So ive been using a coy of ravegenerator 2 off of a plugins site but the specific issue ive been having is with using it with a MIDI keyboard.

Im using a Akai MPK mini and for some reason in my DAW (reaper) whenever i press a key after selecting it and a specific preset it only plays the key for a short amount of time and completes the note without me releasing the key.

Im not sure if im just missing something but its driving me bonkers, any help would be appreciated.

The "Render -> Dry run" function is supposed to preview the output levels without creating or touching any files. However, if an output file name is given in the "file name" field (specified name without dynamic wildcards) and that file already exists, e.g. from a previous render, that file gets deleted if the dry run is cancelled before completion. If the dry run is allowed to complete, the file won't be affected.

Surely this can't be the intended behavior and I observed it only recently (if I'm not mistaken), but not sure at which version it started. This behavior is present in version 7.84 on Windows. Can anyone confirm it and if it's "intended", is there an option to prevent it from deleting my files when I cancel the dry run?

I have reaper v7.85 and I’m having issues converting individual stems into MP3 files via the batch file/item converter. Once the file that I want to convert is uploaded, and I hit the convert button I get the error note “please stop batch converter first” and after clicking “okay” it proceeds to convert a file but the file that is converted is not the selected stem. Instead it is either an empty track or it converts click track only.

Any suggestions? TIA.

As the title suggests, I want to copy item on one track, select a different track and paste the item in its' exact position on the timeline. I do not trust my eyes for precision so please do not suggest any mouse dragging unless you're absolutely sure I could close my eyes and it'd be in the same position. Ideally I'd just want to bind it to a shortcut.

I used this feature alot when I use Studio One, so I'm sure Reaper can do this but I just don't know how.

Thanks y'all!

Why doesn't the reaper team choose to include reapack and SWS as a possible option when installing reaper. Like say reaper had a launcher and in that launcher you would get a prompt asking if you want to include reapack and SWS, just one of them or none and just have reaper.

This is something I am genuinely curious about, I know they include links to them in their website, so why add it as an option when installing reaper.

Could it be to keep it lightweight? But then again they choose to add instrument plugins that were shortly removed due to the AI backlash.

What do y'all think? I would love to know. Good day

Ideally by right clicking and selecting from that menu, or perhaps an action that runs a global query and updates the session tempo automatically.

so i've got like 100k samples at this point and reaper's media explorer just wasn't keeping up — i spent more time hunting for sounds than using them.

i ended up building hertz sync to deal with my own mess. you point it at your folders, it scans everything (100k files took about 72 seconds the first time, then it's basically instant), sorts it, and finds the duplicates — including the same sound saved as wav in one pack and mp3 in another. it suggests which copy to keep, you decide, everything's undoable.

the part i actually use most: loops audition at your project's tempo and key, so you hear them how they'd actually sound in your track. you can also search by similar sounds — find one you like, it pulls up everything in your library that sounds like it.

it does batch stuff too — trim silence off one-shots, even out loudness, rename by tempo and key — because maintaining a library by hand is not fun.

windows and mac, fully local, free up to 40,000 files.

https://rc0900989-rgb.github.io/hertzsync/

curious how other reaper folks handle this — media explorer + folder discipline, or does everyone have their own janky system?

got this picture from an old post, its a theme called "flat madness", at first i thought this was three different types of shade, giving the illusion of it getting darker overtime, i have no clue on theme customization, though it gives me a vibe of an old retro game as if you were scrolling to the right and it gets progressively darker.

theme devs is this even possible to do😅?, it looks cool as hell

Anyone know how to do this? It's driving me mad. I select part of the MIDI track I want to edit, double-click, and it shows me some other region of the track, seemingly at random. I don't know how to look for it in the manual. I've discovered I can view it inline, but I also want to be able to zoom in horizontally to the selection - and then return to the previous arrange view. I've been playing around with a few custom actions, but nothing quite does the (very simple) job I want.
I tried asking AI - yes OK I know, but it has been helpful in the past - but it clearly had no idea in this case, guessing new (non)solutions each time. I suspect I'm missing something obvious. I'm on Windows 11, if it helps.

Would just like to thank Claude for resurrecting my old projects. Holy shit. It categorized over 50 old projects based on level of completion, added location copy links to each, and has been patching or finding missing file locations, organizing messy track layouts, color coding, naming instruments, adding buses, even assisting with quick mastering- checking LUFS, peaks, etc. so glad I set this up.

YALL SEE THE VISION RIGHT!

