There are so many things that Reaper can do that we don't even realize. The only one who probably knows all of Reaper top to bottom is Kenny. Thanks for these amazing videos!!! :)
Kenny knows all the ins and outs of Reaper. His explanations are so easy to understand, he gets to the point immediately, with an incredible clarity and perfect examples. You can even understand the patterns of his voice through its pitch: when he's saying something that starts the sentence, continues and closes it. Like a ADSR! :) This is very helpful and helps to memorize the concepts. Well done man! Legions of Reaper users thank you for all your tutorials.
Agreed! The first couple times I watched his tutorials, I thought his cadence was a little odd, but I quickly realized that's just how he slows things down and makes them so easy to understand. Kenny is an amazing teacher!
Kenny, I don't know if you'll ever see this but I just want you to know how incredibly helpful you have been in my learning process for producing and editing my own podcast. Thank you! I have immensely enjoyed the journey
I´m Just here to comment how helpful you are!! I´m learning reaper like a pro and i realize all the tutorials that help me are yours. So clear and concise!!! TY mi man!
I've been using Reaper a lot over the last 15 yearts or so and know most of this stuff, but it's always something buried in there that I didn't know. This whole time I have been dragging accross the timeline to select all the items in the track, and never even thought to just double click the track. Nuggets like this is why this is easily the best channel on YT for Reaper. Been listening for a long time, ever since I was a newb and didn't know anything about Reaper, and I was actually coming over from Sonar which is what became of Cakewalk before that/ No idea why I chose that one to begin with, but it was okay. but Reaper won me over again and again even when I would watch other people use Logic (which I think is decent as well) and of course the not so good pro tools, and then....Ableton Live. When I finally gave Ableton a shot because of a free version of Live light I got with some gear, and I fell in love with it. I still use Reaper for recording instruments and mixing band type of stuff, but if I'm just in a creative zone and wanting to deep dive on some sample based stuff, I go to Live. I did that for long enough that I felt like I loved how live did most things, but did not love how it did MIDI editing, so I started doing some rewire stuff between Reaper and Live. It's kind of mind blowing that we live in an age where we can not only record on our laptops and even tablets and phones now, and pull up every type of virtual instrument you can think of, and a few you didn't even know existed, but we can also run one daw through another. It's crazy. Imagine if you would have went back and told Pink Floyd or the Beatles that one day we would be doing that. It would have melted their brains even more than they were already melted....;)
@@REAPERMania Thank you Kenny, My kids, girlfriend and our families are all in good shape. Plz keep your excellent vids coming ! Kind Regards from Holland.
I learn something new from every one of your videos. I mean, things I wish I had already known. I have wasted a lot of time doing things the long way. Thanks for all of these awesome videos!
I sound like reverb, but gotta give props. Your videos are fantastic, and helped convince me to purchase and stick with Reaper. Knowing that there's a wealth of well explicated tutorials for it is comforting to the lowly acolyte.
Greetings from Ireland. Wanted to say thank you so much Kenny for your incredible videos, I started using Reaper 1 month ago and have learned everything so far from your brilliant videos! am so thankful. You're a legend Kenny!
Hey, Reaper G.O.A.T - it’s great to see a clip of you actually playing...;0)! I only watched this particular video because of the hilarious clip, as I thought I had this subject covered - trust you to show that I didn’t. Derrr me!
Great video but one thing i can not find out is what is we use also video and have a track with timecode? Because in the project it has the same time on the timeline. I ask because i have to record classical music so all takes will be multitrack and there is also video with it for video production. And ehat happens if i export this as edl to open this project in Sequoia (Samplitude) because someone else is going to edit, mix and master it.
Is there a way to change colors of takes ? I find that it's a bit hard to see which items are active across different takes due to random colors. There is not enough contrast between active and inactive items/takes.
My humble request for a video would be how Kenny handles Takes for multiple grouped items. I already have a process for this which involves auto grouping recorded tracks but I bet Kenny would be way more slick about it :D
Is there a way to just consolidate all takes into one single take? I use takes for drums with a drum plugin recording as MIDI, start with hihats, then kick snare etc.. all as seperate takes, trying to find way to later consolidate everything into a single item containing all seperate takes.
