You are very welcome :) I can't believe that I'm the only one that's done this *blink blink* I'm gonna have to do a deep dive on TH-cam :) Thanks again!
@@AnitaPotterProductions well I though that because yesterday I was looking for something like this not necessary the multitracks tutorial because Idk what this was. There is a few videos but your video was very helpful, thanks.
Hey Anita . Thanks for doing this vid. I’ve been thinking about using Reaper for a while now. You’ve done a great job at explaining things and convinced me that I should get Reaper in the very near future. Thanks 😁👍🏻
Awwww you're very welcome Wyatt. Well when and if you do get Reaper and you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them. If I can't answer it I would be more than happy to hunt that information down as well :)
thanks Anita . It’s good to know your way round a few DAWs (For obvious reasons) I’ve had my eye on Reaper for a while. I’m sure I’ll have a S load of questions when I get round to getting Reaper. 😂 it seams like a Very intuitive DAw. Which is great for me. Cheers Mick 😁
Make yourself comfy. There could be more questions than humanly possible and it could take longer than you think. Alternatively hit me over he head with a very heavy book 😁
I'm glad someone else hears the Jeopardy theme song during long operations. :) Thanks Anita - as a fellow PLAPite who uses REAPER, this is a helpful one. It's also nice to be able to put a voice to the name in future chats.
Haven't had a chance to read through comments, but in case no one has remarked on this, Reaper has updated its routing so that when you place tracks in a folder, the send is automagically routed to the parent folder, so you no longer need to do this routing step to avoid doubling the tracks. Hope that's helpful.
Thank's Christopher! I can't remember if I pinned a comment on this but it was around a year or less after I posted this that the routing changed. Which makes it a helluva lot easier to accomplish this task. I have an updated one on my to do list that I will get to at some point when things calm down around here. I'm waaaay too busy for my own good ;)
Heehee yeah. Yeah the over excitement of getting started led to more work to fix it. Can't tell you how many times I've done that early on but I catch myself now before I make that mistake (well at least 99% of the time hahahaha).
Aww thank you so much Bob! The current version you don't need to actually route the tracks to the folders anymore it's done automatically when you place a track in a folder. I don't know which version that started in but I know I didn't notice it for at least a year or so.
Could you explain why you route the children to the parent track? I thought it was enough to group them under the parent track because the parent track automatically sums up the signals. I understand it more when you have effects tracks and then you send the effects to specific tracks. Not sure I've fully understood the difference between grouping and routing. Thanks!
Back when I made this video almost 2 years ago the child tracks in the folders still routed to the master and not the parent folder track which now, in recent updates, it automatically routes the children to the parent folder. You don't have to do it that way if you don't want to. I originally did that just to keep my session organized. I may have to do an update of this sometime soon. I haven't really worked with groups yet myself might be easier than nesting folders (like snare bus, kick bus, etc.) but I need to check that out first on a session before I make a decision about groups and grouping.
@@AnitaPotterProductions Thank you for the super quick reply! That makes a lot of sense. I guess it doesn't hurt that I routed them now even though I didn't have to because of the update. I can see that you can probably move tracks around more freely if they are routed together whereas if I just group them (and thereby now route automatically) I have to remember that they lose the routing the moment I take them out of the group. Looking forward to doing the next installment of your series tomorrow!
You're very welcome Coma Cat. I still have a tendency to route them that way even though I don't need to, force of habit ;) Any time you move anything out of a folder the routing should still stay the same (or it used to at least it did back in that version). Just have to be careful with the routing. I remember on time I triple bussed a snare and, other than probably not paying attention, couldn't figure out how or why I did that. I'll probably check out groups next week to see what they're all about my week this week is pretty stacked so hopefully I can get an idea of how they work and what situations to use them in :)
@@AnitaPotterProductions It sounds like the safer option to route them, especially if you're not used to grouping. I'm glad I understand now that there is a difference between groups/folders and busses. I kept hearing people refer to busses and assumed that it was the same as what I knew as groups. I found a video explaning the differences. In the comments someone calls the folders 'predefined busses' and that sounds like a good definition to me. I'll share a link here, maybe you'll find it useful too. Hope your busy week is going well! th-cam.com/video/9YgGr5hCe6Q/w-d-xo.html
Looks like ProTools would export stereo tracks separately (attaching an L or R to the filename). It would be nice to combine them again instead of treating everything like a mono track. That would bring down the number of tracks as well.
