I liked the video because you said, "if you didn't like the video, leave a dislike... I guess". That's awesome! Thanks for the tips too! (100 subscribers!)
For large projects and countless plugins, it makes sense to use sub-projects with tracks of smaller instrument sections. Subprojects, can be simply loaded in your main project as a track. This has saved my poor old computer tons of workload. All thanks to Kenny Geoia for this feature demo. I don't see something similar on the other daws I have used in the past. Reaper is now my main DAW.
Thank you for this video. There's only a last one simple trick, that is using sends. Say you use the same reverb for different guitars. You can use an effect channel as a send effect.
Thank you. Other things to think about: Some plug-ins don’t affect the audio like meters and analysers. Use ctl+alt+b (win) to offline them when not in use. Get to know the cpu profile of every plug-in you use. Multi-function plug-ins are often more efficient than discrete ones. Doing A-B tests and balance the input and output levels for each plug-in can sometimes reduce plug-in count. Learn how to control compressors with a side-chain. Learn how to shutdown background apps and disable unnecessary os services. Look into reWire and a separate computer to remotely host plug-ins.
Thanks! Yeah good tips. If your on Windows make sure to disable fast startup as well as it only hibernates your PC when you shut down and can clog up your memory. Obviously a faster PC will always help.
Useful resource - I stumbled across your video while troubleshooting some bias FX popping issues which I presumed were lined to CPU overload (even though my CPU never went above 50 percent). Lowering CPU demand didn't help, naturally, as my CPU had power to spare, but it was still helpful to eliminate it as the culprit. :)
@@brothersinmetal1922 Moved the tracks to a new project and that fixed the problem. I assume the issue was a poor BIAS FX programming when running multiple instances of it. I also have a suspicion that deleting half a dozen tracks with Bias FX on them in the old project didn't fully make those plug-in instances disappear so that may have contributed as well. *Shrug*
Such great tips 😁 I definitely wouldn't have thought to route the guitars like that 👌👌👌 almost finished a mix and it started stuttering 🤦♂️haha you've saved my mix
Firs off, I meet the band HammerFall by Dec 17th1998 in their Templar World Crusade U.S.A. Tour. After the show, we sat down to talk and got the single Glory to the Brave signed. Joacim said: "I don't remember that this album came out"....lol (Back to the topic) I have a trouble shooting with no luck to find the answer. I use Reaper to practice playing drums adding a click track that I create from scratch (due to different time signatures) along with the song to practice with. Two tracks in total...nothing fancy, no plugins, fx's... nothing. Now...everytime I playback, randomly stops for a second and then continue. I delete it and re-intall it all back, even try to communicate with the website..but there's no use. The computer I have is a 2020 HP - ENVY x360 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 - 32GB Memory - 256GB SSD. What you think I should do brother?
Can a CPU problem, when using a VST plugin (such as an Autotune one) make the rendering of the plugin only work for one track only even if it is used on many tracks ?
Hi. I have a problem. My computer crashed so I had to buy a new SSD Hard drive. I installed new windows 10 and installed reaper again from a new download. I have not changed or bought any other new hardware. My problem is that when I use the plugin Cakewalk TTS-1 and MT-PowerDrumKit Reaper Dumps. Can you tell what that can be? And every now and then when I start up Reaper, without having any other program open, and try to play something, the sound is distorted and horrible, How to solve that? Thank you .
I know cakewalk sometime freaks out with older 32bit plugins....I would try to delete the plugin and re-install it. The stuttering might be a driver issue, but also look into disabling hybrid sleep in windows if you haven't already. It can cause some issues since it basically never fully powers your PC off. If you are still having issues with MTpowerdrum kit I would give Steven Slate 5.5 a try. Its free to use and honestly I think it sounds nicer and is more customizable. Thanks for watching man. ;)
Not sure why but im almost done with mixing an album but a plugin I have been using has justdecided to use all the cpu all of a sudden and it runs very slowly to the point of being completely unusable. Any ideas why or how ican solve this problem? I've tried reinstalling the plug but it doesn't seem to work and im to scaredof reinstlling reaper incase i lose anything
Hey dude liking your content.. got a stupid question but probably a easy one to answer for you.. how do you delete a recorded guitar track so i can start over.. Yes i'm new to this..
