INEXPENSIVE Vocalign Alternative? - MPL Align Takes - REAPER

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

From the script developer: Hi. I just added a first major update from 2016. I made huge internal cleanup of things, so now it is way easier to improve add/new feature requests. I quickly overview various youtube videos comments to collect bugs/bad behaviours. Feel free to share all thoughts about new version. Here is cockos forum link: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=1709618#post1709618

[@TaffsTutorials]

I just gave this a shot with some rough vocals I did and wow. It's pretty awesome Cheers Myk. You're a star

[@AHmusic]

I had completely forgot about this one

[@vigilant545]

I am using reaper for a long time and never heared of this script before. Genius stuff!

[@crissabater7698]

Hi Myk Yeah I got this and put it on my toolbar. MPL is a genius and this is just such a fantastic script! It's people like MPL in the Reaper community that sets Reaper apart from the others. Great video.

[@evertschut]

I whish I'd known about this one when trying to align 12 vocal tracks by hand...... Great video!

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

I've not tried this with more than two, more I'm curious to see if it handles multiples at once based on the guide track 🤔

[@michaelpilyavskiy]

The count of dub takes are unlimited (though it will take time to analyze/calculate stretch markers).

[@greccoox]

Probably one of the best and helpful videos from reaper that I have ever seen in reaper since 2020 including kenny's videos... #Let'sTalkAboutReaperHiddenGems

[@Tabzunderground]

Wow this is definitely a gem of a script... Thank you... Just installed it

[@teeaymusik9811]

It just sounds weird if u fix backup vocals with it. idk why tho

[@compoundaudio]

WOW< All thi s time Ive been using Cubase's build in vocal Align program, but use Reaper for pretty much all my work.. now I can fully use Reaper with this action... thank you so much

[@Mevzuderin]

Hi Myke, This is a wonderful script and much respect to the maker of this script. However I couldn't make it work on my stacked vocals to align them correctly even if there was not so much to align, it wasn't aligning in a proper way. I tried to change settings with the advanced settings but still couldn't get something positive out from it. Maybe my vocals weren't good enough or something because I see many positive reviews so I definitely going to try it again later.

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Curious, where you just trying with two or with more than that? There is a manual way to do this, of course, but in the right conditions, this can make short work of alignment. A paid product may produce better work faster, but you can always cut and slip edit, or use stretch markers. If you're not doing so already, you may consider putting the two tracks into a folder, and use the ghosted conglomerate waveform on the folder track to visually line up things. Perhaps doing this manually would make an good follow up video 🤔

[@Mevzuderin]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper Well i was trying to align 5 takes with it, which i normally do manually. But since it didnt work for me i continued spamming shift+w haha. And yes the paid software will maybe do the job but since im not earning any money from making music, i make my music completely with free plugins and Reaper ofc😎

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

I've not tried it on more then two at a time, if like to test to see if it works for that 🤔

[@Mevzuderin]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper Im going to try this tomorrow on my new project. I didnt try it yet on 2 vocals actually thanks for the idea.

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

I checked the documentation and it says it can work with more than two, and the topmost item will be used as the guide. I guess results.can just vary depending on how "off" the tracks are. You may also get better results by splitting the items into smaller sections to help prevent "overstretching"

[@electricwhiterabbit]

That is pretty cool. Didn't even know it existed.

[@jcalzada74]

Hey there i bought some amps sim this time not try outs🤣🤣 and mater of fact I bought some from audio assault and seen you here of you trying the same amps sims after looking if someone else every try this plugins nice riffs dude

[@des34]

damn~ awesome ty man!

[@slangadagio8778]

Great info! Sick riff!! Thanks, man 👍🏻

[@Hermiel]

1:34 [pause] That dialog is one of the first things I get rid of when installing REAPER. What benefit do you derive from it? [unpause]

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

If I am tracking drums, for example, and the take is terrible, I'd rather it not take up the disk space, as it is 12 tracks. I just prefer to be able to discard a pass if I feel it wasn't worth keeping.

[@Hermiel]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper In-ter-es-ting.

[@jorge_oliveira]

Fantastic tool!! Thanks!!!!!

[@SebastianS1306]

This was genius ! Thanks a lot !

[@mfkrwill]

i just learned about this guy today and oh boy am i excited to give it a try

[@UncleBenjs]

Nice one! Great time saver!

[@artemshah6973]

🔥🔥🔥

[@fasgamboa]

Nice!

[@Arufured0]

Thanks!

[@haroldcollins6372]

When I do this, and click align in the actions tab, I get an alert .. ‘This Script requires RealmGui extension’ … what do I do?

[@cephilo]

hi i tried doing this however, when i was at the action list stage for the align part, it said this: ''mpl_Align takes.lua:1142: attempt to call a nil value (global 'ReaPack_BrowsePackages')'' and it wouldnt work. please help

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

a handful of things have changed since this video was made. Please check this thread and MPL should be able to assist. forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=1709618#post1709618

[@georgey439]

Nice. Now i can just mix. ;)

[@RobertGregoryBrowne]

Thank you.

[@bluestweaks77]

Markers: 2:33 5:02

[@colebeveridge778]

I installed the script, went to the action list and searched align. but when I double click or click Run/Close it says "Not found. You should have ReaPack installed (which I do). Right click on ReaPack package and click Install, then click Apply (which I did)." What am I doing wrong?

