Best settings for REAPER 7 (2024)

[@Reapertips]

Thank you for watching ✨ I am curious, what's another setting you would recommend people to check?

[@jamisondonald384]

The one that stops it from cutting off the delay and reverb tails

[@SorooshMhs]

The default length for an imported image is very short (only about a second or so from what i remember). For when i wanna render a video with a song + static image, it makes it kind of annoying having to zoom in so much and lengthening it. I like to set the default to at least 1 minute to prevent that. I forget where it is exactly but it’s in the preferences!

[@BeatsZamarroProd]

i need to change background context when you make right click i hate the white nuclear color😂😂😂😂 help me

[@jamisondonald384]

Oh man, the setting that puts all those reapeak files in a single dedicated folder instead of bloody everywhere

[@SorooshMhs]

@@jamisondonald384 the real answer

[@sadbuttrue666]

OMG, reaper is doing a fade in?!?! This has been bugging me for years, but I didn't realize there was a solution to this. Most of your other setting tips are excellent too. Thank you so much.

[@Reapertips]

Glad I could help! :D

[@UtopiaFade]

The fade in doesn't bother me at all depending on the purpose of your splits - if you're chopping samples like crazy, it's quite useful. In fact, I wondered why other DAWs don't do it! His custom Action to disable is perfect

[@andrere2]

this fade in on playback by default is just wrong, I wonder how many misjudge their audio because of this

[@semyonboyk0]

I've just recently purchased Reaper and started exploring it, and you sir, are one of the most helpful and sweet people in the community. I really appreciate everything that you do.

[@stevewoodyt]

If you aren’t able to find help here “let’s talk about reaper” is very helpful as well. Maybe I shouldn’t shout out other channels like that? If it’s rude let me know.

[@Reapertips]

@@stevewoodyt I encourage it!! Myk is amazing, I super appreciate him 💙

[@jakeshotrosky7702]

You and Kenny Gioia are the BEST resources on Reaper. I've been using Reaper for over ten years and you guys teach me new stuff all the time!

[@marceloharguindey159]

Absolutely yes!

[@UtopiaFade]

This is SO nice, thank you kindly for making what is ultimately overwhelming, simple and quick. I LOVE Reaper's customization though some complain - it's well worth having a tool you can customize as I'm coming from Reason DAW with nearly zero configuration choices.

[@aethyrien]

Holy shit. I feel like I just rediscovered Reaper all over again 10 years later. Incredible. Thank you so much! #Subbed

[@UtopiaFade]

Just save your configuration file, MANY times, and you'll be fine :)

[@SorooshMhs]

I always wondered why Reaper stops playback when it reaches the end of the longest item in the session. Thanks to you i no longer need to worry about that 😅

[@Reapertips]

I'm glad Im not the only one!! This thing really annoyed me 😅

[@marinvalentinwolf]

Just loving your tutorials 💙

[@Reapertips]

So motivating to hear Marin! So cool to see you here 💙

[@greccoox]

omg you just point out literally everything that bothering me since forever, and i was too lazy to search in the preferences... thanks hermano! reaper fans need you alive posting.... letsss goooo!!!

[@wilssantos2]

For navigating my arrange view, I set my mouse commands to go: mousewheel scrolls vertically (the most intuitive for me); shift+mousewheel: scrolls horizontally; ctrl+mousewheel: zooms vertically; alt+mousewheel: zooms horizontally. Zooms are always on mouse pointer. Works like a charm :) Also, on midi editor, I prefer to make it so I have to double-click to insert a note (not click and drag, nor just click), because I always click on things and insert notes accidently otherwise haha

[@jamisondonald384]

Thank you for this and all of your other videos. I've been using Reaper for ages and you continue to bring new things to my attention

[@michaelanthony9068]

Thank you Alejandro, I love your lessons, also your opinions about settings changes. Also thank you for the ebook !

[@mmmimmm936]

Gracias por todo esto. Llevaba tiempo buscando a alguien que subiera contenido de Reaper que viera todas sus capacidades como DAW, gracias por todo tu contenido. Ojalá tengas nuestro suficiente apoyo para que sigas subiendo videos !

