Besides the always useful tips and tricks, I'm always impressed by the effort you put into your video editing so the point you make is direct and crystal clear. You make your demonstration feel natural and effortless without clutter. It really needs a lot of care to achieve. Cheers.
One thing Kenny didn't mention (and this might be helpful for new Reaper users) is that if you drag to re-order your regions, they might no longer be in numerical order. The quick fix is to open the Region/Marker Manager (ctrl+alt+shift+r on PC), right click anywhere inside that window and select "renumber in timeline order".
It is actually incredible how many times I've watched a video of yours just at random for entertainment value and you have either answered a question that had me stumped or you have given me brand new inspiring ideas to try in Reaper. I LOVE REAPER AND I LOVE YOU, KENNY!
06:54 whaaaaat ? Been creating custom actions for all this time and didn't know selecting actions beforehand would add them in the custom action once you create a new custom action... Such a timesaver ! Thank you Kenny
Thanks for the video (and all the other ones!!!). The one thing I like in Ableton’s session view - and that I haven’t been able to replicate in Reaper - is the ability to play loops that have different lengths simultaneously. For example, playing a 16-beat loop with another one that’s 15-beat long. This is something that Logic Pro’s “Live Loops Grid” can do as well. Any idea of how to do this in Reaper? TY
This is another brilliant video. I would add a word of caution though, so you don't run into trouble. The "Regions:Set loop point to current region" may be a recent addition. I was a couple of Reaper versions out of date, and that option wasn't available. The whole thing depends on it. Make sure you have the current version of Reaper. Question: is there any way to record a "live take" ie recording while changing the regions?
As always amazingly helpful. This will make my composing efforts so much easier. Thanks again Kenny, you're work is fantastic. Thanks to you and the REAPER team!
Hey Kenny, you nailed it ... exactly what I was looking for as I plan to start composing things on September, my time is limited so this workflow kills 90% of the wasted time spent on navigation etc etc.
Nice video ! Got to add the custom actions for changing region and loop at the same time ! One cool tip when moving regions is the action to renumber markers and regions, so shortcuts to go to regions stay up to date with regions order.
Wow Kenny, I never realized you could usse Reaper like Ableton. You're just using regions like Ableton uses clips in session view. This will be awesome for arrangments and DJ work. Thanks for this video.
It's for tasks like that region hopping -- not common enough most of the time to justify getting some kind of keyboard shortcut on the main keyboard -- that I make use of a wireless keyboard connected to a spare laptop running a Python Qt app that turns keypresses on the secondary wireless keyboard into OSC messages that I can bind in Reaper. I then use the F1...F12 keys (along with modifiers) to select pages, so that I have up to 48 pages of keyboard shortcuts on my secondary keyboard. The only task then (which I haven't done much on yet) is keeping track of what's assigned where. (Though thankfully Reaper stores its OSC bindings in a plain text config file, and you can dump the action list to a text file, so it is not hard generate shortcut lists and similar.)
This makes the beat making process even easier. Thank you for this would have never thought to use regions to setup loop points so much eaiser than making midi items for all my tracks.
this is a SUPER handy way to utilize regions I hadn't thought of! Will definite use it but... I wonder if there's a way to get that "mix and match clips" style playback like Ableton? For example, while scene one is playing in Ableton, I can have a single clip NOT in that scene start to play with it, even though it isn't "lined up" with that scene.
2:08 pleaase can you let me know how you scroll through tracks using a continuous knob on your controller? I tried this myself but couldn't get my head around it in the actions list!
🤔 The last step (rearranging/copying the regions in the specific order you want) might be 'automatable' . Think about playback the regions like shown in the video (jump to the different regions live) but also record the order of this live switching in a 2nd project tab. I don't know if this is possible atm but it wouldn't surprized me if it is 😁 With a set of custom actions Something like 'copy all items under playhead --> jump to projecttab 2 --> paste -> jump to projecttab 1' of course it's not that simple. There had to be some other actions before. For example 'mute all tracks on projecttab2' to avoid playing both tabs and the items need to be placed at the correct positions (not at the playhead but on the bar on the timeline) but this might be possible with a specific setting in the grit/snap menu. Well. Just some thoughts 😁 thats what I really like about reaper. You probably think: "Hey, it would be great if I could do this or that" and 'bam' there is a way to do it. 😄 Thank you Kenny for all the teaching 👍.
