INSTALLING AND SETTING UP REAPER

[thegreattailz]

Hey, I just installed Reaper and asio 4 all and Im trying to set my settings for minimum latency from my audio guitar link in. I have win 7 64 bit. I can hear my guitar in, but im still hearing a delay. Do I have to somehow run it through reaper to get rid of it? The end result is to play an mp3's and record my guitar over the top of it. Thanks

 

[stratotone]

You're going to have to change the settings on whatever sound card or device you have set up.
options>preferences>audio>device asio configuration and then driver setup tab, make the buffer size smaller. If it's too small you'll get pops and clicks. Also, the more effects you use when recording the more latency (delays) you'll get too.

 

[Ventura]

In short, spend some time pulling your hair out and - as I remember doing this a couple years ago - google is your friend. Check out the Reaper forum, tons of great start up info there. It was my main place to go when I was setting things up, and to this day, I go over there to get pointers, tips and refreshers.

 

[kiff]

make sure you're monitoring everything off of the device you're using to record off of, that way you'll hear your guitar immediately and not after the round trip. also, if you do this, I believe reaper will automatically latency compensate and the playback tracks will sound the same as what you're playing against while recording. if you playback the existing tracks through the computer's sound card and record w/ a usb device (or whatever), the lag compensation wont work correctly and things won't be "lined up" .

 

[blackba]

Hey, I just installed Reaper and asio 4 all and Im trying to set my settings for minimum latency from my audio guitar link in. I have win 7 64 bit. I can hear my guitar in, but im still hearing a delay. Do I have to somehow run it through reaper to get rid of it? The end result is to play an mp3's and record my guitar over the top of it. Thanks

Just curious if you went with Reaper 64 bit or Reaper 32 bit? I am looking at getting reaper and I have windows7, 64bit OS as well.

 

[Ventura]

Just curious if you went with Reaper 64 bit or Reaper 32 bit? I am looking at getting reaper and I have windows7, 64bit OS as well.

64bit with a MacBook Pro running older Snow Leopard

 

[stratotone]

I'm running 64bit and have with Win7 for over a year, works great.

 

[thegreattailz]

make sure you're monitoring everything off of the device you're using to record off of, that way you'll hear your guitar immediately and not after the round trip. also, if you do this, I believe reaper will automatically latency compensate and the playback tracks will sound the same as what you're playing against while recording. if you playback the existing tracks through the computer's sound card and record w/ a usb device (or whatever), the lag compensation wont work correctly and things won't be "lined up" .

I dont think I understand. I have zero experience with reaper or setting it up. Last time I downloaded it it was difficult to understand, I found audacity lot easier. Either way, I think Im still hearing a latency delay. Thats probably because its running through my guitar link straight through the usb to the speakers. I dont know how to use it through reaper, even though I installed the asio drivers and selected them it still seems like its just going through the computer. It didnt correct the delay, or I dont know how to make it work. Or if someone has the time to kinda walk me through it, the latency is killing me I cant even play along to a simple song, I cant stand it. I never used to have issues like this with earlier versions of windows

 

[Chris6870]

make sure you're monitoring everything off of the device you're using to record off of, that way you'll hear your guitar immediately and not after the round trip. .

This.
You want to hear your guitar live either out of the amp or monitors or headphones hooked to your interface not coming out of your computers speakers.As posted above by the time your guitar goes through your computer into reaper and back out through your speakers a few milliseconds has gone by giving you the delay. I have a pair of powered monitors hooked to the speaker outs on my usb interface, signal gow to computer via midi but im hearing the guitar through the monitors and the playback of other tracks in reaper through computer speakers or my monitors depending on what is selected in reaper as playback device. Hope that helps. I had the same problems when I first started.

 

[racerevlon]

What interface are you using? Try changing from the ASIO driver to the WDM Kernel Streaming driver and make sure your interface, not the computer's sound card is listed as the input / output device.

 

[thegreattailz]

make sure you're monitoring everything off of the device you're using to record off of, that way you'll hear your guitar immediately and not after the round trip. .

This.
You want to hear your guitar live either out of the amp or monitors or headphones hooked to your interface not coming out of your computers speakers.As posted above by the time your guitar goes through your computer into reaper and back out through your speakers a few milliseconds has gone by giving you the delay. I have a pair of powered monitors hooked to the speaker outs on my usb interface, signal gow to computer via midi but im hearing the guitar through the monitors and the playback of other tracks in reaper through computer speakers or my monitors depending on what is selected in reaper as playback device. Hope that helps. I had the same problems when I first started.

My headphones are plugged into the behringer guitar link, but i can somehow also hear the mp3 trhough them so thats just what I use. Im not micing the in from the amp, its a direct line from my guitar through my pedalboard and directly into the guitar link, then into my computer. Like I said, I can hear the mp3 through the headphones on the guitar link.

What interface are you using? Try changing from the ASIO driver to the WDM Kernel Streaming driver and make sure your interface, not the computer's sound card is listed as the input / output device.

I dont know how to fiddle with the drivers, Im pretty sure I have asio that the guitar link is using. But audacity doesnt use asio, but my behringer might be.

 

[thegreattailz]

P.S. i never got any software with my guitar link, so im clueless how to edit the asio drivers

 

[Chris6870]

You select Asio in reaper. Go to options - preferences - audio - device

 

[thegreattailz]

You select Asio in reaper. Go to options - preferences - audio - device

And then what? What should my settings be as a guitarist concerning bit rate, hertz, ect I dont know what that stuff means.

 

[ibenhad]

Probably better asked on the Reaper Forums. Not that everyone here isn't extremely helpful but http://forum.cockos.com/index.php go to the source. I am running it with no problems on a crappy windows vista based laptop and it runs fine. I use ASIO4ALL drivers and have no problems. I am also only using the laptop as a scratch pad and do the real stuff on a much beefier machine using a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40.

 

[Chris6870]

Lower the bit rate until the latency is gone. I just pretty much played with the settings and figured out what they do.

 

[aftec]

Mostly depends on your Sound card. Some have "direct monitoring", embedded sound cards are usually requiring high ASIO buffers, resulting in high round trip latency.

 

[thegreattailz]

Lower the bit rate until the latency is gone. I just pretty much played with the settings and figured out what they do.

It seems to me that the delay is being caused by my adapter. Odd. Because when I plug my headphones coming straight out of my effects chain, it sounds fine. But the signal goes into the usb guitar link, and into my computer via usb. My headphones are plugged into the adapter, not the computer so there shouldn't be any latency at all.