I use a custom action to turn the left and right tracks back to stereo. th-cam.com/video/Ic99C_SvNqE/w-d-xo.html This is the video I show you how to do that in, well that is if you haven't already made one yourself ;) I'm wondering if that's the way ProTools exports by default or it's done that way for a certain reason.
Thanks for the tip! I already did it the hard way by using a command line tool which can convert 2 mono files into stereo. Hmm, not sure if that is the default export setting in ProTools.. I actually tried using ProTools First on a PC (it's free... and very limited), but it took me a couple of re-installs to get it to work correctly and then I didn't like it. I have tried a few different programs and so far Reaper has been the only DAW which can handle the 50 or 60 audio tracks, doesn't spend MINUTES on loading them and plays them fine without crackling. I tried Cakewalk, FL Studio and Mixcraft Studio. Reaper seems to be the best solution for mixing.
@@RainerK. I also tried out ProTools First. My older computer didn't have the power to deal with that very well. I couldn't get along with Cakewalk either. I switched to reaper on that computer and had issues with playback so I would render/freeze tracks on a lot of stuff just so I could use it. I've run on my new computer up to 140ish tracks with no problems. It just depends on how good your computer is. Reaper doesn't limit you on the number of tracks licensed or unlicensed. As long as your computer can handle it you can have an unlimited number of tracks.
This is a Question: I sent a session from Reaper to Reaper in WETransfer. The receiving end plays back files and they are out of sync?? How can I fix this ?
Hi Dennis! There is a way to do it via a time selection over the whole track. It's been a minute since I've exported mutltitracks/stems. Make a time selection spanning the entire track. Select all the tracks in the Track panel you wish to bounce to tracks. File -> Render then at the top left of the dialog box select "Selected Tracks (stems)", on the right under Bounds select "Time Selection". Set the project sample rate, wildcards for the file names and any other setting. That should take care of the gaps and tracks not lining up properly. An alternative way would be this: I would make sure all the tracks start at the same time. If there's empty space in front of them for example you don't start a specific instrument until further in the mix so you start recording there. It leaves a gap and it won't line up. You can make a time selection that spans the gap and add empty items at the beginning and end of tracks (if they don't also end at the same time). You can find this in the top menu Insert -> Empty Item. Make sure you've got the track you want to insert the empty space selected then do that for each track that needs it.
Hello, please help, I am a bit confused right now. I created my song with lmms and exported the tracks as wav format. The lmms forum guys issued tracks output in lmms are stereo by default. To mixdown the tracks I drag and drop them into reaper. But after import into reaper the tracks inputs are in mono? But shouldn't the input tracks be in stereo instead, when the output of the former imported wavs is in stereo?
The last time I exported out of lmms it gave me stereo wav files. I'm away from my computer right now but I will look into it once I get home from work in about 8 hours. Unless they've added a setting somewhere I'm not sure why it's giving you mono wav files.
@@AnitaPotterProductions Hello Anita, lmms gives me stereo, and files in reaper are stereo too, but at the left side when I click right at track volume meter, right in the middle, the popup window is checked at input mono. That confuses me, cause the track itself consists of to different sounds, on top and buttom and I can even seperate them into mono in reaper. I wonder why the "Input:Stereo" in this window isn't checked?
