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Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. Creating surround sound random panning trajectories in Reaper is simple using Parameter Modulation and ReaSurroundPan.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. Surround mixing is a breeze in Reaper. In this tutorial I will give an overview of the basic concepts to create tracks that can pan using an octophonic ring of speakers. The same principles can be applied to other speaker configurations.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. The Razor Edit feature of Reaper allows you to select and edit discontiguous bits and bobs of your project. I like that word, discontiguous.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. Some of you are crazy like me, you might record large channel counts in a program like Max/MSP and have them be interleaved to make sure everything remains sync’d up. My personal Max rig records twenty-nine channels of audio. This is a lot. But sure enough, Reaper can … Read More

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. Creating complex click tracks is a treat in Reaper. For basic click tracks just use the metronome on the tool bar and right-click it for options including sending to headphones, enable or disable during playback, customize the sound, divisions of the sound, and many more possibilities. And just … Read More

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. In Reaper you can add effects, effects modulation, and automation to specific media items that will only affect that specific item. These effects will then travel with that item as you copy or move it about. This is nice for standard audio work, but it is particularly exemplary … Read More

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. Reaper’s folders—also called folder tracks—are a great way to create submixes and organize your mixing sessions. In Reaper you can use Sends and Receives with Aux tracks as in any other DAW, I do this regularly for reverb and other effects that I want to use consistently across … Read More

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. Just a reminder: If you are on a Mac using a trackpad, the default equivalent for right-click is a two-finger tap or click. In the Mac world, right-click is called a “Secondary Click” and can be modified in your computer’s System Preferences in the Trackpad section. You can … Read More

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. For this post, we will be using a simple and common EQ setting to examine saving presets and effects chains.

Please take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here. This post is about setting defaults to help Reaper keep projects organized. With these settings, it is much easier to share and archive your Reaper projects as all media items and more are stored in named folders within your main project folder.