Help Me Out Please!!!

[Brotha Z]

Help Me Out Please!!!

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Ok, check it out, i am a straight newbie!! I am really an artist and have not beefed up my engineering skills yet. I know how to do the basic recording stuff (adding track,effecdts,etc.) which is all i really need right now at home. got a question, how in the hell do you get the recording to play in MP3 format??? do i consolidate first, then render?? I posted a thread like this before and got good advise from y'all. All my settings are set to 16 bit like i was told , and still nothing. The only thing i got was a blank media file, it showed the time length for the song, but no sound. Am i doing something wrong!!! Need "Reaper For Dummies Manual" i guess, lol

Peace
Z

[pipelineaudio]

Just render to mp3. You need to have the lame encoder in your c:\program files\reaper directory to do that though

http://lame.sourceforge.net/

[Brotha Z]

ok, i must be doing something wrong then, got the encoder, it's in there, i render, and still nothing

[shane]

Hmm...do your hear the sound when you play the project in Reaper? Are you using MIDI tracks or audio tracks? Got any plug-ins on the master buss?

[Brotha Z]

i do hear the song when played in reaper. no plug in on the master buss. I render it, i see the input bars moving and doing their thing, it says complete, i open realplayer or WMP, its there correct time lingth and everything, then when i play it, the meter moves, but no sound?

Thanks for helping, i dont know what the hell im soing wrong

[shane]

Oooh ok, I think I get it. Reaper is playing through your audio interface and monitor speakers, right? WMP/Realplayer are probably configured to use your pc's internal soundcard by default.

Go into your Windows control panel, pick Sounds and Audio Devices, pick the Audio tab, and set the default sound playback devices to whatever soundcard is running your monitors.

You can probably do this in WMP's settings too...I know you can select non-default audio devices in Winamp. Post back if this fixed your problem.

[Brotha Z]

Still a no go. i must be missing something.

[manning1]

zee....
my brotha...
could u plz tell me what perchance is thy chosen sound card
ze abbott insists thee must use. ?

and i will summon ze computer witches to cook up ze nice solution...

[Brotha Z]

ok, i got the thing to render files to wav.; so i can go with that, but here is another question: ok, i load up my media file or track i want to record, but i cant get the tempo to match up after i record, my voice recording is always off. any tips or suggestions?

[Amether]

Get ASIO4ALL (do a Google search). Should help you out.

As for the silence thing - maybe try killing Reaper then playing. Or putting the thing onto an mp3 player or something. Or try importing the mp3 into Reaper and seeing if it does anything. Or get Winamp. Or something.