@@rogerrinkavage Basically, using the Renoise sequencer inside Reaper with any midi controller will do. (Reaper and Renoise working in tandem laying the bars and, sequences down with timelines and, transport controls in sync).
I really appreciate this guide! I am a beginner when it comes to music making and as someone who tends to open a DAW, stare at it for 20 seconds and then give up, you really make the process of making music feel more approachable by suggesting a sort of process for creating a track. I also really appreciate that you at times mess up in the loop recording (on purpose or not) to then show the glueing feature and the possibility of recording multiple takes! Great video!
This the best Reaper Beat making guide by far dude, you are really thorough in your explanations, and you really give basically everything you need to start making your own beats in one video, thank you so much and have a great day ✌
Dope tutorial but just a piece of advise: when it comes to a tutorial for total beginners, you should probably stick with the default UI even if you prefer a different one, because to a noob they look totally different and it's quite confusing
Wow! After having learned many basic tuts from Reaper Mania, who are also highly recommended, everything comes together in a real practical way with this ultimate beat making guide. Great work man! Love it!
I was kinda worried if it's not just "orientalism" which sees all the eastern cultures as "Asian" and doesn't recognize particular ones, but everyone with a little humor will be chill 😜 Ta da da da dun dun dan dan dun 🎹
You have a serious level my friend ! It's also very cool that you're using Reaper and not Fruity Loops to make this kind of music, it can be very eye opening for people and make them understand that Reaper is an incredibly powerful tool. Congrats !
Bro you're a life saver. I've been using reaper for a month and Ican barely use it because I've changed from Logic Pro. Thank you for that theme for reaper.
Wow, dude. Where so many tutorials would be a 10 minute video to cover one concept with ads, ad-reads, etc..., you've put them all into one comprehensive video with absolute gems of knowledge sprinkled in. The psuedomaster bus and reverb bus tips seem like real gamechangers. Just need to figure out the best way to fit Maschine into this workflow cause I lowkey hate the default of it, but love its organization. Can't wait to watch more of your stuff, thanks a ton.
Resamplomatic can run more than 1 sample at a time. If you click on the sample name (on the far left with the checkbox), you can copy/paste (control C, Control V) and set a different sample to that. You just need to change the Note Start/Note End of each sample to correspond with what the sound mapped to (depends on your midi controller). Reaper Mania has a good tutorial on this. It allows you to play all the drums at once. However I do like having each sample on a separate track. If you put multiple samples on one track, you can always explode them out to separate tracks later via midi channel.
Excellent Tutorial. I'm considering moving from cakewalk to reaper so needed to know about drums. This is so above my head, I'm now happy Reaper can cope with my simple drumming demands. Thanks for this knowledgeable Video.
I usually do in MIDI is take the overdub function on so it can re-record the midi. Also by choosing one recording, press ctrl+l to let the window disappear.
I just wanted something to watch while eating dinner. BUT There's a load of Valuable Info in this, even if Beats aren't your final goal. Excellent choice of the AIR synths for Free/Low Budget 'VSTi's, well underrated instruments.
the big advantage of using reverb with sends is that you basically simulate how real multiple instruments would play in the same room and the combined sound would bounce around, as opposed to having individual reverb on each track (which would be like having each instrument play in its own room, alone, and then combine all the recordings). the verb bus is a much more natural way of hearing reverb :)
Awesome tutorial, timestamps and all. It's about time someone who uses reaper can provide in depth and comprehensive tutorial about beatmaking in the DAW.
Downloading reaper right now. Been an FL user for a while, but I’ve been looking for a place where the Mixing aspect was more like Logic and Pro Tools, but I could still make my beats on windows. Can’t wait To hop in
Reaper is my everyday tool for mixing commercial projects and it never disappointed me - it can handle enormous amounts of plugins without a hassle, but the fact you can pretty easily make beats in in makes it even more interesting 😀 Making beats in FL or Ableton may be a better and more easy to understand, but afterall I prefer to pay for one DAW and get it covered 😎
@@WodzuBeats glad you responded because I’m watching your other tutorial about sitala and I’m wondering can I use my computer keyboard as midi for sitala? I don’t have access to my actual midi controller right now
This was my first video when I came across your channel a few months ago. It really has helped me a lot with Reaper and inspire me to make my own tutorials.
Thanks for the kind words! I just dropped a new, shorter video about making beats in Reaper and included a Reaper Beat Making template in it (free). Welcome on the channel 😎
I watched many videos about FL Studio and MPC Beats Software and tried to work on them, but I found them somewhat complicated. But Reaper seems simpler to me! I haven't tried it yet, but from watching the video it seems simpler!
