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[heavymetalmixer]

Five recommendations:

1) Have you tried other Reaper themes? My favorite one is Default Commala 5 2016.

2) When you render set the Resample Mode to Extreme. It consumes more CPU and it lasts longer but the resampling results in a more clean and "untouched" audio.

3) What about setting a buss for everything but the vocals? Like "Instruments".

4) Set all the plugins you use all the time on every track and bypass them, from the Reaper bypass button. If they're "deactivated" (how I like to call them from the Reaper bypass) they don't consume any CPU at all.

5) Try Airwindows Ditherbox with the NJAD on 24 bits when mixing and 16 bits when mastering (unless the client asks for a 24 bits master) at the end of the mixbus chain and on the group buses (deactivated on the later ones unless you're gonna render them separately). Off course, this means that when rendering don't forget to deactivate Reaper's dither and noise shaping.
Not so much of a workflow recommendation but this dither is just awesome.



Btw, don't you have tracks prepared for importing references? Or is it that you don't use references?

[rune]

There is a free vst called snapshot where you can take a picture of your hardware settings and import it to the vst so you have a reference right there on your track

[alanschwartz]

Hey White Sea! I’ve been in one DAW for 20+ years, and just saw this video you did 4 years ago. Thanks for showing my first ever look at Reaper. I’ve seen some of your gear reviews, but I love this, man. You are a very good & thorough teacher. I think I’ll get reaper tomorrow & take the plunge!

[Bills_Place]

I've been a casual Reaper user for many years and you just gave me several great ideas and showed me a few features I'd never touched. Thank you!

[danielmconnolly]

I've tried 'em all, REAPER ROCKS~!!!

[manolo.uk.]

I've recently switched to Reaper after over 20 years on Cubase. I'm still working on my workflow and how to take advantage of Reaper.
It would be great to see an update on this, how is your 2020 workflow evolved?

[Millweed]

Hey! I see you're getting your way around pretty fine! Some things you may or may not know: You can disable parent/master send by alt clicking (suppose it's option click on Mac) on the routing square before opening the routing menu so that you don't have to reach the button every time. There is also a sws action you can map that to and make a custom action (a.k.a. macro). Other than that you can drag the routing square to any track to make a send if you have zoomed out to see the tracks that you want. Another way would be to use the routing matrix. If you want something specific I may be able to help you out. Greetings from Halfweg!

[betulsen]

It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.

[ZenoMOD]

1. You can control send volume / pan ! But only with midi cc ("adjust track send...")

2. You dont have to close the region render matrix and go to File:Render.... Click "Render..." on the upper right from your region render matrix and you are just right there ;)

3. Did you try to build window screensets for your second screen? You can, for example, arrange all tools / windows that have something to do with rendering on the second screen and save them as screensets. Or a second screenset for analysis tools (For example I have all important analyzers in monitoring fx). Or a mixer in fullscreen. each with a keystroke available, so you can switch with keyboard shortcut or midi....

4. Toolbars: For recurring tasks, a custom toolbar makes sense! Toolbars are so powerful! For my part I have a toolbar for editing tasks, mastering tasks, etc etc ... after the fun part of mastering I highlight all trackitems and just press 4 buttons (Set marker, convert to region, set region as master, render) in order, write the track names in the region manager, choose "$region" as filename and I'm done. 30 sec - 1 min maximum.

[RKBibleStudy]

What theme are you using in Reaper? I really like the meters you have going on. Great channel.

[timocarliermusic]

Great video. You can create a custom bar with shortcut icons to your most used features at the top. I have 'render' and 'open render queue' as shortcuts, as well as an option to bypass Monitoring FX. The Monitoring FX output is really useful for metering and if you are using an effect on your headphones (I use Waves NX). I really like you tip of using a separate channel as the master channel, so you can do quick A/B reference comparisons!

[The_Absurdistt]

Very helpful vid. Please do more vids on reaper as it is always nice to see what others are doing. One small correction at 1:53 your mixer window is actually set to Track Layout> Mixer Panel> ea - Strip.... What you were changing was the edit window; track panel to bd ---Small Full Meter, which is off screen. This could be confusing to new users like myself. Anyway, thanks for your efforts and wealth of info. Cheers.

[Noone-of-your-Business]

I didn't know SWS extensions supported automatic track coloring _and_ icons! Dang! Just installed that...

[koteotake]

You can make action buttons for adding fx or vsti in one click. You need SWS for this.

Open Cycle Action Editor.
Add Cycle Action
Cycle Action Name - Custom: Add ReaEQ
command CONSOLE x reaeq.
Apply.
Then Customise Toolbar, add new Button "Custom Add ReaEQ".

[TonyPelosi-music]

Great! I hope this would be part 1/of many. Reaper has so many facilities that individual workflows are always welcomed - specially yours.Thanks.

[zicmanislord]

Hi. For the reference tracks you can disable the master send and add a new hardware ouput. So the reference tracks won't be read by the master and the mastering fx chain. No brainer.Done! :).

[bentsound]

Great video, Reaper looks pretty cool, I did notice, the links to your Patreon as well as to the next video that you pointed to never appeared onscreen.

[tonoormusic]

How can anyone dislike this? ProTools stakeholders or something?

[BlackenedNL]

That region render matrix is a very handy option! To do that in Logic takes a LOT more time

[attorks]

Great video. About the photo's with settings you save on Dropbox: you can also save the photo's in the Reaper project so you have everything in one place.