What's New in REAPER 6.24 - RAZOR EDITING tutorial and more!

hello and welcome to another reaper block tutorial what's new in reaper 6.24 that's what we're doing today and there's a lot of changes the big one is the new feature razer edits it's a really cool feature let's jump into it all right we're going to start off this change log with arrange view display bracket over last selected track to indicate where pasted content will go so i'm going to zoom in here so you can see this up close and i've got this new cursor wherever the insert point is going to be this indicator is new but the behavior of how things are going to be pasted has always been the same just for an example here i'll put in an item and then i'll cut it and i'll go to another track and hit paste you know that's working as expected but what if i don't have any tracks selected reaper is going to follow the last touch track and without any tracks selected you don't really have any indication until now with this new indicator so yeah i think everyone can see here based on that indicator where my next paste will go with this track selected v will paste there with this track selected v will paste there with no track selected pasting again will go to the same spot so it's just you know just to help you follow the insert points and things like that because it can be a little confusing especially if you have multiple items selected multiple tracks that you're pasting into it can be a little tough to follow that at times in the theme we've got cursor underscore cell track dot png image to customize select a track cursor bracket so this change actually affects more than just the default theme so if i go to my custom theme the background colors and everything changes but that indicator is still there so if your custom theme doesn't have this image file it will fall back on the default which has this image file there's also a new theme color for selected track background so let's look at that let's go to the action list search for theme tweak what we're looking for here is selected track background odd tracks select attract background even tracks so this is just again another indicator of track selections we've always had on the left side the selected tracks kind of light up they they brighten um we can customize the range view to do similar things or go extreme with the actual colors so just for an example i'll do it extreme color here uh for both of these i'll just do two different pinks just so it's a little you know it's very obvious which track is selected if you have multiple it looks like this i'll just put in a bunch more tracks and without this function it can be a little hard to find which tracker is selected and um and so yeah this is just an optional thing you can do to tweak the track color selection and you can make this a more subtle change like this and it's just a lot easier to find where you are anytime you're making changes to the reaper theme it's always best to save your theme as a new file it's going to keep all these theme development window settings in its own place for effects they've added lv2 plugin support this is a format commonly used on linux but our door also uses lv2 plugins i'm not an expert on this never used an lv2 plugin but i will show you the preference page here so if you go to preferences lv2 under plugins you've got the search path very similar to the vst and then a couple different options for how things are named append mono for plugins with single input output append x ch for plugins with non-stereo i o it's like four channels things like that append midi for plugins with no audio i o and append maintainer name just you know the company name that makes it so all those things are optional next up option to hide effects comment field in chain view alright so every effects chain has a comments box at the top of every plugin so let's add in some more plugins here i'm going to add in black 76 and i'll add in ott and every plugin has this comments box so we'll just call this local vocal eq something like that this area is just used as a note to yourself and uh you know it's not really used anywhere else in reaper as far as i know it's yeah it's just visible there you don't see it in the uh the track control panel area you don't see that in the mixer area it's only within the effects chain window so if you don't use that function you want to gain back a little bit more screen space you can go into the preferences and plug-ins here we're looking for show comment field above effects ui and we'll just turn that off and hit ok and yeah this plug-in window is now about a centimeter smaller on my screen and that's going to impact every single plugin window again floating windows don't have that comments field it's only in the effects chains yeah if that's a function you don't use let's get rid of it a couple more things to cover before we get into the razer edits the first one is with rescript you can press f1 in the ide for context sensitive help if possible let's look at that i'm going to open up the action list and find a script just any any script at all open this up let's say reaper get media item info underscore value and i'll press f1 and then in my browser i've got that function here with all the parameters and things that you can use context sensitive help with search that sort of thing is pretty neat so let's let's grab another one at random reaper br get closest grid division so again just selecting it pressing f1 on the keyboard and then the reaper api on a local file for this you don't actually need internet for this comes up with an explanation of that function if you remember a few versions back we had the option of inserting a sample into a sample player resamplematic 5000 there's a small change with that the change log says action to insert media into active sample player looks for more recently active resamplomatic 5000 instance and so that's just uh instead of being the first one in the project the one on the top track it's now using the last used last touched uh sample player and now it's time to get into razer editing this is a new function for reaper you can do quite a lot of stuff with this and and just completely new types of edits than you were able to do with reaper before i'll try to kind of summarize this function before we actually get into the demonstration essentially you're making rectangular selections with tracks and time over items and automation automation items