Finding the Song Tempo in REAPER

[@NoThumb]

I'm just now finding out that Reaper is actually a crazy powerful daw for audio or video so I'm binging a lot of your videos!

[@buckycore]

I know. It's crazy demented. Like Reaper isn't a DAW. It's a life long adventure

[@autobotsNdecepticons]

Just watch out for those autosplits with takes. Nightmare to clean up.

[@orionsonny3220]

A tip : you can watch series on flixzone. Been using them for watching loads of movies lately.

[@dominikmagnus5074]

@Orion Sonny Yea, I have been using Flixzone for years myself :D

[@slowdawnphmusic]

Adding this to my collection video tutorials of Reaper..A big thanks to you sir Kenny for always giving us more ways to love REAPER.. #reaperrules

[@correametal]

Once again ladies and gentlemen the Mighty Kenny Gioia saving our lives and time in Reaper with another excellent tutorial. Thanks Kenny, you are simply awesome!!!

[@The_Absurdistt]

Kenny is the absolute master of Reaper... don't waste time with anyone else. Thanks again Mr. Gioia.

[@geoffdavis9681]

This is amazing. My band is recording right now. Our tempo has been a little too fast, but I wasn't sure how far off we were from our demos. Now I can figure it all out. Absolutely perfect. Thanks.

[@DidierBampiliMusicProduction]

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[@Vinchid]

Great Update to the last Video on this topic!

[@BarrettSimms]

Amazingly, I need this today. Thanks!

[@wentzr]

You already know this Kenny but your video series here on reaper is fantastic. keep it up - i sincerely appreciate it.

[@iamhandsome4291]

Finally i found it! Thanks again Kenny Gioia, god bless you

[@mehrdadqolizadeh2354]

Thank you so much for your awesome tutorials

[@coiLz0r911]

Fantastic video, worked a charm. Thank you so much!

[@SomeBody-ce3gq]

Excellent tutorial!

[@frankg.39]

Great tutorial

[@ricardoposada211]

Kenny ... Indiscutiblemente que nivel parcero, thanks AND congratulations. I am Kenny's fan club presidet from Medellín, Colombia.

[@enarepee]

Oh. My. Bob! That’s amazing. Thank you!

[@vanhaze2000]

Great One Kenny, thank you ! ❤️ If i may: Reaper can read the BPM tag in a mp3 or flac file. A great feature that not many DAW's have !

[@yan2410]

5:00 it did nothing man, it didn't want to change the BPM, the BPM stays the same at 120. Anyone please... help me.. 🙏🙏🙏

[@CineSoar]

I would be very interested to see how you would approach a recording with sections that vary in tempo (and maybe have a fermata, or a section that is tempo rubato). Often, with a live drummer (as opposed to a sequenced electronic track) they have a very solid tempo, through the verses and maybe the chorus. Then, coming out of the guitar solo, there is a 'lift' and the tempo may go up a bpm, or so. Then, there is a dramatic fill, which seems to be 1/32nd longer than the tempo would indicate. For background, I recorded guitar covers of Ah Leah and Yellow Ledbetter, essentially using the original recordings as a click. I would like to put a programmed drum part under them, and then play bass over the drum part. For both songs, this works for about 2/3rds of the song, and then the two go their separate ways.

[@CineSoar]

Now I see, the answer is in the Tempo Mapping video. Thanks as always!

[@MonstoyGuitar]

Does reaper have automatic tempo detection? Where it detects tempo upon import/dragging? And you have the option to follow either song or project tempo?

[@DidierBampiliMusicProduction]

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[@odnakolive3635]

Super!

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

Wow, I was doing this by hand when I remixed El Professor - Bella Ciao, you find it somewhere on Soundcloud. Extended mix. But this makes it much easier. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@M4Y0_]

always wondered how to do this in reaper, thanks!

[@zeeceefourovksk2837]

Excellent! i need this important tutorial to do this! Thanks a lot!

[@start55]

Massive mate massive :-)

[@crossroads3261]

Brother kenny I need your help I am not getting my recording bar and tempo bars missing all the down sections.How to get it back?

[@РоманБолтачев-х4з]

Thanks 👍

[@MonkeyBars1]

Hey Kenny you made a major error in the first tempo. The metronome is counting half notes and that song is very obviously in 4/4 so the tempo is actually 130 BPM.

[@brywool]

Thank you for this! Trying to move old Cakewalk projects to Reaper. One question- Lets say I get all of my old tracks and find the correct tempo. After that, if the song was originally too fast, is there a way to slow the projecdt down and not lose the click? Thanks!

[@ekoedelarubawa562]

Bravo

[@marceloribeirosimoes8959]

Why we have to right click up there to change tempo things if the tempo is down the the screen???

[@Furnarin]

Thanks once again!

[@diiegopc]

What alternative can I use if my song does not have the same tempo from start to finish and I need to find many different tempo changes

[@DarkQuiet]

That’s all good and well but how do you do this with a song that changes tempo 5 or 6 times? And not just tempo changes, but the time signature changes numerous times? I would appreciate an answer since I’ve never heard you or anyone else ever address this question.

[@absolutehh]

This should have been explained in the video. Open view/master track from the menu and activate view/tempo envelope. Shift click on the envelope to insert points and drag the horizontal lines. You can see the beat lines aligning with your wave curve beats. Takes about one or two hours for a 7 minute jazz title with constantly shifting tempo. It's important that this is the very first thing you do. If you have entered notes already, Reaper won't be able to fix when you adjust the tempo. Don't ask how I found out.

