I was not playing with Reaper last days, but here are my today's results. 1x Offline - the same. Strange, I'm close to sure it worked before. Full speed Offline... when I have Creative ASIO (I'm not tracking, only listening and I don't want to use HW mix, etc) - rendering goes 3.4x realtime and the result is bad. With Behringer's ASIO (UCA202) it goes 1.5x realtime. I'm surprised the rendering speed varies depending on the device. But the result is still bad. Online... Originally I wanted to ask how it is used as nothing happens when I press Render with Creative device, but with Behringer it works. Result is still bad. Bass is not so low - obviously it depends on speed. But it's still not the same like when it's played back. (EDIT: I had Winamp open to check the rendition out, so that might be the reason why Reaper couldn't do online with Creative.) ... some thinking... it really worked before! Maybe, just maybe it's sampling frequency. The thing is Behringer's natural is 48k so I changed my project too and now the only thing where I wanted 44.1k was the output ogg/mp3/whatever. So I changed the rendering sample rate to 48k too and IT WORKS (I tried full offline, no problem). Still - how is this bug of that particular VSTi? Isn't there anything Reaper can do?