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'
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
- Reaper Themes
- Control Surfaces
- For your specific midi-controller, please search here with the name of your device.
- Klinke's Mackie Control Plugin
- Geoff Waddington's Mackie Control Plugin
- Alpha Track (PRO)
- Faderport XT
- For your iOS-device:
- AC-7
- TouchOSC
- V-Control
- Line Lemur
- TouchDAW
- For Android:
