A good reminder indeed. I've purchased mine a few years ago (after using the ''demo'' mode for a ''while''), and even tho there are updates so often, the increments are small, making a paid license last so long before having to pay again. I actually can't wait to pay my renewal for another hundred of new updates. M. Frankel must be eating cardboard for dinner. A big thank you from the bottom of my heart to you M. Justin Frankel for bringing this amazing DAW into our lives. Reaper is gaining popularity more and more. Let's make world domination our goal :) Also, lets not forget the sws-extension (.org).
Thanks Kenny. Also... 1. Double-click the horizontal scroll bar to zoom to the whole project. 2. Double-click the vertical scroll bar to toggle height of all tracks between minimised, normal and maximised. 3. Double-click the scroll bars in the MIDI editor window to zoom right out.
Nice, but I feel there should be some indication that we have done this, so we don't forget (or do it inadvertently) and think our audio is louder than it really is, especially as that zoom level is saved in the project. I can imagine this has confused some people over the years.
This was one of the most useful of Kenny's videos for me so far. Navigating and zooming around effortlessly in a DAW is priceless, and this helps a ton. Setting a keystroke for reverting to previous zoom level was life changing!!
Yes! Thank you! I've watched tons of your videos over the last couple of weeks, but going back to the basics to watch this was so useful! The more I use reaper the more I realise that its ability to be customised is one of its greatest strengths. If something doesn't quite behave the way you'd like, it always seems to be possible to change it. Those zoom to cursor option tips are priceless time savers. Thanks again for all your videos, they are an amazing resource.
Such an awesome eye for detail. I had not thought that zooming itself would have so much functionality. Thanks for showing this and making life so much more better! :)
Thanks for this. I was in the middle of a Uni project and the Zoom behaviour was driving me up the wall. You explained it really clearly and succinctly. Much appreciated!
Thanks so much, Kenny. I demoed reaper almost a decade ago and didn't stick with it because the zoom feature was not what I was used to. I finally purchased Reaper last night and your tutorials are a life saver.
I was mainly a Cubase user, I've used Reaper for editing and recording sometimes, but nothing really serious. The more I know Reaper, the more I realize how good it is. Thanks Kenny!
If anybody wants to set zoom or scroll to Alt + Mousewheel, you will find that after zooming this way, mouse wheel does not work until you click somewhere. That's uncle Microsoft saying you "Hello, MOFO!". To solve this, go to Reaper settings -> General -> Keyboard, and check "Prevent Alt from focusing main menu". Now you can use Alt + Mousewheel as you please.
Wow! Been using Autohotkey to fix this. Probably gonna stick with it because other programs don't have this checkbox in the settings and AHK covers them all.
Me, 14 minutes and 33 seconds ago: "How can this be possibly fourteen minutes long? It's just about zoom..." Me, 14 minutes and 33 seconds later: "I am so unworthy!"
Excellent video Kenny, thank you for providing all this great info. I have the same issue as Quail Studios Guitar. I have been using Reaper for sometime on a MacAir and just now transferred over to my new iMac. When I revert back to the MacAir zooming works perfectly. It is only happening on the iMac. Suggestions/Videos etc greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
When I use the mouse wheel, Reaper zooms in steps rather than smoothly. It looks nothing like this and is quite jarring - not good for fine tuning of zoom at all. It's not that I have a crappy computer either, it's quite powerful and zooming is smooth as butter in other DAW's. Where am I going wrong?
fyi command and page down (zoom out entire project) will not work if you have shortcuts for different "workspaces" on mac. I just changed the shortcut in actions though.
It should be noted that oddly enough, the " ! " shortcut you speak about at 6:39 is by default assigned to 2 different actions!? (I didn't even think that was possible?): the zoom function you speak about AND the 'Go to Marker #8" action! I realised it because i couldn't get it to work in v5.28 and checked the action list. Were you maybe using an earlier version of Reaper when you made this video? Anybody else can confirm this problem?
