Creating a Drum Machine in REAPER (NEW) ReaSamplOmatic5000

[@sleeplonger2458]

kenny, my dude. you will never know just how many times you've had exactly the information i'm looking for you. thank you.

[@flatterswhite]

it really is incredible how useful this guy is

[@thefuneralparade]

Then why isn't it working for me.

[@HenkBok]

Thanks, Kenny! Your videos are always amazing. 😀 greetings from a blind reaper user 😎

[@thehambodian537]

I don't know how many comments I've made on youtube; it might be 0, and if this is the first one, it's because this is the first video that has ever been so thorough and helpful that I felt the need to comment and say: Thank you so much for this!

[@REAPERMania]

Thank you!!!

[@illlanoize23]

Same I had to log in on my phone coming from my pc to say thank you

[@YTGtr1]

Yep, amazing tutorial! Thanks Kenny!

[@Evaquiel]

I can't even begin to express how this (and your channel in general) saved my life as an amateur producer. I keep getting better because of you.

[@ozzycar7921]

Is there a way to send each sound to its own track so I can mix them individually?

[@JacquesduPreez-fl5hz]

Wow. One of the best videos showing how to build beats with Repear, without having to use commercial VTSs that cost money and are not available on Linux. Thank you so much

[@peterambroskis7362]

For someone coming from FL Studio, this tutorial is exactly what I needed.

[@blankcityaudio]

You absolutely 100% have the best reaper tutorials out there. Not a one of them hasn't answered my question along with teaching me shit I didn't even think I needed to know.

[@pieinyourface1]

You're a trooper, and you're so thorough! I wish more people knew about your videos you're acting as an excellent resource for budding audio engineers. Thank you!

[@REAPERMania]

Thank you.

[@chokewholeddotcom]

Yeah one of the reason I stuck with Reaper, these videos are so thorough and fun

[@tayeakintoye7836]

Love your lessons. Thanks. Reaper has been my DAW from version 4 when I suddenly stumbled on it. I left cubase for it, and ever since found out that it is the best. With your demonstration, you can create a nice music without any purchased instrument with just samples for those with low income. I will try out my guitar and piano on it. Thanks again!

[@cathywilson1273]

@Taye Akintoye, I liked reading your share here! I'm trying to learn Reaper...there's so much to it!! :-)

[@adamcoe]

honestly without you and Reaperblog, I would be borderline useless. thanks for your MASSIVE amount of information man.

[@loonar71]

Great vid! Can instruments be send to separate channels?

[@TheAptimn]

Pressin a MIDI Key on your keyboard and then doublcliking either NOTE STARTS or NOTE ENDS one can quickly assign the key to a sample.

[@hamerray]

Where did you get those drum files that you put into the sound library folder.

[@pault6017]

Indeed!!! Kenny??????

[@ihazmethodz7806]

Paul T download some drum kits.

[@tayeakintoye7836]

You can get free samples online. Try it out.

[@TheYnsYnsYns]

where exactly

[@RickDanner]

all these tutorials they always lose me because i have no idea where they get the stuff to start with?

[@Godsustains]

I have two tips about the drums if it helps anyone! Firstly, after you make your drum machine and you make a pattern you like, save it as a preset. There is a little plus on the upper righthand corner that you can press by the drop-down menu. This is important because after you record your drum pattern like Kenny says in the video, you can click the FX menu and remove the mega baby midi machine. This is so that if you wish to move your drum pattern to a specific area and you don't want the drums playing continuously, removing the mega baby sequencer allows just what you have recorded to play. I hope that helps!

[@KittyunderBoBo]

the select midi option isnt there????

[@RayWright]

I am late coming to this channel but I am SO VERY GRATEFUL that you posted ALL of your videos! What a great resource!

[@jberkley17]

from where do you acquire the drum sounds/samples?

[@GoLoopAudio]

Great tutorial! I'm often using Reaper to test software plugins at work, but every once in a while I try to increase my knowledge and have fun at the same time, this lesson is great. I tried a few free drum machine plugins in the past, but using ReaSamplOmatic5000 is a way better method and gives me much more control over my individual samples! I now have a TR-909 sample library mapped 🙂How can I take this one step further and send each drum sample to a different channel on the mixer?

[@hippiesmile2851]

Thank you Kenny for giving us all these lessons. You've been very helpful!

