There's no doubt about it, Kenny's tutorials are the best on YT: every action/step is calmly and slowly explained. Plus, he clearly knows Reaper inside out.
Slight variation is to create all the tracks that' you'll need, (for instance 2 guitar tracks with plugins you want, a bass track, a synth and a drum track),have the custom action step to "select next track" instead of "duplicate track" and you're into live multi-instrumental overdubbing
very smart!!! so you would trigger the tracks with the plug ins you want like guitar amps modulation etc and when you get to the next instrument, you just hit the custom action and it will trigger the next track. so If you were gonna do a live multiinstrumental track for a stream then you just have to have the file ready with the plugins and record as you go?
@@SgtPowell make sure you have the "automatic record-arm when selected" turned on by right clicking the track. My issue is that it wants to record over all the tracks and won't move to the next track while muting the previous track.... does that make any sense?
This tutorial from Mr Gioia is excellent. In fact, I got to learn about Reaper Loop recording, Multi-track loop recording and Custom action list design in under 11 minutes. Good narrative rhythm, good screen shots, clear directions and succinct explanations. Will be looking for more. Thank you and keep up the good work!
This is great! One suggestion - if you wanted to use this for live looping, wouldn't it be better to set the recording overlap mode to "Creates new media items in separate lanes"? That way the most recently recorded loop should instantly play back instead of you having to use your custom action to select the previous take. This would make it behave a lot more like a looper pedal and would be much better for performances.
Very nice custom action ! Some VST are very CPU consuming and have long init time which can cause drops when you duplicate a tracks, so better put it in a parent track and duplicate the child one.
Just bounced over here from your multi track midi looper guide, mind blown with the possibilities. Hey Kenny, it just occurred to me that I seem to always end up answering my questions when I arrive at one of your videos. Why am I going around UA-cam looking for add-ons? I need to binge watch your stuff before I'm tempted to do that. So much better to build this stuff into the fabric of Reaper. Thanks very much once again, you're the best. Perfect material, perfect delivery, very inspiring
Thank you for the awesome content!! I'm currently learning reaper to make the soundtrack for a movie. This is exactly what i've been looking for. Dear reagards, M.
Is there a way to overdub a longer length loop over a short one? Say I want a basic 4 bar beat but then want to record a 16 bar progression over 16 bars of the recorded 4 bar beat.
Right-click -> _Glue items within time selection._ Then, you can drag the right edge to make it 16 bars long, making it loop 4 times. Now select the whole 16 bars, e.g. byt Shift + double left-click on the looped beat.
I'm not sure if it changed from your tutorial to the current Reaper, but it's not working for midi anymore, just for wave recording like guitar, vocals, etc.
Been watching these for about a week. Really well done and much appreciated. I often learn something seemingly tangentially related to the the "explicit content" lol. The only quibble I have is that sometimes the applications for a given technique are left unremarked upon . . . "why" would you do x y or z? But that is understandable since the priority seems to be to keep the tutorials concise and focused.
Thanks Kenny for another great video. Possibility to use actions in Reaper is something that makes this software unique. It is whole new world for those who have creative idea how to make its workflow better and faster. My question is what plugin/VSTi you use Kenny in this guitar sounds example?
I'm thinking I should just get a looper pedal for now to learn with and maybe I'll get reaper once I'm inspired (...and good enough) to actually create something.
Hi Kenny! Thanks for all! One thing: the previous track (and none of the next one´s) never stop recording (also track 1... i think you stop recording manually)... Is there an action to stop recording in the previous track, before duplicating it?
For some reason I had to add Toggle arming selected track action to make it works. Here is the results: Custom: kenny_looper Transport: Record Take: Switch items to previous take Take: Crop to active take in items Track: Toggle record arm for selected tracks Track: Duplicate tracks Track: Toggle record arm for selected tracks Item: Select all items in track Item: Remove items Transport: Record
This is clever! However, I'd like to modify this a bit so it would just record one take then come out of record and just play so I could check it, then on a key press, keep it and go on to the next track in record (or on a different key press, wipe it and go again). Only just starting with Custom Actions, so any help would be appreciated!
Hello kenny! I'm having a strange problem, in loop recording mode. After recording, if I zoom to the bottom of the clip, I notice that one piece is missing. It is very annoying, because if I duplicate the clip with ctrl + D, everything remains out of phase over time. Can you tell me what the problem is? Thank you.
How would you keep all of your overdubs on the same track and keep the previous take playing when doing this? Essentially recording the 4 loops and having them bounce back to track 1 as one wave sample like in a looper pedal.
