Old 08-27-2009, 06:17 AM   #1
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Default tip o' the day

[edit] Link to user-editable tips list: here! Thanks nofish for starting it.[/edit]


Reaper isn't going to get one of those "tip of the day" windows that exists only in order to give you something extra to click before you can use the program.

But if there were a list of short+sweet Reaper tips, what would you put on it? Brief suggestions for how to use features that many users may not be aware of, etc? Here are a few:

- Alt+drag a media item to slip the content left or right without moving the item itself.

- Right-click on empty space near the main toolbar to customize the toolbar by assigning custom actions and icons to different buttons.

- Shift+drag over existing data in a MIDI CC lane to create linear ramps.

- Press "?" to open the actions menu and a world of possibilities.

... over to you ...

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Old 08-27-2009, 06:39 AM   #2
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Great Start. First thing First..Should be a Sticky
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Old 08-27-2009, 06:40 AM   #3
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i think right-click drag [edit: to marquee select items] should be the first one. that took me a while to figure out and it's pretty fundamental.

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the wet/dry fx mixer [edit: little thing in the top right of the fx list window] is a bit hidden [edit: and awesome].

maybe also the pin thing in the fx list [edit: the "2 in/2 out" button gives you options to do crazy routing within the fx list, including sidechaining, mono-to-stereo etc].

folder tracks seem to confuse some people - make sure people know they can nest them [edit: drag a folder into a folder into a folder...]

middle-click scrub [edit: middle click and drag to scrub audio].

so many things! dunno.

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Old 08-27-2009, 07:02 AM   #5
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Ctrl+LMB Click on any track FX 'ON/OFF' Button to Disable/Enable FX on all tracks at once.
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Ctrl+LMB Click on any track FX 'ON/OFF' Button to Disable/Enable FX on all tracks at once.
Same on Record arm button.
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Old 08-27-2009, 08:20 PM   #7
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Ctrl+LMB Click on any track FX 'ON/OFF' Button to Disable/Enable FX on all tracks at once.
Doesn't do that on mine, 3.102.

Edit: never mind, I read too fast, yes it does.

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Old 01-26-2017, 06:04 PM   #8
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i think right-click drag [edit: to marquee select items] should be the first one. that took me a while to figure out and it's pretty fundamental.
I second that. Its one of the most important things to know, after Ctrl-Click & Drag to drag a copy of your selection.
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Default Colors for the Colorblind!

I'm colorblind so I had a hard time consistently picking colors for my tracks. So I made a little gouge based on the track color matrix in Reaper (attached).
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Great Start. First thing First..Should be a Sticky
Definitely sticky material, but perhaps someone (a guru) should organize a bit 1st?
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Old 08-27-2009, 11:43 PM   #11
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BEST THREAD EVER!!!
I already learned a few things that will make my life a lot easier...
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Old 08-27-2009, 11:49 PM   #12
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Maybe it's already said here but I haven't seen it with a quick look :

Right button drag = lasso selection

The most important for me, and it took me months to figure it out ^^
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Old 08-28-2009, 12:37 AM   #13
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To get two mono files from one stereo file:

Duplicate your stereoitem containing track and right click on the item.
Choose "Item properties: Set items channel mode to mono (left)"

Now go to the duplicated track and choose: "Item properties: Set items channel mode to mono (right)"

Now you´ve two mono tracks and the left and the right signal apart.
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I don't want to give Nicholas a heart attack, but wouldn't it be superb to be able to click on the 'tip of the day' and arrive at the relevant place in the Reaper instruction manual?
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Old 08-28-2009, 01:05 AM   #15
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-Double click on the track number in the TCP to select all the item on that track.

