Hello! I've been using Reaper as a recording/editing software for years but I'm trying to do something new with it. I am designing sound for a musical, and would like to implement loops and devamps in Reaper the way that Qlab does it (playback is going as normal, enters a loop, stays in the loop until you hit "devamp" and then when it reaches the end of the loop it keeps playing what's left of the file/s without any jumps in the audio).

I've found some things online but was curious if anyone here has done this before.

Thank you in advance!

Hello all,

like the title says, there is an issue in reaper where the note cuts off the beginning at playback (specifically for the bfd drums player vst)

but it works fine when it loops or if i nudge the note to the right , i've come across this thread : https://forum-amz.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=263122, but to no avail

was wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and has a solution

Has anyone had luck bridging vsts on linux? I am on cachyos using vstbridge and wine-staging 11.19 but half of the vsts i bridge fail to load in reaper. There are no error logs in vstbridgectl so i'm not sure what to do.

I was originally using yabridge but it requires you to keep an older version of wine, so i moved to vstbridge to avoid that.

Maybe a simple question, but I searched and didn't find a good answer.

Let's say I have a mouse with 7 buttons. How can I assign actions to those? E.g. I'd like to assign "Item: Split Item under mouse cursor (select Left)" to one of the extra buttons, but I only see a way to assign keyboard keys and not mouse keys to shortcuts.

On a Mac, and have mice from a few different mouse makers (logitech and elecom).

I just started using analog lab pro V which is my first real midi plugin and I just recorded a whole song on it while listening through my speakers (so I didn’t notice it at the start) and I go to edit, then I can’t hear anything in my left ear. It shows up fine in the tracks section but not on my end. Does anyone know what to do?

I'm having a little melt down here...PC with Windows 11, Reaper 7.42. To give context, someone sent me an instrumental which i imported, i spent some time trying to figure out the tempo (set the audio file to 'beats position only' in the preferences and then scroll through the BPM until i find the correct one) but for some reason it was in between BPM (between 124 and 125) so i just left it at 124.1 and continued recording without the metronome. Everything went fine during the recording and on playback everything is fine and in time, however every time i consolidate the stems and re-import, the vocals at the end of the tracks have slipped out of time, and even when i render tracks instead of consolidate its still out of time. Does anyone have any idea what's happening?

I find myself having a project where I did a lot of long takes of stuff like rhythm guitar, then finding the take I like and kind of building the project off that take. This leaves me with stuff I don't want or need on either side, which wouldn't normally be an issue, but when I'm rendering from a track, it renders the entire project, which could be super long. (Sure I know, I should have made a new project early on and ported just the take over, but it's too late for that now).

Even when I delete everything and razor edit move my time selection all the way to the left, there still must be hidden data or something later on that makes all those renders take 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds.

So what is the easiest way to "get rid" of all that?

I'd like to capture my progress playing the piano but when I play with headphones, the sound of the video logically won't have the sound coming out of what's recorded in reaper/vst.

Is there a way to conveniently do this?

I'm thinking to manually sync the audio by playing a big chord in the beginning or something that would indicate the beginning both in the "waveform" (midiform? :D) and the videos visual.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I'm asking because it would be awkward having to sync multiple videos if I split the videos up by not letting one video run the entire time, but several with time in between.

Have you noticed when closing Reaper, there are a bunch of pings in and out of your computer to other IPs? Maybe plugins calling home? Concerning?

I tried a lot of videos - searches for this.

The FX - Options - Actions - Preferences the text and scale are too small for my DPI and I already have Windows Scaled at 125%.

I have no issues with changing this quickly with any other software like Maya for instance.

The only post I found is to reinstall the Windows Fonts which seems like a waste of time.

I can changed the font size for everything else and it works fine for me at 1.25 but this does not effect the dialog boxes like the FX window I can't read the small text with out straining my eyes, same with the Actions menu or Preferences.

With so many options to set I can't understand why this isn't just an easy to find option.

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UPDATE >>> Screenshot of how it looks to me. This is 2.0 scale just to see the difference. See in the back upper left the large font? Also check the lower right, Now look at the boxes on top. I tried every combo of settings. I didn't restart every time but it shouldn't be required or it should tell you to restart if it is required. This is a basic feature.

Please don’t question my workflow, but for reasons too long to explain I really want to be able to use a keybind for each of this actions:

Q: items: split at edit cursor (select left)
E: items: split at edit cursor (select right)

But let’s say I have clips A B and C. When dividing C it becomes C1 and C2

If I use my action shortcut, let’s say Q, and divide C. At this moment only C1 is selected, like I want it to. But sometimes I want to shift click A so that I add A and B to my selection: (A, B, C1, NOT C2)

However for some reason when I shift click A, C2 is also added.

