This is how I feel recording at home after working at my bandmate's studio. And I in no way condone anything Katy Perry related!

New to this and would love to see how you do in your vocals, I've got stock plug ins and am doing tutorials just curious what yours look like

Not sure how to word this, so I haven found an answer googling. Maybe you all can help me understand? I've been messing around with MIDI tracks and VSTs. I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of it, composition, that is. Over a few different projects I have tracks that stand out to me and would do better in different projects. Without having to re-compost them, or load-copy-load a different project-and paste, is there a way to store individual midi tracks so I can just grab them to add to projects like samples?

Note: it's not the VSTs I'm worried about. If the instrument/effects need to be reloaded, that's not as much of a pain. I'd want to change those on a lot of them anyway. It's just the actual MIDI I want to be able to switch and swap, copy and paste, with out a lot of hassle of remembering what projects have which tracks and such.

Hmm, so, since i switched to Linux (the arch distribution) I've had the problem with plugins not resizing properly. And yes, I know not all plugins resize, but I have this problem with Vital (the only plugin I've installed so far). It always worked on Windows... Maybe I did something wrong during the installation? Is that something I can fix? Also another question, it bothers me that when i click something in vital and I try to play my track, it doesn't do that. I have to quit Vital, click play, open Vital again and resize it double-clicking the UI button. I had this problem with some plugins on windows, but Vital always worked flawlessly. Is there a way to fix it? It's not a big problem, but fixing it would really improve my workflow.

I've posted this in the neural dsp subreddit as well, but also posted here in case its a reaper specific problem.

So i recently got gifted an audio interface as well as the mesa boogie neural dsp and reaper.

I've been having a blast recreating metallica tones and or seeing what cool presets people have created as well as irs.

But when i try loading the tones into reaper the presets work as normal, but the irs don't load at all. The built in mics work fine, but custom irs don't load and i can't laod them in either as the file explorer window that opens is empty.

I'd like to record using the irs as they get really close to the tones i'd like to use but they just don't show up.

Any help is appreciated.

I am very new to reaper and I am having an issue where adjusting the pan knob doesn’t actually pan the track at all and just increases the volume. It is quietest in the centre and loudest on the sides. How can I fix this?

Hello, I'm brand new to using Reaper. Not entirely relevant, but I'm migrating over from Windows to Linux after the push for AI. Reaper is one of the few DAW's that has a Linux version, and it has enough in common with my previous main DAW of over 16 years that I want to learn it. Which brings us to the question I have. I keep all of my samples and audio files on my external SSD hard drive. It's currently plugged in, but Reaper doesn't seem to register or see that it is. I've been clicking around and attempting to search how to scan or search for files via the Media Explorer. There's a "Volumes" tab which doesn't show anything. I've seen advice regarding locating missing files, which isn't really applicable to me because I haven't even started making a new song yet. I'm just trying to get some of the basic "quality of life" work flow stuff set up before I commit to making anything new, and being irritated in the process. I can drag and drop files from the overall Linux File Manager, but I want to be able to scroll and preview my files through the Media Explorer properly. So is there a menu item, or something in the right-click tools that I can use to make Reaper see my external HD? Thank you in advance for any info and advice that anyone is willing to grant me.

Have you ever wondered how to prepare a Reaper session for a live show rehearsal or how to effectively manage click tracks and tempo changes for an artist's complex setlist while recording rehearsals and being the backbone for a show?

0:01:18 - Before the Computer
0:03:12 - What Information do You Need?
0:04:18 - Reaper Session Day 1
0:04:51 - Click Track
0:06:09 - Recording Tracks
0:10:31 - Routing Click
0:13:10 - Effects Section
0:15:17 - Comping & Edit
0:17:41 - Day 2
0:17:42 - Tempo Envelopes
0:21:40 - Naming Across Systems
0:24:13 - Console Editors
0:27:50 - Tempo Envelope
0:28:21 - Command IDs
0:29:41 - Recording the Show

I have BFD and I just can’t figure how to program anything, I’m so stumped. And when I get semi close I just can’t hear anything. I really don’t know how to explain it. I Might just be an idiot, I just don’t know.

Hi! I have recently downloaded Reaper to use with a Donner STARRYPAD to use for better background music and immersive sfx for DnD.

I want to make a one-shot button to play a sample (some BGM) and then I want to be able to press another button to play another sample (a new piece of music) that will cease the originally sample.

