I'd recommend a stripped down Windows 7, offline system.Īfter you install your licenses, disable all networking and fancy graphics everything happens on the system the moment you click the button (menus, program launches. But I do feel that its modulation system is quite limited, at least compared to Ableton, which is where I started out before mostly moving to REAPER. I'd really recommend trying it out.Īlso to be clear, I'm not hating on REAPER whatsoever. And Shapemaster allows you to have very granular control over the LFO signal. After that's set up, if I want modulation on something, I just add an instance of Cardinal to my FX, click whatever parameter I want to modulate, then Param>MIDI Link>CC>whatever CC number I have an LFO tied to, and then it's set up. ![]() You can set up Cardinal to contain a Shapemaster (basically a very powerful and flexible LFO engine) that modulates MIDI CCs, then I just set that as my default setup (I also added a random/noise mod source). What I use it for is as a modulation source. I don't actually use Cardinal for what it's intended really - as u/prester_john00 said, it's basically like VCV rack. And the simplicity of setting up modulations in Ableton is really, really nice (I use a ridiculous amount of modulation lol). I'm sure that people have made JSFX to replicate these (or at least achieve the same effect), which is awesome and part of what makes REAPER so great, but it definitely feels lacking from the raw DAW itself. But Ableton has access to some more interesting modulation sources beyond the LFO device as well, namely Expression Control, Shaper, and Shaper MIDI. REAPER's automation system is great, to be sure, I'd consider it to be better than Ableton's. I know you're able to move automation items around between items and parameters and stuff as well but I haven't had cause to delve too deep into it. But the way you can manipulate LFOs and stuff in automation items is really cool (freq skew and tilt are both really cool and I don't know how you would replicate them in Ableton). I think I'd say that I like REAPER's automation system more than Ableton's, though that could just be due to me only ever using a single automation lane in Ableton haha. But it hasn't been a big enough deal for me to even look it up, haha.Īutomation items are quite good, and I really need to use them more regularly. I think I'd say I like its envelope follower more than Ableton's, though it's not entirely clear to me where in the chain the envelope follower is placed, whereas in Ableton it's directly in the chain. The parameter modulation envelope follower is great, though, I regularly use that. In Ableton you just add an LFO device, click Map, then click what you want to modulate. The LFO device can also be mapped to multiple parameters at once, which is super useful - you can replicate this in REAPER by having the parameter modulation linked to an already-modulated FX parameter, but just generally speaking it's all way clunkier to use than Ableton. Ableton's LFO device also has smooth and jitter controls, which this doesn't have. IIRC the hard cap is somewhere around 40 Hz, but to be fair that's also the cap on Ableton's LFO device. The parameter modulation LFO rate only goes up to 8 Hz - you can manually set it higher, but it feels sort of wonky to me when you go too far beyond 8 Hz, it's faster, but don't quite seem right. Sorry for the trouble.Compared to Ableton, its built-in modulation system is very limited. ![]() When I first got the PC, I had switched the old AD1816 soundcard into the current PC until recently when I had to remove it and replace it with the SB16 card (the SB card came with the PC) due to the AD1816's incompatibility with WinXP, and I hadn't tried to record anything after the soundcard switch to SB16, that's why I hadn't noticed the difference in CE's recording method before. So it turns out nothing is wrong, I just didn't realize the soundcard difference and the new way I must record. Little did I know that the way I was recording using my old PC was the abnormal way to do so. The drawback CE is now unable to record the sounds played by an outside mediaplayer, that's why I could not record the same way that I used to. Now the SB16 card is a full-duplex card, so I need to record in multitrack view by first opening the background music as Track 1 and then recording a new track on top of it. ![]() It was incapable of playing and recording at the same time, so I could only record in the single track edit mode, but the good side effect was that CE was able to record the background music played by an outside mediaplayer in the right channel, while recording my voice in the left channel. My soundcard in the old PC, the AD1816, was not a "full-duplex" soundcard. After looking at an instruction site on the net about how to record with CE and then looking at CE's help file, I think I know what happened now.
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