REAPER Tutorial: Audio Editing Fundamentals

[@davidrojas6457]

If only all KZbin tutorials were as easy to watch as ReaperTV.

[@utronful]

I love this DAW

[@SteveJoneshorror]

I almost didn't watch this thinking that I'd already know what you were covering, but I ALWAYS learn something from these videos. Thank you!

[@ReapertvUk]

My pleasure, glad there were some tips you found helpful in there for you :0)

[@timothythompson8129]

Just started using Reaper after unintentionally graduating from Avid ProTools. I can honestly say that while I've been a devout loyal user to ProTools, AVID is what AVID is and I've had enough of their _________! Reaper has been on my radar for a few months but having decided to pull the trigger and learn, I am shocked and disappointed in myself for not giving this DAW a chance sooner. I produce and engineer Metal music, sound for film, and do Scoring for games... I can do all three on Reaper even better than with ProTools. This Video has helped me teach myself the important editing tools and has helped to make the learning curve that much more effective. Thank you So much and Cheers.

[@timwhitehead4419]

Thank you so much! I've been a protools user for years and am just discovering how much better Reaper is; thank you for your help, it's much appreciated. :)

[@TonyHookedonVanlife]

OMG this single video solved multiple dilemmas I had just yesterday working on a new song... dilemmas due to my own ignorance on how to do things in Reaper, that is. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[@ReapertvUk]

tony93666 good to hear the vid has helped out 👍

[@hajjah1977]

I'm new to Reaper using it for and a newbie at voice over. Thank you This is sooo helpful

[@NeilBaylis]

Concise, to the point, no BS. Thank you!

[@ReapertvUk]

No problem at all :)

[@maestro2033]

Thank you I’m new to reaper and even though Kenny video are great they miss the in-depth perspective you bring.

[@ronfairfield374]

brilliant thank you - cleared up my stumbling efforts to figure it out.

[@sevenstringsyndicate6250]

Incredibly helpful as an overwhelmed noob starting out. Thanks man!

[@ReapertvUk]

Dillon Westerfield it can definitely be overwhelming to work with but stick with it, it certainly gets a lot easier the more you use it.. 👍

[@ecoscopic7872]

GReat ! I just learned what I've been looking for . I used to record in Reaper and edit in Audacity. but now it's just so handy ! THanks , I just watched a minute of the video !

[@Nicolae8607]

Thank you 🤘this is exactly what I need it to split and delete a section and the make boths section as nothing is missing🤘

[@larslengberg]

Great tutorial - though I'm not sure that distorted metal guitar was the best choice of example audio... When you did the overlapping and the cutover, I basically heard no difference... Still just a highly distorted guitar sound.. :)

[@jokoustik9849]

ja, i tought so. Still great tutorial, but perhaps it would be better with vocal wave. But still, nice info. Thanks.

[@GooberPee]

Yep, wonderful tutorial! Thank you! But that audio example SUCKS. Not a matter of taste, rather the guitar is soooo distorted as you may as well be using radio static. Clean guitar or pretty vocal would have been much better, and more informative.

[@rustyfalcon1414]

The options change with the theme layout.... default 4 has the option. This is a great channel cheers!

[@wendy.azpeitia6478]

Thank you for this awesome video. I learned a lot. ☺

[@mearkitek3773]

Always very helpful videos; disregard the negative comments... Most of us love them and appreciate you giving up your time and knowledge. Thanks.

[@scottasahina]

I had many 'aha' moments. Thanks ReaperTV for the very helpful tutorial

[@ReapertvUk]

Glad to help :0)

[@scottasahina]

Because of your great, well thought out and thorough tutorials, I decided to buy Reaper :)

[@KekmanForTheRestOfTheWorld]

thanks for the nice tutorial! i am totally new to reaper and this helped me so much. almost no questions left for now :)

[@otraperspectiva]

Very good ! thank you. Subscribed. Happy Reaper user here.

[@x1plus1x]

as someone who has been using protools for years, this is taking a lot of getting used to.

[@مصراتة-د9ف]

Ima download it thanks for sharing!!

[@kearnsguitars2236]

Thank you, it's been driving me nuts trying to figure out how to edit ONLY 1 track at a time.

[@camodude51]

same

[@zohraelharrak2922]

Fantastic teacher. Thank you :)

[@drutgat2]

Very clearly explained, and very useful. Many thanks.

[@BillMontana]

Thank you so much. Need those fundamentals.

[@Seu0chico]

Know almost all of this, but it's real nice to learn something new from these videos. Keep going, thanks

[@mikeapmusic940]

It takes a fellow Welshman to get this to all make sense!

