Category: TUTORIAL

  • Review: Groove3 Reaper Tips and Tricks

    Review: Groove3 Reaper Tips and Tricks

    Reaper Tips and Tricks is the latest Reaper training series from Groove3. Tips & Tricks is hosted by Kenny Gioia, an instructor I’ve been learning from since 2007. I’m a bit of a Kenny Gioia and Groove3 fanboy, I can’t even imagine where I’d be at with my DAW skills without their video tutorials. Like…

  • Video: Auto-Panning (from Reaper Tips & Tricks)

    Groove3 just released the latest tutorial video series Reaper Tips & Tricks, hosted by Kenny Gioia. The nearly 5hr tutorial set is on sale for $29.99 Here is one of the tutorials showing how to set up auto-panning effects using parameter modulation.

  • How To Use ReaScales

    What’s a ReaScale? REAPER includes a few basic scales for it’s Scales and transpose functions. The ability to load reascales allows the user to expand this functionality. A reascale file contains one or more custom musical scales or chord pattern templates. Once loaded, the new scale/chord templates are accessed in the MIDI editor Scale menu…

  • MIDI Editor Powerup – Instant chords, scales and arpeggios

    How great would it be to right-click and insert an arpeggio pattern to the MIDI editor? Aeolian on the forum came up with this very cool trick, did the work to implement it and shared the results with the community. This is a really cool user-created addition to the REAPER MIDI editor. Download the files…

  • REAPER 201: Removing vocal plosives

    REAPER 201: Removing vocal plosives

    How to edit out microphone pops using fades and low cut filter

  • REAPER 101: Making Selections

    REAPER 101 is a series of short articles to help beginners get started with REAPER quickly. This tutorial will demonstrate how to make track, time, item and MIDI selections. This is one of the fundamentals of working in REAPER. Track Selection Tracks are selected simply by clicking on any space in the track control panel…

  • Video: Using Screensets in REAPER 4

    This tutorial comes from Jonny Ginese at ReaperTutorials.com and shows how to use the screensets function to quickly jump from mixing to editing to split screen workflows. This quickly became one of my most used functions since R4 was released, it’s really easy to set up and really fast to use.

  • Run Plugin as Dedicated Process

    This article continues where the previous article about 32 and 64-bit REAPER left off. At the end we recommended the 32-bit version of REAPER with specific plugins running as a separate or dedicated process. This article will explain the difference and how to do it. Native, separate or dedicated process? The difference between these is…

  • Should you use 32 or 64-bit REAPER?

    Should you use 32 or 64-bit REAPER?

    You’ve probably noticed that there are a few versions of REAPER on the download page. 32-bit or 64-bit. This is a big source of confusion for new users. I heard that 64-bits sounds better or something. LOL OK, the first thing to understand is that this has nothing to do with how REAPER sounds. You…

  • Video: One Handed Editing Using Mouse Modifiers

    This video tutorial comes from Jonny Ginese at TutorialsForReaper.com. Jonny shows how to configure mouse modifiers so he can edit drums with one hand and pet his sad dog with the other.

  • REAPER Crashes When Inserting Plugins?

    For a while REAPER has been crashing often when I insert a plugin. This is NOT normal behavior and not what I am used to seeing. After a dozen crashes this morning I stopped trying to mix and tried to figure it out. Clearing the plugin cache didn’t help and neither did installing the latest…

  • REAPER 101: REAPER Windows

    REAPER 101 is a series of short articles to help beginners get started with REAPER quickly. In this article I will show you the most used elements of the REAPER interface. Click on any image to enlarge. Further detail of each panel and window will come in future articles.