-Move a loop selection with the mouse left or right by holding shift then holding down the left mouse button in the ruler area

-Move a time selection area left or right by holding shift while holding down the left mouse button in the label area (if above and not inside the wave) or the area between the tracks
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Part 3 by me:

- Shift-Drag an empty area of arrange view in the time selection to move it without changing its size; pressing ctrl while dragging allows bypassing snap
- Shift-Alt-Drag an empty area of arrange view in the loop region to move it without changing its size; pressing ctrl while dragging allows bypassing snap
- Ctrl-drag time selection boundaries to move them bypassing snap
- Ctrl-drag loop region boundaries to move them bypassing snap

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Old 08-28-2009, 03:20 AM   #17
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Do a timeselection
Right click on the env button, select e.g. volume
Drag the envelope up and down within the time selection by the automation lane fader.

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Old 08-28-2009, 05:13 AM   #18
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Place your cursor at the top of the Timeline. When the cursor turns into a hand you can then "Grab" the whole screen and move left or right.
It's going to get harder and harder to get new tips at this rate!!;-)
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Old 09-22-2009, 12:31 PM   #19
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Default does anyone know how i can get my song i made onto my i-tunes???

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Reaper isn't going to get one of those "tip of the day" windows that exists only in order to give you something extra to click before you can use the program.

But if there were a list of short+sweet Reaper tips, what would you put on it? Brief suggestions for how to use features that many users may not be aware of, etc? Here are a few:

- Alt+drag a media item to slip the content left or right without moving the item itself.

- Right-click on empty space near the main toolbar to customize the toolbar by assigning custom actions and icons to different buttons.

- Shift+drag over existing data in a MIDI CC lane to create linear ramps.

- Press "?" to open the actions menu and a world of possibilities.

... over to you ...
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FlanB, you need to post a helpful tip in this thread and ask questions about iTunes in another.

Thanks.
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Might be obvious but here goes

In 3.11 there is a new info line and right clicking gives options for cool info (including "tips") but what you may NOT know is that with the track info one selected, LEFT clicking it toggles through even more info related to the track or object which is very cool
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Here's a couple neat little things I've added, that I find to be useful CONSTANTLY:

I added the "/" key to move time selection start and end points "around" the selected item(s).

I added the "b" key for "move to and select previous item on selected track", and the "n" key for the same with "next item" (even works with multiple selected tracks!).

Using a combination of the "b" or "n" and "/" makes it VERY fast/easy to set up time selections for loops, automation trim/edits, etc, in an "item-based" method.
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Don't know if this one's been mentioned:

If you grab either "edge" of the horizontal scroll bar in the arrangement area, it let's you resize it, and therefore zoom in or out horizontally in the arranger window.

Not sure why it hasn't been added for the vertical one, though.
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Bump! There have been a lot of new features added in the past couple of months, any new cool tips to contribute?
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I would like a tip on how to best keep on top of all the new features (not the behind the scenes performance tweaks so much, but the actual new features, actions, etc.)

I install pretty much every pre-release and look at the release notes. But a lot of the new goodies kind of get away from me and scrolling through older release notes can be messy.

(The changes related to menu customization are stunners!)
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Bump! There have been a lot of new features added in the past couple of months, any new cool tips to contribute?
Brush after every meal?

(Oh, and export your key maps cause you might lose them in the upgrade)
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Old 11-14-2009, 06:57 PM   #27
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(Oh, and export your key maps cause you might lose them in the upgrade)
Yea. It would be good if keymaps and other .ReaStuff files (and similar) could be fully protected from upgrade overwrites. Like maybe by being able to specify a user-selected folder for those things to be kept in. I made some custom button pngs that I stopped bothering with cuz they got overwritten all the time. (Not a tip... sorry to go OT.)
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I made some custom button pngs that I stopped bothering with cuz they got overwritten all the time.
If it's any consolation, in 3.141 and later you can put button images of any name in your toolbar_icons folder and they'll get picked up by the toolbar editor, with no risk of overwrite if there is no name collision with the Reaper-installed icons.
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Old 11-14-2009, 07:36 PM   #29
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If it's any consolation, in 3.141 and later you can put button images of any name in your toolbar_icons folder and they'll get picked up by the toolbar editor, with no risk of overwrite if there is no name collision with the Reaper-installed icons.
Thanks Schwa. I saw those changes, but haven't explored them yet. Looking forward to it though.

