cakes wrote: Fri Dec 19, 2025 9:22 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 11:26 am

cakes wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 10:24 am
Thanks for trying. It still happens to me. I was doing some automation last night, and I'd click on a point, it would create 3 points....

Kenny Gioia

There is a couple of actions for Inserting multiple points at curser. check and make sure you don't accidentally have a hot key bound to that maybe.

Kenny... yeah. That dude rules, but his cadence is hard to hang with. Between him and the Reaper Blog guy there is so much info for reaper. It makes me mad when I need to look up anything for any other software that there isn't a Kenny for everything in my life.

Ive been making custom tool bars with tools for various tasks. One for regular recording stuff, editing envelopes, midi editing, grid divisions... etc. I've put buttons on the toolbars to quickly switch between toolbars. It makes Reaper pretty stupid powerful with just a mouse without having to raise my beer hand to hit a quick key.

Custom toolbars? Tell me more!

There's so much to Reaper, it's hard to know where to start. I'm learning new shit every week. Just learned about the built in phase alignment tool introduced in 7...

Oh my! You are bouta go deep. At the top left where your little default tool bar is Right Click that and go to Customize toolbar. IT will open a dialog where you can... Customize the tool bar, but not only that tool bar, but as many as you want. There is a pull down menu at the top that lets you create a bunch of tool bars that can be locked to the top, floating, or docked in the docker next to the mixer. I keep them all at the top and there are action buttons to switch which tool bar you are looking at at any given time. I have one for customizing the grid/nudging. One for Envelope editing. One with a bunch of generic stuff on it. I bet there are 50 Kenny Vids on how to make cool tool bars. I like it because There are enough actions that I want to access quickly that using Key Bindings isn't easy to remember for me so a little button is the best way to get to it fast.

I'm trying to hook up the Faderport v2. I have it working, but I don't see it show up in Reasonus. Anyone have this working in Reasonus or CSI? I just want to reprogram a few buttons, but it showing up in the configuration menu.

cakes wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 10:33 pm I'm trying to hook up the Faderport v2. I have it working, but I don't see it show up in Reasonus. Anyone have this working in Reasonus or CSI? I just want to reprogram a few buttons, but it showing up in the configuration menu.

don't know if the V2 is the same but I used to have the first version of faderport and the only button you could reprogram was the User button. I could never get any of the other buttons to change.

Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 11:57 pm

cakes wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 10:33 pm I'm trying to hook up the Faderport v2. I have it working, but I don't see it show up in Reasonus. Anyone have this working in Reasonus or CSI? I just want to reprogram a few buttons, but it showing up in the configuration menu.

don't know if the V2 is the same but I used to have the first version of faderport and the only button you could reprogram was the User button. I could never get any of the other buttons to change.

I think I was able to change some buttons in the action list (show all actions). Choose an action, then assign a new shortcut and hit the button.

bassdriver wrote: Fri Dec 26, 2025 2:52 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 11:57 pm

cakes wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 10:33 pm I'm trying to hook up the Faderport v2. I have it working, but I don't see it show up in Reasonus. Anyone have this working in Reasonus or CSI? I just want to reprogram a few buttons, but it showing up in the configuration menu.

don't know if the V2 is the same but I used to have the first version of faderport and the only button you could reprogram was the User button. I could never get any of the other buttons to change.

I think I was able to change some buttons in the action list (show all actions). Choose an action, then assign a new shortcut and hit the button.

Ok, Reasonus works, but it also doesn't show up where the documentation says. And it's super confusing because it doesn't explain anything. Anyway, it works. I wish the back and forward buttons were for markers, but i get that it's ff/rw. I was able to map the Function keys, though. I just had to rethink how I was doing some things. I'm getting used to it. It's probably the best surface controller for Reaper at this point, thanks to Reasonus. A bitch to get started, though!

Tell me your storage strategies for cloud - I have a mac with google drive for the house and share that drive with my machine at the practice space, then just load the files from the cloud drive to reaper on some occcasions, pointing to the online file, others I DL the file locally. From my point of view, there are advantages to each, but I'm curious how y'all solve this problem.....or if you even consider it something to deal with.

So far, experiments with online files have been fine. Load normally, play normally no hiccups that I've noticed, but this has only been my setup for a couple days, so input appreciated.

thx

Frankie99 wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 12:20 pm Tell me your storage strategies for cloud - I have a mac with google drive for the house and share that drive with my machine at the practice space, then just load the files from the cloud drive to reaper on some occcasions, pointing to the online file, others I DL the file locally. From my point of view, there are advantages to each, but I'm curious how y'all solve this problem.....or if you even consider it something to deal with.

So far, experiments with online files have been fine. Load normally, play normally no hiccups that I've noticed, but this has only been my setup for a couple days, so input appreciated.

thx

I always DL and work with files locally. I do have a TB of cloud storage I use as archival backup, and a NAS Raid for physical backup as well as a SSD Clone of my Audio drive in my tower. I've used Parsec and Audio Movers to work on remote computers before.

I went down a Kenny Gioia rabbit hole. Lots of great shit in the newer versions of reaper. Lots of hidden gems, maybe not new.

One of them is that JS band splitters and joiners. You can make to your own multiband compressor with them, using any compressors you want. Just stick the compressors between the splitter and joiner and route them in the plugin routing matrix. Choose your crossovers in the splitter. In the joiner, set the level for each band. I fixed a bass with unruly subs this way. I put two 1176s in the bands, one for frequencies under 180 hz, the rest on the other. Put a slower attack on the sub, with a slower release. Pushed the joiner into an LA2A. I suppose I could have used a multiband compressor, but I don't really have one. This was way more fun anyway.

Another is Solo in Front, with a volume for unsoloed track volume adjustment bound to the mousewheel. I haven't set it up yet, but wouldn't it be cool to sometimes solo a track and get a little bit of volume from everything else? And control it?

I didn't realize you can put FX on items. Oh, and adjusting volume on items. I'm such a fool.

Recording and comping in lanes. I wish I knew about this last time I was recording vocals.

There's a new feature that just went in like a few months ago that I've been using. The phase alignment tool. Select all your drum track items, use shift+cmd+A for the action. A panel will show up. Choose snare as the reference track and have it calculate the phase differences on all the selected tracks. Click Apply, now you've got phase alignment!

I'm gonna be 80 by the time I learn everything about Reaper.

cakes wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 12:54 am I went down a Kenny Gioia rabbit hole. Lots of great shit in the newer versions of reaper. Lots of hidden gems, maybe not new.

Always more to learn.
Comping in Reaper has always been good but all the new Lanes stuff is great.
I find the phase align tool to be pretty useless. It makes mistakes a lot. My preferred method is putting the source tracks into a folder. Then you can see the over lapping waves of the sources in the folder on the folder track and just slide it by eye. It's fast and more accurate.
Clip level, pan, FX Etc is really convenient when editing voiceover, but I don't use it much aside form that.
A thing I want to explore more is using the Pin Out routing in the Track FX Insert to do more parallel processing in track, like have a gated kick parallel to a compressed kick to make cool expanders and what not. You can basically do every dreamable way of dynamic processing that way without multing tracks.

Have you found the LFO Parameter Linking in the FX yet? You can add a LFO to any parameter in any FX. Turn any EQ into a Phaser/Swishy filter thing, Modulate delay times, anything you might want to continuously turn a knob on. I use it all the time on synths and stuff.

Reaper is pretty absurd with what it is capable of doing.

Kniferide wrote: Comping in Reaper has always been good but all the new Lanes stuff is great.

I messed with this for a whole afternoon and something about it is not tracking in my brain. What's the main benefit for you over using the take system?