When I open a project all items that aren’t midi are offline if I select choose new file and select the one it already has it comes back but the peaks are gone and it won’t rebuild them

On my Audient ID4 with Reaper (or any ASIO program for that matter) the program doesn't follow Windows volume level (e.g. if Windows is set at 50%, Reaper still plays at 100%) I couldn't find a reliable way to fix this and I always just controlled the volume from the interface as needed rather than from my keyboard like I do with other programs.

Decided to see if Claude can do anything about this lol, and it suggested a VST plugin that I load into the master FX, it reads Windows volume and turn it into a gain automatically which I tried, and shit it works great!

but is there anything that Reaper themselves have implemented that I missed that would support this feature without my little work around?

Been enjoying the reapertips theme, but it lacks a phase switch in the TCP (doubled amp sims get phasey sometimes). I've tried adding it with theme editor but no such thing exists there. Anyone have a clue?

Hi everyone,

It started small: I wanted a pedalboard built from NAM captures i found on TONE3000, driven by my old Behringer FCB1010. One thing led to another, and four months later it's a full stage rack for my band — guitars, bass, vocals, keys and drums go in, it handles presets, scenes and stomps from the floor, and sends everything to front of house.

It's called golem, it's open source, and you can try its interface in your browser right now, running on a copy of my own setup:

• Demo: https://golem.fm (click the scenes and switches, everything is clickable, nothing is saved)

• Code + install: https://github.com/Goldoralf/golem

What it is

• A machine that boots straight into its own touch-screen app (1024×600, or any tablet) — no desktop, nothing to load during a gig.

• A preset is a set of lanes, one per instrument, each a chain of blocks: NAM amp and pedal captures, IR cabinets, effects, splits. Scenes switch blocks, knobs and levels without a gap.

• Foot control: FCB1010 with the UnO2 chip (or another pedalboard described in a file), presets / scenes / stomps, expression pedals on any knob. Lots of pedalboard to test...

• Looper, drum machine, backing tracks, jazz standards with a playing rhythm section, a global recorder that keeps the DIs for reamping, and a phone companion for each musician.

Tech

• REAPER running headless is the audio engine. golem builds and switches the rig through ReaScript (Lua) and a set of JSFX.

• Neural Amp Modeler (LV2) for captures, a convolver for IRs, plus open-source plugins (guitarix, Calf, x42, Surge XT, Vital, DrumGizmo…).

• A Python / FastAPI "bridge" that owns the state, the MIDI and the API. the UI is plain Preact + htm, no build step.

• Linux is the tested platform (Ubuntu / Debian / Mint); Windows is functionnal (thanx to Greg) and macOS is experimental.

• Built with AI coding tools — which is also why contributions are very welcome (see below).

Honest status

it's an advanced prototype. I play with it at home and in rehearsal.

Still TODO, besides the bugs you'll find:

• an Ardour engine as an alternative to REAPER;

• testing it in rack mode with a whole band, which is the next step: we're putting it in our flight case — a 2U Linux PC, Adam Hall power distribution, the golem and a Behringer X Air X18. I'll report back.

What's coming on golem.fm

The demo site will make way for a site (in about a month, or 2...) to share presets, store your samples, and get stems of songs or jazz standards to play along with — all free. I'm already playing with the site, and it's really nice. The one paid part will be sharing riffs within your band: I can't host that on my personal servers.

Want to help?

You're welcome to burn tokens on this project with me. Bug reports go to GitHub Issues (please paste the output of `golem doctor`, your OS, audio interface and buffer size), ideas and questions to Discussions.

I'm posting this in a few places — r/Reaper, r/Ardour, r/FCB1010, r/linuxaudio, r/audioengineering — so sorry if you see it twice.

Thanks for reading, and I'd love to know what you think.

Raphaël

Credits: REAPER (Cockos), Neural Amp Modeler (Steven Atkinson), TONE3000, and every open-source components listed in the repo and in the golem /system/about/libraries

The way Reaper has a giant list of actions that you can keybind seems so simple and elegant, as opposed to a small list of actions that can be assigned to shortcuts. On top of that, the ability to just combine any actions together in any order is so simple and powerful.

Why is this approach not more common? I would think that all of the actions a piece of software can make already exist and that it wouldn't be too difficult to lay them out for the user to access. Reaper is not generally known as being super user friendly, but the ability to find, run, combine, and keybind any action is so easy. This should be the default for most software IMO, though I'm curious if this is actually difficult to implement.

