What's good Wodzu, just wanted to drop a line and say your vids have been real eye opening. Reaper has been my audio workhorse for at least a decade now, but I never really delved into the MIDI side of it until recently. I've been searching for a new workflow vibe lately and I'm really digging it so far! Keep up the great work with the vids! 🔥
Welcome to the crew, man! I've been using Reaper as an audio tool only too back in the time, but I thought it's no different from any other DAW more associated with electronic music and its got lots of useful features.
Great Video Woodzu!....There is something that you forgot to mention though regarding the settings. In order to make this workflow work, you also have to go to Options/New recording that overlaps existing media items/uncheck "add lanes"/ uncheck "split existing items and add takes and finally add a check to "Add media items in layers".
This is basically how I work too but I set an action for instant quantize after I record the clip, and before I move on to the next track. Super handy. You make excellent tutorials, man. Btw, which iLogic theme are you on? I always get confused with the 800 different iLogic themes he has. Thx!
Hello and thank you. The problem is that you have to play and record patterns of the same length. In fl studio, the performance mode allows you to play several patterns of different sizes at the same time 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32 - etc... so for example, the kick you could play on a 2 or 4 step pattern and an instrument on 8 or 16 step. Unfortunately, the performance mode of fl studio does not allow you to add midi notes in real time, you can't add midi notes while the performance mode is playing and recording because the performance mode disables the midi input of the piano controllers. So you have to put the midi notes in the piano roll before playing the performance mode. We have been waiting for years for an update to have a double midi mapping, on the imagine line forum we are many to wait.
You can record patterns of different lengths. Simply trim an empty MIDI item to the size you want, right click on it, and 'Glue' the item so that it loops when you stretch it to the length of the take.
Hey Wodzu, thanks for this really great intro into Reaper beat recording. I would like to know your thoughts on extending this approach. How can we control reaper so that the last 'take' can be saved on another track? Ideas? Great work, very inspiring!
@@WodzuBeats not op, but I'm thinking a way to save on the fly what's on a particular track (say track 1), switch instruments on #1 and then continue to add layers to it. So you'd have say 5 tracks but be able to have way more combined once added to the loop. Allowing to built up multiple sounds together but only the current one be "redoable" while the others are committed unless clearing the whole thing. The kinda stuff you see people do with a hardware looper (ie with an RC-505)
Love you man! Quick question. When i go into the midi editor and go to use the key snap feature... it isnt there. It seems like every video i have come across the feature is already there, but not it my case. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!
@@WodzuBeats thanks, any tutorial for action markers? I want to make loops and then play some audio. i need to stop the audio in some point but i can't do it, i make a stop markers but Did not work. Thanks for your time!!!
I'm wondering if you could put a keyboard shortcut to change the length of the input quantize notes? Probably more difficult than it sounds but might be possible. What I do personally is just input quantize to the fastest notes I think I will hit in a track, ie 16th notes for piano usually, 32nd for hihats... Then it's not always quantized to *something* in the song and usually sounds ok when I'm live looping. And when you stop you can hit quantize again and change to longer notes if you need it. But it's seemingly impossible to go to shorter notes. ie if you record in autoQ 1/4 notes then you lose any 1/8 notes you played forever. They just weren't recorded. But if you hit "fix overlaps" and change 1/8 notes to 1/4 notes it's no problem, they automatically jump to the nearest 1/4 note and sound fine.
@@WodzuBeats i also use mpc software as a vst to do somewhat the same thing but really your way is the way to separate each drum part and free up valuable memory instead of multiple vst instances. Really does what I want!
@@WodzuBeats hahaha...nitro means potentialize something in brasilian slang dialect...and mistreat because of my lack of sensibility to hit the keyboard to make midi records, get it?! Anyway, i need to improve my english lol
One gotcha to look out for is that when switching tracks, you'll notice that for Wodzu, the track selection also armed the track and unarmed the last track. If you want to use Wodzu's method (easiest and best), then do as he says and map a convenient key (or stick with the ctrl+alt+up/down built in mapping which is fine for me), but make sure that you go to the Track menu, and make sure the following option is checked: "Set all tracks to automatic record-arm when track selected". Otherwise you can use a midi controller that is routed to each track via midi channel. If you set up your controller to work via midi channels, you can arm all tracks, then use your controller to choose the midi channel, then you don't need to do anything in Reaper.
