What's New In REAPER v6.16 - It's all about the Media Explorer

[@guillaumetiger-isothesis5791]

What a great update ! Editing metadata from the Media Explorer is gold !

[@rt.hinkel]

Awesome update! I really wish they'd implement "back" and "forward" hotkey navigation through folders. I appreciate the [] buttons at the top of the media explorer, but most mice have dedicated back and forward buttons that Windows Explorer and Mac OS Finder use for navigation. The metadata feature is a welcome change too. Thanks for the rundown as always, Jon!

[@jozefmackowiak4849]

You can assign your hotkey to "Go to previous folder in history" action (you can find it in media explorer section in actions window)

[@geofftelmon]

Thanks for clearing up this long changelog ! And yes, I use the media explorer all the time, so these are wellcomed additions !

[@IDDQDSound]

I still want more actions for the media explorer like 'pass through command to main' and also would be nice to have an option to reverse drag and drop, from main window to the explorer, so I can for example take an audio file from the timeline, and drag it to my IR folder to use with ReaVerb, but that's a lot of cool stuff. Good job Cockos. :)

[@electricwhiterabbit]

Super helpful video. Amazing that you are able to make a video explaining all of this in such a short time. I don't use the Explorer to that much detail though some features look nice to have. I'm still hoping for more feature to be brought into the MIDI section. Like a MIDI drum editor would be really nice.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dalimsameer8032]

Midi drum Editor pretty interesting

[@vintagetelefly]

Well done! Thank you Jon!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Thank you too for 6+ month membership

[@vintagetelefly]

You're welcome!

[@robinvinith]

The vertical mode is useful when you dock left or right

[@DopamineOverload]

Hi Jon! Thanks for yet another great video! Is there an option to "keep focus" on the Media Explorer (not the arranger) when double-clicking items onto the timeline? That's what I wish for most, when doing some soundscape stuff. Thanks man!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

yeah that should be the default now. double-click in ME adds the item to the time line and you stay in the ME. Dragging switches focus to the arrange.

[@DopamineOverload]

@@TheREAPERBlog Thanks! Yeah I've had it act funny even with the default behavior... double-clicking sometimes changes focus to the arrangement/timeline.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I haven't tested extensively but it seems to follow those rules here. report bugs when you find them

[@DopamineOverload]

@@TheREAPERBlog Will do. Thanks, Jon!

[@rhitosparsha]

That force rescanning feature is so useful! Saves so much time compared to rescanning all plugins.

[@timrideout]

As always, amazing video Jon!

[@MarkBragg]

Hey I need that yellow bar when I'm in ripple mode. How do I do that?

[@dimos4500]

It's a free Reaper extension from LKC Tools : www.lkctools.com/reascripts Here's his ReaPack repository address, I highly recommend you also check out his other scripts : bit.ly/LKC-Tools

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

I use explorer a lot, especially to get samples to elaborate with SampleOmatic5000. All drumsets are made with SO5000. With these new features, M.E. is gorgeous.

[@jppagetoo]

Yay! Great update for me. I use the Media Explorer a lot. I have it docked because I compose using samples quite often (GlitchMachines!). Sample mangle and FX-ize is a way to make cool sounds that are synth like, but not yet a synth. Thanks for the demo.

[@dinesh66yuvi]

Thanks for the Video, Adding a Favourite Tab in media Explorer is a great addition, with this update, can we add items with a portion of selection on media explorer to spot only to selection on the project timeline selection.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Yes, absolutely, pretty sure we could before.

[@dinesh66yuvi]

@@TheREAPERBlog Can we remove (stretch/loop to fit) alone from insert at time selection in media explorer...this option will appear if u right click on selection of item in media explorer..if I import selection of item from media explorer to track I'm hearing pitching artifacts due to this drive.google.com/file/d/19PdhMs9uHwvmHkIjIa3p09mP2Jjz3Qgf/view?usp=drivesdk

[@paulchristian7903]

Can you preview and select just one signal (L, R, C etc.)out of a multichannel file in the media explorer?