[@synxen6275]

Sooooooooooo useful. EXCELLENT information that is informative not only in recording, but educational in the use of the DAW as well. Kenny, you are the man big dawg. Keep it up!

[@PlayTheGuitarra]

Hi Kenny, Is there a way to automatically layout multiple drum samples (say 20 or more) without having to do it manually one by one?

[@ianmorton1799]

SO helpful! I've got a couple old drum machines that I love the sound of but a couple don't have midi, one is really finicky with midi, and my timing isn't perfect enough to start/stop an unsynced machine and not have it eventually drift away from the other parts. Now I'm just going to sample them and sell them and buy other old drum machines and do the same!

[@felipefagundes4628]

where can I get these sounds, the kicks etc?

[@yosoyelsupremo]

What if we want to add effects to each sample??.....EQ, compression, reverb, etc....how do we do that without having each sample loaded in separate tracks?? In FL Studio there is a plugin called FPC that does basically the same as SamplOmatic5000 but with the big diference that you can assign each sample to a mixer channel so you can mix them individually, but I cannot find a way to do this in this DAW. If Reaper has the capability to do this, I would definitely think seriously about migrating to this DAW, in the meantime not as FPC is my main work tool.

[@DeadEyeCrafts]

Woohoo!! Finally, This video helped me to send each drum sample on different track: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2GXgHiZjah1rrM . Now I definitely stay on REAPEEEER

[@rano12321]

you can route different channels to different tracks with fx as well

[@rano12321]

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[@3OrMoreBones]

So many can learn from simply the tutorial making aspect of this video. Very well made sir!

[@ronmueller2885]

You have by far, the best tutorials on KZbin.

[@cedricsimonakafrozenjazz]

Nice, video, thanks! But you could have mentioned that now we have the excellent R5K Manager by MPL which makes creating such drum machines a breeze!

[@freshiesmedia2049]

big question, how do i set it up so i have each sound bussed out separately so i can add effects in post , also i dont want to use like 20 sample plugins at lol

[@elycruz6035]

Hi, for that you must choose different outputs (plugin upper right window) for each reasamplematic5000 and send those separate outputs to different tracks.

[@ruthlessadmin]

I came up with something very similar on my own, but this is a bit better. I had everything divided into separate tracks and was doing the hi hat choke with a side chain compressor. It actually gives a nice dynamic, as it somewhat simulates varying pressure from the hi hat pedal but this method is a lot easier to work with. The main downside to your approach, is it's less intuitive to add effects to a single drum, requiring a bit more advanced knowledge of routing, but I do like having all the midi in one place so it's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

[@Squeebo07]

This is extremely helpful, thanks so much for creating it. Learning so much watching your videos, cheers Kenny!

[@atanupalit6337]

Hello, a fantastic tutorial indeed. I just want to know if I create a drum loop using ReaSamplOmatic5000 is it possible to route the midi signals into different tracks so that I can edit the sounds separately?

[@miningbagsofgoldprospectin289]

Just edit the samples beforehand.

[@derekbarlas8092]

Excellent video Kenny - thorough and really well explained.

[@BkuBrown]

Complete newb. I managed all of the steps. If i want to have each sperate instrument on a seperate track to make for easier mixing down the line, instead of recording it all into one track.....how is this possible? Do i just add FX > Sampler on each individual track repeating all steps? Blessed

[@SolitaireJones]

Kenny, you're an excellent teacher. I am so stoked to put this knowledge to use.

[@lardosian]

Cheers Kenny. Great to see the js plugins getting some love, i try to explore them also, im no expert on compressors but apparantly some are of very high quality.

[@KneedleKnees]

great video! do you have a video where you go through how to add wav samples into a Reaper library like the one you're using? is it similar to adding a vst plugin or is it a different process?

[@th3gr81]

I can finally use my favorite drum set in Reaper. Thank you, Kenny.

[@peterhaerens3014]

Yet another fine video full of reaper-insights. TYVM! Just one question: although having followed meticulously the instruction, the 'muting' of the crash cymbal by the hihat, doesn't seem to work. Maybe a problem with the JS plugin?

[@BarouyrSarkissian]

I am new to the whole recording game, learning as I go and your video is the most educational one I came across man, really well done with the detailed explanation! So I wanted to ask if there's a way we can find and/or download these amazing sound file you are showing? any sources online that can have those for users? please let us know :) Keep it up man!

