Working on a Reaper project

I have been working all night on creating a Reaper project for everybody that uses the Reaper software. In creating the project folder for a Black Label Society song,I ran into a couple of problems I didn’t think about. The project size grew to about 1.4GB which is way to large. By rendering the files from 24bit wavs to 16bit wavs I was able to get the project size down to 995MB. That’s still too large in my opinion. I then got a great idea, I would compromise some quality and render all the wavs to 320kbps mp3′s. After I rendered all files and checked the project size I was happy with the 222MB size. I then loaded all the mp3 files up in Reaper and then pressed play. Much to my dismay, there were so many dropouts during playback that the project was useless. My best guess as to the reason for this is that Reaper might convert mp3′s to wav on the fly for playback which would each up memory and cpu processing power. The particular song I’m working on is “Bleed for Me”, which is over 5 minutes long and has nineteen tracks. I will be working on a solution to all these problems so I can get a project file up for all of you to play with. Not now though, it’s 3 in the morning and I’m fucking tired.

• “Bleed for Me” Reaper project
  16 November 2007 11:59 AM | No Comments

  I’ve finally got the “Bleed for Me” Reaper project up. For those that don’t know, “Bleed for me” is a Black Label Society song and the Reaper project is my cover of the song. It’s a 307MB download but it extracts to about 940MB. It’s...

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• “Bleed For Me” Reaper project just hit 300th download
  20 October 2008 5:57 AM | No Comments

  “Bleed for me” is a song by Black Label Society. Reaper is a multitrack recording software. I created a Reaper project for the song “Bleed for me” so that other users of the software could mix the song themselves. I recorded and played all the...

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• Progress video for Delos #2 and Reaper project
  15 February 2008 8:02 AM | No Comments

  The most recent song I’ve been working on will go into the reject pile for the album. Basically what happened was when I was recording the tracks I didn’t notice the glitches that were present. I had originally thought that these glitches were caused by...

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• Reaper project size
  14 November 2007 10:56 PM | No Comments

  I’ve decided to upload the wav file version of my project tomorrow. Pipeline Audio suggested that I try ogg instead of mp3 to get the size down. I will be taking his advise and trying the ogg format and if it works well I will...

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• Reaper v2.032 released
  25 January 2008 8:33 AM | No Comments

  REAPER Latest Version REAPER v2.032 – January 24 2008 Download: 3.1 MB installer large tool window frames: better window sizing JS: fixed spl() bug manual output offsets are now used for play cursor positioning etc improved behavior when starting playback at end of loop selection...

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