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Thorough and helpful tutorials for Reaper users.
Reaper - Fixing 'Could Not Import 1 of 1 Items' Error
Thanks to the Reaper forums and reaperblog.net for helping with the solution to this problem.
:00:00 - Intro
:01:04 - Installing VLC Media Player
:02:39 - Downloading ffmpeg dll files
:03:25 - Installing ffmpeg dll files
:04:16 - Checking the installation
:05:41 - Troubleshooting Notes
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VLC Media Player Download
www.videolan.org/vlc/
ffmpeg dll download
www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
7-zip download
www.7-zip.org/download.html
:00:00 - Intro
:01:04 - Installing VLC Media Player
:02:39 - Downloading ffmpeg dll files
:03:25 - Installing ffmpeg dll files
:04:16 - Checking the installation
:05:41 - Troubleshooting Notes
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VLC Media Player Download
www.videolan.org/vlc/
ffmpeg dll download
www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/
7-zip download
www.7-zip.org/download.html
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Reaper Tutorials | Sharing Projects and Files with Collaborators (Long Version)
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This is the long, maybe too detailed version of my Sharing Projects and Files video, but it digs into *why* you'd use some of these techniques and *why* they behave the way they do, so you might apply some of what you learn to other software in the future :) If you just want the "Tell me how to do the thing" version, head here: ua-cam.com/video/04wn0owbC5Q/v-deo.html :00:00 - introduction :00:4...
Reaper Tutorial | Sharing Projects and Files with Collaborators (Short Version)
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This is the short version of my longer video about sharing projects / files between collaborators. I don't explain much of the *why* in this video, so if you'd like more explanation, check out the long video at ua-cam.com/video/ZCqjbtgiU1Q/v-deo.html :00:00 - Introduction :00:17 - Sharing a Project File :02:01 - Sharing Stems or Individual Audio Files :04:40 - Conclusion
Installing Reaper: Setting it up RIGHT! (Project Defaults/Project Directory)
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00:00 - Intro 00:46 - Default Project Settings 01:51 - Change Path to Save Media Files 02:27 - Setting Pan Law (if you want) 02:59 - Selecting ReaPeaks Folder 03:44 - Setting up auto-backups 04:48 - Setting items to crossfade on split 05:30 - Expanding your mixer view 06:00 - How to build a new project directory 07:25 - Sending a Reaper Project 07:48 - Conclusion I absolutely adore Reaper as a ...
Reaper Troubleshooting - Windows WASAPI Distorted Audio Error Fix
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For PC users who are new to using Reaper (or recording in general) I've seen many of you have this issue and not know where to start when solving it. It's not intuitive to figure out the solution, so I wanted to share my solution which seems to be the culprit most of the time. If you've been noticing distortion in your recorded audio, this should fix it!
Reaper for Beginners - What is an Equalizer? Removing Unwanted Frequencies with ReaEQ
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In this video, I wanted to show you one of the most important tools in my toolbox: ReaEQ. I am starting with the very basics here and assuming that there will be people watching this who haven't used any DAW before. If you already know what an equalizer does and want to skip ahead to see how to remove unwanted frequencies, you can go to 3:58. One of the hardest things for me as I teach people h...
Reaper for EDM - Sidechaining Tutorial (Virtual Riot's Project Template)
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In this video, I show you how to set up a session so you can create EDM music more quickly - you can find the project folders for this and a more advanced template (true to Virtual Riot's track structure) at the following link: www.mediafire.com/folder/txl2jtxpdii3s/Sidechaining I based "EDM_Sidechaining_2" off of the track structure seen in this video by Virtual Riot: ua-cam.com/video/lA_qxkrp...
Quick Tutorial - Sidechaining in Reaper
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I show you how to sidechain easily in Reaper in *almost* under a minute using built-in functionality.
Reaper x Fiverr | Full Freelance Recording Session from Start to Finish
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I turn the camera on and show you exactly what to do from start to finish to complete a gig on Fiverr with a real project (used with permission from the buyer, dariusofwest). Using Reaper and a bassoon.
