Hey everyone, total Reaper noob here so I've got a couple questions:
In the past I've been recording via Garageband (on a Mac, not the mobile app). I used a USB condenser mic for vocals, the Rocksmith cable for guitar and bass, and I used the midi keyboard inside Garageband to lay down drums and orchestral instruments. My Mac is crapping out so I decided to move over to a pretty powerful PC that I build recently. The rig does not have a dedicated sound card, but the motherboard (Gigabyte - GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151) has some sort of onboard Creative Labs sound integration. The rig is run on Windows 10 64bit and I have 32g of RAM (here is the rig
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Greech/saved/fyzbt6). Lastly, for a monitor I've got this PC rig hooked up to a 65 inch Sharp Aquos through a home theater soundbar. I figured I'd just plug a headset into my PC and route the sound to it anyway.
So all that said, I installed Reaper on my PC/home theater and have run into some strange issues. I installed Asio4all and have my Rocksmith USB as the input, my home theater as my output. So far I've laid down a midi drum track and when I try to play it back sometimes it works fine, other times I can only hear the kick drum but not the snare, and sometimes I cant hear it play back at all. When I hear nothing, I create a new track, cut and paste the drums onto the new track, and it plays fine. I also have a guitar track (using the Rocksmith cable) that doesn't usually give me trouble, but sometimes it also doesnt play back correctly. Finally, I'm having a ton of trouble routing the output to the headphones which are simply plugged into the PC tower's headphone jack. I have to go into the asio options and choose headset which is nested under a different device. It doesnt always work, but when it does, there is massive static and feedback coming through the headset. On top of all that, every time I turn on Reaper it seems none of my asio choices stick, it always seem to reset to some default.
AND I've got a few second delay when recording through the Rocksmith cable. I have to move the whole track forward 3 seconds to line the guitar up with the drums.
So anyone got any ideas? Would something like a Roland QuadCapture Audio Interface just make all my problems go away?
Considering Reaper is only $35 this month I'm highly likely to purchase it, but I just want to make sure I'm not going to have these issues forever if I do! Any help would be greatly appreciated!