This is REAPER 6 - Sends & Busses (8/15)

[@SmokeyMagma]

10 minutes ago sends and busses were completely foreign to me, yet now it makes total sense. This is the beauty of these tutorials.

[@Kommentaraccount]

Same for me, just a year later.

[@bclikesyou]

Yup same here.

[@correametal]

Thank you so much Kenny for bringing light to us Reaper users! There is no other place to have the best information regarding Reaper and it's amazing features! Hail Reaper Mania and Kenny Gioia for the best Reaper channel ever!!!!!

[@Yungchris760]

AGREED!!!! REAPER IS THE BEST. PERIOD!!!

[@davidbachy5627]

One of the best teachers on the planet!

[@artysanmobile]

Kenny, thanks to your outstanding tutorials, I can now recommend Reaper to many new users. Thanks for all your hard work and clarity.

[@Dang...]

Excellent, thank you again! The clarity of your tutorials is a life saver. Your work is fantastic.

[@XxDarkXxXSasuxX]

In 1 minute and 5 seconds, you helped me more than other videos... Gotta say, this channel has been an absolute life saver the past few months. You, sir, have earned my subscription haha!

[@REAPERMania]

Glad to help!

[@cultconfrere]

Kenny G. you're a genius and a great teacher. Thank you for all you do for us Reaper fanatics.

[@AlekVila]

Sweet. Being able to adjust all the sends in one place is brilliant.

[@mryumish1287]

Where have you been all my life -- tx for this!

[@JasonFerguson1283]

Hey Kenny. I have to tell you how happy I am to find this series of tutorials as I was reluctant to explore using Reaper over Logic as I knew it was a huge learning curve again! Your videos really supercharged my progress!! You are the man!!

[@TROUBADUO]

Very Cool KG & Reaper! Enjoying this!!

[@lieutenantdan7212]

Awesome tutorial Kenny! Thanks so much!

[@adkisy4412]

You're a great teacher. Straight to the point. clear explanation to everything

[@daron98]

Wonderful

[@richey_rock]

SO much to learn about Reaper. But you're making it much easier! Thanks!

[@fitzywings92]

This video has blown my world open. You answer my questions before I even have them. Thank you!!

[@mtech1961]

Just what I was looking for. I was over thinking it. Thanks Dude

[@zwurltech9047]

So great, I learn such a lot not only about Reaper but how DAW's are working in general. Thank you!

[@frankknoche9162]

Very Good, thank you!

[@xmateosx]

Kenny Gioia, you are a cut above. I am learning so much about Reaper right now and when I type in a search and a few results pop up, I always choose yours first. Professional, paced, to the point, expanding the point. You are very good at this. I hope other people are taking notes. Next beer is on me lol

[@David_Logr]

I love your videos so much

[@danfromsouthjersey]

Kenny thank you so so much. These videos and Reaper are a god send - pun intended

[@evkurywczak6201]

Thank you! love you!

[@djkevinbanger]

thanks a lot .. your videos are very helpful

[@fegaru]

Best video series ever about Reaper!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@AnthonyCarrier]

Thanks Kenny! I like your tutorials! Concise informative and simple! Thanks again!

[@dpict1088]

Truly top-notch educational content. Many thanks.

thank uyou fro your videos Kenny, I'm having lss on the tone of your voice

[@BRTTV12]

Thanks Kenny. Always most excellent tutorials.

[@onzkicg]

Thanks very detailed and patiently explained 👍

[@albinthomas7695]

Awesome tutorial ! Thanks again Kenny!

[@REAPERMania]

My pleasure!

[@ljsphotos123]

I love you Kenny G!

[@ksantyp77]

OK... so my question is... how to record a video like this one here? I need to record my voice, picture from the screen and the VST plugin while playing the guitar and changing al the parameters within the plugin on the go

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

Reaper became part of my life, thank you SO much for your highly educative work Kenny! One thing that will be super useful is to be able to visualize the threshold level in the waveforms, as in the transient detector. But anyway, v6 is the best of all with so many useful functions and workflow upgrades 👏👏👏👏

[@TheBeatnikPainter]

Hands down the greatest Reaper Tutorials in existence.

[@lemuscarlos]

Excelente!!

[@anilgrover1955]

Great tutorial. Thanks Kenny.

