Besides the always useful tips and tricks, I'm always impressed by the effort you put into your video editing so the point you make is direct and crystal clear. You make your demonstration feel natural and effortless without clutter. It really needs a lot of care to achieve. Cheers.
One thing Kenny didn't mention (and this might be helpful for new Reaper users) is that if you drag to re-order your regions, they might no longer be in numerical order. The quick fix is to open the Region/Marker Manager (ctrl+alt+shift+r on PC), right click anywhere inside that window and select "renumber in timeline order".
It is actually incredible how many times I've watched a video of yours just at random for entertainment value and you have either answered a question that had me stumped or you have given me brand new inspiring ideas to try in Reaper. I LOVE REAPER AND I LOVE YOU, KENNY!
Wow Kenny, I never realized you could usse Reaper like Ableton. You're just using regions like Ableton uses clips in session view. This will be awesome for arrangments and DJ work. Thanks for this video.
It's for tasks like that region hopping -- not common enough most of the time to justify getting some kind of keyboard shortcut on the main keyboard -- that I make use of a wireless keyboard connected to a spare laptop running a Python Qt app that turns keypresses on the secondary wireless keyboard into OSC messages that I can bind in Reaper. I then use the F1...F12 keys (along with modifiers) to select pages, so that I have up to 48 pages of keyboard shortcuts on my secondary keyboard. The only task then (which I haven't done much on yet) is keeping track of what's assigned where. (Though thankfully Reaper stores its OSC bindings in a plain text config file, and you can dump the action list to a text file, so it is not hard generate shortcut lists and similar.)
As always amazingly helpful. This will make my composing efforts so much easier. Thanks again Kenny, you're work is fantastic. Thanks to you and the REAPER team!
This makes the beat making process even easier. Thank you for this would have never thought to use regions to setup loop points so much eaiser than making midi items for all my tracks.
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Nice video ! Got to add the custom actions for changing region and loop at the same time ! One cool tip when moving regions is the action to renumber markers and regions, so shortcuts to go to regions stay up to date with regions order.
06:54 whaaaaat ? Been creating custom actions for all this time and didn't know selecting actions beforehand would add them in the custom action once you create a new custom action... Such a timesaver ! Thank you Kenny
🤔 The last step (rearranging/copying the regions in the specific order you want) might be 'automatable' . Think about playback the regions like shown in the video (jump to the different regions live) but also record the order of this live switching in a 2nd project tab. I don't know if this is possible atm but it wouldn't surprized me if it is 😁 With a set of custom actions Something like 'copy all items under playhead --> jump to projecttab 2 --> paste -> jump to projecttab 1' of course it's not that simple. There had to be some other actions before. For example 'mute all tracks on projecttab2' to avoid playing both tabs and the items need to be placed at the correct positions (not at the playhead but on the bar on the timeline) but this might be possible with a specific setting in the grit/snap menu. Well. Just some thoughts 😁 thats what I really like about reaper. You probably think: "Hey, it would be great if I could do this or that" and 'bam' there is a way to do it. 😄 Thank you Kenny for all the teaching 👍.
You're the man! Like you read my mind. I was just going to start searching for region solutions. I used to use this many years ago but forgot how to do it ahaha., Cheers, Broheim!
nice workaround to achieve the scene/session view! the instant seek aspect where the playhead remains in its relative position when swapping between regions is one of the challenges.... the idea behind instant region swapping and maintaining the playhead positioning is useful for instantly swapping in a instrument versus waiting for the 4bars to complete
this is a SUPER handy way to utilize regions I hadn't thought of! Will definite use it but... I wonder if there's a way to get that "mix and match clips" style playback like Ableton? For example, while scene one is playing in Ableton, I can have a single clip NOT in that scene start to play with it, even though it isn't "lined up" with that scene.
Thanks for the video (and all the other ones!!!). The one thing I like in Ableton’s session view - and that I haven’t been able to replicate in Reaper - is the ability to play loops that have different lengths simultaneously. For example, playing a 16-beat loop with another one that’s 15-beat long. This is something that Logic Pro’s “Live Loops Grid” can do as well. Any idea of how to do this in Reaper? TY
This is another brilliant video. I would add a word of caution though, so you don't run into trouble. The "Regions:Set loop point to current region" may be a recent addition. I was a couple of Reaper versions out of date, and that option wasn't available. The whole thing depends on it. Make sure you have the current version of Reaper. Question: is there any way to record a "live take" ie recording while changing the regions?
