In Layers mode you can adjust the pan, volume and FX chain for each item. You could multitrack an entire song in a single track with that mode. Great for vocal harmony sections and guitar doubling. Plus you can manage those items in a sub-project.
I know I'm repeating myself, but I really hope Cockos address crossfades in Takes mode. I'm always using Takes (for creative and technical reasons) and the only reason to turn them off for me is to avoid the issue you just described. I know a solution to this has been requested for over 10 years now in the forums, but maybe some day they'll get to this after they've finished optimizing the media browser :)
YES YES YES please for Voice Acting, Audio Book recording etc. How to work with lanes and takes efficiently would be great. Sometimes you've got a 45 min recording to get through, noting mistakes on the fly (with markers?) and sometimes (not ideal) having to stop and redo a difficult section or sections which may leave multiple non-aligned takes. Editing same can quickly become a nightmare. Imagine doing this 12-20 times (1x for each chapter) and before you know it bricklaying is starting to look pretty good.
I shit you not. These guys that make these tutorials oughta get gold awards. I started in reaper SO overwhelmed... If it weren't for these channels,I'd still be trying to figure out a whole lotta stuff. Been using reaper for close to a year,and I still have barely scratched the surface lol.
Thanks to this vid I learned alot about multiple takes to play in same track and then grouping. I would love to see a deep dive on midi editing. I would love it if you build a custom cycle action. In the midi editor that allows easy cycle through note length on the grid for when I want to step input and switch from 1/4 to 1/8 to 16th etc. Love your tutorials.
outstanding video! Have only used Reaper for a week now and have learned so much, alot by messing with settings, I just wish I could set my Reaper up with different colors and it wouldnt go away when I close the program
I find the lane thing useful for MIDI if I am looping and playing and then I can move them around and loop each one, but yeah for Audio, very weird to use.
I love the layer mode for adding fills and cymbal hits on drums over dubs. Drummer can do a take and play the groove then overdub the cymbals and fills after and they all come into the same set of drum tracks saving doubling up on track count
Recording layers is especially nice when recording non beat/grid based stuffs like voice acting for audio fiction, but it is often just more easy to record just after instead of over previous items.
it is nice for making vocal harmonies or any overdubing for that matter. you just hit the record button multiple times (or even only once with the loop turned on) and keep adding more layers of vocals or what ever and then you can hear everything and mix that group of overdubs on the spot
Thank you for your excellent work in this channel! I have been following it for years. As a German-based voice actor who uses Reaper for recording and producing, I would appreciate it if you could share a bit more about the recording modes in relation to voice work.
Hi John! In this video you use time and item punch recording modes with auto monitoring mode. But always you make selection first and then press record. Have you tried to make selection on the fly? I noticed strange behavior with monitoring in this case... and don't know how to use it.. may be I miss some advantages?
There are times I have actually done that. Like multiple camera angles, or for music when I'm hired as an editor and they send me multiple takes to comp.
@@TheREAPERBlog Yes I'm sure there are plenty of reasons to use takes without any actual recoding, even for sound design or even just versioning/backup of processing
@@TheREAPERBlog Oh my goodness. I regularly edit camera angles together. I used automation instead of takes to switch between them. This is one of those facepalm moments - thanks in advance for the hours you've saved me!
Hi. thanks for your videos - they really help and inspire. Please show me the work on recording midi (takes, lines, layers). It's interesting how the pedal controllers behave with different recording methods. Thanks in advance.
Very interesting topic. Lots of options. Hard to grasp aöö of them. ... and then seemingly the upcoming feature "media item lanes" will add some more complexity, and seemingly should open a new and maybe more easily to manage way of a kind of take recording / comping. I suppose more videos on all this will be viable. -Michael
I've been recording drums with Reaper for years (32 tracks of drums) and I've always used crossfades during recording. I record a ton of takes, and then comp the best takes all together. I also use Auto punch in with a 4 bar pre-roll and use the time selection so I don't get a bunch of tiny segments as you mentioned... HOWEVER, there are times when I just want to play out a section of the song and dont want a bunch of tiny hidden items that cause all kinds of weird glitches. How would I apply the crossfades later if I decided to turn crossfades off? How would I know where is a good place to split my items without crossfades being on? As in, part of punching in drums is getting the cymbal wash just right so you can't tell where the punch happened.
