The Plugin Pin Connector in REAPER

[@instantdismissal]

Kenny your tutorials are nothing short of life changing. Thank you so much for all that you do for the global music community.

[@dnashofficial]

the moment you realize you've spent decades of time, stress, and a not so small fortune on DAWs and plugins, when all you really needed was Reaper and Kenny.

[@Daysofsamara]

With this technique you can use ANY plug-in as a multiband. Put the 5 band splitter on first insert, / 5 band joiner on last and any plug you want in between... now use the plug-in pins on the middle plug-in to affect the band you want.... work as well on reverb sends.... You can go completly nuts and have a 5 Bands amp sim or a 5 bands delay/verb. You can also use eq inside each band for reducing phase shift. It works great with gate (try gating only lows of a kick drum) or transient designer (try to transhape an overhead only on low mid band)... The sky is the limit

[@wongsanggar]

I think kenny will explain it in the next video. This video just make a simple introduction of endless channel splitting ability in REAPER as explained by Geoffrey Francis in his great book Reamix: breaking the barriers with REAPER

[@REAPERMania]

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[@PeppoMusic]

Ahhh sending splits to different channels like that is such a lifechanger!!! Used to just stupidly copy the track manually and band pass each track separately to work FX on different frequencies.

[@vanhaze2000]

Incredible valuable info about how Pin Connector works, just great Kenny !

[@FooFighter77]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the thorough and concise explanation my man

[@jimbeaux4988]

Wow. I always learn something new from you. Some cool pin tricks!

[@jrfoster1980]

Useful, thanks. I came here to figure out how to use multi mono mode on a C4 compressor (supressing palm mutes), rather than stereo mode. Very easy now I know how these pin connectors work. Cheers

[@duartecancela]

Kenny is a creative machine :)

[@followthereaper665]

What's the difference between pre fader and post fader?

[@djivanov]

Give this guy a shovel and you'll learn something new instantly.

[@PeppoMusic]

I am not sure I'd be happy to learn lessons involving a shovel.

[@ajhall9868]

I always wondered how to use those - thanks Kenny!

[@teeblack06]

always wondered what the pin connector was for.

[@deanc2000]

On that last example, you could've just put the effects on the receiving tracks, right?

[@ValirAmaril]

so I split my drums on three channels, add different FX and mix them back together, will I not run into phase issues?

[@jakelondon]

Can you do some of this stuff all on one track now using containers?

[@kurthendrix7324]

Very helpful, thank you. I have a question, not sure if you have covered this. I have searched KZbin trying to find a tutorial on how to tune 808 kicks, snares, hi hats etc...in Reaper. Is there any chance that you can cover this sometime? It would be very helpful.

[@tersta1]

OK, a minute in and I know this is a different pin from what I'm wondering about. I keep finding small white thumbtacks on my tracks. I don't know how they get there and I don't know what they are for. Does anyone know? How do you get rid of them? Right-clicking isn't the answer.

[@FloorStylez]

Really great tutorial. Found your parameter modulation demo very useful! I love FL studio for its controller functions but great to know you can do this in reaper as well! Better finish my reaper host rewire templates now :D thanks.

[@DLithic]

Excellent video: What's the plugin sequence for a plugin that's stereoo but your track is mono? Thanks, -Derek

[@REAPERMania]

All REAPER tracks are stereo.

[@DLithic]

@@REAPERMania Hey, so if I have Waves plugins, which I do, should i be using the mono version of the plugin, provided I recorded and have a mono-looking track (though actually stereo) . ? Thanks so much, -Derek

[@REAPERMania]

@@DLithic Most likely. The one I use "CLA Mix Hub" is different in REAPER and I have to choose mono or stereo depending on the source. Of course, you can use the stereo one at all times with mono but it does use more DSP processing.

[@DLithic]

@@REAPERMania oh ok gotcha, so just leave it like top left bottom right on both, regardless of plugin status/mono-stereo source

[@REAPERMania]

@@DLithic Yeah. You don't have to change the pins when working with mono plugins. Just make sure that you choose the mono version to save DSP.

[@deniz_ildir]

Hi Kenny.I could not find a way to mixdown pins 1-2 and 3-4 into the output of the same track, but as you mentioned we have to create seperate tracks for pins 3-4. That is a big drawback for me. For example, I have a pluck sound. I want to add a higpassed reverb, mix them with dry signal, then add delay to the combined signal. To do this, I have to create 3 seperate tracks. In the end the numberof tracks bloats up in a project. Why can't we mixdown with a plugin the signals 1-2 and 3-4 on the same track? In the end, even I cannot figure out the signal routing I planned at the beginning.

[@REAPERMania]

Search for the plugin JS: 8x Stereo to 1x Stereo Mixer

[@deniz_ildir]

@@REAPERMania Wow thank you Kenny, you're a life saver

[@Eichro]

Isn't this just an alternative (sometimes quicker) to sending input to multiple tracks and doing all the processing in these tracks? Of course, that would leave out things like the splitters. But the overall concept seems the same to me.

[@REAPERMania]

It is. I did it this way just to show you how the pins work. You can use them in many different ways.

[@studiognd]

Kenny, why don't you simply combine parallel chains back within the same track with another instance of ReaEQ. Or, if you need level control, you can combine them with JS mixer plugin. The way you do it here is almost the same as sending original signal to several parallel tracks with fx on them. You still get many tracks. If you do it all within one track, then one track is all there is.

[@REAPERMania]

Yes. What I did here is not necessarily the most efficient way of doing what I did. I was just showing how the Plugin Connector works so that people will understand the routing.

[@bsmith8166]

@@REAPERMania can you make a video where you do this? I'm wondering about how a reaper user would do something similar to an ableton rack. Thanks!

[@dawsondavidable]

Amazing! I had no idea...

[@BillGraper]

Wow, loving this!!!

[@DeckardRJ]

Great!!! Thank you so much for the tip!!!

[@somebodyelseuk]

Philadelphia or I want To Know What Love Is?

[@IsmaelAngelus]

That's trully amazing!

[@REAPERMania]

Thank you very much!

[@David_Logr]

super useful, thanks!

[@joshuahall3622]

00:02:15 Let's just say P.S. this is so cool

[@ashcatlt]

When you were doing the Parameter Modulation to get the stereo EQ thing, it would have been faster, easier, and more accurate to just change the Phase of the one modulator. By putting it 180 degrees out of phase with the other, you'd achieve what you were shooting for but be sure that they're both covering the same range. Plus, it's one slider rather than a checkbox and a slider. ;) This will work for sine, triangle, and square waves. A saw, you'd just choose the opposite wave (L vs R). Random is really the only that has to be done manually the way you did. I agree with the comment below that most of what you did splitting to different tracks could have been done by putting the plugins on the receive tracks and not messing with the fancy stuff. Most of the things you might do with the pins can be achieved without any of that if you're willing to make enough tracks. The real power of the pins is in condensing that kind of routing into fewer tracks. You did not show how the pin connectors can be used to MIX signals, nor did you really explicitly show how they can be used to create sends from anywhere in a series FX chain.

[@VanjaSpirin]

OMG, how user unfriendly is that.