I use Reaper and man this was a great tutorial. I learned a couple of things too - like dragging the route button of the kick to the bass track (for side-chaining) - I was doing it manually before. Great job, dude - great pace (for me, anyway) and great explanations.
Masz tą listę pluginow, dłuższą niż litania😄 Poważnie, to muszę wyrobić nawyk oznaczania ścieżek jakkolwiek - dopiero teraz zauważyłem, że jest czytelniej👍 W sumie to zwięzły, konkretny materiał, jak praktycznie do.tego podejść.
This is great, I've been watching videos on how to make beats on FL Studio the most, but I use Reaper and this is going to be a nice guide. I'm coming back to this video very often, thank you very much for this!!!
I'm really glad to hear that! If you want to learn more please feel free to join my recently created Reaper Producers group (link in the pinned comment and descirption)
I needed this!!! I love Reaper, its my go to DAW, I wanna get better with beats but to be honest im not into learning FL or Ableton... So this is super interesting. Thanks
Air plugins are SO under-rated, especially Xpand! Probably used in more chart topping hits that any others since they shipped with PT back when nearly all big studios used it... They also have native support in Akai VIP, which allows you to search/scroll through presets of all the different synths, as if they were one... Great video btw, thanks for sharing!
Can't agree with them being underrated - those are one of the most affordable and popular plugins as you said 😀 I've been using xpand and hybrid as my main sound sources for the first few years of my electronic music production and I'll recommend them every time someone wants to start their music adventure. Cheers 👊
bro i have to say thank you very much for making this in depth video i thought you forgot about it lol i might have to re watch this one a few times for it to sink in
Thank you so much for this. I'v been using FL Studio for producing for quite a long time and Reaper for everything else, as tracking, mixing and editing in FL is trash to say the least, it's only superior for sampling and midi editing to be honest. So I decided that it would be much better to just do everything in Reaper and your video was just super helpful. Thanks
really nice work, this will help alot for my friends who are always asking lots of questions in my studio :) for the sake of simplicity i personally add Event Horizont Limiter/Clipper at the end of each channel chain. also there are cool FL style sequencer Sower and HeDA plugin suite(i love heda track inspector because of LUFS meters) thanks for this awesome tutorial, this is the true spirit of reaper :) fast, practical and powerful :)
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42 minutes, all with timecodes? Epic work man, watching right now.
That video length allows me to call the video "ultimate" 😎
Thanks for the effort man, there's no one talking about Reaper when it comes to beatmaking...poor people, little they know 👀
Someone's gotta pave the way!
Renoise rewired in Reaper is a lethal combination as if the two were made for each other.
@@MS-1 what is it? I could look it up myself but...
@@rogerrinkavage Basically, using the Renoise sequencer inside Reaper with any midi controller will do.
(Reaper and Renoise working in tandem laying the bars and, sequences down with timelines and, transport controls in sync).
I really appreciate this guide! I am a beginner when it comes to music making and as someone who tends to open a DAW, stare at it for 20 seconds and then give up, you really make the process of making music feel more approachable by suggesting a sort of process for creating a track.
I also really appreciate that you at times mess up in the loop recording (on purpose or not) to then show the glueing feature and the possibility of recording multiple takes!
Great video!
This the best Reaper Beat making guide by far dude, you are really thorough in your explanations, and you really give basically everything you need to start making your own beats in one video, thank you so much and have a great day ✌
That's my exact intention. Glad to hear that it works 😀
Dope tutorial but just a piece of advise: when it comes to a tutorial for total beginners, you should probably stick with the default UI even if you prefer a different one, because to a noob they look totally different and it's quite confusing
I definitely get the point, but I've forgot how to use the regular theme long time ago, haha
You took the words "ULTIMATE GUIDE " to next level with this Video
If you're doing something do it 100%! 👊 Thanks
Been using Reaper for 6+ years for sound design. Never found such a good tutorial on beat making!! 🔥
Wow! After having learned many basic tuts from Reaper Mania, who are also highly recommended, everything comes together in a real practical way with this ultimate beat making guide. Great work man! Love it!
I'm Asian and I think what you said is not offending. I agree with you too that it sounds like an Asian Ethnic Stringed Instruments. :)
I was kinda worried if it's not just "orientalism" which sees all the eastern cultures as "Asian" and doesn't recognize particular ones, but everyone with a little humor will be chill 😜 Ta da da da dun dun dan dan dun 🎹
You have a serious level my friend ! It's also very cool that you're using Reaper and not Fruity Loops to make this kind of music, it can be very eye opening for people and make them understand that Reaper is an incredibly powerful tool. Congrats !
