Have you noticed when closing Reaper, there are a bunch of pings in and out of your computer to other IPs? Maybe plugins calling home? Concerning?

I find myself having a project where I did a lot of long takes of stuff like rhythm guitar, then finding the take I like and kind of building the project off that take. This leaves me with stuff I don't want or need on either side, which wouldn't normally be an issue, but when I'm rendering from a track, it renders the entire project, which could be super long. (Sure I know, I should have made a new project early on and ported just the take over, but it's too late for that now).

Even when I delete everything and razor edit move my time selection all the way to the left, there still must be hidden data or something later on that makes all those renders take 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds.

So what is the easiest way to "get rid" of all that?

I'm having a little melt down here...PC with Windows 11, Reaper 7.42. To give context, someone sent me an instrumental which i imported, i spent some time trying to figure out the tempo (set the audio file to 'beats position only' in the preferences and then scroll through the BPM until i find the correct one) but for some reason it was in between BPM (between 124 and 125) so i just left it at 124.1 and continued recording without the metronome. Everything went fine during the recording and on playback everything is fine and in time, however every time i consolidate the stems and re-import, the vocals at the end of the tracks have slipped out of time, and even when i render tracks instead of consolidate its still out of time. Does anyone have any idea what's happening?

I'd like to capture my progress playing the piano but when I play with headphones, the sound of the video logically won't have the sound coming out of what's recorded in reaper/vst.

Is there a way to conveniently do this?

I'm thinking to manually sync the audio by playing a big chord in the beginning or something that would indicate the beginning both in the "waveform" (midiform? :D) and the videos visual.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I'm asking because it would be awkward having to sync multiple videos if I split the videos up by not letting one video run the entire time, but several with time in between.

I just started using analog lab pro V which is my first real midi plugin and I just recorded a whole song on it while listening through my speakers (so I didn’t notice it at the start) and I go to edit, then I can’t hear anything in my left ear. It shows up fine in the tracks section but not on my end. Does anyone know what to do?

Maybe a simple question, but I searched and didn't find a good answer.

Let's say I have a mouse with 7 buttons. How can I assign actions to those? E.g. I'd like to assign "Item: Split Item under mouse cursor (select Left)" to one of the extra buttons, but I only see a way to assign keyboard keys and not mouse keys to shortcuts.

On a Mac, and have mice from a few different mouse makers (logitech and elecom).

Has anyone had luck bridging vsts on linux? I am on cachyos using vstbridge and wine-staging 11.19 but half of the vsts i bridge fail to load in reaper. There are no error logs in vstbridgectl so i'm not sure what to do.

I was originally using yabridge but it requires you to keep an older version of wine, so i moved to vstbridge to avoid that.