I have been using Reaper for sometime on a MacAir and just now transferred over to my new iMac and now have this very issue. When I revert back to the MacAir, the zooming works perfectly. The issue is only happening on the iMac. Suggestions/Video tutorials etc greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Great video Kenny. Wouldn't it be nice if Justin and team would enable the Marquee as an edit tool as well? It's showing for zooming but it would be nice if reaper users could switch to the Marquee as an edit tool like known from other DAWs for editing.
Thanks Kenny. I have always used the marqee zoom but cannot find that option in the midi editor, it drives me nuts. Am I missing something or does that option just not exist?
Ok but how are you getting the wave form to show. I can't get it to show at all,gone to appearance, preference, etc, etc but no wave form. Useing reaper 6 on a windows 10 laptop
Hi do you know why i can't play audio in winamp or youtube at the same time in reaper or even just if i click somewhere in reaper while something plays in youtube the youtube player crashes and i didnt even hit play in reaper. It was all fine doing this even playback in both youtube and bitwig at the same time... Thanks a lot!!
When you got big project and lot of automation when you go zoom out automation will disapire? Or be in automation track just small? I See in logic when you zoom out automation are disapire.
Thank you so much for this! Sometimes it drives me nuts that I don't have this down yet. Comes from too much switching back and forth between DAWs, but I think Logic is now gone for good. One thing I can't find is where to change the trackpad scrolling zooming modifiers. For instance, I want to change vertical zooming from shift+cmd+scroll up or down to just command or option, depending on what's already using the modifier. I've searched all through the Mouse Modifiers prefs (all prefs, actually) and can't find that anywhere. Is it maybe a SWS action? Just don't see scrolling as an option in many or maybe even any of the mouse modifiers. Have right click, left click, drag, right drag and middle mouse click, depending on which area of the prefs you're in. Seems like they should all be available everywhere.
Thank you Kenny for another very usefull tutorial.I have question is it any way to control vertical and horizontal zooming by knobs in midi controller ? If yes any idea how to make that? I think its a worth to try set up this way,thanks
Warm Needles Two bouncing bars should mean for the stereo left/right channels, one bar for each side. Multiple thinner ones could mean if you have even more channels, like if you used the pin connector feature of the sends.
Amazing tips! what is the action or command to get peak display increase / decrease (waveform size or whatever is named) for all tracks as well individually? Shift+up/down arrow is NOT working here (Reaper 6.05)
Carlos Eduardo Arellano That should be the action. It works for me. Sorry you're having trouble. Did you try pulling up the action list, clicking the "find shortcut" button, and then hitting "shift + up arrow key" to see what it says that key command does for you?
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A good reminder indeed.
I've purchased mine a few years ago (after using the ''demo'' mode for a ''while''), and even tho there are updates so often, the increments are small, making a paid license last so long before having to pay again. I actually can't wait to pay my renewal for another hundred of new updates. M. Frankel must be eating cardboard for dinner. A big thank you from the bottom of my heart to you M. Justin Frankel for bringing this amazing DAW into our lives. Reaper is gaining popularity more and more. Let's make world domination our goal :)
Also, lets not forget the sws-extension (.org).
Thanks Kenny. Also... 1. Double-click the horizontal scroll bar to zoom to the whole project. 2. Double-click the vertical scroll bar to toggle height of all tracks between minimised,
normal and maximised. 3. Double-click the scroll bars in the MIDI editor window to zoom right out.
Another essential "zoom" tip: Shift + up/down arrow keys to globally change the size of all item wave forms, without affecting their volume.
Nice, but I feel there should be some indication that we have done this, so we don't forget (or do it inadvertently) and think our audio is louder than it really is, especially as that zoom level is saved in the project. I can imagine this has confused some people over the years.
Yes, is there a shortcut to get the wave forms back to the original after we enlarge them?