[@maplefoxx6285]

I have watched a producer do this trick with the reverb a few times in Ableton on his Twitch channel, i never understood it because he works really fast thanks for the trick in Reaper.

[@nowhere-v5i]

love your videos Kenny!.... help a ton!!!

[@vuralarslandemir3163]

Much respect to you sir. This is gold.

[@ubleader]

Kenny, thank you for all the videos man, you're amazing

[@sprylight2328]

thank you so deep for all this information! you're incredible at laying things out simply and concise!

[@leemendez7876]

Can anyone help. I've recorded a guitar track & duplicated it. I've then put them both in a folder with my guitar amp sim plugin on the folder FX. My plan is to pan 1 guitar left & 1 right but when I turn one of the track 100% to the right there is no sound. It gets more quiet the more I turn it. Any ideas? Never had this problem before.

[@fransiig]

I have watched...Prob 20 videos on doing this. Needless toe say I only understand it after watching this video.

[@giulioszi]

Very clear, thx

[@PremBrey]

thank you for good tutorial. i start to like this software alot for mixing as i'm from Cubase 10.5 pro user.

[@alpercizmeci4039]

Great tutorial!

[@SvrgitAbsvrdvm]

I am... very... grateful for your... excellent tutorials... and... I thank... you a lot! :)

[@EnfernoMuzik]

This was very very helpful

[@ohokiwi493]

Kenny any tutorials on side chaining there is no decent ones like you make .. warmly from new Zealand reaper fan i learned all about sends from you and busses now side chaining :)

[@angeldaniel6722]

Muchas gracias hermano, thank you a lot!

[@Areal74]

Thanx Kenny!!

[@muepetmo]

thank you !

[@nectariosm]

Great video thanks. Two questions. 1) Is there a way to quickly show/hide the busses like on other DAWs? 2) Is there a way to show the sends on the Track Panel so I don't have to constantly open the routing? I know I can set up a one channel mixer on the left (thanks again Kenny for that video), but I would like to have the sends on each channel on the Track Panel. Cheers.

[@sammythebull116]

Do you find a smoother way for this? I have the same its a mess in reaper with the busses at the end they are just group tracks in other daw Its so confusing here in reaper so much

[@uniworkhorse]

This send bussin

[@AnthonyCarrier]

Unfortunately the interface doesn't look the same as it did two years ago...

[@memorycanyon2259]

Wow I had no clue you could route multiple tracks to a single instance of an fx and change their input levels. Such an economical use of plugin FX!

[@meanwhileinespoo1265]

I can send them al, but cant seem to turn off the originals.. when I click solo I still hear the sent track.

[@AnthonyCarrier]

In this tutorial you explain how to send the piano part to a separate track, would it not be easier to just copy the track but I am sure there is a good reason for sending it that I am unaware of.

[@AnthonyCarrier]

And after watching the rest of the tutorial my question was answered . There are many reasons to send multiple tracks and work on the mastering is what I gather before rendering and others I suppose

[@inlovingmemoryofdouglasmul5216]

How do just send fx on the track to another track? So I don't have to put plugins on all my individual vocal tracks

[@Chaosweaver-1]

Ever figure this out?

[@davgor2006]

Kenny I have a vocal track then a reaper effects bus but I wanna compress the reverb so the reverb won’t drown my vocals can u tell me the proper steps plz I don’t understand

[@vanillakeksik]

sheesh thank you

[@dimitri-89]

grande Kenny

[@bengrimshaw4811]

Kenny, it is people like you who make the world go round! Thanks so much for clearing all this up in one simple to understand, clear and informative video. It is something I've not really got my head around until now, thanks to you. To clarify, you would keep 'master send' checked if you were creating an FX buss like a reverb for a guitar group with the reverb at 100% wet blended with the dry original guitar tracks, but uncheck the master send it you had created a drum buss from different tracks but didn't want to duplicate the original sounds? I think I have that right!?

[@elvissorna8861]

that was kew!

[@firmans12]

Thanks Kenny. I wonder i already do all the same steps but in the bus i wonder why i can't add fx with all the track master send off

[@liberallarry847]

Thanks Kenny! Question: let's say I'm happy with the ratio of say dry vox to wet vox, but I want it louder or softer. How do I adjust the volume of the combination with one fader?

[@fuckcensorship69]

put them in a group together

[@johncabral1606]

Please help! i don't have that route button onn my tracks how do i get it back???