@@WodzuBeats You make a beat like the one you did there. Then add an audio track hook your guitar, hit record, and while listening the loop you made, you record on the guitar track, but without a bar limit. So when you stop, you end up with something like 20 bars.
@@matiasgoinheix366 I think you can, when creating those empty MIDI items, make sure to COPY those empty items across more bars - that way when you record MIDI into the first one, it gets automatically copied over others in a row
Hi I'm a subscriber and love your videos especially this one - could you please help - I'm looking for my first DAW and so far I'm leaning towards Reaper heavily, but so far the research I am doing always leads me back to Ableton Live, which I'm not too keen on. 1) I want to be able to do live jamming of pre-recorded Reaper loops triggering them from something like a Novation Launchpad. Basically making a recording of my pre-recorded loops like a drum machine within Reaper. 2) I also want to be able to change the drum sounds/samples in the loops on the fly, eg change kick/snare/hats as the jam progresses 3) I want to be able to do the above and record it within Reaper. Does anyone know if this possible? Any help much appreciated
@@WodzuBeats Possibly both, I suppose I might be asking can you set up your own drum machine in reaper? I have looked at some VST drum machine plugins but have not seen any I like. Currently I can run a bunch of hardware drum machines that are MIDI clock synced but I can change each of their loops/patterns individually to have a great big drum loop jam. Whilst changing the patterns I can also change the sounds that are being played by the MIDI in real time. I'm wondering how to do this with Reaper - can Reaper do this somehow or would I need to use VST drum machine plugins within Reaper? It is easy to do this with hardware right in front of me but I suspect it will be difficult to be switching between VST drum machines in real time, changing patterns and also changing the sound that are being played by the MIDI patterns. I hope I am making sense. Any help is vastly appreciated as I don't know wow where I am going re software. It appears Ableton is set up to do something like this but I would prefer to go with reaper for the customization and the community.
@@WodzuBeats Ok maybe I need to clarify better - this is not about hardware - I was only using hardware as an example of what to to in Reaper. Thanks for thinking about it.
Hi Forever, I hope this is not too late to help, but there is an excellent addition to Reaper by a user named Helgoboss, and it's called Playtime. This extension adds a session based mode of recording and performing, which closes a gap between the native features of Reaper and Ableton (and others). Version 1 of Playtime is outstanding, and well worth the small cost. It's developed professionally and very well supported by the excellent dev, who is highly engaged and visible on the Reaper forums (Reaper's community is a thing to marvel at). Don't tell Helgoboss I told you but version 2 is on the way, and will be better in some ways, although it won't do exactly everything v1 does. I personally am sure I'll have both versions (you need to pay separately for each) because it's a cheap and high quality addition. He also has another tool called ReaLearn, which might help you with point 2), as it's a super smooth and intuitive way to map midi controllers. There is another tool for this as well called CSI (control surface integration), which I personally prefer for now, but this requires a bit more involvement in mapping templates. Playtime does not make Reaper into something that can do everything Ableton does, but for me it's close enough, especially since Reaper is by far the most configurable and extendable DAW (my subjective opinion, other opinions welcome, but be nice :) Let me know if there's anything more you need to know about Reaper, but from someone who has deeply used Cubase and Logic over 2 decades, I find Reaper the best by far.
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What's good Wodzu, just wanted to drop a line and say your vids have been real eye opening. Reaper has been my audio workhorse for at least a decade now, but I never really delved into the MIDI side of it until recently. I've been searching for a new workflow vibe lately and I'm really digging it so far! Keep up the great work with the vids! 🔥
Welcome to the crew, man! I've been using Reaper as an audio tool only too back in the time, but I thought it's no different from any other DAW more associated with electronic music and its got lots of useful features.
Wow! That's awesome, man
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Nice video, this is the type of workflow i like right here
Dude you made this thAng sooo easy for me! I smashed SUB! Thank you⚡
God, you have no idea how helpful this was to me, thank you!.
Thanks for the video, it was really clear and easy
Glad I could help 😉
Great Video Woodzu!....There is something that you forgot to mention though regarding the settings. In order to make this workflow work, you also have to go to Options/New recording that overlaps existing media items/uncheck "add lanes"/ uncheck "split existing items and add takes and finally add a check to "Add media items in layers".