[@midiman5045]

Great video Jon. Yes I use media explorer when I am auditioning audio files to import into my project. I agree Media explorer is not perfect but it's getting better and the update, unlike cubase is free. SO many great stuff had been added for free by Justin we really should be grateful. Be safe!!!!

[@ChristopherScullion]

Having a default metadata option (pretty sure it doesn't exist) would be nice so I don't always need to fill in my same details every time I render in a new project.

[@sameeruddin]

I agree with the tree view . As much as i like it in other apps like kontakt and geist but either i got used to the older fixed "non tree" style left pane or i truly am getting inconvenienced by those plus signs .

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

it will be smart tomhave a replica of the ripple editing button ALSO into the Dynamic Edit window, to avoid to trip with the mouse. Just more rapid.

[@vexphoto]

Thanks for the video. As always,very informative. Small suggestion, please put the box of your face on the lower right corner. So it doesn’t cover what it is you’re talking about.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I don't think that happened in this video.

[@stuff4826]

thanks for the vid, havig trouble getting what im hearing in media explorers preview, imported into the arrange view exactly with the timing/sync im hearing while previewing. i get these perfect loops going but all "insert" commands seem to just throw my selection in where ever it wants. been recording the track it lets you listen through but it has latency. i just want to play a loop in the backround, select and preview some loops, jog it til it sync and with one command have that exactly as im hearing it inserted on a new track. what am i missing?

[@drd8974]

"Dynamic split: support ripple editing when removing silence " Oof I'd have about 10 hours of my life back if this had been added in August. hah

[@MrAxel1892]

Never used it before. But ill try it out. Have to improve my workflow anyway. It’s a mess... ;)

[@dalimsameer8032]

Samplomatic5000 too must have transient ,sampling features ,it still lacking automatic key notes features we are still dependent to tweak key manually.Dependence on third party will nvr end on this customisable Reaper.

[@davidpossien3061]

Great Update. One thing I'd like them to fix in Media Explorer (since they removed the ability to use embedded windows explorer) is the renaming file function. It needs to have an action associated or at least work to where I can click then click again (like windows) rather than having to right-click to find the rename function.

[@kaspermichaels7447]

Thanks for the info. So much good stuff

[@gabrielzachariasmusic]

Great video Jon! Thanks for your work. I'm recording a podcast remotely with my dad who lives overseas. We're currently using a platform called Zencastr to record. When we're done recording, I get the audio tracks for my part and my dad's and use Reaper to edit. Given the latency between the two tracks, I currently have to go in and remove the white spaces between our parts manually so it sounds more natural and conversational. Would dynamic split be able to help me in this case? Any thoughts on how to do that in an efficient way? Thank you!

[@antoinebalaine2061]

Worth adding to the media explorer: -tags and audio previews on track templates or preset files. That would be absolutely amazing. -a midi monitor button to play the samples with pitch shifting in the explorer. This is already possible by routing the explorer’s output through a track, but it feels rather hackish.

[@InnerSyncMusic]

But how to add vst by drag and drop?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

you can drag from the fx browser to items or tracks.

[@zhaojian]

If Media Explorer "Pitch Wheel" and "Rate" can be adjusted thru midi cc smoothly, that would be crazy!

[@Ram-Music]

For many times I had been waiting for Grooves quantize grid unfortunately for any update it’s not done

[@erikleeland]

Is there still no way to save a search? Like have a search "Acoustic Cymbal" saved as a shortcut? I know you can just save it as a database but then it has to be updated manually.

[@wmpx34]

I haven't used the Media Explorer much yet because I've been mostly mixing. I think when I get deeper back into production it will be more useful.

[@nikolaosiatras]

Is there a way to transfer a file from Media Explorer to Project bay Source media tab, without copying the project, with shortcut, just to we have the audio files that can be used for this project? Thanks.

