Hey all, I have a Valeton GP150, a nice little stompbox with an expression pedal. It does a lot of cool stuff, including acting as an audio interface with my Macbook running Reaper. I have a bass vi tuned in fifths plugged into it.

Should I generally run clean signal from the Valeton into Reaper and apply effects there, or run pedals/amp/cab/IR through the Valeton? I have the Tone3000 plugin installed in Reaper, which is awesome, except that most effects chains there just end up sounding . . . bad somehow.

Probably lack of experience, but I tend to get significantly better sound from the Valeton, but then that removes flexibility.

Thanks!

My card's volume pot got really scratchy so I started to control volume via Windows much more. To my surprise, ASIO's volume from Reaper turned out to be independent from Windows volume (how the hell I did not know that after 20 years is a mystery). I can manipulate the master bus in Reaper, which is not ideal for obvious reasons, or I can use a volume on my card's mixer (software panel) but that thing affects both Reaper and Windows sound and it's annoying to use (no keystrokes like with Windows volume). So... how can I control the volume after Reaper's master? Some kind of routing software with a fader maybe? I have a bunch of outputs so I could do it with a physical mixer, but I really don't want to add more physical gear to avoid one scratchy pot. My card is Roland Octa-Capture and the routing in the panel is very basic (or I just don't understand it enough to make it work).

I'm not sure how this will go as the initial reaction I got was not the best; I probably didn't clarify exactly what I was thinking, but ehh..

 I patched libSwell.so to add a collapsible sidebar to REAPER's file
 dialogs on Linux, similar to what you'd expect from a native file manager.
  This was developed with the help of Claude (AI), so worth mentioning in
 the spirit of transparency.                                                

Shows up in any REAPER file dialog — open/save project, render output   
path, browse buttons, etc. Does not affect the Insert Media dialog.

(All are can be removed/modified)  
 The sidebar has three sections:                                            
 - Places — Home, Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos,
 Trash                                                                      
 - Bookmarks — synced with ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks      
 - Devices — mounted block devices                                          

 Right-clicking a sidebar item gives you: Add to Bookmarks / Remove from    
 Bookmarks / Copy path / Open in file manager. Right-clicking a section     
 header lets you bookmark whatever folder you're currently browsing.        

 Also adds file operations directly in the dialog via right-clicking the    
 file list: new folder, rename, move to trash, copy/cut/paste, open in file
  manager, copy path. Keyboard shortcuts work too — Ctrl+C/X/V, Del, F2,    
 Ctrl+Shift+N.                                              

 Install: grab the pre-built libSwell.so from the releases folder, back up  
 your original, and drop it into your REAPER directory. No recompile
 needed. Build-from-source instructions are in the README if you prefer     
 that.                                                      

 GitHub: https://github.com/Stinkumbeans/reaper-swell-sidebar
   
 The stock SWELL dialog hasn't changed in a long time so this should stay   
 compatible across REAPER updates. If anything breaks after an update, open
  an issue on the repo.  

I've never used Reaper and am curious about it.

I see their site come up on search but it times out. I have tried on multiple networks

also, any alternative sources for reaper reaplugs?

Esto es algo corto, el día de hoy al intentar buscar temas de reaper para descargar, la pagina de "https://stash.reaper.fm/" simplemente no funcionaba. Alguien sabe que paso. O es solo algo de mi lugar de residencia. Soy de Sudamérica.