even including silence if you want from there you can manipulate that you can stretch it you can copy it you can ripple edit you can delete you can do all kinds of things and it all kind of works within those boxes you can do some really powerful things with this but it's not the tool for every single job i don't think it should replace your default editing functions because it it excels at very specific things but for certain things it may not be useful at all so let's read the change log razer edit feature to draw move copy and transform selected areas of media and automation support moving copying envelope areas based on envelope type or envelope via mouse modifiers when move envelope points with items is enabled hidden envelopes are included in area selection actions to insert midi item empty item click source use razer added areas if exist option to always trim content behind razer edits preferences to stretch audio items by adding stretch markers or splitting display move guide when editing autocross fade media items at the edge of razer edit area support displaying overlapping media items in lanes when auto creating effects parameter envelopes initialize with a current parameter value basic api support settings to snap razor edits to media items and automation items so there's a lot of stuff there and and kind of out of context this this doesn't make any sense so before we get into razer editing i should first give some examples of what editing functions we've already had item-based editing where you select an item you can shift-click an item we can copy this we can click somewhere and then paste it and it does the entire item right so we're editing with items and using the entire item then we have time-based edits with items so we can drag in an empty area of the tracks or drag within the ruler to make a time selection we can select our items here so all these items are within and around the time selection if i press a shortcut like cut within time selection that's cut just the selected items within the time selection if i park my cursor here and then hit paste it's just that cropped area there then if we go into mouse modifiers we can do things like time and item selections using a right drag so that's like doing this and so i've selected items and time range all at once if i hit x there that's going to cut all that stuff out and go over here and a paste and it pastes all that stuff in there and this is how i've worked for 10 years if not more that's how i've been working i link my time selection to item selection i'll just show you this in the mouse modifiers arrange view right drag marquee select items in time this is a very fast way of working and for a lot of workflows this is very good what you miss out on is this independent item type editing where you can skip gaps then in reaper 5 we got automation items where you can put a container over an automation lane and you can move this around you can add points to this you can copy it and paste it and all that kind of stuff up until reaper 6.24 you haven't been able to select automation on multiple tracks or on multiple lanes of the same track so if i want to move these envelope points on uh the volume and the panning envelope at the same time you have to do it separately or link it to a an item if you have items there you just want to move the automation you have to make an automation item over both of them and then select them both by holding shift and clicking on each one and then you can move them together so kind of clunky slow razor edits combine the best parts of all of those functions so we're using time-based editing we're taking multiple items and envelopes and everything all at once within these boxes i have this setup on alt right drag so hold down the alt key right drag and i can make a box selection and i can move that around and i can replace things i can copy paste ripple edit duplicate if i have silence within that that time range there's an option to also duplicate with the time so i'll make a new selection here and i'll include this automation item stuff like that and i'll just duplicate that and it's kept in that silent bit i'm going to delete the automation item but preserving the points on these two items i'm going to do a razor edit around this and then i can move this and i can even put it on another track just like that so i can move that around let's duplicate that holding down the alt key and going to the edge we can shrink that area or expand it and that works with items and automation at the same time never been able to do that before dragging the top or bottom of the razor edit will add an additional track to it so we got this i can drag that down so i'm adding in another track i'm adding in another envelope lane and another one just look for the different icons so there's kind of the classic square bracket trim icons there's this one with a up and down arrow arrow indicating that you'll be adding to the selection and then this gets even more powerful when you add in the fact that you can have multiple selections so you've never been able to do multiple time selections that move together that duplicate together that ripple edit together that can be moved to different tracks all that kind of stuff this is super powerful all right so here's another example so i've got some midi items on this track if i wanted to select let's say three of these and change the timing of them i would hold down alt and drag to change the timing but that leaves gaps what if we put in a razor edit around these three items and then hold down alt and drag the edge that's actually changing the timing and it's stretching the ones outside of that to kind of fill in the gaps so kind of a really different way of approaching that we do that with an audio item it's different still so let's take this item here and so i can do a razor edit around that and then alt drag and so that's using item rate to change the timing of that let's do a razor edit that isn't the full item and we change the timing of that now let's put in stretch markers on the items before and after so this item plays normal speed then it gets faster and then this last one gets slower to fill the gap if we go into preferences and editing behavior there's a few things here stretching razor edit area add stretch markers to audio items all right so let's turn that off and hit ok i'm going to drag this and this time it's only used the item rate instead of adding in