Besides the always useful tips and tricks, I'm always impressed by the effort you put into your video editing so the point you make is direct and crystal clear. You make your demonstration feel natural and effortless without clutter. It really needs a lot of care to achieve. Cheers.
One thing Kenny didn't mention (and this might be helpful for new Reaper users) is that if you drag to re-order your regions, they might no longer be in numerical order. The quick fix is to open the Region/Marker Manager (ctrl+alt+shift+r on PC), right click anywhere inside that window and select "renumber in timeline order".
It is actually incredible how many times I've watched a video of yours just at random for entertainment value and you have either answered a question that had me stumped or you have given me brand new inspiring ideas to try in Reaper. I LOVE REAPER AND I LOVE YOU, KENNY!
🤔 The last step (rearranging/copying the regions in the specific order you want) might be 'automatable' . Think about playback the regions like shown in the video (jump to the different regions live) but also record the order of this live switching in a 2nd project tab. I don't know if this is possible atm but it wouldn't surprized me if it is 😁 With a set of custom actions Something like 'copy all items under playhead --> jump to projecttab 2 --> paste -> jump to projecttab 1' of course it's not that simple. There had to be some other actions before. For example 'mute all tracks on projecttab2' to avoid playing both tabs and the items need to be placed at the correct positions (not at the playhead but on the bar on the timeline) but this might be possible with a specific setting in the grit/snap menu. Well. Just some thoughts 😁 thats what I really like about reaper. You probably think: "Hey, it would be great if I could do this or that" and 'bam' there is a way to do it. 😄 Thank you Kenny for all the teaching 👍.
It's for tasks like that region hopping -- not common enough most of the time to justify getting some kind of keyboard shortcut on the main keyboard -- that I make use of a wireless keyboard connected to a spare laptop running a Python Qt app that turns keypresses on the secondary wireless keyboard into OSC messages that I can bind in Reaper. I then use the F1...F12 keys (along with modifiers) to select pages, so that I have up to 48 pages of keyboard shortcuts on my secondary keyboard. The only task then (which I haven't done much on yet) is keeping track of what's assigned where. (Though thankfully Reaper stores its OSC bindings in a plain text config file, and you can dump the action list to a text file, so it is not hard generate shortcut lists and similar.)
As always amazingly helpful. This will make my composing efforts so much easier. Thanks again Kenny, you're work is fantastic. Thanks to you and the REAPER team!
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Nice video ! Got to add the custom actions for changing region and loop at the same time ! One cool tip when moving regions is the action to renumber markers and regions, so shortcuts to go to regions stay up to date with regions order.
Thanks for the video (and all the other ones!!!). The one thing I like in Ableton’s session view - and that I haven’t been able to replicate in Reaper - is the ability to play loops that have different lengths simultaneously. For example, playing a 16-beat loop with another one that’s 15-beat long. This is something that Logic Pro’s “Live Loops Grid” can do as well. Any idea of how to do this in Reaper? TY
This makes the beat making process even easier. Thank you for this would have never thought to use regions to setup loop points so much eaiser than making midi items for all my tracks.
06:54 whaaaaat ? Been creating custom actions for all this time and didn't know selecting actions beforehand would add them in the custom action once you create a new custom action... Such a timesaver ! Thank you Kenny
You're the man! Like you read my mind. I was just going to start searching for region solutions. I used to use this many years ago but forgot how to do it ahaha., Cheers, Broheim!
nice workaround to achieve the scene/session view! the instant seek aspect where the playhead remains in its relative position when swapping between regions is one of the challenges.... the idea behind instant region swapping and maintaining the playhead positioning is useful for instantly swapping in a instrument versus waiting for the 4bars to complete
this is a SUPER handy way to utilize regions I hadn't thought of! Will definite use it but... I wonder if there's a way to get that "mix and match clips" style playback like Ableton? For example, while scene one is playing in Ableton, I can have a single clip NOT in that scene start to play with it, even though it isn't "lined up" with that scene.
