Hey everyone, hoping I'm making a rookie mistake... here goes.
Every time I boot up Reaper, it brings me to my last saved project. If I play it, the drums are silent. I'm using MT Power Drumkit 2 (free version). If I shut the project down and reopen it, it's still silent. If I open a different project, the drums are silent.
The workaround is to create a new track from an instrument and pick the same VST. I then drag the drums from the original track into the new one and it plays fine.
After a lot of googling I learned to check if the track was triggering the auto mute function, but I don't believe that it is.
Any ideas? This problem was happening since I started using Reaper last week. Since then I switched to the Focusrite 6i6 and away from Asio4All to Focusrite Asio and all my other problems went away except for this one.
Whenever I use other VSTs I don't have this problem, so I assume it's not an output routing issue considering those other tracks seem to be set up properly upon creation and I have to assume (although I did not check) that if the drums VST has its own output setting that it's set up correct because I do get it to work properly if I drag it to a new track as described above
Any help would be great. I'm one week into using Reaper and although overwhelming at first I feel like I'm starting to get a feel for it... hoping there is an obvious answer to this so I can get comfortable enough to buy the full version