Thanks, that was what I looked for! :)
Man, Reaper is one of the few best things to have happened in my life time.
One of the most important Reaper videos ever !
This was one of the most useful of Kenny's videos for me so far. Navigating and zooming around effortlessly in a DAW is priceless, and this helps a ton.
Setting a keystroke for reverting to previous zoom level was life changing!!
Yes! Thank you! I've watched tons of your videos over the last couple of weeks, but going back to the basics to watch this was so useful! The more I use reaper the more I realise that its ability to be customised is one of its greatest strengths. If something doesn't quite behave the way you'd like, it always seems to be possible to change it. Those zoom to cursor option tips are priceless time savers. Thanks again for all your videos, they are an amazing resource.
Such an awesome eye for detail. I had not thought that zooming itself would have so much functionality. Thanks for showing this and making life so much more better! :)
Thanks
Thanks for this. I was in the middle of a Uni project and the Zoom behaviour was driving me up the wall. You explained it really clearly and succinctly. Much appreciated!
Your Reaper tutorials are by far the most useful ones! Thank you!
Thanks so much, Kenny. I demoed reaper almost a decade ago and didn't stick with it because the zoom feature was not what I was used to. I finally purchased Reaper last night and your tutorials are a life saver.
I was mainly a Cubase user, I've used Reaper for editing and recording sometimes, but nothing really serious. The more I know Reaper, the more I realize how good it is.
Thanks Kenny!
If anybody wants to set zoom or scroll to Alt + Mousewheel, you will find that after zooming this way, mouse wheel does not work until you click somewhere. That's uncle Microsoft saying you "Hello, MOFO!". To solve this, go to Reaper settings -> General -> Keyboard, and check "Prevent Alt from focusing main menu". Now you can use Alt + Mousewheel as you please.
Wow! Been using Autohotkey to fix this. Probably gonna stick with it because other programs don't have this checkbox in the settings and AHK covers them all.
Me, 14 minutes and 33 seconds ago: "How can this be possibly fourteen minutes long? It's just about zoom..."
Me, 14 minutes and 33 seconds later: "I am so unworthy!"
I had lost my 'Edit Cursor or Play Cursor (default)' setting for a while, and I couldn't find it until now. Thanks, Kenny!
I love you Kenny
You just made my life simpler. Thank you.
The default zoom behavior is so unintuitive! Thanks for showing how to configure it.
I honestly got use to it lol
Thanks thanks thanks Kenny! I love the zooming focusing On the mouse position. Thank You :)
Awesome for people like me who can not stand reading the manual.Thx for the info.
Excelente!!!!! Best!!!!! atalhos incríveis!!!!
Excellent video Kenny, thank you for providing all this great info. I have the same issue as Quail Studios Guitar. I have been using Reaper for sometime on a MacAir and just now transferred over to my new iMac. When I revert back to the MacAir zooming works perfectly. It is only happening on the iMac. Suggestions/Videos etc greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
When I use the mouse wheel, Reaper zooms in steps rather than smoothly. It looks nothing like this and is quite jarring - not good for fine tuning of zoom at all. It's not that I have a crappy computer either, it's quite powerful and zooming is smooth as butter in other DAW's. Where am I going wrong?
fyi command and page down (zoom out entire project) will not work if you have shortcuts for different "workspaces" on mac. I just changed the shortcut in actions though.
Thank you so much. Very helpful.
Thank you very much!
Please what keystroke does he always use to go back to the default layout after every zoom he does ?
Love u man
In Reaper 7 Vertical/Horizontal zoom center settings are now under Appearance > Zoom/Scroll/Offset
It should be noted that oddly enough, the " ! " shortcut you speak about at 6:39 is by default assigned to 2 different actions!? (I didn't even think that was possible?): the zoom function you speak about AND the 'Go to Marker #8" action!