Mentioned earlier: overdub longer loops over short ones. And how do you 'record' your looping? meaning: what hapens if you turn what you just made into mp3 , how long is that? Only 3bars?
why would you male an mp3 of this? this video is about creativity and coming up with parts that can later be worked out, not about creating a complete song
Cool video. I'm always looking for new ways to utilise custom actions whenever possible. Since I've only been using Reaper for a short time in the grand scheme of things, I haven't had access to this kind of customisability before. So half the battle is trying to think up a legitimate use case.
Automatic Record Arm When Track Selected too easy to cancel - it almost seems to do it without you knowing! Note to self - check this every time! :) Problem solved.
Your trying to model a looper pedal. Interesting. I think you could do that with a midi foot controller and some automation. Got the idea from dbhammond.
REAPER Mania when you right click your mouse in the sequence window a little box or a menu with your tools pop up pencil,rubber,scissors,glue etc. (Kinda like cubase) imagine how great it would be for workflow (bang,chop,move,glue). I dont know about you but my brain just wants to do this. maybe because i started out on cubase on an atari all them years ago. it just seems to make sense. Ive searched and asked everywhere but its the one thing reaper and most daws just doesn't seem or want do. And as reaper models itself on this idea that you can shape it anyway you want i cant understand why this seems impossible. I really want to move to reaper full time but this issue just puts it in the same category as all the other daws to me. Dont get me wrong all the videos you put up are great and a few show me stuff i didn't know it could do but i really need this one simple thing. id would even give you money and probably marry you if this could be possible but all I've heard up until now is "oh reaper dont do that type of stuff" you would think steinberg patented it or something.
I appreciate your clear response. Unfortunately, I don't see this ever happening. What's great about REAPER is that choosing a tool isn't necessary. Everything is already there. Just move your mouse to a certain area and the tool changes to what you need for that task. Other tools show up in the Mouse Modifiers. Check those videos out if you get a chance. But REAPER is designed to be better than DAWs that require that you "choose" a tool first. Just as you also don't need to choose a track type first either. Hope this helps. Thanks
There's no doubt about it, Kenny's tutorials are the best on YT: every action/step is calmly and slowly explained. Plus, he clearly knows Reaper inside out.
Slight variation is to create all the tracks that' you'll need, (for instance 2 guitar tracks with plugins you want, a bass track, a synth and a drum track),have the custom action step to "select next track" instead of "duplicate track" and you're into live multi-instrumental overdubbing
very smart!!! so you would trigger the tracks with the plug ins you want like guitar amps modulation etc and when you get to the next instrument, you just hit the custom action and it will trigger the next track. so If you were gonna do a live multiinstrumental track for a stream then you just have to have the file ready with the plugins and record as you go?
Did this work for you? I tried the same thing and it won't move to the next track for me. Please help!
@@SgtPowell make sure you have the "automatic record-arm when selected" turned on by right clicking the track. My issue is that it wants to record over all the tracks and won't move to the next track while muting the previous track.... does that make any sense?
@@ChristopherIverson44 thanks for the suggestion! I'll give it a shot when I get a chance.
@@SgtPowell also the action i used was "go to next track" then it started to work! Good luck!
I've come back to this video at least 5 times and I learn something new and a little better each time. Thanks Kenny.
This tutorial from Mr Gioia is excellent. In fact, I got to learn about Reaper Loop recording, Multi-track loop recording and Custom action list design in under 11 minutes. Good narrative rhythm, good screen shots, clear directions and succinct explanations. Will be looking for more. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Salut Gilles ! (ancien étudiant de Musitechnic) :)
Dude I need to tell you that I litteraly learned everything on the software thanks to you, it's always so clear and well-explained
This is great! One suggestion - if you wanted to use this for live looping, wouldn't it be better to set the recording overlap mode to "Creates new media items in separate lanes"? That way the most recently recorded loop should instantly play back instead of you having to use your custom action to select the previous take. This would make it behave a lot more like a looper pedal and would be much better for performances.
The comment I was hoping to find. Thanks.
Could you explain me in depth how to use this method? I can't seem to hear the prevous recorded take. Thanks.
Kenny, thank you so much! This may be my favorite so far.
Wow, that's a nifty Custom Action you made there Kenny, welldone and thx for the well explaining vid ! 👍🏼
Thanks Rob
Good stuff. Just assign that action to a footswitch on a MIDI controller board and away we go...
i was thinking about it, is it possible? Just use like a real looper pedal?
