10 Crazy Things You Can Do With REAPER (DAW)

Many thanks to all the crazy scripters who made this video possible, as well as Kenny Gioia and Jon Tidey, whose videos you should check out if you want more info on any of these tips.

Scripts I used in this video (in order of appearance) -

'SWS/BR: Move active floating track FX window to mouse cursor (horizontal: middle, vertical: middle)'

'Envelope: Insert 4 envelope points at time selection' (automation nudger)



'me2beats_Adjust grid (mousewheel).lua'

'Grid: Adjust swing grid (MIDI CC/mousewheel only)'

Kawa and Julian Sader's midi editing scripts are featured at the end of the video. All of these excellent scripts are available within Reapack, which I highly recommend you install, along with the SWS extensions.

[callmejohnnylovecreator]

Now THAT was a very refreshing vid, Sir. I knew of some of them but even one of these top level work lifters are worth diamonds in stacks. Thank you, Your Badassness

[ranajoyshil]

Crazy Thing No 1 - Quick add FX or Track Template: 00:03
Crazy Thing No 2 - Move floating FX window to mouse cursor: 00:21
Crazy Thing No 3 - Free Item Positioning: 00:34
Crazy Thing No 4 - Create a whole song in one track; with midi, audio items all routed through their own FX chains: 01:01
Crazy Thing No 5 - Instant Sidechain Compression: 02:12
Crazy Thing No 6 - Custom Toolbar Buttons: 02:44
Crazy Thing No 7 - Default Track Templates: 03:43
Crazy Thing No 8 - Live Voice to MIDI: 04:22
Crazy Thing No 9 - Mousewheel Modifiers: 04:31
Crazy Thing No 10 - Lots of cool MIDI Editing scripts: 05:00

[inouno]

People always asking me, what's so great about Reaper and why they should use it ... now I have an reference Video XD Thank you. Keep it up.

[fredericpetitpas]

Awesome vid. I'm your 100th sub :D

[luckyankraj]

Thanks for these tips man ! The quick add fx one, I had no clue that was there.

[kevinnel]

This video taught me tons!

A few questions though,
1. how did you get that oscilloscope readout in your top toolbar
2. How did you make the toolbar buttons long (eg the PDC script)
3. Not a question. Your reaper setup is brilliant. Youtube need smore bitesized videos like this for reaper where people can see it's power. That sidechain trick was mind blowing!

[MarinSubasic]

Man, this disable plugins with more than 64 samples latency was something I was searching for!!
Clearly you are coming from Cubase, so am I
THANKS A BUNCH!

[LeeRoyFreedom]

YT Suggested this video... Glad thay did. Subbed but was so bummed this was the only one...

[MichaelBFusion]

It's been 5 years, but I still come back to this often. How does #7 work? You said you renamed it? You renamed the plugin so that when it loads it has a custom version loaded ie settings already messed with?

[fabriziof]

Tx man show us what's your tricky workflow in Reaper while you're at a composiing or mixing session!!!

[Chalisque]

Great demo. It would be nice to know _how_ to do those things (I could only figure a few out).

[DanielDPPerry]

Great video! I also couldn't help but notice the FX chain view you have to the left of the tracks. How did you add it to the master track window?

[Satnamtaro]

Thank you for showing me some of the tricks I did not know were there!

By the way, what is the name for the script you are using around 6:21 where you are fiddling around with CCs? I searched inside Reapak for Kawa and Julian Sader's midi editing scripts, but was not sure which one actually does the trick.

Thank you once again and look forward to more videos in the future/

[anandhukrishna]

Alt + mouse wheel adjust grid how did u do that ? Is it a script ?

[andivax]

hi! how do you highlight the VSTI (other color than fx'es)? thanx!

[glasaudio]

Could you tell us how you got the waveform in your toolbar? Thanks!

[SlimeSound]

Hi Joe, I'm late to the party. Still using reaper? Busy in the studio? Thanks for this great video. Sums some very powerful features of reaper.

[moneyDev]

move floating fx window to cursor doesnt

[Ndumixo]

Well... Tell us how to get these things bro

[leongrinberg]

great) now tell us how much pain in the ass it takes to config all that staff