What you will need: Reaper 4, An idea of what you need for your workflow… Maybe a Dog.. lol

What you will learn: How to setup simple mouse modifiers that will allow you to edit drums manually with one hand… And probably increase your workflow… or allow you to drink coffee while editing..

Here is the Xfade macro I use.

My slip editing video will show you how to setup the macro and SWS Extensions.

This tutorial will show you how to setup screensets in Reaper 4.

What you will need: Reaper 4, An idea of what you need for your workflow

What you will learn: How to setup multiple screens sets that will load at the press of a button to increase your workflow.

I’m very excited to have the first video up that involves one of Tutorials For Reaper’s Sponsors! Steven Slate Drums has sponsored us with an EX license so that I could make a video to help the Reaper Community!

What you will need: Steven Slate Drums, Reaper, Kontakt Player(included with SSD) a 10-15 minute attention span.

What you will learn: Steven Slate Drums sound great!, How to route sound out of Kontakt with Steven Slate Drums as the instrument and set it as DEFAULT, How to make a Track Template.

Extra Goodies: My SSD 3.5 Track Template

Here is a basic starter for Midi functionality in Reaper.

What you will need: Reaper, VSTi drums or other instrument, semi-creative mind

What you will learn: How to insert a new virtual instrument track, Insert a New Midi Item, edit the midi item, Loop Midi, Copy Midi, Time Select, Loop play.

This has been requested a few times and I finally got around to recording the video!

What you will need: Reaper, Recorded Audio in your session, Weeded out useless tracks.

What you will learn: How to export audio files from Reaper to individual WAV files so that you can bring them to any studio for Mixing.

I received a request a few days ago about working with audio loops in Reaper.  The request was specifically asking if this could be done similarly to Sony Acid… SO I did some research. I wasn’t familiar with Sony Acid… but I watch a couple tutorial videos dealing with Audio loops and now I present you a video dealing with audio loops in Reaper.

What you will need: Reaper, Audio Loops, a slightly creative mind.

What you will learn: Media Browser navigation, Drag and Drop loops into a session, Region creation for musical arrangements

This video will walk you through fattening up a recorded Kick drum.

This is a great method of drum rescue for drums that weren’t tracked well and/or an accident was made(ie broken cable only getting a thin sound).

This video was inspired by “bolenti” on the Reaper Forums.

Its been awhile since a video so here you go! A fellow on the forums was having an issue setting up Side Chain Compression so I thought I’d make him a video and I went a little further with Side Chain Gating too.

Here is a Link to the session file including audio.

Side Chain Fun Session and Audio

This is one of the requested tutorials for a few months ago.  I’m happy that I was able to get this up.  Its a must have ability in the studio.

You’l learn how to apply a reverse reverb effect to a vocal track.

I’ve been wanting to post this video for awhile now… FINALLY I’ve gotten the time to get it on the site.

You will learn to use ReaGate to trigger a VSTi drum sampler… by doing this you can replace audio with your midi trigger sounds and/or edit your drums in Midi instead of audio.

This video has been requested a few times from people so I it was time to post it. The requests were mainly for the “Auto-Mode” but to be honest… I don’t recommend using ANY tuning plugin in that fashion. Anyways, I’ll show you how to manually tune a vocal with ReaTune and also create a harmony out of a lead vocal track in this video.

Enjoy!

Over Christmas I did a lot of recording with my family in their studio using a M-Audio Delta 44 and Mackie 1202-VLZ3 Pro. It was a ROCK SOLID setup!  I kept the interface buffer at 1024 and used the Mackie for direct monitoring.  I used the “Inserts 1-4″ off the back going into the 4 1/4 inch inputs of the Delta 44.  If you are interested in this setup let me know and I’ll help you set it up. 

One of the issues we needed to resolve was getting reverb from Reaper back to the singers headphones.  This is actually a lot easier then you think… There are 2 ways to do this(that i can think of).

Option 1
1. Set audio buffer all the way down.
2. Create vocal track – Enable input monitoring and record enable
3. Create Reverb Track
4. Send audio to the Reverb Channel
Done

Option 2 – for direct monitoring solutions(ie USB)
1. Set Audio buffer to whatever works best
2. Create Vocal Track – Record enable
3. Create Reverb Track – Record Enable + Monitor Enable
4. Right click the Record button on the REVERB track and set it to “Record Disable”
–The reverb channel will have a latency of whatever your round trip latency will be. SO if you are running at 1024 you might have a latency of ~35ms… So I would recommend NOT putting “Pre-Delay” on te reverb plugin.
Done

Learn to setup Reason with ReWire into Reaper…. This will get you setup to do 2 things.. Record Midi in Reaper, play it through Reason, and then mix the audio on separate tracks in Reaper… Or… Sequence beats and patterns in Reason and mix them in Reaper… or a combination of both.