Well it runs pretty well even on old OSs and single core CPU machines with less than 512MBs of RAM. It’s pretty lean but I haven’t used many other DAWs lately so I can really make a definitive statement.
Question! I'm new to Reaper... I downloaded a bunch of orchestra VSTs from East West for a few specific projects, but now I find every time I launch reaper, it takes about 15-20 minutes to scanning these orchestra plugins... If I want to load a project and use piano only, is there a way to stop it from scanning these orchestra libraries? I thought about moving them, but then wondered if it would throw the orchestra VSTs offline for my orchestra projects? If anyone can help, it'd be greatly appreciated!
Not sure exactly what you mean by making them offline but you can right click on plugins in your chain and select "toggle selected FX offline". That will preserve your settings but completely shut the plugin off and keep it from using PC resources or loading next time if the project is saved. You can ALSO edit the folder locations that Reaper checks for VSTs in the preferences panel under "VST". Keep in mind it also checks folders under the specified folder. So if you have plugins under C:\VST\ and you have another folder in there like C:\VST\Guitar\ it will also check that as well. So if you want to exclude some plugins from being scanned, you can omit folders from being scanned or sort your plugins into different folders. There is also a checkbox in preferences to whether or not to scan for new plugins on startup.
My problem is I am having the sound cut out for specific tracks at random times(vocals, guitars etc) Only happens with tracks with plug ins on them. One of the plug ins(drums does not do this). The thing is none of my CPU, RAM, Disk etc even gets close to maxing out. At the highest Memory/ram will go to 60 percent. CPU usually idles at 2-25 percent. Bleh wish me luck lol May be an issue with the plugins but not happening for anyone else
I would try to adjust your ASIO buffer to a higher number. Even if your CPU isn’t being completely pegged out it still might be struggling to keep up. Also if you are using a laptop, make sure all your power settings are set to performance and that you are plugged into AC power. While running off the battery most laptops with throttle CPU speeds to save battery. Hope this helps!
@@brothersinmetal1922 thanks! Never thought about the whole power settings part. I am on a laptop. I just set it all to performance. I think I did fix my issue though. One plugin I noticed every time the audio would "skip" it was due to a pop up advertisement. I fixed that. Then the other track stopped skipping once I turned off a plugin that is a double effect. Did not really need it so I kept it off.
Hi! I have seen that when i reopen a session, Reaper loads all the vsts that i have used , including all vsts that i tried and discarded. Do you know how to delete them? So the program does not load those vst i am not using anymore in the session.
HammerFall LMAO... I saw them with ShadowsFall and Death back in the day at Coney Island High in New York City; before the venue was converted to a Condo complex. Got to love the city for destroying our Rock Metal Culture.
Loved that stone age computer scene in the outro. hahaha
Thanks its an Apple IIe if your interested. I like to collect old/vintage computers.
@@brothersinmetal1922 I had one of those in my high school programming class, and a II+ at home. Memries...
I liked the video because you said, "if you didn't like the video, leave a dislike... I guess". That's awesome! Thanks for the tips too! (100 subscribers!)
Reverse psychology works I guess?! 😂 Thanks for watching man.
For large projects and countless plugins, it makes sense to use sub-projects with tracks of smaller instrument sections. Subprojects, can be simply loaded in your main project as a track. This has saved my poor old computer tons of workload. All thanks to Kenny Geoia for this feature demo. I don't see something similar on the other daws I have used in the past. Reaper is now my main DAW.
Instead of routing, just make a track folder that contains both tracks and apply the plugin to the folder.
I always forget about folders. Good idea
Pb with that is I want two different sets of settings for my Right guitar and for my L guitar.
@@yoe91 Common stuff like compression, etc. goes on the folder and the individual stuff is separate on their own tracks. You can still make it work.
tysm this helped sm now my reaper experience isnt shit
Thanks. Helped immensely. Freezing tracks worked great for me, as I do everything via midi and use a TON of plugins.
Thank you for this video. There's only a last one simple trick, that is using sends. Say you use the same reverb for different guitars. You can use an effect channel as a send effect.
OMG can't believe you have that old computer. That belong in a museum. But great tips though. Freeze saved me!
I love retro computing haha. I saved this one from the dumpster at work.
Solved my problem, Thanks
Dude thank you so much for this video.
I didn't run into resource problems but I find the topic interesting and I learned abou the input effetcs. Thanks for the video!
