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Reap

By Devieus on April 5, 2024 9:26 pm

There's a better name in here, Power Kreap, but that's definitely going to be saved for a better song.

So I gave Reaper another shot and I came up with this. Simple, experimental, might try it again. It's not as difficult as first imagined, still some things maybe not as streamlined as could be, but overall very manageable. This is purely on the DAW itself since I'm bringing my own VSTs from home. I have plenty, and Spitfire LABS (here the choir) is just kinda good (and also the reason I used Reaper for this, since I was going to use LABS anyway). The chiptune part is a bit more questionable, it's Odin II and it's only chiptune in theory.

Still using LMMS for the birds, but RPP files are human readable, so I can put them in natively somehow. However, the fact I no longer need Audacity for the recording is very appreciable.
- Spider

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Oooh i like this. Goes hardAF in that thick dark guitar

Definitely the slow tempo feels like something's creeping up to me. The choir blends well with the guitar. Chord-wise this reminds me of the Pixies somewhat!

Nitpick: the guitar is late compared to the drums. If you used Odin II here, you might look into compensating its latency somehow. I'm not a Reaper user myself but even if there's no magic per-track latency selector like in Ableton Live, you might just try arranging the guitar track to go just a bit sooner.

How can you hold on to the rhythm guitar so long without the need to play an epic solo? This needs a lot of self control. What did birdy say?

frogcity wrote:

Oooh i like this. Goes hardAF in that thick dark guitar


If you're playing guitar any other way, you might as well play acoustic.

rplktr wrote:

Definitely the slow tempo feels like something's creeping up to me. The choir blends well with the guitar. Chord-wise this reminds me of the Pixies somewhat!

Nitpick: the guitar is late compared to the drums. If you used Odin II here, you might look into compensating its latency somehow. I'm not a Reaper user myself but even if there's no magic per-track latency selector like in Ableton Live, you might just try arranging the guitar track to go just a bit sooner.


She do like the slow tempos, gets you more song for less work.

The funny thing is, it used to be so, so much worse, like, at least the chord changes and the drums overlap here (it's also rushing at times), but Reaper somehow managed to put a whole beat before it. Could be something happened during editing though.

Q-Rosh wrote:

How can you hold on to the rhythm guitar so long without the need to play an epic solo? This needs a lot of self control. What did birdy say?


It's harder than you think, but our tuning isn't really fit for a solo other than just slamming a random progression, which I may do this week, who knows. We definitely have plenty of space in time for doing epic solos so we can keep a straight attitude when it matters during recording.

The birds say they love you.


- Devieus

rplktr wrote:

Definitely the slow tempo feels like something's creeping up to me. The choir blends well with the guitar. Chord-wise this reminds me of the Pixies somewhat!

Nitpick: the guitar is late compared to the drums. If you used Odin II here, you might look into compensating its latency somehow. I'm not a Reaper user myself but even if there's no magic per-track latency selector like in Ableton Live, you might just try arranging the guitar track to go just a bit sooner.


Damn impressive hearing. I didn’t catch that and even listening for it I can’t tell the guitar is off. At 2:24 it sounds like the drums not the guitar skipped a beat though. But as far as the slight lagging on the guitar I’m not able to tell. Sounds right on to me on the sections where it is on but I know I’m probably not right and have an underdeveloped sense for pushing and dragging. Thanks for the educational callout!

I like the feel of this track, the guitar have a stoner feel. With the high pads and the birds on the microphone, that makes a very interesting track.

Love the heaviness of the guitar and the ethereal, higher synth notes. Such a nice interplay.

Heavy guitar sound indeed that takes on a slow groove with the drums.  Gets ya lurching about smile

frogcity wrote:
rplktr wrote:

Definitely the slow tempo feels like something's creeping up to me. The choir blends well with the guitar. Chord-wise this reminds me of the Pixies somewhat!

Nitpick: the guitar is late compared to the drums. If you used Odin II here, you might look into compensating its latency somehow. I'm not a Reaper user myself but even if there's no magic per-track latency selector like in Ableton Live, you might just try arranging the guitar track to go just a bit sooner.


Damn impressive hearing. I didn’t catch that and even listening for it I can’t tell the guitar is off. At 2:24 it sounds like the drums not the guitar skipped a beat though. But as far as the slight lagging on the guitar I’m not able to tell. Sounds right on to me on the sections where it is on but I know I’m probably not right and have an underdeveloped sense for pushing and dragging. Thanks for the educational callout!


The guitar is fuzzy, but also, we do have a bit of an issue keeping tempo at times, so it's all possible.

Kedbreak136 wrote:

I like the feel of this track, the guitar have a stoner feel. With the high pads and the birds on the microphone, that makes a very interesting track.


That's probably not how she played it, but that's definitely how someone could play it. Relaxed and laid back.

emily wrote:


Very spooky.

Cursory wrote:

Love the heaviness of the guitar and the ethereal, higher synth notes. Such a nice interplay.


It's the spitfire LABS choir, it goes well with just about everything.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Heavy guitar sound indeed that takes on a slow groove with the drums.  Gets ya lurching about smile


As long as the lurching makes you feel good.


- Devieus

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