Reaped

SideQuest: configure any DAW so you can compose music online

    I have a lot of things to work on as a college student.  Aside from developing this project, I am also programming for a math class, writing for an art class, and composing for my games class.  I have been quite thoroughly sidetracked by that composition.

    Here's what I learned from setting up Reaper, my second digital audio workstation.  DAWs are a hub, but they need instruments to work.  These instruments come in the form of plugins.  Normally, you just download the plugins, which put their "handles" in the right place, and your DAW automatically finds them.  If that doesn't work, you can add a new folder to the paths your DAW and rescan.

    This took me 3 hours to figure out.

How hard it should have been

How hard it was

    Quest Rewards: I will readily admit this was a huge time sync with the single benefit of getting something that should have taken 30 minutes.  However, familiarizing myself with the way DAWs work is going to be useful for my project.  ReLaunch is going to be a step between the midi controller and the direct audio workstation which are traditionally married.  I need to understand the relationship between the two before I start to change it.