Would anyone be willing to lay out their experiences with DAWs? Preferably free ones? I tried waveform, but I’m thinking I’m going to use Cakewalk. A lot of people say Reaper, but the UI seems lackluster. What do yo think?
Would anyone be willing to lay out their experiences with DAWs? Preferably free ones? I tried waveform, but I’m thinking I’m going to use Cakewalk. A lot of people say Reaper, but the UI seems lackluster. What do yo think?
You can try doing It this way, but I’m 100% sure on that, I mostly used my guitar with an Audio interface and a midi keyboard:
Or, if your kit has audio outputs then just connect it to your interface, it’s plug and play in this case.
Once again, I never used drums, so it’s just what I would try to do if I had to connect the drums.
I explained wrong. I do not have a midi drum controller, I just want to make a drum track with my mouse and can’t figure out how to find drums or if they are even there yet
Addendum:
When I first started using reaper, I followed this guide on drums setup
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWn4nUTRjrY
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K34kQBX2gKc
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFuR7K1HSNw
I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!
Oh. The plugin you’re looking for is either a sampler or a drum machine. I prefer samplers, there’s a handy one comes with Reaper called ReaSamploMatic.
Either find some free VST plugin for a drum machine on the internet, or make one yourself using the sampler and some free samples off the internet.
I’ll explain how I do it and used to do it.
There’s a few ways to do that, my preferred way is this, it’s a bit hard to draw but it is way easier for mixing:
Now save the Drums folder as a template for future use.
A bit more easier setup, but I find it lacking a bit during mixing:
Your best friend soon will become Kenny from REAPER Mania YouTube channel, he has a truckload of extremely valuable content about reaper and music production, here’s one of the vids about creating a drum machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZg1LFFhqms
He has a few good vids about drums, just look up “reaper Mania drums” on YouTube.