[@worksofein6449]

You always have the exact solution for whatever I am stuck with in Reaper. Is there a way to route the audio from this so you have kick, snare, clap etc on their own channels?

[@agustinge600]

Even though I don't know English, your videos are very helpful to me. I would like to see if it is possible to route each sample to a different track? I and I tried but I can't find the way to do it. greetings and thanks for your videos ..

[@jorrickthole6505]

Best Reaper instructions are on this channel. Thanks man, you rule 👍

[@maestro2033]

Thank you excellent what I find is I have to watch more than once

[@matuskothai]

Amazing tutorial! A lot to learn, but I cannot imagine a better way to learning it than following Kenny ;) Thanky ou!

[@JohananJoysingh]

Yup... I use this, and i send the audio from each samplomatic to another audio track, so it's easy to mix. Not sure if just saying this helps. I guess those who understand how routing works will make good use of this information. :)

[@IsaacJ143]

can you explain to me please how to do this for mxing

[@JohananJoysingh]

@@IsaacJ143 Can't remember all the settings from the top of my head. But I think it goes like this. The track that is hosting these Samplomatic instances must have multiple outputs. Specifically, 2*n. n being the number of samplomatic instances in your track. But if your samples are mono, then just n tracks would be enough. So for example, assuming stereo samples, if you have five samplomatics in one track, you would have ten outputs. 1 through 10. Now add 5 new tracks below this. Send each of these stereo outputs to these five tracks. So 1-2 will go to the first new track that you created. 3-4 would go to second new track and so on. You can turn off the 'Master send' in the track that hosts these samplomatics. Then now you have each of these samplomatic instances routing their audio to those five new tracks that you created. The process may look tedious. But if you learn to use the 'Routing Matrix'. It can be done quite easily. Hope this helps. If not I guess I would have to write a blog sometime and share you the link. I would encourage Kenny, the maker of this video, to make a video out of this. :) Since he already has an established channel and a following :)

[@JohananJoysingh]

@Luke Ah. Yeah. This is more efficient I guess. So you limit the midi inputs to these indvidual tracks and record on all these drum tracks simultaneously I suppose, to eventually get a drum sampler effect. Good good. This is a really good way. 😃

[@ageshero]

This is 💯!! Great stuff But does it support round robins? Like cycle sample playback??

[@dddux]

It does. There should be part 2 to this excellent *basic* tutorial.

[@drutgat2]

Genius, Kenny. Many thanks. Is there a way of 'exploding' each of the MIDI parts (kick, snare, and so on) to separate tracks? I can think of a slow way of doing this, but is there a quick/automatic way?

[@BkuBrown]

Whenever I watch these videos i find my self using several choice Jamaican curse words every 3 minutes as I find another trick or command prompt to make my life easier. Thanks!

[@rayderrich]

I learned (again) why I do not need to spend more money as Reaper and Kenny got me covered. Thanks!

[@RobSinner]

One of the best videos ever.

[@pierrebroccoli.9396]

Late to the party but beep'n brilliant. Thanks Kenny.

[@rtm3530]

Hey man thank you so much for this video, I learned so much ! Do you know if there is a way when you're looping to just erase just the last measure you recorded ? Just like on a guitar looper pedal. When I'm recording and I make a mistake, I would like to only erase the last thing I recorded but by doing Ctrl+Z I erase all the beat. Thank you

[@stevecranley8827]

Another fab tutorial KG. 👏👏👏

[@f_c_r_]

This is super cool! Is there a simple way to route each drum sound to a different audio track for mixing?

[@ILaxative]

this is exactly what im looking for? maybe some kind of explode midi lanes function or choose output for each reasamplomatic

[@f_c_r_]

@@ILaxative I asked around and I'm going to try doing some stuff with the pin connector and see if it works 🤞

[@ILaxative]

Francis Roberts he has a video that explains how to route each one on his channel I found a while back explaining how to route them

[@akinadom]

Is there a way to split the pattern to separate tracks, say to for example use different VST plugins on each track for mixing?

[@kassemir]

I think with this set up, you'd have to record each part separately, render to audio, then record the next part.

[@paaao]

You can select notes one by one using cntrl or hold shit and then if I remember right, alt + M will mute them. Then record the output to a separate track. OR, just duplicate the track multiple times, and delete the different instruments from each one, then add FX to each track. You do not need to re-record or replay anything

[@dddux]

@@r8indr0p88 Exactly, it's done with one click. No need to copy/paste every instrument's MIDI or render the track.

