That was an outstanding tutorial. It was short, succinct and to the point, had reasoning behind it, and you spoke slowly and clearly and made it make sense to me. Thank you!
This is incredibly useful, time-saving information! I agree with the commenters below that you have a talent for clear explanation and illustration. I was also wondering about how you managed to zoom to one track with one click.
incredibly helpful video, thank you!! I've been searching for how to do this in reaper for so long, but this is certainly the clearest instructional video I've found
This is not my tutorial, but I fully agree on reaper..... I'v been using Reaper since its beta days and it's awesome since day zero. The routing and flexibility is out of this world.
Fucking awesome and you're awesome at tutorials. I used this technique for lining up a multi-track guitar except I just marked my own stretch point positions and did it more by hand, but this helped me understand the process, though.
One of the most helpful videos that I've recently come across! I've got a question though. Sorry if it has been asked before, but doesn't quantization with stretch markers reduce quality of the original recording? I'm almost hearing this faser effect when I quantize my drums with stretch markers and I don't hear it when I edit my drums manually aka the old fashioned way... Any thoughts? Thank you!
Yeah, sure. You may play with the elastic options from the Project Propierties dialog. Some algorithms do better than others depending on the material. Just try them all.
Hi there! Can you please let me know what mouse/keyboard shortcuts you are using to zoom in the track like this ( at 1:51)? I'm using mac and reaper 5.x. And thanks for the tutorial!
+Evgeny Poluyantsev "Marquee zoom" is a custom setting. It looks like his cursor is the zoom icon by default if he hovers over the bottom half of the media items and in between tracks. The simple way to customize Mouse Modifiers: 1. Press Cmd+P to open Preferences. 2. Under "Mouse Modifiers" change the second drop down menu to "left drag." 3. Double click on the command of your choice and select "Marquee zoom." I also assigned a command for the "Track" context on the first drop down menu, so that I can drag from anywhere on the tracks. You can make both of the commands the same. If you would rather change the default cursor to get Kenny's settings: in both the "Track" and "Media item bottom half" contexts, change the "Default action" to "Marquee zoom" . Then change all of the other "Media item bottom half" commands to "Pass through to item drag context" so that you can still use the default commands on the bottom half of your media items.
Cubase has a function where you can quantize tracks to a certain percentage around the grid, or you can add a "swing" feeling to the quantization, so it's not quite as robotic. I actually mostly use that for drums that are programmed in the first place. Is this also possible in Reaper?
After you hit "split" your item is quatizing. for me after hit split there is nothing happened! also there are another options "actions to perform" in last reaper. I can't do anything to quantize:(( after dynamic split
First of all.. thank you so much for this very well done and helpful video! Also, I gotta question! Can you use this same method on guitars and bass etc.? I mean shouldn't it be possible just as well?
i cant quite get it right. i click snap stretch markers to grid and throws EVERYTHING way out of whack. I cant snap it to each grid point otherwise its still out of whack. HELPPPPPPPPP
+kermiebro2000 You problably need to adjust your "snap" settings. If the time base is too short (e.g. 1/32 or smaller), then your transients will likely snap to the wrong position. Use a time base no shorter than the shortest note in your material. He does explain this in the video, though.
I want to simply quantize my recorded drum track .wav file from aTascam 32 track SDCard. Can I import this wav file and quantize it? at the moment I only own Sound Forge on my pc, and I dont think it quantizes.
no, if you have a mutitrack recording you need a multitrack software. You can easily download Reaper for free, it's just a few MB and even runs as a portable app.
If you want to convert audio to midi, you can use the ReaGate plugin. Look at the bottom, there is an option to trigger a note on gate open. You may route this to another track and record its output, for later processing/quantizing the midi directly.
I'm getting mad with Reaper at the moment. Whenever I try to split the duplicated kick track, Reaper doesn't split all the other grouped track as in your video. What the fuck is wrong?!?!?
No, I am Miquel Martí as you can guess. This video was posted on the reaper forums by Kenny quite long ago when the YT platform wasn't even a thing. I uploaded one video from one of his posts to show a friend of mine how to quantize drums in reaper. In the comments there is a link where I downloaded this video from. I always credited the original author, Im not monetizing it, and if he asks me to remove it I'll do it in a breeze. This was posted just for the sake of sharing some reaper techniques.
One of the most helpful reaper videos ever. Thank you so much!
