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If you are selling a digital download product on Payhip and want to require the customer to tick a terms and conditions check box before they pay, this is how you can set that up.

Once signed into your Payhip account go to ‘Account’ on the right, and click ‘Settings’. Then select ‘Advanced Settings’ and scroll down to ‘Checkout Settings’. You’ll see an option to:
Display your own questions for customers to answer during checkout.

Once ticked you will be able to add a checkout question which will appear on the checkout pane if a customer buys any of your products, or you make the question only appear for specific products. Very handy if you have different terms for different products. If you choose specific products you’ll then be able to add the relevant products, but you can edit this at any time.

Then add your question. Here I am going to choose ‘Legal’ as I want to ask the customer to agree to my terms in order to purchase:

Then you can type your question or statement. For example: I agree to the terms and conditions.
And if you want to link that text or part of it to a webpage – somewhere where the customer can review the terms – hit the # symbol and enter the URL.
Important! Also make sure to hit the spanner icon and make this a ‘Required’ question – so the customer has to agree to the terms in order to purchase your product. As you make these changes you should see the checkout pane on the right updating with your changes. Once happy – remember to ‘SAVE CHANGES’ – and then SAVE SETTINGS – and that’s it.

If you later add more products and want to add those to your exisiting terms and conditions question – come back into advanced settings – come down to your Checkout settings, and the specific question you wish to add to and click: ‘Edit Checkout Question’. Then click:
Questions will be displayed if one of these products are in cart (edit)

Now you can add and remove products from this question.

It’s a really professional feature and easy to setup on Payhip

How do we embed tempo and slice/transient/stretch markers into a rendered out audio file from Reaper.
It is done in the Render Dialogue where there are several options:
Note – when working in Reaper you cannot embed a Root Key, as it has no project key option. You can embed a key using Acid Pro.

Option 1: Render as WAV file only
No other options selected – no embed tempo or stretch markers. When you bring this file back into Reaper it will load straight onto a track and will not try to conform to the project tempo. Looking at the info for this imported file you can see it has no tempo or slice information.
However if you then subsequently change the project tempo, it will affect the play back speed of the loop if you have your timebase items set to Beats (position, length, rate) as opposed to Time in Project Settings. If you dont want this behaviour set it to Beats (position only)

Option 2: Render as WAV with embedded tempo. Tick the ‘Embed Tempo’ option and render. When you import this file back into Reaper you will be given the option to let Reaper adjust your file to the project tempo or ignore it. (This import option displays according to your Preferences in Media/Import)

When you look at the info for this imported file you can see it now has a heading called: ACID with the BPM of 110.

Option 3: Render as WAV with stretch markers (seems to embed tempo whether selected or not)

To do this you need to add some stretch markers or transient guides to the item in Reaper. That’s a separate topic for another day.
You can only render with stretch markers with the ‘Source’ set to ‘Selected Media Items’ selected in the Render dialogue window.
Now when you import your file back into Reaper you will have more options in the Import Media Dialogue. First of all the dialogue is now called: ‘Slice Import” and there are 4 options:

And when we look at the info for the imported file, it now has slice information as well as BPM.

It’s worth knowing that whether you add transient guides or stretch markers to your item in media and then render – when you import that file back into Reaper and choose to import the file with transient markers, they will appear on the item as green transient guides not stretch markers. As soon as you touch or move one of them they will become stretch markers.

Question is, does having this embedded information help with how flexible you can be moving away from the original tempo and key. I used to find that loops made in Acid Pro and called Acidised loops could take more stretching before unacceptable artifacts crept into the sound, but maybe not so much these days. The main difference I can see is that Acidized Loops contain extra information: not just the tempo and number of slices but the number of beats and the root key.
However with the time stretching algorithms in most DAWs, it’s quite easy to manipulate basic WAV files.
I’m not sure whether to carry on Acidising the WAV versions of my loop collections or just offer WAVS with embedded tempo and maybe slices and Apple Loops. The important thing would be to always include the BPM and Root key in the file name.

Free download: Download a handy freqency in Hz, midi note & note number chart. 2 versions: Based on middle C as C3/60 and also C4/60