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Well this has been an exhausting ride. I seem to have Wasapi working again. So everything seems to be running fine.

I'm sure some new weird thing will crop up, technology after all is confusing and strange

Thanks for the help

what do you mean external audio pcs?

I just tried ASIO again, and it works. No latency everything sounds great.

Except audio doesn't work outside of Reaper! 

I can't play yt clips for example without an error message. 

What in god's name is going on with all this. It's like Chinese water torture

Thanks, I seem to have the midi controller working now. Onlya fter removing the drivers from the OSC list. I've no idea if that will permanently fix things, but now it's working.

However, the latest problem is getting the correct audio driver. Something has changed in the WASAPI settings because i just get an error message telling me "wasapi error: could not open input device". I don't know what that means or what it's referring to. I haven't changed anything in windows at all. 

I'm about to lose my mind doing all this. 

You get one thing working and then something else doesn't.

Ok, under sound devices i have SE49 (my keyboard) and "high definition audio device". It tells me the latter is working properly. I can hear stuff when i run audio anyway, it just seems that Reaper wants to play silly buggers. I had it set to use the WASAPI audio driver which was producing low latency results and was fine. But I couldn't get my keyboard to work. 

However that now seems to be (for now) solved after I deleted the driver i'd installed to get it to work. It should be able to run just as plug and play anyway. 

Unfortuantely WASAPI stopped working from an input perspective. I got an error message saying 'can't find input device' with only the 'default input device' to use which wasn't getting any sound. 

Although I have headphones plugged in the laptop seems to have two separate settings regardless so having them plugged in doesn't override the output, you have to, if possible, choose headphones. That would be fine if it didn't keep flipping between those two choices on its own.

So now I've chosen DirectSound as my audio device and i'm back to having latency.

I don't really understand ASIO as it doesn't seem to work at all. I don't know what input/ouput option I should choose and messing around with all these options seems to affect other options. I can't just go back to WASAPI either, because it doesn't seem to work. I've no idea how any of this works or why it's happening. It makes no sense and to the best of my knowledge i have not uninstalled or deleted anything

it's whatever came in the laptop. I asked about soundcards when i discussed buying laptops in my other thread and was told it shouldn't matter

I also can't run ASIO. Nothing comes out when i press play.

under enable inputs it just says 1:1 and 2:2

under output range it says Not Connected 1 and 2 respectively. 

There are no other options for either.

I can only get this work under WASAPI, but I cannot get my midid controller to work at all. It doesn't even play now. What do i do?

I don't want to start another Reaper thread, but I've been installing my MIDI controller and even though it appears to work. I still get an error message saying Reaper canot open the device everytime I boot up Reaper. I dont' know what to do about this or whether this is even a problem, it is annoying though. I don't recall this being a problem before. 

Thanks, I 've set it to WASAPI and it seems to work

except....even though i can use my controller and the latency is no  longer an issue it keeps telling me it can't open my midi device. 

Does anyone know why this is? It's actually working (or seems to be)

Thanks for the replies

I'm using a Nektar g49 (iirc). connected directly, no interface. I'm only using softsynths anyway. 

I get an error message now when i boot up telling me it can't open midi devices even though pressing a key on the controller produces a sound. Not sure why that is.

I had it all working before, this is most frustrating. I don't know what i've done wrong.

EDIT: ok i'm looking at thee pic and my drivers weren't set to ASIO. But when I try it tells me no ASIO drivers are available. Is this something I need to download?

Using my new laptop (RIP my old one, it just died) and I'm trying to set up my midi controller, I seem to have it installed but there's considerable latency when I play it. 

I use softsynths (arturia and uhe stuff). Some of them can be used in standalone mode, outside of the daw (reaper), and I don't notice any issues there so hopefully its not my computer. 

Can any Reaper experts help me out here? This wasn't a problem on my old computer, but it is here and I don't know what to do. 

Thanks

On 24/07/2022 at 11:40, ambient said:

I ran a workshop for a group of music students on mastering recently. You're welcome to my Keynote slides and the handout I produced for them. 

 

 

Sounds great thanks

So to be clear, I'm listening to the reference mix while mixing/mastering?

