ROB WARMOWSKI: Hello again everybody. This is Rob for Gearwire.Com. This is the REAPER tutorial screencast where we are looking at the features one by one in the great and large and powerful REAPER digital audio workstation application from the Cockos Corporation. In this video, we are going to be taking a look at the features for setting the environment settings and variables for the specific plugins -- for the specific plugin environments for visualizations and for REAPER’s own remote technology, so we’ll talk about that.

Let’s go to the menu. We can see the preferences menu easily by just going to options and preferences or by typing Ctrl-P, and actually we’re going to look at three things here. Let’s start off with, just quickly, we’ll talk a little bit about the Jesusonic effect. The Jesusonic effect is a VST plugin that is pretty unusual, sounds terrific in a lot of cases. It’s a combination amp simulator, effects generator, audio Swiss-Army-Knife type application, and it’s interface is really cool. It kind of resemble a DOS or Unix shell interface. It looks like a text interface. But in any case, it comes with REAPER and Jesusonic is normally installed under program files, the REAPER’s name with a folder as you can see, and you can get effects and presets as well for Jesusonic. Why the name Jesusonic? Well, it’s just an attempt to answer the question, “What would Jesus use for effects processing?” And, you know, if you haven’t wondered that, well maybe you’re not thinking about the right stuff.

Hey, the next thing to take a look at here s visualization. Visualization is REAPER’s ability to produce graphic visualization of music as it progresses, and it’s very similar to Winamp in that -- this feature in Winamp in that way. If you’re familiar with Winamp, then you are familiar with another piece of work from Justin Frankel, the gentleman who is responsible for the design and most of the code of Reaper itself. He wrote Winamp and it’s perhaps not too surprising that you would see a, you know, fairly famous feature from his application be supported in his digital audio workstation application as well, and you can see various modules are available when you actually install them. This is not something that I’ve ever written myself being interested in, so there is -- there are no modules here that I know some of you are way into your visualizations and REAPER supports them directly.

Now, another thing that REAPER supports that is pretty amazing is ReaMote. Now, ReaMote is a technology that allows REAPER to perform live effects processing without processing the audio on the same computer that REAPER is running. In other words, the remote is this sense is that there is remote processing of effects chains that take place on another machine connected to the machine that REAPER is running on connected by a network. And so, we can see that if we actually turn processing on and we are on a network with remote slaves available on the network, up would pop the host name version and the number of effects and the status of those hosts. Basically, those hosts become remote slave hosts if you run the remote slave application on them, and they will get to the network and announce themselves as being available for taking effects processing. And because this is a network feature, we have some ability to play with latency specifically for to adjust for the network traffic that we may be experiencing on the network that we are running the REAPER master and REAPER slave on, so we have a slider for that. We also have a slider for sample format. In order to reduce network bandwidth, usage can be changed to 32-bit, and you can also render send ahead.

Well, that is the ReaMote and visualization VST, excuse me, plugin architecture settings in REAPER. Thanks for watching. This Gearwire.Com.