So is that situation ok, for further mixing procedure? Or do I have to forcefully change the channels to "Input:Stereo" to get a sufficient stereo output at the end without fighting for stereo width.? Which is an unpleasent and time consuming plague right now?
@@chrwrd2960 I wouldn't worry about it unless it doesn't sound right to you without changing it. Have you listened to the tracks inside of Reaper? Do they still sound like they're in stereo? Let me know.
Im not sure but in my reaper isnt is necessary use shift alt and drag to send the parental association into the folders, this already happens automatically .But ty nice video!!!
Hi Rascazzi! Yeah you don't need to do that anymore in reaper. Making a folder track and then putting stuff into it automatically routes to the folder. I don't know which version that happened in but it was definitely at least a year after I made this video. Thanks!
Hi Matt! Right click in an empty spot in the mixer panel at the bottom. At the top of the dialog box hover over Master Track then click on Show in Mixer and it should show up for your there. Let me know if you need any further assistance.
My stems came from a R24 & everything went great following your vid. On one track I had a stereo effect, this stem is now mono but still has that effect. Is this common? & know of any fix?
Usually stereo tracks should import as a stereo track and mono as mono tracks (to my understanding that is). Is it possible that when you exported that track that it got converted to mono somehow? Was the original track a stereo track to start with? Reaper's pan law (I know I haven't gone over it thoroughly yet) it's default is set to stereo. You can switch it to dual panning but the track will still be mono. I don't think it would make much of a difference though if you want to keep it full wide. Dual panning should allow you to control the width of it. I haven't dealt with mono tracks with stereo fx on it before. I wish I could be of more help.
@@AnitaPotterProductions thanks for the help. The track was recorded in mono then I applied a stereo chorus. I was honestly surprised to hear the chorus on the stem but I assumed if it was there it would be a stereo stem. Mono is in the name of it though. You've saved me so much time already I think this is just a lesson for the future not to apply stereo effects 1st if I'm exporting.
@@validcore Glad to have been of help :) When I stem things out I try not to have any FX on it unless it's integral to the sound. If I do it's usually on it's on track and that I'll print out on its own. There's absolutely nothing wrong with committing to a sound. We're all still learning our workflows and what works and what doesn't. The journey is a long one and all the things we learn that helps us makes our journey just that much smoother :)
Hi Craig. That's a great question. I'm trying to remember why I started doing that. The one thing that I do remember is that a lot of engineers don't like to put things on their master bus so they'll send it to a separate one then to the master. I think that's where I got it from but it all comes down to personal preference.
@@AnitaPotterProductions I don't know if you're a fan of Andrew Schep's work, but I found a version of his template in the Reaper stash off the main Reaper page and it's beautiful. The track wiring is nuts, but he processes all of his tracks to a "rear buss/rear buss master" and a "mix buss/mix buss master" rather than the Reaper master fader. I'm still trying to figure the whole system out but I love the process.
@@CaffeineFC I've heard something about him and his rear bus processing but I've never seen it in action. Looking in the stash the only one I found was from 5/20/20 is that the correct one?
This is how you do it when exporting audio from the ACAPELLA app - But I have found that I can just select all from the regular windows folder and drag and drop in reaper. Here’s what I’m trying to find out ... how would I go the other direction. I want to take all my tracks and compress them into one folder so that it can be sent via Dropbox or maybe even EMAIL. 😬😱
As far as I can tell there's not a way to do it within Reaper. Looking around online it was suggested as a feature about 9 years ago but I guess Cockos didn't feel the need to implement it. My best guess is that you'll want to export your Reaper tracks as stems to a folder you've created (I'll find you a video on making stems as I haven't made one yet). You'll need a zipping program like 7zip to create an archive/zip file that you can use to send through Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. Emailing might be difficult as most email clients won't let you add an attachment bigger than 25mb. This video is really good for rendering stems: th-cam.com/video/SAkAvvFj7WQ/w-d-xo.html If you need anything else just let me know :)
Meu reaper está dando erro que já fiz tudo mesmo formatado e não resolveu! O erro é: import file into project, é uma aba externa que está aparecendo impossibilitando meu trabalho não consigo fechar alguém já passou por isso? me ajude estou desesperado.