How to Record Yourself: Interface, Setting Levels, and Mic Placement
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In this video, I show you how to get started recording yourself with Reaper. This is meant for people who are just starting off with Reaper, who may have never used an interface or a DAW before. I do share some helpful info about setting levels and mic placement, though! I worked with my roommate (also a bassoonist) to show you some good and bad examples of levels and mic placement. 04:11 - Set...
Lock or Quantize Audio to Grid with Reaper
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Lock or Quantize Audio to Grid with Reaper
Looping (Part 3) | MIDI Merge in Reaper (well, kind of)
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Looping (Part 3) | MIDI Merge in Reaper (well, kind of)
Looping (Part 2) | Undo while recording without stopping
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Looping (Part 2) | Undo while recording without stopping
Looping (Part 1) | Getting Started, Track settings, Time selection auto punch
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Looping (Part 1) | Getting Started, Track settings, Time selection auto punch
Loading ReaScripts | Reaper Tutorials
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Loading ReaScripts | Reaper Tutorials
Creating Trap Hi-hat FX with Reaper
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Creating Trap Hi-hat FX with Reaper
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I hear randomized popping sounds all the way through, it's hard to listen to a mixing tutorial like this. Could you please check what's going on? Thank you for the video by the way.
THANK YOU. all other tuts are like 90 mins long jeez
Thanks! 🤘
I love you, i could kiss you rn, can i?
Can’t get it to read it for the life of me
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Great Tutorial! Thank You!!!
it is not correct. There must be a way without resetting the settings
You might try “Consolidation” in Reaper - might be what you’re looking for. Not great in my case because I usually need to send different versions all at once / multiple times after revisions.
My biggest thanks to you!
I'm doing exactly what you're doing in the video, but it's sending to the track itself, not the plugin lol
Hmmm is it sending to inputs 3-4? Or 1-2? If it’s going to 3-4, you just need to switch the input inside of the compressor plugin to “Auxiliary L/R” I’m also not at my computer so that might be a little wrong, but definitely should be sending to 3-4 on that track
@@ReaperTutorials yeah, that’s what the issue was. I feel like if you’re dragging a send to a plugin, it should do that automatically or at least ask you how you want it side chained
great video. is it possible to automate this effect?
Yes! Depends on what you want to automate, but you can do a few things: - automate the “send level” of the track that is the source of the side chain to increase the intensity of the pumping effect. - you can automate any part of the compression effect. Sharing another video here that will walk through how that works: ua-cam.com/video/EWKp02kgOyo/v-deo.html
@@ReaperTutorials thanks so much!
Surely if you are strumming on guitar there is no way to split that?
It would be difficult, dynamic split will probably give you a lot of bad splits. For that, I’d probably use “stretch markers” for minor tweaks.
Thanks so much.
Thank you. Great tip.
Of course! Thanks for commenting :)
i only mix rap songs, i saw someone using a sidechain eq what does it do ? i am confused about this sidechaining
Hey, sorry it took awhile to get back to you on this. Easiest way to explain is that a sidechain is going to "listen" to another track and adjust your plugin (whether it's EQ, Compression, etc.) based on what it hears in that other track. Let's imagine two tracks: Bass and Guitar. A sidechain EQ would be placed on the Guitar track (We want the EQ to affect the Guitar track). The sidechain EQ would "listen" to the bass, and if the bass goes above a certain volume threshold, the EQ will lower the bass frequencies in the Guitar track to make some room for the bass. ----- That's a simple example of what a Sidechain could do, but the general concept is that Sidechain can update parameters in your plugin based on what it's receiving from another track/tracks.
best tutorial ever. straight to the point
Gracias sirvió
Wouldn't this work the same way as "Save as..." and checking "Create a subdirectory for project" and "Copy all media into project directory"? The way it's described in the video, it's just about keeping audio files in a separate subfolder rather than the same directory as the project file.
