Reaper is a powerful digital audio workstation, but that power can be intimidating. Putting features of the software to work for you may save you time or even improve the quality of your mixes. The Reaper Blog, linked below, is a great way to pick up new tricks and information. The link is about the mixer control panel in particular, but browse around to see if you can learn something new.
Take a look at the full article: http://reaperblog.net/2013/01/reaper-101-mixer-control-panel/
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8DIO Free Angels Library
The Free Angels sample library from 8DIO has half of the samples completed, but the editor is offering a unique opportunity to those with a professional audio ear. By recording and submitting a set of five things that sound beautiful to you, you’ll receive the entire library for free once it’s released. The submission guidelines are very loose, so let your creativity flow.
You can read more about the project and how to make a submission here: http://8dio.com/?btp_product=free-angels
KVR Audio Developer Challenge Winners Announced
Each year, KVR Audio hosts a developer challenge, looking for the best new audio plug-in or application. The prize pool is generated through donations and awarded to the top few submissions. Each of the 55 submissions for the 2012 challenge is available for free through KVR Audio’s website, so be sure to look through the other entries if the winning submissions aren’t of use to you. It won’t be too long before the 2013 Developer Challenge is announced. If you’re into programming or maybe just have a great idea for some audio software, keep an eye out for the announcement.
You can read about, and download, each of the plug-ins and applications that were submitted to the 2012 Developer Challenge here: http://www.kvraudio.com/news/kvr-developer-challenge-2012—the-winner-is-20871
Cakewalk SONAR X2a Update Available
Cakewalk has released the SONAR X2a update for SONAR X2 Essential, Studio, and Professional versions. This update adds Windows 8 support, including touch screen multi-touch features. Add all of that to the numerous enhancements that were made based on customer feedback and this update is definitely worth taking a look at. Best of all, it’s free.
You can read about all of the new features and enhancements here: http://en.audiofanzine.com/general-sequencer/cakewalk/sonar-x2-producer/news/a.play,n.14895.html
What Is A Delay Throw Effect?
One of the many common effect used primarily in music is called a delay. It might help if you call it an echo, because what a delay does is create a copy of part or all of a piece of audio and then repeat it just after the original. It “delays” the repeat by some set amount, usually a fraction of a second.
Now you can attach this effect to an entire vocal track, or you can just treat a single word or phrase in the track. The latter is called a “delay throw.”
So how that would sound is that the audio – let’s say a vocal – would be merrily singing along with no echo (delay). But then at some specific point in the song, maybe right before a chorus to build up anticipation or some other emotional effect, you decide to apply the delay effect to just one word or a short 2-3 word phrase.
In the following video by Dezz Asante, he shows you how to do this using Cubase recording software. Of course you can do the same thing in other DAW (digital audio workstation) programs. In Reaper there a several ways to do it. You can use an effect buss and an automation envelope line like Dezz does in the video. But in Reaper I would be more likely to slice out the audio I want (Shift-Ctrl-S) to create a new audio item, and then simply insert the delay effect onto the new item.
See the aforementioned video below: