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Monday, December 16, 2013

A Reaper Newbie Guide

Introduction

Welcome to this Reaper Newbie Guide!
The guide is aimed at you who are new to Reaper and maybe DAWs in general.
There are three  main sections:

Part I
a) The Reaper essentials.
  What you need and how to get started.
b) The Reaper add-ons.
  Themes, control-surfaces and handy stuff.

Part II 
A ReaBundle
  Instruments and effects to make music (may be refereed to as G-Suns ReaBundle)


The Reaper essentials

1) If you haven't done so already. Download Reaper ( 64bit ) and install.
2) Download the User Guide by Geoffrey Francis
3) Download and install the SWS-extension
(Tip! You may find various manuals. Grab 'm all and save into Reapers home directory e.g. "C:\Users\'YourName'\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\Docs"(win). They'll then show up in Reapers help-menu )

Getting started
Now, when you start Reaper, the minimum you'll have to do is to set up in/out audio and midi (at least audio out). Read manual 1.12 and 1.15.
The next thing is telling Reaper where you have your vst-plugins. Read manual 1.16
Then reading the whole manual is an excellent idea. But let's admit it: That's a lot of pages..
You'll maybe find Geoffreys QuickStartManual shorter and very handy :)
 

  The Reaper add-ons

Some links

Video Tutorials


5 comments:

  1. Very nice. Thank you.

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  2. Thank you for sharing nice blog. Sounds like a great way to keep kids focused and motivated!
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  3. It's says three main parts, and then lists part 1 and part 2 with part 3 completely missing.

    Not very promising, especially for newbies. Confusing them already in the intro.

    Not attacking as a guide for noobs is a very good idea, but I know I would drop it if I saw that. Means the rest is almost bound to be equally error-ridden.

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    1. Sorry you didn't find the second part. It's on a separate page here:
      http://geir-music.blogspot.no/2014/02/g-suns-reabundle.html

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    2. Edit: I see my labels "parts" is confusing as first page consist of two parts. Changed the wording a little.

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