[@Tr3k3000]

it's realy nice video, thx, but one question, where can i find these drum sounds?

[@marcrummusic]

Google free drum samples

[@chadzulu4328]

This is a very informative and well-organized tutorial. Thanks!

[@Mr_Jay.]

And how then to process each tool separately? e.g. equalization, compression, etc.

[@DThompson55]

Once again, great information in bite sized nuggets. I came here after watching the new video for converting samples to tracks, wondering how to choke two sounds. Wonderful stuff.

[@ivanguiscafre]

Man, for sure this is the best nooby tutorial i've ever seen, thanks a lot dood

[@thefuneralparade]

My ass.i can't understand a fucking thing this dude is doing.hes going too quick

[@mr.dizini5586]

How do you get the MIDIs exactly on point? Is there an option to enable that?

[@federicotarquinimusica]

Hi Kenny! Congratulations for all the material you share. It's really useful!! I have a question for you about playing with samples using Reasamplomatic during a live session. I played the sample (or a vst synth) and while I'm still playing the note, I play a track (transport playback button) and I listen to a "pop" in that moment. I find this post on a forum, and is the exact problem that I have (maybe is useful): "Audio stops when I hit play OK, this is an issue most people won't have to deal with...but hopefully someone can help. I use Reaper to play live. I have a song where I free play some keyboard stuff, MIDI controller to a VST, and I let it ring out, and then hit play to start the rest of the song. Issue is this: when I hit play, the VST goes silent. So instead of a nice ringout over the start of the song, it just cuts short, and then the song begins. Even if I'm holding the sustain pedal. Anyone have any idea how I can overcome this? By Vampire step dad" Do you know how I can fix it? Thanks!!!!

[@jaibhimadevi5805]

Great job as usual- I was wondering... is there any way to keep/set the metronome settings as new project defaults? It's not a huge deal, but it would be nice to save the step of setting "count-in before recording" to "on" every time I start a new project.

[@chezchezchezchez]

Thanks! Curious...No mention as to why you re-recorded a drum machine video? Why is this better than version 1?

[@REAPERMania]

The original didn't have the MIDI Choke plugin which I felt was important. I also didn't use the Media Explorer which I think is essential for auditioning sounds.

[@SkinnyBlackout]

@@REAPERMania You should've routed each sample to separate slave tracks so that you can put FX on separate samples when needed. That'd make the drum machine complete.

[@REAPERMania]

@@SkinnyBlackout Next video

[@dddux]

@@SkinnyBlackout Except that you don't actually need separate tracks to be able to do that. You can just make this track a multitrack, route different sounds to different outputs, load some FX and put them on the outputs you want.

[@kartikghosarwadkar8094]

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR TEACHING ME THIS THING! THIS MADE ME TOO EASY TO MAKE BEATS

[@asslesschaps4203]

I get the ease of use of this but is it practical for eventually mixing the drums seeing that they’re all in one track

[@JordanHarris]

How did you open the color change menu so fast?

[@AdamFBuchanan]

I want to build a more complex version. I am building a Hand Pan sampler instrument and I want different samples to play based on velocity, I.e not simply have the same sample play at a lower/higher gain, but (I assume) have a velocity threshold for a different sample to play (a sample of me literally playing the acoustic instrument softer) so that its more real. Is this possible? I see on the sampler there is a 'probability' and' round-robin' function, which indicates it might be possible. Also, can I trigger a round-robin of samples when the same velocity is played. Essentially, I want a very varied sample instrument so that it will sound a lot more real.

[@corythompson9171]

If I wanted to use 2 or 3 different instances of RSM5K with say 3 different kicks and they are out of phase from each other. Can I flip/adjust the phase from the plugin?

[@mattbrick1246]

The midi choke doesn't work. When i hit the closed hi hat key it still has the other note ringing out

[@marykwanda6823]

how did you put the keyboard down and so big?

[@JordanHarris]

Where did you get all of your drum sounds?

[@CallousCoder]

But how do you patch the samples to individual tracks of the DAW? I want to mix and process the kit individually, and I can't find a way to do it :D And this video also doesn't tell. Everything on one channel is really unusable in most cases, even the drum machines have outputs per instrument for that reason :D

[@krissymf]

Hi Kenny, thank you for this very helpful tutorial.