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Are you able to join us on Discord? I'd like to see a few screenshots. The script has changed since this video and has some dependencies. The error may be giving you more details about another component that may be missing

[@colebeveridge778]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper never mind I figured it out. Thank you though!

[@DanSeipel]

Curious what would happen if you used a percussive track as a guide for a vocal track. Auto Rap? Lol

[@jodypage7981]

Hi Mike great vids sir. I downloaded repack and couldn't open align. As it says I've not downloaded it but I have a followed all the steps and redownloaded all repack and the script. Any advice would be much appreciate. Cheers dude great content.

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Are you on our Discord server? Might be helpful to see some screenshots of any error messages you're seeing when trying to launch the script. Or post it here in text. Some things have changed with that script since the video was posted. Do you have SWS Extensions installed?

[@michaelpilyavskiy]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper starting 2+ versions it doesn`t require SWS, only REAPER itself and Reapack.

[@favelavegana]

I loved. The video helped me a lot. Where do you live in the US? I wanted to live near California.

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

I'm on the other side of the country, somewhere in Tennessee 🥶

[@favelavegana]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaperI mentioned this because I thought you looked like Gus from Breaking Bad. We are fans of this series. hugs success

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

@@favelavegana I like to think the right side of my face looks nicer than Gus, at least the way he looked in his final episode 😂

[@favelavegana]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper ,kkkkkkkkkk🤣🤣

[@olegf9335]

за Мишу лайк по любому

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Украинский или русский? Я немного говорю по-русски, но не думаю, что правильно перевел.

[@olegf9335]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper русский mpl 👍✌️

[@audiosounddoctor5834]

Why I can't install it .... it gives me error

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Can you provide more details about the error message?

[@audiosounddoctor5834]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper Thx a lot for your replay, I just fix that...have a great time and all the best

[@maxkiel1784]

I keep finding that Reaper stretch markers degrade my audio quality and mess up my transients badly. Anyone know how to avoid this??

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Honestly I rarely use stretch markers as opposed to slip editing. When I do, I make sure to place what I would call boundary markers before and after the part to be stretched to prevent things outside of the boundaries from being stretched as well. Also try not to stretch anything to where it's play rate is less than 90%, above they usually still is usable, depending on the stretch algorithm used. Sometimes it's a matter of trial and error with different algorithms as one may work better than another for the material

[@michaelpilyavskiy]

For v2 I made optional output quality of stretch markers output. On the other side I can add special option to protect transients from stretching (it is like adding 2 additional stretch markers around new one) so the transients will not be touched at all.

[@johnsnyder4949]

ok dumb question after you have aligned aligned the track do u render it or appl effects ???or do the stretch markers always stay there. and as a side note the newest version 2.2 i couldnt make work at all so i installed the 1.35 version you showed in your video

[@firmansaragi498]

Cool. Probably this can be makes my guitar editing faster

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

in the right conditions, it definitely can. Sometimes I prefer the results of manual editing, but after a while you'll be able to identify what this will work great on and what may require some gentle massaging

[@SSloath]

What do you do when AlignTakes refuses to "Get Dub"? I've tried every way imaginable, but it only shows the reference and doesn't actually make any changes when I move the knob. Did an update break it?

[@franckartur]

@jasonmatthews9582 Install version 1.35. It's the best script.

[@bioniclefan1]

I'm just now getting to try this out, but for some reason it's running into an error saying, "mpl_Align takes.lua:2221 : attempt to call a nil value (field *BR_Win32_WritePrivateProfileString*)" Anyone know what that's about? Running up to date Reaper

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

can you confirm which version of the script you're running? It looks like MPL has switched to a paid model and has noted that an older version should still work. He suggests installing version 1.31 and "pinning" it so it does not update. forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=188335

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

looks like this note about version was for the Various Functions script that is required for the Align Takes script to work

[@bioniclefan1]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper I'm running the most recent one, but I'll try an older one to be sure.

[@bioniclefan1]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper got various functions installed, have it at version 1.31, tried Align Takes again and it's still throwing the same error I was getting before. Tried refreshing my packages and restarting reaper just to be sure.

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

I got nothing, I'm afraid. At this point, it may be best to add a reply to that post listed above to see if MPL can better assist with that error. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

[@haroldcollins6372]

Can this be used for drums?

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

@@haroldcollins6372 never tried it, but since it works by adding stretch markers, I would avoid it for that purpose. All that said, it's worth a shot

[@jgonzalez2005]

Hello Mike. I've tried these but when I hit the "Run/close" key, I get the message: "mpl_Align takes.lua:2221: attempt to call a nil value (field 'BR_Win32_WritePrivateProfileString') Any clue? Thanks!

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Did you install MPL's "various scripts" from Repack? I failed to mention on the video but added a note in the description, Align Takes needs that other component installed as well.

[@jgonzalez2005]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper Thank you for your prompt response. I don't find "various scripts", I found something called "Various_functions" by MPL, installed it but didn't work.

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Lemme see what I can find and get back with you in a bit

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

Do you also have SWS Extensions installed? Looks like that is needed to. Guess I need to update the note on the video

[@jgonzalez2005]

@@LetsTalkAboutReaper Now it works! Thank you!

[@CHEETAH_BHATI]

Does this work in ableton?

[@LetsTalkAboutReaper]

The script was made specifically for REAPER.

[@farhanhosseini3881]

I don't like it on vocals! it makes some cracks on takes after align takes!

[@michaelpilyavskiy]

It is up to timestretching algorithm set in take propertioes. For v2 I added option to change it.