I love the formal logic that NOT using one's monitoring FXs will inexorably lead to one participating in chemical abuse under a bridge.... priceless. I spat out my food!! Subbed :)
The Saike Monitor Routing JSFX is super duper handy in a setup with more than one pair of speakers and/or a subwoofer. ReaLearn for the Midi control and … bam! That alone would make me be a Reaper user forever.
Nice for someone to show some love for Reaper's Monitoring FX! The only equivalent I know of is Cubase's Control Room Channel, which is there for the exact same reason - to add analyzer, room corrections, etc.
Maybe not the best time right now, but Ardour and Harrison's Mixbus has it too... I've switched from Mixbus to Reaper about a year or so ago bc I felt something's off with them. I've searched for this feature a long time and didn't know what to search for but am very happy that it's there and it's soo usefull.
The monitoring effects are very handy. My cube speakers are out of action so I've been switching in a 300 Hz to 3kHz band-pass filter to simulate their limited bandwidth.
Thank you so much! So helpful to know about for a rookie like me. And I pause the video to see all the stuff you use so I know what to research next. 👍 I do have to say though... that worst case scenario you paint at 2:51... that's heaps and heaps 'o wrong... 🤣😆😂
Yeah, the hero and his rapid fire tuts are back! I have been using a Mixbus before the Master Track and kept complaining about Reaper not having a good solution to include Reference Tracks. Then one year later I found out about Monitoring FX and the problem was solved. There is really nothing Reaper can’t do (maybe except Bounce in place). Great video!!
@@andreasfranzmann9634 Custom action something like this: Apply track/take fx to items > Select first take in selected items > Delete active take from items. Boom, bounce in place
@@username40000 Yeah gottcha! However I mean not one but several tracks. Like in Studio One you have a Mixdown track selection feature (or something similar). In Reaper I can't find anything than rendering a certain section but I want to do that quickly within the project. Also no subproject just a stereo mix of a certain section. Useful for maybe quickly bouncing a whole section and applying a filter to it etc.
@@andreasfranzmann9634 Ah yes that would be sweet. Not quite as nice but something I've been using a lot lately is the Global Sampler script. Constantly samples a minute of your master, very handy for shorter sfx iterations especially
No doubt, sweet for headphone softwares. I'm working on Live now, because of the instruments and tight integration. They actually have excellent routing. In Live you would uses sends on each track. One send receiver would be your "mix" track. That mix track would send to "n" other tracks. 1 for headphones, 1 for monitors, etc. There you could apply appropriate correction software that would never make it to your mix track.
Cool! I love Ableton for songwriting but with routing it does frustrate me a bit especially when I've wanted to use it and have someone monitor remotely. I can set up a bus for it but it takes time, versus in reaper you can just route the master track to as many hardware outputs as you want.
@@IDDQDSound I'm definitely comparing the two. Live is more like an instrument, Reaper seems better for linear tracking and then mastering. I wonder if you're writing on Live and mixing on Reaper?
@@citadelo5ricks I broadly use both DAWS like that. Playing with sounds, loops, drum racks etc in Live then importing audio to Reaper for mixing. Though also do a lot of sample/field recording manipulation which is always in Reaper.
@@garyg68 I think this is the right approach. As I dig into Live it becomes more and more like a big instrument. But not a mixing console like REAPER (or others).
Thanks! Haha yeah sometimes I feel like people expect tutorial makers to know ABSOLUTELY everything but we all for sure have holes in our knowledge. Best I can do is stay within the lane in which I'm comfortable :)
@@IDDQDSound absolutely. You're doing fine, great content and reaper is a beast to begin with so I'd imagine it's not easy to sum down into quick tutorials. I've learned some cool hidden reaper tricks from your vids though.
Could you do a video on how to use Saike Spectrum Analyzer to analyse incoming audio while tracking? I like to see what I am doing while playing live, but I cant get it to work...
I will check out your diagram and see if it matches an A3 sheet I have where I drew it out. I was going to create an electronic version but won't bother if yours is accurate. 😄 I also have - Loudness Penalty (MeterPlugs), ISOL8 (TBProAudio), SPAN Plus (Voxengo), Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro 4, Insight Pro (iZotope), Youlean Loudness Meter 2, 4U+ ProjectTime (HOFA), ADPTR StreamLiner (Plugin Alliance). And I can never decide between Sonarworks and TB_Morphit_v1 (ToneBoosters). I keep most of them offline but you never know what you might need!! Haha.