Thanks as always Kenny... but I was looking for something else, maybe you can help me (or even do a follow-up video perhaps)? I will often use regions to document a chord progression in a part of a song. Say the verse has two sections, I will create one region for the first part and another region for the second part with the cords in the name field for each. But technically the whole verse is both regions combined so I would like to have a second region that spans that whole section. I know this is possible, and I think they can been seen separately in like a "regions lane" of some kind, but damn if I can figure out how to do that. I can create nested regions, but they overlap each other and can't be manipulated independently. Is there a way to get regions into their own "lanes" (my word not something in Reaper). Thanks again for all your great content, you rock!
This is another brilliant video. I would add a word of caution though, so you don't run into trouble. The "Regions:Set loop point to current region" may be a recent addition. I was a couple of Reaper versions out of date, and that option wasn't available. The whole thing depends on it. Make sure you have the current version of Reaper. Question: is there any way to record a "live take" ie recording while changing the regions?
Very nice! Thank you for your amazing tutorials! 2 questions just came in my mind... 01 - There is any way to set an action + keyboard shortcut to select a channel from a region and mute / unmute that channel without using the mouse? Just by using the keyboard shortcut we set to that action. 02 - its posible to use a MDI Controller like AKAI APC 64 and work how it works in Ableton?
This was great! I'm interested in using Reaper to do live looping (guitar and midi instruments). Is this the way you would set up Reaper to do this? If not, do you gave a tutorial showing how to set up the ideal live looping scenario?
2:08 pleaase can you let me know how you scroll through tracks using a continuous knob on your controller? I tried this myself but couldn't get my head around it in the actions list!
@@cpt.kimintuitiondemon the only DAW that updates so frequently that it’s hard to keep up with 😂 FINE I’ll install the new one again lol 🙏 but thank you, appreciate it
Superb, Kenny (as always). I've been using a similar method for a while just manually jumping between regions or using the Region List but you've revealed a few actions that make it so much slicker. Many thanks. But.....I've always had a niggling thought. Is there any way to record my performance as I jump about regions OR record/note what order I played the regions when playing 'on the fly'. Sometimes I come up with a performance I've really liked and I'm stuffed trying to remember what I actually did. (Advancing age). Any suggestions.
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? th-cam.com/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/w-d-xo.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? th-cam.com/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/w-d-xo.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think @timheald6612 can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video?
If you want it to be immediate, use Markers instead. Then you can also go to the Seeking preferences and turn on "Do not change playback position Immediately when seeking (smooth seek)" and make adjustments there.
@jbongnap that immediate seek is one of the challenges, that is not so easy to overcome.... as Reaper tends to have buffer underruns... which is not a good thing if one desires to utilise midi syncing with clocks etc, i found the best method is to use MaschineVST for immediate seeking, which can be run inside Reaper... i did a video on 4 instances using Reaper as a host on my channel
Don't see why not, the same workflow should work fine with audio as well. The only difference is you can't edit midi items if you don't have them. You can still mute audio media items as desired
Great! But one thing: I cannot find the action 'Regions: Set loop points to current region'. Running Reaper v6.83 on win10. Maybe the action has an ID number? Kenny rules!
If you want Reaper to beat Ableton Live, invest more in the quality of native plugins. For example, ReaEq does not have a choice in the filters decibels. Study the Ableton Live plug-ins and improve yours accordingly. . Otherwise, Reaper is vastly superior to Live.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Because it's not stock and most people don't know about ReEq ? NB : had not heard about it until reading your post and it is amazing indeed. With that being said, lots of users (especially not advanced) will do just fine with ReaEQ.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Also : if you use your DAW to practice your live mixing (as in : mixing live shows in real time with an actual live mixing console) skills, ReaEQ is better because it's closer to the available EQs in most live mixing consoles. If you get used to ReEQ because it is "the best" (compared to ReaEq), then when you're on an actual mixing console, you're fucked because suddenly you don't have all these nice things from ReEQ.
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Besides the always useful tips and tricks, I'm always impressed by the effort you put into your video editing so the point you make is direct and crystal clear. You make your demonstration feel natural and effortless without clutter. It really needs a lot of care to achieve. Cheers.