Yep! Works the same way
Man I feel like a moron for not trying that out and finding it out by myself. developers are gold. wouldnt have think of how simple they made this daw for us thank you for the video and shoutout to all developers
100% the Reaper devs are something special - the transparency they give into changelogs and the constant improvements. It’s such a great tool :’) I honestly thought it was open source for awhile, haha
Great video. My midi instrument started fluctuating in tone due to this method, but I'll try and use it other times
Nice and simple. Thank you !
Great video, thank you ! Used it to customize some of cfillion's scripts for my own needs (his actions were using FX slots 1 to 8, and i needed to do 9 to 16 as well).
Thanks very much for this. I have hit a problem with rendering stems, and cannot find the answer anywhere, and am hoping you can help me. I have a test project, which is only 1.24 long; two of my tracks are that long, but the other two are much shorter - only 16 seconds each. When I render the tracks (whether individually or not), using 'Selected Tracks (stems)' - 'Time Selection', the 16 second tracks all end up being 1.24 long - i.e., they have 1.08 silence after the audio has finished. I have played around with other settings, and always get this result. I would be very grateful if you have any ideas to solve this - I just want the exported/rendered stems to be their actual lengths - i.e., 1.24, and 0.16. Thanks.
Hi, I'm sorry it took me such a long time to get back to you on this. A few options for you here, depending on how your project is laid out. If your 'Tracks' are all using different effects, and need to be rendered with those different effects, you could use the 'Selected Items' dropdown. If your Tracks can all use the same effects, you can put them on a single track, add 'Regions' (which are basically Markers with a start/stop time) and use the "Region Render Matrix" to render all those Regions. ------------ Some of the ways I've used each of those options - I've used the 'Selected Items' option when I'm recording sound effects that I'm going to include in a sampler, it lets me just select the items I like and render them - I've used the 'Selected Tracks' option when I am sending my stems to someone else for mixing/remixing, so all the tracks can be dropped right in. - I've used the 'Regions' option when I'm doing session recording work (multiple recording cues that need exact timings, but I'm only recording bassoon). In this case, it's a huge time suck to open a new project for each cue, I'd rather have them all in one place so I can re-render easily, if needed.
@@ReaperTutorials Thanks very much for your informative reply, and for getting back to me.
Perfect! Thanks for the help!
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I'm glad you live to play another day :)
what if the Error pops up when I try importing .wav files?
Ooo that's a tricky one. .wav files usually work out of the gate. I'd start with uninstalling and reinstalling Reaper just to make sure you get a clean install. If it's still going on, you may check to see if you can open WAV files anywhere else on your computer (media players, etc.). If it's not opening anywhere else, it's going to require some digging. Generally, if something like this goes wrong with an install, it's probably meaning that codecs were deleted, but hard to tell without going step by step to troubleshoot.
Thanks dude!!!!!!!
Happy to help! Get compressed, bb!
Thank you man. I hope you live as long as you want and your children and childrens children live long and healthy lives. I was so worried about having to sit through dozens of videos to figure it out.
Hahaha this comment wins! Glad I was able to knock this one out for you quickly. Let's all live and keep making music, babyyyyy!
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Last comment 🎉 love it
Omg it is a sin to do some stuff in XXI century when FL Studio has NewTime. Using this method you can not make note longer so if musician hurried a bit you can do nothing to fix that
Not sure if you're coming here because you're learning Reaper or wanting to shit on it, but I'll assume you're here with good intentions and are curious how you might handle stretching a note to fit. Three levels of difficulty: Does an individual note need to be generally longer? Slice around it, hold Alt on windows (probably option on Mac) and drag it out to time stretch the whole thing. Do you need to reshape the articulation? Add stretch markers at the attack/sustain/release points and drag them as needed, update the pitch shift algorithm and adjust the stretch marker fade size so it doesn't sound like a butt. Do you need to reshape a *LOT* of articulations? Use the dynamic split method, but assign stretch markers at the transients instead of splitting them. Then quantize stretch markers to the grid. --------- I set my option to 'Add Time Stretch Marker at Cursor Position' to Shift + W and it's really quick to add them where I need and move things around.
