What to do about preparing for #FAWM ?
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I could probably shoot a few holes into that theory, but it'll do for now. This is just a way for me to remember why I think the problem that was solved yesterday reoccurred today. If it's wrong, I'll at least have a starting point.
Anyway, I mucked about with the sample player plugin that ships with Reaper, following another Kenny Gioia video, and that turned out to be pretty easy and maye a more practical way for me to do drums during FAWM.
However, I could not finish the "lesson" and didn't record anything. In fact, I've never yet actually recorded anything in Reaper, except by accident. Everything I've done since buying the license has been about setting things up (and sometimes playing live through the effects plugins). Time to pass that milestone with some simple beats… tomorrow.
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However, I could not finish the "lesson" and didn't record anything. In fact, I've never yet actually recorded anything in Reaper, except by accident. Everything I've done since buying the license has been about setting things up (and sometimes playing live through the effects plugins). Time to pass that milestone with some simple beats… tomorrow.
January 7: I'm getting extremely frustrated with #Reaper DAW. I'm trying to follow what should be a simple tutorial :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9r_QYU0CA
But no matter what I do, I can't get looping to work. I've gone through the options in this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Reaper/comments/1dvpjsx/loop_problem/ and I found the attitudes of the respondents unhelpful and none of the proffered solutions resulted in loops working.
The OP "resolved" the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling? -
January 7: I'm getting extremely frustrated with #Reaper DAW. I'm trying to follow what should be a simple tutorial :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9r_QYU0CA
But no matter what I do, I can't get looping to work. I've gone through the options in this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Reaper/comments/1dvpjsx/loop_problem/ and I found the attitudes of the respondents unhelpful and none of the proffered solutions resulted in loops working.
The OP "resolved" the issue by uninstalling and reinstalling?Finally,
I went back to this video, "Looping in Reaper" which shows an action of drawing a time selection on the "ruler" area, which I can't replicate either.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9r_QYU0CA
So… unnecessary complexity, basic actions fail and send me into a rabbit hole to try to get them fixed, "advice" forums are unhelpful… REAPER would be the linux of DAWs if it was open source.
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Finally,
I went back to this video, "Looping in Reaper" which shows an action of drawing a time selection on the "ruler" area, which I can't replicate either.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9r_QYU0CA
So… unnecessary complexity, basic actions fail and send me into a rabbit hole to try to get them fixed, "advice" forums are unhelpful… REAPER would be the linux of DAWs if it was open source.
And on top of it all, I still haven't recorded a single note on this DAW in four months of owning it. I'm starting to think that the 70 bucks for the license is a sunk cost that I should stop pursuing.
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And on top of it all, I still haven't recorded a single note on this DAW in four months of owning it. I'm starting to think that the 70 bucks for the license is a sunk cost that I should stop pursuing.
Update: uninstalling and reinstalling did not work, probably because that's not how things are organized on the Mac compared to Windows. Deleting the app only deletes the app, not the settings.
Following the steps in https://promixacademy.com/blog/loop-in-reaper/ also failed, because the behavior described in Step 2-1:"Right-click on the timeline above your selected area and choose “Set Loop Points” from the context menu." simply does not occur. There's no "Set Loop Points" option there.
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Update: uninstalling and reinstalling did not work, probably because that's not how things are organized on the Mac compared to Windows. Deleting the app only deletes the app, not the settings.
Following the steps in https://promixacademy.com/blog/loop-in-reaper/ also failed, because the behavior described in Step 2-1:"Right-click on the timeline above your selected area and choose “Set Loop Points” from the context menu." simply does not occur. There's no "Set Loop Points" option there.
However, after selecting "Remove all markers from time selection" from that same context menu, I can draw a time selection on the ruler, which is progress. I do not recall having made a time selection before, but maybe I have. Does it work? Let's find out!
… yes, yes it does. Only took me an hour to troubleshoot.
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However, after selecting "Remove all markers from time selection" from that same context menu, I can draw a time selection on the ruler, which is progress. I do not recall having made a time selection before, but maybe I have. Does it work? Let's find out!
… yes, yes it does. Only took me an hour to troubleshoot.
Well, stone me, I've recorded some drums. And it's time to wrap up practice for the day and go to bed, so more tomorrow.
Once again, once I'd jumped through a dozen different hoops and tore my hair out for over an hour to identify the tiny thing the instructions missed, things work pretty much the way I expected before I started on the task.
I wish just for once I could go directly from zero to things working the way I expected them to in the first place!
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Well, stone me, I've recorded some drums. And it's time to wrap up practice for the day and go to bed, so more tomorrow.
Once again, once I'd jumped through a dozen different hoops and tore my hair out for over an hour to identify the tiny thing the instructions missed, things work pretty much the way I expected before I started on the task.
I wish just for once I could go directly from zero to things working the way I expected them to in the first place!
Though I guess the sample player, ReaSamplOMatic5000, counts as something that worked as expected immediately. So maybe I'm being unfair in the thread above.
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Though I guess the sample player, ReaSamplOMatic5000, counts as something that worked as expected immediately. So maybe I'm being unfair in the thread above.
January 8: After thinking through how things went yesterday, I think I was a little too hard on Reaper (and on linux and its community as a snide little aside). I regret saying that in public, but only a little bit. Part of documenting what I've been up to every evening that I'm working my way to being ready for FAWM is mentioning how I feel about things, and that was how I felt. But I also thought what kept happening wasn't Reaper's fault.
