REAPER Automation Modes Explained
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Fear automation in REAPER no longer.
In this video we're taking a close look at the differences between the 6 automation modes available on each track or globally (in the Transport bar). We will also look at some of the preferences that affect automation behavior. As well as tips and tricks that will save you time.
Automating a song in Latch Preview Mode (with custom actions)
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Wow, amazing! I'm just a hobbyist who didn't even know what a DAW was a week ago, and now I can finally make small hobby audio experiments using Reaper. Thank you so much for the in-depth explanation.
LOL! I'm a 70 year old retired maker/laser artist, who didn't know what a DAW was only a year ago. Since then, I've developed a laser imaging synth with a Teensy MCU and now customizing Reaper to control it via MIDI, Akai Mkii MIDI mixer, and 2 touch screens, one 10" desktop pad for master controls and a 2nd 15" touch monitor for Reaper's GUI.
This video covers how to record the CC gain levels for my 17 waveform/image generators inside the laser synth. The Teensy MCU generates the digital signals and output them via multiplexed I2S to 6 DACs for XYRGB vector imagery.
More down your alley. The unused output will be used to control the motor speed of an effects wheel, also via MIDI levels from Reaper's timeline. Just add an H-bridge to power the motor.
Unused GPIO pins will also be used to control the intensities of RGB laser diodes to illuminate the effects wheel, via digital PWM.
the laser diodes are 0-5VDC, perfect for an Arduino.
"Our pal Dave" from the YT 'Notes and Volts' channel has an excellent DIY tutorial for the Teensy Synth & MIDI control. That's what enabled my project.
Fun stuff, for sure. Hope this triggers your creative potential.
Enjoy your projects. 😎
@2:07 blew my mind haha xD I was shift-clicking to add points and then dragging the line up. THANKS
I don't get what he did? There was a marquee tool there but I'm not seeing how to use it.
You can also make the time selection then Ctrl-Shift-LeftClick and drag the line to where you want it
This automation stuff looks like it'll open a whole new world for me. This looks a little tricky to get used to, but it's not nearly as intimidating as I thought it would be at first.
Dude, what a great job. This is really a comprehensive tutorial. Thanks a lot
Fantastic video - I knew a little about automation and have used it quite a bit, but this was a substantial upgrade - Thanks.
13:03 omg THANK YOU - that was driving me BATS .. Srsly, I Love to just manually gain ride my stuff* but the FX gettin automated soon as i add them was drving me crazy - thanks for showing me THAT one (Automatically Add Env's when Tweaking) to turn it off - I thought I'd figured out the modes, but now I dig how TRIM works, and how to make Latch [preview do kewl stuff - nice piece!!
Great lesson, I learnt a lot about automation in Reaper from it, had really no idea before watching your video! So a Big Thanks to you!!
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Excellent detailed, click by click instruction. I needed to know about all of these features for MIDI recording, looping, and playback.
Thank you. 😎
Great video! Thanks. I'm having a problem though... When I punch record, the automation is always recording before the punch. It's very unintuitive since i'm blind. Is there a way to only trigger automation on record? Only playing changes the automation on an FX track. I tried with touch, Latch, etc.. Any idea? Thank you in advance, take care.
Great info and great teaching style, thanks so much!
Thank you for such a detailed video!
thank you for the in-depth explaination!
I've been using Write mode and thinking how dangerous it is if you don't disarm it. I'll experiment with touch and latch. Great video. Many thanks.
Thank you. Really appreciate this video!
love this
Great explanation and very clear. Thanks, Learned a lot from your videos. Wondering if you know anything about disabling automation on FX parameter while working with automation on.
Thanks so much!!!
Is there anywhere this is explained that's not a 30 min video? I feel like I could read a brief description and it would take less than 5 min.
Hello! Is there a way to autopunch for recording an envelope in real time ? I mean, I want to do a time selection and arm that particular envelope only to change in real time only that portion of time. I`m using a virtual instrument plugin changing parameters in real with a controler. Thanks a lot for your help !!!
im sorry other daws, but reaper is awesome! great video! Thankyou! - and my plugs respond better and sound better for some reason!
so say we start mixing a song and do a nice balance for the tracks for the 1st chorus,, and afterwards select all those tracks for that chorus and put it in write mode or latch mode on the pans and volume, so they are all set for that section. Now... I put it in read so I don't lose that awesome chorus or change it by accident (like the dangerous write mode). Now... how are we going to use automation mode strategy to do the 1st verse before that chorus without losing that awesome chorus section? what's the best way. loop the 1st verse and put it in write mode and adjust all the faders and pans until an awesome mix for that 1st verse section is done and then click stop and put it in read mode? or use latch mode and then once happy click write mode for pans and volume, then click stop and put it in read mode?and then select write mode for all those tracks for pans and volume?
