Hi hi. Is there anyway I can "prioritize" a track so that all other tracks lower in volume anytime the prioritized one is "speaking"? by speaking I mean if theres sound happening in the priority track(s) (above a certain dbs)

In case all that was confusing, basically what I'm trying to do is make a commentary track and I want whatever I'm commenting on to become quiter when Im speaking but I wanna do all that with as little editing as possible and hence don't wanna do it manually.

Newbie here,

I’m using the Xvive U8 mic through the Scarlett Focusrite to record my guitar. I can see that reaper is picking up the audio. I also tested the metronome to ensure I can hear something come through Reaper. I can hear my guitar through my headphones as well.

I can see the sound of my guitar getting picked up when recording. But upon playback it’s silent. I have ensured my inputs are correct.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all, just found and joined this sub to ask for some help... Recording newb, just for personal reference/writing... but had no problems getting started with Garageband on a Macbook Pro until it was stolen recently. I'm now trying to get back on the horse with a Windows 11 Asus laptop and Reaper (obviously). I just got set up, and can record a track, and I can hear the instruments through the headphones on the interface, yet I cant hear the playback of the Reaper tracks. What am I doing wrong? TIA

Long story short , I wanted to upgrade the sounds on the Roland Td-3 module and I got everything working. Downloaded a VST and got into reaper. Added input as midi 1 usb , and the pads trigger sounds . The only problem is the sound comes out of My MacBook instead of going to the drum module . both MIDI in and out are connected on my module then connected to usb port of MacBook …. Anyone please help!! I tried and tried to search up solutions but can’t find it. I also forgot to mention I turned off local control of my module but nothing happens but cuts sound off from in module sounds. Any help will be appreciated!

Hi there. Reaper newbie here.

I have set scroll horizontal reversed, and everything scrolls nicely from left to right when on I move my mouse wheel.

The only problem is that when plugins open (eg Melodyne or EZ Drummer), it scrolls back from right to left.

I have tried disabling scroll horizontal reversed and changed the settings under mouse for scroll horizontal reversed, and even tried using my mouse software to invert the scrolling the direction. That works to a certain extent but then my mixer scrolls in the opposite direction.

I have Reapack and SWJ tools installed. If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. All I want is for everything to scroll left when I move the horizontal wheel left, and right when I move it right.

Thanks so much for your time!

I'm currently exporting individual multi tracks and it's taking hours. I have 8 songs to export and it is getting painfully long. Usually it only take about 2-5 minutes so jumping from that to hours, I wonder if there's anything that can be done that I wouldn't know about?

Greetings, I've watched several theme adjuster videos including Kenny's latest, and still cannot remove the instrument icon, like the horn/piano, etc., on the track. I did it once!

Please help, thank you so much.

Posted to Reddit from the Reaper Forum, by request of the OP.

[QUOTE=thenarrator;2858386]I'm so so delighted to finally have gone live with my [b]Recording Audiobooks with Reaper[/b] course a few days ago.

I'll use the words from the course description:

[b][I]This course walks you through a comprehensive and highly customised workflow to get you creating retail-ready audiobooks as quickly and painlessly as possible.[/b][/I]

It's not the right course if you want to learn more about Reaper and its customisability (that's [I]BoothJunkie[/i]) or if you have a specific question (inevitably [I]Kenny[/I] has done a video) but it IS the thing to watch if you want the Reaper equivalent to the [I]Audacity Bootcamp[/i], or just want to start recording audiobooks in Reaper and you haven't made the jump.

[url]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc-m1wMvanFxLVjxEouvCeGp1YuetpYcb\[/url\]

I would love to hear peoples' thoughts.

Edit: I tried signing up to Reddit to post the course on r/Reddit there but everything went wrong - if someone would mind crossposting it there I'd be so grateful![/QUOTE]

Hi!

I'm having problems with my audio in Linux and can't get JACK to work. However, I can get Guitarix plugins work in Reaper using ALSA.

Because the guitarix plugins are pre-amps and pedals, I need IRs and cab sims, because everything sounds so raw otherwise. Any tips where I could download some for free?