Jon Tidey of the REAPER Blog checked mine and gave it a stamp of approval. One of these days I hope to get Justin Frankel or Schwa to give it a look. I tested it myself and I'm pretty sure it's right :)
@@IDDQDSound I've had a quick look now. In the green/first section, right leg, the Media Item Properties, F2, affect the volume and pan pre-take FX not post. (as per your diagram the Item Volume (knob) is Pre-FX and the Take Envelopes are post-FX). You could make it clear that the take volume knob, F2 settings for volume/pan, and the take envelopes are separate functionality. I haven't gone through the rest in excruciating detail yet 😄 but I noticed you haven't included the various places the VU meters can be positioned, the receive automation that takes place at the input of the track processing, or the group pre/post-FX VCA control. (I think the pre-fx vca control happens before the take/item audio mixes with the record monitoring audio and the post-fx vca control happens after the post-fx pre-fader send and pre-fader VU location but before the post-fader send. I need to do more experiments to convince myself of this nightmare).
I am a guitar player... I want to hear my two notes (IR loader) and sometime guitar 7 plugins. no matter where I set things all I hear it the direct guitar signal. I have been searching for how to hear my guitar plugins but I have found no answer. Can some one PLEASE explain how to do this???
Sorry, I think so. You talked about the weird tab thing with finding the Monitor FX, and made yourself a shortcut, but you can just Shift+Click the Master FX button and there they are.
Hi, I don't need virtual fx, I use hardware fx for monitoring vocals. Does REAPER support ASIO Direct Monitoring? I can't find anywhere in reaper the same "direct monitoring" option as I see in CUBASE/ Studio one.
Hi! That's a windows question and I'm a Mac guy. That said, from what I know you would be better off downloading the driver for your interface and use that instead of ASIO4All or something similar. Also since you use hardware you can probably use the direct monitoring on your interface and have no latency
@@IDDQDSound It's not a windows question. I use my interface asio drivers, and I can see "direct monitoring" option in cubase/ studio one, but unfortunately no luck with reaper.
I have it allways active with eq settings for my headphones from oratory1990, to flatten my headphone eq curve (I use toneboosters eq for that). And after that i have a plugin called “Monitoring” (can B preset) from Airwindows wich simulates monitor sound in your headphones by using crossfeed. I’ve searched for a while if it was possible with Reaper stock plugins to simulate monitor sound, but couldnt find something like that.
Hmmm if the crossbleed is just a simple adding of L to R and R to L, it's doable with a simple gain jsfx and routing, but do they also add some sort of filter to the crossbleed?
@@IDDQDSound Well all i know is that it sort of bleeds the L and R channel so that it sounds like you listen to monitors, inside your headphone. I dont know if there are filters or other things are added to it, or what is needed to make that happen.
Cubase does this through the control room, it's been there for a long time :) I was very happy when Reaper added monitor FX
Not only is his really helpful sir, but the "under the bridge" riff made me laugh and laugh and laugh. thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it haha :D
I love the formal logic that NOT using one's monitoring FXs will inexorably lead to one participating in chemical abuse under a bridge.... priceless. I spat out my food!! Subbed :)
Haha thanks for the sub :) REAPER saved me from a life of crime and desperation :)
"The Saike Spectral Analyser really deserves its own tutorial" - yes please! :)
Coming up soon :)
Hilarious AND informative!
Cubase does have this feature too, not sure why other DAWs skip it
Maybe they didn't think of it. Pro Tools is probably gonna add it in a year and then call it revolutionary and then charge people for it lol
Studio One has it too (it's called "Listen Bus").
2 mins in this video and I subscribed. Thanks for the high quality content! Also hilarious jokes😂
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. I can’t tell you how many time I forgot to turn off my sonar and had to spend additional time re-rendering.
Haha I know that too well! Enjoy :)
The Saike Monitor Routing JSFX is super duper handy in a setup with more than one pair of speakers and/or a subwoofer. ReaLearn for the Midi control and … bam! That alone would make me be a Reaper user forever.
Gotta check out the Saike jsfx you mentioned!
I put my waves NX on the monitor FX. FANTASTIC FEATURE !!!