Thanks for the help Zee.

Learn to route audio out of Addictive Drums and use them to either, mix tracks individually, render audio tracks separately so you can disable AD once finished, or record Live Drums to audio tracks via via MIDI input performance .

Requested by RussUK  from the Reaper Forums and http://www.Reaper-Blog.com

Learn the basics of Reapers Envelope system for Volume and Pan… Just enough to get your feet wet so you can do some experimentation.  Also, see how to render your song so that its ready to burn to a CD.

I just read a post on the Reaper forums… a user is trying to get a drum sound as a click track.  Here is how I prefer to get this job done.

GTG Synth has a very light weight drum module that I recommend Downloading.

Website: GTGsynth.com – they also have a lot of free VSTi’s that you should check out.

Direct DL:  GTG DPC 3 – Drum Module

Learn to setup 16 channels of audio recording so that you can capture an entire band in 3 different scenarios.

- Full band recording 1 song at a time while using Reaper as a monitoring system for the artists

- Full band recording, full concert without using Reaper as a monitoring system

- Full band recording, full concert and using Reaper as a monitoring system/sound board.

***I will post a separate tutorial on how to make 3 separate headphone mixes for multi-tracking purposes in  a studio setting. i.e. Drums and Bass at the same time with a scratch guitar.

Learn how to use the basic functions of the Reaper “Take” system.  You will see how to Record, Comp, and Edit.  I show you how to make sure you use the “Record Selection” option so that you have cleaner “Takes” experience.

Learn how to use the Split/Slip Editing method of editing drums, with help from SWS Extensions and Gofers KeyMap.

Edit Method: (you will be holding ALT the whole time) ALT+S before the beat > Release “S” > Left Click and hold on beat, move to grid > Release Left Click > Scroll mouse wheel while still holding ALT — Repeat

Download and Install First –  SWS Extensions – Direct 32-Bit – 64-bit Read – Website – SWS Install Intructions

Download and Install Second –  Gofer ReaperKeyMaps

Learn how to edit your FX menu so that you can add FX faster while mixing with a simple right click. Organize them how you wish and rename them to what makes sense to you! Also, a review on signal chain sending for FX with the example of a Vocal track being sent to a reverb track.

Here is another necessary skill to have while using Reaper.  This Tutorial helps you to import tracks, organize them and assign colors so that you know what you are looking at so you can speed up your work flow.

Learn how to import a full session that was previously prepared by a client, move around tracks so that you can understand where everything is, setup folders for editing/mixing purposes (which act as Buss Mixes as well), and assign colors to groups so that you can easily identify what you are looking at.

This is a slightly more advanced tutorial for editing audio so that you can align tracks such as syncing up a harmony to a lead vocal. The skill can be used on things like bass guitars, electric/acoustic guitars, keyboards and so on.  I would NOT recommend this method for drum editing; I will cover a recommended process in an upcoming tutorial.

Learn how to manipulate audio so that you can correct time and alter a musician’s performance when needed to make the overall recording sound as “Tight” as possible.

This tutorial goes through the instructions located at http://reaperblog.squarespace.com/shanes-secrets/ pulled from http://Reaper-blog.com with instructions provided from Shane who is an amazing asset to the Pro Tools and Reaper community.

Learn how to setup Reaper to have more organized session folders, Separate Audio Files, Session Back-Ups, and Session files.  This is definitely a necessary setup for a little more sanity when working with Reaper.

So on the Reaper forums where is ALWAYS someone wondering how to make a Pro Tools look alike, don’t get me wrong here… I was one of them too but there isn’t any simple way to do it… well… until Shane has the time to finish up ReaTools.   I would recommend that you try to customize your menus to what YOU want them to do… not what AVID wants them to do.  Trust me when i tell you, Pro Tools was nice, but making Reaper behave the way I want it too is much better.

Think of it this way:

You have 1 setup for Tracking: All your input settings, takes, track removal, punching, buffer settings, midi controls, etc… nothing more thne you need because when you right click you only want to see “takes – Take – 01, Take – 01″ not a 15 option long menu.

You have 1 setup for Editing: All your shortcuts for quick track splicing, removal, duplication, , Grid adjustments, etc

You have 1 Setup for Mixing: Effects easier to access, faster envelope views, phase corrections, normalizations, etc

So go through the awesome customizable system that the guys at Cockos have made and make it YOURS! They even allow you to change the splash screen to whatever you want.

Start messing with those menus!

As Requested here is the Menu Set :TutorialsForReaper – Custom Menu 2010