Wao! A million thank yous Kenny! There I was an hour ago thinking DAW's are too much, even Reaper is too much, my poor classical muso brain is NEVER going to be able to handle this stuff... and this video has just convinced me otherwise. Also, that forking out for the basic license is just the sensible thing to do!
Thanks Kenny! One question: Sometimes when I record over a recording, it does record all the takes and sometimes it doesn't. I don't see the pattern. Is it the number of takes or is it about looping....? Thanks for your help :)
@reaper mania if im recording takes with master send off and can not hear what im recording due to following tab and my takes are not inline then how do i drag other takes to line up with the others? or do i have to watch and listen to what ive recorded in other takes
I have a lane on one of my tracks that's named "empty lane" and has no audio. I can delete the other takes within the track that have audio but not this one. Not sure if "empty lane" is a default or possibly my guitarist could have named it during recording? At this point I just need assistance to delete "empty lane". BTW- Great video Kenny. I didn't catch the keystrokes or method used to delete lanes I'm experiencing.
Thanks you for your videos, Kenny. Does anyone know if you can do takes that are not recorded directly into reaper? For example, If I had 3 files , that were already recorded elsewhere, could I bring them into Reaper, stack them on one track and do "takes" style of editing?
That would be nice, but I can see why it doesn't work that way. The whole concept kinda falls apart if it doesn't split at overlap boundaries. I originally tried to use takes for items of different lengths, but eventually abandoned the idea and now I just use two separate tracks. My idea was to record midi as one take, perfectly aligned with the grid... and then switch the track to audio mode and record audio from a hardware synth while the first take's midi data was playing. The audio needed to be longer though, to deal with effect tails and slow release envelopes. Ideally, this would make it easy to keep stuff grouped together, and then if I decided to change a note or something, I could just switch back to the midi take, edit the data, and record again into a new audio take. But it didn't work well. It split the tail off each time into a separate item, and then the tail ran into issues. Like, when I added another set of midi+audio takes next to it, I'd end up with only the tail or only the second clip playing, instead of both. It was a mess, and it was really hard to see what was going on or why it didn't work. But if I keep midi and audio clips in different tracks, everything works fine. I just have to mute the midi track after recording audio, so it won't play both.
Thanks Kenny How can you split individual takes independently? - Reaper's default is clicking 'S' splits all the takes in the same place on time line - but as vocal takes are always all slightly different, I want to be able to have slightly different split points for each take. Thanks! Gav
Great video. Some of the functionality would drive me crazy - the auto split for example. It would often split not where I wanted to and create clicks. Now I know how to switch it off. :)
good stuff, I'm using reaper for audiobooks and "takes" can come in handy i'm think, also i'd better learn how to "punch in" ... but beyond that, my first project has a number of chapters that are being recorded separately but then need to be one coherent file with consistent levels at the end. Can you help me bring a dozen long narration sections to the same end dynamics so they don't sound amateurish ... i am an amature and I am tryng hard to fake it .... Presonus interface, Rode NT2A, Closet, some environmental sound treatment, video of it on my channel.
Okay,. I'm more thinking about something that would auto normalize and volume correct to -3 the overall finished project made of 12 tracks, I guess it's mastering really but of just spoken word, no music
bro, how do you make the results of audio after recording the results are big the thing is, every time I hear a recipe it's just a small result what do you do for guitar and vocals, fx I am from Indonesia if you can translate it blah yes he
Hey Kenny... I notice your tracks are in some sort of sound wave form, while mine (Im new) just shows notes, like piano paper. Why do you use the sound wave look, and where do I find mine? Thanks, and always thanks.🤟
Is there any way to create takes with already existing audio files? With different names? Lets say you have 4 different drumloops with the same pattern but you want to use the Takes function to select various parts from various drum loops. Or do I have to re-record them to a track to be able to do it?
Import your first file to a track, then drag the next one on top of the first (in the same track and position). You will get a "Replace Media Item Source" dialog window where you can choose the behaviour. Select "Add source media as a new take in the target media item" and repeat for the rest of your items/files. You'll now have a bunch of takes and can work on them as shown in this video.
@@zendakk I did that before but I did it with files already present in the arrange window, however I tried to drag n dropped them from the Project Bay and that gave me the dialog window. Thanks for the help, very much appreciated.