I tried changing it to this action: items: split item at cursor (select left)

And it seemed to work at first, but now I’m getting similar unwanted behavior when shift clicking at seemingly random times (to me at least)

I work doing audio editing so while I could just add an extra click to my workflow, this makes the entire point of my action key binds useless, and when editing a 1+ hour audio file with hundreds or thousands of cuts it starts adding up

Edit: after many attempts, i just used a combination of reaper custom actions and GHUB for my logitech mouse, since i wasnt able to fix it:

Reaper actions:

S: split items at edit cursor
Q: move edit cursor left 1ms; select items under edit cursor
E: move edit cursor right 1ms; select items under edit cursor

GHUB:
Use standard delays*

Button 1 macros:
Macro 1: S
Macro 2: click
Macro 3: Q

Button 2 macros:
Macro 1: S
Macro 2: click
Macro 3: E

Edit 2:

I made it work with this:

"split item under edit or play cursor (ignore grouping, select right)"

But there is no "left" version

Closest i could get was

"item: split item under mouse cursor (ignore grouping, select left)"

which is not my favorite, and it has some weird interactions with the edit cursor and shift clicking, but it will have to do for now

reaper stopped working since i put ASIO4ALL, it crash instantly when I launch it, i tried to uninstall and reinstall reaper but it automatically set up with ASIO4ALL, and I dont know how to reset my reaper or something like that

Just a little jam in reaper 🎶

Hello folks! I was working on some sound art stuff and mixing quadrophonic piece. I even had an opportunity to try to listen how it would sound on 4 speakers since av-rental guy dropped the gear for this weeks exhibition already and maybe mix it with this "soundsystem".. Okay, cut to the chase. On master channel there were hardware outputs 1-2 and 3-4 and for some reason, I never seemed to get signal of 3-4 to my VOLT 476 sound card, no matter what I tried. I tried routing 4 mono channels, checked routing matrix, changed the decoder, went all the channels one by one (there was a bunch), if something was left unnoticed, watched tutorials, spent quality time with AI and so on.. But funny thing is that after I bounced that audio I was working in Da Vinci, then I could play it on VLC-player and everything was as it should. I think? Of course mixing multichannel-sound with headphones involves great deal of guessing of different panning and automation, since the sense of spatiality is not exactly mind-blowing, but I would have thought that 4 channels from Reaper to Volt is not masters degree worth of task. Been using Reaper at Open Uni and done few audio pieces with it earlier, so this was quite surprising, but I trust someone tells me that what I forgot or should have done differently.

Cheers from Finland,
Tero

ok your probably thinking, oh the guys larping as an abelton user, kinda.

I've never used ableton, but I just really like the theme. every where's where it needs to be, and it all sticks to one shape, its sharp, clean and ORANGE!!!!

along with this, worded toolbars look good so Ive been able to build my workflow around task bars.

my philosophy for my workflow is all linked to the simple idea that this should be a workflow that's easy to understand for everyone and me. the 4 toolbar shortcuts on the main tool bar are all linked to a separate toolbars dedicated to different things. then you've got you top main toolbar with everything you would typically need to use quickly.

In my tool toolbar I have 4 different themes along with the main one, these themes are meant to look like other daws, logic, ableton, FL, protools.

would love to know what yall think, BUT remember, this is just my way of doing things so please keep the comments tame.

Good day to all!

Hi everyone!

I'm using REAPER 7.82 on CachyOS with ALSA and an Audient iD14.

I'm having two issues:

• Pre-roll recording: REAPER doesn't seem to record any audio during the pre-roll, even though "Record audio during pre-roll" is enabled in the recording settings and "Pre-roll before recording" is enabled in the metronome settings.
• Extending audio items: When I try to extend an audio item by dragging its edge, it loops the audio instead of simply extending it.

Could these issues be related to ALSA or my Linux setup, or am I missing some settings?

I'm thinking about testing PulseAudio to see if it makes any difference.

Has anyone experienced something similar on Linux?

Thanks!

Bit of a weird one - initially I had Logic Pro and Reaper working perfectly on loads of projects that were at 23.976fps. I’ve been doing a load at 25fps and recently started working on another at 23.976. I changed both Logic and Reaper to 23.976 (Reaper’s setting being 23.976ND as it was before) and now all of a sudden Reaper is exactly 35 seconds and 23 frames ahead of Logic.

Thinking this must be some sort of in-session bug, I closed both sessions and opened two vanilla projects and again, Reaper is exactly 35 seconds 23 frames ahead of Logic.

Is there any other setting in Reaper I may have missed? The only ‘offset’ is in the external sync window of around -250 to -750 ms to get video to sync exactly.

Hi, I created a little app that converts Cool Edit or Adobe Audition Ses or Sesx files to reaper sessions. It's based on some stuff kicking around on github, which I asked my bots to combine into an app. Anyone interested? I guess anyone could do it, but I'm happy to share mine.

Anyone know how to contribute it to be a native part of Reaper? It's pretty simple, not perfect but pretty much works. Could be useful for folks who might want to touch up an old session ...

Have a good one!

Im going slightly mad now - what I hear in Reaper is different then what I get in render. Render presets attached . There are no additional effects, no limiters, no compression. Render is into wav format which I bring back to Reaper for comparison. I have this brass staccato phrase with high dynamics. It sounds great in Reaper (BBC Symphony Orchestra from Spitfire) but rendered it sounds flat and squeezed though as I said I don't use anything on those tracks! I rendered to mp3, wav at different settings. Anyone knows what might be the issue?

p.s.

I applied one midi item that had the most robust sound (tuba) and rendered to audio item in place. The difference is tremendous.

I’ve been fighting this for a minute and can’t find out what is going on. Using the MT power kit plugin and put grooves in Track 1 & Amplitube for guitar on Track 2. When I record the guitar it records in both tracks. I think it might be a lane issue because the drums are still in track 1 but not selected in the playback. Any help is appreciated

I have used command 40315 (Item: Auto trim/split items (remove silence)) on the advice given in a previous post (thanks again) and unlike my manual trims I've ended up with these white lines with triangle wedges at the bottom. They don't appear to be the end of the trim and neither are they the auto cross fade lines (those are red).

Sorry for the school boy question - but what are they and can they cause me any issues? Its for an audiobook.

Thanks :)