The Reaper Q&A Thread

[Over7hink]

figured it out

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Speaking of plugins...

If any of you who are relatively new to Reaper still (like me, been using it for almost a year and have literally only scratched the surface about 7 or 8%) -

Be sure you play around with the stock Cockos & 3rd party JS plugs.

Been using all these other plugs and only barely checked out a couple of the Reaper stock plugs until recently, and now I'm wishing I'd checked 'em out sooner! I'm not going to tell you what I think the hidden treasures in the lot are but there's quite a few. It's worth it to discover for yourself.

They also tend to be 'cleaner' both in terms of interface simplicity and sound as well as being much less hoggy for the CPU, if that's an issue for you. If there are fundamentals you kinda understand but not fully (like compression, limiting, MIDI routing, etc.) then these plugs are double bonus for you because their stripped-down GUI lets you see the bare bones parameters as they really are and not through some fancy animated visualization that's also fucking your processor...

For example, you can basically build your own CUSTOM modular synth this way. I built a badass bass synth with an FX chain like this: ReaSynth > Thunderkick > Tonifier > Distortion > Tremolo. Thing is big, bad, clear as day and totally beefy where it needs to be, and a minimum of tweaking produces a lot of different sounds. And best of all, it's so fuckin' easy to just rearrange the signal chain to experiment with different things - like putting the Distortion before the Tonifier, or using more than one Tonifier in the path, or... the possibilities are endless.

- "O Mighty Reaper, We Humbly Worship Thee..."

[futures_untold]

- "O Mighty Reaper, We Humbly Worship Thee..."

[Subside]

New update!

[futures_untold]

New update!

Bah, that's old....

oh I forgot, people who use other programs have to wait months if not years for updates.... Reaper Dawminates

Download Reaper from http://www.reaper.fm/download.php right now and revel in its beauty!

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Blue Silk theme... sexy.



http://stash.reaper.fm/theme/545/Blue%20Silk.rar

[crytek]

Is there a way I can assign the left mouse button to select data instead of using the right mouse button.

The default way of selecting items is making me do this:

[frank grimes jr.]

Do you mean a bounding box selection with the left button?

[futures_untold]

I don't think it is possible to swap the selection marquee to the left button.

[crytek]

Do you mean a bounding box selection with the left button?

Yeah

I don't think it is possible to swap the selection marquee to the left button.

Damn.

[futures_untold]

I was looking through the Options > Preferences > Mouse options but didn't see it anywhere.

Kick up a fuss on the Reaper forums innit!

[crytek]

Right, basic noob question, but...

When loading up a VST, I get two different windows that pop up. One is the VST gui, the other, is a guess Reapers preference windows (the one that has "show UI" on it. Sorry, I'm at work and don't have Reaper at hand). Is there a way to get rid of that other window so that I can have the VST gui displayed, or can I combine them somehow?

[SunkLo]

Is there a way I can assign the left mouse button to select data instead of using the right mouse button.

The default way of selecting items is making me do this:

Once you get used to it it's muuuuuch better this way. Keeps you from accidentally drawing in/deleting things when trying to select, etc. I went back to another daw to look at an old project and kept thinking "what the hell, why wouldn't they isolate selection from the other mouse functions?!"

Reaper pwnz

[alphacat]

Right, basic noob question, but...

When loading up a VST, I get two different windows that pop up. One is the VST gui, the other, is a guess Reapers preference windows (the one that has "show UI" on it. Sorry, I'm at work and don't have Reaper at hand). Is there a way to get rid of that other window so that I can have the VST gui displayed, or can I combine them somehow?

Weird. Can you screenshot that to confirm it's how it sounds [to me]? I take it you're on a PC too - which OS?

Basically, you usually have the option to toggle between the plug's own GUI or a barebones set of fader controls for the exact same parameters. It shouldn't show both at the same time though, that's funky.

Incidentally, lots of VST's have GUI's that are butt ugly and a challenge to use and when you start automating stuff w/ envelopes, having it switched to the barebones fader view helps a lot.

[pirate exposer]

Hey

I only use the Cockos and Stillwell plug ins and have been wondering whether I should purchase some of them, like Bad Bus Mojo for example. I like that it's the plain GUI. But I kind of feel cheap because on that stillwell sight they actually have a price for it (not expensive at all tbh). should I purchase it on principal even though I'm just paying for the graphic visualization?

other ones like Verbiage I should cop obviously.

[crytek]

Weird. Can you screenshot that to confirm it's how it sounds [to me]? I take it you're on a PC too - which OS?

Basically, you usually have the option to toggle between the plug's own GUI or a barebones set of fader controls for the exact same parameters. It shouldn't show both at the same time though, that's funky.

Incidentally, lots of VST's have GUI's that are butt ugly and a challenge to use and when you start automating stuff w/ envelopes, having it switched to the barebones fader view helps a lot.

Was talking about this:


A plug in comes up in two separate boxes. This is annoying when I click on the plugin, the smaller box comes up. Any way to merge the two or just get rid of the smaller one?

[futures_untold]

Go into Options> Preferences> Plugins and untick the option that says 'Auto-float newly created FX windows'.

You may also need to right click in the FX gui windows top bar (where it says "BT Analogue Trackbox in the pic"), and click unfloat GUI. Reaper remembers the previous setting when floating and unfloating plugin windows. In any old projects, you may need to refloat the windows once more just so Reaper remembers the setting for that instance.

[crytek]

Go into Options> Preferences> Plugins and untick the option that says 'Auto-float newly created FX windows'.

You may also need to right click in the FX gui windows top bar (where it says "BT Analogue Trackbox in the pic"), and click unfloat GUI. Reaper remembers the previous setting when floating and unfloating plugin windows. In any old projects, you may need to refloat the windows once more just so Reaper remembers the setting for that instance.

That was the ticket. One of my goals in the next few days it to read the manual throughly (Until then, ya stuck with my questions j.k. )

Thanks bro helped a ton

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How do I split the frequencies of my bass lines in reaper, sorry if this was asked in here already.

[futures_untold]

I'm not sure Reaper has native frequency splitting.

The standard technique for any DAW is to create three (or how ever many bands you want) auxillary channels, then to use an EQ to define the frequencies of each band.

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So set up the following.

Create a new track to hold the audio you want to have split.

Create X amount of new tracks, and route the audio from the first track to all three tracks.

Create another track and send the output of the aux tracks to this which will act as the summing bus (volume control).

On each aux bus except for the first track and the summing bus, insert an EQ/filter. The first EQ needs to have a low pass filter, the second a band pass filter, the third a high pass filter etc. This way, you can set which frequencies pass on that channel. Insert any other effects you want after the EQ/filter which is acting as our splitter.

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Hope that makes sense and helps a bit.

Google frequency splitting tutorials if you get stuck, and do the same on Youtube.

Pat