I've not seen this error myself unfortunately. Does the error show up when you're trying to import tracks or when you're trying to close your session? Double check that the sample/bitrate on the tracks are the same as the Reaper project just to eliminate that being the cause of your issue. Go to File -> Project Settings. Click on the Project Settings tab at the top of that window to bring it forward if it isn't already. The top of that will be Project Sample Rate and you can change that setting there. Next click on the Media tab and in the middle under Recording you can set the WAV bit depth there. If that doesn't work try disabling all of your plugins in your project just in case there's a plugin that's causing the problem.
Hi... i am first time user of Reaper. I have used Pro-tools (not a heavy super user type there) BUT can you open two projects, one is a musical note pad for phrase ideas to be captured, then build my song in different project? Basically taking the phrases i like, arrange them in cut/paste manner into the final project. I am sort of developing this workflow since i am not the best musician, but i need to get my musical ideas done for a video project i am working on.
You can have several projects files open at once. You just need to click on File --> New Project Tab and your second project file will be ready for use. Just make sure that your new file shares the same characteristics as the other one. Bit/samplerate, bpm, time signature. You shouldn't have any problems copying and pasting between the two. I often clean up a project file by putting extra things I don't necessarily want to delete I'll just copy them and move them to an extras file. I hear you though I too am still trying to find a good recording workflow.
Hi James. It shouldn't affect how you import tracks. The main thing is to make sure you set the bpm, time signature, bit rate and sample rate so that your tracks will play properly and if you have to export them for collaborations or to hand them off to another engineer there won't be any issues. Setting the time base to time or beats is all personal preference.
It didn't used to be routed like that everything was going to the master. I do it for organizational reasons and to keep track of where everything is going to.
Wonderful work Anita!!! You Rock!! Thanks for being an amazing part of our community!!
Thank you so much. I love the community and love giving back to it especially with all the help I've received over the last year. Haha you rock!
Pretty sweet. Thanks for the video. This is great for panning the folders instead of just the tracks. Super helpful.
Thank you so much and you're very welcome 🙂
thank you anita this video helped me the first time using reaper
You're very welcome Teguh! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask I'm here to help 🙂
thank you, you are the only one that have done this video in TH-cam
You are very welcome :) I can't believe that I'm the only one that's done this *blink blink* I'm gonna have to do a deep dive on TH-cam :) Thanks again!
@@AnitaPotterProductions well I though that because yesterday I was looking for something like this not necessary the multitracks tutorial because Idk what this was.
There is a few videos but your video was very helpful, thanks.
Glad to be of help. Thanks again!
I'm new to production, Now I'm having confidence after watching this, thanks Anita
Awwwww you're very welcome and thank you so much ogundele for the kind words it's much appreciated 😊.
I downloaded a multitrack into my system and reaper is not seeing it, am so confused
Great job, Anita!
Thank you so much Sheila!
Great video, Anita! Thanks!
Thanks Jürgen you're very welcome.
wow nice guide for the reaper users, looks daunting lol, another potter production! thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much John. Yeah a little daunting when you first start with it but gets easier with more use and practice :)
Great work Anita!
Thank you so much Cristian!
Best vid of the year lol thank you. Well explained!
Thank you so much b n. I really appreciate it. If you have any questions let me know :)
Nicely done Anita! Your concepts translate to other DAWs too.
Thank you urltom! Happy to hear that it does work for other DAWs too I wasn't sure that it would.
nice Job Anita !
Thank you Jörg!
Just what I needed to start off . Thank you subscribed
You are very welcome and thanks for being here!