That was an outstanding tutorial. It was short, succinct and to the point, had reasoning behind it, and you spoke slowly and clearly and made it make sense to me. Thank you!
Bro you're the man! Way more efficient than elastic in pro tools. Good demo, very clean and concise, thank you.
It took me way too long to find this video and learn this feature. Will definitely be quantizing my drums moving further.
You changed my world. I am forever grateful.
thanx to Kenny Gioia. The tutorial is pretty useful as always
This is incredibly useful, time-saving information! I agree with the commenters below that you have a talent for clear explanation and illustration.
I was also wondering about how you managed to zoom to one track with one click.
you can assign any action to any shortcut in reaper. I use + and - from zooming. The original author Kenny is probably using mouse modifiers.
Thanx a lot! Have to go back to this video from time to time (rarely deal with live drums these days ) =)))
incredibly helpful video, thank you!! I've been searching for how to do this in reaper for so long, but this is certainly the clearest instructional video I've found
These are so easy to follow and down to the point, great, great tutorials man
this is so far the best tutorial about that subject, thanks for sharing
Thank you very much!! I worked in Nuendo much time, and now I see that Reaper is good too!!
Thanks! I didn't know Reaper, but this is just what I needed to quantize drums... very flexible! Great video, man!
this is the best video for reaper ive ever seen, thank you for sharing
Thank you very much, Miquel. Very well explained and useful to me. Nice work!
Thanks for the tutorial! Look like a piece of cake compared to manual slip editing
Thanks for this. I'm going to try it out.
Life saver, great tutorial!
You are the best man!!!!! And Reaper is definitely the best DAW out there
This is not my tutorial, but I fully agree on reaper..... I'v been using Reaper since its beta days and it's awesome since day zero. The routing and flexibility is out of this world.
its about time
great video! thanks man!
This is great teaching! You are brilliant!
You saved my life. Thanks
never managed to make drums sound even okay using stretch/elastic, phase coherence just goes to thrash immediately.
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Wow! I didn't know this was *possible*! Thanks a bundle! :-)
Great Video, Thanks!
Great video!
Great lesson. Thanks!
powerful stuff
This is amazing, thanks
Thank You very much... very useful video
I like this one .Most of the tutorials sound like the guy is jacked to the moon on coffee.Not this one .
Fucking awesome and you're awesome at tutorials. I used this technique for lining up a multi-track guitar except I just marked my own stretch point positions and did it more by hand, but this helped me understand the process, though.
thank you so much!
One of the most helpful videos that I've recently come across! I've got a question though. Sorry if it has been asked before, but doesn't quantization with stretch markers reduce quality of the original recording? I'm almost hearing this faser effect when I quantize my drums with stretch markers and I don't hear it when I edit my drums manually aka the old fashioned way... Any thoughts? Thank you!
Yeah, sure. You may play with the elastic options from the Project Propierties dialog. Some algorithms do better than others depending on the material. Just try them all.
Awesome! Thank a lot!
great vid, thanks
good video
Hi there!
Can you please let me know what mouse/keyboard shortcuts you are using to zoom in the track like this ( at 1:51)? I'm using mac and reaper 5.x. And thanks for the tutorial!
+Evgeny Poluyantsev "Marquee zoom" is a custom setting. It looks like his cursor is the zoom icon by default if he hovers over the bottom half of the media items and in between tracks.
The simple way to customize Mouse Modifiers: 1. Press Cmd+P to open Preferences. 2. Under "Mouse Modifiers" change the second drop down menu to "left drag." 3. Double click on the command of your choice and select "Marquee zoom."
I also assigned a command for the "Track" context on the first drop down menu, so that I can drag from anywhere on the tracks. You can make both of the commands the same.
If you would rather change the default cursor to get Kenny's settings: in both the "Track" and "Media item bottom half" contexts, change the "Default action" to "Marquee zoom" . Then change all of the other "Media item bottom half" commands to "Pass through to item drag context" so that you can still use the default commands on the bottom half of your media items.
Cubase has a function where you can quantize tracks to a certain percentage around the grid, or you can add a "swing" feeling to the quantization, so it's not quite as robotic. I actually mostly use that for drums that are programmed in the first place. Is this also possible in Reaper?
yes, just go in the midi editor, select the notes and press 'q'
@@miquelmarti6537 awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, man!
