Wow. One of the best videos showing how to build beats with Repear, without having to use commercial VTSs that cost money and are not available on Linux. Thank you so much
I don't know how many comments I've made on youtube; it might be 0, and if this is the first one, it's because this is the first video that has ever been so thorough and helpful that I felt the need to comment and say: Thank you so much for this!
You absolutely 100% have the best reaper tutorials out there. Not a one of them hasn't answered my question along with teaching me shit I didn't even think I needed to know.
Sooooooooooo useful. EXCELLENT information that is informative not only in recording, but educational in the use of the DAW as well. Kenny, you are the man big dawg. Keep it up!
You're a trooper, and you're so thorough! I wish more people knew about your videos you're acting as an excellent resource for budding audio engineers. Thank you!
I have two tips about the drums if it helps anyone! Firstly, after you make your drum machine and you make a pattern you like, save it as a preset. There is a little plus on the upper righthand corner that you can press by the drop-down menu. This is important because after you record your drum pattern like Kenny says in the video, you can click the FX menu and remove the mega baby midi machine. This is so that if you wish to move your drum pattern to a specific area and you don't want the drums playing continuously, removing the mega baby sequencer allows just what you have recorded to play. I hope that helps!
Love your lessons. Thanks. Reaper has been my DAW from version 4 when I suddenly stumbled on it. I left cubase for it, and ever since found out that it is the best. With your demonstration, you can create a nice music without any purchased instrument with just samples for those with low income. I will try out my guitar and piano on it. Thanks again!
SO helpful! I've got a couple old drum machines that I love the sound of but a couple don't have midi, one is really finicky with midi, and my timing isn't perfect enough to start/stop an unsynced machine and not have it eventually drift away from the other parts. Now I'm just going to sample them and sell them and buy other old drum machines and do the same!
Cheers Kenny. Great to see the js plugins getting some love, i try to explore them also, im no expert on compressors but apparantly some are of very high quality.
I am new to the whole recording game, learning as I go and your video is the most educational one I came across man, really well done with the detailed explanation! So I wanted to ask if there's a way we can find and/or download these amazing sound file you are showing? any sources online that can have those for users? please let us know :) Keep it up man!
Once again, great information in bite sized nuggets. I came here after watching the new video for converting samples to tracks, wondering how to choke two sounds. Wonderful stuff.
Great job as usual- I was wondering... is there any way to keep/set the metronome settings as new project defaults? It's not a huge deal, but it would be nice to save the step of setting "count-in before recording" to "on" every time I start a new project.
Hey man thank you so much for this video, I learned so much ! Do you know if there is a way when you're looping to just erase just the last measure you recorded ? Just like on a guitar looper pedal. When I'm recording and I make a mistake, I would like to only erase the last thing I recorded but by doing Ctrl+Z I erase all the beat. Thank you
Genius, Kenny. Many thanks. Is there a way of 'exploding' each of the MIDI parts (kick, snare, and so on) to separate tracks? I can think of a slow way of doing this, but is there a quick/automatic way?
Whenever I watch these videos i find my self using several choice Jamaican curse words every 3 minutes as I find another trick or command prompt to make my life easier. Thanks!
great video! do you have a video where you go through how to add wav samples into a Reaper library like the one you're using? is it similar to adding a vst plugin or is it a different process?
Yet another fine video full of reaper-insights. TYVM! Just one question: although having followed meticulously the instruction, the 'muting' of the crash cymbal by the hihat, doesn't seem to work. Maybe a problem with the JS plugin?
With this I can apply the sample .wav files I have to MIDI inputs, but how can I map my electric drumset outputs to the MIDI notes (ie 36 C2) so they line up with the samples I've set up?
Even though I don't know English, your videos are very helpful to me. I would like to see if it is possible to route each sample to a different track? I and I tried but I can't find the way to do it. greetings and thanks for your videos ..
If I wanted to use 2 or 3 different instances of RSM5K with say 3 different kicks and they are out of phase from each other. Can I flip/adjust the phase from the plugin?
I came up with something very similar on my own, but this is a bit better. I had everything divided into separate tracks and was doing the hi hat choke with a side chain compressor. It actually gives a nice dynamic, as it somewhat simulates varying pressure from the hi hat pedal but this method is a lot easier to work with. The main downside to your approach, is it's less intuitive to add effects to a single drum, requiring a bit more advanced knowledge of routing, but I do like having all the midi in one place so it's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
When I put my kick in, it works before I set it to a single key (C2) but not after I've set it, even when I play the key I've set it to (C2). Correction: I don't think I've set up my MIDI right. I can't seem to set the individual track to my MIDI keyboard. My buttons aren't in the same layout as yours.
You always have the exact solution for whatever I am stuck with in Reaper. Is there a way to route the audio from this so you have kick, snare, clap etc on their own channels?