Thank you. I does take a lot longer than you'd think. Glad it was worth it.
@@REAPERMania Yes it was Kenny - thank's a lot for all your work, it is highly appreciated! ❤
One thing Kenny didn't mention (and this might be helpful for new Reaper users) is that if you drag to re-order your regions, they might no longer be in numerical order.
The quick fix is to open the Region/Marker Manager (ctrl+alt+shift+r on PC), right click anywhere inside that window and select "renumber in timeline order".
Nice
Very helpful!👌🏻
It is actually incredible how many times I've watched a video of yours just at random for entertainment value and you have either answered a question that had me stumped or you have given me brand new inspiring ideas to try in Reaper. I LOVE REAPER AND I LOVE YOU, KENNY!
Good God! I just downloaded Ableton to do just this and this video made me realize I don't need it because Reaper is the best. Back to Reaper!
You've taught me more about Reaper over the years than anyone.
🤔 The last step (rearranging/copying the regions in the specific order you want) might be 'automatable' . Think about playback the regions like shown in the video (jump to the different regions live) but also record the order of this live switching in a 2nd project tab. I don't know if this is possible atm but it wouldn't surprized me if it is 😁 With a set of custom actions Something like 'copy all items under playhead --> jump to projecttab 2 --> paste -> jump to projecttab 1' of course it's not that simple. There had to be some other actions before. For example 'mute all tracks on projecttab2' to avoid playing both tabs and the items need to be placed at the correct positions (not at the playhead but on the bar on the timeline) but this might be possible with a specific setting in the grit/snap menu.
Well. Just some thoughts 😁 thats what I really like about reaper. You probably think: "Hey, it would be great if I could do this or that" and 'bam' there is a way to do it. 😄
Thank you Kenny for all the teaching 👍.
This was incredibly useful and informative. I learned a lot about composing in Reaper even aside from using Regions. Thank you!
It's for tasks like that region hopping -- not common enough most of the time to justify getting some kind of keyboard shortcut on the main keyboard -- that I make use of a wireless keyboard connected to a spare laptop running a Python Qt app that turns keypresses on the secondary wireless keyboard into OSC messages that I can bind in Reaper. I then use the F1...F12 keys (along with modifiers) to select pages, so that I have up to 48 pages of keyboard shortcuts on my secondary keyboard. The only task then (which I haven't done much on yet) is keeping track of what's assigned where. (Though thankfully Reaper stores its OSC bindings in a plain text config file, and you can dump the action list to a text file, so it is not hard generate shortcut lists and similar.)
As always amazingly helpful. This will make my composing efforts so much easier. Thanks again Kenny, you're work is fantastic. Thanks to you and the REAPER team!
Nice video ! Got to add the custom actions for changing region and loop at the same time !
One cool tip when moving regions is the action to renumber markers and regions, so shortcuts to go to regions stay up to date with regions order.
Thanks for the video (and all the other ones!!!). The one thing I like in Ableton’s session view - and that I haven’t been able to replicate in Reaper - is the ability to play loops that have different lengths simultaneously. For example, playing a 16-beat loop with another one that’s 15-beat long. This is something that Logic Pro’s “Live Loops Grid” can do as well.
Any idea of how to do this in Reaper? TY
This makes the beat making process even easier. Thank you for this would have never thought to use regions to setup loop points so much eaiser than making midi items for all my tracks.
this is amazing - love your videos! learning to separate production workflow from mixing workflow has been such a help.
Super useful and helpful video, as always. Many thanks Kenny, you rock !
Your knowledge amazes me. I am astounded by your patience. Thank you again
Then you bounce it and voila! A full seamless track.
Thank you for this trick Kenny!
I found out how to do this last year and it made Reaper a lot of fun
You made the video! I'll watch it tomorrow. ❣Juan here.
06:54 whaaaaat ? Been creating custom actions for all this time and didn't know selecting actions beforehand would add them in the custom action once you create a new custom action...
Such a timesaver !