This helped me to sync my guitar lol ty
Once I have finished, how do I make the strechmarkers and dynamic splits dissapear?
you could glue the tracks, but there is no need for that apart from saving just a little bit of CPU
After you hit "split" your item is quatizing. for me after hit split there is nothing happened! also there are another options "actions to perform" in last reaper. I can't do anything to quantize:(( after dynamic split
First of all.. thank you so much for this very well done and helpful video! Also, I gotta question! Can you use this same method on guitars and bass etc.? I mean shouldn't it be possible just as well?
yes you can, but I'd do it over the clean DI version just because it will show the transients so much better.
THNX
When I try this it completely messes up the audio. Even a tiny bit of stretching and the drums sound insanely flubbed and delayed.
try to open Project propierties and change your actual pitch/sketch algorithm to Efficient
i cant quite get it right. i click snap stretch markers to grid and throws EVERYTHING way out of whack. I cant snap it to each grid point otherwise its still out of whack. HELPPPPPPPPP
+kermiebro2000 You problably need to adjust your "snap" settings. If the time base is too short (e.g. 1/32 or smaller), then your transients will likely snap to the wrong position. Use a time base no shorter than the shortest note in your material.
He does explain this in the video, though.
great tutorial!
'Snap to grid' is greyed out for me no matter what I do. I've followed the steps exactly and created the transient guide to no avail.
Top Notch!
Thanks you!
awesome explanation! My not so flash drumming actually has a chance of sounding good now Lol
cool! thx!
I want to simply quantize my recorded drum track .wav file from aTascam 32 track SDCard. Can I import this wav file and quantize it? at the moment I only own Sound Forge on my pc, and I dont think it quantizes.
no, if you have a mutitrack recording you need a multitrack software. You can easily download Reaper for free, it's just a few MB and even runs as a portable app.
I hear ya ,but I thought the original groove had more feel for sure.
I have a question...... Can you just come over to my place and do it for me? Asking for a friend... Thank you very much for a great tutorial 😊
LoL thank you for your kind words, but I'm not the author of this video. Enjoy your quatized acoustic drums.
@miquelmarti6537 thank you brother, you're awesome!!!
Subscribed!
for some reason it doesn't split all the tracks on reaper 7. please help asap
Have you grouped the items? If so then look at the combo box at 3:00
I have the same problem, it does not work in Reaper 7 as i did in previous versions.
@@stendahldrummer thanks for reporting. I'll update and look into that
I also have the same problem. It uses to work on the previous version of Reaper ...
I wish it would let you preserve existing stretch markers so you didn't have to duplicate the track. Is there a better way to do this now?
not that I know. It really is not a big deal, as it's just done once per song. Stay tight! :)
Is there an easy way to create a midi item with notes at each stretch marker?
If you want to convert audio to midi, you can use the ReaGate plugin. Look at the bottom, there is an option to trigger a note on gate open. You may route this to another track and record its output, for later processing/quantizing the midi directly.
Hi, i tried this way to quantize drums, but it left too much artifatcs :( Got some idea what to configure?
did you add crossfades??
Zakk Dodds Yes
you shouldn't rely only on automatic quantization functions. I usually do 4 bars at a time and then relisten and fix. YMMV
Love This! Thanks so much! Made process so much quicker
Reaper, please make this eaaasier lol.. holy cow.
it's virtually the same as Beatdetective with Elastic Audio capabilities. I added some buttons on the toolbar to do just that.
Why is Kenny Gioia's video on your channel?
this is from a pre-youtube era. He posted that on a forum and later I reuploaded his video to YT just because I wanted to show to a friend of mine
I'm getting mad with Reaper at the moment. Whenever I try to split the duplicated kick track, Reaper doesn't split all the other grouped track as in your video. What the fuck is wrong?!?!?
I'm having the same problem.
well, I recently discovered if you ungroup all items and then group all together again it should fix that bug.
Trying to switch from pro tools to reaper (i don't have $600!!) thanks a lot!
Are you Kenny Gioia?
No. I am.
No, I am Miquel Martí as you can guess. This video was posted on the reaper forums by Kenny quite long ago when the YT platform wasn't even a thing. I uploaded one video from one of his posts to show a friend of mine how to quantize drums in reaper. In the comments there is a link where I downloaded this video from. I always credited the original author, Im not monetizing it, and if he asks me to remove it I'll do it in a breeze. This was posted just for the sake of sharing some reaper techniques.