[@guitarandknivesetc4219]

Thank you. This helped me a lot ! God bless you

[@greenleaf1635]

Could you perhaps explain me how you got these extra buttons on the top left? The first seems to be Ctrl + X but I have no clue what the others are.

[@donpedroelbuey8151]

The fade in/out function doesn't seem to work on my MIDI items...yes, visibly I can see the tool making a fade on the item, but there is no audible difference. Do I need to convert MIDI items to audio files first in order for the fade function to work? Thank you!

[@walidkhoury5944]

Great video! How did you make the mixer window on the bottom small? I can never resize it horizontally while docked. Thanks!

[@marshallcwalker]

Great video. Found the exact issue that I was looking for and you covered it brilliantly!!!

[@nicolawhite8619]

I am not the best guitarist, so the best way for me, is to play small sections and then stitch them together. I use cross fades to improve the sound. After that this process, if I want to glue the sections together, will the cross fades stay in place? If not, what is the best way to achieve combined sections of guitar with the cross fades in place. Many thanks.

[@mortalflower1]

Great tutorial!

[@marijandesin8226]

I would like to add "Ctrl+D" Duplicates the audio track and puts it right after the original one Same for Cubase

[@Seu0chico]

wow man, thanks

[@a.a4974]

i really needed this lmao thanks

[@supersonicsroots]

Great tutorial, thanks. What theme is this?

[@xochidelsabor1]

it worked! thank you so much!!

[@havalyousef]

that was so helpful , thanks a lot

[@hafizahmedilyasmalikahmima5998]

This is great, thank you!

[@miguelbarella1173]

Great tutorial. A question: how to split audio at zero crossing point?

[@Mastran77]

Learnt a lot from this video, thanks !

[@thepeacesinger]

Great video thanks ! How do I move the audio track by default set frames ? Like in Pro Tools with + and - keys. And how does one connect tracks 'glued' them together with no overlap ?

[@Cjjj_1997]

Thank you very much!

[@tomgutierrez]

GREAT video! I'm new to REAPER and decided to re-record an old song to learn how to use it. I watched a few things to get started and, now that I've screwed up my practice session (no biggie since I was only using it as a learning tool), I'm revisiting these videos and I'm learning how to fix things to make my real sessions much more efficient and effective. Very helpful!

[@johnparkes61]

Really helpful!

[@craiglee7993]

Wow great video you are a great teacher thanks very much.

[@davidbrealey1125]

This is absolutely brilliant ! Thank you.

[@bcain5823]

How do you transpose audio in Reaper? I have some songs that need to be transposed in steps, i.e. 1/2 step, whole step, etc.

[@camodude51]

you did a great job

[@aldotanca9430]

Excellent , thanks!

[@fjk1138]

Great explanations and demos, thanks for doing this.

[@gustavodinis]

Nice tutorial. What theme are you using to get this dark background?

[@ReapertvUk]

Thanks. It's Default Commala 👍

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Useful thanks.

[@georgemavrommatis8531]

HI ..... MY AIM IS TO PLAY MY HARMONICA WITH MY MIC, WITH SOUNDBLASTER EXTERNAL SOUND CART AND TO USE A PROGRAM TO CHANGE THE SOUND INTO SAX OR DIFF VST INSTRUMENTS. IS REAPER WHAT I REALLY NEED? AND IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXTEND WITH 3RD PARTY PLUGINS VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS? AM TALKING ABOUT WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT

[@gjlaird]

I'm a little confused about using the alt key to make the timing change. It is specifically mentioned to be useful for adjusting the timing for voice over recordings, but when I use this I find that it changes the pitch of the recording. Is there a way to adjust the timing without changing the pitch?

[@RichieHmusic]

Great tutorial. I was able to reconstruct all of it except some of the keystrokes don't work for me. I've noticed the same "phenomenom" while watching Reaper Tutorials from other users. I am using version 4.78, the last of Reaper 4. I have also installed SWS, but it doesn't do what all the videos are showing either.

[@philzeojr.853]

A lot of this functionality was introduced in reaper 5

[@TheSevenSiner]

How about copying tracks 12, 14 ,17, 4, and 6 and pasting at an exact point without making a total mess?

[@Tezzajg]

Great tips as always, I do have one question, I often cut out sections of a track that I don't want, and then manually join the track back together by moving the left side to fill the gap. Is there away to automate this so when I cut a piece from a track it moves the left hand side down to get rid of the gap. hope you know what I mean. Cheers

[@ReapertvUk]

Have a look at Ripple Editing in Reaper - This should help out :0) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXe2e3iqaLuCn8U

[@Tezzajg]

Thank you, that is exactly what I am after

[@hambonetunes1988]

Thanks for making this!

[@craiglee7993]

So all these buttons i see are not on my copy of Reaper?? are they presets you made???