Thank you Kenny
You're the man! Like you read my mind. I was just going to start searching for region solutions. I used to use this many years ago but forgot how to do it ahaha., Cheers, Broheim!
With smooth seeking & markers, this is freaking gold
It's still vertically linear,and you can't play for example drums from region 1 with other tracks in region 3,which is the main point of session view.
Interesting. But maybe there could be a workaround for it.
and then there's of course SWS Region playlist which received an update with the latest SWS/S&M extension pre-release
nice workaround to achieve the scene/session view!
the instant seek aspect where the playhead remains in its relative position when swapping between regions is one of the challenges....
the idea behind instant region swapping and maintaining the playhead positioning is useful for instantly swapping in a instrument versus waiting for the 4bars to complete
Thank you so much for this.
Very impressive!!!
Thanks so much....
The man does it again...👍
this is a SUPER handy way to utilize regions I hadn't thought of! Will definite use it but...
I wonder if there's a way to get that "mix and match clips" style playback like Ableton? For example, while scene one is playing in Ableton, I can have a single clip NOT in that scene start to play with it, even though it isn't "lined up" with that scene.
Thanks as always Kenny... but I was looking for something else, maybe you can help me (or even do a follow-up video perhaps)?
I will often use regions to document a chord progression in a part of a song. Say the verse has two sections, I will create one region for the first part and another region for the second part with the cords in the name field for each.
But technically the whole verse is both regions combined so I would like to have a second region that spans that whole section. I know this is possible, and I think they can been seen separately in like a "regions lane" of some kind, but damn if I can figure out how to do that. I can create nested regions, but they overlap each other and can't be manipulated independently.
Is there a way to get regions into their own "lanes" (my word not something in Reaper).
Thanks again for all your great content, you rock!
This is another brilliant video. I would add a word of caution though, so you don't run into trouble. The "Regions:Set loop point to current region" may be a recent addition. I was a couple of Reaper versions out of date, and that option wasn't available. The whole thing depends on it. Make sure you have the current version of Reaper. Question: is there any way to record a "live take" ie recording while changing the regions?
You can use "Save live output to disk (bounce)..." and it will record anything you playback.
Thank you for this, Kenny
Cubase has Arrangement track, Ableton /Bitwig has session, Logic Pro has session. Reaper has Kenny
Man thats awesome, thank u so much!
I didn't know you could select multiple actions at once when making a new custom action
I learned it while making this video. lol
Same haha. And i didn't know it would automatically add them to the newly created custom action :)
Veddy nice, indeed. Thanks moin!
Great video thank you. I was looking for this. Is there a way to have certain tracks programmed to be automatically quantized?
wow...this is awesome!
Thank you Kenny !
Great content. Tnx for sharing
Super nice tutorial!!! Reaper Live 😁👍
Looks like Ableton plugins in the screen cap?
Very nice!
Very nice!
Thank you for your amazing tutorials!
2 questions just came in my mind...
01 - There is any way to set an action + keyboard shortcut to select a channel from a region and mute / unmute that channel without using the mouse?
Just by using the keyboard shortcut we set to that action.
02 - its posible to use a MDI Controller like AKAI APC 64 and work how it works in Ableton?
This was great! I'm interested in using Reaper to do live looping (guitar and midi instruments). Is this the way you would set up Reaper to do this? If not, do you gave a tutorial showing how to set up the ideal live looping scenario?
There isn't much he hasn't shown
Seriously Kenny, I owe you a lot: how can I buy you a coffee?
awesome!
This is really cool man😊
Nice
Thnx Kenny 👍🏼🎼🎶
I just miss the feature of playing loops with different lengths at the same time.
Love ya Kenny
2:08 pleaase can you let me know how you scroll through tracks using a continuous knob on your controller? I tried this myself but couldn't get my head around it in the actions list!
th-cam.com/video/gkHUYl8Qbew/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KX7MDqBkICHmQju4
I can’t seem to find the action for Regions: Set loop points to current region 😢
Last update of reaper should include the action.
@@cpt.kimintuitiondemon the only DAW that updates so frequently that it’s hard to keep up with 😂 FINE I’ll install the new one again lol 🙏 but thank you, appreciate it
Superb, Kenny (as always).