[@jakobymaster]

The item looping disabling just removed so many subtle annoyance I have with Reaper, thanks!!

[@Reapertips]

Aaa so cool to hear!

[@zachskatesstreet]

whaaaaat 2021 i bought reaper and youve read my mind of the questions ive had thaanaankyou

[@jeramiahrossnz]

Thanks man, Yeah, all these little workflow tips really help, Just reminded me to grab your themes again, Even though I have been using Reaper forever, its all the combined tricks and tips that make life good, I find Reaper really good when I want to just test out plugins, scribbe down ideas, heck I even got it going really well on a very old Macbook Pro from 2009 running linux, so yeah, that was surprising with Pipewire (linux Core Audio/ASIO) styles.

[@rano12321]

Highest quality Reaper videos on the internet.

[@Reapertips]

Aw thank you so much 💙

[@andreasfranzmann9634]

Wow, this video solves a lot of issues I had on my „fix this“ list for a long time! And how come I have never even heard of that weird „tiny gap at playback“ behavior? Awesome Alejandro, thanks a ton! Best Andy

[@Reapertips]

I never knew about it until Jon from reaperblog pointed it out in one of his videos and I was like "so that's why!! 🤯" Thank you so much for the kind comment Andreas! Happy to hear that :D

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

Thanks, I implemented most of your suggestions. i'd been wondering how to change those behaviors and you showed me what I wanted. I was constantly zooming when I just wanted to scroll up. And most of the others were things I wanted to change as well. Perfect.

[@Reapertips]

So awesome to hear!! I'm glad :D

[@TiagoRodriguesMusic]

Thank you for the tips! Definitely applied a few to my workflow 😄

[@Reapertips]

Awesome tiagoooo

[@stevewoodyt]

For vertical scrolling I’ve got it set to zoom when over the audio files and vertical scroll only when over the track controls. Not sure how I did that but it’s great. No modifiers! Just more your cursor over and scroll away. Same for horizontal scroll in the mixer. Scroll over the track controls and it goes.

[@sylvaind9086]

Whoa! Those are superb tips Alejandro!👍🏻 Thanks!

[@petergedd9330]

Thank you, all these tips are very time saving for me, very useful. It may be worth a mention that on changing the mouse wheel modifier in preferences that on' Default Action' You have to double click on the 'Behavior' pane, before you get the option scroll, as that had me scratching my head for a while. Many Thanks, and Reaper is my always go to DAW.

[@Reapertips]

Aw thank you a lot for that!

[@BearFulmer]

These are some good tips I have never thought about adjusting many of them

[@santiagogilardi2388]

perfect inglish and hablas en español, excelent!!

[@Reapertips]

Jajaja muchas gracias!! Soy de Venezuela :D

[@RJS0507]

You are a gem bro! your a lifesaver 🙏

[@dimitrivanlieshout1615]

You make life so much easyer Alejandro ;) thank you for the tips

[@dna100]

EXCELLENT set of defaults!!! Subscribed.

[@geroffmilan3328]

Very useful, I'll be using most of these: probably keep MIDI note editing as-is: though accidental clicks moving the play head also annoys me, I'm used to the other aspects of it. Swapping the zoom & scroll controls for the item pane makes a lot of sense to me too, as does disabling item looping, though my workflow for creating MIDI items is usually to create markers for start of sections, then create time selections between each pair of markers. Then when inserting the MIDI item it is automatically sized to that time selection.

[@Sajid_Sarker]

Love your theme

[@musicmaestrodj]

This is great, thanks! I will implement some of your suggestions as soon as I have the time. 👍

[@Reapertips]

Ye any time of course 💙 thank you for watching!

[@TimSharp-k6w]

to scroll vertically with the wheel just do it with the cursor over the tracks(on the left)

[@BWP-u3y]

All of the tips you gave were truly great!

[@Reapertips]

Thank you a lot!

