I used to program Rock Band games in Reaper. We used all MIDI to program songs. After years of 60hrs a week on it I stuck with it and it's my DAW of choice for audio production to this day.
I can't belive how useful this video is. This is the 4th time I watch this (the 4th time I install Reaper on a computer). I've written all this info anyway on a notepad, but it's always good to comeback and make sure I'm changing all the preferences and actions just like you guys do. Makes all the perfect sense to me, that I'm coming from Cubase. Thanks guys, great job
Congratulations, sir. That was a very heart warming video. I hope your goals are fulfilled and you're rewarded with satisfaction. You are, without a doubt, the king of transitions. Lol... thanks for all the tutorials. You make learning fun and influence great tones. Thank you!
Jon is a great dude. He helped me so much when I started using reaper. He always answered my stupid questions without making me feel stupid. Great video.
Reaper owns on so many levels its unreal. Every time I'm forced to use another daw at someone else's studio Im simply blown away by how complicated and rigid they all are. Hell, the actions menu alone is worth the price of entry... A searchable database of everything the program is capable of doing, plus an integrated shortcut and macro manager? Jesus' tits... Why the fuck don't other daws do this? Scratch that. Keep reaper singular and it will continue to be a singular daw. The devs know what they're doing. Soooo looking forward to the next version change.
Oh hell yeah. Glad to see Reaper finally getting some love. Something Reaper has that other DAWs don't have (they might now though idk) is the snap to scale feature in the MIDI editor. It makes writing music so fast it's nuts.
You guys are LEGENDS! I've made up my mind to move to reaper from S1 and use it for all my production and engineering work. Been demoing it for the past 2 weeks now, all i can say is that "I'm blown away". Thank you so much for this video, you just solved all my problems!!!
Reaper Mania and Reaper Blog are 2 of my favorite features that come with Reaper! I made a Top 10 List of why Reaper is the best DAW for any of those on the fence.
Thank you to you and Jon for recording this and posting it. I'm finding that the important thing with Reaper is to just start using it and *then* learn how to customize it after you have some tracks started. This video is great because, although I won't choose the same settings as you, I'm learning HOW to change the settings to what works for me.
Before downloading I watched the reaper 5 explained compilation, got the jist for my basic needs and as I learn mode I’ll watch more, but I’m loving reaper so far
I always liked the meter section of Reaper because it lets you choose between RMS and Peak metering, or showing both at the same time. Most of the time I only use the RMS metering because I found it a bit more helpful for keeping an eye on the loudness of a mix and it was more like getting levels off a console. It also makes getting levels during recording a bit simpler, set the level on the pre so that the hottest signal (lets say a hard snare hit) reads 0 dB on the meter like you would on a tape machine or a console. Same with mixing, the mix should be somewhere between -1 dB and 0.5 dB on the RMS meter, generally the peaks will be around -18 to -14 dBFS and the intergrated loudness will be -25 to -20 LUFS
Thanks for posting this!! I remember when I bought my first DAW. I picked up reaper for like $40. It just sat there for two years. The learning curve was pretty big. I started on protools so I figured, If I can figure PT out, I can learn anything lol. I forced myself to learn reaper. Now it's my go to. One really cool thing about reaper is its scripts. Not sure if other DAWs do similar stuff. But a script is like a plugin. I found a script that basically does what basic vocalign does and more. Set it to control alt A.
I made my full change over to Reaper maybe a year ago. I bounced through a number of DAW's and Reaper just made since....fully customizable and no vst issues....it just simplified everything and I love the software. I had to do all the video lessons but after getting involved with it hands on it was almost as if I knew how to use the program bc it was similar yet easier .it's a total mind blower that this software is so cheap and so awesome. The price had me questioning things but I'd be willing to say Reaper is the best DAW I have ever used hands down!
Orion Benjamin I’ve been using and enjoying Mixcraft 8 for a little while, but now that Reaper supports ARA with Melodyne... I don’t know what to do... I like the visual aspect of Reaper, using software that you enjoy visually is a part of the enjoyment process, is it?
This was a much needed video. I’m looking into picking up Console 1 and was considering switching from Logic to a DAW that fully supported Console 1, and reaper being the most affordable option. Everything felt way different on day 1 of the demo, but this video really helps. Thanks!
I always thought Reaper was way more beginner friendly than pro tools. I went to school for sound engineering and had to use pro tools and always hated it for it's odd layout and over complicated menus. I've only ever had to watch two videos on reaper to understand how to use the daw. It's hard for me to relate to these two and hard for me to understand why they've had so many problems with it. Produced tons of demos and songs on reaper and always got my projects done faster than if I was in pro tools or logic
Same, for me I could never wrap my head around Cubase (apparently most Cubase users can't understand Reaper) but Reaper and Pro Tools I found quite user friendly, especially with the Playlist style editing systems in both DAWs.