What you can do is make a folder track to put each song under and make a custom action that allows you to quick select a specific folder track, unmute it, and mute all the others.
You're the man! Like you read my mind. I was just going to start searching for region solutions. I used to use this many years ago but forgot how to do it ahaha., Cheers, Broheim!
nice workaround to achieve the scene/session view! the instant seek aspect where the playhead remains in its relative position when swapping between regions is one of the challenges.... the idea behind instant region swapping and maintaining the playhead positioning is useful for instantly swapping in a instrument versus waiting for the 4bars to complete
To add to this, you could put each song into a folder track and collapse them then make a custom action that allows you to switch to a certain folder and unmute it but mute all the other ones. Allows seamless switching of songs.
Thanks as always Kenny... but I was looking for something else, maybe you can help me (or even do a follow-up video perhaps)? I will often use regions to document a chord progression in a part of a song. Say the verse has two sections, I will create one region for the first part and another region for the second part with the cords in the name field for each. But technically the whole verse is both regions combined so I would like to have a second region that spans that whole section. I know this is possible, and I think they can been seen separately in like a "regions lane" of some kind, but damn if I can figure out how to do that. I can create nested regions, but they overlap each other and can't be manipulated independently. Is there a way to get regions into their own "lanes" (my word not something in Reaper). Thanks again for all your great content, you rock!
This is ingenious and with midi recording set to overdub, it can basically work like Ableton for live performance. There is no "overdub" mode for audio, though, so I'm wondering if there's a way to make sure that the audio will record only once to fill the selected region and then automatically start playing back without overwriting the recorded audio clip with another take?
If you want it to be immediate, use Markers instead. Then you can also go to the Seeking preferences and turn on "Do not change playback position Immediately when seeking (smooth seek)" and make adjustments there.
@jbongnap that immediate seek is one of the challenges, that is not so easy to overcome.... as Reaper tends to have buffer underruns... which is not a good thing if one desires to utilise midi syncing with clocks etc, i found the best method is to use MaschineVST for immediate seeking, which can be run inside Reaper... i did a video on 4 instances using Reaper as a host on my channel
Very nice! Thank you for your amazing tutorials! 2 questions just came in my mind... 01 - There is any way to set an action + keyboard shortcut to select a channel from a region and mute / unmute that channel without using the mouse? Just by using the keyboard shortcut we set to that action. 02 - its posible to use a MDI Controller like AKAI APC 64 and work how it works in Ableton?
Don't see why not, the same workflow should work fine with audio as well. The only difference is you can't edit midi items if you don't have them. You can still mute audio media items as desired
This was great! I'm interested in using Reaper to do live looping (guitar and midi instruments). Is this the way you would set up Reaper to do this? If not, do you gave a tutorial showing how to set up the ideal live looping scenario?
@@cpt.kimintuitiondemon the only DAW that updates so frequently that it’s hard to keep up with 😂 FINE I’ll install the new one again lol 🙏 but thank you, appreciate it
Superb, Kenny (as always). I've been using a similar method for a while just manually jumping between regions or using the Region List but you've revealed a few actions that make it so much slicker. Many thanks. But.....I've always had a niggling thought. Is there any way to record my performance as I jump about regions OR record/note what order I played the regions when playing 'on the fly'. Sometimes I come up with a performance I've really liked and I'm stuffed trying to remember what I actually did. (Advancing age). Any suggestions.
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? ruclips.net/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/видео.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? ruclips.net/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/видео.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think @timheald6612 can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video?
i know its not related to this video but can you make a video explaining the difference in performance on reaper (or general music production) on a pc vs a mac?
Great! But one thing: I cannot find the action 'Regions: Set loop points to current region'. Running Reaper v6.83 on win10. Maybe the action has an ID number? Kenny rules!
