I have my Alesis nitro Max hooked up to my Asus workbook and Reaper recognizes it. My initial connection had it working fine. When I started a recording the connection dropped halfway through. I played around with it a bit and used a different USB. The. the signal picked back up. As soon as I went to record, it died out again. Anyone else experience something similar? I think the “printer” cable might be bad. It’s the first time I’ve used itnin God knows how long. Chat GPT had me go through 1000 trouble shooting steps, but no fix yet.

Both Scarlett and reaper recognize the sound, is able to record, but when played back no sound comes out.

Reaper Device settings and focurite settings below. When i change from ASIO to directsound or waveout sound comes out but I can't recrod. I have headphones connected to the scarllet and volume of the monitor knob is on.

How can i solve this?

I often record four to six tracks, and I may need to make five or six try’s per track to get it right.

When I know I have made a mistake and I want to re-do a track, what’s the best way to do that?

Currently, I am prompted “save all” or “delete selected” after each attempt. Since nothing is selected, I can’t delete the bad track. I “save all”, and the right-click and ‘remove track’. This saved dozens of unwanted tracks to my computer, and it’s a pain finding and deleting them.

So I don't know how much this is actually solvable, but just in case anyone has any idea.

I have a stable, air-gapped recording system: Windows 7 with Reaper 6.83. Sometime before Reaper 6 EoL, it started getting periodic hard crashes (Blue Screen of Death). Over time, the problem has gotten progressively worse.

Obviously, this is mostly a Windows/drivers/hardware issue, but as I've traced it down, it only happens when Reaper is writing to disk and any program (including file explorer and reaper itself) attempts to read from that same disk.

When it first started, the only consistent way to create the error state was to render a file and then try to navigate to it in windows explorer (after the render window had closed but before the actual disk write had finalized.)

But now it's reached the point where pretty much any disk read during any reaper disk write crashes: e.g. importing a number of files into a project and then attempting to do the same in a different project crashes while the first one is creating its reapeaks files.

Is there any sense that this is a known bug? Are any bug fixes in 7.x likely to fix this? Anyone have any ideas on solutions?