>I wander what's best to use.
done using
But how about auditioning transitions (eg 1st verse to chorus1) , what if the jumps are too much that I guesstimated whilst I was looped on the chorus and then afterwards looped on verse 1?
very interesting stuff! Bit of a brain workout though! lol
... or if careful to loop sections without clicking anywhere else, then I suppose keeping it in write mode is useful to get the chorus section sounding great for volume and pans on all tracks, then simply click stop and loop a different section before or after and just keeping it in write mode get a cool balance mix of volume and pans for that section section of the song, v1, then intro,,,, then the section after chorus1 intro2,, then v2, then skip ch2 because it was already set from ch1,, then do v3,, etc. -- hymn that sounds like a good strategy and im gonna try it!!! :)
What happened at 16:34 to the ramp? The straight line has got a bend in it. Is it maybe just a visualization artifact? Above neutral there's a different scale than below neutral?
that's exactly right. Volume envelopes have a huge range -inf to 0, and 0 to +12dB above the line. It looks weird but it makes editing around the middle easier.
Ableton Live have a function called Simplify Envelopes wich can take curves consisting of many tiny stight/angle lines and convert them all into shapes. Reaper do not have this funtion
Hi I'm using a midi controller to record automations. there record recovery speed for touch mode is way longer than the 5ms in the automation preference settings? do you know if there is a way fix this? thanks!
14:08 The default value is "always" and it's weird indeed. I'd even say annoying. Finally found how to turn it off.
Okay, so since I never automate in real time, apparently I only need trim/read mode. Great tutorial as always :)
Thank you. Is there a way (or an external free plugin) in Reaper to set the volume of the entire track (and even the master track) by editing the points of the regenerated graph from the track volume meter readings?
Have a look for the (now free) BL plugins - iirc there's one that does something similar.
@@johnlacey6698 : Thanks :) BL=Blue Lab?
I went from "Well, these automation thingys probably do different stuff, oh well..." to "Oh no, I'm about to waste a lot of time on these automation thingys..."
Thanks for this info. But I've having a huge problem editing previously recorded Expression/CC11 (and a few other parameters) in Latch mode. I used a VST's slider to record the envelope along with MIDI notes. I can edit the green curve by drawing with the pen in the MIDI Editor. But when I try to edit it during playback using the Reaper's Expression trim slider, it seems to fight the VST slider. Both will jitter, the purple curve will be a mess, and the MIDI Editor's green curve is unchanged. I'm a noob and there must be something about these envelopes and how they are controlled that I don't understand. I posted this in the Newbie section of the Reaper forum but no answers yet. Can you explain what's going on? Thanks!!!!
Feature at 20:34 is like my favorite thing of all times cause i can easily fix my automation glitches. Now, in my project, on one automation lane, it worked once, and now it doesn't. I am in latch preview mode. the parameter i wanna change is in red. my automation lane is record-enabled. i don't get it. is it a glitchy feature? Does it have known bugs? Cause i wanna use this to fix 150 automation glitches in project. it's the most straightforward way. But not working.
I have a big problem
I got a project that is all automated and all tracks are in Read mode
I can hear the track volume change but the faders show no movement
When I make my own project the faders move witouth a problem
Maybe global automation override? Maybe it's VCA automation?
It's a Chris Lord Algae mix session from Slate
ruclips.net/video/fITppH6lTbY/видео.html
the one on 3:00
You bight be right about VCA automation
It's the first time I hear about it
A VCA (voltage controlled amplifier) is a track fader used for adjusting volume and pan of a group of tracks. no audio runs through them, they just augment what is happening on the linked track faders+pans.
I have a bit about VCAs in this video at around 5min
reaperblog.net/2015/08/tour-of-new-features-in-reaper-5/
and in the audio routing video
reaperblog.net/2016/06/audio-routing-explained/
How do I map the envelope fader to a hardware surface fader?
If its a dedicated mixing controller the pan and volumes are automatically assigned.
Another way is with MIDI learn. For volume, sends, and panning it can be done from the action list or ReaLearn plugin. For FX it is done in the plugin window.
@@TheREAPERBlog Thank you very much for replying so quickly. Unfortunately, none of these solve my problem. I want to edit the volume envelope (like in "touch" mode) _without adding new points to the envelope curve._ Reaper _does_ control the envelope, but it keeps adding new points, regardless of whether I am in "touch" or "write" mode. I just want to adjust the volume *_level_* (plateau) for a given section between to predefined points (like, say, a verse or the chorus). I would be really grateful for any ideas about that. Because without it, I cannot use my control surface for the one thing I bought it for: riding the faders.
@@Noone-of-your-Business I've never seen anyone do it that way. New points are always added when you make a change in the write modes at the cursor position.
Maybe move the main volume data to trim lane, then do another pass in latch-preview mode writing to selection. there's an action to merge and clear trim after.
@@TheREAPERBlog @The REAPER Blog That's not what I am looking for, but I appreciate your input. Being self taught, I frankly do not know the usual professional workflow, despite having watched countless videos. But riding the faders is not really anything that I approach as a live recording of a fader performance. To me, that just does not make much sense because there is far too much unwanted variation in that. I define an area that I want to adjust (say, the chorus) and move the volume for the entire section (which *_is_* possible in Reaper with the sub fader on the envelope strip!, it just does not react to the surface's faders) for the first pass. After that, I deal with individual notes or moments that need manual adjustment, and I do all of those graphically. This ensures that I do not have any unwanted dents in my envelopes.