Thanks man! My goal was always to show that DAW doesn't really matter at the very end
@@WodzuBeats d0 lmms then j0kes l0l even that can be used l0l
Well, everything has exceptions haha
@@WodzuBeats l0l a f0r kicks daw
Bro you're a life saver. I've been using reaper for a month and Ican barely use it because I've changed from Logic Pro. Thank you for that theme for reaper.
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Dude you deserve much more than this, what an easy explanation of every thing you have given 🤔✌👍
Share this video then 😀 Glad I could help
@@WodzuBeats Sure
Wow, dude. Where so many tutorials would be a 10 minute video to cover one concept with ads, ad-reads, etc..., you've put them all into one comprehensive video with absolute gems of knowledge sprinkled in. The psuedomaster bus and reverb bus tips seem like real gamechangers. Just need to figure out the best way to fit Maschine into this workflow cause I lowkey hate the default of it, but love its organization.
Can't wait to watch more of your stuff, thanks a ton.
sounds can also be tuned with REAPER's native ReaTune
didn't know about gluing takes, great tip
Absolutely! I could've mentioned it
Resamplomatic can run more than 1 sample at a time. If you click on the sample name (on the far left with the checkbox), you can copy/paste (control C, Control V) and set a different sample to that. You just need to change the Note Start/Note End of each sample to correspond with what the sound mapped to (depends on your midi controller). Reaper Mania has a good tutorial on this. It allows you to play all the drums at once.
However I do like having each sample on a separate track. If you put multiple samples on one track, you can always explode them out to separate tracks later via midi channel.
Good to know! I'll check that out 😀
one of the best beats tutorials ive seen for reaper. Thanks for this
A big thanks from Finland! This was time well spent. Reaper is such a beast to explore that this brought many useful things up. Liked & subbed!
Yes sir, good one. Im going with Reaper
maaaan, 42 minutes is fiiiiire
Yeah, over 2 hours of footage I had to edit 😅
you are literally the man. this is the best video i've ever seen in my life. I love you!
Haha, thanks 😀 Glad I could help and greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
Dope! I've made metal music in reaper before, but had no clue how to make beats in it, thank you!
You're welcome 😎 hope i could help
Best tutorial for reaper I've seen anywhere! Keep up the content!
I'm really glad to hear that, man! 👊
Dzięki Wodzu za interesujący materiał. To właściwie to czego szukałem. 👍
Świetny angielski! Ogrom wiedzy! Talent muzyczny! A jesteś w wieku mego syna. Podziwiam, szanuje, świat należy do ciebie!
Cant describe this with words ️🔥
Haha, that's a really solid compliment!
So epic. Made an easy to follow tutorial while making a beat. Gonna have to sub after this masterpiece.
Excellent Tutorial. I'm considering moving from cakewalk to reaper so needed to know about drums. This is so above my head, I'm now happy Reaper can cope with my simple drumming demands. Thanks for this knowledgeable Video.
You're welcome 😎 Glad I could help
I must admit that Jay really got his shit togheter without Silent Bob around. Jokes aside, great work! Thanks for this video.
Indeed, but I miss him though 😢
I usually do in MIDI is take the overdub function on so it can re-record the midi. Also by choosing one recording, press ctrl+l to let the window disappear.
This is clear and short guidance, no ass long introduction. I have been reading Reaper's guides book but beat making sucks. Thanks!
You killed my bruh!!!! the best tutorial bout beat in reaper straight up!!!! Me learned a lot give thanks and keep grinding!
I didn't kill your bruh, mane :O Haha
Thanks, means a lot!
@@WodzuBeats LOL...
I just wanted something to watch while eating dinner.
BUT
There's a load of Valuable Info in this, even if Beats aren't your final goal.
Excellent choice of the AIR synths for Free/Low Budget 'VSTi's, well underrated instruments.
Glad you liked the video, man!
Best tutorial I have seen...I have been on and off with Reaper but I am going back to it and going to follow along to this again.
I'm really glad to hear! If you ever have any questions just hit me up on Instagram or Facebook 😉 I'm also giving online lessons
@@WodzuBeats Nice one, I just checked out your rates and will get back to you about some lessons.
@@jarradfarrer3106 great, see ya then! 👊
i'm switching over to reaper from fl studio and this is exactly what i needed. subbed!