What I was thinking of was, for ex, I made some custom theme buttons, like for empty FX chains, and also the record mode status in the transport.... a few other theme changes that made it easer to get at a glance what was happening. It's those that get overwrit. (Otherwise I use WT's basic R3 default, which is pretty brilliant IMO.)
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I don't know if these two are new or not. Never noticed them before:

You can cycle through all the installed themes with hotkeys. I think the default is Ctrl-Alt-Pageup and Ctrl-Alt-PageDown. Awesome eye candy.

And BTW by default Ctrl-Alt-mousewheel-up and -down scroll through the undo history. Also awesome eye candy if your computer has the muscle.

Also:

The batch converter lets you apply effects chains in batch as well as perform file conversion.
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somebody mentioned right click on stuff, and this caused me to find out that right clicking on FX chain button brings up a dropdown dialog with instant drop down access to all FX folder that are user created and the recently used FX also. very nice. though i'd add it here too.
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Alt+drag envelope segments to adjust curvature.

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I am wasting alot of blank cd's ,trying to render one in the correct format to play in the car.. I have lame in the reaper directory what am i doing wrong?
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I am wasting alot of blank cd's ,trying to render one in the correct format to play in the car.. I have lame in the reaper directory what am i doing wrong?
Great tip Nightdog!
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I am wasting alot of blank cd's ,trying to render one in the correct format to play in the car.. I have lame in the reaper directory what am i doing wrong?
see if you find the answer there : http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...&highlight=mp3
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Default Show Transpose Button (Midi) in the Track Parameter Controls

You can have the JS/midi-transpose as the first FX in every Track template for Midi.
Then you can put the transpose slider of that particular plugin in the TCP via the "param" function as default as well in every of the Templates for a miditrack, so that you can easily transpose a miditrack without opening the FX chain.

It looks like in the picture you find when clicking the link.
http://forum.cockos.com/attachment.p...6&d=1270895946

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speaking of transpose with a js plugin, if you need to do only octave transpose, here's one that does only that (I find iz a bit quicker for this than the JS/midi-transpose).

(Have already posted it, but probably didn't get so much notice.)

http://forum.cockos.com/showpost.php...9&postcount=11
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Old 04-13-2010, 02:59 PM   #38
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Alt + mousewheel scrolls horizontally.

Also, I use these all the time -
Alt + s - enables/disables snapping
Alt + x - enables/disables item auto crossfades
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You can have the JS/midi-transpose as the first FX in every Track template for Midi.
Then you can put the transpose slider of that particular plugin in the TCP via the "param" function as default as well in every of the Templates for a miditrack, so that you can easily transpose a miditrack without opening the FX chain.

It looks like in the picture you find when clicking the link.
http://forum.cockos.com/attachment.p...6&d=1270895946
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks ugh, just been fiddling around using JS/midi-transpose and I can't wait to use your tip!

My 2cents (a happy discovery): Piano Roll: Ctrl+left click+drag on an edge of a note within a selection to stretch/reposition them keeping their relative positions to each other!
..I actually jumped out of my chair on the discovery (thank you Reaper and thank you manual!)
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Don't know if it's been posted before. Using Reafir to match the EQ curve of a song or clip and apply it to another one. I guess most people will view subtract mode as basically a de-noiser, but it can be used to extract a spectrum curve from the audio itself.

1- Put Reafir in subtract mode and click "Automatically build noise profile" and let Reafir analyze the song or clip.
2 - Unclick the checkbox and switch to compress mode. Reafir will retain the analyzed curve.
3- Modify the curve if needed in Precise Edit Mode
4- Hold Ctrl to lower or raise the threshold
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