One of my Favorite Reaper Features (for Sound Design)
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
- Reaper has so many good features for game audio and sound design, but this little playback rate knob is absolutely one of my favorites. As simple as it seems, it can be surprisingly powerful.
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Two things to put on monitoring fx:
- global sampler
- sound id reference
Absolutely love using the Rolling Sampler. Its like hitting record in a FOLEY studio and then just messing with stuff but in the DAW. I will be experimenting with the sampler and changing the play rate during playback to see what interesting sounds come out.
didn't have the gut to move from ableton to reaper for a long time, your series helped a lot!
Super happy to hear it helped! Thanks so much!
Wow this was super useful. Thank you again Akash, you're the best!
Thank YOU for watching!
that is indeed a cool tip. To use Birds sampler like that would never thought of it. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome! I use this not with a rolling sampler but by stretching out media items with the preserve pitch setting off. Also, so cool seeing you use PMSFX. That’s my buddy Phil who I work with on the NoSleep Podcast. So cool seeing worlds collide!
Awesome! Tried this out right away with a project I'm working on. Totally love both the workflow and results of this technique! Thanks!
Glad it helped! Thanks so much for watching!
"Monitoring FX" - thx for the recc and explanation ❤
That's very cool. That sound effect kind of reminded me of the resident evil pressing start kind of thing. Nice.
Yes! This so good for that stylized PS1 era of sound design.
Akash you beautiful and delicious loaf of freshly baked banana bread, thank you for letting us know about the monitoring FX trick - rolling sampler is just far too useful and now I don't have to remember to set it up!
Hahaha thanks so much! Yeah having it there all the time is so convenient!
Once again, awesome tutorial. Since today, I won’t open the sampler in every new project 😬, thanks to youuuuuuuu ☀️
Happy to help!
I was writing down about the monitoring fx then you started talking bout it hahah great!!!
OMG this is so cool! THank you so much for sharing!!
Glad you liked it!!
This is awesome! That Rolling Sampler would be great for palette building!
Very cool! I've always automated the playrate through the master track using trim (same way you'd automate volume or panning), but the Rolling Sampler lets you mess with it in real-time!! Definitely giving it a try, thanks Akash! 👍🔥🎉
Usually I turn off the parameter called preserve pitch when changing the rate in the item property. Yes it's individual but always works cool.
Good call putting gs in the monitoring chain.
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I'm confused about Reaper themes - Smooth seems to be +3 years old at this point, so how does it keep up with all of the changes to Reaper over the years? Are themes programmed in a way that it doesn't matter if new features get implemented/changed around? I'm fresh to Reaper and i'm getting used to default theme, but I was looking around for some eye-candy theme that I'll be able to stick with for a few next years, and with Reaper 7 slowly getting closer with each month, it got me thinking. Thanks for clarification to anybody!
Excellent question. Themes are mostly pretty timeless in the sense that they're just skins, color adjustments, and overlays of features and visuals that already exist and will continue to exist. So long as Reaper doesn't do some sort of massive change that completely changes how it works at its core, then most themes will work for a good long time.
They also don't change core functionality. They might change some visuals enough to add a few small features here and there, and they might adjust things in such a way that forces certain resolutions/window sizes, but not a ton more than that. So feel free to use whatever theme you want and switch them up as you see fit.
@@AkashThakkarAudio thank You for an extensive answer! I'm glad you're back with a video, patiently waiting for more (and for that FMOD course, of course!) ❤️
Great intro. Go Seahawks!!
Cool, haven't tried this workflow. Don't know if you mentioned this in the previous video, but I heard Bird has released the Rolling Sampler as a standalone plugin compatible with any DAW and OS.
Anyone who's interested but isn't a Reaper user can pick it up for a trifling sum if this technique is for them.
Yes! The link for that new version they made is in the description!
I've been looking for a plugin to do this for.. I can't even tell you how long. So incredibly useful to capture those literal one-off sounds that you hear once while doing something absentmindedly and think "maaan, that was sick!" but have no idea how to recreate it. As long as the tape is forever rolling (thanks to the global nature of MonitorFX as well), I believe the word is boomshakalaka.