Thanks, as always, for the great content Kenny! I hope that you and yours are staying safe and healthy. BTW, is the goat image just an animated GIF that you used as a track icon? Thanks! - chaz
Why does the right click doesn't work? I'm hitting "ctrl+click" on Mac (which is the right click for macbooks) and the options for the track don't appear. Nothing happens. Thanks!
Do you want to hear them superposed or do you want to hear only one take at a time (regular behaviour) ? For the latter, after you've "cropped to active take", you just have to "glue" your take sections together, which will result in one single item.
Not sure if you figured it out already, but Kenny explains how to assign take colours about halfway through this video: th-cam.com/video/2FtR8-H3u-A/w-d-xo.html
I finally completely changed over to reaper from SONAR(or the corpse of what used to be SONAR ever sine what happened happened...) and keep thinking, why tf hadn't I changed over like three years ago!?
Hey Kenny have you ever asked the Reaper devs about an iPad OS version of Reaper. Reaper supports ARM CPUs already. Including armV7 like the raspberry pie and AARCH64 which is very close to the iPad’s CPU architecture? It seems Reaper for iPad would be an easy port, since it already supports Audio Units and AUV3s. Next time you speak with the devs ask them if it’s possible, it would be a good way to have extra revenue coming into cockos for Reaper Development. Great video as always Kenny!
There's a worthless change that's been made where selecting takes from multiple tracks and pressing next take changes all the tracks takes to the same number. How dumb, please fix it
Let's be honest guys - he is our role model.
Parenting us, little reaper kids on every possible topic. Thank you Kenny
There are so many things that Reaper can do that we don't even realize. The only one who probably knows all of Reaper top to bottom is Kenny. Thanks for these amazing videos!!! :)
Bill Graper Check out Jon Tidey's The Reaper Blog as well. He is another well of info for us.
Kenny... I can't tell you how much i appreciate your hard work putting these clips together.
Kenny knows all the ins and outs of Reaper. His explanations are so easy to understand, he gets to the point immediately, with an incredible clarity and perfect examples. You can even understand the patterns of his voice through its pitch: when he's saying something that starts the sentence, continues and closes it. Like a ADSR! :) This is very helpful and helps to memorize the concepts. Well done man! Legions of Reaper users thank you for all your tutorials.
Agreed! The first couple times I watched his tutorials, I thought his cadence was a little odd, but I quickly realized that's just how he slows things down and makes them so easy to understand. Kenny is an amazing teacher!
Kenny, I don't know if you'll ever see this but I just want you to know how incredibly helpful you have been in my learning process for producing and editing my own podcast. Thank you! I have immensely enjoyed the journey
Guitar goat is pleased with his antlers and X-mas sweater. He is even more pleased when Kenny is at the helm chosing takes. Thanks Kenny!
That goat cracked me up so bad. I had to pause the video to finish laughing so I wouldn't miss the important info!
Wow from now on I'm gonna use takes like this , you are making the best tutorials I've ever seen , not just in reaper , but in general
I´m Just here to comment how helpful you are!! I´m learning reaper like a pro and i realize all the tutorials that help me are yours. So clear and concise!!! TY mi man!
I've been using Reaper a lot over the last 15 yearts or so and know most of this stuff, but it's always something buried in there that I didn't know. This whole time I have been dragging accross the timeline to select all the items in the track, and never even thought to just double click the track. Nuggets like this is why this is easily the best channel on YT for Reaper. Been listening for a long time, ever since I was a newb and didn't know anything about Reaper, and I was actually coming over from Sonar which is what became of Cakewalk before that/ No idea why I chose that one to begin with, but it was okay. but Reaper won me over again and again even when I would watch other people use Logic (which I think is decent as well) and of course the not so good pro tools, and then....Ableton Live. When I finally gave Ableton a shot because of a free version of Live light I got with some gear, and I fell in love with it. I still use Reaper for recording instruments and mixing band type of stuff, but if I'm just in a creative zone and wanting to deep dive on some sample based stuff, I go to Live. I did that for long enough that I felt like I loved how live did most things, but did not love how it did MIDI editing, so I started doing some rewire stuff between Reaper and Live. It's kind of mind blowing that we live in an age where we can not only record on our laptops and even tablets and phones now, and pull up every type of virtual instrument you can think of, and a few you didn't even know existed, but we can also run one daw through another. It's crazy. Imagine if you would have went back and told Pink Floyd or the Beatles that one day we would be doing that. It would have melted their brains even more than they were already melted....;)
Excellent work, again. Thx very much Kenny and stay healthy ! 💪🏼
You too Rob
@@REAPERMania Thank you Kenny, My kids, girlfriend and our families are all in good shape. Plz keep your excellent vids coming ! Kind Regards from Holland.
