These Reaper Plugins Completely Changed My Sound Design Workflow
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- It's no secret that I love using Reaper for game audio and sound design work. Lately, my workflow and speed has exploded, and it's thanks to all of these plugins and tools. Download links below!
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0:00 - How I've Been Upgrading my Reaper Workflow
0:48 - NVK Folder Items - nvk.tools/
1:53 - Global Sampler by BirdBird - forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...
A plugin-version of this tool that works in other DAWs such as Logic Pro was recently released as well: www.birdsthings.com/
3:24 - LKC Tools Content Navigator - www.lkctools.com/content-navi...
3:55 - LKC Render Blocks - www.lkctools.com/renderblocks
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💀 The DAW I'm using in these (and many) of my videos is Reaper: www.reaper.fm/
🌈 The Reaper theme I'm using here is Smooth 6: forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...
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That Global Sampler is extremely useful! thank you!
Nick is a genius. All of his tools are simply amazing. Nvk create and loop are two absolute bangers!
Stumbled upon your channel today and can already tell I'm going to binge all of your videos!
Awww thanks!
Just started following your channel this last week and am blown away but the generosity of the totally solid information you share out. Thank you!
That means so much!! Thank you!!
Thanks for showing me those plugins. Got the Global Sampler. Great tool for sure.
Global Sampler is something I have attempted myself to record Reaper's output in Audacity for instance. I've often found I get interesting effects from plugins when starting and stopping playback at random but there's no way to render this within Reaper, or whatever your DAW is. Amazing, so glad I found this. Thanks
yaaaay - amazing you are back! global sampler is one of my favorite things~
Holy, Global Sampler is amazing. Thank you for telling me about this! Makes rendering synths for sampling sooo much easier.
It's SO good!
Neat. Just getting back up and running for game audio. Thanks for sharing it all. This is going to be way more fun than my last game audio project(~5 years ago), and I used regions for most of that.
You're the real MVP Akkash
Knowing that NVK is a paid plug-in I thought all of them would be the same. As soon as you said that Global Sampler is free I snap out of my dream about what plugin I'd buy in the future, what a beautiful surprise. As always much love to you Akash
amazing plugins! Thanks
Amazing content as always and very interesting tools! I was trying to find ‘Global Sampler’ after watched it being used in a sound design video of other channel but never mentioned the name …Thanks for sharing it!
Great stuff!
so glad, that I stumbled upon your video! Tons of valuable and practical info
So glad you found it useful!
Thanks! That was very useful 👍
Reaper supremacy haha ! thanks for this video ! 😊
omg yesssss new akash video on reaper!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha you are too kind!
oh wat?!? dzaammm. some sure dope stuff in here!!
Awesome, thanks!
Global sampler is gonna be a game changer! I ALWAYS have amazing random sonic inspirations that disappear into the ether. I going to download this asap
It's the greatest thing ever. Totally changed how I work
Global Sampler is just mind blowing for me. I wish I had it before rather than recording and sometimes losing some interesting sounds
It's even better if you put Global Sampler on the Monitoring FX! Then it also records when you 'scrub' (ctrl+middle mouse button) or do other stuff in Reaper without actually pressing space bar.
Totally! Lots of good uses when using it on the monitoring FX!
Is there a way you can dock the monitor window at the top without showing the reaper ui?
@@MrPandabros Ah, I don't know how to, sorry. :(
@@karim0302 I learned! I had bought the bird things "rolling sampler" which is the vst version. In order to get it at the top like in the video, you need to install the "global sampler" (non vst) from the rea script
@@MrPandabros Oooh that's what you meant! Sorry, I misunderstood your question. 😅 But great to hear. :)
Akash, your channel seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
WOW GLOBAL SAMPLER IS AMAZING!
TY SUB
keep going ❤
reaper cult. one of us. one of us. one of us
LKC Tools are SOO good! Render Blocks saved me HOURS :)
It's such a necessity for sound design!
How do you get the global sampler to stick to the top of reaper?
Do you guys know any free tools similar to NVK folder items or Render Blocks?
Have you used the Render Matrix in reaper? It's built in and does a lot of the same things that the Folder Items plugin does while rendering!