Reaper is actually more modern so alot of people r use to thr over complicated approach and find Reaper confusing when they realize how simple everything can be.
It was the same for me. Kinda started with pro tools, couldn't figure it out as a noobie. Then a friend showed me reaper and i knew how to record myself without errors and was up and running in a few hours of hanging out.
It's so easy to start, but you can never finish making it even better. I try to spend at least an hour every couple of days just refining things in the workflow. It's the gift that keeps on giving forever. Every minute invested in automating or learning a more efficient way to do something earns you 20 hours over the next year!
-3.0 Pan Law with gain compensation makes it so it's more or less equal power left & right as well as while creating folders doesn't dip down the gain of the tracks you're making the folder for. Great video guys!
This is what really separates Reaper is guys like Jon and Kenny of ReaperMania make learning and using this daw a breeze and once you get into ur workflow theres really nothing that compares to Reapers overall versatility and power.
Thanks for the awesome video, it will help tremendously. I wish Reaper had built-in configuration presets for different popular workflows, especially for people who come from other DAWs or who prefer to work more with mouse than keyboard. Reaper is very powerful, but also it doesn't hold your hand and filter options based on context and don't force specific workflow on you. For beginners, it can be a problem when menus and dialogs are crowded with so many options and are not filtered by context. You can link almost anything to anything and there is much higher chance to shoot yourself in a foot. But when you find your best workflow and stick to it, Reaper can be much more powerful and flexible than any other DAW out there.
Best thing to do is learn the shortcuts. That way you dont have to deal with setting up the daw if by any chance you need to reinstall it. Learn the Daw...isnt that hard. The default settings you will find they are actually better than other daws.
I read the patriot act before it passed( wouldve been nice if our "representatives" had done the same. But the reaper manual...that thing is thick bruh.
Yo i been messing with reaper the last month more than anything..let me tell you it has so many dam options 🐐....daws are great but its always something they limits me from thats important to me. My new daw now for production,record artist and mix and master....i think daws take ideas from them
Went from Cubase to Reaper and will never go back, there is learning curve to every software, and Reaper's price tag just can't be beat for what it does..
22:23 the question about getting the cursor in the arrange window is all addressed in Kenny Gioia's excellent coverage of all the options you can ascribe to right drag, middle click, and middle drag. It includes the cursor and about 25 other things you can have it do with different modifiers. I think this is one of the most overlooked but most important in Kenny's amazing series. Anyone using REAPER that hasn't taken the time to go through his "WATCH THESE FIRST!!!!" playlist is wasting a lot of time fumbling around with things that will blow your mind when you see how easy it is. At the very least, check this one out: ruclips.net/video/L9bRtn-5Eng/видео.html
So I don't know anything about reaper, and I'm wondering if settings like this are savable to a theme that you can quickly import? or are the themes I've heard about only a graphic UI change?
I was originally a pro tools guy. But since I have been making electronic music it was ableton/studio one and now it’s bitwig. I love bitwig but I am intrigued by reapers efficiency...but everyone says it’s really basic for midi. Is this true?
At stock it's definitely quirky and lacks some advanced features. SWS and reapack have resources you can use for it and you can always customize it (I know I did)
I wouldn't consider reaper to be not beginner friendly. The first screen you see is so uncluttered compared to other daws and everything is so neat and easy to read. Basically every default behaviour was completely obvious to me. All the fancy difficult stuff is buried within neatly organised menus.
I am desperate, I will try Reaper again, after dropping $750 actual dollars between Ableton Suite and Logic Pro 10.4 and having them CRASH AND LOSING ALL MY WORK and my IPad Pro and Reason now DOING THE SAME FUCKING THING!@@@@#221111one I am going to focus on Reaper, thanks for this Joey, Hoping my Toneforge Menace isn’t helping the crashing on the MacBook Pro lol. ( i know its not - at least I think i do! )
If you scroll over the tracks on the left of the screen, then you scroll up and down through the tracks. It just depends where the mouse cursor is at the time. if you press CTRL at the same time, then you can expand or contract the tracks. The first 5 mins of this video where you're changing settings is completely unnecesary.
mezsh the point was matching up reaper to suit what joey was used to in cubase and to demonstrate how you can make it do absolutely anything and how infinitely customisable it is.
