Quick Looping items in REAPER || REAPERDAW Tips and Tricks

[@andivax]

Useful! Thanks Jon!

[@PeterJohnsonWales]

Clever! That's gonna save me so much time. I've been gluing samples to get the same behaviour. Thx 👏👏

[@RichardMurrayMusic]

If I double click the item it just brings up the menu for that item. Is it a PC/Mac thing?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I think you missed it at 2:05

[@buddahcrib]

Cool tip thanks!

[@daleonov]

Nice! One of the things that should probably come as default in reaper.

[@StudioLams]

This is a really helpful tip. Do you have any videos or articles on how you have your main toolbar set up for this video?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Good question. Most of it is in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/naW8oZJrdsyGjcU

[@pmuns0n]

Thanks for the truly awesome tip but.... it doesn't work when changing the tempo afterwards. I have the "project time base" set to "Beats (position only)" which does the trick when I arrange by copying/pasting items (without this looping trick), but it goes off the rails when I change the tempo with looped items... If I uncheck "preserve pitch when changing rate" it stays in time but then the pitch of the drum hits changes (and that's not the desired result).

[@activatealmonds]

This just changed my life

[@SteveStresau]

Cool method. Thanks for explaining it so succinctly.

[@DopamineOverload]

Awesomely helpful video, Jon. Thanks!

[@dna598]

Should be on the first page of the wiki FFS. Thanks for sharing.

[@alliezweihander]

so many good tips in such a short amount of time, i love it! thank you so much! subscribed right away 👏👏👏👏👏

[@astheticworld4507]

Is there any draw or paint tool for this one shot loops ?

[@argbargmcticktock]

Hot damn, I was just wondering how to do this, and here it is. Thanks!

[@nicolasseveryns]

Thanks for explaining what 'mouse modifiers' means!

[@blabla6544]

so when I "drag it out" it just auto repeats itself. I've turned off the toggles in option but still keeps doing it

[@tickscollector9029]

What's the difference between that SWS action, to using the actual reaper action (item properties: loop item source)... it seems to do the same thing. And if you can explain please, what is the difference between those and "item properties: loop section of audio item source"? Thanks.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

the sws one works with MIDI and audio

[@HubertMurrayMusic]

Thanks for this Jon!

[@giuseppechisari6222]

Hey! If I double click the edge of an Item it opens the midi editor (if it's a midi) and the media Item Properties if it's a audio track....

[@vegardyrnes1793]

!!! That´s new to me, double clicking the edge of the sample. That´s great. Thanks, so helpful!

[@TonybtM]

Hi! Is there a way to quickly change samples from a folder doing this? Just consider you put the first bassdrum, you don't like it and you want to switch samples in the same explorer folder

[@birdbrainsane]

Still Works! Thanks

[@ultralife73]

This is a great tip. Really gets me going more in loop-based music making. Thanks!

[@nerosetsfire]

What theme are you using?

[@danielhughes5250]

Thank you. Subscribed

[@goldivox50]

Didn’t you do a video on creative use of the metronome possibly with CWC tweaks etc. - I though had saved it but have watched a myriad of your YT videos and can’t locate it - I’d be happy to pay for it if it is in one of your training modules but first I have to make sure it was you who published it. Thanks in advance

[@TheREAPERBlog]

maybe, but if you're doing anything advanced it's really worth moving to MIDI instead of the built-in metronome.

[@goldivox50]

@@TheREAPERBlog - this was in conjunction with MIDI - but thanks anyway

[@goldivox50]

@@TheREAPERBlog - Let me approach this another way. It’s easy enough to lay down a guide track w/o any rigid click track BUT how do I adjust downbeats and meter changes w/o effecting pitch? Does this make any sense?

[@michal.ochedowski]

I set it up and it's brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

[@deaconblues4229]

Awesome video! Is there a way to revert the "drag-out behavior" so that if at a certain point of the track, I can drag-loop without the spaces appearing? That is, say I have a loop set up as you've shown, and it has a measure of silence followed by three measures of audio loop. After a number of sections like that, I want to pull out the three measures of audio, without it inserting the measure of silence first. I tried gluing the audio measures and it did not help. Thanks in advance!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

split and unloop by double-clicking

[@deaconblues4229]

@@TheREAPERBlog Thanks again!

[@Vagen_d]

How do you "unloop" the section after you did the double click trick? Now that I have made the loop, I want to change it.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

double-click again will unloop and you'll have the one-shot again.

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

Brilliant workflow!