Hey Anita . Thanks for doing this vid. I’ve been thinking about using Reaper for a while now. You’ve done a great job at explaining things and convinced me that I should get Reaper in the very near future. Thanks 😁👍🏻
Awwww you're very welcome Wyatt. Well when and if you do get Reaper and you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them. If I can't answer it I would be more than happy to hunt that information down as well :)
thanks Anita . It’s good to know your way round a few DAWs (For obvious reasons) I’ve had my eye on Reaper for a while. I’m sure I’ll have a S load of questions when I get round to getting Reaper. 😂 it seams like a Very intuitive DAw. Which is great for me.
Cheers Mick 😁
Awesome Mick! Hopefully I'll give you an S ton of answers hahahaha ;)
Make yourself comfy. There could be more questions than humanly possible and it could take longer than you think. Alternatively hit me over he head with a very heavy book 😁
@@WYATTWEEWEE Hahahahahaha. Lemme find some comfy cushions I could be here for awhile ;)
I'm glad someone else hears the Jeopardy theme song during long operations. :) Thanks Anita - as a fellow PLAPite who uses REAPER, this is a helpful one. It's also nice to be able to put a voice to the name in future chats.
Thank you so much anonagain. It's been a minute since I've seen you around the PLAP-verse and I hope all is well with you :)
Nice!! Thanks a lot!
You're very welcome Filipino Rider :)
Haven't had a chance to read through comments, but in case no one has remarked on this, Reaper has updated its routing so that when you place tracks in a folder, the send is automagically routed to the parent folder, so you no longer need to do this routing step to avoid doubling the tracks.
Hope that's helpful.
Thank's Christopher! I can't remember if I pinned a comment on this but it was around a year or less after I posted this that the routing changed. Which makes it a helluva lot easier to accomplish this task. I have an updated one on my to do list that I will get to at some point when things calm down around here. I'm waaaay too busy for my own good ;)
Thank you so much Anita! Greta Work. It helped me a lot 😘
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You're very welcome Guilherme 😊
Great video. Thanks. I set up a song exactly as you did. Brilliant daw! Folders that easily can be hidden away.
Awesome Jonas! You can collapse folders down and only work on the tracks you concentrating on.
This is super helpful! Thank you.
You're very welcome Gaurav :)
I'm fairly new to mixing and your channel is so helpful and inspiring. Glad I found it! I look forward to mixing along to this song with you soon.
That's wonderful of you to say Coma Cat! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask :)
@@AnitaPotterProductions Will do, thank you so much!
You are very welcome 😊
I can hear the pain in your voice at 1:10 😂 Fair Play. Been there.
Heehee yeah. Yeah the over excitement of getting started led to more work to fix it. Can't tell you how many times I've done that early on but I catch myself now before I make that mistake (well at least 99% of the time hahahaha).
Hello Anita That was rite on 👍🏽😊
Aww thank you so much Bob! The current version you don't need to actually route the tracks to the folders anymore it's done automatically when you place a track in a folder. I don't know which version that started in but I know I didn't notice it for at least a year or so.
@@AnitaPotterProductions oh cool, I Iearn something new everyday 😊
Me too! Always be learning :)
Could you explain why you route the children to the parent track? I thought it was enough to group them under the parent track because the parent track automatically sums up the signals. I understand it more when you have effects tracks and then you send the effects to specific tracks. Not sure I've fully understood the difference between grouping and routing. Thanks!
Back when I made this video almost 2 years ago the child tracks in the folders still routed to the master and not the parent folder track which now, in recent updates, it automatically routes the children to the parent folder. You don't have to do it that way if you don't want to. I originally did that just to keep my session organized. I may have to do an update of this sometime soon. I haven't really worked with groups yet myself might be easier than nesting folders (like snare bus, kick bus, etc.) but I need to check that out first on a session before I make a decision about groups and grouping.
