{"id":50,"date":"2019-12-04T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/autosaving-in-reaper-the-first-thing-to-do-when-installing\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:39:12","slug":"autosaving-in-reaper-first-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/autosaving-in-reaper-first-thing-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Autosaving in REAPER – The FIRST thing to do when installing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
DAWs are notorious for crashing. They must handle multiple instances of high-performance signal processing plugins, and sample libraries can consume your free RAM which may cause your DAW to stop responding. This article looks at Cockos Reaper\u2019s autosave feature, and how to enable it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a very important topic to cover, as far too many a time, your DAW will crash. Reaper is arguably one of the better DAWs for stability, but this doesn’t mean people don’t lose work because it has crashed before they hit save.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, nothing beats standard good computer practice saving as you go, but as a producer, you will find yourself suddenly immersed and often saving the project will be at the back of your mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before you read any further, if the following is news to you, I highly recommend you spend half an hour looking through each tab in Reaper’s project settings. There are so many features which you could find helpful, that you probably didn’t even know were there.\u00a0
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While Reaper has many great features enabled from startup, strangely, it’s not a default setting. So, I am going to show you all how to activate it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n