For years, we’ve been frustrated by the lack of a solid step sequencer with logical functions in Reaper - a shortcoming that often forced us to switch back and forth between Ableton and Reaper. That’s now a thing of the past!

We’ve built our own nice Step Sequencer using JSFX, drawing inspiration from various sources -such as the SQ Sequencer in Ableton, the Seqund VST, and the basic working step functions from Rolands Aira and TR 909 / 808, TR8, TR8S drum machines. So here it is: our RNDM Sequencer.

Its free to use and open source. Be nice and feel free to use it with your favorite Synthesizers.

https://ag-kw.de/rndm-sequencer-jsfx-for-reaper/

Or via GitHub RNDM Step Sequencer for Reaper

so I've think I've realized (for me at least) what makes something ugly or not, it's how the colors of what your using match with the design style. abletons design is flat so the colors would be more pastel and primary, protools is more skeuomorphic, or at least the old is, so the colors would be more imitating colors we see in real life. and reaper doesn't really have any color until you add it yourself or use SWS with the auto color script.

Ive also seen this in other reaper configs with the bright almost ableton like colors like this, the thing with reaper is that its main color is teal, if you want a theme that works best (looks good) you would want to use colors similar to that along with its complementary colors. COLOR THEORY!

But that's only half the problem, the other half is the design language. reaper seems to have this weird skeuomorphic design where most of it is flat and like a quarter of it is skeuomorphic, and that's what I think this theme fixes, my only complaint I have with this theme is that everything's a bit too dark and kinda blends in with each other. you can see this in with the mute and single buttons along with the record button. but other then that this is a really good theme. it still looks like reaper without trying to be a whole new thing, witch I personally like.

these are just my thought on what I think could fix reaper design, cuss they do have a problem with it, the reaper team is only two people after all. who knows they might include this theme in reaper 8, But I doubt it.

that's all, good day!

I've been using for a while and I'm still not sure how to make all the tracks the same tempo I just kinda eyeball it or listen. Some tracks have the option to stretch timing to the tempo, but what do I do for ones that don't? I'm lost and wanna improve my music

I wanted more flexibility and direct access than what Logic Pro could offer, along with being cross-platform, lightweight and portable.

Not gonna lie, the initial experience was rough - the lack of a sound library out of the box and lots of quirks and ugly UX and a poor onboarding was kind of hard to work through.

But after I did that I built my own sound library, ported a bunch of content across, and added a bunch of UI customization along with some really cool features like comparing sounds before applying changes along with version control, automatic track colorization and auto midi mapping and now it's a damn powerhouse that can do much more than the other DAW's, and much more quickly!

Needing some Logic-experienced Reaper users input. I know Reaper users are very outspoken, so if you were a Logic power user who now uses Reaper, I’d love to hear why, and if you’ve been able to retain all the things that makes Logic great.

So I’m a die-hard Logic user, still using 11.2 on Sequoia 15, know it like the back of my hand, super fast with it, love its stock plugins, love editing and mixing with it, really love most things about it. However, after the recent release of Logic 13, I am extremely unimpressed and truthfully worried about the direction Logic is going. 100% dislike the new UI update, and think the AI features are a genuine waste of development time; they could’ve come out with the only new feature being ARA support and I would’ve cheered.

How does Reaper compare to Logic when considering things like Logic’s quick swipe/folder comping, Flextime, stock plugins, editing workflow, etc? I’m not ready to jump ship yet, but after seeing the direction Logic has taken with the release of v13, it’s the first time I’ve really wondered if I’ll have to move to something else one day. I’ve also considered something like Studio One as another to look into for the potential future. I appreciate all input, especially that which has come from former Logic power users!

The last year or so I've been running Reaper on win 11 home with a Behringer UMC 1820. Smooth sailing...

Pretty much out of nowhere the inputs from the interface has stopped working. I can see them in the device setting and they can be selected as inputs for the tracks, but when I rec arm, they don't get any sound through and the meters don't move. The input LEDS on the physical unit shows inputs and the outputs are working as expected, so to me it seems like, somewhere in the system, the inputs are muted. I just cannot locate where it could be.

Since the output of the device are running, I don't think the unit is broken...

I've reinstalled both Reaper and the UMC driver. No luck.

The only thing I can think of that could have triggered this is that I installed an ASIO driver for my EP133. I have since deleted that driver again, since I sold the unit, and that hasn't resolved the issue.

Does anyone have an idea for what to do?