HOW TO: Stem Export in REAPER for Mixing

what's going on everybody it is jason the metal dad here and if you can't tell by my voice i am sick as it's not covid i went and got tested this morning and i'm clear on that front so that's good just a regular old shitty head cold so i wanted to do a quick video since i'm holding today and i have the tom and this video is how to do a stem export and reaper to send a song off for mixing and i'm also going to show you at the end a quick way to export a song like let's say like you know like for me like i'm a guitar player i live in west virginia which is kind of the middle of a nowhere in the u.s and i've got a buddy who lives across the country and he does vocals and i want us to do a song together i'm also going to show you a quick way to bounce out like bus stems that will save tom on their end for setting up their sessions etc etc so they don't have a million different tracks to deal with they can just drop in three and be good to uh record their parts for your song to send back to you for to mixing or whatever so i'm gonna go ahead and dive right in here i've got this song here it's an older song i wrote it in i think 2016 and uh i want to now like do it over and have my friend do vocals on it so i'm going to bounce out stems here for me to move to studio one so that i can mix and uh so yeah so i can just make everything sound cool in studio one because a lot more user friendly for mixing and stuff and for my workflow than than reaper is but i recorded it in reaper all those years ago so what i've done here i've bypassed all the plugins on each individual track and i've got the faders set to just around a level where nothing's gonna clip on the individual channels [Music] so the first thing i'm going to do i'm going to get my guitar and bass stems so this is these are reamps um i have a different have a different session that i have already done where i um exported the dis because i'm definitely not i dialed these guitar tones in in 2018 and i'm definitely not gonna use this i'm gonna i'm gonna definitely redo these guitar tones but just for the purpose of this video i'm gonna show you how to export stem so you wanna hold control and click on all your tracks which i've got guitar one guitar two clean one clean two lead bass clean bass dirty which these are all reamps i did forever ago and i'm just gonna once i've got all of those selected i'm going to right click and hit sorry it's been a while since i've done this in reaper render freeze tracks and i'm going to render these tracks to mono stem tracks and mute originals okay so there's that i'm just gonna save save this i'm going to show you where it is over here all right so here i've got the guitar and bass diaz which you can see i've also got the reaper sessions saved in here and a backup and re-amps some midi what i'll do here to clean this up before it gets off to uh whoever's mixing it in this case it's me but for you it might be somewhere else i'm gonna delete the repeat files and leave just the waves and just the project files because these repeat files it's just like the image of what's on screen here and you don't you don't need to send that to whoever's mixing okay so there's that and now i'm going to do a midi export see those repeats are going to be back in that folder now because it just rebuild them export project midi under file i'm going to do entire project all and i'm going to find the folder see here i've got reamps and midi i'm going to hit that save there make sure embed project temp tempo and time signature changes is clicked um don't you can export project markers as midi but i don't have markers set up in this so i'm just going to hit ok show an explorer to make sure it went to the right place so there is my midi sequence and i'm going to be able to drop in and sync the time signature changes tempo changes etc that are in the midi for this song and also the drums the midi the midi drums are part of that which i'm using this is the original get good drums library i'll probably use it i'll probably use like p4 or it may be invasion for this probably p4 p4 works really good with this kind of stuff so now i'm going to show how to export stems of the drums because you can you should still do stem exports of the drums even if you're sending drum midi that way on the other end whoever you're working with they're gonna know that their midi is triggering the right hits that way they can listen to the stems of the drums which see i've selected all the tracks here i've got overheads near room far room kick snare tops near bottom tom one two three tom and the hi-hats down here and first thing i'm going to do here which this is very important that you do this i didn't show this in the first section but this is a very very very important step what you do if you're using reaper i don't know how this works in other daws but reaper the file organization straight out of the gate is a show so you've gotta make sure you do a save project as and i'm gonna go here i'm gonna make a new folder and call this drum stims and i'm going to click in here and you want to make sure when you do this because this is going to be the folder where the stems will export to so drum stems make sure for for if you're trying to do a session just to export stems make sure that copy all media into project directory is not selected because if that's selected it's going to pull in every audio file that is used in the song which you don't want for the purpose of this you just want your stems in this folder when you're done so i'm going to save and again i'm going to click over here and verify drum stems okay so there is the session file and now i've already selected all my drum tracks and if you're using sample drums it's worth noting the the outputs of drum vsts are usually stereo so when you right click render and freeze tracks you want to hit render tracks to stereo stem tracks for virtual drum instruments whether that's contact or get good or superior or easy or whatever as far as i know most of all of them that i have used and most that i know of always kind of always run in stereo so just render to stereo stem tracks and mute originals and this is now rendering out my drum kit