Yup! I go into that in my Reaper series and it's solid. It's just a LOT slower when you have dozens (if not hundreds) of sounds to render and name for a game.
Hello. What skin for Reaper do you use? I like when you select audio items they change color to white on 1:05
Check the description!
would love to see these features in bitwig. :( mainly use bitwig for sfx because its super fast with the grid and modulation stuff, but when it comes to exporting and bouncing its just a big horror.
You can get the "grid" in Reaper too, with paranormal fx router
@@rano12321oh thanks for this!!!!
@@lucienmontandon8003 The paranormal FX router script for Reaper is more comparable with FX grid in Bitwig, but if you are looking for an equivalent to Polygrid for modular sound designing, then I'd recommend the free and open source plugin Cardinal.
😮💨 I don't know how to use Global Sampler. I can't see the sound pick-up 🤒
For global sampler you can put it in your monitor fx instead of the master track since a lot of people never use monitor fx and you can forget about it. I don't really get the point of Content Navigator.. how it different from just using the track manager?
Yup! I show that Monitoring FX off in another video.
Track Manager is fine, but the content navigator is infinitely faster when you have hundreds of tracks.
I'm so surprised you're using Mac! I'm a long time Mac user but looking to switch to PC because it runs UE4 miles better and I can game on it too, have you considered switching?
I have both! Mac is where 100% of my sound design + creation happens, and I have a gaming PC specifically for UE4 for the exact reasons you mentioned!
That said, I didn't even have a PC for a very very long time and it worked out fine!
Hey for anyone, is there an equivalent to reasons Combinator? I want to switch but tbh, I need that ability to layer instruments and effects.
There's nothing *exactly* the same, but there are few things to look into like Kilohertz's Snap Heap. If you really love combinator and use it all the time, though, I would just buy the Reason Rack plugin that lets you use Reason's effects, synths, and plugins in any DAW and work that way.
It's been a while, but I just learned about this tool that may be a big help for you in Reaper. Not the exact same as Combinator, but check it out: forums.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=263622
You should put the global sampler listener on your monitoring fx insead of master chain, more CPU efficient (and tidier) EDIT; yeah and just saw the other comment with another important advantage
Also worth editing the script to increase the recording time as 60s is a bit short
All of birdbirds scripts are so excellent (and beautiful). Item modifiers is insane. And I have a minimised fx inspector + fx parameters docked to the left which replicates the way bitwig presents tweaking of plugins.
Global sampler doesnt work with different screensets. And also I need to run the action and load the plugin everytime, even if I save it as a template.
Take a look in the description - he very recently made a plugin version that help with these issues.
@@AkashThakkarAudio I managed to fix the loading issue with the global startup action. Plugin is good and I will buy it to use with other daws, but you cannot dock a plugin in reaper. Anyway thanks. This is a really useful plugin for soundfx.
It does feel like all the sound designers are switching to reaper.
It's just way too good for game audio!
It honestly makes no sense NOT to.
Composers and mixers too, Reaper is just ahead of this time compared with concurrence (workflow, business model etc). It becomes more and more popular.
nonsense. In Nuendo you can do so much render sounddesign group stuff, same as in Reaper. But: Nuendo effects are top notch. Reaper comes with nothing. Cant live without SamplerTrack for very fast sounddesign tasks e.g.
@@Byron101_different strokes. Cubase and Reaper are right next to each other in terms of sound designer flexibility. The big issue with cubase for me was cubase's stability and redundancy of the interface. The plugin window, inspector, midi editor and arrangement had too much clutter that I couldn't get rid of. Cubase's stock plugins are kinda trash ngl. 3rd party all the way.
could you please share link to your reaper theme?
Make sure to look in the description!
Are you sure Bird is free? It states its 19$ now.
Yes, it's free. The new plugin version is $19, but the original script version, which is what I used in this video (linked in the description) will always be free.
@@AkashThakkarAudio Thank you.
NVK folder items sounds super useful, but it's so annoying when they don't just let you purchase the thing you want by itself, and instead force you to pay for other things you don't really care about :/
Yeah I agree. Out the whole pack, I only use folder items. Render Blocks is a good alternative though that gives you exactly what you want!
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