It would be really cool if you could set up regions as clones of one another so if you updated one region it would update all other regions that are its clones.
it's soooo close to session view, but not as easy or intuitive. but i love reaper, and it's way cheaper, waaaay faster to launch, and just as stable but better at handling cpu load than ableton. i own licenses for both, but man, i hate waiting so long for ableton to just open , sometimes. also, reaper is one of a kind in its customizability. well worth the sixty bucks i paid, but so is the hundred bucks i paid for ableton intro. 'learning reaper' is another great reaper channel that has helped me, and there are others, of course Kenny is King
Hello Kenny, can you help me ? I have two Région 01 and zero Region 02. Thank you " Régions: Aller à la région 01 après la fin de la lecture de la région en cours (recherche de lecture lente) [smooth seek] "
If you want Reaper to beat Ableton Live, invest more in the quality of native plugins. For example, ReaEq does not have a choice in the filters decibels. Study the Ableton Live plug-ins and improve yours accordingly. . Otherwise, Reaper is vastly superior to Live.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Because it's not stock and most people don't know about ReEq ? NB : had not heard about it until reading your post and it is amazing indeed. With that being said, lots of users (especially not advanced) will do just fine with ReaEQ.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Also : if you use your DAW to practice your live mixing (as in : mixing live shows in real time with an actual live mixing console) skills, ReaEQ is better because it's closer to the available EQs in most live mixing consoles. If you get used to ReEQ because it is "the best" (compared to ReaEq), then when you're on an actual mixing console, you're fucked because suddenly you don't have all these nice things from ReEQ.
i do. feel. it is. very anoying. how. he talks. with massive. pauses. for no. reason. in every. sentence. on all. his videos. shame because he knows his stuff
Besides the always useful tips and tricks, I'm always impressed by the effort you put into your video editing so the point you make is direct and crystal clear. You make your demonstration feel natural and effortless without clutter. It really needs a lot of care to achieve. Cheers.
Thank you. I does take a lot longer than you'd think. Glad it was worth it.
@@REAPERMania Yes it was Kenny - thank's a lot for all your work, it is highly appreciated! ❤
Cubase has Arrangement track, Ableton /Bitwig has session, Logic Pro has session. Reaper has Kenny
One thing Kenny didn't mention (and this might be helpful for new Reaper users) is that if you drag to re-order your regions, they might no longer be in numerical order.
The quick fix is to open the Region/Marker Manager (ctrl+alt+shift+r on PC), right click anywhere inside that window and select "renumber in timeline order".
Nice
Very helpful!👌🏻
It is actually incredible how many times I've watched a video of yours just at random for entertainment value and you have either answered a question that had me stumped or you have given me brand new inspiring ideas to try in Reaper. I LOVE REAPER AND I LOVE YOU, KENNY!
Good God! I just downloaded Ableton to do just this and this video made me realize I don't need it because Reaper is the best. Back to Reaper!
You've taught me more about Reaper over the years than anyone.
06:54 whaaaaat ? Been creating custom actions for all this time and didn't know selecting actions beforehand would add them in the custom action once you create a new custom action...
Such a timesaver !
Thank you Kenny
This was incredibly useful and informative. I learned a lot about composing in Reaper even aside from using Regions. Thank you!
Thanks for the video (and all the other ones!!!). The one thing I like in Ableton’s session view - and that I haven’t been able to replicate in Reaper - is the ability to play loops that have different lengths simultaneously. For example, playing a 16-beat loop with another one that’s 15-beat long. This is something that Logic Pro’s “Live Loops Grid” can do as well.
Any idea of how to do this in Reaper? TY
This is another brilliant video. I would add a word of caution though, so you don't run into trouble. The "Regions:Set loop point to current region" may be a recent addition. I was a couple of Reaper versions out of date, and that option wasn't available. The whole thing depends on it. Make sure you have the current version of Reaper. Question: is there any way to record a "live take" ie recording while changing the regions?
You can use "Save live output to disk (bounce)..." and it will record anything you playback.
