I.... love this dude. His vocal cadence was overwhelmingly distracting at first, but now it's my favorite thing about the videos. He's the Christopher Walken of Reaper tutorials.
Your tips continue to be just what I need. So straightforward and simple to understand. And then you take the time to delineate the subtleties of fine-tuning the effects. Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks Kenny. I was mixing a country song with an overly busy arrangement. I set up a folder with the instruments that were causing me grief against the vocal, with a sidechained compressor. Not only did it sort the intrusive instruments, it also... I dunno... the song suddenly went from seeming overwhelming and claustrophobic to being relaxed and open. Cutting the instruments would have been too much, but this worked a treat.
You are my savior Kenny!!!! all I have is a vocal track+background, a wonderfull clasical guit and a harmonica......still with pan, EQ and all sorts of tricks I have mush when the vocs come in....I finally re-mixed an old song "Eldorado"
Super important bit if you're using MIDI for this. If you're using MIDI, then when you move over the send there will be the spot that you set the audio channels from "1-2" => "3/4". TO THE RIGHT OF THIS IS THE MIDI SECTION. SET THIS TO NONE. Super crucial and I wish this was mentioned in the video
Awesome video Kenny! Would love to see one on how to duck the whole track with multiple instruments under the kick and snare like in EDM. Keep up the good work my friend 👍
Every video talks about Routing Button but version 7 does not seem to have it - will export back into Logic Pro 11 & do it that as at least Reaper reads 32bit plugins! Great tutorial though but only if the Routing Button is available & there seems to be no way to get access to it via the preferences.
When I set my "VST1" track to send signal to the "VST2" track, "VST1" track also sent the MIDI pattern to the "VST2" track, making it play that MIDI pattern on "VST2" track. How can I fix it so that it stops sending the MIDI pattern? EDIT: Oh, it seems I only need to disable MIDI in routing
I'm assuming this would work the same way with folders. I just went through a nightmare having to try to do this with a haunted file in Logic Pro X. It had originally been a Garageband 5 file, and it was not doing anything the way the it should, but no matter what I did, I could not get the compressor to use the source side chain as the trigger. I tried absolutely everything. I eventually had to use the ducking feature in the gate, which worked without a hitch. I'd like to see a video on using ducking folders with other folders, some of which may already contain internal ducking. This is a much trickier thing to do, and I think it would make a great tutorial. For instance, if there was a kick drum ducking the bass within the music folder, and then you wanted to have all of the music inside the music folder be ducked by all of the output from the folder containing the vocals, what would be the best way to route this? It can get confusing, and I'd love to see Kenny show us the best way to do something like that. Thanks for another great video, Kenny! You are the best. Truly.
Man, I wish Reaper would still look the same, I have the current version and I can't for the life of me find a way to send the VO track to the music so I can't trigger the compressor
idk what has changed in reaper, but for some stupid reason, when i try to route the sidechaining audio from 1/2 to 3/4, i can still hear it. this tutorial says it doesnt, but i asked someone else whos an avid user of reaper and they say its supposed to happen that way.
I put a kick drum in ReasamplOmatic5000 after that when i side chain the bass line i hear a bass with my kick drum.when i render a kick to audio file every thing fine!!could u plz show us how is it possible with kick in the sampler.tnx
I need to find a solution that is command line only with a raspberry pi on live audio stero in and a mono mic or line in and combine out. Doing a portable podcast setup without traditional laptop or desktop.
any knowledge on how to get waves vocal rider to accept sidechain input through the wavs plugin, not through reaper channel 3/4 side-chaining? Possibly i won't have to worry about tha tnot working now that i got this cool little trick to play around with. Pce yo, 1luv 1reaperfamily together we BAND together, i mean STAND ...jk idunnno its late and no one is up, typical night for myself-- luckily i got music
