Reaper + Gtr Solo?
mhskeide
May 21 2009, 08:31 PM
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Hi guys

My current studio software is Sequel, but for some stupid reason, Sequel doesn`t have the option to open any mp3 file, which makes it very hard to use when participating in a collab.

I thought that GTR solo and Reaper should be an okay backup, but how do I connect them together tongue.gif ?

My goal is:

Load the collab backingtrack into reaper

Add GTR solo as plugin / amplifier

Record over that song

Extract as mp3.

Can anyone please help a desperate studio noobie wacko.gif

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QUOTE (mhskeide @ May 21 2009, 08:31 PM) *
Load the collab backingtrack into reaper

Drag and drop the mp3 file from wherever it is saved (desktop or wherever) into the timeline (big empty part of the Reaper with vertical lines) it'll create a new track automatically

QUOTE (mhskeide @ May 21 2009, 08:31 PM) *
Add GTR solo as plugin / amplifier
Can anyone please help a desperate studio noobie wacko.gif

First make sure you have told reaper where you keep the GTR solo vst plugin ( a .dll file that should come with installation of GTR solo) to do that go, options > preferences > Vst, and set the destination folder

Then go, Track -> Insert new track

On the new track that appears on the left, hit the "fx" button and GTR solo should appear under the list of VSTs- selecting it should open it as a little window.

QUOTE (mhskeide @ May 21 2009, 08:31 PM) *
Record over that song

When you dragged the backing track in to reaper it should have made a new track automatically, adding that new track and adding the VST (as well as arming the track for recording and setting up your sound device correctly) and you will have both the tracks you need to record.

QUOTE (mhskeide @ May 21 2009, 08:31 PM) *
Extract as mp3.

You will need a "lame" encoder (google "lame.enc"), putting this in the appropriate folder (not sure where that is, i haven't managed to get that sorted yet) will allow you to select .mp3 as your render setting (file > render). or google for CDex which i use to convert wav to mp3 (this is a stand-alone program)

Hope that helped

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May 22 2009, 01:34 PM
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I'll check for the Lame Enc. I managed to do that, but not sure how tongue.gif

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The LAME dll is the 'lame-enc.dll' (assuming windows) and you can get it here. Normally you'd put the LAME encoder in c:\program files\reaper.

I say normally as I actually have mine elsewhere and associate it as I don't want the same dll spread out over lots of different progs.


I spent a day working with someone from Audacity's development team working through encoders and LAME as we had a need to use a linux Debian distro and were having problems compiling the LAME. We did a lot of repeat testing on LAME, toolame and other encoders plus compiling Audacity ground up for ASIO 2.

Some of what we found confirms known info and data on encoders and from it, if hard drive space permits and your hardware, including mp3 player, can do so use flacc.

More on flacc here.

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Crap, I have nothing to add. laugh.gif

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Well I'll add something else then tongue.gif laugh.gif wink.gif


If you render to mp3 using LAME or a similar mp3 encoder they tend to render at a bit depth of 16 - you can adjust the bit rate but not bit depth for rendering. (It's a bit more complicated then this as mp3 stores sound as amplitude over frequency and so the bit depth arguably floats. What actually results is not a fixed bit depth but a range limitation 24 bit has a larger range than 16, and so on.)

There is a consequence of this wrt to recording at a bit depth higher than the mp3 encoder - it will decide how to dither your recording down to 16 bit ie whether to remove high frequency or low level noise. This may not give you the best result since sometimes self-dithering doesn't occur as instead you get a signal with a noise floor below 16 bit and so you truncate the higher bit depth signal. If dithering does occur though then you an increase the noise floor and the amplitude and so get clipping. Think I mentioned above that LAME and the other mp3 encs all induced gain and increased clipping.

So at times you may be better actually dropping the bit depth yourself to 16 bit at the recording stage before rendering to mp3 to avoid the additional dithering. Whether you get a good result really depends on your set up though and requires testing and experiemntation.

If you want to avoid this then you need to avoid rendering out to mp3 or indeed any 'lossy format'.

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