Thanks brother! I had no idea about freezing tracks. Nice shirt!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video!! I ran into my first issue with memory usage and your tips were a life saver. THANK YOU!!!!
So glad I could help!
This is priceless, so many cool techniques which are going to make my recording so much easier!
Thanks! I’m glad you found it helpful!
Thank you. Other things to think about:
Some plug-ins don’t affect the audio like meters and analysers. Use ctl+alt+b (win) to offline them when not in use.
Get to know the cpu profile of every plug-in you use. Multi-function plug-ins are often more efficient than discrete ones.
Doing A-B tests and balance the input and output levels for each plug-in can sometimes reduce plug-in count.
Learn how to control compressors with a side-chain.
Learn how to shutdown background apps and disable unnecessary os services.
Look into reWire and a separate computer to remotely host plug-ins.
Thanks! Yeah good tips. If your on Windows make sure to disable fast startup as well as it only hibernates your PC when you shut down and can clog up your memory. Obviously a faster PC will always help.
Useful resource - I stumbled across your video while troubleshooting some bias FX popping issues which I presumed were lined to CPU overload (even though my CPU never went above 50 percent). Lowering CPU demand didn't help, naturally, as my CPU had power to spare, but it was still helpful to eliminate it as the culprit. :)
What was the issue in the end?
@@brothersinmetal1922 Moved the tracks to a new project and that fixed the problem. I assume the issue was a poor BIAS FX programming when running multiple instances of it. I also have a suspicion that deleting half a dozen tracks with Bias FX on them in the old project didn't fully make those plug-in instances disappear so that may have contributed as well. *Shrug*
Awesome video. This helps me out alot as I'm just learning how to use reaper and recording tracks
Glad I could help!
holy truth brethren, perfect useful channel, cheers and thumbs up
Thank ye kindly good sir!
Intelligent video. Well done..
Such great tips 😁 I definitely wouldn't have thought to route the guitars like that 👌👌👌 almost finished a mix and it started stuttering 🤦♂️haha you've saved my mix
Thanks!
Thanks, Ian Hecox the Sound Engineer
Hah, from Smosh? Never got that one before. People say I look like Rick Moranis sometimes though.
Routing my FX fixed my issue. Thanks man!
"Really confident with tone"
Shows John Petrucci
Firs off, I meet the band HammerFall by Dec 17th1998 in their Templar World Crusade U.S.A. Tour. After the show, we sat down to talk and got the single Glory to the Brave signed. Joacim said: "I don't remember that this album came out"....lol
(Back to the topic)
I have a trouble shooting with no luck to find the answer.
I use Reaper to practice playing drums adding a click track that I create from scratch (due to different time signatures) along with the song to practice with. Two tracks in total...nothing fancy, no plugins, fx's... nothing. Now...everytime I playback, randomly stops for a second and then continue.
I delete it and re-intall it all back, even try to communicate with the website..but there's no use. The computer I have is a 2020 HP - ENVY x360 15.6" Touch-Screen Laptop - AMD Ryzen 5 - 32GB Memory - 256GB SSD.
What you think I should do brother?
if you want to leave all your clips in place, use Freeze. If you want to be able to move or further process them, use Glue.
Awesome video bro
Thanks for this video, helped me a lot!
This helped me. Thank you!
Always happy to help! Thanks for watching!
I’m leaving you a like just for wearing a HammerFall shirt 🤘
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Great info, thanks!!!!
Can a CPU problem, when using a VST plugin (such as an Autotune one) make the rendering of the plugin only work for one track only even if it is used on many tracks ?
Great video, thanks! I always forget to play around with ASIO buffer size, should try to incorporate it more.
Sure thing! Thanks for watching man!
Hi, I have a problem. On Reaper even after scanning Softube tape, and Softube harmonics don’t work. Can you help me? Or recommend another Daw...
Hi. I have a problem. My computer crashed so I had to buy a new SSD Hard drive. I installed new windows 10 and installed reaper again from a new download. I have not changed or bought any other new hardware. My problem is that when I use the plugin Cakewalk TTS-1 and MT-PowerDrumKit Reaper Dumps. Can you tell what that can be?
