diggin' on reaper

I've been playing around in it - I dig it, but there are some workflow things I cannot vibe with at all. The inability to use the keypad to change mouse tools (like to a scissor or pencil tool) kills things, and not being able to swap the left/right click for time selection and region selection throws me off. Cubase still rules the roost for me, but I think by V4 Reaper might be tits.
 
yeah it works like that, but try to apply to it a single track, instead of as an FX the idea if to bake autotune so it doesn't eat your cpu alive


thats where reaper fails at autotune sure it works great for that but i am not making a whole new track for every phrase i wana autotune fuck that
 
found a solutuion, turn this on
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but you can't apply the fx to the item (not the track) like you can in cubase
 
found a solutuion, turn this on
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^ BBB's work around


but you can't apply the fx to the item (not the track) like you can in cubase
 
CatharsisStudios said:
but you can't apply the fx to the item (not the track) like you can in cubase
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I may not understand what you're meaning and sure have no experience with Cubase, but you can apply any FX to any item you want in Reaper. Maybe there's more too it that I didn't see/understand.
 
crosstalk said:
I may not understand what you're meaning and sure have no experience with Cubase, but you can apply any FX to any item you want in Reaper. Maybe there's more too it that I didn't see/understand.
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My god, I didn't even know you can... Is that the Shift-E thing, for right click > take > show FX chain for this take ?

Thanks it's really a cool feature I missed and didn't even know it was there.
 
my work flow for editing vocals will always be the following:

1. select vocal take to edit
2. "track pitch" of vocal take
3. make graph pitch adjustments
4. render result

in cubase, this is done via the right click menu -per event-
when i moved to pro tools the workflow had changed to this (due to evo being broken in audio-suite)

1. add auto tune plugin on track
2. track pitch
3. make adjustments
4. add new track
5. set output of original track to new bus
6. set input of new track to same bus
7. arm and record
8. remove auto tune plugin
10. copy all plugins and settings on original track to new track
11. remove old track

obviously the first work flow is much better...

so what am i saying here? basically that auto tune in graph mode, to me, is completely useless as an insert. i use it purely to permanently effect the audio i'm working with. i do 10 - 15 records a year with this approach, and have been doing this since i was 19.
 
AdamWathan said:
Joey do you have Skype? Not to toot my own horn but I probably know more about Reaper than pretty much anyone who doesn't work for Cockos :lol: so if you need a hand with anything at all let me know. I'm free pretty often to voice over Skype and do some screen sharing or whatever. Reaper is SUPER powerful and I know you like custom actions/macros and Reaper is the best DAW going when it comes to that stuff. You can create pretty much any workflow you want and make it efficient as hell.

PS. Reaper does have mouse tools, and you can build the tools to do absolutely anything at all. Here's a video of me using a scissors tool ;)

http://screencast.com/t/YzI0YTkwND


The other option is to create actions that work under the mouse cursor instead of the edit cursor, so you can just hover your mouse somewhere and press a key to perform your split for example. Basically the same as a mouse tool except the mouse button is on the keyboard instead of the mouse ;) What tools are you using besides the split tool? I'm a PT guy so tools have never really been a part of my workflow but I'm sure I could help you come up with a workflow you love in Reaper. Since Reaper 3.45 I have been able to edit much faster in Reaper than even in Pro Tools and Pro Tools was always the king for the way I like to edit.

Reaper is already very "Cubase" by default in a lot of ways so if you wanted to give it a real shot I'm sure you could get it to do all the things you like about Cubase, as well as the things you may have liked about PT. Reaper is NOT a DAW for people who want to just adopt the default workflow, it only really shines in the hands of someone with a lot of real world workflow experience who is willing to put in a bit of time to customize the program to behave the way you want, but once you do that it absolutely cannot be beat IMO.
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adam, we need to get together soon. i want to go ahead and start customizing reaper for how i think it should work.
 
Though I am not certain if AT will work on a per item basis, you can goto "view" and select FX browser, then drag and drop AT to the item on the timeline (to make AT a per item FX insert as opposed to a track FX insert), make your AT edits, and then right-click and select "Apply FX to items as new take" - this is similar to "freezing" that instance of AT onto the item, then you can delete the AT instance on the item, and go from there.
 
HOLY FUCK you people are brutal. Don't start talking shit about not being able to use Autotune in REAPER until you fucking try it and actually make the effort to come up with a workflow.

I bake Autotune into my tracks ALL THE TIME, and I do it on a PER PHRASE basis just like you are talking about. Video time I guess, need to restart because Jing is fucked right now but it will be up in 10 minutes.
 
AdamWathan said:
HOLY FUCK you people are brutal. Don't start talking shit about not being able to use Autotune in REAPER until you fucking try it and actually make the effort to come up with a workflow.

I bake Autotune into my tracks ALL THE TIME, and I do it on a PER PHRASE basis just like you are talking about. Video time I guess, need to restart because Jing is fucked right now but it will be up in 10 minutes.
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wasn't me, lol

i was just contributing that my workflow is more efficient than insert method

looking forward to your video though!
 
Okay, here is how you do it using Joey's exact original Cubase workflow, which is the exact same way I have been doing it forever with NO PROBLEMS.

http://www.adamwathan.com/reaper/tutorials/autotunereaper.swf

Do NOT come into this thread bitching and complaining and spewing bullshit about how Reaper can't do this or can't do that, because 99% of the time it CAN do it just fine and you are just too much of an impatient n00b to fucking figure it out. Before proclaiming that Reaper can't do something, ask me how you CAN do it and I will make a video explaining it.
 
joeymusicguy said:
when i moved to pro tools the workflow had changed to this (due to evo being broken in audio-suite)

1. add auto tune plugin on track
2. track pitch
3. make adjustments
4. add new track
5. set output of original track to new bus
6. set input of new track to same bus
7. arm and record
8. remove auto tune plugin
10. copy all plugins and settings on original track to new track
11. remove old track

obviously the first work flow is much better...
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Sort of irrelevant since you left the PT world, but this is how you should have been doing it...

1. add autotune to track
2. track pitch
3. make corrections
4. hit cmd+shift+c to copy plugin settings
5. open autotune as audiosuite and paste the settings
6. apply the audiosuite version

That's how we do it at jval's place all day long! ;)
 
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