As always amazingly helpful. This will make my composing efforts so much easier. Thanks again Kenny, you're work is fantastic. Thanks to you and the REAPER team!
Your knowledge amazes me. I am astounded by your patience. Thank you again
Hey Kenny, you nailed it ... exactly what I was looking for as I plan to start composing things on September, my time is limited so this workflow kills 90% of the wasted time spent on navigation etc etc.
Nice video ! Got to add the custom actions for changing region and loop at the same time !
One cool tip when moving regions is the action to renumber markers and regions, so shortcuts to go to regions stay up to date with regions order.
Wow Kenny, I never realized you could usse Reaper like Ableton. You're just using regions like Ableton uses clips in session view. This will be awesome for arrangments and DJ work. Thanks for this video.
this is amazing - love your videos! learning to separate production workflow from mixing workflow has been such a help.
It's for tasks like that region hopping -- not common enough most of the time to justify getting some kind of keyboard shortcut on the main keyboard -- that I make use of a wireless keyboard connected to a spare laptop running a Python Qt app that turns keypresses on the secondary wireless keyboard into OSC messages that I can bind in Reaper. I then use the F1...F12 keys (along with modifiers) to select pages, so that I have up to 48 pages of keyboard shortcuts on my secondary keyboard. The only task then (which I haven't done much on yet) is keeping track of what's assigned where. (Though thankfully Reaper stores its OSC bindings in a plain text config file, and you can dump the action list to a text file, so it is not hard generate shortcut lists and similar.)
This makes the beat making process even easier. Thank you for this would have never thought to use regions to setup loop points so much eaiser than making midi items for all my tracks.
Super useful and helpful video, as always. Many thanks Kenny, you rock !
this is a SUPER handy way to utilize regions I hadn't thought of! Will definite use it but...
I wonder if there's a way to get that "mix and match clips" style playback like Ableton? For example, while scene one is playing in Ableton, I can have a single clip NOT in that scene start to play with it, even though it isn't "lined up" with that scene.
Amazing work as always going to try this out seems fun
Then you bounce it and voila! A full seamless track.
Thank you for this trick Kenny!
2:08 pleaase can you let me know how you scroll through tracks using a continuous knob on your controller? I tried this myself but couldn't get my head around it in the actions list!
ruclips.net/video/gkHUYl8Qbew/видео.htmlsi=KX7MDqBkICHmQju4
Go to track midi osc. its a sws extension
You made the video! I'll watch it tomorrow. ❣Juan here.
🤔 The last step (rearranging/copying the regions in the specific order you want) might be 'automatable' . Think about playback the regions like shown in the video (jump to the different regions live) but also record the order of this live switching in a 2nd project tab. I don't know if this is possible atm but it wouldn't surprized me if it is 😁 With a set of custom actions Something like 'copy all items under playhead --> jump to projecttab 2 --> paste -> jump to projecttab 1' of course it's not that simple. There had to be some other actions before. For example 'mute all tracks on projecttab2' to avoid playing both tabs and the items need to be placed at the correct positions (not at the playhead but on the bar on the timeline) but this might be possible with a specific setting in the grit/snap menu.
Well. Just some thoughts 😁 thats what I really like about reaper. You probably think: "Hey, it would be great if I could do this or that" and 'bam' there is a way to do it. 😄
Thank you Kenny for all the teaching 👍.
What you can do is make a folder track to put each song under and make a custom action that allows you to quick select a specific folder track, unmute it, and mute all the others.
Thank you for this, Kenny
I found out how to do this last year and it made Reaper a lot of fun
Veddy nice, indeed. Thanks moin!
Great video thank you. I was looking for this. Is there a way to have certain tracks programmed to be automatically quantized?
Thank you Kenny !
You're the man! Like you read my mind. I was just going to start searching for region solutions. I used to use this many years ago but forgot how to do it ahaha., Cheers, Broheim!