Thanks for the great info Obi-Wan of the Reaper Galaxy.
I learn something new from every one of your videos. I mean, things I wish I had already known. I have wasted a lot of time doing things the long way. Thanks for all of these awesome videos!
Your videos are always pretty useful and extremely professional! Keep up the great work, thanks!🎶👏
I sound like reverb, but gotta give props. Your videos are fantastic, and helped convince me to purchase and stick with Reaper. Knowing that there's a wealth of well explicated tutorials for it is comforting to the lowly acolyte.
Legend has it the Goat was once owned by a Legendary guitarist and was fed Guitar picks which in turn created him in to this smooth player.
I am a novice just learning but this is an amazing DAW and Kenny is the best instructor I have seen on UTube for Reaper.
Greetings from Ireland. Wanted to say thank you so much Kenny for your incredible videos, I started using Reaper 1 month ago and have learned everything so far from your brilliant videos! am so thankful. You're a legend Kenny!
Thanks for making all so clear, I have been experimenting with the different options. This video saves me so much time from trial and error learning.
Kenny I love you my dude, saved my butt once again- I lowkey forgot how to disable the takes on a single track but now I'm good to go. Thank you! :)
I leaned so much from this video. Thank you 😊
I could watch Kenny's vids all day
I always learn some little new thing in your videos. This time it was lock active takes. Never noticed it.
Thank you for posting these Reaper videos, they are a tremendous help to me 👍🏻
Hey, Reaper G.O.A.T - it’s great to see a clip of you actually playing...;0)! I only watched this particular video because of the hilarious clip, as I thought I had this subject covered - trust you to show that I didn’t. Derrr me!
Your'e the manual man - a huge help & thanks Kenny Gioia.
Great explainers. No time wasted. Focused. Thanks!
I love your tutorials so much Kenny. Thank you for taking time to do this!
Another great video. Thank you.
this is exactly what I just needed! Great job. Thanks. Still getting positively surprised by the Reaper. Really love it
Kenny your the best ❤️
Great video but one thing i can not find out is what is we use also video and have a track with timecode? Because in the project it has the same time on the timeline. I ask because i have to record classical music so all takes will be multitrack and there is also video with it for video production.
And ehat happens if i export this as edl to open this project in Sequoia (Samplitude) because someone else is going to edit, mix and master it.
It's fitting that the example-guitarist in the video is a goat, because Kenny is the GOAT.
Very useful and clear video as usual Kenny , thanks.
Thanks for the much-needed tutorial on this topic.
Great tutorial! I came from cubase and had a hard time understanding takes workflow and this helpled me a lot! Also, cute goat.
love this~ thank you! itll be easier to record for the left stereo and right stereo !
Extremely helpful to anyone getting started using Reaper. Subscribed!
at 3:54 you have the bars nice and neat so its very easy to set up the loop for bars 2 to 4 what did u hit to get those vertical black lines?
Is there a way to change colors of takes ? I find that it's a bit hard to see which items are active across different takes due to random colors. There is not enough contrast between active and inactive items/takes.
How do I separate the takes??? So I can move one to other places without it being joined by the other one?
My humble request for a video would be how Kenny handles Takes for multiple grouped items. I already have a process for this which involves auto grouping recorded tracks but I bet Kenny would be way more slick about it :D
This is a vastly superior approach to comping than that in Pro Tools. Wonderful!
Is there a way to just consolidate all takes into one single take? I use takes for drums with a drum plugin recording as MIDI, start with hihats, then kick
snare etc.. all as seperate takes, trying to find way to later consolidate everything into a single item containing all seperate takes.