Cool! If you have any questions just hit me up on Instagram or Facebook 😉
@@WodzuBeats Awesome thanks. I'll follow now because I know I'll have some questions
@@WodzuBeats damnn you like freddie dredd and devilish trio too? you the man frfr
I really enjoyed the joke you made when talking about Sitala: "When you find the snare you like"
Ba dum tssss! 🥁
BRO THIS ROCKS
the big advantage of using reverb with sends is that you basically simulate how real multiple instruments would play in the same room and the combined sound would bounce around, as opposed to having individual reverb on each track (which would be like having each instrument play in its own room, alone, and then combine all the recordings). the verb bus is a much more natural way of hearing reverb :)
Awesome tutorial, timestamps and all. It's about time someone who uses reaper can provide in depth and comprehensive tutorial about beatmaking in the DAW.
Glad I could help! 👊
Downloading reaper right now. Been an FL user for a while, but I’ve been looking for a place where the Mixing aspect was more like Logic and Pro Tools, but I could still make my beats on windows. Can’t wait To hop in
Reaper is my everyday tool for mixing commercial projects and it never disappointed me - it can handle enormous amounts of plugins without a hassle, but the fact you can pretty easily make beats in in makes it even more interesting 😀 Making beats in FL or Ableton may be a better and more easy to understand, but afterall I prefer to pay for one DAW and get it covered 😎
If you'll have any questions about Reaper you know where to find me 😎
@@WodzuBeats glad you responded because I’m watching your other tutorial about sitala and I’m wondering can I use my computer keyboard as midi for sitala? I don’t have access to my actual midi controller right now
Absolutely - Reaper has a virtual midi keyboard - you just need to go to "view" and turn it on
Btw - you can join the "Making beats in Reaper" group I've just made on fb for further help (link in the description)
bro is the real pro
This was my first video when I came across your channel a few months ago. It really has helped me a lot with Reaper and inspire me to make my own tutorials.
Would love to see them 😀
I'll have to check this and donate for sure
Most awesome and complete Reaper tutorial I've ever seen. Worth the watch 100%
Thanks man! Just dropped a new one, a little bit shorter and I've included a nice beatmaking template
12/10 Content. This is so good. I was planning on watching like 10-15 minutes. Watched the whole thing
Thanks for the kind words! I just dropped a new, shorter video about making beats in Reaper and included a Reaper Beat Making template in it (free). Welcome on the channel 😎
I've been using reaper for years but never had an understanding of it like this. Thank you for the great video!
Same here, that's why I've made this tutorial 😀
I watched many videos about FL Studio and MPC Beats Software and tried to work on them, but I found them somewhat complicated.
But Reaper seems simpler to me! I haven't tried it yet, but from watching the video it seems simpler!
That was super clarifying info man, thanks!
You're welcome 😎
Docking the media explorer is genius! I've started using logic too but I never thought of that
Definitely helps a lot 😀
7:30 killer finger-drumming skillsss, yo
I use Reaper and man this was a great tutorial. I learned a couple of things too - like dragging the route button of the kick to the bass track (for side-chaining) - I was doing it manually before. Great job, dude - great pace (for me, anyway) and great explanations.
You're welcome 😎 Glad I could help
Great video. This was just what I needed to get a kickstart with Reaper. Thank you.
Glad I could help! 👊 If you need anything more you can join my Discord server or just hit me up on Instagram or Facebook
Masz tą listę pluginow, dłuższą niż litania😄
Poważnie, to muszę wyrobić nawyk oznaczania ścieżek jakkolwiek - dopiero teraz zauważyłem, że jest czytelniej👍 W sumie to zwięzły, konkretny materiał, jak praktycznie do.tego podejść.
Dzięki! Lista jest przydługa, ale na początek w zupełności wystarczą darmowe pluginy, które wymieniłem w filmie 😀
Mane, this is quite precise, makes me wanna start using reaper too haha
Couldn't describe it easier 😀 Glad you liked it haha
@@WodzuBeats fr brother, you're evolving into the reaper god or something
Logic user here thinking about switching. Great videos!
Best tutorial on reaper. You made it look so easy.
Ten thousand subs!
You're doing alright man. Well done👊
Thanks man!!
You give us gold here man. Just subbed, you're awesome!
Most excellent! Short, to the point and referenced.
Moving over from FL to Reaper, This is really cool man!!! Subscribed, love the vibe, Thanks for teaching!!!!!
