![]() if it weren't for Bidule, scripts, midi vst, and js fx, i probably wouldn't be using REAPER. it's taken til 2007 to "make it sing" via settings and an extensive midi pre-processing Bidule mapping. Loving REAPER for ~EDM, it's my full time job now. you can just keep stacking more tracks to organize the automation. :D I probably hit Save template instead of open template when I had the tracks selected (in order to add more. in the morning, when it's not 2am after a band jam. :D This one has the items they just aren't as default-pretty/ready as the one I'll have to remake. What's great too is they can be alt-dragged to stretch them, which is WAYYYYY harder to do in the automation lanes of a track.Įdit: Lol I accidentally saved over that with an actual track's items while I was editing a track, apparently. I saved it as a track template with ready made items. If you loop the item both directions it exposes more envelope area in which you can place a point at the default on both sides, so it always resets when the item has been passed. I always use one lane per item so I have the maximum vertical resolution. Then I use the Parameter modulation MIDI link to tie it to that CC and use the MIDI item on the child track to draw automation in the item lanes. I Put ReaControlMIDI on the item and set it's first slider to GP Slider 1, which is a fairly safe unused CC. The best time saver for me so far has been creating automation items as child tracks of the instrument track. I do have some tricks up my sleeve I've used to improve Reaper's songwriting automation. This is why you cannot compare two DAWs so broadly. This is an area where Reaper does VERY well. Other DAWs do manage a much smoother workflow in that regard, but on the flip side they might provide routing that limits a mix engineer's thought process, such that it may take them far longer to set up the idea they have in their head. ![]() not quite the same amount of absolute chaos going on as a song is built up from nothing. You might nudge some hits and copy paste sections of a performance. Unlike a finished recording, the automation will be potentially heavily edited and very likely at least moved or stretched to reflect changes in the audio source that it's modulating, which is probably staying pretty consistent in a rock song. Which, if you're constantly rearranging and editing in the song writing phase, means a lot of interaction with the automaton side of Reaper, going back and forth a lot. But this automation is a very different workflow, pin pointing areas and adjusting.ĮDM song writing automation can be an instrument of it's own which needs to be jammed, played, 'grooved in', whatever you want to call it, it's gotta have a natural shape and be a part of the movement of the song. You typically record a rock song or demo it and re-record parts over time, and then do a mix and some fine tuning which can include buckets of automation, absolutely. I get where you're coming from, rock doesn't necessitate the humongous use of modulation and automation as part of the songwriting process like an EDM song does. ![]() I don't know where you got the idea that Reaper is only used by hardrockers it's simply not true at all. You won't regret this, although it could take easily a year or so to become totally convinced. I sometimes grab back to Logic Pro, just to find out in the end that i am missing a ton of features that ARE available in Reaper.īelieve me, buy some good thirdparty synth plugins and so, aimed for electronic (EDM) production,Īnd use them in Reaper and learn Reaper to the bone. Lemme put it this way: Reaper stands for "More creativity in less Time" The insane fast workfow you can create, be it on audio side and/or midi side, extreme customisation plus the very light tax on CPU make for me Reaper number one DAW for producing ANY kind of music.įor years and years i worked with Cubase, Live and Logic they all didn't seem to cut it against Reaper, concerning insane fast workflow, bugs and CPU utilisation (Wink Wink Cubase).įor producing any kind of music, i always found DAW cpu utilisation, customisation and fast workflow 3 major points of importance I use alot of thirdparty Virtual Instruments, which work very well in Reaper. Ofcourse, Reaper does not have a complete arsenal of "bread and butter" Virtual Instruments,įor many people a major drawback of Reaper, not for me. I use Reaper for producing Radio imaging and all sorts of electronic dance music.
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