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Charlie_M.
re cant find plug in.
let me explain.
i use two daw software to do songs...reaper n powertraks (ptw).
(total cost is about 100 buks for both.
i dont know of any other combo of software which gives so many features for so little money..
unless one spends oodles of buks. i'm a registerd user of both.
no dongles with either ...which i really like.)
like reaper powertraks (ptw) comes with its own audio plug in suite.
(even has a special facility for cleaning up old vinyl records if that ever interests you.)
i use reap n ptw for different things.
cos there are neat features in both.
one being an echo chorus plug in in ptw that i really like.
cos reaper cleverly accepts third party plug ins....
both dx and vst...
i simply use the ptw echo chorus plug within reap.
(for this you would need to install ptw..its painless.)
cos the ptw echo chorus is fast to set up n use and consumes little resources.
i'm just very used to it on lead vocs.
(to get the ptw echo chorus plug in...
its available from pgmusic.com as part of ptw.)
alternatively if you cant afford the 50 buks for ptw and its fx suite.
..try this.duplicate the original
reaper voc track..then in the duplicate trak via item properties add.
5 millisecs to the start time.
(experiment tween 5 n 10 millisecs.) then via the fx button...
plug in reaps own reaverbate fx.....reasonably wet.
in summary you have two traks.
the original dry vocal trak and the same again but effected n offset a few millisecs.
alternatively you could try various impulses in reaverb.
ptw was reviewed in this months canadian musician magazine.
or just go to the pg site n try the demo mate n look at the on line videos.
and descriptions. cos theres only so much detail i can go into...
cos.like reap..the feature list is large.
(if u DO try ptw..make sure you try the various midi filtering features...
for doing lots of things to midi traks. also check out the REAL DRUMS feature .)
a lot of it is experimentation eh ?
heres how i do vocals in reap.
hope it helps you.
1. i set up a parent trak called LEAD VOCS.
with say 5 children traks linked to the parent.
(if u notice child traks are indented in reap.)
2. i then label each child trak for example....
verse x or verse take y or chorus x or chorus take y.
3. the above way i can then do subtle edits on takes n verses n choruses. (notice each reap clip or split clip has a vol handle on it a well as fade in /out.
plus ive done fancy stuff like automate pan so vocs can move around in the stereo image.
4. within the parent as another child trak i also have a seperate overdubs trak in case i screw up.
an example...
TRAK 7...PARENT TRAK lead vocs
.........child traks.......
..........TRAK 8 lead voc verse 1
..........TRAK 9 chorus left
..........TRAK10 chorus right
..........TRAK 11lead voc verse 2
useing the sliders in the TCP then i can blend the different takes
as well as the volume handles on each clip.
once i have the vocs all done charlie...then i simply move the clips in
reap so my lead vocs look like this in the child traks.
.......>..TRAK 12 lead vocs verses.
......>...TRAK 13 lead vocs duplicate (with ptw echo chorus added via fx button.)
.......>..TRAK 14 choruses
.....>....TRAK 15 choruses (with fx.)
legend .the > shows roughly to you the fader level on the tcp in reap.
once happy i delete child traks 8 thru 11.
just one of many ways of doing it.
in more complex songs i might have 8 child traks going.
i'm assuming thru this you know in reap the concept of child traks linked to a parent folder.
(hold mouse over the folder picture by trak name.)
in some cases if i'm doing a quikie voc comp i just insert
the ptw chorus echo on the parent .
eg...in this case TRAK 7....and set wet/dry params n delay etc .
this then affects all child traks.
theres is nothing to stop you chaining fx on the parent trak 7
useing both reaps fx as well as ptw's.
there are alsoneat triks to discover useing child traks in reap linked to a parent. eg...have just one part of a vocal or chorus with fx on.
or for example at some point in a song have some special effect
zoom from left to right etc. (use reaper panning aurtomation after effecting.).lots of triks n lots of fun.....lol.
heres another reap trik i use....
we all get excited sometimes getting too close to mic .right ?
so ya got this perfect voc trak except for one dam "P"
consonant. no probs. placecursor just before the "P" ,
right clik n split trak. place cursor at top left of P bit.
notice the cursor changes ? drag with mouse to right to soften the P impact. (we are essentially doin a subtle fade in on the P consonant).
another reap trik.
ya got a vocal trak perfect except at one point for a few secs...
the level drops. whaddya do ? (vocallist stepped back n compressors arent always the solution.).
no probs....hilite the quite few secs..right clik split.
so the quite bit is seperated from rest of trak. then right clik...
normalise....then hold mouse over top of clip n drag down volume handle to balance the now louder quiete bit to rest of trak.
(another alternative is to cut out the quite section to a new blank child trak n simply raise its fader in the tcp.)
i hope this illustrates why i call BS when some people say reap doesnt have a full complement of editing features.
(obviously they havent bothered to learn the features. )
seriously its all there mate if one reads the manual..
n developes ones techniques/triks.
happy new year.
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