Man thats awesome, thank u so much!
nice workaround to achieve the scene/session view!
the instant seek aspect where the playhead remains in its relative position when swapping between regions is one of the challenges....
the idea behind instant region swapping and maintaining the playhead positioning is useful for instantly swapping in a instrument versus waiting for the 4bars to complete
It's still vertically linear,and you can't play for example drums from region 1 with other tracks in region 3,which is the main point of session view.
Interesting. But maybe there could be a workaround for it.
With smooth seeking & markers, this is freaking gold
To add to this, you could put each song into a folder track and collapse them then make a custom action that allows you to switch to a certain folder and unmute it but mute all the other ones. Allows seamless switching of songs.
Very impressive!!!
Thanks so much....
Thanks as always Kenny... but I was looking for something else, maybe you can help me (or even do a follow-up video perhaps)?
I will often use regions to document a chord progression in a part of a song. Say the verse has two sections, I will create one region for the first part and another region for the second part with the cords in the name field for each.
But technically the whole verse is both regions combined so I would like to have a second region that spans that whole section. I know this is possible, and I think they can been seen separately in like a "regions lane" of some kind, but damn if I can figure out how to do that. I can create nested regions, but they overlap each other and can't be manipulated independently.
Is there a way to get regions into their own "lanes" (my word not something in Reaper).
Thanks again for all your great content, you rock!
Super nice tutorial!!! Reaper Live 😁👍
Looks like Ableton plugins in the screen cap?
Hi Kenny, another great video. Have you tried Playtime 2 - session view for Reaper?
I didn't know you could select multiple actions at once when making a new custom action
I learned it while making this video. lol
Same haha. And i didn't know it would automatically add them to the newly created custom action :)
Thank you so much for this.
This is ingenious and with midi recording set to overdub, it can basically work like Ableton for live performance. There is no "overdub" mode for audio, though, so I'm wondering if there's a way to make sure that the audio will record only once to fill the selected region and then automatically start playing back without overwriting the recorded audio clip with another take?
Great content. Tnx for sharing
The man does it again...👍
This is excellent. Thank you Kenny. I assume you can do the same thing with audio tracks?
There are only "tracks" in reaper, they can contain video,midi,audio,... so this workflow will work with all of that.
the navigation part sure, but I didnt find how to overdub audio
@@Arkansya Kenny showed this in one of his recent videos - This is REAPER 7 - Recording audio pt 1, 2
This is really cool man😊
Are there any actions which can specify how long to wait before switching regions, e.g. immediate, next 8th note, next beat or end of current region?
If you want it to be immediate, use Markers instead. Then you can also go to the Seeking preferences and turn on "Do not change playback position Immediately when seeking (smooth seek)" and make adjustments there.
Let's go!!@@REAPERMania
@jbongnap
that immediate seek is one of the challenges, that is not so easy to overcome.... as Reaper tends to have buffer underruns... which is not a good thing if one desires to utilise midi syncing with clocks etc, i found the best method is to use MaschineVST for immediate seeking, which can be run inside Reaper... i did a video on 4 instances using Reaper as a host on my channel
wow...this is awesome!
Very nice!
Thank you for your amazing tutorials!
2 questions just came in my mind...
01 - There is any way to set an action + keyboard shortcut to select a channel from a region and mute / unmute that channel without using the mouse?
Just by using the keyboard shortcut we set to that action.
02 - its posible to use a MDI Controller like AKAI APC 64 and work how it works in Ableton?
Can we do this with audio instead of midi? like a guitar looper?
Yes.
Don't see why not, the same workflow should work fine with audio as well. The only difference is you can't edit midi items if you don't have them. You can still mute audio media items as desired
@@REAPERManiaAwesome, this is a new take on the reaper looper in that case. I used to use ableton for that occasionally.
This was great! I'm interested in using Reaper to do live looping (guitar and midi instruments). Is this the way you would set up Reaper to do this? If not, do you gave a tutorial showing how to set up the ideal live looping scenario?
There isn't much he hasn't shown
Great video! How do you get panning, mute and FX on the separate items?