@@AnitaPotterProductions Thank you for the super quick reply! That makes a lot of sense. I guess it doesn't hurt that I routed them now even though I didn't have to because of the update. I can see that you can probably move tracks around more freely if they are routed together whereas if I just group them (and thereby now route automatically) I have to remember that they lose the routing the moment I take them out of the group. Looking forward to doing the next installment of your series tomorrow!
You're very welcome Coma Cat. I still have a tendency to route them that way even though I don't need to, force of habit ;) Any time you move anything out of a folder the routing should still stay the same (or it used to at least it did back in that version). Just have to be careful with the routing. I remember on time I triple bussed a snare and, other than probably not paying attention, couldn't figure out how or why I did that. I'll probably check out groups next week to see what they're all about my week this week is pretty stacked so hopefully I can get an idea of how they work and what situations to use them in :)
@@AnitaPotterProductions It sounds like the safer option to route them, especially if you're not used to grouping. I'm glad I understand now that there is a difference between groups/folders and busses. I kept hearing people refer to busses and assumed that it was the same as what I knew as groups. I found a video explaning the differences. In the comments someone calls the folders 'predefined busses' and that sounds like a good definition to me. I'll share a link here, maybe you'll find it useful too. Hope your busy week is going well!
th-cam.com/video/9YgGr5hCe6Q/w-d-xo.html
Looks like ProTools would export stereo tracks separately (attaching an L or R to the filename). It would be nice to combine them again instead of treating everything like a mono track. That would bring down the number of tracks as well.
I use a custom action to turn the left and right tracks back to stereo. th-cam.com/video/Ic99C_SvNqE/w-d-xo.html This is the video I show you how to do that in, well that is if you haven't already made one yourself ;) I'm wondering if that's the way ProTools exports by default or it's done that way for a certain reason.
Thanks for the tip! I already did it the hard way by using a command line tool which can convert 2 mono files into stereo. Hmm, not sure if that is the default export setting in ProTools.. I actually tried using ProTools First on a PC (it's free... and very limited), but it took me a couple of re-installs to get it to work correctly and then I didn't like it. I have tried a few different programs and so far Reaper has been the only DAW which can handle the 50 or 60 audio tracks, doesn't spend MINUTES on loading them and plays them fine without crackling. I tried Cakewalk, FL Studio and Mixcraft Studio. Reaper seems to be the best solution for mixing.
@@RainerK. I also tried out ProTools First. My older computer didn't have the power to deal with that very well. I couldn't get along with Cakewalk either. I switched to reaper on that computer and had issues with playback so I would render/freeze tracks on a lot of stuff just so I could use it. I've run on my new computer up to 140ish tracks with no problems. It just depends on how good your computer is. Reaper doesn't limit you on the number of tracks licensed or unlicensed. As long as your computer can handle it you can have an unlimited number of tracks.
This is a Question: I sent a session from Reaper to Reaper in WETransfer. The receiving end plays back files and they are out of sync?? How can I fix this ?
Hi Dennis! There is a way to do it via a time selection over the whole track. It's been a minute since I've exported mutltitracks/stems. Make a time selection spanning the entire track. Select all the tracks in the Track panel you wish to bounce to tracks. File -> Render then at the top left of the dialog box select "Selected Tracks (stems)", on the right under Bounds select "Time Selection". Set the project sample rate, wildcards for the file names and any other setting. That should take care of the gaps and tracks not lining up properly.
An alternative way would be this: I would make sure all the tracks start at the same time. If there's empty space in front of them for example you don't start a specific instrument until further in the mix so you start recording there. It leaves a gap and it won't line up. You can make a time selection that spans the gap and add empty items at the beginning and end of tracks (if they don't also end at the same time). You can find this in the top menu Insert -> Empty Item. Make sure you've got the track you want to insert the empty space selected then do that for each track that needs it.
TY Ill give it a try. Dennis
You're very welcome Dennis and definitely let me know how it goes.