I hope your can understand the Nubie frustration and anxiety too, but it's not like your fault, it's just I have not gotten an answer off their website or forum , which it says I don't have permission to post or reply on.
Someone probably asked this before, but how do you display the CPU utilization and last save time in the bottom left of your main Reaper window? It's a pretty awesome feature, I tried googling it but didn't find anything useful.
I have one problem with takes. Let's say I forgot to unarm track with drums and I started recording the bass. Now I have 10 takes on drums which I don't want. Is there a way to delete those 10 take lanes? (I tried various actions, but usually they deleted only a portion of the take lane and I had to remove those one by one on each mic, which is not a nice way how to spend an evening.) Thanks for any advice.
Good thing that didn't happen in Tape mode! sounds like you don't have grouping on. If you had the items grouped, you could one take and it affects all the other grouped items.
In Layers mode you can adjust the pan, volume and FX chain for each item. You could multitrack an entire song in a single track with that mode. Great for vocal harmony sections and guitar doubling. Plus you can manage those items in a sub-project.
I know I'm repeating myself, but I really hope Cockos address crossfades in Takes mode. I'm always using Takes (for creative and technical reasons) and the only reason to turn them off for me is to avoid the issue you just described. I know a solution to this has been requested for over 10 years now in the forums, but maybe some day they'll get to this after they've finished optimizing the media browser :)
YES YES YES please for Voice Acting, Audio Book recording etc. How to work with lanes and takes efficiently would be great. Sometimes you've got a 45 min recording to get through, noting mistakes on the fly (with markers?) and sometimes (not ideal) having to stop and redo a difficult section or sections which may leave multiple non-aligned takes. Editing same can quickly become a nightmare. Imagine doing this 12-20 times (1x for each chapter) and before you know it bricklaying is starting to look pretty good.
Thanks this helps so much. Mixcraft was so much easier.🍻
I shit you not. These guys that make these tutorials oughta get gold awards. I started in reaper SO overwhelmed... If it weren't for these channels,I'd still be trying to figure out a whole lotta stuff.
Been using reaper for close to a year,and I still have barely scratched the surface lol.
Thanks to this vid I learned alot about multiple takes to play in same track and then grouping.
I would love to see a deep dive on midi editing. I would love it if you build a custom cycle action. In the midi editor that allows easy cycle through note length on the grid for when I want to step input and switch from 1/4 to 1/8 to 16th etc. Love your tutorials.
This Thursday you'll see that in a video, not a cycle action but a different way, along with a bunch of other actions I use for MIDI editing.
outstanding video! Have only used Reaper for a week now and have learned so much, alot by messing with settings, I just wish I could set my Reaper up with different colors and it wouldnt go away when I close the program
I find the lane thing useful for MIDI if I am looping and playing and then I can move them around and loop each one, but yeah for Audio, very weird to use.
Thanks John, those workflow videos are top notch !
I love the layer mode for adding fills and cymbal hits on drums over dubs. Drummer can do a take and play the groove then overdub the cymbals and fills after and they all come into the same set of drum tracks saving doubling up on track count
Thank you Jon. Yet another great informative video
I was thinking that the weird mode might be a way to double a guitar track without taking up another track (console channel).
Recording layers is especially nice when recording non beat/grid based stuffs like voice acting for audio fiction,
but it is often just more easy to record just after instead of over previous items.
it is nice for making vocal harmonies or any overdubing for that matter. you just hit the record button multiple times (or even only once with the loop turned on) and keep adding more layers of vocals or what ever and then you can hear everything and mix that group of overdubs on the spot
Awesome job! Can you balance your voice narrative to the recording example. Had to keep turning up and down.
Thank you for your excellent work in this channel! I have been following it for years. As a German-based voice actor who uses Reaper for recording and producing, I would appreciate it if you could share a bit more about the recording modes in relation to voice work.
Hi John! In this video you use time and item punch recording modes with auto monitoring mode. But always you make selection first and then press record.