Wao! A million thank yous Kenny! There I was an hour ago thinking DAW's are too much, even Reaper is too much, my poor classical muso brain is NEVER going to be able to handle this stuff... and this video has just convinced me otherwise. Also, that forking out for the basic license is just the sensible thing to do!
Thanks Kenny!
One question: Sometimes when I record over a recording, it does record all the takes and sometimes it doesn't. I don't see the pattern. Is it the number of takes or is it about looping....? Thanks for your help :)
Very cool 😎
@reaper mania if im recording takes with master send off and can not hear what im recording due to following tab and my takes are not inline then how do i drag other takes to line up with the others? or do i have to watch and listen to what ive recorded in other takes
I have a lane on one of my tracks that's named "empty lane" and has no audio. I can
delete the other takes within the track that have audio but not this one. Not sure if "empty lane" is a default or possibly my guitarist could have named it during recording? At this point I just need assistance to delete "empty lane". BTW- Great video Kenny. I didn't catch the keystrokes or method used to delete lanes I'm experiencing.
Thanks you for your videos, Kenny. Does anyone know if you can do takes that are not recorded directly into reaper? For example, If I had 3 files , that were already recorded elsewhere, could I bring them into Reaper, stack them on one track and do "takes" style of editing?
Thanks Kenny great as always!!! Just a question if you can :-) Is there a way to avoid the auto split during the takes creation? thanks
That would be nice, but I can see why it doesn't work that way. The whole concept kinda falls apart if it doesn't split at overlap boundaries.
I originally tried to use takes for items of different lengths, but eventually abandoned the idea and now I just use two separate tracks.
My idea was to record midi as one take, perfectly aligned with the grid... and then switch the track to audio mode and record audio from a hardware synth while the first take's midi data was playing. The audio needed to be longer though, to deal with effect tails and slow release envelopes. Ideally, this would make it easy to keep stuff grouped together, and then if I decided to change a note or something, I could just switch back to the midi take, edit the data, and record again into a new audio take.
But it didn't work well. It split the tail off each time into a separate item, and then the tail ran into issues. Like, when I added another set of midi+audio takes next to it, I'd end up with only the tail or only the second clip playing, instead of both. It was a mess, and it was really hard to see what was going on or why it didn't work.
But if I keep midi and audio clips in different tracks, everything works fine. I just have to mute the midi track after recording audio, so it won't play both.
Your tutorials are f'd rad!
loop takes is huuuge
Hi Kenny, great video, Is there a way to turn off the auto Split of takes?
Is it possible to move (left or right) a take independently of the others? In other words, have takes with different starting positions.
I learned something - thank you!
Thanks Kenny
How can you split individual takes independently? - Reaper's default is clicking 'S' splits all the takes in the same place on time line - but as vocal takes are always all slightly different, I want to be able to have slightly different split points for each take.
Thanks!
Gav
I don't think you can do that in the current Reaper version.
Maybe just an ‘(un?)educated guess’ but I think you could ‘explode to tracks’ to do it that way
Kenny how have you been lately brother? I hope you are doing well and hope your family is doing ok during the outbreak
All good. Same to you. :)
Came here for tips and got upset because I just realised that goat is better at guitar than me
Thanks! This stuff is golden 👍
Great video. Some of the functionality would drive me crazy - the auto split for example. It would often split not where I wanted to and create clicks. Now I know how to switch it off. :)
Thank you Kenny G!
Amazing! Thanks Kenny!
good stuff, I'm using reaper for audiobooks and "takes" can come in handy i'm think, also i'd better learn how to "punch in" ... but beyond that, my first project has a number of chapters that are being recorded separately but then need to be one coherent file with consistent levels at the end. Can you help me bring a dozen long narration sections to the same end dynamics so they don't sound amateurish ... i am an amature and I am tryng hard to fake it .... Presonus interface, Rode NT2A, Closet, some environmental sound treatment, video of it on my channel.
The video "Media Item Volume Control in REAPER v5.30" should get the sessions in the ballpark with each other
@@jamespfeifer7647 thanks I used a many step process, I will check that video asap
Okay,. I'm more thinking about something that would auto normalize and volume correct to -3 the overall finished project made of 12 tracks, I guess it's mastering really but of just spoken word, no music
volume automation on your track
thanks for the great content
bro, how do you make the results of audio after recording the results are big the thing is, every time I hear a recipe it's just a small result what do you do for guitar and vocals, fx I am from Indonesia if you can translate it blah yes he
hey Kenny, what if I have a bunch of files from a recording session outside of reaper and want to combine the files into takes? is it possible?