so now i'm going to save this no i think i hit save as i just need save all right so now i'm going to close this and this is also a very important step what you do is you start with a blank session okay and i'll let's see i'll add a virtual instrument on a new track and i'm just gonna put um contact i'm just gonna put contact on here holy this is gonna be a mess okay so i'm not gonna import this with all the tracks but this is just like this what i'm doing right now is just for me to check that everything imports properly so i'm gonna go over here to reampson midi find my midi and i'm just gonna drop this in at measure one import midi tempo map okay all right so i see all my tempo and time signature changes have been preserved so i'm going to go here to drum stems i'm going to get rid of all these repeats even though it's just going to build them right back once i drop these files into reaper this is just a weird thing that reaper does okay so now i'm dropping all my drum tracks in yeah separate tracks dropping in real dropping in really hot there but yeah everything's synced up and then i'll do the same thing i'm going to go to the reamps and midi folder again i'm going to get rid of these repeats just your whoever's mixing this does not need the repeats but you want to make sure you leave the waves then i will drop in all of these on separate tracks just to make sure everything has dropped in correctly so [Music] okay so i'm just going to close this i don't even need to save it because this was just to verify that everything had bounced out correctly oh no well you see my obs you see the methods of my trickery okay so again one time i'm gonna go through here and i'm gonna go into these and clean out all the repeats one final time you don't have to do this but if you're using reaper you don't have to keep doing this but before it's very important to do at this step because it'll make your engineers life a lot easier okay so there's drum stems nice and clean guitar and bass diaz nice and clean reamps and midi gonna get rid of these repeats and i'm gonna go back here what i'm gonna do is just make a new folder on my desktop old prog jam what i'm gonna do here is i'm going to copy all of these to old prog jam since i've verified that everything works and everything drops in correctly i am going to down here right click send to compressed zipped folder and this is going to compress everything into a zip folder just a nice one single file that some whoever on the other end can download and make sense of this process can take a little bit i will edit this out of here so you're not sitting here forever just watching this compressed what i'll end up doing on my end is i'll just copy these folders into my studio i'll make a studio one session for the song and i'll copy all these into that folder because the file organization in studio one is a lot better than reaper it just it does most of the organization for you looks like we got about 45 seconds i'm gonna drink some water since i'm sick of all right so that is done it's there there it is you would just upload this to dropbox or google drive or wii transfer or whatever service you use it seems like it seems to me like a lot of people that i work with from europe use we transfer and in america people are in the us most people use like dropbox or google drive but just whatever works as long as you have some way to send a large file to someone else you can just upload this folder send them the link they can download it download it and we'll be able to make sense out of it alright so one more thing i'm going to open reaper back up what i'm going to show you now is a way to send this let's say if you've got a someone you want to have record on this so they don't have like a whole mess of tracks this is like because you know it's easy to like set up bus routing uh in reaper it kind of sucks but but uh it's it's relatively easy to do this will load in [Music] okay so since you know i'm the one who did this song i have buses routed here which i've got one bus that is nothing but drums [Music] we've got one bus that is nothing but base we've got one bus that is nothing but guitar so what i'm gonna do i'm gonna save project as make a new folder bus stems for vocal tracking i'm going to save this so again i'm going to export project midi select the right folder bus stems for vocal tracking embed tempo and time signature changes show an explorer to verify that it is in the right place which it is and now what i'm going to do is hold ctrl and select all the buses i'm going to make sure that stereo or that solo is off so these all are outputting audio and then i'm going to render and freeze tracks again wherever that is in track yeah okay here we go render freeze tracks and buses are stereo so you want to do render tracks to stereo stem tracks and mute originals and this will just bounce out your guitar bus your bass bus and your drum bust this is like if you're someone who's writing songs and you have someone else who's going to record vocals or if you've got somebody who's going to record bass or if you've got somebody who's going to do drums or whatever it's easier for you to send the song to them if it's just three audio files which would you know guitar bass drums or what what have you like if you're doing guitar vocals and drums and you're sending it to somebody to do bass just do the stems for whatever you've got for the song okay so i'm going to close this project nope here are my bus stands delete the dreaded repeats which i'll have to do this couple more times then drag this in here which is the midi for the tom tempo and time signature and then the mustangs [Music] get rid of these repeats again and now i'm going to i'm just going to drag this folder out to the desktop bus stems for vocal tracking send to compressed zipped folder and once that's done that is how you do it to send to someone for tracking additional things and that's all i've got for you today you all take care thank you very much for watching and i'll catch you soon

Channel: Jason Baker

Views: 34

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Id: C0cBEJNEW08

Length: 19min 21sec (1161 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 06 2021