[@BenMartinBox]

Nice tips. Thanks for sharing. Yeah, Reaper default settings are somewhat "strange" and the options instead of being grouped by TAB issues seem to be spread all over in Tabs and "list" tables. Weird, but I do love the DAW.

[@Reapertips]

Honestly, reaper 7 is already doing a waaaay better job than previous versions with the default settings. Updating the ebook I noticed how a good amount of things changed for good. Especially the file management and backups. Very happy for that!!

[@nathan.rodrigues]

Thank you!

[@Reapertips]

You're welcome Nathan :D

[@mikeyg186]

Hello Alejandro 👋 Love all your tutorial videos as they are straight to the point and the way you edit your videos looks so good. I noticed when you right clicked on the midi item to get rid of looping. I noticed at the top you have a button that says " audio to midi" is this a SWS extension? Do you have a video explaining that? Let me know when you get a chance! Keep up the great work! Thanks a lot🙂

[@Reapertips]

Oooo I can make a video about it on the second channel soon! Basically you can adjust any right click menu in the same menu you'd edit your toolbars. You can add actions/scripts/custom action. In this case I'm running a custom action that is a bit complicated but it transforms audio to midi. I can go over it soon!

[@gregarmstrong2500]

The Reaper devs should be hiring you as a UX designer.

[@Reapertips]

Thank you! I'm flattered 💙

[@mjtejero]

Really really helpful :)

[@ProgressiveSoundAudio]

Great video mate and your theme is amazing. Keep up the great content.

[@Reapertips]

Woaa thank you so much, glad you like it!!

[@ksgant]

I just found your channel recently and wow, great tips. I'd be interested in seeing how exactly you set up everything you have in your set-up now. I got your PDF on customizing Reaper 7 (which is great, btw), but it didn't show little things like how your media pool is set up and how you were able to quickly load in those drum loops, or the VU meter you have over on upper right-hand side. Or do you have other videos that show that? If so, I need to keep digging.

[@Reapertips]

Thank you so muuch! I think I need to make a proper from start to finish REAPER customization video! In the meantime here's more info about the VU meters → www.reapertips.com/post/how-to-show-vu-meters-on-tracks And more info about the media explorer docking can be find in this video (around minute6:15) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3Opmn2wrLhqfas

[@halyalkarfamily4079]

Thank you for this informative video!

[@michalmiszczobrocki9045]

great video thanks!

[@fnm1900]

Thank you bro!

[@MoveTrueRecords_]

Bro 5:26 was killing man, Thank you❤❤❤

[@mikephillips4095]

Hello Alexandros! Another graet video! I hope you've been Rocking Out! I am Mike Phillips, and we had Text a couple of weeks ago and you were "feeling the drums". I have a problem and I can't fix it. I know it's an easy fix- my rope is long, but my porch is short!!!! I would appreciate some of you time. Thank you!

[@Santillalx]

This video is very helpful!, new sub!

[@SolemnChord]

Thanks a lot. You're a savior.

[@Reapertips]

And you are so kind, thank you!!

[@masterofreality230]

Nice tips, thank you.

[@SSITM]

Muy bueno. Muy bien explicado. Eres uno de los mejores

[@FrancescoSeppia]

To prevent clicks when splitting, you can press Z to go to the nearest zero crossing point

[@Reapertips]

thats an awesome advice! it could even be combined into a custom action!

[@TheGrindvince]

Great tips, Thank you !!!!!

[@Reapertips]

Glad it was helpful! 💙

[@robertoferrarini7153]

Ciao Alejandro, I'm using your very nice Reapertips 7 theme (TCP rightside FX). Is it possible to have the meter levels numbers showed in Mixer panel? As in Default 7 theme, are missing. Thanks

[@rano12321]

with the theme adjuster

[@soundmanlab659]

thanks a lot man really helped

[@Reapertips]

So glad to hear!!

[@indonesiazrecords2761]

Excelente vídeo, gracias por tanto información ❤

[@Reapertips]

muchas gracias a ti por el genial comentario :D

[@aaaiseee]

Fire!