I just use headphones. I don't have monitors or even regular speakers, which I doubt would be idea.

For now that will have to do

Excellent advice, thank you.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

The reference track is a song or songs you listen to in their original form so you can compare your mix/master to. Normally you'd just run it from the source CD player or record deck through the same amp and speakers as you are listening to your mix on and then switch between the two different sources. That way you can hear how the song you like the sound of sounds through your system in your listening environment and compare and contrast your mix/master. If there isn't an easy way to hook up an external CD or record player then you could import the song(s) off CD and drop it into a spare track in Reaper, but import as a WAV/AIFF and NOT MP3 because you need to compare like for like. Also make sure that this reference track is not being processed in any way in Reaper, so that means you won't be able to use plug-ins on the main stereo bus. This is generally why it is better to play the reference from an external source, so there is no chance that it is being affected by anything other than the amp, speakers and room.

Ok, thanks. 

What am I looking for though?

I'ms till a bit confused about this

8 minutes ago, carlitos71 said:

Or get a mastering engineer who knows what they are doing! Just saying…

Well, i'd like to be the mastering engineer who knows what they are doing. Not least of all because...money!

I don't think what I do is terrible sounding, but I am always looking to improve. if it's a question of getting beyond stock or free plug ins, well that's too bad.

Part of it is that I use a lot of low fi sounds

10 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Sorry, crossed lines here. Not a 'reference track' in Reaper, but any disk, song, album, concert that I like, and that will help me judge my own stuff. An example..? I worked for a while at Shepperton Studios, for Trident, cabling mixing consoles (early-mid '70s...). To test the console modules, we'd run a tape through them, and make sure that all the features worked as expected. One tape was, I believe, a sub-master of 'Ziggy Stardust', so I got to listen to it a lot. When I want to buy any HiFi gear, that's the tracks I'd listen with, as I can (or rather, could...) hear if the HiFi was up to snuff. When I'm composing in Reaper, in an orchestral vein, I'd have in mind a rendering of Schubert's Ninth, to see if my trombones are up-front enough, or if more cowbell is needed (that last bit is a joke, of course...). That's what I mean by 'reference tracks'. My hearing is now very bad, but I'm still able to do stuff (OK, rotten stuff, but stuff all the same...), by comparing with other stuff that I know. I can't hear a hi-hat, for instance; if I hear it in one of my mixes, I know it's too loud..! 
Does this help..?

thanks, but I'm still not clear how that works. Do you mean import an mp3 of a song i like into Reaper? I thought that's what a reference track was.

I'm not really following, sorry

Yeah, I don't get this referene track thing. How does that work? 

There's a ton out there. What is the best and simplest advice? I use Reaper with mainly stock and free plug ins. I'm using an eq a compressor, an exciter, a saturation plug in and a limiter (and a plug in for monitoring levels). I may or may not use all those fx, but what order should they be used in? Does it matter?

Thanks

Thanks for the replies. 

Perhaps it was the heat, but I went for the Currys one. Delivered by some poor DPD sod in the back of a sweaty van on this past Apocalypse Monday

Ironically it has no actual bass guitar, which is why I haven't posted it before. But I like retro synth music (TD, Jarre, Vangelis, prog) despite not actually being a keyboard.

I quite like the songs I've written, Perhaps you will too. However a) I'm not the best mixer/producer and b) I can't draw for stinky poo which is why the cover art is diabolical. I do not apologise. 

This ain't synthwave.

https://automatedhero.bandcamp.com/album/behold-the-music-eternal

There's more where that came from. Thanks for listening

3 hours ago, Bunion said:

No, it’s just Britain, it gets warm, people moan, it gets cold, people moan, a bit of rain, people moan, that’s the British. 
I’ve got two days of heavy steel welding Monday and Tuesday but it will still get done.

it will just be a little warmer than usual. 
plenty of water, that’s the key 😄

good advice, unfortunately my environment us right in the sun so there's precious little relief from the sun. making it difficult to do any work

18 minutes ago, Bunion said:

Heatwave? 

Yes. Britain has turned into a Greggs pasty oven

I appreciate everyone's responses, as we spend the heatwave going through every single laptop listing known to exist