@@hirocaster yeah bud. In fact you could google those cheap diy 'midi fighter' boxes and build yourself one for cheap.
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Its so funny
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Thank you so much for your time! It helps a lot, and it is much simpler than installing a scripts or additional plugins
Oh man! I'm gonna have some fun with this...Your tutorials are the best!
Glad you like them!
Thank You very much. I was searching for this for lots of time. It's very helpful for me.
Good stuff. Thanks again for your time and hard work!
Very nice custom action ! Some VST are very CPU consuming and have long init time which can cause drops when you duplicate a tracks, so better put it in a parent track and duplicate the child one.
i had no idea about this software until i came to know this channel
Just bounced over here from your multi track midi looper guide, mind blown with the possibilities. Hey Kenny, it just occurred to me that I seem to always end up answering my questions when I arrive at one of your videos. Why am I going around UA-cam looking for add-ons? I need to binge watch your stuff before I'm tempted to do that. So much better to build this stuff into the fabric of Reaper. Thanks very much once again, you're the best. Perfect material, perfect delivery, very inspiring
Thank you for this! Super cool video! A+++
These are so helpful! Thanks, from a grateful learner
Thank you for the awesome content!! I'm currently learning reaper to make the soundtrack for a movie. This is exactly what i've been looking for. Dear reagards,
M.
Martin Scorsese teaches Reaper. Sorry, couldn't help it, you sound just like him. Thanks for posting these lesson, they're awesome
That's super. I make music with a Loop station sometimes and this is just what i was lookin' for
Thanks Kenny
thank you so much for posting this taught me alot
short and to the point ... nice video bro subbed and definitely learned something !
Спасибо! ❤
Saved the day! many thanx
i love it. thank you.
awesome! it helped me greatly! Thank you very much!
Love your channel
hanks lot Sir.. You helping us..
Lovley!
Tks for your video! Very clear to understand!
VERY COOL!
This is amazing! I have to start creating my own custom actions.
This is second custom action i made! This dude tutorial very helpful
Is there a way to overdub a longer length loop over a short one? Say I want a basic 4 bar beat but then want to record a 16 bar progression over 16 bars of the recorded 4 bar beat.
Right-click -> _Glue items within time selection._ Then, you can drag the right edge to make it 16 bars long, making it loop 4 times. Now select the whole 16 bars, e.g. byt Shift + double left-click on the looped beat.
Kenny, you're so the man!!!
It's just awesome
I'm not sure if it changed from your tutorial to the current Reaper, but it's not working for midi anymore, just for wave recording like guitar, vocals, etc.
Allright! Great video, thank you, Kenny :-D
absolutely great tutorial, thanks
Been watching these for about a week. Really well done and much appreciated. I often learn something seemingly tangentially related to the the "explicit content" lol. The only quibble I have is that sometimes the applications for a given technique are left unremarked upon . . . "why" would you do x y or z? But that is understandable since the priority seems to be to keep the tutorials concise and focused.
Amazing! 😀
Thanks Kenny for another great video. Possibility to use actions in Reaper is something that makes this software unique. It is whole new world for those who have creative idea how to make its workflow better and faster. My question is what plugin/VSTi you use Kenny in this guitar sounds example?
I'm thinking I should just get a looper pedal for now to learn with and maybe I'll get reaper once I'm inspired (...and good enough) to actually create something.
Very cool!
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Really nice and helpful... Thanks!
Very usefull tutorial thank you. i wondering how you got kick drum sound without the metronome?
Hi Kenny! Thanks for all! One thing: the previous track (and none of the next one´s) never stop recording (also track 1... i think you stop recording manually)... Is there an action to stop recording in the previous track, before duplicating it?
Thanks man!
Great lesson, how do we go “out of record”?
my two cetns : options -> preferences -> buffering -> media buffer size : 0 ms
Are there any problems with latency doing this, or do you hear your playing back instantaneously?
Thank you!
Man this is so cool! Thanks for the tutorial!
For some reason I had to add Toggle arming selected track action to make it works. Here is the results:
Custom: kenny_looper
Transport: Record
Take: Switch items to previous take
Take: Crop to active take in items
Track: Toggle record arm for selected tracks
Track: Duplicate tracks
Track: Toggle record arm for selected tracks
Item: Select all items in track
Item: Remove items
Transport: Record
Did you forget to make the track automatically go into record when selected?
REAPER Mania that was it ! :P thx !