Great tutorial! I'm often using Reaper to test software plugins at work, but every once in a while I try to increase my knowledge and have fun at the same time, this lesson is great. I tried a few free drum machine plugins in the past, but using ReaSamplOmatic5000 is a way better method and gives me much more control over my individual samples! I now have a TR-909 sample library mapped 🙂How can I take this one step further and send each drum sample to a different channel on the mixer?
Do you know exactly the drum machine that works in this logic? Allows you to select sounds conveniently from within the folder. I have never seen such a handy drum machine. So I need a drum machine that works exactly in this logic. but my main daw is studio one If you know, please tell me a drum machine that has the ability to select sounds from folder. I will use it with another daw.
I want to build a more complex version. I am building a Hand Pan sampler instrument and I want different samples to play based on velocity, I.e not simply have the same sample play at a lower/higher gain, but (I assume) have a velocity threshold for a different sample to play (a sample of me literally playing the acoustic instrument softer) so that its more real. Is this possible? I see on the sampler there is a 'probability' and' round-robin' function, which indicates it might be possible. Also, can I trigger a round-robin of samples when the same velocity is played. Essentially, I want a very varied sample instrument so that it will sound a lot more real.
Whenever I try loading a sample, it sounds like it's gained up to the max, and I get an unnatural and crappy sounding white noise. Can you help with this? It's not the samples because they're fine in Ableton.
Hi Kenny! Congratulations for all the material you share. It's really useful!! I have a question for you about playing with samples using Reasamplomatic during a live session. I played the sample (or a vst synth) and while I'm still playing the note, I play a track (transport playback button) and I listen to a "pop" in that moment. I find this post on a forum, and is the exact problem that I have (maybe is useful): "Audio stops when I hit play OK, this is an issue most people won't have to deal with...but hopefully someone can help. I use Reaper to play live. I have a song where I free play some keyboard stuff, MIDI controller to a VST, and I let it ring out, and then hit play to start the rest of the song. Issue is this: when I hit play, the VST goes silent. So instead of a nice ringout over the start of the song, it just cuts short, and then the song begins. Even if I'm holding the sustain pedal. Anyone have any idea how I can overcome this? By Vampire step dad" Do you know how I can fix it? Thanks!!!!
Hello, a fantastic tutorial indeed. I just want to know if I create a drum loop using ReaSamplOmatic5000 is it possible to route the midi signals into different tracks so that I can edit the sounds separately?
kenny, my dude. you will never know just how many times you've had exactly the information i'm looking for you. thank you.
it really is incredible how useful this guy is
Then why isn't it working for me.
Wow. One of the best videos showing how to build beats with Repear, without having to use commercial VTSs that cost money and are not available on Linux. Thank you so much
I don't know how many comments I've made on youtube; it might be 0, and if this is the first one, it's because this is the first video that has ever been so thorough and helpful that I felt the need to comment and say:
Thank you so much for this!
Thank you!!!
Same I had to log in on my phone coming from my pc to say thank you
Yep, amazing tutorial! Thanks Kenny!
Thank you excellent what I find is I have to watch more than once
I can't even begin to express how this (and your channel in general) saved my life as an amateur producer. I keep getting better because of you.
honestly without you and Reaperblog, I would be borderline useless. thanks for your MASSIVE amount of information man.
You absolutely 100% have the best reaper tutorials out there. Not a one of them hasn't answered my question along with teaching me shit I didn't even think I needed to know.
Thank you Kenny for giving us all these lessons. You've been very helpful!
For people that kind find 'change input to midi' click on the massive thing between the thing 'route' and the thing next to 'M' and 'S'.
Sooooooooooo useful. EXCELLENT information that is informative not only in recording, but educational in the use of the DAW as well. Kenny, you are the man big dawg. Keep it up!
Late to the party but beep'n brilliant.
Thanks Kenny.
Kenny, you're an excellent teacher. I am so stoked to put this knowledge to use.
I am late coming to this channel but I am SO VERY GRATEFUL that you posted ALL of your videos! What a great resource!
This is extremely helpful, thanks so much for creating it. Learning so much watching your videos, cheers Kenny!
You have by far, the best tutorials on TH-cam.
You're a trooper, and you're so thorough! I wish more people knew about your videos you're acting as an excellent resource for budding audio engineers. Thank you!
Thank you.
Yeah one of the reason I stuck with Reaper, these videos are so thorough and fun
Excellent video Kenny - thorough and really well explained.
So many can learn from simply the tutorial making aspect of this video. Very well made sir!
This is a very informative and well-organized tutorial. Thanks!
I have two tips about the drums if it helps anyone! Firstly, after you make your drum machine and you make a pattern you like, save it as a preset. There is a little plus on the upper righthand corner that you can press by the drop-down menu. This is important because after you record your drum pattern like Kenny says in the video, you can click the FX menu and remove the mega baby midi machine. This is so that if you wish to move your drum pattern to a specific area and you don't want the drums playing continuously, removing the mega baby sequencer allows just what you have recorded to play. I hope that helps!