[@ThePCForever]

How do you make Reaper automatically get rid of the blank space in between loops?

[@gagarine42]

I don't see the added value compared to the default actions "item properties: loop item source". Perhaps I'm missing something.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

item source is the original length of the item, not shorter or longer like I'm using here.

[@FrancescoPaggiaro]

very helpful this tools, thanks

[@jmanzo2009]

Is there any way to remove the loop selection and go back to being able to move the item edge? I can't seem to find a way besides importing the same item again and resizing that.

[@jmanzo2009]

Nvm, found adjust loop section start/end

[@bluefletcherfish]

For midi: "you can trim the item and THEN GLUE IT, and that will always let you loop it". Please explain? 🤔

[@abdellism]

Really helpful. Thanks again.

[@MustacheVerra]

Brilliant!

[@clatford8294]

Damn, thanks for this! Is there a way to loop the item like this but have individual items that can be muted. ie multiple hihat items that can be individually muted.

[@nvr2l855]

I love this - I'll use this a lot, Thanks!

[@vekdigital]

I noticed you changing the resolution of your measures and beats grid using a toolbar. What is that toolbar called and where is it switched on?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Custom Grid Size Toolbar || REAPER DAW Tips kzbin.info/www/bejne/goG2o6Jobdd0eMk

[@digitalsketchguy]

Oh that's good. Thank you!

[@davidcroftwriting7387]

That's awesome, thanks Jon!

[@georgemickel6608]

Thanks for the vid Jon

[@MorbidLyre]

Legend, thank you for this!

[@EtalonBeats]

This is great, problem is that if you want to mute some of the hihats for example, you cant just mute those, you have to make an automation for that. Also you can't make them swing... So yeah, this workflow has pros and cons, but great workflow booster for sure. Thanks!

[@eegoal]

you can split them and mute them individually

[@dennypodemirov]

OMG! o_O That's amazing! Thank you, Jon!

[@goldivox50]

Example might be triplets against duple meter or duple against triplet meter - As might be used in short id’s or jingles (vocal)

[@dystopian186]

Hello everyone! I'm thinking to move from ableton to reaper and I wanted to know if I can do something similar like groups. In ableton I create on the same track a group, I have the wet signal, and then I create another chain which is dry. So, is that possible in reaper? I don't want to do that with sends.

[@beatweezl]

Wait a minute. Something is off here. When I drop a short clip on the timeline, if I stretch it beyond it's native length, it loops from wherever it ends. So using your example, the 16th note would have started looping before the next eighth note. That tag of silence would not be at the end. Am I wrong?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

you still have the default looping enabled in the preferences. I think that's it

[@matiasgoinheix366]

awesome

[@goldivox50]

PS - Excuse me, I should have said SWS and setting grid size and metronome subdivisions that may or may not be metrically identical. Eg

[@emancia]

This would be soooo much better if it were a toggle for looping the items. Sometimes you wanna loop up to a certain point, extend the silent part, and loop again with the added silence. Also, it would probably prevent me from making some mistakes here and there. I keep running into this issue where for some reason, even though the items are snapped to grid and they finish where they are supposed to, it turns out the loop doesn't start until a little bit later, so after a while everything is off sync. By making it a toggle I could fix it at some point later instead of having to delete everything and starting all over with my loop. An amazing tip/tool nevertheless!

[@gagarine42]

There is a toggle in actions "item properties: loop item source". You can add this action to a menu or toolbar. It should be on the item's right-click menu by default.

[@emilyschmanks]

sweet dude

[@halimdrummer777]

nice

[@MikeOshkanov]

Dope

[@emilyschmanks]

this saved me from having to convert to ableton

[@MorganWable]

...This doesn't work...?

[@MrMarkpitcher]

Meanwhile pretty much every single other DAW has a toggle so you can just trim the loop, toggle it to loop only that clip, not the ENTIRE SOURCE AUDIO FILE like Reaper does. These workarounds you have to do in Reaper just to do the basic things other DAWs have done for years (decades even) is crazy. That you have to turn off looping to get looping to work properly in Reaper is ridiculous. This video is three years old now. I've been using Reaper for more than 10 years now and this was an issue back then and NOTHING has been done about it. Sorry. Rant over. Reaper is great for other reasons. It just sucks when you're in the flow and then you have to pull yourself out to do a bunch of BS that you could have done in other DAWs with just a single click.

[@AnthonyRochester]

dammit reaper takes so much complicated setting up to do simple things!!