22:23 the question about getting the cursor in the arrange window is all addressed in Kenny Gioia's excellent coverage of all the options you can ascribe to right drag, middle click, and middle drag. It includes the cursor and about 25 other things you can have it do with different modifiers. I think this is one of the most overlooked but most important in Kenny's amazing series. Anyone using REAPER that hasn't taken the time to go through his "WATCH THESE FIRST!!!!" playlist is wasting a lot of time fumbling around with things that will blow your mind when you see how easy it is. At the very least, check this one out: ruclips.net/video/L9bRtn-5Eng/видео.html
0:00 Intro
5:20 Mouse wheel
9:15 Zoom focus
11:33 Zoom out project, zoom time selection
14:52 Marquee selects items and time
17:30 Zoom in/out horizontal
18:44 Grouping
19:21 Pro Tools style z/x/c/v
21:50 Mouse left drag
27:37 Move item contents (slip editing)
28:11 Left mouse click to split items
32:57 Crossfade when splitting items
34:04 (Don't) loop source
34:40 Trim content behind items when editing
36:33 Item mix behavior
38:05 Options menu
41:37 Track height actions
44:01 Project settings
58:33 Project settings: pan mode
1:01:32 How to copy the project media into its media folder (with project bay)
1:03:48 Peak files
1:06:45 Auto backups
1:09:45 Default template
1:11:04 Rebuild peak files
1:11:41 Outro
Emanuele Rusconi you are a legend!
thank you so much
you are a god
I used to program Rock Band games in Reaper. We used all MIDI to program songs. After years of 60hrs a week on it I stuck with it and it's my DAW of choice for audio production to this day.
I can't belive how useful this video is. This is the 4th time I watch this (the 4th time I install Reaper on a computer). I've written all this info anyway on a notepad, but it's always good to comeback and make sure I'm changing all the preferences and actions just like you guys do. Makes all the perfect sense to me, that I'm coming from Cubase.
Thanks guys, great job
Congratulations, sir. That was a very heart warming video. I hope your goals are fulfilled and you're rewarded with satisfaction. You are, without a doubt, the king of transitions. Lol... thanks for all the tutorials. You make learning fun and influence great tones. Thank you!
Lol...I guess it's clear that this was meant for another video.
Wow I saw this interview when it came out but had not Idea Reaper Blogs did this til now! I was so happy to see Joey love Reaper!
Jon is a great dude. He helped me so much when I started using reaper. He always answered my stupid questions without making me feel stupid. Great video.
me to
Reaper owns on so many levels its unreal. Every time I'm forced to use another daw at someone else's studio Im simply blown away by how complicated and rigid they all are. Hell, the actions menu alone is worth the price of entry... A searchable database of everything the program is capable of doing, plus an integrated shortcut and macro manager? Jesus' tits... Why the fuck don't other daws do this? Scratch that. Keep reaper singular and it will continue to be a singular daw. The devs know what they're doing. Soooo looking forward to the next version change.
Oh hell yeah. Glad to see Reaper finally getting some love. Something Reaper has that other DAWs don't have (they might now though idk) is the snap to scale feature in the MIDI editor. It makes writing music so fast it's nuts.
You guys are LEGENDS! I've made up my mind to move to reaper from S1 and use it for all my production and engineering work. Been demoing it for the past 2 weeks now, all i can say is that "I'm blown away". Thank you so much for this video, you just solved all my problems!!!
Reaper Mania and Reaper Blog are 2 of my favorite features that come with Reaper!
I made a Top 10 List of why Reaper is the best DAW for any of those on the fence.
Reaper is a joy to use, and the community is great. Totally recommended.
Some great settings here! Thank you Joey and John for the lesson
oh nice! I was wondering when this was coming out
Thank you to you and Jon for recording this and posting it. I'm finding that the important thing with Reaper is to just start using it and *then* learn how to customize it after you have some tracks started. This video is great because, although I won't choose the same settings as you, I'm learning HOW to change the settings to what works for me.
Before downloading I watched the reaper 5 explained compilation, got the jist for my basic needs and as I learn mode I’ll watch more, but I’m loving reaper so far
Even as an experienced Reaper user I found a LOT of useful ideas and settings here! Great work @Jon Tidey
I always liked the meter section of Reaper because it lets you choose between RMS and Peak metering, or showing both at the same time. Most of the time I only use the RMS metering because I found it a bit more helpful for keeping an eye on the loudness of a mix and it was more like getting levels off a console. It also makes getting levels during recording a bit simpler, set the level on the pre so that the hottest signal (lets say a hard snare hit) reads 0 dB on the meter like you would on a tape machine or a console. Same with mixing, the mix should be somewhere between -1 dB and 0.5 dB on the RMS meter, generally the peaks will be around -18 to -14 dBFS and the intergrated loudness will be -25 to -20 LUFS
10 minutes in and I already got life-changing tips lol! Great video
Thanks for posting this!! I remember when I bought my first DAW. I picked up reaper for like $40. It just sat there for two years. The learning curve was pretty big. I started on protools so I figured, If I can figure PT out, I can learn anything lol. I forced myself to learn reaper. Now it's my go to. One really cool thing about reaper is its scripts. Not sure if other DAWs do similar stuff. But a script is like a plugin. I found a script that basically does what basic vocalign does and more. Set it to control alt A.
