In this episode of the REAPER series, Alex shows you how to switch and combine takes in an audio track to make one cohesive track. We listen to some seriously underwhelming takes, and some really cool and intricate ones.
Takes are sections of audio that are recorded, most likely multiple times and are able to be combined to make a “perfect” section of music.
Supplemental: Superior Drummer and REAPER Part 2: Nerd Code for Good Tone!
Welcome back.
Here, Alex walks us through editing presets by hand using Notepad. Since basically everything that’s good isn’t accessible in the music world, you gotta do silly and time-consuming workarounds. Depending on what kind of tone maniac and audio aficionado you are, you might decide to go through this.
iOS 10: A Swipe Through the Major New Features
In this podcast Alex demonstrates iOS10 and some of its major new features and enhancements.
These include:
Audacity for Windows Part 2: Usage and Pink Feathers
In this episode of the Audacity for Windows series, we go through some every-day edit commands. Sprinkled with humor and sarcasm, Alex brings you to the wonderful world of checking general loudness of audio selections and exporting some uncompressed glory.
Supplemental: Superior Drummer and REAPER Part 1: The Plugin Interface Walkthrough
This supplemental series is for those who have the Superior Drummer plugin from Toontrack. We already assume you have the plug installed, and move into navigating the interface, which is actually quite usable for simple things with NVDA.
Foobar2000 for iOS: A Simple and Free Media Player
In this podcast Alex quickly demos foobar2000 preview for iOS. Some workarounds to its shortcomings and accessibility regarding the playback screen are also explained.
Audacity for Windows Part 1: Introduction and Interface Navigation
Alex begins a little tutorial on Audacity for Windows using NVDA.
He goes through some preferences that are useful and then shows off the interface a bit.
Future episodes in this series will cover real editing: Selection, cutting and pasting, zooming in and out to really hone in on a bit of audio you wish to manipulate. Stay tuned!
REAPER On Windows Part 4: Tracking Your Next Single
In part 4 of REAPER, we record a simple multi-track music project using VST plugins, MIDI drums, guitar amp simulators and some equalizers.
Remember that in Part 3, we created our tracks and made a guitar folder to make things simpler to quickly navigate the tracks in your project. In Part 4, we proceed to record two guitar tracks as well as a bass track. After, we briefly learn about the master track and limiters.
REAPER On Windows Part 3 : Configure To Play
Part 3 is finally here. Alex shows some preliminary configuration options for setting up REAPER to record music on Windows. This includes per-project media folders and using the metronome. He also quickly blabs about MIDI devices.
VIP: It’s A Goody Bag
Join the Cool Blind Tech team this week as Alex, Leo and Tomi discuss the latest rumblings on WWDC and the recently hosted third annual NVDACon. The team also shares their opinions on some beneficial updates to Netflix, Facebook Messenger and Google Music. Top these items off with this week’s Cool Picks and you definitely have one podcast you don’t want to miss!
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