REAPER Basics - The Complete Beginner Tutorial in under 15 MINUTES

Follow this complete beginner video to start making music in REAPER today.

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Learning a new DAW can be daunting, especially if you’ve never used one to record, produce, or mix music before.

In this video, we’ll go through the menus, tools, options, controls, and windows that make up a Digital Audio Workstation, such as REAPER. Specifically, we’ll discuss the Transport Controls, Track Control Panel, Arrange View, MIDI Editor, and Mixer, and how they all come together to create, mix, and polish your musical project. Lastly, we’ll talk about how to render your project so that you can share your music with the world.

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⏰ Timestamps ⏰

0:00 Intro
0:43 Menus
3:00 Main Toolbar
3:33 Transport Controls
4:52 Track Control Panel
6:43 Adding a Virtual Instrument
7:06 Arrange View
8:25 MIDI Editor
8:59 The Mixer
11:03 Signal Chain
11:33 Effects Plugins
12:41 Render / Export
14:00 Conclusion

[LiyaSwift]

A+ for overview, economy of words, & clarity. A godsend! Thank you!

[stevenlukasiewicz]

Thank you so much for doing this. Other REAPER help clips have too much "assumed" knowledge of already using a DAW. This broke things down in a very understandable step by step manner. This has been the best REAPER beginner clip by far!!

[jeteague]

You have explained this in a fraction of the time, other videos have taken longer. You have also done so more thoroughly, focusing on the key areas.

Much appreciated!

[Yeebok]

A human voice on a tutorial. Yay ! Helpful and nice and clear, thanks - I can get started now ;)

[TazzSmk]

this is perhaps one of the best, simpliest Reaper get-started-video-overview I've seen till now,
been using Reaper for years, never hurts to get reminded how simple things just work :D

[sharingmyfun]

Using the piano to illustrate what you were doing was very helpful to me. Great job. 14:45

[mondostrat]

cool!
now my transport is on top, right where it ought to be!

[DavidKestler]

Sweet, love how simple you make this feel. Going from Anolog to Digital has been a large learning curve, but must admit, still fun in so many ways. Thanks again Dave for posting and sharing this.

You rock.

[JohnnyRawks]

Excellent. I'm new to Reaper and this is by far the best primer I have watched.

[lorenvguitar]

Thanks for your time, I am new to Reaper and you are making it easier.

[sauldemize]

thank you!!! I'm switching from studio one to reaper and it has a learning curve for sure.

[bojanvidovic]

I started tu use Tracktion waveform few days ago and now tanks to you I learned how similar this daws are what are their main parts some basics and how they are not so hard to use as I thought they will be..

[davidlalremruata]

That was a very very useful instructional video with clear and precise explanations that aren't hard to understand at all.
Nevertheless, please note that I will have several questions for you once my audio interface arrives from Amazon India.
I've placed an order for the cheapest one on the planet, it's the SRK Cloud something here in India but is called Tayun Q12 or something like that elsewhere.
The point is, though your video has given me some really solid understanding of the basic aspects of recording with Reaper I know the practical side of it will give rise to many queries.
For the time being, thank you very much for your awesome video.
Meanwhile, I'm going to help you learn patience 😃 when I return with my doubts😊

[BAEMsn.]

Nais video! No i have a question, when u selected the mixer, then all the fx seemed to appear above it in the blac bars, which seemed pretty practical to me. when i select a channel in the mixer, this doesnt happen. did i miss anything or do you have any idea to set this up?

Greetings

[brownpunk]

heya..nice vid.

a question..im trying to learn some basic recording and missing/mastering principle's.

Long story cut short, I create acoustic renditions on my guitar (recorded with a Scarlett solo interface)..I have different track files likes intro, chorus. Verse etc..is it best to add effects (reverb, delay etc) to each track or simply add the effects to the 'bounced' final file?..hope it makes sense.
Cheers

[BB-rivf]

This is great. Thank you! I have a AKAI MPK mini do you know how I can make that work through reaper?

[kaelanmcalpine]

I was trying to do a song cover but kept getting thrown off my groove for whatever reason. I think I later realized said reason was there's a delay between when I start singing and when it gets picked up. I wanna know if there's any way to fix it. It also provided vocal files of the original song as a reference sheet so I know where they're supposed to be hit, well except for any bits with screaming, I'm on my own on that part.

[LIONINKPRINT]

Hi, hope you can help me, i can't hear when i playback what i recorded

[skingdomnkingdom]

Can you make a beginner master class? Part 1, part 2 etc… I’m sure you will have tons of view

[theultimatemixdown]

What would you like to learn more about in REAPER?