KVR Audio

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:25 pm

Hey all I'm just starting out using synthesisers and DAWs and VSTs. I installed Reaper and was able to put Tatapoum, the TAL Elek7ro synth and Synth1 all into the VST plugins folder for Reaper and bring them up inside Reaper just fine, but I can't hear anything from any of them. I have installed Asio4all and set it as my default audio out. I can make MIDI blocks and write notes for the TAL to play and I can hear those, but I cannot hear any changes when I edit the sound with osc and LFOs. I can't hear tatapoum or synth1 at all. Do I have to turn on some sort of audio setting I am missing?

flynsk · Post by **flynsk** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:37 pm

If you right click on the record arm, you might have to enable monitoring. If you do "insert virtual instrument" instead of new track, this automatically sets it up for you.

Just a guess

Edit: also, the Reaper forums are a great resource. Great peeps over there.

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:29 pm

You can also check in the track preferences for the in/out midi routing.
I tried the demo out years ago, and remember the same thing.
No sound until I had those i/o settings correct.

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:31 pm

Tatapoum is a blank drum sampler, so you need to load it up with samples and make sure the clock is playing.

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:23 pm

Thanks for the help all but all of the tracks are monitored and armed, tatapoum is loaded with wav files and still no sound. Could be that I have the MIDI routing wrong does anyone know the basic set up for that?

jethrobull · Post by **jethrobull** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:28 pm

If you browse media can you hear anything when you click on an audio file? What OS are you running and when you say the Reaper vst folder did you create your own or just bung them in reapers own vst folder?

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:59 pm

I am in Windows 7 64 bit running 64 bit windows 7 Reaper. I can hear all my samples outside of tatapoum and synth1. The only track that seems to work is TAL Elek7ro and even then I can't hear anything out of the synthesizer portion, just the MIDI piano notes I draw. I made a new folder but I ran it through Reaper so that it shows all the VSTs I have, such as tatapoum and the TAL and Synth1.

jethrobull · Post by **jethrobull** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:06 pm

Have you checked your midi settings in reaper/options/preferences/midi devices?
Making sure the inputs and outputs are on?

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:18 am

I've tried looking in there but the only available option is MIDI out: Microsoft Wavetable Synth or something like that. Nothing else pops up.

jethrobull · Post by **jethrobull** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:22 am

On the windows volume icon,click mixer what audio device is it showing?

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:25 am

Oh there it looks like it says Realtek High Definition Audio.

*Edit: under my Reaper project

jethrobull · Post by **jethrobull** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:28 am

is there a dropdown showing the Asio4all device?

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:30 am

No, not under the windows volume mixer option. Just shows the reaper icon with "my project - REALTEK High Definition Audio" and a volume slider.

EDIT: Asio4all does appear with its own tiny icon when I click the system tray or whatever it's called. When I hover over it it says "Asio4All v2 - Reaper 512 samples @44100 Hz

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:34 am

Does it show the "Play" icon or "Pause" icon (the Asio4all icon).

Max2450 · Post by **Max2450** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:34 am

Looks like a green play icon.

No sound using VSTs in Reaper