This is basically how I work too but I set an action for instant quantize after I record the clip, and before I move on to the next track. Super handy. You make excellent tutorials, man. Btw, which iLogic theme are you on? I always get confused with the 800 different iLogic themes he has. Thx!
Thanks a lot! It's iLogic 2.65
Man, thank you so much. I could not find how to loop my track after recording a time selection. That Record: MIDI overdub was the silver bullet!
loved the thumbnail hahah, thanks man!
You're welcome 😎 Reaper gang!
dude those hihat fingers tho!!!!
Glad to see you there 😀 magic hands 👐
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Glad I could help!
As always, another educational content. Thanks Dominik.
You're welcome, my man!
You're the man, Wodzu
Glad, I could help! :D
Such a great teacher. Thanks for this.
You're welcome, Chris! If you have any further questions about Reaper you know where to find me ;)
Super-helpful video. Thank you!
You're welcome my friend 👊
Doooope ! great video
great video bro.
thanks!
Do you have a video on how you setup your base project? The one you said you load in the very beginning?
I’ve made one at the beginning of the channel
You can set recording from different midi channels and switch the channel in the controller, so you will not have to touch the pc keyboard
Good idea 💡
Just commenting to help bump your video in popularity. 😀
Thanks a lot! Let's get higher 😀
Hello and thank you. The problem is that you have to play and record patterns of the same length. In fl studio, the performance mode allows you to play several patterns of different sizes at the same time 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32 - etc...
so for example, the kick you could play on a 2 or 4 step pattern and an instrument on 8 or 16 step. Unfortunately, the performance mode of fl studio does not allow you to add midi notes in real time, you can't add midi notes while the performance mode is playing and recording because the performance mode disables the midi input of the piano controllers. So you have to put the midi notes in the piano roll before playing the performance mode. We have been waiting for years for an update to have a double midi mapping, on the imagine line forum we are many to wait.
I got it 😀 The title is just a clickbait, haha. The workflow I've made is closer to NI Maschine afterall
@@WodzuBeats i don't understand, can you explain me ? do you have link ?
@@RUclipsparisnewsBlogspotFr the video above is more like Maschine workflow
@@WodzuBeats Ok I see. Thanks man.
You can record patterns of different lengths. Simply trim an empty MIDI item to the size you want, right click on it, and 'Glue' the item so that it loops when you stretch it to the length of the take.
Nice video, you got one more subscriber, thanks. Do you have anything about live audio-midi looping?
That should be easy too, I'll make a video about it in the future
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Thank you for making this, very helpful! Would it be the same process if I wanted to loop microphone recording as well as a guitar or bass per se?
Sure, except than you can't add any more notes in the middle of the recording like you'd do with midi. You'll just have to record the loop again
For this you can turn to approaches in audio looping like Reaper's Super 8, or perhaps more advanced, Mobius looper (as used by Ed Sheeran)
l00k up video name Creating a Looper with One Track (Layers) in REAPER by REAPER Mania for guitar or bass its sick just like the video hear is.
rly good!
btw, isn't camera too close? its a bit claustrophobic
I don't think so, you can definitely see more than just my face, so I guess it's okay 😀 My studio is 15 square meters anyway, so it's pretty small.
thank you! seems that you can also use regions in way kinda like scenes or sequences and switch between them
Great tip! I'm gonna use in the next ultimate Reaper tutorial
Hey Wodzu, thanks for this really great intro into Reaper beat recording. I would like to know your thoughts on extending this approach. How can we control reaper so that the last 'take' can be saved on another track? Ideas? Great work, very inspiring!
Thanks! Could you describe it more precisely? 😉
@@WodzuBeats not op, but I'm thinking a way to save on the fly what's on a particular track (say track 1), switch instruments on #1 and then continue to add layers to it. So you'd have say 5 tracks but be able to have way more combined once added to the loop. Allowing to built up multiple sounds together but only the current one be "redoable" while the others are committed unless clearing the whole thing.
The kinda stuff you see people do with a hardware looper (ie with an RC-505)
Love you man! Quick question.
When i go into the midi editor and go to use the key snap feature... it isnt there.
It seems like every video i have come across the feature is already there, but not it my case. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!
Are you sure you're running the latest version of Reaper?
