Today’s music activities included firing up the Reaper DAW and knocking together a quick recording for the toddlers’ group at All Saints, Thorpe Acre with Dishley (Mary and Joseph… the very first Christmas). It’s a while since I’ve done any recordings of that ilk, so it was fun to brush up my skills.

One thing I don’t have with Reaper that was a boon on Logic Pro is an artificial drummer or even any built in library of drum sounds. My old MacBook would probably hold up for a recording session but I’m trying to build my Reaper skills. Today’s solution was to create some sounds on guitar, mess with things like EQ and pitch, and create a facsimile of kick and snare drum sounds. It ended up working pretty well, all told!