[@VPROXE-HELLRAISER]

hey I'm using Neo theme...love it

Hi Alejandro, thank you for the theme I ave it!! great work!! abd thx. for the videos there are very helpfull. I have one question, I'm new to Reaper, is there any way to get dark mode in windows 11 as I can seee you have in Mac?

[@GustDelgado]

Gracias Alejandro!

[@Reapertips]

Un gran gusto Gust!

[@Solcius123123]

Very nice!

[@Reapertips]

Thank you so much solcius!

[@andrere2]

I wonder how many don't know about this tiny fade in on playback and unknowingly misjudge their audio. it's crazy for a DAW to have this on by default. I especially didn't expect this from reaper. it makes me reconsider if I want to continue with reaper. no other DAW seems to have it like this ...

[@carnerorecords6607]

Sería maravilloso que fueran en español tus videos. ✌🏻

[@jamergonzalez336]

Thanks bro

[@briantriesart]

Excelente, gracias!

[@aletrejos]

Hello Alejandro, as always excellent video!!! I have a question for you: How do you make the color of your tracks be the same color tone as the items on the same track. I ask this because I touched something and now my tracks look darker than the color of the items on same track. But this only happens to me in the track panel, not in the mixer. Could you please help me? Thanks and regards!

[@MoveTrueRecords_]

New sub

[@musicmaestrodj]

I was wondering if there is a global setting for recording over, tape style, when you punch in by time selection. It is a pain to have to remember it for each new project. In my opinion, it should be like this by default. Thanks in advance! 🙏

[@ayoubthegreat]

Have you taken a graphics design course or something? I feel like you have very good graphic design skills.

[@Reapertips]

@@ayoubthegreat thank you! it's what I currently do for a living ❤️

[@ayoubthegreat]

@Reapertips 😆 that makes sense, especially seeing your website and the icon packs. 💚💯 commendable work

[@Reapertips]

@@ayoubthegreat means a lot n__n❤️

[@darconp]

Thank you

[@Reapertips]

Thank you for being here :D

[@whitecatbones]

What's the problem with auto fade? You can make the fade time much shorter and put the cut a bit before the transient. To my taste this is a very useful feature and should not be disabled.

[@Reapertips]

Definitely useful! I find most times it just messes with my editing workflow. I may be finely chopping breakbeats and all these autofades just get in the way. So I like to disable it and just do it manually if I see it necessary

[@rano12321]

0:44

[@ianbee1959]

I wonder if there’s a way to copy and paste all of these settings? Or share a file with all of these preference settings and then have them automatically apply to our own preferences? If so, that’d be AMAZING. Would save a lot of time!

[@philjames1019]

Great and useful adjustments my friend. Although I'm getting one small problem ... at 9:56 you explain how to remove the chosen nortes from the piano roll by pressin anywhere on the grid, and by holding down SHIFT, the notes should disappear ... but this doesn't work for me?

[@Reapertips]

Thank you!! Sorry if that wasn't too clear, I was referring this is how I unselect notes 😅

[@philjames1019]

@@Reapertips Yes, but can you please describe how you do it?

[@Reapertips]

@@philjames1019 Aw you are right! I messed up, it's actually Alt + Click to unselect notes! 😅

[@philjames1019]

@@Reapertips Sorry to keep on, but I tried that adjustment, and an eraser appears, and I have to physically erase each note?

[@Reapertips]

@@philjames1019 Sorry for the confusion! In that part of the video you mentioned, I talk about *unselecting* notes, not deleting notes. To delete a note, you select them and press the delete key. Or double click on each note. Or hold alt and use the eraser to delete the notes.

[@daviHuggMonster]

uuuh nice, some I actually had configured, the hand scroll is awesome, really useful for me thanks Alejandro muchas gracias

[@Eduaro2U]

Hey Alejandro, thanks for your excellent tips. A question: is there a keyboard command that allows us to open and close all folders in one click? And: how did you close folders by clicking on the TCP Icon?