Preferences > Media > on the bottom part you can check/uncheck the individual media item buttons
@@vivenzeo Thanks a lot. It's actually Preferences->Appearance->Media, so took me some time to find 🙂
@@lavryk oopsie, only tried to recall it by memory lol sorry
I can’t seem to find the action for Regions: Set loop points to current region 😢
Last update of reaper should include the action.
@@cpt.kimintuitiondemon the only DAW that updates so frequently that it’s hard to keep up with 😂 FINE I’ll install the new one again lol 🙏 but thank you, appreciate it
Nice ! I wonder if there is a script which could programmed the regions loops in a queue, so more regions are programmed in advanced.
Oh yes there is some things like, SWS playlist. And ReaGoTo daniellumertz.
Seriously Kenny, I owe you a lot: how can I buy you a coffee?
Very nice!
Superb, Kenny (as always).
I've been using a similar method for a while just manually jumping between regions or using the Region List but you've revealed a few actions that make it so much slicker. Many thanks.
But.....I've always had a niggling thought. Is there any way to record my performance as I jump about regions OR record/note what order I played the regions when playing 'on the fly'.
Sometimes I come up with a performance I've really liked and I'm stuffed trying to remember what I actually did. (Advancing age).
Any suggestions.
I'm going to look into that. Thanks.
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? ruclips.net/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/видео.html
👍👍
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? ruclips.net/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/видео.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think @timheald6612 can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video?
Thnx Kenny 👍🏼🎼🎶
Why is the thumbnail Ableton?
I just miss the feature of playing loops with different lengths at the same time.
Nice
i know its not related to this video but can you make a video explaining the difference in performance on reaper (or general music production) on a pc vs a mac?
I wouldn't even know how to start. Every PC and every Mac is different?
awesome!
Are you using Playtime to get into session mode in Reaper?
No
Love ya Kenny
Great! But one thing: I cannot find the action 'Regions: Set loop points to current region'. Running Reaper v6.83 on win10. Maybe the action has an ID number?
Kenny rules!
is "set loop points to current region" only available in Reaper 7?
Kenny Gioia and Reaper are synonyms.
Wuhaa!
Noice ~~>
why thumbnail is ableton?
It would be really cool if you could set up regions as clones of one another so if you updated one region it would update all other regions that are its clones.
🤯🤯🤯🙏🙏🙏
it's soooo close to session view, but not as easy or intuitive. but i love reaper, and it's way cheaper, waaaay faster to launch, and just as stable but better at handling cpu load than ableton. i own licenses for both, but man, i hate waiting so long for ableton to just open , sometimes. also, reaper is one of a kind in its customizability. well worth the sixty bucks i paid, but so is the hundred bucks i paid for ableton intro. 'learning reaper' is another great reaper channel that has helped me, and there are others, of course Kenny is King
Hello Kenny, can you help me ? I have two Région 01 and zero Region 02. Thank you " Régions: Aller à la région 01 après la fin de la lecture de la région en cours (recherche de lecture lente) [smooth seek] "
If you want Reaper to beat Ableton Live, invest more in the quality of native plugins. For example, ReaEq does not have a choice in the filters decibels.
Study the Ableton Live plug-ins and improve yours accordingly. .
Otherwise, Reaper is vastly superior to Live.
Live's synths and effects rival many of the commercial ones that cost as much as Live.
Reaper, a melhor DAW do mundo 🌎
I am not sure why any Reaper user still reaches for ReaEq when we can all just reach for ReEq instead.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Because it's not stock and most people don't know about ReEq ?
NB : had not heard about it until reading your post and it is amazing indeed.
With that being said, lots of users (especially not advanced) will do just fine with ReaEQ.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Also : if you use your DAW to practice your live mixing (as in : mixing live shows in real time with an actual live mixing console) skills, ReaEQ is better because it's closer to the available EQs in most live mixing consoles.
If you get used to ReEQ because it is "the best" (compared to ReaEq), then when you're on an actual mixing console, you're fucked because suddenly you don't have all these nice things from ReEQ.
i do. feel. it is. very anoying. how. he talks. with massive. pauses. for no. reason. in every. sentence. on all. his videos.
shame because he knows his stuff