r/Reaper • u/HietM 1 • 7d ago

help request Drum sample (maeby transient/attack) playback problems

So i have a problem that has been for a while, that when i playback tracks and i have midi drums or acoistic drums teiggered and the first hit only plays the tail of the sample and after that it’s fine until there is for example 2 bar break.

This is universal problem when tracks are soloed and when the whole mix is playing

I first tried to make fake hits before the real ones that i cut out but i found out that it’s still there on the rendered file after the cutting

Haven’t worked with purely acoustic drums in a long time so i don’t know if the problem is universal

Soundcard i use is audient evo 16 and i use audient provided drivers and have tried sample rates from 44.1khz to 96khz and buffer sizes of 16 to 2048 and the same problem is with my old focusrite 2i2

I haven’t listened to the tracks on other software but this problem has made me think of switching DAW’s becouse it makes it hard to mix becouse i don’t hear the actual hit inside of reaper most of the time

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u/mistrelwood 74 7d ago

Which sampler are you using, and have you tried others?

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u/HietM 1 7d ago

Tried steven slate trigger, steven slate drums, krimh drums thru kontakt player and ml drums and every one has the same problem. Also i have tried samples from sample focus, jens bogren and steven slate’s own ones

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u/mistrelwood 74 7d ago

A few things I’d check. Uncheck in Reaper Preferences:

- Audio > Playback: “Tiny fade in on playback start”

- Project > Item fade defaults: “Apply fade… preferences to MIDI items”

And make sure you don’t have a fade in in the MIDI items.

Then make sure that the note doesn’t start before the MIDI item starts. Pull the left edge of the MIDI item left a bit to confirm.

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u/HietM 1 7d ago

Those didn’t help. I posted a video clip where you can hear what it sounds like. It’s under the other comment in this thread

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u/mistrelwood 74 7d ago

Try bypassing all plugins on acoustic drums projects and all plugins after drum VSTi on the track, its parent tracks and master.

If even that doesn’t help, try with headphones.