[@Reapertips]

Ahh thank you Eduaro! I think I could make a quick video showing my workflow for this. Will ping you once it's up 🙏

[@Eduaro2U]

Wonderful. Look forward to hearing from you. Yay!!! 🤙🏻🙏🤙🏻

[@Reapertips]

It's up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIDYcpyAmp14m6M

[@Eduaro2U]

Brilliant. Thanks so much.

[@mikeyg186]

Another thing that bothers me when you want to click & drag an item to change its size, you have to be very precise with the mouse! Is that something you can change in preferences or is that something you change on your OS? I hope I explain that well enough. Thanks in advance 🙂

[@Reapertips]

That is true! Same with envelopes, I feel like the hit box is so tiny sometimes! Not sure if it can be tweaked tho

[@Clear_Sky_Vibes_MP]

Hi! Im already using your amazing Reaper Theme and i already said few times that is the best Theme i saw until now. So thank you for that! But i still want to change something and i hope you will help me with this and who knows, maybe add it in your next Reaper Theme update too by default. So i want very badly to change all Reaper Windows color to have same dark color as in your Interface Theme. Windows like ... - The Title Bar (the top Bar where we have Reaper Menu Options like File, Edit, View, etc) - Extended Track FXs Window: (where we see in the left all FXs added on the Track as a list and in the right, the selected FX is opened into an FX Window); - Track FX Window (simple): (is the window in which is opened only the selcted FX when we press on the FX buttons from TP); - All Rea Plugins Interfaces: (ReaEQ, ReaFIR, ReaComp, ReaXcomp, ReaDelay, ReaGate, ReaControlMIDI, etc) - Preferences Window; - If its posible, the entire Menu Color Or maybe you can make a detailed tutorial video about this. 😄😉

[@katentu]

Is it possible to loop event only when we drag from the bottom of the event like studio one?

[@rano12321]

yes, mouse modifier > media item bottom half > set any of the modifier to copy item > pool source data.

[@Maplefoxx-vl2ew]

have you seen the zoom tool someone made, i can infinite zoom in forever lolol it's funny. but it is useful for finding note offset in kontakt libraries. The Multi tool is crazy too, i need to use it more. It's something extra, i forget who made it.

[@Reapertips]

Never seen that! Hahaha, amazing

[@senikehidupantv]

thanks sir

[@DeuZuLivE]

Something I have in Ableton and I don't know if it's possible in Reaper (if there's something that's not possible haha). I like that in Ableton I can select a part of an audio, and using the keyboard's keyboard to move it to the right or left in transients, making as little movement as possible, this helps me when I'm working. Do you know how I can do it?

[@rano12321]

alt + left click drag?

[@DeuZuLivE]

@@rano12321 I know this function, but it's not exactly how I would like it, for example, in native reaper, I need to hold ALT, select the region with the right mouse button, press a shortcut to cut this selected region (cut only the ends of the selection, just beginning and end, without disappearing with the rest of the audio), click with the arrow keys to move forward or backward on transients. In Ableton I simply select (without needing to press any key on the keyboard), and press arrows on the keyboard (NUMPAD does) to move in transients, the workflow is very good for working on specific audio quantizations. I really wish I could do this in Reaper with the same convenience. I would be grateful if you could explain to me how to do it.

[@ThePCForever]

what theme is that?? it looks absolutely beautiful!

[@Reapertips]

aw thank you a lot! i am using the reapertips theme, find in description~

[@joeking5211]

Super useful. Playing with Reaper for only a day or so and would have binned it if I had not found your vid. I may do anyway as I do not find anything intuitive in the UI. But because of your vid I will stay with it for a while, struggling to do the most basic things and try and see the shocking track lane color/brightness when another track is selected. This maybe just defaults but unusable, and a blur of a mess that really is awful. I used to play with Cakewalk which seems to be rated nowhere near to Reaper, but from my playing so far is far more useable. I am really disappointed that everything I seem to want to achieve is a mountain of menu wade throughs. To be honest, I'm totally lost and just don't get the hype of Reaper right now. Thks for your vids I guess they have saved a good few other users to stick with it.