Nice! Waves NX is one of those plugins I've had for ages and never really went deep into it
Ardour and Mixbus also have monitoring fx.🤔 Very good feature.👌
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Nice for someone to show some love for Reaper's Monitoring FX! The only equivalent I know of is Cubase's Control Room Channel, which is there for the exact same reason - to add analyzer, room corrections, etc.
Yeah I was under the impression Cubase has it too. Great feature, CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GOT THAT WRONG WE'RE ALL SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU ARYA 😹
Loool
Maybe not the best time right now, but Ardour and Harrison's Mixbus has it too... I've switched from Mixbus to Reaper about a year or so ago bc I felt something's off with them. I've searched for this feature a long time and didn't know what to search for but am very happy that it's there and it's soo usefull.
New to Reaper...thanks...for the heads up!!
The monitoring effects are very handy. My cube speakers are out of action so I've been switching in a 300 Hz to 3kHz band-pass filter to simulate their limited bandwidth.
The perfect application of Mon FX!
Thank you so much! So helpful to know about for a rookie like me. And I pause the video to see all the stuff you use so I know what to research next. 👍 I do have to say though... that worst case scenario you paint at 2:51... that's heaps and heaps 'o wrong... 🤣😆😂
loool thanks REAPER for keeping me from doing heroin :)
Yeah, the hero and his rapid fire tuts are back! I have been using a Mixbus before the Master Track and kept complaining about Reaper not having a good solution to include Reference Tracks. Then one year later I found out about Monitoring FX and the problem was solved. There is really nothing Reaper can’t do (maybe except Bounce in place). Great video!!
Hey!!! Long time no chat :)
I do something like bounce in place in REAPER. Maybe that'll be my next video?
@@IDDQDSound sounds like coffee to me! Great!
@@andreasfranzmann9634 Custom action something like this: Apply track/take fx to items > Select first take in selected items > Delete active take from items. Boom, bounce in place
@@username40000 Yeah gottcha! However I mean not one but several tracks. Like in Studio One you have a Mixdown track selection feature (or something similar). In Reaper I can't find anything than rendering a certain section but I want to do that quickly within the project. Also no subproject just a stereo mix of a certain section. Useful for maybe quickly bouncing a whole section and applying a filter to it etc.
@@andreasfranzmann9634 Ah yes that would be sweet. Not quite as nice but something I've been using a lot lately is the Global Sampler script. Constantly samples a minute of your master, very handy for shorter sfx iterations especially
No need to mess around with tabs -- just select _View_ | _Monitoring FX_
Never knew that existed! Great.
Happy to bring it to your attention!
No doubt, sweet for headphone softwares.
I'm working on Live now, because of the instruments and tight integration. They actually have excellent routing. In Live you would uses sends on each track. One send receiver would be your "mix" track. That mix track would send to "n" other tracks. 1 for headphones, 1 for monitors, etc. There you could apply appropriate correction software that would never make it to your mix track.
Cool! I love Ableton for songwriting but with routing it does frustrate me a bit especially when I've wanted to use it and have someone monitor remotely. I can set up a bus for it but it takes time, versus in reaper you can just route the master track to as many hardware outputs as you want.
@@IDDQDSound I'm definitely comparing the two. Live is more like an instrument, Reaper seems better for linear tracking and then mastering. I wonder if you're writing on Live and mixing on Reaper?
@@citadelo5ricks I broadly use both DAWS like that. Playing with sounds, loops, drum racks etc in Live then importing audio to Reaper for mixing. Though also do a lot of sample/field recording manipulation which is always in Reaper.
@@garyg68 I think this is the right approach. As I dig into Live it becomes more and more like a big instrument. But not a mixing console like REAPER (or others).
"Don't be a dick about it" Yep, that sums up YT lol - Keep up the great content, bro. 👍
Thanks! Haha yeah sometimes I feel like people expect tutorial makers to know ABSOLUTELY everything but we all for sure have holes in our knowledge. Best I can do is stay within the lane in which I'm comfortable :)
@@IDDQDSound absolutely. You're doing fine, great content and reaper is a beast to begin with so I'd imagine it's not easy to sum down into quick tutorials. I've learned some cool hidden reaper tricks from your vids though.
Could you do a video on how to use Saike Spectrum Analyzer to analyse incoming audio while tracking? I like to see what I am doing while playing live, but I cant get it to work...