Adam Longworth I use that one too although I could never figure out the controls properly, maybe you could i for me? Lol
I made my full change over to Reaper maybe a year ago. I bounced through a number of DAW's and Reaper just made since....fully customizable and no vst issues....it just simplified everything and I love the software. I had to do all the video lessons but after getting involved with it hands on it was almost as if I knew how to use the program bc it was similar yet easier .it's a total mind blower that this software is so cheap and so awesome. The price had me questioning things but I'd be willing to say Reaper is the best DAW I have ever used hands down!
Orion Benjamin I’ve been using and enjoying Mixcraft 8 for a little while, but now that Reaper supports ARA with Melodyne... I don’t know what to do... I like the visual aspect of Reaper, using software that you enjoy visually is a part of the enjoyment process, is it?
This was a much needed video. I’m looking into picking up Console 1 and was considering switching from Logic to a DAW that fully supported Console 1, and reaper being the most affordable option. Everything felt way different on day 1 of the demo, but this video really helps. Thanks!
I always thought Reaper was way more beginner friendly than pro tools. I went to school for sound engineering and had to use pro tools and always hated it for it's odd layout and over complicated menus. I've only ever had to watch two videos on reaper to understand how to use the daw. It's hard for me to relate to these two and hard for me to understand why they've had so many problems with it. Produced tons of demos and songs on reaper and always got my projects done faster than if I was in pro tools or logic
Same, for me I could never wrap my head around Cubase (apparently most Cubase users can't understand Reaper) but Reaper and Pro Tools I found quite user friendly, especially with the Playlist style editing systems in both DAWs.
Reaper is actually more modern so alot of people r use to thr over complicated approach and find Reaper confusing when they realize how simple everything can be.
It was the same for me. Kinda started with pro tools, couldn't figure it out as a noobie. Then a friend showed me reaper and i knew how to record myself without errors and was up and running in a few hours of hanging out.
The things that immediately won me over were: quick initial loading times, runs great on low spec machines, offline rendering, searchable plugin menu
It's so easy to start, but you can never finish making it even better. I try to spend at least an hour every couple of days just refining things in the workflow. It's the gift that keeps on giving forever. Every minute invested in automating or learning a more efficient way to do something earns you 20 hours over the next year!
Reaper is awesome. Can't think of using anything else now.
-3.0 Pan Law with gain compensation makes it so it's more or less equal power left & right as well as while creating folders doesn't dip down the gain of the tracks you're making the folder for. Great video guys!
CAlexanderParra hi mate could you explain what you mean about the folders please?
Hi! Am I right that equal power in Cubase is the same as -3.0 with gain compensation in Reaper?
5:20 start
Thank you for doing the lord's work. haha
Thanks babe😘
This is what really separates Reaper is guys like Jon and Kenny of ReaperMania make learning and using this daw a breeze and once you get into ur workflow theres really nothing that compares to Reapers overall versatility and power.
Thanks for the awesome video, it will help tremendously.
I wish Reaper had built-in configuration presets for different popular workflows, especially for people who come from other DAWs or who prefer to work more with mouse than keyboard.
Reaper is very powerful, but also it doesn't hold your hand and filter options based on context and don't force specific workflow on you. For beginners, it can be a problem when menus and dialogs are crowded with so many options and are not filtered by context. You can link almost anything to anything and there is much higher chance to shoot yourself in a foot. But when you find your best workflow and stick to it, Reaper can be much more powerful and flexible than any other DAW out there.
Super early way to zoom out project is just double click the slider bar at bottom of edit window
Awesome! Thanks a lot for this!
This. Is. Fantastic.
Thanks a lot you guys ,, Lots of help.Having fun this morning!!!
Especially when it's " -15 " BELOW here in Michigan !!!
AT LAST, REAPER IS THE FUTURE!
