've gone to our email message and we've saved the rk file to our desktop here it is so we click on the import license key and here's a really slick way of doing it i think we can right drag this rk file into this particular directory we say copy here we hit continue because it needs to we hit the uac and then we click on that file we hit open we hit thank you and it's licensed now notice in the title bar you see that it went from evaluation license to license for personal small business use that type of thing in the next video we're going to be tackling the different parts of reaper and in the description below there's a link to the windows centric playlist if you have any comments or questions drop them in the comment section below and don't forget to hit that like button don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to hit that notification bell setting it to all so that you know when i go live or upload another video so this is steven gonzalez with stephen gonzalez voiceovers wishing you all all the best and you have a wonderful and wonderful day

Channel: REAPER for Voice Talent

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 06 2020