I'm very curious (and about to purchase and likely find out lol): how long does this roll for; are there prefs for resolution or does it take whatever the project is already defaulted to; are you able to set it to record to disc at a specific location; does the cache its creating auto-purge itself on quit? Basically trying to figure out how and where it's saving this perpetual roll to and for how long (both temporary while in use and if it remains on disc anywhere for any amount of time). Cannot tell you frustrating I find Adobe products (specifically Pr and Ae) and how they have a cache that just balloons in the background and needs maintenance attention to free up space.
Also wanted to say I really like the new video style you've been experimenting with the last few months. New camera? I'm a sucker for shallow DOF and I think yours is the lighting is looking great, the addition of b-roll in the local stomping grounds, AND the hand-drawn animation of the arrow at 0:58 is just such a great stylistic choice fitting your vibe extremely well. been noticing these things more and want to let you know it's looking great, man!
This is a great find. HOWEVER as a recent Reaper convert (slowly migrating away from Logic) my main reluctance from leaving Logic is the amazing and unique way it can slow down and speed up pitch of clips by assigning it to fades on a clip. You can then adjust these directly as a real time effect without the need for rendering on any clip without effecting anything on the master timeline. Its super useful for visually sync-ing and timing pitch modulating swishes/Whooses with precision etc. So my question is - is there a super quick way you can visually do the same thing in Reaper? The track pitch envelopes in Reaper are very cumbersome and similarly the pitch nodes aren't that intuitive.....This is literally the ONLY aspect of Logic which utterly flaws all the other DAWs IMO...any ideas please??
Yes! The speed up and slow down are SO good, I agree. I use a plugin called Tape Stop to replicate that effect. It sounds similar, but it's not as intuitive as Logic's speed up/slow down feature.
Hey thanks for your reply!
So I think I may have found a workaround using the action 'Take:Toggle take pitch envelope' when assigned to a hot key. Once you have the pitch lane appear you can hit ALT (or whatever your mouse modifier is) to adjust the curve of the pitch envelope. It certainly seems to do the same thing but the difference is that its on a lane rather than attached to an item. Also i've just stumbled across 'Transit' by Baby audio too which definitely adds a lot of possibilities here in regards to creating transistions and risers and things like that! I'll look at Tape Stop too :)@@AkashThakkarAudio
Of course that's just for pitch so doesn't do the same function for tempo..
Very cool! How to do dock rolling sampler to the top like you have in the video?
Akash, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Main concern about changing time/pitch: artifacts. On some over-the-top quality bar projects I only work pitchning and time resampling with 96khz + samples.
Amazing
Hello Akash is there a knob in reaper just like cubase pre knob or studio one input gain i have been looking for it i dont know where it is
am not talking about clip gain
Hello! How do I open the file browser on the bottom in my reaper? Thanks for the vid :)
View -> Media explorer (or something) then he has it docked.
@@jamescuttsmusicjcm5013 got it! Thank you!
great video - the global / rolling sampler seems really cool! Is there any advantage to getting the rolling sampler as opposed to the global sampler when using Reaper?
Rolling sampler is a *touch* nicer to use because it's a plugin instead of a script, and it has a few more customization options, but it's by no means a night and day difference.
Is there a channel that show how to make swoosh, stingers, braams, risers etc.?
Inspiring stuff! I've been using Global sampler for a year now and I love it. I've never used it the way you showed in the video, so many thanks for that!
Quick question: are you using the Sony WH-1000XM5 for audio monitoring? I have the WH-1000XM4s and I find them a bit too bassy, but I really need the noise cancelling sometimes. Would you recommend the 1000XM5s for sound design from home?
Thanks in advance!
You are so welcome!
Those are indeed the XM5s! They're still just as bassy as the XM4s, but sometimes you just need noise canceling like you said. I had the XM4s before this, but I wouldn't recommend upgrading. They're great headphones, but they're near identical in terms of sound and noise canceling to my ears.
Cool video 😊
Playback rate knob is also useful for recording live automation with more precision 😉
As an alternative to Global Sampler you can use Reaper's native feature called Save live output to disk. Here is a tutorial by Kenny Goia:
ruclips.net/video/YoxCXc8BP94/видео.html
Good tip. I should get rolling sampler, however I make use of Reaper's 'loopback' feature, to record in another project tab. There is a little tweak to the reaper.ini file to use the feature but heck its free
ruclips.net/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/видео.html
Very neat! Didn't know you could do this! Remember, Global Sampler is the free version of Rolling Sampler, so give that a shot!
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