[@DavidEsp1]

Make track control panel wider ?

[@JSG-mw4qr]

Man the new reaper has a few cool things but mostly I have to relearn it now

[@Karlush]

ReaLearn it*

[@Echo_III]

He always says TRACK the same way. :D

[@antrix1331]

A secret Kenny told me : he recorded the word 'track' and use it everytime when he want to say this word.

[@stuartwrigglesworth9339]

Good video 👍

[@phuongan3255]

Thanks for your kindly directions! By the way, could you show me how to link send in some tracks to adjust level send together. Thanks!

[@wereallthinkingit9389]

Should i send a track recorded in mono ie my bass, to the bus using the mono option?

[@johnerodz7]

Amazing videos thank you i have a question i run Superior drummer 3 but on my PT daw i was able to set up aux to route each out from sd3 to PT via aux or buss how do i do that with reaper

[@bribradt3450]

If I'm sending 4 guitar tracks to a guitar buss, how do pan them? None of the pan sliders do anything when they're sent to the bus

[@inlovingmemoryofdouglasmul5216]

I dont get what the difference is if you send something pre fader or post fader? Could you please explain thank you very much

[@marc.lepage]

FYI "Buss" is just "Bus". It's like how many separately travelling people get on (the send) one big vehicle (a bus) and get off at their scheduled stops (the receive). Yet there's just one vehicle, notice you don't have to choose "which bus".

[@DavidEsp1]

Worth bearing in mind that "Buss" (sic), as a commonly used spelling in this field, could be regarded as a de facto field-specific jargon term, helpful to know when searching/finding. On websearching it (just now) it turned out to have some other specific meanings. In Hawaii it means to be intoxicated. More relevantly (by accident I assume) in old languages it means "to kiss" (based on "baiser" in French) - nice image of relationships being established among tracks.

[@uselessoldman7964]

and this is a perfect example of why Reaper has such a low user base and considered a Pro DAW for nerds and Geeks !! You should simply be able to just right click and get a choice, create audio/midi track, VCA, Bus as you would expect to find on any hardware mixer. A Track is for inputs a Bus for Outputs and VCA a folder/channel to control a selected range of tracks like drums. Then inside a Track you can select its Bus and VCA as you can in Studio One. I own the X32 but I also use midi keyboard controllers so I like the VCA/Bus faders on the left so I have easy access to them from the keyboards 8 faders. Also the Studio One remote app is great and I have touch control of the mixer using my Surface Pro. I just want to select 6 tracks create a VCA and Bus for them, its a ball ache to suss out and configure for a newbie I use 4 amps in the studio, 2 power amps for Keyboards vocals and Bass and 2 Guitar amps so 4 x Bus outputs. SO lets say I record a midi track on keyboard create new instrument track that goes to VCA midi that goes to the QSC Bus output to the amp and the speaker cabs. Usually simple easy no fuss. Reaper??? aaaugh I use a 8 channel audio interface with ADAT expansion so potentially 16 inputs outputs. I create a default template I use for all projects, Bus outputs to amps/speakers headphones in ears etc and just use what I need delete/hide rest inputs are fixed (hard coded) from the various interfaces/inputs use what I need delete/hide rest. Is there a plugin I wonder that does this easily and simply no fuss no messing about? With Reaper you have to programme it before you can use it. I get it its fun its involved but sometimes you just want to plug in and play. Sorry for rant, have been looking at Reaper cos I'm sick of Studio One need surround sound for videos else I just might have to go back to using Cubase, seriously please NO

[@leonsebastian5198]

Great tutorials, thank you! Question though: why is it by default also still sending to the master after you’ve routed to a buss? Maybe it’s because I’m coming from Studio one, where sends and routing is more distinct, so for me I would like the parallel use case to be secondary. Is there a way to change this in preferences perhaps?

[@nuttyninja7799]

Always great. I have a question. I can't switch off the 'route' button as you demonstrate at 2.46. It looks like a simple click? I'm sure it's something simple. Anyone?

[@DavidEsp1]

Alt-Click

[@MegaboyBresom]

Hello nice video well explicated but i don't understand i follow well your steps but the mix (controlling some tracks) keep modifying some effects on my records

[@inlovingmemoryofdouglasmul5216]

Great video. Are busses the same as aux sends??

