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Posted by: Mertay Nov 30 2019, 09:04 PM

V6 is near release so it might be a good time for those who hasn't tried yet start discovering and understand why we suggest it so often.

https://www.reaper.fm/videos.php

Start with "reaper 5 explained" section video's, likely you'll learn most of what you'll need from the intoduction video itself. I remember years ago these were for sale but now can be watched free;

Posted by: Phil66 Nov 30 2019, 10:06 PM

I can't really set what they can do to improve it for the kind of videos we do here. I love it, not hard to learn and not loads of clicking like some of the big boys.

Posted by: Mertay Dec 1 2019, 08:28 AM

Advanced (looks easy though...) application example, a friend of mine is testing mixing music with this tech. these days;

Posted by: Phil66 Dec 1 2019, 10:27 AM

Yeah, looks good but I doubt I'll ever use it, Reaper is amazing value for money though.

Posted by: Todd Simpson Dec 3 2019, 03:28 AM

Agreed, best value for money of ANY daw on the market right now. You can get started for free with a PRO quality daw and pay just a little to have that nag screen go away. Before reaper there really wasn't a pro level option that you could get started on for FREE IMHO. There was Pro Tools Free but that has some serious limitations and it's vastly more complicated and harder to learn than Reape IMHO. It's just not that user friendly. I"ve taught REAPER and PRO TOOLS at the collegiate level (Art Institute of Atlanta)and have seen how hard people struggle with pro tools where they just jump right in to repaer and start making music.

Todd

Posted by: PosterBoy Dec 3 2019, 04:11 PM

The producer Kenny Gioa has a great youtube channel for Reaper and also creates paid courses for it with Groove 3.

Posted by: Sensible Jones Dec 3 2019, 06:11 PM

+1. Kenny's vids are very informative!!

Posted by: Mertay Dec 4 2019, 07:34 AM

V6 is released

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php#whatsnew


https://dlz.reaper.fm/userguide/R600up005.pdf

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Dec 4 2019, 10:39 AM

Just downloaded v6. Got a bit confused, but there's a learning curve with every "new" DAW (I used to use Reaper 5 up untill just now).

Posted by: Mertay Dec 4 2019, 11:14 AM

Mine opened tracks without any visible controls

Just hover mouse to right edge of track then expand the tracks length

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Dec 4 2019, 02:03 PM

Haven't had the energy or time or need to look into it yet, but maybe I will soon

Posted by: Mertay Dec 4 2019, 05:38 PM

Posted by: Mertay Dec 8 2019, 10:23 PM

Watched 6 vid.s today on tutorials, wasn't as boring as I thought they would be

-I set youtube playback speed to 1.25 as I'm already fluent on other DAW's, but a beginner shouldn't do this.
-He gives menu (preferences) adjustment advice's for reaper, so even a pro should watch them. Even basic things can have surprising approaches in reaper if one is willing to be fast with it.
-I took notes for key commands while watching video's (better than looking at manual). When completed these will help me faster if I forget anything.

Posted by: Mertay Dec 9 2019, 06:19 PM

Finished first 15 vid.s

I took notes, tested (even adjusted) some stuff opening reaper...I checked and till now it took me only 4 hours, this is nothing compared to learning guitar

Posted by: Mertay Dec 10 2019, 01:36 PM

Video with reaper; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHcjUEOfAA0

Posted by: Todd Simpson Dec 11 2019, 02:47 AM

I'm sure it will be even better in the next version. I'm glad to see video integration is getting better and better in reaper.
Todd

Posted by: Mertay Dec 11 2019, 08:51 AM

I liked the fact that one's mix doesn't have to be bounced for video creation. Do you bounce your videos from program or DAW? cause made me think maybe bouncing from DAW can preserve better audio quality (as mix summing is happening there)?

I also made the sws upgrade (snapshot feature really got to me!!!) for reaper and learned about them. Now will give a short break to finish day jobs till weekend, then hopefully when re-reading my notes I'll grasp quite a bit.

The hard part will be the scripts, currently there are almost 1300 amazing stuff (reapack) during that I'll probably design my custom action commands.

For those who doesn't know what SCRIPT for reaper is; Its like a plug-in in DAW but instead imagine as app.'s for reaper. It can be anything small or big, I even saw a chord tool ( https://www.admiralbumblebee.com/ReaperScripts.html#midi-guitar-chord-tool---thread ) . Here's a list made from 2017;

https://www.admiralbumblebee.com/ReaperScripts.html

Posted by: AK Rich Dec 12 2019, 03:34 AM

Man, I really need to update reaper and get back up to speed. Not that I really had a complete grasp of it before. I really only had the basics of it which I image is still fairly the same , or maybe not.

Posted by: Mertay Dec 12 2019, 10:07 AM

I don't think it will be a problem, the vid.s I watched were made in 2016 and didn't notice much difference (menu options are a bit even cleaner now).

Even with the most basic usage (like recording a solo over backing track) the take system also is awesome.

Posted by: Todd Simpson Dec 13 2019, 12:43 AM

I export audio from my daw then pull it in to adobe premiere. I do like the video integration features! I'll have to give it a go!
Todd

Posted by: Mertay Dec 13 2019, 08:44 AM

I talked about this to a friend of mine, suspected the (adobe) vid. editor degrading the sound quality as spotify and youtube releases sounded too different to me. He made certain adobe didn't do any audio correction so we thought it was about youtube but to be sure we'll try this method on the next release (if logic can handle the vid. format standard he wants).

Posted by: Mertay Jan 17 2020, 07:58 AM

New education video series based on Reaper 6, starts from ultimate beginner level

Posted by: Todd Simpson Jan 18 2020, 04:46 AM

Adobe Premiere certainly does NOT degrade any audio passed through it unless it's exported in a compressed format differently than the format it was imported as. For example, if one imports uncompressed .WAV or .AIF audio, and exports a quick time file with the same format, the audio will not be degraded at all in any way.

However, if one exports in a hyper compressed format of audio, then yes, audio quality will be degraded. The premiere engine itself is the same audio engine found in Adobe's flagship audio applications. So no, Premiere does not degrade audio quality unless the user tells it to do so.
Todd

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