Thank You!@@ReaperTutorials
Helpful and succinct. Thanks!
How do i share the project file template with the audio and plugins fx/chain that I used? I did everything and the other user can see the plugins and audio, but I get the error that the plugins are not compatible even though they're both VST3 on both devices. It's the error "the following vst2s were not available. The following plugins were not available, reaper will keep the configurations but not be available etc"
I'm building the template from a mac and sending it to a windows but they're vst3 plugins that should be compatible for both devices. Still showing up as an error.
Hmm that is a tricky one. Hard for me to tell without seeing them. Is it all the plugins that are failing, or just certain ones? My troubleshooting brain says to trust the error until we prove it wrong. Track down the VST locations on both computers and confirm there's no similarly-named VST in the VST3 folder. That's where I'd start. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Very helpful! Thank you 🙏
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Damn, nice, but could you swallow more frequently...
Thanks
I’ll watch the other video. I tried to select 2 tracks, they became “inset” like yours, but only 1 showed up In my finished render. Also I need to learn what Wildcard means. But THANK YOU! This is exactly what I’ve been vexed by lately.
Likely quick solution: Make sure your tracks don't have the same name, make sure you've got a wildcard that will make a different name when rendering, or check the box next to 'Silently increment filenames to avoid overwriting near the bottom left of the render window! ------ Longer explanation: The wildcard is really just going to dynamically change depending on the track. So in the video, the tracks are sitting inside a 'Parent' folder called 'BSN_WET', when I use the '$parent' wildcard, it replaces '$parent' with 'BSN_WET' when creating the new tracks. I wonder if the issue you're having is that your filenames ended up being the same. Let's say we have two tracks named 'BSN'. They are sitting inside a folder track called 'TRACKING' if we highlighted both of those, then tried to render using the 'Stems (selected tracks) option as your source. If you used the $parent wildcard like i did, then what the computer would try to render like this: Write TRACKING_BSN... Finished! Write TRACKING_BSN... It already exists, overwriting TRACKING_BSN... Finished! That's my guess, anyway!
Great job. Unfortunately there's no way to synchronize changes across multiple collaborators in real time. I suppose of the audio files were stored in the cloud multiple people could access the same information simultaneously and share updates immediately.
Some friends of mine were trying to figure this out, but unfortunately, we couldn’t figure out how to handle conflicts in the project file as people edit. It would be fun to pick up again, though. We were moreso trying to use GitHub repositories as collaborative storage, and be able to use branches to have a collaborator make edits, get notes/approvals/etc. before merging the changes into the DAW. It got complicated any time two people were working at the same time :( Have you looked at Bandlab, though?? That’s the closest I’ve seen to what you’re describing
Thanks for this, I have about 4 years of projects that were saved with the default settings. How would this work with past projects? Would it mess anything up?
Hey, sorry for the delay - I would test this out first before applying to existing projects, but you should be able to apply this to existing projects by: - Opening the original project - Clicking 'Save As' - Checking 'Create Subdirectory for Project' - Checking 'Copy all media into this project directory' You shouldn't need to convert or trim. - Save I say to use 'Copy' instead of 'Move' in case something goes wrong. The worst thing to deal with is a corrupted project file, so this will keep your original project (which is hopefully still working) and create the new one with all the audio files. If you test it out and it's working, you can delete the original project / audio. If you've got 4 years worth of projects to do this for. I'd ask how comfy you are with writing macros or scripting. It's going to take time to get them all done and converted, and I don't have a good method for doing these in batches yet.
Perfect explanation, thanks!
You're welcome, glad it was helpful!
when quantizing multitracked drums can I do multiple tracks at the same time or do I need to go through each individual track and slice and slide?
That's a good question! I'm 80% sure that you can do dynamic split across multiple items. I know you can quantize across multiple tracks. Will check after work and get back to you.
