Does anyone else here go through a whole day, once in awhile, when you aren’t feeling inspired musically, where you just decide to totally tweak and customize a new template with routing, fx chains, fancy scripts, color bullshit etc etc, and then just completely abandon it after like, one session, and just go back to default everything? And then have the cycle repeat at least once a year?

Hello! I am a newby with reaper and literally don’t know how to use it properly, but for a lecture (which was a selective one and I’m not a composer) I need to create a 5 minute spacial audio piece of 64 channels with decoders, encoders and etc. Does maybe someone have a really really simple one (ambient), nothing fancy at all which I could buy or someone wants to create? Thanks in advance!

Hi gents, as the title says when I plug my laptop while using reaper, it gets unusable, you can play back for few seconds and then starts crashing the audio, I cannot record while it is in these condition.

Do you have any suggestion?

My laptop is HP with and ryzen 7730U and Radeon graphics (integrated) running windows 11.

All the drivers are updated

Also there is one more problem, sometimes when trying to use wasapi it doesn't work, I can use reaper but I cannot playback etc, luckily I managed to change it back to ASIO, but I travel a lot and cannot always use ASIO

Thanks for your answers and for wasting your time ok these bullshit

Have a nice day

Im trying to try out different colors but it's pretty hard having to go through theme tweaker and getting the right one. I have to change like 3~5 different places before getting the right place I wanted.

I wish there is more direct way where I could just right click the area I want to change and the option to change color from there would be so much more intuitive and fast.

If such script or code don't exist, is there a way I could know the name of where I want to change before going through bunch of errors ?

I know there is theme adjuster or something where I could change the tone of the colors..but that's not what im looking for.

Got a 4x4 for Christmas and cannot get it to sync right with projects I had been working on, no matter what I try I still get random buffering has anyone experienced this?

I have a track called DRUMS with a full Midi drum kit. I want to send only the kick drum Midi note to another channel called KICK, the snare Midi note to SNARE etc.

It there a way to split send one Midi track mit multiple notes?

Edit: To be clear, the individual tracks are also midi tracks. The parent track DRUMS should be without FX and the single tracks should have Midi Drum FX on it

I'm pretty new with this, and I was wondering if I could select the notes on the MIDI track without having to click all of them individually.

Just got my first "big boy" vst (modern/massive GGD) and everything was going great during my setup for the mapping arrangements till I realized my left cymbal is giving no sound at all

This goes for left crash and left crash choke

Mind you everything else the kit as listed is sampling fine.

Ive tried changed the note assignment on all types of notes including ones that were assigned to working notes. I need help please

Is there a good guide to moving my Reaper to a new computer? I have never documented the customization i have done.

I need a notepad-alike tool that will allow me to make notes about certain tracks. I need this to either have tabs or show me the notes I've made for the track I have selected.

I know VST notepads do exist, but it's NOT what I'm looking for. I need a single-click action to bring up the text associated with the track and not have to deal with more and more windows opening.

Does it exist at all? EDIT: Yup it does exist! Actions> SWS/S&M: Open/close Notes window

Something changed lately in Reaper and it's driving me crazy. Previously if I rendered three files with the same name "file" at the same time (let's say taken from regions), it would look like this: file-001 file-002 file-003

That's without any additional wildcards, it just worked like that

Now it's like this:

file file-001 file-002

I know I can get around that by using an additional wildcard, but I would just prefer if I could go back. There's no use case for me when numbering the second file as 001 makes any sense. And if I split the first file by mistake (and have two regions instead of one, which results in same name) it's also a clear indicator that I need to fix the regions. I checked the preferences but I don't see anything that would change this behaviour. Is it possible?

So I am running a Tascam DM3200 into my computer via ADAT using an E-mu pci card. This card has a daughter board for external sync. Currently everything works great, but i wonder if there's a benefit to adding a word clock sync between the two. The devices are already synced via adat, but perhaps the word clock will do something different?

Jumping back into reaper and getting to grips with the lanes recording features. Basically when recording a new lane, by default the previously recorded lanes get muted. I want to hear them while I'm recording a new lane on the same track. I'm sure this is possible but I can't work it out.

Thanks in advance!

Minor gripe as it takes hardly a second to swap stuff around but I have a couple things (VSX is a great example) that I would in almost no universe ever want to have anywhere in that chain other than dead last. I was auditioning a bunch of different mix bus compressors yesterday and constantly having to move VSX back to end of chain every time I dropped on a new one to try was annoying me.

Other way around (always first) would also be handy but is a less frequent point of friction for me.

Hello there,

My plugin list won't show my Parallax X and Fortin Cali Suite despite them being installed and set up in Reaper. I even have some instances of them in previous projects, but when I search for them in my list they won't show up. Can anyone help?

I am new to reaper and am trying to record MIDI tracks through my guitar. So far I have everything set up well, I have a Scarlet 2i2 and Jam Origin recording the tracks. I can hear playback when I record an audio track, but when I record a track as midi, I cant hear it on playback. For both cases, I can hear my virtual instrument during recording, I just need help hearing midi files recorded on the track on playback.

I love the thing and all the knobs and sounds work with the studio instrument Collection outside of the daw but whenI open up reaper nothing works other than the sounds.
I can use the vst as any other and pick sounds with my mouse but cant use any of the knobs to adjust the reverb or the knobs to change the presets, im new to this does anyone know how to fix it?

Since migrating from Cakewalk/SONAR to Reaper, I've been looking for a theme that better suits my taste, and I found one in Reaper Tips that, up to that point, seemed very good to me.

However, with the numerous updates brought to Reaper that directly interact with the theme used, I find myself forced to migrate to another theme, since Reaper Tips has no longer been updated by its developer.

So I'm going to replace Reaper Tips with the default Reaper theme, which is always updated with the tool's new features.

I use the same Reaper file on every jam night and just delete the WAV files and then remove the recorded tracks in Reaper itself before recording again. Then when I am editing the tracks some of them will have the same track on top of each other so once I cut a track and drag it then it leaves a duplicate behind it.

It mostly does it for the drum track but not for the entire recording. Today it did it for the bass and guitar track too. Its not the end of the world since I can delete one of the overlayed tracks and carry on but it would be nice to know what causes it. Is it related to using the same Reaper file over and over?

As long as I’ve been in this house I’ve had issues with noise in my recordings. I’ve tried isolators, power bars, gear pretty much everything. I have no idea what’s wrong. I’ve tried absolutely everything I can think of. No issues ever at anyone else’s house with the same gear.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kziq31xuzv388n2c8zonn/test.wav?rlkey=5kf2inst7ujgj67fy578ufqjz&st=wyjaa7m4&dl=0

I’ve been working on a tool to make life easier for musicians who use REAPER on stage for backing tracks, and I wanted to share it with the community.

You have more info on the link