This is REAPER 6 - Intro (1/15)

[Music] hi I'm Kenny Choi welcome to another one of my tutorials in this series of videos I'm going to show you Reaper from the ground up so this is Reaper in addition we're gonna highlight some of the great features and it's this new aversion Reaper sex reapers a powerful recording and editing program for PC Mac and Linux what makes it so special is that it's simple and completely customizable in other words instead of changing how we work we can make reaper work the way we do so if you're coming from another da W and switching to Reaper six you could change all the key commands toolbars menus and even the mouse behaviors to work how you're most comfortable and if Reaper is your first da W you can create your own way of working with the program the possibilities are endless so instead of you learning to use Reaper we put can adjust to you so let's go over the basics when we first open Reaper it looks like this right over here is the arrangement window and to the left is we will have our tracks down here is the mixer let's hide that for now so we have a bit more room right now we have no tracks but we can create tracks very easily just by double-clicking right over here double click with our mouse and we have tracks so it's very easy to add new tracks to our projects and also very easy to delete them just select them and hit delete on a computer keyboard and they're gone one of the most unique things about Reaper is that any track can contain any type of media there are no dedicated MIDI tracks audio tracks video tracks or even aux or bus tracks there are no track types so any track we create can contain any of them or all of them if we want we can even make a track a folder that contains many tracks inside that folder but we'll get to that a bit later now the wave reaper works is it plays back on media whether it be audio MIDI or video from left to right so any items that are in this window are gonna play back in that order based on the tempo we choose and right up here we have a timeline or ruler it could be divided by bars and beats minutes and seconds timecode or even samples so it's dragging some audio by going to a hard drive which is the Explorer on PC or the finder on Mac let's drag in some audio to our tracks so I'm gonna grab this drum audio right here and drag and drop it right to bar to on the timeline if we let go like it's imported into Reaper and it snaps on the grid because if snapping turned on right over here by default so we play it we should hear a drum loop and we do and also notice that our track becomes auto named based on the file we dragged in before it had no name and after it's called drums so it's trig in a few more files let's do a piano and instead of dragging it to a track well drag it to the space right below the tracks right down here again we can snap it or in the grid and that go and that creates a new track again Auto named based on the file we dragged in so he should have a piano along the drums and again we snapped it right to the grid let's bring in one more we have a synth file right here tray and drop it now we have three files that are all playing on top of each other we could drag them earlier or later to taste we could bring the synth a bit later [Music] now these audio files are called items or media items you delete them we'll cut them and paste them to different sections you we could undo our moves or redo them as many times as we want we could trim the items on the front like this see the cursor changes we could trim the front or the back or in all the files together or back we could loop them just select them and drag them out like this and then they loop as far as we drag them we could fade them in by going to the upper left corner see the cursor changes and fade it in or fade it out we do it to all them together if they're all selected just fade them in or fade them out it sounds like this [Music] now the section over here by our tracks is called a track control panel or TCP here we can adjust the volume of our tracks will mute them or so them what's mute the piano and synth and it's just the volume on the drums and bring in the piano and mix it to taste and the synth we could solo them with a soul button right here [Music] you and again mute them from here you [Music] because up and on tracks between the left and right speakers let's put the piano to the left and the synth to the right [Music] we could put them back to the center by double-clicking and we can it affects to our tracks right over here with the effects button but we'll go over that a bit later and with the ratting button we could add sins to our tracks and send them from one track to another but we'll go over that a bit later as well we could also automate all the controls on our tracks with the envelopes over here a volume our pan mu and anything else that's on this track we can also do this from the mixer review mixer and down over here we have our faders instead of knobs and all the other controls that are the TCP or track and show path they're also in the mixer and so you can see this better we could drag the mixer and float it right here to create a separate window for the mixer and readjust the size of our faders like this [Music] so you could remix the song from the mixer it works both ways let me go so we adjust our tempo it's 116 right now let's make it faster I 125 now the song plays back a bit faster [Music] we'll make it slower and 100 [Music] we could also just the rate let's put it back to 116 and slow it down with the rate knob over here [Music] which plays it back slower but also adjusts the pitch will go faster with double-click to go back to normal we could also adjust the track heights individually like this or just the width of the track control panel like this to see more or less or even nothing and we've used the toolbar as well up here to adjust things or for visual feedback of what we're doing like this button over here is going to lock our items so if we choose it we could see that it's on now we can't move our audio turn it off and we can so good lock things from here we could see but snapping is turned on we could turn it off and it no longer snaps turn it back on and it does and we can view a grid lines or not and a whole bunch of other things we'll go over later down over here is the transport we could view it down here or hide it right here to create more room for our tracks and we can show it again right here we can just record play turn looping on an off stop and pause see where we are in the song see a selection our tempo and our rate we could zoom with the mouse wheel or trackpad in and out or scroll left and right up and down and we can right-click anything in Reaper and get a menu for that context for example we could select a media item and right-click that and get a contextual menu right here dealing with items we could right-click our track and get a contextual menu for our tracks or from you or so or the ruler so if you have it confused as to what you can do just right-click it and you'll get a menu with your options and the same thing with tooltips if you hover the mouse over a buttons tooltips show up but in a snow what it does blocking snapping grid and so on where the volume is set with a pan is set and just about anything else we hover over and we could also customize every menu in Reaper all these menus can all be changed how you prefer to work one with adjusting the theme the color layout who was seeing is called a theme we could change it in the options menu on the themes to default 3.0 which looks like this a 4.0 which looks like this or 5.0 or you can customize your own themes would download them from any user that created them and there's a whole bunch to choose from put it back to default and with a default we could also choose the theme adjuster we can readjust the truck and show panel from here what we see and don't see our mixer create custom colors right from here using different pallets we can also dim them right from here if the too bright and we can also adjust the preferences go into options choose preferences and in this window because just the preferences for the entire application each one of these sections works on different things general project audio and so on and finally we have actions right here show action list and this window all the actions that are performed in Reaper can be readjusted and here we can create custom actions or just assign different keyboard shortcuts to a favorite ones just select it here keyboard shortcut right here and that keyboard shortcut is going to trigger that action as you can see there's a lot of them everything you want to do in Reaper is going to be triggered by an action so it's all customizable for you so that's the basics let's get into more detail using Reaper 6 in the rest of the series let's go [Music] [Music] ah you

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Length: 16min 54sec (1014 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/_zibs]

praise Kenny gioia

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The voice of god(clear and precise cadence)

[u/praxthemusic]

Is this a free update if you own reaper?

[u/velohell]

Hell yes. Thanks for posting this!