I'm coming back to Reaper after a short while of inactivity, and it's suddenly not working anymore. I'll click play, and Reaper says it's playing, but the cursor doesn't move - it just turns yellow and stays there. I can't even tell if I'm getting sound out of my interface because I can't play anything.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Reaper. I've reinstalled my drivers for my 2nd Gen Scarett 2i2. I made sure my audio device settings were set to ASIO and that my ASIO driver was set to my Focusrite. I've looked through all kinds of forums, and nothing has helped. I'm at a complete loss here. If anyone could help me out, I'd really appreciate it.

I'm running Windows 10 64-bit with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor. Not sure what other information would be useful, but if there's any other info I can give that would help, just let me know.

This is the second time a project of mine does this. It's basically a blank project template where I just loaded 1 audio file. I'm on a 14700k 64gb RAM running windows. Playback device is a Soundcraft signature 22mtk. Driver is set to low latency (my standard setting).

Any idea what causes these glitches? I changed my drivers settings but it doesn't change a thing. I'm pretty sure that when I restart Reaper the problem is gone. This was also the case last time I faced the same issue.

Also.. As weird as it may sound.. I'd love a plugin that gives me this same effect (in a useable way ofc), any suggestions?

Hi guys,

I'm using the action called "Item: Auto trim/split items (remove silence). Inside the options for that action, I have no Fade pad, no Leading pad, and no Trailing pad enabled. The "Auto adjust snap offset" is set to 0. Basically, nothing related to fades is turned on there.

When I run it, it works , it removes the silence perfectly. But something I noticed is that the new items that are created have a very small fade in and fade out, like 2 milliseconds at the beginning and end of every clip. I don't want that. I don't understand why it's adding those tiny fades.

I also went into Project Settings > Media Item Defaults and I set everything to make sure there’s no crossfade. "Respect toolbar auto-crossfade button" is selected, "No crossfade" is selected for razor edits, and everything is unchecked (no automatic fades in or out). But still, these small fades appear after I remove silence.

Can someone explain why Reaper adds those small fades even though everything seems disabled? And how can I stop them from being applied automatically after using that action?
I know I can remove the fades manually afterward, but is there a way to prevent them from being added in the first place?

Guys, In Reaper, if I have only one track with multiple items on it, I can easily export each item individually using "Render selected media items." It works perfectly. But when I have multiple tracks (for example, I'm layering sounds, one item on Track 1 and another item on Track 2 at the same time horizontally), now I can't export the portions correctly. When I select all items and try to render selected media items, Reaper treats them separately and doubles the number of exports, exporting each item individually instead of keeping the layers together as one "stem." I tried using the X-Raym script "Group selected items according to their order in selection per track," which groups the items by track, but it still doesn't solve the issue. Reaper still renders each item individually, not the grouped items together as one.

How can I fix this? How can I export each horizontal group (all layers combined) as one individual stem, as if I was exporting just one track with multiple regions, even though I have multiple tracks?

Hello, I'm currently running Reaper 7.35 and ASIO4all v2. While ASIO claims that it is detecting all of my inputs, when I assign my microphone (Blue Yeti Classic), when I try to record, the audio is not recorded, and the input decibel meter stays orange with no input.

UPDATE: I've deleted and reinstalled both Reaper and ASIO4ALL, and neither helped fix the issue. (And yes, I've turned the PC off and turned it back on. For you IT people.)

(DISCLAIMER: This started a short while ago, but I'm not sure what caused it. I've tried using other ways to record, like WASAPI and such... but they all seem to not want to allow MIDI inputs. Meaning that to record my MIDI I have to find a completely different way to do it, switching between Audio setups altogether, causing huge amounts of latency issues I didn't have before, making me resort to have to fix this issue. Any help is appreciated.)

UPDATE 2: Someone provided me with the ASIO for the Behringer that I had, and it works perfectly! I have no idea why they abandoned their ASIO for ASIO4All, but thank gourd it worked!!!

Hey guys, i need your help because I'm loosing my mind here and its really starting to tear on me.

I'm a bedroom guitarist that likes to just jam on some plug ins and record one or two riff ideas.