stretch markers changelog said display move guide when editing so if i drag this around you see these uh diagonal lines showing the original edit area very helpful to have that a couple things got renamed so if we right click on this main toolbar button move envelope points with media items and razor edits and razer edits was added to that the changelog talks about using razer edit areas for kind of the same functions as time selections in some cases so if i have a razer edit area and i go to the insert menu and go to uh new midi item it's going to put in a new midi item within that area or if i undo go to insert click source that's going to put that in there and i think uh it's empty yeah that timed code generator works like that as well empty item dedicated video item that's all going to use the razer edit area okay so let's go back to the mouse modifiers most of your interaction with this and the way that you're going to get comfortable with this is looking at these things for the context arranged view and right drag i already showed you my default here this factory default is to just select items and i like to also select the time i hold shift if i want to add items to the selection hold ctrl if i only want to select time and then there's the razer edits i have this on alt alt right drag to create eraser edit area shift alt right drag adds to razer edit area you can have multiple razor edits so let's just click into this and see the other options for creating razer edits so just create that's the default ignoring snap it will ignore snap to grid add to selection or from cursor these two i've been able to get very comfortable with as i use this more as i find more things that i need to do with it i'll definitely add those other things in there we also have this button here to swap marquee and razer edit modifiers so that could be a quick way to jump between different uh editing techniques and maybe not need to use so many keyboard modifiers so once we have a razer edit there are various things that we can do with left click so left click default is no action it's it's not going to move the edit cursor it's not going to do anything we already we just have a selection and we can click on it if we want other possibilities are remove one area remove areas delete area contents split media items at edges move area backwards move area forwards or we can call up an action so we can add a script or things like that we've got shift for split media items at area edges ctrl to move area forward shift ctrl to move area backwards alt to remove one area shift alt to remove areas shift control alt to delete area contents let's try that out so i'm going to make an area selection around an area with silence and partial audio items i'm going to hit shift click and that's going to split those items let's undo that let's do control click and that's going to move it later in the timeline and shift control click will move it backwards alt click will remove one of the tracks from that selection or envelope lane from that selection shift alt will remove that the entire selection by the way to remove an area selection you can just click outside of it with time selection normally you're hitting escape to remove that shift control alt shift that's like all the modifiers if you click on that that's going to clear the contents of that so let's do that again here shift control alt click and that's cleared that entire area pretty cool for left drag we've got move area so let's look at that we've seen this but we can move this and it's replacing other parts move area ignoring snap so snap to grid disabled copy areas holding down control so this is working the same as media items but it's including that empty area now let's look at the razer edit edge so we can move edges do it ignoring snap or stretching edges just stretch or ignoring snap so we've got this defaults on move edges shift move edges ignoring snap alt for stretch areas and shift alt for stretch areas ignoring snap so there you go that's where we're going to leave it uh lots of fun stuff with the razer edits very exciting very powerful feature not something that is going to be my new default way of doing everything i think for me marquee item selection um is the best way that that works for me in most situations but razer edits are definitely something that i will be using on music projects not so much on dialogue heavy stuff for podcasts i think i used them once in my last podcast edit and it wasn't completely necessary um but it did save some time in that particular situation but there's a lot of situations where you're you're chopping up complex things re-timing things duplicating including silence i think that's one of the main benefits of using that one where you want to keep the space and duplicate and clear out everything that was on the track already it's awesome for that if you have any questions about razer editing or anything else in this video please leave them down below happy to come back to the razer editing video may do a separate video just on that another time because there's so much to cover with that yeah thank you please subscribe to the channel if you haven't already follow me on facebook and twitter support the reaper blog through patreon and visit reaperblog.net for a lot more tutorials [Applause] you

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Length: 21min 43sec (1303 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 03 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/FujiKeynote]

Razor edits seem to be the major news for this release but...

LV2 support – not enough fanfare about this. It's huge for Linux as historically most plugins have been LV2 and you'd have to scout the web for LinuxVST versions of Windows plugins or resort to Carla to bridge them (which I could never trust not to crap out at an inopportune moment).

Other things:

Re: Hide FX comment box – lol, I didn't even realize what that box was. Does anyone actually use that as opposed to naming their presets?

Re: context sensitive help – the API reference isn't the best organized thing out there, but this definitely will help a lot.

[u/Barafu]

There is a "change theme colors" menu??? Holy pasta!

[u/ItConstantin]

LV2 support is huge news. I can finally make actual music with my everyday machine. There's no way I'm installing Windows, nor have patience to screw around with wine and vst-bridges. Time for native DAW and plugins all the way. Thanks!