How I make REAPER Work for me! - Customisation walkthrough

[@DavidSJ_DAP]

One very important thing to note...it is a good idea to export your configuration file once you have REAPER set up the way you want it so if you have to reinstall for any reason you can just import all these settings all at once and not have to go through all that again...

[@drunkelbroseph]

Thank you!

[@MrBikboi]

Sad to see you go man, you were/are a wonderful resource to have in the Reaper world, and when starting out you made it seem a lot less daunting.

[@renecuevas4128]

Why is he leaving??????

[@renecuevas4128]

I m new to Reaper

[@BlackMatt2k]

You can also hold shift while launching to start with a blank project. A little extra to remember in the morning, but saves frustration in the worst afternoons.

[@adamsteelproducer]

I just change the default behavior to always open a blank project, then I can pick which one I want from the recents menu

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

Moving to Reaper and this was a big help.

[@voiceovervandeen]

I loved that I could just transfer my Linux config files over onto my windows PC for using it with RX8. Also the portable USB version feature is great.

[@darthcrios]

I love Reaper :D

[@CrushingAxes]

One of the best things about Reaper is all the custom stuff you can do! The best daw for me!

[@dale_cooperr]

thanks adam, love your channel , just switched to reaper because of its customisation options. and your vids are 🤟🤟🤟

[@nickolasgough8529]

Excellent advice I must say! I am half way through the Ultimate Reaper Guide and as a complete newb to recording at home I am thoroughly enjoying the course! 😁 Thank you for all that you do Adam! 🍻

[@tobiasharrison4486]

Great work sir. Thanks for all of your great videos

[@dannyboystudios6604]

I found that I didn’t use “dynamic split” often, so I bound the Alt-D key stroke to the action “remove silence” as I used that more often.

[@michaeladavis5225]

This was a very helpful video. Keep up the good work Adam.

[@nathanbryers]

I had a maschine studio setup… there’s a midi mode to control your partner DAW; So I mapped REAPER to all the labeled buttons etc and behold a new beast was born. This was SUPERB! All the beautiful workflow of the maschine control came right into reaper. Wow Mapping the edit section to fly around the piano roll like never before (with a jog wheel to edit with 🥰 I highly recommend) I’m sure any purpose built daw controller will translate well - but can fully vote for the maschine studio (controller) to partner reaper really well…. After a lot of mapping. But absolutely worthwhile

[@greasybumpkin1661]

I just have an MK2 but I'd love to see a demo of this set up

[@MCAlvesPortugal]

Great 😎

[@audiosounddoctor5834]

I am not standard reaper user even it's great daw but I like the way you explain things ..wish you all the best , you are 100% musican!

[@afsdfsda34a_j]

thank you for this!

[@seansnyman4772]

So good. Thanks Adam. Appreciate ur investment in the lives of Reaper users. Really is an amazing DAW and u have a great teaching style. Appreciated.

[@damnfractal]

Great video, I was wondering how to enable the folder collapse in the mixer and now I know!

[@Mtaalas]

I've customized my REAPER conf so much from the default over 10+ years i've sued it, that I basically can't do anything with default configured REAPER anymore. I carry with me an USB-stick that has my REAPER config saved and I save my config every few months to versioned file that's in my cloud storage as well. It includes everything from my favorite free plugins to scripts etc. that I use often and the theme. I mean i didn't just go an make REAPER as it is now, it kinda happened, one small tweak and setting at a time over the years. And now it works like I want to work, it never asked me to think like someone else wants things to work...

[@drunkelbroseph]

Jeebus. This was a good #@$ video. Thank you.

[@wiseoldfool]

Comment just for the Al Gore Rythm: The good thing about REAPER is that you can change pretty much everything. The badd thing about REAPER is that you can change pretty much everything.

