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REAPER: Adjustments after installing

  1. Open REAPER

  2. Click on Options > Preferences.

    A cursor over 'Preferences' in REAPER

  3. Scroll down to Project

  4. Click on Backups.

    • a. Enable Auto-save to timestamped file in project directory.
    REAPER's Preferences showing the Backups section.

  5. Scroll down to Audio.

  6. Click on Device.

    • a. Change Audio System to WASAPI.
    REAPER's Preferences showing the Device section.

  7. Scroll down to Media.

  8. Click on MIDI.

    • a. Change Ticks per quarter note for new MIDI items to 480.
    • b. Change Character set for exported .MID text events to Latin-1.
    REAPER's Preferences showing the MIDI section.

  9. Scroll down to Plug-ins

  10. Click on ReaScript

  11. Enable Python for use with ReaScript.

    • a. If Python isn’t found, it’s usually in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Python[Python Version]
    • b. The DLL will always be “Python[version].dll”, i.e. Python312.dll
    REAPER's Preferences showing the ReaScript section.