[@Abear138]

Kenny, you're a legend!!!

[@user-io8gh4yi4s]

Do you know exactly the drum machine that works in this logic? Allows you to select sounds conveniently from within the folder. I have never seen such a handy drum machine. So I need a drum machine that works exactly in this logic. but my main daw is studio one If you know, please tell me a drum machine that has the ability to select sounds from folder. I will use it with another daw.

[@brandondaigle2496]

Did I miss the explanation of the note start/stop numbers? Why did you choose 36 to start?

[@15dsnyder]

With this I can apply the sample .wav files I have to MIDI inputs, but how can I map my electric drumset outputs to the MIDI notes (ie 36 C2) so they line up with the samples I've set up?

[@MrSagarvarule]

Where to find these Drum Samples?

[@ShazamNC]

Great video! One question: what is this interactive piano roll docked?

[@REAPERMania]

It's called Synthesia. It's meant for teaching piano but I use so people can see my keyboard. Thanks

[@meanwhileinespoo1265]

Thank you Kenny.. this was very helpful and very cook

[@fraserbrowne1685]

Whenever I try loading a sample, it sounds like it's gained up to the max, and I get an unnatural and crappy sounding white noise. Can you help with this? It's not the samples because they're fine in Ableton.

[@TheWorldAccordingToArf]

You are the best, Kenny. Thanks. Really really appreciate it.

where can I download the folder with all those sounds?

[@mateuszochman5075]

I've downloaded drum tracks from here www.musicradar.com/news/drums/1000-free-drum-samples there are a lot of them and I'm preety satisfied.

[@jaycichlid]

Where'd you get the what's in the folders in the media explorer?

[@charlessteckel4600]

Same question here...

[@OhhCrumbsGaming]

When I put my kick in, it works before I set it to a single key (C2) but not after I've set it, even when I play the key I've set it to (C2). Correction: I don't think I've set up my MIDI right. I can't seem to set the individual track to my MIDI keyboard. My buttons aren't in the same layout as yours.

[@petergedd9330]

Thanks Kenny, is their anything Reaper hasn't got?

[@Eric-dd8bk]

I just wish Samplomatic 5000 supports several velocity layers. I'm creating a drumkit that has like 20 different velocity layers and different samples for each layer for each part of the kit. Like, the kick with 20 different samples in it for each one of the 20 instances of Samplomatic 5000, same thing for the snare and so on, but it's just so tedious to do it although I kinda enjoy it at the same time. Like a guilty pleasure.

How can i choke every note, i mean if i play sample it definitly stops all another samples?

[@spaceteddi670]

It's not perfect, but I guess you could turn on "obey note offs" and then just play one note at a time to avoid interference.

[@alexcinci74]

Wow, thats awesome!!!

[@spcsh1936]

great tutorial! .... now how can I eq a particular drum inside such created drum machine so that it affects only one sample?

[@dddux]

See, Reaper tracks can have multiple outputs, so you can assign up to 32 stereo outputs to a track. Every track is a little DAW within a DAW. Just assign as much stereo outputs as you need and put all the sounds on different outputs, then load an EQ and put it on the channel you want to EQ. You can also create a separate track for reverb and send any of the channels from this track to it and adjust the send level.

[@TheOriginalGeekyNoob]

I was kind of torn on Reaper. Video watched. Now downloaded. Looks like my new DAW.

[@pablomolla7387]

I just got a keyboard that i connect by midi to reaper and reaper detects it but the keyboard don't appears me in the botton of the screen of my lap and i can't record anything from my keyboard. Wtf is wrong with my reaper??

[@monteself6826]

is it possible to share/donate/buy the finished Project files that you already have created, I know it would benefit many to learn the process but some of us probably would be glad to donate for the file, not necessarily the finished "Track" production but just and empty track.?

[@AliceMinguez]

Potentially stupid question: will I be able to make this work if I don’t have a MIDI keyboard? (Ditto for the follow-up video about individual outputs)

[@halozgodz1]

Im guessing we would have to write or paint them in manually. I wondered the same thing

[@eatdikz]

Thank you Kenny

[@haramismusicalhardware]

Great video. I followed it and it works perfectly, but now the reasamplomatic shows up on every track in the FX folder even when not selected.

[@thanasisfergadis6055]

I didn't understand how you got the drum samples? They're not there for me

[@sebastiandeinemutter236]

You're the reason I chose Reaper!