If you are you can try bringing back the default settings
Can this work with normal audio or only when recording a midi input?
Shouldn't be an issue, but I haven't been using it like that
so are thedrum samples each a sepperate instance of samplomatic5000 ?
Yupp, exactly
@@WodzuBeats hmmm interesting i like this set up
Hi, how to i make loops un súper8 and use playback mode? For example, i want to play a song and make loops it, thanks for your tutorials!!!
You're welcome 😎 Unfortunately, I don't use super8
Kenny Gioia made a detailed tutorial about it as I remember
@@WodzuBeats thanks, any tutorial for action markers? I want to make loops and then play some audio. i need to stop the audio in some point but i can't do it, i make a stop markers but Did not work. Thanks for your time!!!
I'm wondering if you could put a keyboard shortcut to change the length of the input quantize notes? Probably more difficult than it sounds but might be possible.
What I do personally is just input quantize to the fastest notes I think I will hit in a track, ie 16th notes for piano usually, 32nd for hihats... Then it's not always quantized to *something* in the song and usually sounds ok when I'm live looping. And when you stop you can hit quantize again and change to longer notes if you need it. But it's seemingly impossible to go to shorter notes. ie if you record in autoQ 1/4 notes then you lose any 1/8 notes you played forever. They just weren't recorded. But if you hit "fix overlaps" and change 1/8 notes to 1/4 notes it's no problem, they automatically jump to the nearest 1/4 note and sound fine.
You'd have to look for that in the actions menu, but it may be possible
Thank you! Was wondering how to do this in Reaper.
Same here - it was a game changer for me ;)
@@WodzuBeats i also use mpc software as a vst to do somewhat the same thing but really your way is the way to separate each drum part and free up valuable memory instead of multiple vst instances. Really does what I want!
Yeah man, very useful give thanks!!!! now i gonna nitro my workflow and mistreat my keyboard lol
Nitro? Mistreat?! 🤕 #StopDaViolence 🎹
(Nine Inch Nails or Jerry Lee Lewis style, lol)
Glad I could help, my man! Wodzumane at your service!
I think Attaman is not a native English speaker 🤔
@@WodzuBeats hahaha...nitro means potentialize something in brasilian slang dialect...and mistreat because of my lack of sensibility to hit the keyboard to make midi records, get it?! Anyway, i need to improve my english lol
I thought that nitro means just to make something faster haha
🙏
Glad I could help!
Is it possible to create more than one region that contains loops and then switching between them using, for example, a button from a midi controller?
Here's what I found: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=234967
@@WodzuBeats Thanks! Is exactly what i want!
Thanks bro, just a question; in reaper i cant switch on the tracks when the recording is on, how can i switch without stop the recording?
I don't know if you watched the whole video, but I showed how to make some custom hotkeys to make it happen
One gotcha to look out for is that when switching tracks, you'll notice that for Wodzu, the track selection also armed the track and unarmed the last track. If you want to use Wodzu's method (easiest and best), then do as he says and map a convenient key (or stick with the ctrl+alt+up/down built in mapping which is fine for me), but make sure that you go to the Track menu, and make sure the following option is checked: "Set all tracks to automatic record-arm when track selected". Otherwise you can use a midi controller that is routed to each track via midi channel. If you set up your controller to work via midi channels, you can arm all tracks, then use your controller to choose the midi channel, then you don't need to do anything in Reaper.
But is there a way of keeping the midi loop playing while recording a jam on another track?
Could you describe what you've meant more?
@@WodzuBeats You make a beat like the one you did there. Then add an audio track hook your guitar, hit record, and while listening the loop you made, you record on the guitar track, but without a bar limit. So when you stop, you end up with something like 20 bars.
I need to investigate this a bit more, but I'm sure it's possible
@@matiasgoinheix366 I think you can, when creating those empty MIDI items, make sure to COPY those empty items across more bars - that way when you record MIDI into the first one, it gets automatically copied over others in a row
Здравствуйте, как купить вашу тему для reaper ? HD Logic 1080p
Sorry, I don't speak Russian
@@WodzuBeats How do I buy your I logic v3.0 theme?
@@loft_music_group this is not my theme, you need to donate to Blankfiles - the link to Reaper Forums is in the description
Wow! What is that super cool theme you're using in Reaper??
iLogic by Blankfiles - link's in the description ;)
@@WodzuBeats Thanks, just bought it!! :-)
That first clap sounds like a snare, though.
