Thursday, March 11, 2010

Windows 7 and Reaper

Okay, its been a while since I posted any thing, but I wanted to wait till I stabilized a few things. So now I believe everything is working quite nicely.  Reaper runs on Window 7 effortlessly and loads very quickly, so I finally purchased the discounted license since I'm not making any money from my music (yet!). I have had time now to really get a grasp on using it and am amazed by it's power and flexibility from recording audio or midi tracks, to editing midi, to arranging my compositions, and rendering audio files.  This program seems to have no limits. It will even work as a Rewire slave for Riffworks.  I had problems getting Rewire to work at first in Windows 7 but was able to change a few settings in the Preferences and it seems to work now.  In addition I have added a new midi interface to my recording setup, a Korg padKontrol.  It is awesome, now I can create my own drum loops, fills, etc. I have also purchased Steven Slate drums EX edition at a steal.  This is a VSTi plugin which gives me like 10 drum kits to play with.. Hopefully I can start sharing more detail with using Reaper real soon.