Best thing to do is learn the shortcuts. That way you dont have to deal with setting up the daw if by any chance you need to reinstall it. Learn the Daw...isnt that hard. The default settings you will find they are actually better than other daws.
awesome vid, enjoy the long form style
More of this! It's been 4 years ago.. this needs a update ;)
This is pure gold
Now go back and turn that "Save undo history" on. It's so worth it. :D
I owe you my life
"Wuh, hell no... not a fan of that either.."
Great vid, liked & subbed!
Thanks!
Amazing video. Thanks guys
this is extremely useful, thank you very much!
Not reading the manual, how could u Joey
super useful info. Thanks guys
Using a track ball explorer ---no luck with any of the settings ??
I read the patriot act before it passed( wouldve been nice if our "representatives" had done the same. But the reaper manual...that thing is thick bruh.
Yo i been messing with reaper the last month more than anything..let me tell you it has so many dam options 🐐....daws are great but its always something they limits me from thats important to me. My new daw now for production,record artist and mix and master....i think daws take ideas from them
Went from Cubase to Reaper and will never go back, there is learning curve to every software, and Reaper's price tag just can't be beat for what it does..
22:23 the question about getting the cursor in the arrange window is all addressed in Kenny Gioia's excellent coverage of all the options you can ascribe to right drag, middle click, and middle drag. It includes the cursor and about 25 other things you can have it do with different modifiers. I think this is one of the most overlooked but most important in Kenny's amazing series. Anyone using REAPER that hasn't taken the time to go through his "WATCH THESE FIRST!!!!" playlist is wasting a lot of time fumbling around with things that will blow your mind when you see how easy it is. At the very least, check this one out:
ruclips.net/video/L9bRtn-5Eng/видео.html
No need for a manual. Just know the action list and put together what you want on keyboard shortcuts,midi controllers and toolbars.
So I don't know anything about reaper, and I'm wondering if settings like this are savable to a theme that you can quickly import? or are the themes I've heard about only a graphic UI change?
Yes you can save them all
To a theme? And if so can you provide a download?
What is the purpose? Are you setting up Reaper to work like Cubase?
I was originally a pro tools guy. But since I have been making electronic music it was ableton/studio one and now it’s bitwig. I love bitwig but I am intrigued by reapers efficiency...but everyone says it’s really basic for midi. Is this true?
At stock it's definitely quirky and lacks some advanced features. SWS and reapack have resources you can use for it and you can always customize it (I know I did)
I use Studio One 4 Professional.
all my volume knobs have disappeared at the bottom. including master volume. how do i get back?
wat is the name of the ² key action please? Mine is doing something else.
Good, can someone upload your file with this configuration? or something similar? Thank you
Is it possible to export/share all these settings you guys changed lol
Reaper crashed my Presonus Quantum asio driver when using VST3.
I used Pro Tools 🛠 for the first time this past couple of days….. and Reaper utterly destroys it.
Reaper is GREAT! ... Told ya... :P
REAPER AL
I wouldn't consider reaper to be not beginner friendly.
The first screen you see is so uncluttered compared to other daws and everything is so neat and easy to read. Basically every default behaviour was completely obvious to me.
All the fancy difficult stuff is buried within neatly organised menus.
I am desperate, I will try Reaper again, after dropping $750 actual dollars between Ableton Suite and Logic Pro 10.4 and having them CRASH AND LOSING ALL MY WORK and my IPad Pro and Reason now DOING THE SAME FUCKING THING!@@@@#221111one I am going to focus on Reaper, thanks for this Joey, Hoping my Toneforge Menace isn’t helping the crashing on the MacBook Pro lol.
( i know its not - at least I think i do! )
If you scroll over the tracks on the left of the screen, then you scroll up and down through the tracks. It just depends where the mouse cursor is at the time. if you press CTRL at the same time, then you can expand or contract the tracks. The first 5 mins of this video where you're changing settings is completely unnecesary.
mezsh the point was matching up reaper to suit what joey was used to in cubase and to demonstrate how you can make it do absolutely anything and how infinitely customisable it is.
Great stuff but this video needs soem seroius editing.
sorry. wierdy beardy
22:23 the question about getting the cursor in the arrange window is all addressed in Kenny Gioia's excellent coverage of all the options you can ascribe to right drag, middle click, and middle drag. It includes the cursor and about 25 other things you can have it do with different modifiers. I think this is one of the most overlooked but most important in Kenny's amazing series. Anyone using REAPER that hasn't taken the time to go through his "WATCH THESE FIRST!!!!" playlist is wasting a lot of time fumbling around with things that will blow your mind when you see how easy it is. At the very least, check this one out:
ruclips.net/video/L9bRtn-5Eng/видео.html