Thanks Kenny, awesome !
4:47 delete active take
6:53 crop to active take
Hey Kenny... I notice your tracks are in some sort of sound wave form, while mine (Im new) just shows notes, like piano paper.
Why do you use the sound wave look, and where do I find mine? Thanks, and always thanks.🤟
That is audio items vs midi items.
Is there any way to create takes with already existing audio files? With different names? Lets say you have 4 different drumloops with the same pattern but you want to use the Takes function to select various parts from various drum loops.
Or do I have to re-record them to a track to be able to do it?
Import your first file to a track, then drag the next one on top of the first (in the same track and position). You will get a "Replace Media Item Source" dialog window where you can choose the behaviour. Select "Add source media as a new take in the target media item" and repeat for the rest of your items/files. You'll now have a bunch of takes and can work on them as shown in this video.
@@zendakk I did that before but I did it with files already present in the arrange window, however I tried to drag n dropped them from the Project Bay and that gave me the dialog window. Thanks for the help, very much appreciated.
Thanks man. This was extremely helpful!
Thanks, as always, for the great content Kenny! I hope that you and yours are staying safe and healthy. BTW, is the goat image just an animated GIF that you used as a track icon? Thanks! - chaz
Why does the right click doesn't work? I'm hitting "ctrl+click" on Mac (which is the right click for macbooks) and the options for the track don't appear. Nothing happens. Thanks!
Make sure you have this checked - imgur.com/MJ9rjPJ
Thanks Kenny, this is very useful
I wonder if this is unchanged in REAPER 7
Is possible make 1 item with 2 (or more) internal take, starting from separate object/item in project?
Do you want to hear them superposed or do you want to hear only one take at a time (regular behaviour) ?
For the latter, after you've "cropped to active take", you just have to "glue" your take sections together, which will result in one single item.
Loop recording is very convenient.
That goat guitar player isn't baaaaaad.
I'm pretty sure that dislike is from a pro-tools user 😅
How did you record video & audio at the same time? Or did you record the video first and then dragged it into reaper? Thanks!
But where does Reaper get the colors for the takes? And is there a way to assign those?
Not sure if you figured it out already, but Kenny explains how to assign take colours about halfway through this video: th-cam.com/video/2FtR8-H3u-A/w-d-xo.html
excellent tools! and video!
Thank you
You're welcome
How can I easily move or fine tune the position of the split between takes?
Put your cursor between them and drag from left to right.
I finally completely changed over to reaper from SONAR(or the corpse of what used to be SONAR ever sine what happened happened...) and keep thinking, why tf hadn't I changed over like three years ago!?
Hey Kenny have you ever asked the Reaper devs about an iPad OS version of Reaper. Reaper supports ARM CPUs already. Including armV7 like the raspberry pie and AARCH64 which is very close to the iPad’s CPU architecture? It seems Reaper for iPad would be an easy port, since it already supports Audio Units and AUV3s. Next time you speak with the devs ask them if it’s possible, it would be a good way to have extra revenue coming into cockos for Reaper Development. Great video as always Kenny!
And how REAPER sell when you have Cubasis, GarageBand other DAWs that will run circles around REAPER in terms of functionality and features?
What exactly is punch in / punch out?
I wish they would replace this with regular playlist
Very Nice
Thanks 🇨🇱
I can’t get over the goat... lol
I have to amuse myself.
How did you split the item without having your cursor on that current position? As always, great vid. Thanks!
s
I don't know how he actually did it but you can assign a shortcut to do that: " Item: Split item under mouse cursor."
Hey I love Reaper but the newest version won’t work on my Mac and it’s making me sad ...can someone please help ...I appreciate any advice
Did you whitelist it from "security and privacy" in system preferences right after you downloaded it?
thanks !
There's a worthless change that's been made where selecting takes from multiple tracks and pressing next take changes all the tracks takes to the same number. How dumb, please fix it
Thanks again
I can't take this anymore :-)
Tks! This really helped me!
Anyone wanna collaborate online with reaper?