[@timjourdanmedia]

i have a problem: I just downloaded reaper v6.13 and wanted to install a new js plugin. It doesn't detect it when i go to the ,,scan for new plugins option,, so I figured I might have it installed in the wrong path. So I wanted to click on the audio device thing in the top right corner. But everytime I do this, it changes to ,,audio device closed,, and no.matter what I do, it keeps happening. Also, when I try to access the settings in a different way, by pressing options>preferences, nothing opens or happens and the device either stays closed or closes if it hadnt been closed allready...I've tried everything. reinstalling reaper, rebooting my windows pc (windows 10), checking my usb connections from my interface and so on... the weird thing is, is that my interface is recognized via the pc, meaning i can run youtube audio from the pc to the interface tommy monitors but at the same time, reaper says the device is closed.... any suggestions? I also have reinstalled the drivers for my 18i20 Focusrite, but it still doesn work

[@merakerli]

I am trying out Reaper, I come from the SONAR platform, which is dead by now. What I found in Reaper, is overdubbing aduio, into the saem track ! Even protools and cubase can NOT do this ! I could not believe that !:) but, now, when I want ot mark a part of a clip, I am used to do that, simply and easy with mouseclick and directly into the clip, and then jsut for inst. delete . Do I have to , In Reason, to go / scroll up to the timeselection, on top of the timeline, to mark a clip ?

[@akhsa98]

Hello dude.. can you help me ? I have a problem with my daw reaper ... my play button is gone.. (like a play , stop, pause, record) Which is right above the mixer.. how do i come back ? I'm so confuse.. thanks dude

[@josephscalone5402]

great tips, thanks for sharing

[@ARMYStrongHOOAH17]

Jesus! I feel like you can do literally anything in Reaper but so far I only know how to copy, paste, and split items 😂

[@rustyfalcon1414]

The options change with the different layout themes!!

[@benf5801]

Awesome.

[@colinparks619]

Love reaper Have been using if for five years. However I always seem to have phasing issues on it :( Especially on superior drummer 2

[@321poisyd]

Recording on reaper I get a tone down of what I'm trying to record when listening back. I'm not sure what is wrong

[@Nivenization]

Thank you.

[@loga6903]

Is there a way to easily access the original track without clicking undo?

[@davevarley-podcastingsmall3173]

Hi, Dve here, question pls. in trying to download Reaper to compliment Pro-tools One, it asked if I wanted 32-bit or 64-bit. That completely threw me! Which one please.... I am operating a late model DELL laptop for your reference... Thanks Dave. If more info needed please ask.

[@ReapertvUk]

Dave Varley if you open up your computer specs (Windows key + Pause/Break keys) it will tell you if your computer is set up with either 32 or 64 bit OS. You can then pick the right version of Reaper to download and install. 👍

[@MochoOfficial]

how can i level the recorded waves, like one is smaller than the other and i wana level as best as i can, so one bit doesnt seem quieter than the other or louder.

[@conforzo]

I guess this applies as well to orchestral music production.

[@mchlclark]

Thankyou. Very helpful.

[@903bloodjinn]

I have a question for anyone that knows please replay.. when I am tracking guitar say a solo and the first part of it was perfect. how do I start recording the same track with out it doing this stacking thing it dose? I want to record over a already recorded track to do touch ups, make it cleaner.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

excellent tutorial, thank you so much. a big fan of your content, cheers

[@ReapertvUk]

My pleasure and thanks :0)

[@JohnnoDorber]

Great tips as usual. I do have a question about a past tutorial, though. If you can cast your mind back to your "Build Your Own Home Studio For Free" part 1 video, you gave a link for the Mercurial Cab download. I have never had success with that plugin. I was using a pretty weak laptop before so I put it down to that, but I have recently bought a reasonably good computer just to do my audio and to do Reaper justice. The problem is the same, though. The other download links that you gave for MT Drummer, for instance, etc work fine as do the amps. Mercurial cab doesn't seem to work. When I add it to the FX chain I lose all sound from the track. If I uncheck the Mercurial box in the FX chain the play returns. It is probably down to something simple that I haven't done. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

[@Giofergom]

Hey Johnno, ReaperTV seens to missed and responded to me haha ReaperTV8 minutos atrásHey Johnno, have you also downloaded the EIR pack that is a separate download and pointed Mercuriall Cab 3 to the IR location on your computer? It's not exactly that clear on the site that you need to do that and can easily be overlooked."

[@ReapertvUk]

Hey Johnno, have you also downloaded the EIR pack that is a separate download and pointed Mercuriall Cab 3 to the IR location on your computer? It's not exactly that clear on the site that you need to do that and can easily be overlooked.