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2:47 How to make your mastering career go from Successful to Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge" in 4 easy steps. LOL
I will check out your diagram and see if it matches an A3 sheet I have where I drew it out. I was going to create an electronic version but won't bother if yours is accurate. 😄
I also have - Loudness Penalty (MeterPlugs), ISOL8 (TBProAudio), SPAN Plus (Voxengo), Blue Cat's DP Meter Pro 4, Insight Pro (iZotope), Youlean Loudness Meter 2, 4U+ ProjectTime (HOFA), ADPTR StreamLiner (Plugin Alliance). And I can never decide between Sonarworks and TB_Morphit_v1 (ToneBoosters). I keep most of them offline but you never know what you might need!! Haha.
Jon Tidey of the REAPER Blog checked mine and gave it a stamp of approval. One of these days I hope to get Justin Frankel or Schwa to give it a look. I tested it myself and I'm pretty sure it's right :)
@@IDDQDSound I've had a quick look now. In the green/first section, right leg, the Media Item Properties, F2, affect the volume and pan pre-take FX not post. (as per your diagram the Item Volume (knob) is Pre-FX and the Take Envelopes are post-FX). You could make it clear that the take volume knob, F2 settings for volume/pan, and the take envelopes are separate functionality.
I haven't gone through the rest in excruciating detail yet 😄 but I noticed you haven't included the various places the VU meters can be positioned, the receive automation that takes place at the input of the track processing, or the group pre/post-FX VCA control. (I think the pre-fx vca control happens before the take/item audio mixes with the record monitoring audio and the post-fx vca control happens after the post-fx pre-fader send and pre-fader VU location but before the post-fader send. I need to do more experiments to convince myself of this nightmare).
I am a guitar player... I want to hear my two notes (IR loader) and sometime guitar 7 plugins. no matter where I set things all I hear it the direct guitar signal. I have been searching for how to hear my guitar plugins but I have found no answer. Can some one PLEASE explain how to do this???
Cubase control room, Studio One listen bus, Sir. maybe more.
Nice. Yeah as others mentioned below. :)
Shift+Click the Master FX button.
Is this related to something I said in the vid? :D
Sorry, I think so. You talked about the weird tab thing with finding the Monitor FX, and made yourself a shortcut, but you can just Shift+Click the Master FX button and there they are.
@@ashcatlt ahh okayy
You gotta admit tho, it's kinda weird and very hidden. Like not even in the manual
Yeah, you're not wrong there! Soooo important and powerful. Why is it like you need to know the secret cheat code to find it?!?
Hi, I don't need virtual fx,
I use hardware fx for monitoring vocals. Does REAPER support ASIO Direct Monitoring?
I can't find anywhere in reaper the same "direct monitoring" option as I see in CUBASE/ Studio one.
Hi! That's a windows question and I'm a Mac guy. That said, from what I know you would be better off downloading the driver for your interface and use that instead of ASIO4All or something similar. Also since you use hardware you can probably use the direct monitoring on your interface and have no latency
@@IDDQDSound It's not a windows question. I use my interface asio drivers, and I can see "direct monitoring" option in cubase/ studio one, but unfortunately no luck with reaper.
I have it allways active with eq settings for my headphones from oratory1990, to flatten my headphone eq curve (I use toneboosters eq for that). And after that i have a plugin called “Monitoring” (can B preset) from Airwindows wich simulates monitor sound in your headphones by using crossfeed. I’ve searched for a while if it was possible with Reaper stock plugins to simulate monitor sound, but couldnt find something like that.
Hmmm if the crossbleed is just a simple adding of L to R and R to L, it's doable with a simple gain jsfx and routing, but do they also add some sort of filter to the crossbleed?
@@IDDQDSound Well all i know is that it sort of bleeds the L and R channel so that it sounds like you listen to monitors, inside your headphone. I dont know if there are filters or other things are added to it, or what is needed to make that happen.
Cubase-Nuendo and S1 also has same thing with different names.
Nice! I've used Nuendo for ADR before but by no means an expert on it.
I can't afforded soft soft. what alternative can I get?
What's soft soft?
Cubase has something like it but less flexible
REAPER is more flexible than Nadia Comaneci
Cubase, S1 has)))
Whats called in S1?
@@rafaeltmanso It's Listen Bus
Nice! FL and S1 are two DAWs I've never used that I probably should be using!
@@IDDQDSound S1 is awesome. FL hasnt many features other DAW has.