I realised it because i couldn't get it to work in v5.28 and checked the action list. Were you maybe using an earlier version of Reaper when you made this video? Anybody else can confirm this problem?
So useful!! Thanks a lot!
When I zoom out I loose my wav forms. they disappear when I get more than 5 seconds on the display. How can I see them when zoomed out like you Kenny?
I have been using Reaper for sometime on a MacAir and just now transferred over to my new iMac and now have this very issue. When I revert back to the MacAir, the zooming works perfectly. The issue is only happening on the iMac. Suggestions/Video tutorials etc greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Great video Kenny. Wouldn't it be nice if Justin and team would enable the Marquee as an edit tool as well? It's showing for zooming but it would be nice if reaper users could switch to the Marquee as an edit tool like known from other DAWs for editing.
What do you want to use it for? Selecting Items?
Muse curser zoom is the best
Thanks Kenny. I have always used the marqee zoom but cannot find that option in the midi editor, it drives me nuts. Am I missing something or does that option just not exist?
I don't think it exists. :(
... be nice though wouldn't it.
excellent tutorial! thank you!
Ok but how are you getting the wave form to show. I can't get it to show at all,gone to appearance, preference, etc, etc but no wave form. Useing reaper 6 on a windows 10 laptop
You got the best to Torio bro thanks a lot
Hi do you know why i can't play audio in winamp or youtube at the same time in reaper or even just if i click somewhere in reaper while something plays in youtube the youtube player crashes and i didnt even hit play in reaper. It was all fine doing this even playback in both youtube and bitwig at the same time... Thanks a lot!!
If zoom out all my peaks disappear... I Don't know how to fix it... Help?
When you got big project and lot of automation when you go zoom out automation will disapire? Or be in automation track just small? I See in logic when you zoom out automation are disapire.
uh thank you
How the hell is your zooming so damn smooth? Mine is super choppy with a maxed out 2019 MacBook Pro
Thank you so much for this! Sometimes it drives me nuts that I don't have this down yet. Comes from too much switching back and forth between DAWs, but I think Logic is now gone for good. One thing I can't find is where to change the trackpad scrolling zooming modifiers. For instance, I want to change vertical zooming from shift+cmd+scroll up or down to just command or option, depending on what's already using the modifier. I've searched all through the Mouse Modifiers prefs (all prefs, actually) and can't find that anywhere. Is it maybe a SWS action? Just don't see scrolling as an option in many or maybe even any of the mouse modifiers. Have right click, left click, drag, right drag and middle mouse click, depending on which area of the prefs you're in. Seems like they should all be available everywhere.
It's right in the Actions menu that I show in this video. Find the Action and change the Shortcut to anything you want. Thanks
is there no Zoom IN? I found Zoom out project
I can't find the tilde on my mac external keyboard.
Thank you Kenny for another very usefull tutorial.I have question is it any way to control vertical and horizontal zooming by knobs in midi controller ? If yes any idea how to make that? I think its a worth to try set up this way,thanks
YES!!!! When you open the Action - Add shortcut, you can move a MIDI controller instead of the Mousewheel etc
Kenny I’m stumped. Some of my volume faders have two think bouncing bars (visually) and some have thinner bars (visually). What do I have going on?
Warm Needles
Two bouncing bars should mean for the stereo left/right channels, one bar for each side. Multiple thinner ones could mean if you have even more channels, like if you used the pin connector feature of the sends.
Amazing tips! what is the action or command to get peak display increase / decrease (waveform size or whatever is named) for all tracks as well individually? Shift+up/down arrow is NOT working here (Reaper 6.05)
Carlos Eduardo Arellano
That should be the action. It works for me. Sorry you're having trouble. Did you try pulling up the action list, clicking the "find shortcut" button, and then hitting "shift + up arrow key" to see what it says that key command does for you?
@@Melvin7727 Thanks, I already checked and another action had replaced the shortcut, maybe some script or accidentally. Working fine now.
Thanks
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