And I *_can_* (and do) do all this in Reaper with the mouse, but I was looking forward to riding the real faders much more comfortably and efficiently. Sadly, nobody seems to work like I do and thus, Reaper does not support the surface for my workflow. What a bummer. Hundreds of Euros for a console that does not help me mixing...
Anyway, thank you for your help. I greatly appreciate it.
yeah so this is exactly why I think you'll like Latch Preview mode. Check the link the description of this video for how I use it to mix in sections and it works with control surfaces.
Hi Jon! Is there any QUICK way to record knob twists on a track? Such as synth parameter tweaking live from a midi controller? I can't seem to figure out if there's a super easy way to do this without messing around with the envelope dialog all the time... thanks man!
A toggle for the global automation mode is how I do it. You'd probably want a button that switches to global Touch mode, press again to go to Read.
I hardly ever go into the envelope panel for tracks.
@@TheREAPERBlog Word, yeah.... Touch seems to be the thing. It's better than Write, I've found... more useful. Thx man!
Is it possible to invert automatization curve?
select points, right-click, invert points.
how did you make your edit cursor change from red to purple, i want this! it would be even crazier if it can be rainbow haha
Hey, I have a project with a lot of automation. I'd like to change the global mode to latch preview -- when activated some tracks are not changing the color and the global mode ain't applied. Any idea why ?
cheers in advance
No need to bother, arming automation track solved it. ^^
sir how can we use sine or squrae wave form to creat automation .just like we can do in flstudio to use for wobble bass sound
Extensions menu: LFO Tool.
LFO can also be applied in realtime to any plugin parameter from the parameter Modulation window
thank you sir
I saw that the video dates back to a few years ago. However I haven't found answers to my question in other videos, I try to propose my question here:
How do you turn on/off an effect in reaper.
Let me explain better: let's say that in a track I want to insert a reverb effect, but only in a certain point and then I want to turn off the effect: how to automate this effect?
Or in a vst like Xpand 2 I want to turn on/off one of the four instruments, or in time change the parameters: how to obtain these automations?
It's very simple in Cakewalk, but in Reaper it's still a mystery to me.
Thanks to anyone who can give me some help.
enable latch mode, set the cursor at the point you want to start the automation. Touch the control (envelope lane pops up, point added to lane at cursor)
move cursor to next position, move parameter to next position.
repeat as needed.
Set to read or trim/read mode.
@@TheREAPERBlog I know I might sound condescending, but ... thank you, thank you, thank you ... as always very clear, very kind and generous
Hi, is possible to automate ''take volume envelope'' with a midi controller, rather than riding it with the mouse?
I've tried without succes many times, I can't find the way.
I have a midi controller and usually use the Breath Wheel to automate some Volume or Pan ridings, but 'take volume envelope'' doesn't respond to any midi...it has to be done manually then?
Thank you!
That's a good question, I hadn't thought about that before. There is no MIDI learn or action to link take volume to a MIDI controller.
One workaround could be to use a simple jsfx or vst plugin to control volume. fx parameters on items can be MIDI learned.
Another option is a script, but you have to use the mouse at the same time, but it does work for any envelope point you put the mouse over. Pretty useful.
Script: spk77_Adjust volume envelope point at mouse cursor via mousewheel.lua this script comes in ReaPack extension. (do you know Reapack? reapack.com )
@@TheREAPERBlog Hey thank for your answer, and I'm sure it'll be for a better workflow if it could be midi controlled.
Yes I know Reapack but I'm not a brain at this things :) Editing takes a long time to be mastered!
Reaper is great but many times complicated, and this feature (take volume envelope) is great for pre-compressing vocals, preparing them for applying compression, and a pre de-esser also as a corrective tool for many problems, so useful!
I've thought of slowing playback rate to do ''vocal riding'' carefully with a controller, then when it's done, back to normal playbak. But it seems to be it only applies for mouse moves...not midi.
The action suggested throws me this advice ''...volume envelope point at mouse cursor via mousewheel.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '/'''...I don't have a clue on Actions, I use those who are simple and general.
I'll keep attached to the mouse :)
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is there a DAW out there that has only one choice for each necessary move? so actual professional
musicians can learn it, forget about it, and just get some actual music made?? I've used Protools, Logic, ableton, and reaper, and I have come to the conclusion that software engineers are destroying the act of making music. Please somebody design something for musicians, not computer hobbyists
Or maybe different musicians actually have different workflows and as such different needs and want choices.
Congratulations. The impossible to understand, nightmare to operate reaper automation with its ill thought out and confused interface and cryptic double-speak settings... you just made it all even more confusing.
Where did I go wrong? Please let me know so I can make a correction today.
If you prefer, you can email me jon[at]reaperblog.net
I don't know. I have no skills as a presenter myself. I just know Reaper automation is a nightmare to work with. I try to avoid it at all costs, and there isn't even one resource that demystifies it. And as such, it's possible to make it even more confusing when one tries to make such a resource.