Music, much like anything else, can be improved upon by adding some additional elements, such as a bass line and drums. This is no different than us enhancing the look of a scene through better lighting, shaders, or post effects. The overuse of enhancements can drown out the original intent. We, therefore, need to be careful and self-edit, in order to not go too far.
We are going to add a couple of additional tracks in order to enhance our very simple song and hopefully give it more depth and interest. Follow the instructions to add the new tracks to our composition:
- Open up Reaper and from the menu and select
Insert|Virtual instrument on new track. Then, when theFXdialog opens, this time select theVSTi:ReaSynth(Cockos)instrument. This is a synthesizer we are going to use as our bass line track. SelectOKand then configure the instrument as shown in the following screenshot:
Configuring the ReaSynth synthesizer as a bass instrument