Can You Make Orchestral Music In REAPER? (How to Organize Your Template)

In this video, I show you how I organize my Reaper projects for orchestral music and midi mockups. Most DAWs are 100% excellent, but I wanted to breakdown some tips that will speed up your workflow in Reaper and show what I do under the hood. Even if you are in FL Studio, Logic, Protools, Cubase, or Ableton, these tips can help you out too. Let me know what you want to see next!

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[TheGameBoysGuitar]

This is killer stuff dude! Super helpful for working out how to organise the masses of instruments you end up with doing orchestral work

[petertremblay]

Excellent video but i still don't understand how to use the articulations in track instead of key switch, would like to see typical user cases since i am a visual type of learner.

[DjorMil.CineMusic]

Thx fir the video. You didnt show how you router tracks and folders though…thats super important. Where do you route your orchestra folder?

[weslaycock]

Toolbar docker is too cool. Definitely going to play around with that

[hotz]

Great and efficient organization: thanks for sharing. What is your Reaper theme?

[xiomarazc]

Hello, Joshua. I am trying in hopes of getting your response. The question is if you find inspiration in the sounds you go getting in the process, I mean while you're setting your sounds in your DAW, or if you try to finish writting your pieces before starting to work in Reaper. I am a singer, actually I might consider myself as a songwriter also (let's say I am an independent artist and have a natural gift as vocalist). So, I'm starting to produce in Reaper and I see it complicated to handle so many tracks. One more question would be if you progress in Reaper in the direction of quitting tracks while you determine you have obtained in a section the sound or finish desired... I mean, you progress adding or substracting channels/tracks? Thank you, buddy.

[Successbookblogger]

Josh, I see you are routing instruments from within their own folder...to reverbs in another folder. I have had crashes when I do that. Am I understanding the video correctly?

[zimouspero]

Thank you brother. Can you tell me what skin are you using?

[IamHappyfellow]

This is a very nice informative video indeed. Is there any chance the reaper template you have created can be downloaded?

[TirianMassot]

Interesting video, I was wondering how you handle automations? I find that when I have my MIDI on sub-tracks and my Kontakt on the parent folder, if I want to move a MIDI item the automations won't follow unless I manually move them or create a blank MIDI item on the parent track

[rautshsale]

how did you set up your toolbar docker to transpose midi an octave up and down?

[CybreSmee]

Dude, just get OTR for Reaper - you can thank me later.