Following up, dynamic split works across multiple tracks, just need to highlight all the items you want to split!
Awesome thanks so much for the reply. I’ve got some bleed through on the multitracked drums and just want to make sure I’m not getting double hits etc.
@MountainGn0m3 ah, yeah that would be tricky. I wonder if you would need to group all the tracks together so they split in the same places? Maybe put them into a folder and freeze them? That would keep you from getting double hits, otherwise I think you’re right that the bleed would be an issue
Thanks for the helpful video! I have about 10 years and hundreds, if not thousands of projects going to default saving location the only thing I've done is put them on my D drive so my C drive can be fairly clear. How would I go about organizing all of that old stuff in a manner such as this without messing a bunch of stuff up?
Going to copy paste something from another comment that I just made. And sorry for the delay in response: I would test this out first before applying to existing projects, but you should be able to apply this to existing projects by: - Opening the original project - Clicking 'Save As' - Checking 'Create Subdirectory for Project' - Checking 'Copy all media into this project directory' You shouldn't need to convert or trim. - Save I say to use 'Copy' instead of 'Move' in case something goes wrong. The worst thing to deal with is a corrupted project file, so this will keep your original project (which is hopefully still working) and create the new one with all the audio files. If you test it out and it's working, you can delete the original project / audio. If you've got 10 years worth of projects to do this for. I'd ask how comfy you are with writing macros or scripting. It's going to take time to get them all done and converted, and I don't have a good method for doing these in batches yet. There's no way to do batches like that natively in Reaper, so you'd need to build something. Otherwise, one by one while listening to a podcast or catching up on movies you haven't seen, haha.
@@ReaperTutorials thank you for the response and no worries about the reply time. My organization has been what it is for about ten years like I said, and could wait a few more weeks lol. I'm not very comfy writing scripts and macros but 90% of this stuff is me learning Reaper and also jotting down cool ideas. I think what I'll do is square away some of my more important projects and then disconnect the external hard drive and label it 2014-2024 and store it somewhere dry and just start fresh. Thanks for the great organization ideas, I'll definitely apply them on my next go around.
Error opening devices when using WASAPI shared mode uu
Oooo the shared mode thing could be because there's a mismatch between your hardware settings and what your computer is requesting. If you're on windows, you'd go into that same settings area and just try to match the sample rate and bit depth to what you see in Reaper. Otherwise, if you have ASIO as an option, try that. Sorry hard to help without seeing the problem directly, but happy to keep troubleshooting. Sorry for the delay!
@@ReaperTutorials hello! Thank you! My problem was so easy and I wasn't seeing it. I needed just to allow Reaper to use my microphone in my laptop settings. 😅 That makes sense
Exact message: Error opening devices. Error opening audio hardware. Could not initialize input device. (Problem solved)
Lol I was using ReaGate for this and wounder why does it make it clip
Lolol side chain compression to the max! Glad you sorted it out!
Thanks a lot !!!
Probably due to updates, the content in the diologue boxes no longer match. When I select your recommenced settings the reduce splits quantity is frozen and you can't set a value for it and the split button is grayed out so the second function/method appears to be usless. While experimenting with the new boxes to try to get it to work, Reaper crashed. Also the second method does't work for anything composed in MIDI because there are no transients. I can play a guitar in rhythm becuase I've been doing it for 20 years. Drum pads I'm new to and that's were I need help.
Sorry for the delay! Not sure why things would have been frozen, unless it didn't have an active item to target, or something. Not sure but if you can recreate it, please let me know! Ah, for the drum pads, you can go into the midi editor directly and quantize from there. Try double clicking on the midi item and it will pull open a new window for you, then you should see some options at the top. One of them would allow you to quantize, but that's the place to go for MIDI!
@@ReaperTutorials no worries! I knew this was an older video so I wasn't expecting a response, but thank you!
Great tip and i wish I had seen this video years ago! Thank you!
Thanks! It can be a huge time saver in some situations :)
Amazing and super helpful video! Thanks so much for this!