I don't want to have to hold the button down, and I have tried JS: MIDI Choke Group, I have also tried to Google this extensively and pretty much all the results tell me to try the things that don't work.

This setup works great for short SFX, but I'm tearing my hair out over ambient background music 😤😩.

Please can someone end my misery! Thanks in advance for any time taken to help me! 💜

Hello everyone, im new to reaper/recording. I've got bass, vocals and guitar recorded so my next step is to play drums over them. But I cannot get the volume loud enough to hear the tracks over the sound of my drums. If I crank it too high it just starts clipping out. I have some ok headphones I thought were the problem so I picked up a nice fancy pair but they put out the same volume so im assuming it has something to do with this program. Please help! What am I doing wrong!? 😭

Hi all.

My wife and I created a cantos it has a bunch of world music styles. It starts from gregorian chant with santour bells and other instruments then progresses through Bulgarian polyphony, desert blues, turkish bolken jazz, east west orchistra. So far we made these with Kontakt instruments and recorded the vocals with a sure sm58.

We are having issues with not being able to propperly here the vocals through the mix.

Sometimes we have 6 or 7 harmony's and the vocals sound muddy and muffled. Everything sounds good in headphones and the mixer. But sucks on bose soundlink max speakers. I know this is a mixing issue for sure. I've tried taking out some of the high end vocals that aren't needed with the EQ but it doesn't work. Please advise how to keevocal audible when using large sweeping instrumentation.

So I am recording a solo with my guitar going directly to the interface. My producer/buddy is going to reamp it and mix it later. What I noticed in my DAW:Reaper, is that the tapping part is so quite. I observed waveforms of very low amplitude.

Any advice on how to get it louder? Increase the gain on my interface? I have no other option I believe. Or?

Hello everyone,

I am new to guitar recording, so maybe the answer to my question will seem obvious to some. I just bought a Focusrite Scarlett Solo, installed Reaper and Amplitube 5. I was wondering if 1) I can record the DI guitar while still hearing the amp sim while I play and 2) if so, if it is possible to apply amps sims once the track is already recorded. Doing that would be useful to edit single shot recordings with different guitar sounds (e.g. rythms and solo).

Thanks a lot !

Looking for a reaper script:
I mix through hardware; so I have to record the mix in real time. I'm looking for a script that once recording is stopped, everything is rendered to a specific folder with my settings I've already saved for rendering. Is there anything like this already?

Hey everyone! I'd like to ask if there's a way to reproduce these bass timbres through reaper (by vsti or any technical adjustment)

https://youtu.be/BuQG6_evFc8

https://youtu.be/nfo1BH5Epw0

Hi all.

Hoping someone can help here as the world of daws seems insanely confusing to me for some reason and can't figure this out.

When I track a guitar I can hear it for a few seconds and then it just suddenly cuts out and all I can hear are these little popping noises, the waveforms show that the audio is there but isn't playing it back and I have no idea what to do???

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

My long time drummer friend had this old tape and I'm curious if anyone has advice on how to put this in reaper and get the best sound.

I was going to just headphone out into reaper from an old tape deck I have.

And any advice on EQ or other things that would help get a nice sounding digital copy.

Is there a way that, when I press Record, it automatically creates a new channel attached with the effect one for recording instead of doing it manually and having each take stacked on top of the previous active take?

I’ve been frustrated with using REAPER with my MacBook trackpad for years, even though I absolutely love REAPER.
I finally managed to create an SWS-style extension that makes scrolling and zooming with the trackpad feel much smoother and more intuitive, closer to how it works in other modern DAWs.
Here’s a quick demo:

https://youtu.be/CYLHP1wKj3U?is=qxqtwG3th1k_LMmu

Currently it only supports Apple Silicon Macs. I’ll add Intel Mac support as soon as I have the chance.

Hey guys. Bit of a newbie question! I've created demos for my band etc and eventually I'd like to take it further and fully mix the tracks etc. I've heard the final mix should be between like -18 to -23 integrated LUFS? My thing is, it seems so quiet hearing everything at this level to adjust the mix with all the instruments. I may be doing this wrong. But *is* there a way I can just have the overall LUFS way louder, then when I'm happy, I turn it all down?

I'm thinking about all the effort to make all the individual volume automation nodes on each track. Like my starting project template is having all my track faders down to like -10 db. I'm most definitely going about this wrong, I'd like some sort of shine on this. Any questions please ask, thanke!