One of my favorite uses for Studio 1337 is to record
some arpeggios or sequences at high speed on the high octaves
of the midi keyboard, with multiple instances of rakarrack providing
multiple 'multi-effects', and importing the results
into audacity sound editor. By playing it back at several
slower speeds, using audacity's alternate speed playback control,
you'll hear nicely expanded and nuanced versions of the effects,
in addition to the speed-modified timbres,
and re-record it using the Timemachine audio recorder.
You can then import the slow version into audacity,
create a second track, and paste it there, but between the 'beats' heard in the
first track, or syncopated using multiple pastes, to taste.
You can cut or copy/paste any empty audio, to aid alignment of the tracks.
Lesson each tracks volume to taste, using the audacity Amplify effect,
so they enhance, rather then dominate, the original.
If you paste several tracks, you'll want to lower
the amplitude of all of them accordingly, to achieve proper 'gain staging',
without overloading (clipping) the audacity output.
You can also apply other effects from within audacity itself,
to whole tracks, or selected audio, so your imagination can get a real workout,
using the undo/redo feature. Using the zoom in/out features, you can paste
or cut out errors with great accuracy. If there is unwanted audio
on just one side of a stereo track, audacity lets you split the track,
so you can select the bad part, and amplify it to zero volume,
without effecting the related track timings and placements.
When happy with the results, you can use the Timemachine audio recorder
to record a 24bit .w64 file, import it back into audacity for
final level/EQ adjustments, or even more editing/creating.
When all of your work/play is within audacity, you can then (render) export it
as .wav, .flac, .mp3 .ogg etc
A good vst instrument that will work great for arpeggio sounds
in Studio 1337 via Reaper daw, is the Tone2 Firebird synth.
It is now free, sounds great, and has an interface
that won't induce a comatose state while learning
some synthesizer basics.
https://www.tone2.com/firebird2.html
Rakarrack effects presets can be loud, so I first lower the input level slider,
and then adjust both input and output sliders during playback. The individual
Rakarrack modules often have several presets of their own, in addition
to the gui controls.
For using jackd connections between audacity, rakarrack, and Reaper,
here is an excellent tutorial:
http://libremusicproduction.com/article ... arted-jack
There are also plenty of youtube videos regarding the qjackctl
jackd connections gui, and they are often part of videos about hydrogen drum machine,
zynaddsubfx synth, guitarix amp-sim, ardour or qtractor daws, and other linux audio apps.
jackd lets the whole linux OS become your own Digital Audio Workstation,
and Studio 1337 lets you get started without a huge budget,
and provides a collected software base, the identifying of which,
would normally be quite a learning curve in itself.
Cheers