This is clever! However, I'd like to modify this a bit so it would just record one take then come out of record and just play so I could check it, then on a key press, keep it and go on to the next track in record (or on a different key press, wipe it and go again). Only just starting with Custom Actions, so any help would be appreciated!
Hello kenny! I'm having a strange problem, in loop recording mode. After recording, if I zoom to the bottom of the clip, I notice that one piece is missing. It is very annoying, because if I duplicate the clip with ctrl + D, everything remains out of phase over time. Can you tell me what the problem is? Thank you.
How in the heck did you figure all this out? Lol. Glad you did and are sharing! I've learned a lot from this channel but I still need it to reference
it is great feature
GOD!!!My broo
How would you keep all of your overdubs on the same track and keep the previous take playing when doing this? Essentially recording the 4 loops and having them bounce back to track 1 as one wave sample like in a looper pedal.
Mentioned earlier: overdub longer loops over short ones. And how do you 'record' your looping? meaning: what hapens if you turn what you just made into mp3 , how long is that? Only 3bars?
why would you male an mp3 of this? this video is about creativity and coming up with parts that can later be worked out, not about creating a complete song
Thank you very much for the tutorial, it is very helpful and well-explained ! :)
thanks
Hey. This was pretty useful. One question. Can I do the same but with new instruments in each new track? is it possible? Thank you
can i integrate one track with a drum loop? Like a Boss Loop Station.
My track has split audio parts when I do this. Any idea why?
same ... it is probably some setting we don't have on or should turn off ...
my recording menu bar gone or hide . RW< FFD> Loops option
ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE
Cool video. I'm always looking for new ways to utilise custom actions whenever possible. Since I've only been using Reaper for a short time in the grand scheme of things, I haven't had access to this kind of customisability before. So half the battle is trying to think up a legitimate use case.
very cool. thanks
U BEST!!!
brilliant tutorial
Excellent
Jees...can't I just crate a new loop track?
9:20 i never knew it. I add it to F1 shortcut.. Thanks
Great tutorial.
The shortcut deletes my previous track. Anyone have an idea of how I can fix this?
would be better if it kept playing while u hit the shortcut
my rc 505 does it
when i turn the monitor (in the track) on, i have latency how can i correct it please ?
Holy shit.
Why don't the custom actions work for me :(
can you do this with cubase??
Thank you, it works perfect!
Why in the hell do you have to talk 2 words at a time
subbed
Why does my action - as laid out here - fail to work? Version 5.80, Win 10.
Automatic Record Arm When Track Selected too easy to cancel - it almost seems to do it without you knowing! Note to self - check this every time! :) Problem solved.
I wish its get work
Thanks Christopher Walken
I'd like to know if there's a way to record the audio from the loops while I do them, not just the final product
Your trying to model a looper pedal. Interesting. I think you could do that with a midi foot controller and some automation. Got the idea from dbhammond.
naice!
We need a right click and tools more then anything. Workflow.
How many times are you going to write this?
REAPER Mania until somebody comes up with one. Get used to it. Its needed.
Can you explain what you mean?
REAPER Mania when you right click your mouse in the sequence window a little box or a menu with your tools pop up pencil,rubber,scissors,glue etc. (Kinda like cubase) imagine how great it would be for workflow (bang,chop,move,glue). I dont know about you but my brain just wants to do this. maybe because i started out on cubase on an atari all them years ago. it just seems to make sense. Ive searched and asked everywhere but its the one thing reaper and most daws just doesn't seem or want do. And as reaper models itself on this idea that you can shape it anyway you want i cant understand why this seems impossible. I really want to move to reaper full time but this issue just puts it in the same category as all the other daws to me. Dont get me wrong all the videos you put up are great and a few show me stuff i didn't know it could do but i really need this one simple thing. id would even give you money and probably marry you if this could be possible but all I've heard up until now is "oh reaper dont do that type of stuff" you would think steinberg patented it or something.
I appreciate your clear response. Unfortunately, I don't see this ever happening. What's great about REAPER is that choosing a tool isn't necessary. Everything is already there. Just move your mouse to a certain area and the tool changes to what you need for that task. Other tools show up in the Mouse Modifiers. Check those videos out if you get a chance. But REAPER is designed to be better than DAWs that require that you "choose" a tool first. Just as you also don't need to choose a track type first either. Hope this helps. Thanks
Woody Allen knows a lot about Reaper.
Christopher walken wat
the tutorial is really good, but the music is horrible...
Thank you!