[@prodcore]

Hi! I am new with Reaper, almost a month and learning to be a teckie. I had a project and watch one of your tutorials regarding freezing midi tracks. I was able to do it but when I wanted to unfreeze it, I couldn't. This is on Reaper 6.3. Can you help me with this because I need to edit the midi tracks. Thank you.

[@Krantykeys]

Sir I'm in need of some help i am a keyboardist and i have been using reaper for 3 years and this is my 1st daw and i love it a lot but i got my self a micro korg recently and it works perfectly except native instrument kontact. But that plugging works perfectly with my yamaha psr keyboard. I have tried to use this same keyboard and same vst in other daws it works but not in reaper and also i tried a m audio keystation 61 too. But it Doesn't work with native instrument at all only psr works with it Please help i love reaper and i don't wanna switch

[@peterthomson7050]

Fang queue Adam 🤪🌈

[@peterthomson7050]

Hi Adam, thank you for all your great vids (that's the crawling over) my problem has nothing to do with customisation. I have the Behringer 1820 interface and the Behringer ADA 8200 connected by optical light pipes( I got the 8200 so I can leave the drums mics set up). But... I cant get any monitor output from the 8200 in Reaper. I would be very grateful for any suggestions/solutions. Many thanks, Pete from Auchtermuchty, Scotland.

[@adamsteelproducer]

Hi Pete. Your issue likely has nothing to do with reaper but the setup of the interfaces. Maybe try looking at the “input range” in audio options though to make sure every channel is available to reaper

[@peterthomson7050]

@@adamsteelproducer many thanks Adam. That sounds logical. I’ll give it a bash tomorrow. I’ll let you know how I get on. Best regards. Pete.

[@adamsteelproducer]

Haha! We’ve all done it, channel naming is an extra layer of torture…

[@mageprometheus]

Cool. For hobbyist geeks like me, customising reaper and writing scripts is a separate hobby in its own right and can make hours pass by. Not good for a professional or anyone who wants to be productive 😃

[@adamsteelproducer]

Indeed! That’s why this is literally everything I do to customize it, then I’m off and running with what’s in front of me. I know there’s some really great stuff out there, but the mix is what drives me

[@captainscarletcolclough7810]

@@adamsteelproducer HELP! running latest reaper but want faders on my mixer. What do i adjust in custom so i have faders on my mixer instead of knobs. Please help.

[@adamsteelproducer]

Ok theme adjuster, track control panel, volume knob size -> fader

[@captainscarletcolclough7810]

@@adamsteelproducer Thanks adam.

[@captainscarletcolclough7810]

@@adamsteelproducer excuse me adam. I think you misunderstood me. The mixer panel. Defaults to knobs in the latest version? (Unless ive done something?) How can i get my mixer panel to faders. Please!

[@Salsuero]

VST was created by and is the brainchild of Steinberg (Cubase/Nuendo/etc.) and that's why they often go into a folder by the same name. It's their product, that's all.

[@limbophonic1]

about folders, i put my separate drum tracks into a all drums folder, the snare is sending to a reverb track, post fader, but when i mute the all drums folder i still hear the snare coming through to the reverb track? should this happen?

[@adamsteelproducer]

That sounds odd, depends on if you have certain things in solo I think?

[@limbophonic1]

@@adamsteelproducer hi Adam ,in this song i muted the all drums folder in the first verse, (nothing in solo), but i can still hear the snare reverb fx coming thru, so i ended up also having to mute the snare for the first verse as well,

[@adamsteelproducer]

Oh so you muted it using automation? That might explain it, when you manually mute a folder it disables the whole thing, but automation only turns the volume off but doesn’t affect sends

[@limbophonic1]

@@adamsteelproducer Ah thanks for that Adam, thought it was odd, and why would that feature be useful i wonder? so muting the snare track as well is the only way i guess.

[@andrewallen4091]

nice tee ;)

[@adamsteelproducer]

Haha thanks Andy! I seem to be wearing it in a lot of videos recently… 😅

[@woihoi4901]

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