I've been using a similar method for a while just manually jumping between regions or using the Region List but you've revealed a few actions that make it so much slicker. Many thanks.
But.....I've always had a niggling thought. Is there any way to record my performance as I jump about regions OR record/note what order I played the regions when playing 'on the fly'.
Sometimes I come up with a performance I've really liked and I'm stuffed trying to remember what I actually did. (Advancing age).
Any suggestions.
I'm going to look into that. Thanks.
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? th-cam.com/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/w-d-xo.html
👍👍
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? th-cam.com/video/sBuFHJlZ19Q/w-d-xo.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think @timheald6612 can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video?
Are there any actions which can specify how long to wait before switching regions, e.g. immediate, next 8th note, next beat or end of current region?
If you want it to be immediate, use Markers instead. Then you can also go to the Seeking preferences and turn on "Do not change playback position Immediately when seeking (smooth seek)" and make adjustments there.
Let's go!!@@REAPERMania
@jbongnap
that immediate seek is one of the challenges, that is not so easy to overcome.... as Reaper tends to have buffer underruns... which is not a good thing if one desires to utilise midi syncing with clocks etc, i found the best method is to use MaschineVST for immediate seeking, which can be run inside Reaper... i did a video on 4 instances using Reaper as a host on my channel
This is excellent. Thank you Kenny. I assume you can do the same thing with audio tracks?
There are only "tracks" in reaper, they can contain video,midi,audio,... so this workflow will work with all of that.
the navigation part sure, but I didnt find how to overdub audio
@@Arkansya Kenny showed this in one of his recent videos - This is REAPER 7 - Recording audio pt 1, 2
Why is the thumbnail Ableton?
Noice ~~>
Can we do this with audio instead of midi? like a guitar looper?
Yes.
Don't see why not, the same workflow should work fine with audio as well. The only difference is you can't edit midi items if you don't have them. You can still mute audio media items as desired
@@REAPERManiaAwesome, this is a new take on the reaper looper in that case. I used to use ableton for that occasionally.
Great video! How do you get panning, mute and FX on the separate items?
Preferences > Media > on the bottom part you can check/uncheck the individual media item buttons
@@vivenzeo Thanks a lot. It's actually Preferences->Appearance->Media, so took me some time to find 🙂
@@lavryk oopsie, only tried to recall it by memory lol sorry
is "set loop points to current region" only available in Reaper 7?
🤯🤯🤯🙏🙏🙏
Kenny Gioia and Reaper are synonyms.
Are you using Playtime to get into session mode in Reaper?
No
Wuhaa!
Great! But one thing: I cannot find the action 'Regions: Set loop points to current region'. Running Reaper v6.83 on win10. Maybe the action has an ID number?
Kenny rules!
Nice ! I wonder if there is a script which could programmed the regions loops in a queue, so more regions are programmed in advanced.
Oh yes there is some things like, SWS playlist. And ReaGoTo daniellumertz.
why thumbnail is ableton?
If you want Reaper to beat Ableton Live, invest more in the quality of native plugins. For example, ReaEq does not have a choice in the filters decibels.
Study the Ableton Live plug-ins and improve yours accordingly. .
Otherwise, Reaper is vastly superior to Live.
Live's synths and effects rival many of the commercial ones that cost as much as Live.
Reaper, a melhor DAW do mundo 🌎
I am not sure why any Reaper user still reaches for ReaEq when we can all just reach for ReEq instead.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Because it's not stock and most people don't know about ReEq ?
NB : had not heard about it until reading your post and it is amazing indeed.
With that being said, lots of users (especially not advanced) will do just fine with ReaEQ.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Also : if you use your DAW to practice your live mixing (as in : mixing live shows in real time with an actual live mixing console) skills, ReaEQ is better because it's closer to the available EQs in most live mixing consoles.
If you get used to ReEQ because it is "the best" (compared to ReaEq), then when you're on an actual mixing console, you're fucked because suddenly you don't have all these nice things from ReEQ.