ROB WARMOWSKI: Hello again everybody. This is Rob for Gearwire.Com. And we’re going to take a quick look at the Start menu options in the REAPER digital audio workstation. If you’re interested in checking out REAPER, go ahead and click on reaper.fm or cockos.org and that’s c-o-c-k-o-s.org. REAPER has some interesting Startup options and one of them, well all of them, are actually available in the Start menu under Windows XP or Vista. So we’ve got, we’re running XP right now so let’s go to the Start button, go to select All Programs and zip, zip over to REAPER. And what we see here are series of options. We did a video not too long ago on this option. This is where you can use REAPER to install itself onto a USB key or removable media. You could check Gearwire for that video.

You can also launch REAPER as a remote, as a remote slave and a remote is a technology that allows REAPER to be used as a processor, a dedicated processor for effects. But not on the same machine that in instance of REAPER running as a recorder is running on. Does that make any sense? I hope it does. What this means is that there is a master mode and a slave mode. There is remote slave, excuse me, sorry, meaning that there is a master and a slave for the remote feature. A slave is merely a machine that is running REAPER in a remote slave mode using this function. And that machine if connected to a network to another machine that is actually where is the machine that you got your project running on, that machine running as a remote slave can process effects in real time and do the processing away from the CPU that is actually handling the mixing and the streaming and the audio, etc. So it’s a way of getting more plugins to your session without having to crush your CPU or your RAM or your resources on your single machine. It’s a way to employ multiple machines to help with your session as you go along.

Other Start up functions for REAPER include just regular, plain, old vanilla launching REAPER. Then there’s REAPER to create a new project. In other words, you launch REAPER and it creates a new project when you launch. There is REAPER to, there’s this option to reset the configuration to factory defaults which is nice to have when you are in a situation where you want to start over with your configuration.

There’s also ReWire Slave Mode. Now slave mode is, this is different from remote slave mode. A ReWire Slave is a machine that is controlled from remote using the ReWire protocol for exchanging audio data and exchanging MIDI data in real time. And we get into this feature quite a bit in future video screencasts here at Gearwire on the REAPER program.

You can also launch REAPER to show the audio configuration at start up. And then of course there’s the license, the What’s New and you can uninstall REAPER from the Start menu.

So that is the REAPER Start options and this has been a Gearwire video. Thanks for watching and keep it on Gearwire.