Pressin a MIDI Key on your keyboard and then doublcliking either NOTE STARTS or NOTE ENDS one can quickly assign the key to a sample.
Best Reaper instructions are on this channel. Thanks man, you rule 👍
Thank you Kenny.. this was very helpful and very cook
Love your lessons. Thanks. Reaper has been my DAW from version 4 when I suddenly stumbled on it. I left cubase for it, and ever since found out that it is the best. With your demonstration, you can create a nice music without any purchased instrument with just samples for those with low income. I will try out my guitar and piano on it. Thanks again!
@Taye Akintoye, I liked reading your share here! I'm trying to learn Reaper...there's so much to it!! :-)
SO helpful! I've got a couple old drum machines that I love the sound of but a couple don't have midi, one is really finicky with midi, and my timing isn't perfect enough to start/stop an unsynced machine and not have it eventually drift away from the other parts. Now I'm just going to sample them and sell them and buy other old drum machines and do the same!
Amazing tutorial! A lot to learn, but I cannot imagine a better way to learning it than following Kenny ;) Thanky ou!
Hi Kenny, thank you for this very helpful tutorial.
Another fab tutorial KG. 👏👏👏
You are the best, Kenny. Thanks. Really really appreciate it.
Cheers Kenny. Great to see the js plugins getting some love, i try to explore them also, im no expert on compressors but apparantly some are of very high quality.
I can finally use my favorite drum set in Reaper. Thank you, Kenny.
One of the best videos ever.
I am new to the whole recording game, learning as I go and your video is the most educational one I came across man, really well done with the detailed explanation!
So I wanted to ask if there's a way we can find and/or download these amazing sound file you are showing? any sources online that can have those for users? please let us know :)
Keep it up man!
Kenny, you're a legend!!!
Once again, great information in bite sized nuggets. I came here after watching the new video for converting samples to tracks, wondering how to choke two sounds. Wonderful stuff.
Great job as usual- I was wondering... is there any way to keep/set the metronome settings as new project defaults? It's not a huge deal, but it would be nice to save the step of setting "count-in before recording" to "on" every time I start a new project.
Wow, thats awesome!!!
THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR TEACHING ME THIS THING! THIS MADE ME TOO EASY TO MAKE BEATS
Eu fiquei muito feliz com esse tutorial, cara. Valeu mesmo! Thank you so much.
Thank you Kenny
Amazing! Love it!
Hey man thank you so much for this video, I learned so much ! Do you know if there is a way when you're looping to just erase just the last measure you recorded ? Just like on a guitar looper pedal. When I'm recording and I make a mistake, I would like to only erase the last thing I recorded but by doing Ctrl+Z I erase all the beat.
Thank you
Nice, video, thanks! But you could have mentioned that now we have the excellent R5K Manager by MPL which makes creating such drum machines a breeze!
I learned (again) why I do not need to spend more money as Reaper and Kenny got me covered. Thanks!
Very helpful, thank you!
Genius, Kenny. Many thanks.
Is there a way of 'exploding' each of the MIDI parts (kick, snare, and so on) to separate tracks?
I can think of a slow way of doing this, but is there a quick/automatic way?
Great stuff. Thanks pal.
Whenever I watch these videos i find my self using several choice Jamaican curse words every 3 minutes as I find another trick or command prompt to make my life easier. Thanks!
Perfect tutorial, thank you so much!
great video! do you have a video where you go through how to add wav samples into a Reaper library like the one you're using? is it similar to adding a vst plugin or is it a different process?
Hi Kenny, Is there a way to automatically layout multiple drum samples (say 20 or more) without having to do it manually one by one?
Thanks! Needed this as I'm trying to do some beats at the moment. Knew it was possible in Reaper, and of course it was. :)
Yet another fine video full of reaper-insights. TYVM!
Just one question: although having followed meticulously the instruction, the 'muting' of the crash cymbal by the hihat, doesn't seem to work.
Maybe a problem with the JS plugin?
Thank you so much! I've been looking to do this for a LONG time now! Now I can rest easy :-D
You rock man. Thank you!
With this I can apply the sample .wav files I have to MIDI inputs, but how can I map my electric drumset outputs to the MIDI notes (ie 36 C2) so they line up with the samples I've set up?
Even though I don't know English, your videos are very helpful to me. I would like to see if it is possible to route each sample to a different track? I and I tried but I can't find the way to do it.
greetings and thanks for your videos ..
If I wanted to use 2 or 3 different instances of RSM5K with say 3 different kicks and they are out of phase from each other. Can I flip/adjust the phase from the plugin?