[@TazzSmk]

I refuse to accept existence of Media Explorer and they do this....damn you, another awesome featuers to learn xD as always, thanks Jon for the video, much appreciated, I'd even say I keep seeing improvements in your videos, great work

[@CrushingAxes]

Reaper is the best!

[@jazzbeats8168]

Hi was wondering if there is a function to drag midi items directly into the media explorer? thanks!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

You can! set a Mouse Modifier for "Media item - Left drag" to Render item to new file.

[@enriquemancia5794]

Hold on a second, how do I get those colored bars on top when you select ripple editing? I need that kind of warning when it's on!!!

[@yujonpradhananga9999]

Can you dock the media explorer to the left side of the arrange view?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

sure. drag the dock handle to where you want it, there are many places where it will snap in

[@CyberSpaceStudioSkopje]

Freezing Celemony Melodyne on track are biggest problem so far. Is there any news about dealing with it ?

[@zuluripper]

I'd like to see nested databases.

[@GrazianoCammisa]

Hey man, how do you have this folders in tree view inside media explorer? I'm just able to see "My Document" folder in that! How can I add other folders?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

navigate to a folder, right-click, add to shortcut list

[@GrazianoCammisa]

@@TheREAPERBlog Thank you so much for your help, man! Your are the best!

[@Gpuwa-6578]

Hello, thanks for the video. Does anyone know? I only want to see favorite files, how do I do that? Or find all the files that have been added to favorites? This function have in native instruments - maschine.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

You can create a database and drag files or folders to it

[@Gpuwa-6578]

@@TheREAPERBlog before that I need to find all files that have been added to favorites :) I have marked too many files in different folders. Maybe you know how to display only favorite files? The native instruments - maschine has this function. Only favorite files are displayed after pressing the "star" button in the list of sounds.

[@saardean4481]

Hello everyone. I just started testing using Reaper. I have one thing that annoys me. When i add a third party Fx i see the GUI but also a big extra window on the left where you see the list of Plugins. Can i makes this stay hidden in a way? In Ableton when i click on an Effect i see only the Gui pop up of the Plugin, no extra window in window graphics.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

depends on how you open the fx. if you open them from the fx chain, you see the fx chain. if you open from a slot in the mixer then the window will float. From the fx-chain you can double-click to float the fx. The chain gives you access to copy, paste, reordering, and much more.

[@saardean4481]

@@TheREAPERBlog Ok i think i get it. So if i want to float the window of each plugin i have to double click on each one individually or as discovered i can also open them via right click in which case the window floats immediately without double clicking. Ok to the next one. Thank you very much for taking the time. I am starting to like this Daw

[@harishkumaru589]

chord track would be a great feature

[@lawrenceotoole5992]

Great Video Jon! Rsk5000 much quicker now.

[@zhaojian]

Every time reaper updates shock me a lot... Have a look at those amazing developers... I will not judge THAT DAW anymore... Let's just watch it.

[@nectariosm]

Nice one, updated

[@rgndi8714]

at 1:16 ripple editing is color highlighted ? is this a feature?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

colored rippling script forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=234906

[@rgndi8714]

@@TheREAPERBlog marvelous! thank you!

[@luvidfrankkelyslinares1551]

excellent brother, reaper is the best daw and every time it will be better and it is and what I like most is that it does not present errors like other daw. If God would use a Daw he would be Reaper if he was perfect.

[@mmg-k5x]

Does anyone else have the issue where Reaper ME doesn't show all the SFX files with relevant names?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

could be some of the search options are disabled. Right-click the search box

[@mageprometheus]

Thanks Jon

[@ominousbeatsofficial6774]

I was just gonna search for this video haha

[@christophemathieu7836]

I don't understand the Fav option. Why they didn't implemented a basic Rating system with 5 stars, I love this sound = 5, this one sucks = 0 etc.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I assume binary is easier to implement with the group function. You can always do ratings in any of the other columns. The 'custom tag' can be used for this.

