In the first 15 seconds I hear 5 different sounds: the high drone and closed hat cymbal for the first two measures, then an arpeggiated synth, and then a bass synth and synth lead. If, when opening the Theme Adjuster, you do not see a window open, click on the gear icon in the lower right corner of the screen. Another useful adjustment is to make all track controls visible by default (this will come in later) by opening Options > Themes > Theme Adjuster > Track Control Panel and removing any “hide” entries in the table.

This is pretty straightforward open the Preferences window, select the Device or MIDI Device tab, and enable MicroFreak. With that decision made let’s actually make something! First, we need to tell Reaper to use the 2i2 as the audio interface and the MicroFreak for MIDI in and out. I have been a fan of Justin Frankel since the Winamp days and like how he does business.The price ($60US) and license terms (free upgrades for two major versions) are very reasonable, especially when compared to most other options.It has a generous full-feature trial period, which I used long enough to convince myself I could do what I want with it (although I gather even after the trial period I could have continued using it without paying).At this point I can’t say that was a particularly well-informed decision because I have no experience with any DAW, let alone enough to choose among them. There are many different DAWs available, with names like Ableton, Pro Tools, and Logic, as well as one that comes included with macOS (GarageBand). A DAW is a piece of software designed for editing audio, including (but not limited to) sending and capturing MIDI signals, digital effect processing, and “mastering” several different audio sources into one output file for listening. 🙂įirst things first: DAW is an acronym for digital audio workstation. Apologies in advance and feel free to let me know in the comments.

Reminder: I am starting from zero knowledge and so will definitely say things that are wrong or obvious. In this post I’ll cover setting up the software side so we can get audio and MIDI into and out of the hardware and edit it on my laptop. In the last post I talked about the topology of my hardware setup (it’s not very complicated).

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