I came up with something very similar on my own, but this is a bit better. I had everything divided into separate tracks and was doing the hi hat choke with a side chain compressor. It actually gives a nice dynamic, as it somewhat simulates varying pressure from the hi hat pedal but this method is a lot easier to work with. The main downside to your approach, is it's less intuitive to add effects to a single drum, requiring a bit more advanced knowledge of routing, but I do like having all the midi in one place so it's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
When I put my kick in, it works before I set it to a single key (C2) but not after I've set it, even when I play the key I've set it to (C2).
Correction: I don't think I've set up my MIDI right. I can't seem to set the individual track to my MIDI keyboard. My buttons aren't in the same layout as yours.
Brilliant
It's useful. Thank you
great video!
This video is such a gem. Thanks a lot
And how then to process each tool separately? e.g. equalization, compression, etc.
Thank you!
Thank you.
You always have the exact solution for whatever I am stuck with in Reaper. Is there a way to route the audio from this so you have kick, snare, clap etc on their own channels?
The midi choke doesn't work. When i hit the closed hi hat key it still has the other note ringing out
Awesome, thank you
Is there a way to send each sound to its own track so I can mix them individually?
Great video. I followed it and it works perfectly, but now the reasamplomatic shows up on every track in the FX folder even when not selected.
I get the ease of use of this but is it practical for eventually mixing the drums seeing that they’re all in one track
Great tutorial! I'm often using Reaper to test software plugins at work, but every once in a while I try to increase my knowledge and have fun at the same time, this lesson is great. I tried a few free drum machine plugins in the past, but using ReaSamplOmatic5000 is a way better method and gives me much more control over my individual samples! I now have a TR-909 sample library mapped 🙂How can I take this one step further and send each drum sample to a different channel on the mixer?
can this plugin be used as a Beat Slicer and Player with user defined keys?
How do you get the MIDIs exactly on point? Is there an option to enable that?
Did I miss the explanation of the note start/stop numbers? Why did you choose 36 to start?
Do you know exactly the drum machine that works in this logic? Allows you to select sounds conveniently from within the folder. I have never seen such a handy drum machine. So I need a drum machine that works exactly in this logic. but my main daw is studio one If you know, please tell me a drum machine that has the ability to select sounds from folder. I will use it with another daw.
You're a legend.
Thanks! Very useful
you are changing my life
I want to build a more complex version. I am building a Hand Pan sampler instrument and I want different samples to play based on velocity, I.e not simply have the same sample play at a lower/higher gain, but (I assume) have a velocity threshold for a different sample to play (a sample of me literally playing the acoustic instrument softer) so that its more real. Is this possible? I see on the sampler there is a 'probability' and' round-robin' function, which indicates it might be possible. Also, can I trigger a round-robin of samples when the same velocity is played.
Essentially, I want a very varied sample instrument so that it will sound a lot more real.
Whenever I try loading a sample, it sounds like it's gained up to the max, and I get an unnatural and crappy sounding white noise. Can you help with this? It's not the samples because they're fine in Ableton.
How do I assign a sound to the pads on my keyboard?
Thanks, so cool
Great Video
I was kind of torn on Reaper. Video watched. Now downloaded. Looks like my new DAW.
Hi Kenny! Congratulations for all the material you share. It's really useful!!
I have a question for you about playing with samples using Reasamplomatic during a live session.
I played the sample (or a vst synth) and while I'm still playing the note, I play a track (transport playback button) and I listen to a "pop" in that moment.
I find this post on a forum, and is the exact problem that I have (maybe is useful):
"Audio stops when I hit play
OK, this is an issue most people won't have to deal with...but hopefully someone can help.
I use Reaper to play live. I have a song where I free play some keyboard stuff, MIDI controller to a VST, and I let it ring out, and then hit play to start the rest of the song.
Issue is this: when I hit play, the VST goes silent. So instead of a nice ringout over the start of the song, it just cuts short, and then the song begins. Even if I'm holding the sustain pedal.
Anyone have any idea how I can overcome this?
By Vampire step dad"
Do you know how I can fix it? Thanks!!!!
Thankyou
I’ve made very cool beats with that samplematic 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
how did you put the keyboard down and so big?
Great vid! Can instruments be send to separate channels?
GREAT!!
You're doing God's work. Thank you.
How did you open the color change menu so fast?
Where did you get all of your drum sounds?
the select midi option isnt there????
Where did you get those drum files that you put into the sound library folder.
Indeed!!! Kenny??????
Paul T download some drum kits.
You can get free samples online. Try it out.
where exactly
all these tutorials they always lose me because i have no idea where they get the stuff to start with?
Hello, a fantastic tutorial indeed. I just want to know if I create a drum loop using ReaSamplOmatic5000 is it possible to route the midi signals into different tracks so that I can edit the sounds separately?
Just edit the samples beforehand.
Kenny is the master.