You're welcome 😎
This is great, I've been watching videos on how to make beats on FL Studio the most, but I use Reaper and this is going to be a nice guide. I'm coming back to this video very often, thank you very much for this!!!
Glad I could help 😀
Thank you for this Legendary tutorial. Learned so many new stuffs here.. keep grinding bro
I'm really glad to hear that! If you want to learn more please feel free to join my recently created Reaper Producers group (link in the pinned comment and descirption)
6:37 Taps cable "Oooh yeah!". Let's not pretend that we haven't all done that 😂
my man!been waiting for this!thanks wodzu!!!
You're welcome my man!
thank you for such a killer video and also showing me how to change the note to semitone shifted now my hi hats got some flavor
Hope it helps you djent, bro
This is a fantastic video. You cover all the basics to get you started. Great work.
New, refreshed one coming next year!
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Glad I found this before carelessly buying FL or Logic in all the black friday craziness xd
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 brilliant work process explanation. Thank you.
I needed this!!! I love Reaper, its my go to DAW, I wanna get better with beats but to be honest im not into learning FL or Ableton... So this is super interesting. Thanks
Really nice and helpful... Thanks!
Air plugins are SO under-rated, especially Xpand! Probably used in more chart topping hits that any others since they shipped with PT back when nearly all big studios used it... They also have native support in Akai VIP, which allows you to search/scroll through presets of all the different synths, as if they were one...
Great video btw, thanks for sharing!
Can't agree with them being underrated - those are one of the most affordable and popular plugins as you said 😀 I've been using xpand and hybrid as my main sound sources for the first few years of my electronic music production and I'll recommend them every time someone wants to start their music adventure. Cheers 👊
So clear, direct and efficient!!
dang! nice vid. starting out the video with a whole written lesson plan! ha! well done ( ::
Hope it could help you 😀
Thanks so much for this!!! You’ve gone into so much depth
PERFECT! 👏👏👏 I use & love REAPER so your advices are great for me! Thanks! 🙌
You're welcome 😎
Definitely will be learning from you! Thank you for this information --- making this seem do-able.
Epic brother!! Thanks for all of this!
I really love this kind of work, thanks man, i sub for this contenta!!!
bro i have to say thank you very much for making this in depth video i thought you forgot about it lol i might have to re watch this one a few times for it to sink in
Hey, my man! Thanks for tuning in 😀 I've put lots of timestamps throughout the video, so it's easier to find what you're looking for
i learn too much from this channel thanks a lot!! blessings bro
Glad to hear that, haha :D Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this. I'v been using FL Studio for producing for quite a long time and Reaper for everything else, as tracking, mixing and editing in FL is trash to say the least, it's only superior for sampling and midi editing to be honest. So I decided that it would be much better to just do everything in Reaper and your video was just super helpful. Thanks
Vital is a great free synth I highly recommend.
I've already checked it out and I'm thinking about making a video about tweaking your own 808s like in Serum
Vital works like a charm with reaper and it's free. since release it's been my main goto synth for every thing :)
another very fine video ------- quite well done -
Much appreciated!
Hey, man! Thnx for great inspiration. Good to see you got your chops in order when it comes down to Reaper. Keep it up! :-D
Thanks a lot, I'm really glad to hear that 😀
This video is a masterclass.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot brother
Thanks for this
Epic man🔥 This is my new reaper beat making encyclopedia 😍
Welcome to Reaper Wodzupedia 😎
@@WodzuBeats haha definitely make that a thing 🤣
NEW SUB BRO. YOUR AMAZING
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i don't understand
Google translate helped me ;) Thanks! Glad I could help.
great video man, thanks!
You're welcome 😎
Thank you!
This tutorial has been greatly helpful. Thanks bruv!
You're welcome 😎
Thank you Wodzu! This tutorial super helpful!!
You're welcome, glad you liked it 😀
Really good video, thank you!
Thanks Ivo!
really nice work, this will help alot for my friends who are always asking lots of questions in my studio :)
for the sake of simplicity i personally add Event Horizont Limiter/Clipper at the end of each channel chain.
also there are cool FL style sequencer Sower and HeDA plugin suite(i love heda track inspector because of LUFS meters)
thanks for this awesome tutorial, this is the true spirit of reaper :) fast, practical and powerful :)
Thanks for the kind words! Hope it'll brighten things up to your friends haha
I find HeDa Scripts against the spirit of Reaper because of the recurring payment requirement every six months
Thanks for this video 🤲🏾
You're very welcome!
Thank you. Great video. Been recording live instruments for years, bout to make some beats. :)