[@Reapertips]

hey! it's totally okay and understandable. I highly encourage you to use whatever just *clicks* to you. REAPER is certainly not for everybody, it does take some time and patience, but there are far more friendlier DAWs out there you can try out. Good luck in your journey!

[@TaufanSiswadi]

Thanks for sharing....

[@Reapertips]

Thank you for being here!!

[@Gavielmusic94]

Ho Alejandro! Can you make a video for use Reaper While you recording in obs? I’m using reastream but when I record my voice, it seems super stereo and I cant understand why. Thank you😊

[@Reapertips]

Hellooo. I actually use Screenflow to record and edit my videos (it's a Mac app) hahaha I'm curious, what do you mean super stereo? Does it sound too much on one side? I believe you need to get into the OBS audio mixer and set your input to mono~

[@DrumsWithJames]

Whenever I press play, I always get 2 bars pre-roll as if I'm recording, how do I change this? Thanks for the great video! Never mind, it's in the metronome settings

[@pierrebroccoli.9396]

Yes but what does Kenny have to say about your modifications 😁

[@ketarii]

Do you know how to make my track pad right click work please for opening menus like normally, it works fine on my usb mouse as its configured by default to work as normal, just when I use the normal track pad it does nothing and I noticed the right click can be used to drag things which I'm not a fan of, I'd prefer it normal left click to drag things and right click to open menus and options, any help please? I liked and subscribed to your channel thank you so much

[@Reapertips]

hello!! I honestly haven't experienced what you are mentioning, my trackpad works as expected D:

[@sandrvoxon]

Hey ! What mouse are you using ?

[@Reapertips]

hello! It's the Logitech G PRO X Superlight

[@sandrvoxon]

@@Reapertips and how is it ? Wants to buy Mx Anywhere 3 but also think about G PRO

[@Reapertips]

@@sandrvoxon I love it! I have long fingers so this fits nicely. Its insanely light, you almost don't feel it

[@sandrvoxon]

@@Reapertips thanks ! Then I’ll go for G PRO X

[@AlexeyBoyakov]

Disable item loops is very useful option but I don't have this checkbox in Media item box "Limit edits to source media content for unlooped media items" :( Where could it disappear?

[@MattyB3]

Hi. I do have a question. For whatever reason when my mouse cursor is over any media item it becomes a razor edit tool, not sure how to shut this off

[@unsaved6]

Looks like soon you will make Ableton live with all the improvements :)

[@LowEnd-DropC]

Is there a setting within Reaper that you can reset all settings within Reaper back to default settings, like a new install? I fucked up somewhere doing some automation and now I am having issues.

[@dendriloquist]

Gold

[@Reapertips]

Thank you so much!!

[@247digital]

How does the middle drag scroll work on a laptop trackpad. I'm having trouble on my Mac getting it to work.

[@Reapertips]

Ahh, if you have a track pad there's no need to set this one up! You should be able to navigate around the arrange view with the track pad using the two finger gesture

[@ToniHennig]

Hey Alejandro,how can i get the route button in the tcp in your theme? Thank you

[@Reapertips]

Hello! You can show and hide buttons in TCP using the theme adjuster, I believe I mentioned it in the included pdf :D

[@ToniHennig]

@@Reapertips thank you, love your channel, amazing content.

[@luiscongalr]

Porque mo haces vidros tambien en español ? Seria de mucha ayuda ... Gracias por tu contenido

[@bennybyers1409]

how do i move my "play/record" bar to the top in the middle like yours? The default seems to be near the bottom at the left side.

[@Reapertips]

hello! you can right click on the transport bar and select docked transport position → top of main window Like this → share.cleanshot.com/l2Srp4Fh

[@dopebeatstudios]

the limit edge in media items works in some of the waveforms, I did all steps exactly as Alejandro did and it doesnt seem to work properly, someone confirm please

[@abdulkarim-t7g]

EXCELLENT set of defaults. Can i have your reaper default please, i really love it. And how do i set it up?🙏😇

[@musicmaestrodj]

My auto split works great but the stock fades look different than yours. Odd...

[@O_____________O]

9:56 is that Neco Arc's voice lmao