Hello, please help, I am a bit confused right now. I created my song
with lmms and exported the tracks as wav format. The lmms forum guys
issued tracks output in lmms are stereo by default. To mixdown the
tracks I drag and drop them into reaper. But after import into reaper
the tracks inputs are in mono? But shouldn't the input tracks be in
stereo instead, when the output of the former imported wavs is in
stereo?
The last time I exported out of lmms it gave me stereo wav files. I'm away from my computer right now but I will look into it once I get home from work in about 8 hours. Unless they've added a setting somewhere I'm not sure why it's giving you mono wav files.
@@AnitaPotterProductions Hello Anita, lmms gives me stereo, and files in reaper are stereo too, but at the left side when I click right at track volume meter, right in the middle, the popup window is checked at input mono. That confuses me, cause the track itself consists of to different sounds, on top and buttom and I can even seperate them into mono in reaper. I wonder why the "Input:Stereo" in this window isn't checked?
@@chrwrd2960 I'd need to see a screen shot of it. If you can email it to me at apotterdd@gmail.com so I can see what's going on.
So is that situation ok, for further mixing procedure? Or do I have to forcefully change the channels to "Input:Stereo" to get a sufficient stereo output at the end without fighting for stereo width.? Which is an unpleasent and time consuming plague right now?
@@chrwrd2960 I wouldn't worry about it unless it doesn't sound right to you without changing it. Have you listened to the tracks inside of Reaper? Do they still sound like they're in stereo? Let me know.
Im not sure but in my reaper isnt is necessary use shift alt and drag to send the parental association into the folders, this already happens automatically .But ty nice video!!!
Hi Rascazzi! Yeah you don't need to do that anymore in reaper. Making a folder track and then putting stuff into it automatically routes to the folder. I don't know which version that happened in but it was definitely at least a year after I made this video. Thanks!
@@AnitaPotterProductions thanks!!! anybody who make a free content class deserve everything!!!
Awwwww thank you so much I really appreciate it :)
Hi Anita,
New to this. How do I find the master fader on the far left? I can't get the dialog box to come up. Thanks
Hi Matt! Right click in an empty spot in the mixer panel at the bottom. At the top of the dialog box hover over Master Track then click on Show in Mixer and it should show up for your there. Let me know if you need any further assistance.
My stems came from a R24 & everything went great following your vid. On one track I had a stereo effect, this stem is now mono but still has that effect. Is this common? & know of any fix?
Usually stereo tracks should import as a stereo track and mono as mono tracks (to my understanding that is). Is it possible that when you exported that track that it got converted to mono somehow? Was the original track a stereo track to start with? Reaper's pan law (I know I haven't gone over it thoroughly yet) it's default is set to stereo. You can switch it to dual panning but the track will still be mono. I don't think it would make much of a difference though if you want to keep it full wide. Dual panning should allow you to control the width of it. I haven't dealt with mono tracks with stereo fx on it before. I wish I could be of more help.
@@AnitaPotterProductions thanks for the help. The track was recorded in mono then I applied a stereo chorus. I was honestly surprised to hear the chorus on the stem but I assumed if it was there it would be a stereo stem. Mono is in the name of it though.
You've saved me so much time already I think this is just a lesson for the future not to apply stereo effects 1st if I'm exporting.
@@validcore Glad to have been of help :) When I stem things out I try not to have any FX on it unless it's integral to the sound. If I do it's usually on it's on track and that I'll print out on its own. There's absolutely nothing wrong with committing to a sound. We're all still learning our workflows and what works and what doesn't. The journey is a long one and all the things we learn that helps us makes our journey just that much smoother :)
Anita, very helpful tutorial. QUESTION: why do you route all the tracks to the 'mix bus' rather than the 'master bus'?
Hi Craig. That's a great question. I'm trying to remember why I started doing that. The one thing that I do remember is that a lot of engineers don't like to put things on their master bus so they'll send it to a separate one then to the master. I think that's where I got it from but it all comes down to personal preference.
