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Thank you! And that would be a fun video to do. Thank you for the recommendation!

Thanks! This is the I Logic V2 Public theme

Of course!

Hi there. If you have the vst installed correctly, it should be as simple as clicking on Fx for the track you want to add the vst to. If reaper doesn't see the vst for some reason it may be helpful to rescan for plugins via Preferences > Plug-ins > VST. Click the Re-scan button and select the option that applies to the plugin that's not showing up. Try these out and let me know if you're still having issues.

It is not working sir

Are you using Mac or PC? What vst are you trying to load? I can suggest a few things based on that.

Hi there, I created a video called Where Are My Plugins that have my top 6 ways to get the plugins to show up in Reaper. Please check it out and let me know if you are still having the issue.

It's so easy to fall into the trap of learning more to feel productive but the only way to get more music out there is to open that notepad or DAW and get going.

@@theultimatemixdown Super true. I've got hundreds of music production tutorials I've bookmarked over the last year or so and I end up in paralysis scrolling through em. After watching your vid I just forced myself to make something, dragged a Schumann tune into Reaper to use as a template, just piano and flute, and loaded up Musio and just focused on those two elements and ended up writing something quite nice. Feel a sense of achievement now.

I've definitely seen this. I think the documentation for the auto track color sws extension shows it. You would set the rule as (children) and the color as Parent I believe. Will test it out to make sure and create a quick video once I can confirm.

You're welcome!

Seems like one of the only ways to keep it alive at this point

Hi Martin, glad the video helped. I'm using the I Logic V2 Public theme that can be found here: stash.reaper.fm/theme/1964/I%20Logic%20V2%20Public.ReaperThemeZip

Haha exactly

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Haha, exactly!

Great question! Crop to Active Take is a great feature after you comp, so you end up with one finalized take with all the best performances. In this video, I am showing how to completely remove the bad takes, even before comping begins. This way you're not scrubbing through say 10 takes when you know only 5 were performed well. Not everyone needs this, but I find it comes in handy if the take count gets high.

@@theultimatemixdown Ah, I see, I can imagine that. Nice!

Hi there. What I meant is there are different tiers of the Pro Tools software with different price plans. Pro Tools Intro is the free tier and then there are other paid tiers that have additional functionality.

This is a great idea. I'll plan to add something the queue. Have a number of REAPER tutorials on the way as well so stay tuned!

Thank you! I'm glad it helped. Coming primarily from Pro Tools myself, it was definitely an adjustment. I'll be sure to make more videos that help people who are transitioning from other DAWS as well.

reaper is awesome, that's why. FL studio, for desktop sucks. Ableton is expensive, but it's awesome. Reaper is cheap and versatile and super stable and customizable and loads fast, and is limitless if you pay sixty bucks (or not, lol). FL studio mobile is great, tho, definitely worth the 13 bucks. the desktop version has too many windows. countless users have switched from logic or protools or sonar to reaper, not sure which daw you're tied to. ableton and reaper are enough.

Thanks for watching!

Yes! I'll work on exporting and a method of delivery that everyone can access. Will probably be released with a video on how to import FX chains. Stay tuned!

Thank you so much for the kind words!

Of course!

I know exactly what you mean and it's a huge pain in the butt to move things (especially plugin paths), but I would highly recommend a high capacity (1tb or higher) external USB or USB C drive to store project files and soundbanks/samples/libraries. Unless you have huge libraries full of samples, start with moving the project files since they should render fine from an external HD. If there are any completed projects, back them up and get them off of your primary disc. Even wip files should be on an external disc. You want your main computer's hard drive to have at least 25% capacity. And it helps to render project files from an external drive for efficiency. These are my recommendations and are some of the things that have worked well for me so far.

@@theultimatemixdown yup. having a full hard drive is counter=productive. period.

Great input. I recently found that multiple instances of REAPER can be installed (and run) on one machine via portable installations. I plan to set one up for beginner tutorials so that it has the appearance of a fresh install. I hope you were able to follow the majority of the tutorial despite the differences.

@@theultimatemixdown Absolutely, would love for some more midi/producing tutorials for Reaper, that type of tutorials lacks massively on YT, thanks for taking my criticism into consideration.

Will definitely add more to the lineup!

Certainly not! This is not an easy concept to grasp, but once you do, it will feel easy. Let me know if there are any parts that stump you and we can discuss right here.

Ha, you may have just got me past that 1k mark! Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks David!

Saving time is always a benefit, especially when it allows us to make more music!

Of course! Let me know if there's anything in particular that would help you out and I'll see if I can add it to an upcoming video.

@@theultimatemixdown I’ve seen some ads for a vocal midi that lets you create instruments with your voice, maybe a tutorial on that and installing it / utilizing it?

Just to clarify - are you referring to recording your voice and creating midi from that recording?

@@theultimatemixdown no actually! It’s some sort of converter that turns your live vocals into different instruments and sounds! I’ll see if I can find it

Of course! Glad the video helped

Hi there. REAPER is a digital audio workstation (DAW) that people use to record, edit, mix, and master audio (vocals, guitars, drums, etc.) as well as virtual instruments. It's fast, versatile, and highly customizable compared to many of the major DAWs out there. There are even capabilities for editing video in REAPER. That's just scratching the surface. This link from the creators has a great overview: www.reaper.fm/about.php

My apologies, I just checked the user guide again and it looks like it's Ctrl + P on Windows. Oddly enough, the mac equivalent should be Cmd + P but it's actually Cmd + , (comma). Not sure why. Try Ctrl + P and let me know if it's still not working!

That's right. You don't have to do it this way, but it keeps me organized and helps a little with computer processing. I'll then back my projects up on another hard drive for redundancy

Thanks for this. I’m just starting out with recording and have looked at the different ways to set Reaper up but I think they are still kind of messy for me. I only have one external HDD right now but plan to get another Ssd soon to add. My desire is to not use the internal drive because I don’t want to load it up. Reaper can do two paths at once. Can you briefly tell me the best way to add the second external to do them at once to avoid the internal? Then maybe I can then send to a cloud source for the third final backup? Again, I like your way of doing it as I’d like a separate Project folder that’s easy to access with everything in it for that project. Looks much cleaner to me. My external is a 2TB LaCie HDD.

@@2mdcoe I would definitely recommend installing REAPER on your computer's drive for three reasons: 1. Certain plugins may be difficult to launch with a portable install of REAPER on an external drive 2. it will only take up MBs on your drive and not GBs like some other DAWs would and 3. It would most likely run faster directly on your computer's drive. If you are still looking to install the application on a separate drive, there are some resources out there that can help you with this - search for "Portable Install of REAPER on external drive". What I would do with two external drives - #1 has my REAPER projects and samples/virtual instrument soundbanks and #2 is a backup. If I had three drives - #1 has my REAPER projects, #2 has my samples/soundbanks, and #3 is a backup of both. Hopefully this helped and definitely let me know if you have any other questions!