[@ReapertvUk]

KZbin can be a bit finicky when it wants to be and totally messes up my replies.. lol Thanks for reorganising the comment though ;0)

[@JohnnoDorber]

No, I hadn't done that. I will have a look for it. Thanks for the help. And @Giovannii, thanks for passing on the info.

[@JohnnoDorber]

Loaded the EIR pack and problem solved. Thanks for the help and for always getting back to me. :-)

[@12speed]

Reaper would be the amazing underdog if they came out with a console..

[@dnashofficial]

VERY helpful. thank you :-)

[@philipdudt]

Can I edit an audio file with the free version?

[@story28_01]

Very helpfull vid

[@merlinzest]

Informative, thanks

[@skate2him]

For the speed increase/decrease, it sounds like Reaper is stretching or compacting the passage without affecting pitch. Can you confirm thats the case?

[@kenl5472]

I tried it on my more musical track and yes, changes tempo but not pitch.

[@smokedoutmotions_]

thank you brother.

[@laurencebellinger3350]

Thank You!!!

[@ReapertvUk]

Laurence Bellinger no problem at all 👍

[@Will_Ramb0]

Thank you! I'm using the reaper program for free right now & I saved a file on it but it won't open & play outside of Reaper How can I fix this?

[@clemensmoeller4549]

If you saved the clip as a reaper project you will have to render it. Otherwise you can't open it in a normal audio player.

[@ObscureStuff420]

Thanks

[@randalmurray4814]

Dose this video still have relevancy in 2/1/2020?

[@jamesmhango2619]

Yes to us who locked down

[@randalmurray4814]

@@jamesmhango2619 I have been trying to get a VST to work on reaper while using my MIDI. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling (Both midi and reaper) no luck and I've tried downgrading my ready to a lesser version and no luck. Any tips? All the tutorials are not providing answers. (This one help a bit with the lingo of reaper)

[@edwinmasias6903]

my name is edwin, just wondering if you can help me out with my mixes. not a professional at all but i just wanted to mix my songs with the same quality with the one im mixing in reaper. But the thing that keeps on happening is when i render the final mix it degrades in quality when played in other platforms such as mobile devices or soundcloud or any other media player.. just wondering if you had any suggestions thanks,

[@ReapertvUk]

Replied to your Facebook message :0)

[@sakshamsemwal294]

how can i make perfect acustic guitar sample?

[@stuartwrigglesworth9339]

Good video

[@thechevrons9241]

Great video, I'm new to DAWs and wish to learn one with the intent to record an album with my friend next year, ive been given cubase as a free software with my audio interface but havent got round to using it yet, in honesty i was a bit biwildered with it and the lack of user friendly-ness. I've been researching into reaper and have been really taken with it. Before i take the plunge can anyone out there recommend this DAW and does it compete with the other 'big name' DAWs? i'm so new to it all i have no opinion so would appreciate some advice, i wish to learn a daw that is as user friendly/flexible and clean looking as possible but still powerful enough to handle the recording, mixing, external effects and programme integration and mastering without breaking my limited bank. As a side note i wish to learn one with a great community support/tutorial support to make the learning process as quick and easy as possible. Would really appreciate some thoughts, comments and feedback :)

[@WPTuts]

The Chevrons one word - Reaper. Great software, great community and great collection of high quality and free tutorials covering pretty much everything you'll need to get fantastic results. Oh and it's not bloated often updated and very fast to work with. Especially if you have large projects to work with.. The stock plug ins may not look like much, but sound great and work flawlessly..

[@thechevrons9241]

+WPTuts Many thanks, ill have to give it a try :)

[@souldeep808]

All I want to do is delete one snare hit. This is my 9th video so far. I want to take one note out of my song and have NO idea how to do it. EVERY other DAW you highlight a click delete. NOT this one. HELP!!! I thought this would be a simple task!

[@markbeling3330]

Great Video thank you....can we buy that Theme you used?

[@ReapertvUk]

No need to buy it, it's completely free. Just search for Default Commala :0)

[@markbeling3330]

ReaperTV Thank you So much Sir

[@7177YT]

Cool!

[@shashwat2907]

You have used reafir for the voiceover, Right?😂👀

[@junktube4000]

In Photoshop I can add effects to an image by adding layers and I can undo the layers at a later time. Can I add effects in this manner to a track in Reaper?

[@Garock2]

junktube4000 try vca/folder or route the track to another (I guess is that that you're looking foor) if don't, you can simply turn off the FX by clicking the "On/Off" button in the mixer. Or shift click over one of them to make them on/bypass.

[@briancraig1684]

I have question are still to ask?

[@nyokortal2062]

How can I fix my reaperWhen I press the record button, it appears(Can't write the recording files, does the directory exist?)I cannot record anymore :(Please help guys