Have you tried to make selection on the fly?
I noticed strange behavior with monitoring in this case... and don't know how to use it.. may be I miss some advantages?
Another great one, always enjoy the top material!! I'm waiting for the next one (using) takes without recording ;)
There are times I have actually done that. Like multiple camera angles, or for music when I'm hired as an editor and they send me multiple takes to comp.
@@TheREAPERBlog Yes I'm sure there are plenty of reasons to use takes without any actual recoding, even for sound design or even just versioning/backup of processing
@@TheREAPERBlog Oh my goodness. I regularly edit camera angles together. I used automation instead of takes to switch between them. This is one of those facepalm moments - thanks in advance for the hours you've saved me!
That is great. This is helpful. I am interested in the MIDI recording overdub modes.
Very helpful. Off-thread, but I've emailed you about doing a special on Kontakt Instrument Banks, a topic that for some reason nobody seems to cover.
Hi. thanks for your videos - they really help and inspire. Please show me the work on recording midi (takes, lines, layers). It's interesting how the pedal controllers behave with different recording methods. Thanks in advance.
Very interesting topic. Lots of options. Hard to grasp aöö of them. ... and then seemingly the upcoming feature "media item lanes" will add some more complexity, and seemingly should open a new and maybe more easily to manage way of a kind of take recording / comping.
I suppose more videos on all this will be viable.
-Michael
Yeah I knew that was coming so better to get the existing features covered first.
Where did you get the stick counts!? Is that part of your drum vst?
yeah that's part of the Addictive Drums library
can you share the icons from your toolbars?
with reaper 7 I got crossfades off and also in settings, I got all that in settings un checked and crossfades keeps showing up still
15:17 how dod u split item in time selec?
I've been recording drums with Reaper for years (32 tracks of drums) and I've always used crossfades during recording. I record a ton of takes, and then comp the best takes all together. I also use Auto punch in with a 4 bar pre-roll and use the time selection so I don't get a bunch of tiny segments as you mentioned... HOWEVER, there are times when I just want to play out a section of the song and dont want a bunch of tiny hidden items that cause all kinds of weird glitches. How would I apply the crossfades later if I decided to turn crossfades off? How would I know where is a good place to split my items without crossfades being on? As in, part of punching in drums is getting the cymbal wash just right so you can't tell where the punch happened.
you need to play the cymbal in the preroll, or punch in right before a crash.
I hope your can understand the Nubie frustration and anxiety too, but it's not like your fault, it's just I have not gotten an answer off their website or forum , which it says I don't have permission to post or reply on.
Dumb question but what is the guitar tone you use for this series?
Amplitube Jet City JCA20. I think I showed in the first video.
Yes, MIDI!
Someone probably asked this before, but how do you display the CPU utilization and last save time in the bottom left of your main Reaper window? It's a pretty awesome feature, I tried googling it but didn't find anything useful.
just right-click that area
@@TheREAPERBlog Oh wow so simple!
I have one problem with takes. Let's say I forgot to unarm track with drums and I started recording the bass. Now I have 10 takes on drums which I don't want. Is there a way to delete those 10 take lanes? (I tried various actions, but usually they deleted only a portion of the take lane and I had to remove those one by one on each mic, which is not a nice way how to spend an evening.) Thanks for any advice.
Good thing that didn't happen in Tape mode!
sounds like you don't have grouping on. If you had the items grouped, you could one take and it affects all the other grouped items.
Have a bit of a problem. I record on track 1 rhy. 1. On track 2 it automatically records track 1 rty 1. How do I turn that off?
That's not normal, I'd need to know about your setup to answer that.
Will you be covering comps?
Other than split, cycle previous/next which was in the first video, I'm not sure what else there is to cover. I don't any other comp functions.
@@TheREAPERBlog It's all good.
Is that Fifine K678?
it is indeed.
Yes please midi recording video
At around 9:28, when his messenger notification occurred.....I thought for a moment it was from my phone..... 😂🤣
my wife sent a link to pickle milk. 😔
@@TheREAPERBlog Yikes ! 😖
Everything is quite weird, but I don't understand your point.
25 minutes???