Thanks as always Kenny... but I was looking for something else, maybe you can help me (or even do a follow-up video perhaps)? I will often use regions to document a chord progression in a part of a song. Say the verse has two sections, I will create one region for the first part and another region for the second part with the cords in the name field for each. But technically the whole verse is both regions combined so I would like to have a second region that spans that whole section. I know this is possible, and I think they can been seen separately in like a "regions lane" of some kind, but damn if I can figure out how to do that. I can create nested regions, but they overlap each other and can't be manipulated independently. Is there a way to get regions into their own "lanes" (my word not something in Reaper). Thanks again for all your great content, you rock!
Very nice! Thank you for your amazing tutorials! 2 questions just came in my mind... 01 - There is any way to set an action + keyboard shortcut to select a channel from a region and mute / unmute that channel without using the mouse? Just by using the keyboard shortcut we set to that action. 02 - its posible to use a MDI Controller like AKAI APC 64 and work how it works in Ableton?
@@cpt.kimintuitiondemon the only DAW that updates so frequently that it’s hard to keep up with 😂 FINE I’ll install the new one again lol 🙏 but thank you, appreciate it
If you want it to be immediate, use Markers instead. Then you can also go to the Seeking preferences and turn on "Do not change playback position Immediately when seeking (smooth seek)" and make adjustments there.
@jbongnap that immediate seek is one of the challenges, that is not so easy to overcome.... as Reaper tends to have buffer underruns... which is not a good thing if one desires to utilise midi syncing with clocks etc, i found the best method is to use MaschineVST for immediate seeking, which can be run inside Reaper... i did a video on 4 instances using Reaper as a host on my channel
It would be really cool if you could set up regions as clones of one another so if you updated one region it would update all other regions that are its clones.
it's soooo close to session view, but not as easy or intuitive. but i love reaper, and it's way cheaper, waaaay faster to launch, and just as stable but better at handling cpu load than ableton. i own licenses for both, but man, i hate waiting so long for ableton to just open , sometimes. also, reaper is one of a kind in its customizability. well worth the sixty bucks i paid, but so is the hundred bucks i paid for ableton intro. 'learning reaper' is another great reaper channel that has helped me, and there are others, of course Kenny is King
This was great! I'm interested in using Reaper to do live looping (guitar and midi instruments). Is this the way you would set up Reaper to do this? If not, do you gave a tutorial showing how to set up the ideal live looping scenario?
Superb, Kenny (as always). I've been using a similar method for a while just manually jumping between regions or using the Region List but you've revealed a few actions that make it so much slicker. Many thanks. But.....I've always had a niggling thought. Is there any way to record my performance as I jump about regions OR record/note what order I played the regions when playing 'on the fly'. Sometimes I come up with a performance I've really liked and I'm stuffed trying to remember what I actually did. (Advancing age). Any suggestions.
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBuFHJlZ19Q.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think he can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBuFHJlZ19Q.html
Hello Kenny. I recently watched your video about "Record From One Project Tab to Another". Do you think @timheald6612 can achieve his goal recording to another project tab, as you explained on that video?
Don't see why not, the same workflow should work fine with audio as well. The only difference is you can't edit midi items if you don't have them. You can still mute audio media items as desired
Great! But one thing: I cannot find the action 'Regions: Set loop points to current region'. Running Reaper v6.83 on win10. Maybe the action has an ID number? Kenny rules!
2:08 pleaase can you let me know how you scroll through tracks using a continuous knob on your controller? I tried this myself but couldn't get my head around it in the actions list!
i know its not related to this video but can you make a video explaining the difference in performance on reaper (or general music production) on a pc vs a mac?
If you want Reaper to beat Ableton Live, invest more in the quality of native plugins. For example, ReaEq does not have a choice in the filters decibels. Study the Ableton Live plug-ins and improve yours accordingly. . Otherwise, Reaper is vastly superior to Live.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Because it's not stock and most people don't know about ReEq ? NB : had not heard about it until reading your post and it is amazing indeed. With that being said, lots of users (especially not advanced) will do just fine with ReaEQ.
@@shamanbeartwo3819Also : if you use your DAW to practice your live mixing (as in : mixing live shows in real time with an actual live mixing console) skills, ReaEQ is better because it's closer to the available EQs in most live mixing consoles. If you get used to ReEQ because it is "the best" (compared to ReaEq), then when you're on an actual mixing console, you're fucked because suddenly you don't have all these nice things from ReEQ.
i do. feel. it is. very anoying. how. he talks. with massive. pauses. for no. reason. in every. sentence. on all. his videos. shame because he knows his stuff