That's a regular polo trap snare, but I like to call it "clank" 😀
also it's possible to filter MIDI notes by key when jammin melodies ;)
What do you mean by filtering midi notes?
@@WodzuBeats Kenny explains it in this video: ruclips.net/video/dRN5NToxBlw/видео.html ;)
Whats going on with the metronome?
Wdym?
And don't forget input quantization.
Good point! I've probably mentioned it in some other video
Hi I'm a subscriber and love your videos especially this one - could you please help - I'm looking for my first DAW and so far I'm leaning towards Reaper heavily, but so far the research I am doing always leads me back to Ableton Live, which I'm not too keen on.
1) I want to be able to do live jamming of pre-recorded Reaper loops triggering them from something like a Novation Launchpad. Basically making a recording of my pre-recorded loops like a drum machine within Reaper.
2) I also want to be able to change the drum sounds/samples in the loops on the fly, eg change kick/snare/hats as the jam progresses
3) I want to be able to do the above and record it within Reaper.
Does anyone know if this possible? Any help much appreciated
What do you mean by triggering pre-recorded loops? Audio or MIDI?
@@WodzuBeats Possibly both, I suppose I might be asking can you set up your own drum machine in reaper? I have looked at some VST drum machine plugins but have not seen any I like. Currently I can run a bunch of hardware drum machines that are MIDI clock synced but I can change each of their loops/patterns individually to have a great big drum loop jam. Whilst changing the patterns I can also change the sounds that are being played by the MIDI in real time.
I'm wondering how to do this with Reaper - can Reaper do this somehow or would I need to use VST drum machine plugins within Reaper? It is easy to do this with hardware right in front of me but I suspect it will be difficult to be switching between VST drum machines in real time, changing patterns and also changing the sound that are being played by the MIDI patterns. I hope I am making sense. Any help is vastly appreciated as I don't know wow where I am going re software. It appears Ableton is set up to do something like this but I would prefer to go with reaper for the customization and the community.
@@forever3797 I barely use any hardware, so I don't think I can help. The only live looping technique I know is shown on the video
@@WodzuBeats Ok maybe I need to clarify better - this is not about hardware - I was only using hardware as an example of what to to in Reaper. Thanks for thinking about it.
Hi Forever, I hope this is not too late to help, but there is an excellent addition to Reaper by a user named Helgoboss, and it's called Playtime. This extension adds a session based mode of recording and performing, which closes a gap between the native features of Reaper and Ableton (and others). Version 1 of Playtime is outstanding, and well worth the small cost. It's developed professionally and very well supported by the excellent dev, who is highly engaged and visible on the Reaper forums (Reaper's community is a thing to marvel at). Don't tell Helgoboss I told you but version 2 is on the way, and will be better in some ways, although it won't do exactly everything v1 does. I personally am sure I'll have both versions (you need to pay separately for each) because it's a cheap and high quality addition. He also has another tool called ReaLearn, which might help you with point 2), as it's a super smooth and intuitive way to map midi controllers. There is another tool for this as well called CSI (control surface integration), which I personally prefer for now, but this requires a bit more involvement in mapping templates. Playtime does not make Reaper into something that can do everything Ableton does, but for me it's close enough, especially since Reaper is by far the most configurable and extendable DAW (my subjective opinion, other opinions welcome, but be nice :) Let me know if there's anything more you need to know about Reaper, but from someone who has deeply used Cubase and Logic over 2 decades, I find Reaper the best by far.
Bro, were you typing on your keyboard upside down for a minute? Lol.
Actually the whole video is a mirror reflection 😀
Reaper is so far from being intuitive, if you are used to Maschine ;)
Agreed, haha :D But you can make lots of custom actions to make it mouseless
Very clever, Dominic ! You are fresh as f***. Excellent video !
Noone has ever descibed me as "fresh" before, haha :D Thanks for watching and glad I could help!
@@WodzuBeats In the energetic meaning of the term of course. So... Stay fresh ! :)
I know, I know 😀 Just fooling around. Stay fresh too!
@@WodzuBeats Indeed ! Thanks !
Can loops beat match easily?
Yeah, you just stretch them to the desired beat length