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

just gorgeous

[@Ferna471]

Something like a drum rack would be amazing to get someday in reaper

[@ed-musicproductions]

best daw

[@skjachin]

They need to make display embedded transients in preview optional

[@gopolarisstudio]

"using the docking short cut"...would be super helpful if you could just throw those details in while talking - would take the same amount of time and a lil' more effort. Thanks Reaper Blog.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I use Alt-D to toggle the dock. (View: Show docker), I don't know if that's default. I thought it would derail things in this case to show how to assign a shortcut or look up what the default is. I also chose not to show how to dock the toolbar since that's not a new feature, its less relevant to this video.

[@leafac]

I thought that the ripple editing support in Dynamic Split would work across tracks and would render my custom action (kzbin.info/www/bejne/aofcgYdump6Nns0) obsolete. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it work: REAPER only ripples per track. Is there something I’m missing?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

were the items grouped?

[@leafac]

@@TheREAPERBlog I tried that too. No dice.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I can get multi-track dynamic split to work with ripple but only if the content is similar on each track, like silence is same time on each track. You group the tracks, but disable grouping. Select one of the items and analyze with dynamic split set dynamic split action to "split selected and grouped items" and ripple all tracks on. So you could do this with multi-mic dialog if you first render the voices into one file and group with the originals. analyze the render, ripple split silence applying to grouped items and delete the guide file.

[@leafac]

@@TheREAPERBlog So I figured. That’s what my custom action does.* I was hoping to get rid of the rendering shenanigans, but it seems like not yet. * Actually, I use “Item: Auto trim/split items (remove silence)...” instead because Dynamic Split doesn’t stop the chain of actions, which is a problem no one seems to understand: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=242482

[@thevisi0naryy]

1:33 fucking thank god

[@seanyg99]

you can't paste filenames in the search bar anymore, I hate this... It wasn't broke before. Now you broke it... wtf

[@Fedor_Tkachev_Music]

to hell with that tiny-tiny font

[@goatbacon3522]

!!!

[@TheRheinprinz]

Why should I use such a dumb tool to manage my files? Other tools like Loopcloud have key and tempo detection and offer much smarter technology. The Media Explorer not only looks outdated, it is also outdated and that after a "major" update. That's embarrassing. A few years ago, Reaper was the most promising DAW. The last 3 years have been a complete standstill compared to the other DAWs. Too bad. I was the biggest fan once.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Loopcloud is great, especially for loop based music, I'm a user myself. But people use REAPER for a thousand other things too and this is fulfilling a lot of feature requests.

[@georgenext3030]

I still prefer Media Explorer than any standalone program. This one cubase, bitwig and studio one browser are really good as well. It's really useful and all the added stuff is great.

[@TheRheinprinz]

@@TheREAPERBlog I'm just worried that I'll have to change the DAW soon. Reaper is becoming more and more a pure recording program with an audio editor. And you can use it for mastering. As a music producer of electronic music (almost all genres) you are getting more and more at a disadvantage compared to the other DAWs. Cockos consistently ignores any change requests regarding the musical or compositional part. Innovations such as automation items take years to be reasonably error-free and usable. Not to mention the midi editor. It's just not taken care of. In the meantime, there is simply no passion to create a good product. It looked different a few years ago. This is a pity.

[@dalimsameer8032]

@@TheRheinprinz Yes true.Scripts in Reaper are taken care of for other features but in edm compatibility still lacking and lacklustre despite all enormous workflow script and shortcuts. Audio editor to view and edit audio items not there but script providing that what a pity. For recording ,mixing,mastering and workflow its the best DAW but do not expect EDM function in next five years.

[@yogadollarenterprises675]

Looks like you might be wanting something other than Reaper. I bought Reaper had great fun using it and always intended to return for tasks that it was best at. Bought Ableton Suite and having been happily playing with loops and do all sorts of funky modulation stuff, plus a pile of synths, fx and sounds. Here’s the rub though, last time I checked Reaper was £60, even on sale Ableton Suite’s £431 and has only recently got functions like comping and multi track midi editing that Reaper’s had for years.