@@AnitaPotterProductions I don't know if you're a fan of Andrew Schep's work, but I found a version of his template in the Reaper stash off the main Reaper page and it's beautiful. The track wiring is nuts, but he processes all of his tracks to a "rear buss/rear buss master" and a "mix buss/mix buss master" rather than the Reaper master fader. I'm still trying to figure the whole system out but I love the process.
@@CaffeineFC I've heard something about him and his rear bus processing but I've never seen it in action. Looking in the stash the only one I found was from 5/20/20 is that the correct one?
@@AnitaPotterProductions That's the one!
@@CaffeineFC awesome! I ran out of time earlier but will get it and take a look when 8 get back home. Thanks 😀
This is how you do it when exporting audio from the ACAPELLA app - But I have found that I can just select all from the regular windows folder and drag and drop in reaper.
Here’s what I’m trying to find out ... how would I go the other direction. I want to take all my tracks and compress them into one folder so that it can be sent via Dropbox or maybe even EMAIL. 😬😱
As far as I can tell there's not a way to do it within Reaper. Looking around online it was suggested as a feature about 9 years ago but I guess Cockos didn't feel the need to implement it. My best guess is that you'll want to export your Reaper tracks as stems to a folder you've created (I'll find you a video on making stems as I haven't made one yet). You'll need a zipping program like 7zip to create an archive/zip file that you can use to send through Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. Emailing might be difficult as most email clients won't let you add an attachment bigger than 25mb. This video is really good for rendering stems: th-cam.com/video/SAkAvvFj7WQ/w-d-xo.html If you need anything else just let me know :)
Meu reaper está dando erro que já fiz tudo mesmo formatado e não resolveu! O erro é: import file into project, é uma aba externa que está aparecendo impossibilitando meu trabalho não consigo fechar alguém já passou por isso? me ajude estou desesperado.
I've not seen this error myself unfortunately. Does the error show up when you're trying to import tracks or when you're trying to close your session? Double check that the sample/bitrate on the tracks are the same as the Reaper project just to eliminate that being the cause of your issue. Go to File -> Project Settings. Click on the Project Settings tab at the top of that window to bring it forward if it isn't already. The top of that will be Project Sample Rate and you can change that setting there. Next click on the Media tab and in the middle under Recording you can set the WAV bit depth there. If that doesn't work try disabling all of your plugins in your project just in case there's a plugin that's causing the problem.
Thank you
You're very welcome :)
Hi... i am first time user of Reaper. I have used Pro-tools (not a heavy super user type there) BUT can you open two projects, one is a musical note pad for phrase ideas to be captured, then build my song in different project? Basically taking the phrases i like, arrange them in cut/paste manner into the final project. I am sort of developing this workflow since i am not the best musician, but i need to get my musical ideas done for a video project i am working on.
You can have several projects files open at once. You just need to click on File --> New Project Tab and your second project file will be ready for use. Just make sure that your new file shares the same characteristics as the other one. Bit/samplerate, bpm, time signature. You shouldn't have any problems copying and pasting between the two. I often clean up a project file by putting extra things I don't necessarily want to delete I'll just copy them and move them to an extras file. I hear you though I too am still trying to find a good recording workflow.
I don't use beats per minute as I record live and my bpm are always slightly changing. Will this affect importing tracks?
Hi James. It shouldn't affect how you import tracks. The main thing is to make sure you set the bpm, time signature, bit rate and sample rate so that your tracks will play properly and if you have to export them for collaborations or to hand them off to another engineer there won't be any issues. Setting the time base to time or beats is all personal preference.
thanks :)
You're very welcome :)
I don't understand why you route the children tracks to their parent or folder track since a child track is routed to its parent by default in Reaper.
It didn't used to be routed like that everything was going to the master. I do it for organizational reasons and to keep track of where everything is going to.
Thank you
You're very welcome :)