Some things you can do with automation items in REAPER

[@skatechatham]

The problem with a lot of the new Reaper features, people have no idea they exist unless they constantly scour the update notes or seek out videos like this. I'm back using it after a few years away from music and excited to learn new ways to use the program. Thank you for your videos!

[@octopusonfire100]

I don't use automation often, but when I do, I use automation items.

[@octopusonfire100]

(When you actually use automation a lot but can't let a good meme go to waste)

[@davidkamaunu7887]

duhr

[@aarongrooves]

Wow, Reaper is even better than I thought it was! Thanks for sharing!

[@adamfox9651]

I discovered automation items a couple of months ago, and now I use them all the time. Another really handy feature in Reaper.

[@Janno13131]

One of the most useful reaper videos I’ve seen in a while! Thank you!

[@stonail665]

I use automation items everyday, another feature that I like is this: imgur.com/yLAY7Tg Sorry, I hate to share links but it's hard to explain!

[@ddavidson6708]

Thank you, very useful feature.

[@sickheadofficial]

ugh, come on, that's awesome, just share links as much as you want! ^_^

[@ArielTavori]

That's kind of amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@giddycadet]

this is wizardry lmao

[@cobraofearth]

late to the party, but holy hell

[@jppagetoo]

Awesome! Now I know how to use the automation stuff. That's amazing, anything in the FX chain that exposes it's features can be automated as well. So you can automate not only reaper track setting but plugin effects too. Even VST instrument plugins!

[@cameronjm]

I have been looking everywhere to learn how to do an automatic panning. Thank you so much for this video. It is a huge help

[@michal.ochedowski]

As always, easy and clear introduction to yet another powerful feature. Saving option alone is a winner.

[@georgemickel6608]

Thanks Jon! I haven't needed automation items until recently but this was a great bunch of information.

[@SisterIndica]

Holy shit this is going to save me a ton of time on my audio drama editing!!!!!!! You rock, thank you!

[@PhilippeVaz]

Very cool !!! I didn't know these feature yet, but I'm sure I will use them, very useful, thanks for share !

[@genuinefreewilly5706]

great stuff. That LFO tool makes life easier.

[@zenguitar65]

Huge time saver Jon! Thanks for sharing these ideas!

[@SceneOfAction]

OMG this is amazing. Thank you!

[@mod3l]

ok, so what if you have more instances of the same item and you want to tweak just one of them? thanks for a great video again, you're an invaluable source of information for many of us! :)

[@TheREAPERBlog]

rt-click, remove from pool

[@mod3l]

@@TheREAPERBlog thanks! ...now i know what "pooled" refers to.

[@Electricowlworks]

Super good stuff... Thanks so much for sharing!

[@kenthompson5201]

The drum loop sounds like Billie Jean! woot..woot ...woot..woot ... Great tutorial.

[@JohnPaulsonJohnisaStegosaurus]

i noticed you didn't use the time/beats button-- if you select "beats" as the time base, a saved automation item will come back synced to new tempo.

[@MustacheVerra]

Very cool indeed. Thanks

[@cristinahawke]

Can't wait to use this!

[@vlad_gur]

Amazing tips! As always!) thank u sooooooo much!

[@barrymagner713]

Great video, and super helpful! I'm going to try this out ASAP!

[@djabthrash]

Awesome video, thank you !

[@theoryofmine7473]

this is fantastic, thanks!

[@TadDoylemusic]

Mind exploded. Thanks Jon.

[@mazy-beats]

Very helpfully. Thank you!

[@DopamineOverload]

Hi Jon! Can you do automation items with CC64 (Sustain)? Would be extremely helpful with piano VSTs. Thx!

[@patbreacadh]

Very cool!

[@JeffEmtman]

Hey Jon, thanks for this video. The thing that's kept me from using automation items is how they split along with the items above. Since I'm working on a podcast, I'm often retooling vocal timing and deleting over the course of multiple edits. I do often use an LPF on the music to increase intelligibility of the voice. I pull down the frequency during sections of voice, then fade it back up again in the breaks. Automation items would be really useful for this, however, when I've tried them, I really wind up with a thousand little pieces of automation items due to all the splitting and deleting. . Is there a way to make the automation items ignore my edits to the audio items around them?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Hi Jeff. I think I get what you mean, that would be annoying to have so many cut up tiny AIs, but you can always glue as often as needed. Wouldn't the automation item be on the music track in that example? But for that particular task I'd probably use TDR Nova EQ with the voice as the sidechain input, so when the voice is coming in the filter changes gain.

[@JeffEmtman]

@@TheREAPERBlog The main issue is that if I do anything related to ripple editing (which is all the time), reaper makes cuts in any underlying automation items, regardless of track. The desired effect would be similar to how envelope points work: stretching or contracting the underlying automation.

[@TheAtheistworld]

What’s that synth organ strings sound?? Thnxx brother ❤ coool vid

[@TheREAPERBlog]

some preset in Arturia Analog Lab

[@SSITM]

At 11:15 you say I exported FROM Tantra? Is that possible? To export an envelope from Tantra ? Or from any plugin that generates envelopes for that matter?

[@abdellism]

How did you got the Tantra shapes? Thanks for all your work.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Manually copied the shapes into envelopes. Very tedious work so I gave up after a few.

[@abdellism]

@@TheREAPERBlog thanks for the reply.

[@weslieka1105]

When reaper 6 is going to introduce?

[@InXLsisDeo]

it's unlikely that R6 will add very major functionalities compared to the current versions. That's not how Cockos works.

[@disembodiedstudios]

"just open up the pan lane" Uummm...... How?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

The default is P key

[@dianathompson7597]

I just fired for people,, it's on auto now,,,