Opening a File or Location in REAPER

[@IDDQDSound]

Oh my god! This is the best thing that's happened to me since 2019

[@Kileproject]

I always see you talking about gioia...so nice to see this. You deserve it

[@REAPERMania]

I hate learning things AFTER I make a video. LOL. Good to see you here. Keep doing what you do!!!

[@IDDQDSound]

@@REAPERMania haha tell me about it!! Your shoutout will keep me going for another year ot three for sure!

[@TadDoylemusic]

@IDDQD Sound And just like that, Bob’s your uncle!

[@comiturhan]

Your videos keep me sane during this quarantine lol. Thanks Kenny!

[@GarrettUpright]

Love all of your videos, Kenny! You have made a massive difference on how I go about using Reaper. I seriously cannot thank you enough!

[@mikeonb4c]

Another v useful Kenny video. This one fell over though when I used a path name to a file that used an apostrophe. I googled and found that in an LUA file a character like this can be 'escaped' by using the backslash character. However I tired that and it still failed. I started programming c1980 and the apostrophe was a problem then. It is incredible to find 40 years later that IT software still can't handle this situation automatically!

[@ShaneHall]

It's a cool script. So, I edited one of the other .lua files it created in my Reaper scripts directory. For the xdg-open text argument, I replaced the file between the quotes with a link. I added the new command to a menu and xdg-open popped up my browser and opened up a new tab with the link. Seems like I took the long way around, but the proof of concept worked.

[@MadJix]

This is really cool but what would be super cool would be the ability to record video straight into reaper without using obs or something like that. It's bound to happen eventually..

[@IDDQDSound]

You can do this: File > save live output to Disk... This will record every sound your DAW makes during the session!

[@MichelBarbaro]

That's simply awesome! Thank you!

[@marcchurch1245]

This is great. Works with apps too. I just set it up to open Scarlett Mix Control from Reaper.

[@marcchurch1245]

...and my TO DO list

[@geoffaudio]

very cool. Awesome tip, thanks!

[@arielissaharoff685]

Hola

[@gecbucca4205]

Loka is back!?!

[@addadddaadaa3921]

Kenny's voice sounds like it's in 4/4

[@pdppdp3854]

good to know!! thanks

[@stuartwrigglesworth9339]

Good video

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

Two years with Reaper. Fantastic program, goes all right till it goes all wrong. "Save as" - doesn't like it, working across two drives or one drive and back up (to save CPU for other stuff) - doesn't like it. Judging autosave is pure trial-and-error nightmare and entering plugins is just painful. That's especially so when you don't even know if you want them (tbh, the onboard has got loads of good stuff so I don't need more than a drums programme and a couple of amps, I like to record "real room n' mics" anyway). "Save as" - PUT it THERE - and it won't. That's awful. I have a video editor programme. This also took time to get my head around it, it has the additional complication of varied file endings (importing) to deal with but it interlinks very well with the Windows 10 O/S and USB back-up and I have no trouble running that today. Stash project, stash diverse elements, put them where I want and the finished item too. Retrieve anytime, lose nothing. Reaper? Fantastic D.A.W. but.............wow, it's hard to organise these files. I've tried repeatedly to set it up but.....................nightmaresville. What I do now is keep a project up till it's done, render it and load to my video editor in WAV. From there I stash the rendered audio/video project MP4 in a file that's nothing to do with Reaper and clear Reaper (de-litter) for the next one. These days, I don't lose stuff. I know where everything is, what it's called, what all these "bits and pieces" are for etc but it took a while and my "workaround" suits my needs better. I never ask Reaper/file to open anything, I go to the drive and open it myself - better. If you really need two hundred thousand billion b/ups - you've got 'em - and so has your CPU. I've had accidents TOO MANY TIMES to trouble further about what anyone says about organising this software. I do WHAT WORKS FOR ME. SHEESH! Chasing around "Recent Projects", all the usual suspects of O/S addresses, back up versions, all the same title, all that day's date in the Project Directory - none of them being what I just did, saved and closed down. 'effing crazy, it's keeping trials I did two years ago to check out a rhythm, I trawl the list to find what I did today and.....what the f... is this? That was this project in JANUARY! Why has this got today's date? Where's my stuff gone? If you so much as sneeze, Reaper date-stamps it because it's running "This computer will crash any second now" as a default. Isn't it obvious to a blind man that this renders "Recent Projects" completely useless if you're looking for something...not to mention making a crash more likely in our domestic multi-tasking set ups? You've only got to be looking for something to open up a previous version and - Hey Presto! It's got today's date when you open it again because you're still looking! Who designed that? You can't search by date so...you can't search at all! So...nor can Reaper.............. and that's why! To be fair, I use Reaper for much of the audio for videos because the video editor wouldn't be much use at all for that. That said, Reaper's "organise your files/projects" is......terrible. No one is asking it to do videos or import digital stuff other than the odd plugin. The thing needs these - work from a user-designated file/folder(s) in a suitable O/S address. Needs autodelete (prompt?) for anything that you haven't opened for a while. No point in keeping all this stuff till the end of the world, filling up your SSDs that fail anyway. Give the user the option to create a self-titled project album/folder to work from into Reaper - SAVE AS...."My dinosaur's just shat the garden/version one" at "Users>documents>wherever".........right beside "You're what happened when I diddled your mum"......type-of-thing. And SHOW THE TITLE that you're working on! The title display is utterly miserable! SHEESH!

[@lmusik2417]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@Jankoekepannekoek]

Quite useless imo. Why would I need reaper to open sites or files? My operating system can already do that.

[@IDDQDSound]

You can use it also to open folders, like your impulse responses and drag them into a convolution verb. Just examples.

[@usmcbrat2]

It's always difficult to understand what you're saying because of whatever blank space removal software you're using. The first part of your words are being clipped. Combined with your abrupt start-stop speaking style, it gets pretty bad sometimes. Certainly I can't be the only one who has a hard time understanding the dialog?

[@deskypoo]

I like Kenny's style of speech!

[@V081WLBlue]

It's hard to understand what you're talking about because you are talking nonsense! Not a thing wrong with either the sound or how Kenny speaks!

[@anonagain]

I believe Kenny's from Brooklyn. If he talked in his normal voice you'd be complaining it's so fast you don't understand a word of it. :-)

[@usmcbrat2]

@@V081WLBlue If you wish to surround yourself by people who speak truthfully to you, never punish them for speaking what they perceive to be the honest truth.

[@danzactivaballaja6083]

No cllipping here, youré probably the only one.