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January 8: After thinking through how things went yesterday, I think I was a little too hard on Reaper (and on linux and its community as a snide little aside). I regret saying that in public, but only a little bit. Part of documenting what I've been up to every evening that I'm working my way to being ready for FAWM is mentioning how I feel about things, and that was how I felt. But I also thought what kept happening wasn't Reaper's fault.
Gradually working with the same templates to get to something I can use involves the creation of some technical debt: actions that I may have forgotten about but that effect the next lesson. If I started from scratch each session, I wouldn't have these problems.
That was what I thought late last night.
Today… I followed @etherdiver 's video about using the MicroFreak with effects, specifically the ZOOM CDR-70 Multistomp. -
Gradually working with the same templates to get to something I can use involves the creation of some technical debt: actions that I may have forgotten about but that effect the next lesson. If I started from scratch each session, I wouldn't have these problems.
That was what I thought late last night.
Today… I followed @etherdiver 's video about using the MicroFreak with effects, specifically the ZOOM CDR-70 Multistomp.This time around, very little of what Ether said was new to me (I've had both the synth and the pedal for a while and know they go well together), but it was a nice refresher. I did, however, tune out when the discussion about whether the pedal was worth purchasing or not started. At that point, I took that as my queue to try out the chorus/delay/reverb effects that shipped with Reaper instead… and what do you know?
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This time around, very little of what Ether said was new to me (I've had both the synth and the pedal for a while and know they go well together), but it was a nice refresher. I did, however, tune out when the discussion about whether the pedal was worth purchasing or not started. At that point, I took that as my queue to try out the chorus/delay/reverb effects that shipped with Reaper instead… and what do you know?
The curse struck again. After a few minutes, something happened that made the effects chain not work. I know it worked at first because I sent the feedback on a delay right into the hell zone of digital clipping. But after switching out chorus effects… I got the dry output from the MicroFreak and nothing more.
I decided not to go into the rabbit hole today, A fresh start tomorrow should have everything working again, and if not, I can deal with it then.
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The curse struck again. After a few minutes, something happened that made the effects chain not work. I know it worked at first because I sent the feedback on a delay right into the hell zone of digital clipping. But after switching out chorus effects… I got the dry output from the MicroFreak and nothing more.
I decided not to go into the rabbit hole today, A fresh start tomorrow should have everything working again, and if not, I can deal with it then.
But it's at moments like this I'm really glad to have my standard pedalboard, as well as the extra pedals that can come in handy (the Multistomp, a Strymon Bluesky reverb and a mono CabZeus cab simulator). If all else fails, I can show them to my computer and remind it it's replaceable. I mean hook them up and record wet signal from those devices. Into my R16. While the goddamned computer watches and starts thinking about how to get back into my good graces.
Ahem.
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But it's at moments like this I'm really glad to have my standard pedalboard, as well as the extra pedals that can come in handy (the Multistomp, a Strymon Bluesky reverb and a mono CabZeus cab simulator). If all else fails, I can show them to my computer and remind it it's replaceable. I mean hook them up and record wet signal from those devices. Into my R16. While the goddamned computer watches and starts thinking about how to get back into my good graces.
Ahem.
That reminds me, my wrists are doing great and I might just play some guitar again tomorrow.
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That reminds me, my wrists are doing great and I might just play some guitar again tomorrow.
January 9: Wellp, I managed 20 minutes of guitar, five songs from the repertoire, playing into Reaper (which worked fine) until I began to feel more pain in my wrists again. Quitting while I was ahead, I guess. Quality of playing was appalling because I am using reduced brain capacity to do more work: monitoring pain is now part of my daily playing practice and it's both distracting and ruining my confidence in my own movements.
Passive Reaper tutorial watching now. NOT hands-on, oh no no no.
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January 9: Wellp, I managed 20 minutes of guitar, five songs from the repertoire, playing into Reaper (which worked fine) until I began to feel more pain in my wrists again. Quitting while I was ahead, I guess. Quality of playing was appalling because I am using reduced brain capacity to do more work: monitoring pain is now part of my daily playing practice and it's both distracting and ruining my confidence in my own movements.
Passive Reaper tutorial watching now. NOT hands-on, oh no no no.
Jan. 10: a bit of a headache today so I was watching short-ish YouTube videos in the early afternoon, including one on using VST synths within Reaper. It looks like that is how I will be doing FAWM: nothing clever with multi-channel sequencing, just building up parts with a MIDI controller one at a time.
Probably time to switch back to a piano keyboard controller then, as Monster Drums is made with that in mind, and regular synths are easier to play that way anyway.
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Jan. 10: a bit of a headache today so I was watching short-ish YouTube videos in the early afternoon, including one on using VST synths within Reaper. It looks like that is how I will be doing FAWM: nothing clever with multi-channel sequencing, just building up parts with a MIDI controller one at a time.
Probably time to switch back to a piano keyboard controller then, as Monster Drums is made with that in mind, and regular synths are easier to play that way anyway.
So, the question "which of these seemingly identical but subtly different mini-USB cables (or lightning cables, or just about anything that isn't USB-A to square USB) will work" is "the one that's covered in tape, because that's the one ou used the shit out of before". Nice to be reminded of that.
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