And every now and then when I start up Reaper, without having any other program open, and try to play something, the sound is distorted and horrible, How to solve that? Thank you
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I know cakewalk sometime freaks out with older 32bit plugins....I would try to delete the plugin and re-install it. The stuttering might be a driver issue, but also look into disabling hybrid sleep in windows if you haven't already. It can cause some issues since it basically never fully powers your PC off. If you are still having issues with MTpowerdrum kit I would give Steven Slate 5.5 a try. Its free to use and honestly I think it sounds nicer and is more customizable. Thanks for watching man. ;)
@2:18 this is how you start a bus in case folks were confused on the terms
I use 'track fx offline' to save RAM as freezing is slower
Not sure why but im almost done with mixing an album but a plugin I have been using has justdecided to use all the cpu all of a sudden and it runs very slowly to the point of being completely unusable. Any ideas why or how ican solve this problem? I've tried reinstalling the plug but it doesn't seem to work and im to scaredof reinstlling reaper incase i lose anything
Hey dude liking your content.. got a stupid question but probably a easy one to answer for you.. how do you delete a recorded guitar track so i can start over.. Yes i'm new to this..
Haha no biggie! Just click on a track to select it and hit the delete button.
@@brothersinmetal1922 You got to be kidding me.. lmao thank you
@@fretbuzz4983 No problem my dude! Thanks for watching my videos.
Reaper runs well on old machines, but in wonder is reaper the most cou efficiney daw?
Well it runs pretty well even on old OSs and single core CPU machines with less than 512MBs of RAM. It’s pretty lean but I haven’t used many other DAWs lately so I can really make a definitive statement.
Question! I'm new to Reaper... I downloaded a bunch of orchestra VSTs from East West for a few specific projects, but now I find every time I launch reaper, it takes about 15-20 minutes to scanning these orchestra plugins... If I want to load a project and use piano only, is there a way to stop it from scanning these orchestra libraries? I thought about moving them, but then wondered if it would throw the orchestra VSTs offline for my orchestra projects? If anyone can help, it'd be greatly appreciated!
Not sure exactly what you mean by making them offline but you can right click on plugins in your chain and select "toggle selected FX offline". That will preserve your settings but completely shut the plugin off and keep it from using PC resources or loading next time if the project is saved.
You can ALSO edit the folder locations that Reaper checks for VSTs in the preferences panel under "VST". Keep in mind it also checks folders under the specified folder. So if you have plugins under C:\VST\ and you have another folder in there like C:\VST\Guitar\ it will also check that as well. So if you want to exclude some plugins from being scanned, you can omit folders from being scanned or sort your plugins into different folders. There is also a checkbox in preferences to whether or not to scan for new plugins on startup.
My problem is I am having the sound cut out for specific tracks at random times(vocals, guitars etc) Only happens with tracks with plug ins on them. One of the plug ins(drums does not do this). The thing is none of my CPU, RAM, Disk etc even gets close to maxing out. At the highest Memory/ram will go to 60 percent. CPU usually idles at 2-25 percent. Bleh wish me luck lol May be an issue with the plugins but not happening for anyone else
I would try to adjust your ASIO buffer to a higher number. Even if your CPU isn’t being completely pegged out it still might be struggling to keep up. Also if you are using a laptop, make sure all your power settings are set to performance and that you are plugged into AC power. While running off the battery most laptops with throttle CPU speeds to save battery. Hope this helps!
@@brothersinmetal1922 thanks! Never thought about the whole power settings part. I am on a laptop. I just set it all to performance. I think I did fix my issue though. One plugin I noticed every time the audio would "skip" it was due to a pop up advertisement. I fixed that. Then the other track stopped skipping once I turned off a plugin that is a double effect. Did not really need it so I kept it off.
Hi! I have seen that when i reopen a session, Reaper loads all the vsts that i have used , including all vsts that i tried and discarded. Do you know how to delete them? So the program does not load those vst i am not using anymore in the session.
Do you want to delete the VSTs from a loaded project or just remove the VST from your computer entirely?
@@brothersinmetal1922 from a specific loaded project.
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HammerFall LMAO... I saw them with ShadowsFall and Death back in the day at Coney Island High in New York City; before the venue was converted to a Condo complex. Got to love the city for destroying our Rock Metal Culture.
I’ve always wanted to see them live, they never tour very close to me though.
i want it to use more, not using enough so im just gonna do the opposite lol.
way too long, but old apple its a nuts)