Plan B

So this is what happened with Plan B. I started this song in Riffworks and then Mix down the drums, bass, and guitar parts to separate wav files. Next I opened up the folder where I saved the wav files and just dragged and dropped them in. Reaper created a track automatically so that part of the process was easy. I did a quick check to see how it sounded and everything checked out perfectly. Now here is where the real fun begins but not without some complications. Let me explain. I actually started with a file with some MIDI files already intact but I didn't get any sound from those tracks, not sure why. So I created a new track and dragged the MIDI portion of the song to the new track then proceeded to play it back again. This time was a success. Now I wanted to add some effects to the tracks and mix. I used all free VST plugins which I found on the internet and downloaded. I added Stereo Up to one of the rhythm guitar parts and some Polyphase effect to the other guitar rhythm track for a really cool effect. I did some other effects stuff to including and EQ to the master output. So let me tell you about some of the problems I had.

It seems that my MIDI keyboard track would drop out the audio now and then, so I monkeyed around with the ASIO driver to see if I could fix the drop outs. When I would try to playback or record and monitor the audio everytime I hit a certain key in a lower octave the audio would just drop out completely. If I stopped the recording or playback and resumed it I was able to get the audio back. I think I was able to fix it a little but it would still occur but only one speaker channel would drop the audio signal. This had now effect on the the final rendering of the song from with Reaper. I rendered the song to a wav then used Audacity to do some mastering.

You can here the song here: Infectious