I was using a Lenovo Yoga (a convertible) with 8GGB Ram and some Intel I5 core. My interface is a scarlett solo 3rd gen. Since day one i've been experiencing pops and crackles when i played guitar. I always thought it was because of my weak tablet, since CPU and RAM were both at about 80% when I used to play in reaper. So i recently bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre MiniPC, with a very new Intel I7 and 32GGB RAM. To my knowledge, my setup now is more than capable of handling my tasks in reaper. But i still have the same problems as before. so it can't be an pc issue. I'm starting to think either my Focusrite, something with windows sound drivers or reaper itself? It doesn't matter if I'm playing guitar "live", or listening back to my recorded tracks, the pops and crackles are always there. Maybe one of you guys has experienced something similar and has found a way to fix it? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I have a foley sound and I need to create 100 different variations of it quickly and export them with good naming.( _01, _02 , _03 etc...)

Right now, my workflow is very slow:

• I manually duplicate the foley 100 times on the timeline.
• Then, I go one by one and apply Variator/Mutate to each item to make them different (otherwise they would all sound the same).
• After that, I export them manually.

Is there a more efficient way to do this? Basically, what I’m trying to achieve is:

• Start with one foley sound and duplicate it quickly 100 times in the timeline with silence to have some rom between each sample.
• Quickly generate 100 variations using Variator (or some tool).
• Auto-export them all with a file naming scheme (e.g., Foley_01 02 03 etc.. )

Whats the fast way to do this and what tools i need?

hello folks,

I have a project where many items (about 40 tracks) are aligned one after another in the timeline, like a playlist. Each item starts exactly after the previous one, no gaps, no overlaps.
My goal is to generate a final playlist of tracks, in order, like a mix. Now I want to randomize the order of these tracks to create many variations of the same playlist.
In short, I want to create a new random playlist each time, where all the items still play continuously, but in different order.
I tried randomizing positions and using "SWS: Reposition selected items", but it did not give the result I wanted.
How can I shuffle the item order and have them automatically arranged one after the other in the timeline, to create different versions of the same original playlist?

I always tried to adjust the gain knob on the interface (and my instrument's pickup) so that the waveform was as close as possible to not clipping.

What I'm starting to think is that I need to back off a bit because in some of my other mixes, there have been instances where I couldn't increase to volume to where I wanted it without a peak in the waveform clipping the track.

I don't want to have the instrument be too quiet since sliding up the fader will just amplify existing noise, but I'm thinking that a little headroom isn't a bad thing.

What are y'all's thoughts on this?

Hi, is it possible in Reaper to have a graphical menu that only shows specific actions I choose. For example, I know about the Action List but there are too many actions in there and it's hard to remember everything even with shortcuts, So I prefer clicking..

So what I want is to press a shortcut and open a window that shows only my favorite scripts or actions and I click the one I want directly for example only show 10 custom scripts (actions) I use every day instead of searching through thousands is this possible and what is the best way to do it

It only happens for a 2-3 milliseconds when I render out then it goes away. Any help would be appreciated thank you in advance I’ve tried everything.

My wife loves singing—she’s been doing it for years on Smule and has a real passion for it. Now she’s ready to step up to Reaper, and we’re working together to get her set up with a microphone, headphones, and laptop. The trouble is, she can’t hear herself through the headphones while she sings, which she needs to control her voice and feel confident. We’re using a Rode mic, and I’ve tried connecting her headphones to both the mic’s interface and the PC. You can hear her voice faintly, but it’s not nearly strong enough—it should be much louder and clearer. It works okay without background music, but as soon as we play a track, her voice gets drowned out and is impossible to hear, probably because it’s too low in the mix. Any tips to make this work so she can sing comfortably?

Can anyone who happens to have fan RPM controlling/displaying software tell me the RPM your fans usually run at when using Reaper? I'm building a new machine and would love to just have a ballpark of how many rotations per minute case fans reach on average when using Reaper.

I know this varies a lot, as your system is different of what mine will be. I just want to have a general idea. Thanks!

I have some live drums that I neatly snapped to the grid using stretch markers, but they sound a bit forced now. Is there any way to move every marker x% towards their original position? (something like you'd do for pitch in Melodyne for anyone that's familiar)

Hello everyone, basically looking to change the design of this window, since there's a lot of blank, white space. I know about themes, but have yet to see one that changes these windows as well.
Thank you all so much in advance