My humble suggestion would be to re-read the docs and start from the beginning: Open REAPER, drag your MP3 in, follow the tempo mapping instructions VERY CLOSELY then start laying down gems in your instrument track, per the tutorials and docs. Follow the “backing-rendering” process, then the MAGMA process. If you get errors, try to understand what they’re telling you then search the forums before you post because you’re probably not the first to see them.

Pick an easy song, work on just one instrument, no overdrive, expert only, worry about hard/medium/easy later. Get that instrument working in game, then go back to REAPER for fixes, adding overdrive, reductions, other instruments, etc. The whole thing takes time but will get easier and quicker as time goes on. Have patience, think it through, take your time. Good luck. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

But im completely lost how to get started

For what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure all of us were at once.

Like a lot of things, you need to be pretty self sufficient and a self-starter, because a “little bit of hand-holding” quickly turns into a lot of hand-holding, and that’s a big time investment.

Experiment. Experiment until it works. Search up errors and try to resolve them first based on the text instead of jumping to the relatively ‘common’ step of immediately copy-pasting entire error logs to the boards and hoping someone else will read it for you — Magma only rarely spits out something obscure or indecipherable, assuming you’ve read the docs or read the relevant section after seeing the error.

There is a lot of trial and error here, and as you fail and learn from it, you’ll get to the point where you’re only needing to ask for advice/guidance (instead of thinking that’s all your asking for). ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif”>

My #1 recommendation, if you find tempo mapping overwhelming (since as Ganon notes it’s the ‘first’ thing you need to do — and to be frank, I still find it frustrating after a few years in the sandbox), is to find a song that you KNOW has a fixed BPM, and learn to author from that.