[@vasiliymelnikov590]

Thanks from Russia!! After Pro Tools not all moments are clear to me))

[@nirukairu]

3:27

[@christopherGS.]

Halp So here's what I'm trying to do, its an album re amp. Instead of writing all the drums in I wanted to use Reasample, and gate my drums (kick) (snare) at least. But I found that the kick pop conflicts with the snare hits, and the pre comp is writing my midi note to quickly, attack is still at 0 on the gates. Is there a better way to isolate kicks and snares for resampling. Plus I have zero bpms for any of it. Am I doing it wrong? Or is it really just that difficult to isolate these elements in a full mix? Used multi x to try and squash it out too nut it ended up almost stretching out the kick hits, making the midi go all manic. Frustrated yo.

[@matthiaslandes]

great stuff as always! expanding on this, is there a way in reaper to create a tempo map for songs that have fluctuating tempo (i.e. songs that aren't recorded to a click track or programmed)?

[@jeromewesselman4653]

Actually I need that quite a bit. I'm in the Anti-Click-Track camp. Melodyne and Logic I believe are the only ones with automated variable-tempo fluency. How to map changing tempos manually would definitely be a helpful tutorial, and auto-mapping would be a great next step for Reaper developers

[@REAPERMania]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKS0h5idndyFqas

[@matthiaslandes]

@@REAPERMania awesome, thanks so much!

[@jeromewesselman4653]

@@REAPERMania Very helpful, thanks. Great work as always!

[@maplefoxx6285]

Now i find out a lot of bands don't use click tracks to record because I am finding some weird tempo's in some older punk and grunge songs. Maybe a few too many beer that album lol

[@DaveBode]

Dude, thanks!

[@lukewarm5356]

That's much easier, thanks Kenny

[@jefjahn247]

Kenny ... I can quickly find the tempo with tracks that include drums. But, can I use this method to find the tempo of a track that _does not_ have drums; ie: acoustic guitars only? Thanks 😊

[@REAPERMania]

If it was played to a click you can just loop any section and make sure it loops cleanly and you should be good.

[@jefjahn247]

@@REAPERMania I’ll check it out, and let you know. Thanks for your tutorials, they really improve my overall experience ... especially your 3 part series on “Creating a Live Drum Kit” 👍

[@musicmanxii]

That beginning track is fucking noice

[@chezchezchezchez]

Would you mention how these videos are diff from the original video on this topic you made? There’s a lot of these lately. Thanks!

[@REAPERMania]

This is definitely a quicker way of doing it.

[@chezchezchezchez]

@@REAPERMania Thx

[@brownpunk1794]

Is BPM and TEMPO the same thing?

[@kurtslobodan3510]

Hi I'd really like to see you guys chop up a video, a bit like youtube poop (ytp) style, I am really keen to move to Reaper because of it's video support, thank god at least someone has it, please display your video editing features more.

[@archive3824]

Wow, this is really amazing! This would have come in handy some time ago when I was trying to find song tempos on a mixing project. Won't forget this trick. But I need to ask: when I tried this on my version of Reaper, the necessity to zoom in very close in order to find the start transients of bars made the horizontal scroll bar be very small, making it very uncomfortable to click it in order to move along the track to find the right position in which the bar starts. Is there some way in which I can define what is the time scale in which the horizontal scroll bar shrinks to its minimal length?

[@TomWilkowske]

Just when I learned how to do it the old way! Is detect tempo a new feature?

[@TomWilkowske]

This was the old way - kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJzUq6eHqNSAhLc&ab_channel=REAPERMania

[@DreErdna]

U taught me how to originally do this Edit: that beat is sick did u make that?

[@iamhandsome4291]

0:48 4:00 4:46 9:23

[@axelus22]

thanks a lot m8

[@Joey.Darkwoods-Studio]

Hi Kenny, I was wondering if there was a simpler way of doing this since the release of this video? I was at a friends last night and had a riff idea... we started working on it and to figure out the tempo, he opened his system (protools) went into the tempo setting, turned it to manual and while I hummed it he just hit the T key and PT found it for him... thanks again!

[@reverendcarter]

theres a tap tempo action

[@asolitaryblueband]

65bpm? That would be glacially slow! It's definitely 130

[@leonardomedeiros7683]

Is there anything Reaper can't do?

[@reisaki18]

visualizer like the "zgame editor visualizer" in FL Studio

[@electricwhiterabbit]

Yes many things. The MIDI editor needs lots of love and work. To me Cubase for MIDI is still the standard to which all DAWs should strive to be or better than.

[@mixinginthebox]

Ty

[@DidierBampiliMusicProduction]

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[@LewdCustomer]

Very, very confusing. Is not working as expected. Rewatched 20 times. Wow!

[@Novalarke]

Love Reaper, but this is terrible. A few years ago you posted a similar video, and it was just as bad a situation as it is now. It's faster for me to just open the file in Ableton, and it will immediately tell me what the tempo of my file is. Reaper really needs to work on this. So many other programs have automatic beat detection and tempo analysis. there's no real excuse for Reaper to not have it too.

[@JarJarJesses]

That's it, thx! I use to forget this all the time 😅 2. method works just fine for me 🥳

[@zacksucks798]

Trippy thumbnail