[@moripsmusic8715]

!!!

[@thegroove2000]

Reap what you sow. Nice.

[@nicolacisternino5054]

Hi Kenny I noticed that a bus track, receiving audio signal from another track, generate a -6db output level (with all levels to 0db). Why ?

[@juberformento8893]

great tutorial sir this is im searching can send me your sample 3 instrument for practice can i have link thanks sir

[@dubcitystudios509]

Any way you could do this for vocals?

[@eliaferraro8100]

Why I can't see routing button on tracks? How can I enable it?

[@csb261]

Resize your track by dragging the bottom edge/right edge to expand the track and then the Routing button should appear. Same goes for the effects and input etc if you're unable to see them

[@EricBenjamin518]

Me at 2:05: "I should google why people would turn off Master send..."

[@johanjof5613]

When people have a reference track it is quite common to send all tracks to a mastering bus and then to the master bus on the one hand, and the reference track directly on the master bus on the other hand. Thus your tracks are affected by mastering fx but not the reference track and you can easily compare the two.

[@tomnowlin7396]

Hi Kenny, thank you for your videos! I am wondering what is the advantage of having a reverb bus vs having reverb on each track? I'm guessing less cpu use? Thanks!

[@ryancrawford9894]

Less CPU is one reason. Also, if you plan to have multiple sources processed similarly, like if you want multiple tracks to be processed by a "room" or "plate" type of ambiance, it makes little sense to use multiple instances of the plugin. It is much easier to use a single "room" bus and use your send levels to feed it. If you need to tweak the setting, or want to try a different plugin, now you're only doing it on a single instance instead of track-by-track. It's really a carryover workflow from when consoles had limited sends, and studios had limited hardware available, but also has the side effect of helping keep things cohesive with different instruments/sources being processed within the same virtual spaces. This can really help glue a mix together.

[@ea-guitar1170]

There is another reason, unless you have a mix wet/dry on your reverb... Else, the reverb would be too loud ! WIth this technique, you can control the send on each track. And the other reason is the one Ryan Crawford wrote : to have coherence in the mix. Use the same reverb on many tracks helps the mix to sound good.

[@pascalhaux]

Well done but why doesn't the master send switch off automatically when I send the channels to my bus

[@Zearo298]

P.Records I didn’t understand that this was a thing and accidentally ended up double tracking all of my drum samples on a final release because I’m an idiot and didn’t check the master sends on the samplomatics.

[@cultconfrere]

Dunno if there's a way to adjust this via actions or with shortcut keys, but the example with the parallel effects is one reason one might not want that.

[@MoltarTheGreat]

What is the difference with putting them all under the same track (i.e. have them as children/ part of the stem) and sending to a bus?

[@th3gr81]

How do I get the routing icon to show up? Mine doesn't have it.

[@poit57]

I had the same question as I was watching this video. If you haven't figured it out in the 4 months since posting your question, I found the answer on a Reddit post. Option > Themes > Theme adjuster Both the Routing and Pan & Width controls are hidden by default if the mixer is visible.

[@th3gr81]

@@poit57 I hide the mixer and the routing shows up on the tracks. Your tip from Reddit is better though.

[@davesdream]

WOW... Very clear. Now I have to remember how do you get 2 pianos or drums in one track? because is stereo, right?

[@artifexpro-000]

What theme is that?

[@feliksaksyonov7191]

haha, you're good at piano too!

[@daniglesar]

I'm stuck at the beginning. When I send from track 1 to the buss track the opposit happens. The first track is cyan and blue and the bus track is cyan and yellow. It's also like nothing changes. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[@HiggsMusicOfficial]

It sounds like you might have sent the buss to the track (instead of sending the track to the buss). Make sure your buss contains the receive and track 1 the send.

[@jarkkojs]

I always wonder, which is the correct word: bus or buss.

[@AmshaMorgan]

I watched this whole thing and still I haven't figured what I want to do... I want to send my vocals to a bus then that bus to the master. However I want one of the vocals panned left and one right. Now matter how I try to pan them they come out of the bus in the center. Can someone help me. It's like the bus is only mono and not stereo

[@RomellAlaman]

The fact that we need a video for understating routing in a DAW, seems too much. Reaper should have implemented this better, simpler . Awesome video with clear explanations . Thank you !