0:56 Folders 11:14 Groups 15:40 VCAS 22:40 Busses

@halimdrummer777

2 жыл бұрын

thanks

@rp3316

2 жыл бұрын

6:26 Busses 10:40 Temporary Group 21:59 resume to all

The more i use reaper the more impressed i am with it as such an affordable and versatile DAW

Thanks Kenny! Some help for those rewatching this (like me!) TABLE OF CONT. Folders 00:55 Busses 6:25 Groups 10:35 VCAs 15:45

@WillayG

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that. I'd love if this comment was pinned at the top of the comment section.

I busted out laughing after I saw what "Temporary Groups" are (using track selection lol). This guy sees things in a really cool different way

My brain hurts a bit - but that is sometimes a necessary price to pay for learning things that do not necessarily come naturally to me. Thanks Kenny.

After this video, I said in the same day, "VCAs are useless" and 2 hours after, "VCAs are awesome, let's use them". Thanks Kenny, keep up the good work ! Your videos are life and time saver !

thanks Kenny, this is a really useful tutorial. I've kind of gone on a "Tutorial Comparison Mania" myself in the last month, mainly for Reaper, but I've been lured down some pretty obscure trails by interesting titles, too. Most of the youtubes I've seen were just painfully dull, even when the teachers were talented engineers, they weren't necessarily talented TEACHERS. Your are different, man, and since I found your work, the effect on my work is ridiculously beneficial. some people are looking for it... I've found it. :) thanks again. I'm even watching certain lessons 2 and 3 times, your attention detail and the fast pace is superb. I'm from Texas, so the sound of your dialect is different and every time you say "tutorials" it cracks me up. Don't take that wrong, sir, I can't wait to hear it again. Keep it up, please.

@REAPERMania

7 жыл бұрын

thanks

@greenprpl3996

3 жыл бұрын

@@REAPERMania xD

Kenny, I can't thank you enough for all your videos. Reaper is just too complicated to attempt to use it without TRAINING....and THAT you provide so well. Many, many thanks!!! Tom

Kenny I love your videos. I've learned so much and each video is extremely thorough. There is so much information in this video I feel like I should be taking notes. I'll have to watch this a few times to get everything. I've used Ableton, FL Studio and Reason. And out of all them I still prefer Reaper. No other DAW comes close to the power or plugin support this one has. I will continue to learn. Really great stuff.

thank you for making this. your delivery is very clear. appreciated!!

I´m working with reaper since six years now, still there´s so much to dive into... thanks!!

Great video Kenny! Clears up a lot of questions.

No other DAW gives us as much freedom as the reaper and you with all your information set us free even more. Thanks Kenny. I'm Brazilian and your name Gioia in Portuguese is pronounced Jewel and you really are a jewel. Here you really are Kenny Jewel.

Thanks Kenny, another amazing video. Super grateful as usual

Thank you Kenny, your tutorials are so great, well and deeply explained, just what I needed. Reaper is such a good software !!

you nailed it again Kenny !!! Thanks man !

Your videos are excellent quality and very intuitive as well so I have learnt a lot each time I watch. As a result of watching your video, I am now using Reaper as my main daw. I would be very happy if you could continue your videos as these methods you outline would help me and others in their learning.

Awesome as ever Kenny - you've got a gift for getting things over simply and clearly - as others say, Reaper is fantastic - with Kenny it's 10x better!

Clear and concise, exactly what I needed to hear - powerful DAW.

Your videos are absolutely fantastic man!

Kenny is the best he explains everything you need to know in few minutes very simple and easy to learn

Thank you. What a fantastic tutorial. You explain this very clearly and demonstrate and even review at the end. Great job. I'll probably need to watch it several times when I am ready to use each feature, but this was very helpful. My goal right now is to increase the overall volume of my final mixes, so I am going to try creating a master bus track while keeping the originals in tact. You mentioned that this will basically amplify the overall volume, and seemingly without causing clipping on any individual tracks. Gonna experiment.

Thank you so much for these videos.

Is gonna take me more hours to said how much I love you and your content, than the time it takes you to teach me music production with reaper :'3

I finally understood what are VCA's. Thank you :) .

Man,... Thank you so much. You are the best teacher out there.

Phenomenal video. Thank you!

Best description of all of these functions yet.

Awesome video. I think it's time for another 'mix series' from you where we can see these techniques put to use in a real world setting. I'd pay for that.

@REAPERMania

7 жыл бұрын

Coming really soon. Thanks

@MrDark-tp5rt

7 жыл бұрын

I have a song I put together and my mix is all over the place because all I know how to use is groups and only vaguely understand busses. Just learned about sidechaining and it's a lot to get my head around. Ive got vocals fighting with other vocals; leads fighting with everything else. I would totally send you my project as something you could use for your mix series just PM and let me know your thoughts. Cheers!

@zicmanislord

7 жыл бұрын

Very good idea. I'd pay for that too.

btw to route a group of tracks with one drag select them and drag a send to where you need holding SHIFT

@moidage

4 жыл бұрын

Can you do this if you don't smoke? Hehe thanks good tip

@WillayG

4 жыл бұрын

@@moidage This is an awful joke. But it made me laugh. So maybe it's the best joke ever. Thumbs up

Excellent tutorial!! Great explanation! I'm actually using them the same way when doing my mixes!!

great job, Kenny Mania is the shit

Neat! Thanks Kenny

Well done!!!Great job!!!

Mind blown. That got pretty complex near the end. Just need to watch watch another 5x to sink in!! Thx for the video

Brilliant video dude 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Nice one mate. I suddenly realized that you could actually do 3in1. Folder track also configured as VCA Master and contents as VCA Slaves...everything covered with one track. Magic! You would need 3 tracks in other DAWs for the same thing!

@abbasalshafai6175

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmm ... But if we do that, aren't we affecting both the input and the output of the VCA master?

@alucard2542

5 жыл бұрын

@@abbasalshafai6175 i also have the same doubt.

Thanks Again Kenny

Thanks, Kenny. Really helpful

You sound like a MOB guy givin' instructions for a big heist. Loved the video man. Thanks!!!!

@BecomingEugen

5 жыл бұрын

well, Reaper is a steal :D

@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP

4 жыл бұрын

it's not by accident, his surname is Gioia

a super informative video, many thanks

Kenny ROCKS

Thanks a lot Kenny Gioia. :)

Lots of options but I think when you figure out how you want to use this stuff you can just create a template so you don't have to always set this up!

Fantastic Vlog , So useful , thanks a lot 👍

extremely helpful, thank you.

Invaluable, as usual :)

i've been using reaper for nearly a decade and i'm still learning new things about it lol

Really nice and helpful... Thanks!

Thanks Kenny! I'm sure I'll be watching this several times to learn how to use all these different things. Question, how do you know when is the best time to use folders buses or VCA's? This video had a ton of information, trick is knowing when to use it.

great video!

Awesome man, thanks

You are one smart guy. Thanks

0:57 4:15 Folder & bus 6:23 7:06 bus 11:17 group 15:45 vca master 22:04

awesome tutorial. really well done!

Excellent video

Kenny is the best. Always learn something from his videos. Wondering do people ever use vcas for gain staging before mastering? Like if you had a vca that linked to all the tracks on a project. Would that be a bad way to control the volume and why? Is it just better to use the volume control plugin on the master bus?

Thank you

thanks Kenny!

@jazzbeats8168

7 жыл бұрын

Is is possible to put the individual audio tracks with VCA and Busses in the same folder ? Like what you mentioned in your video, you like to use FOLDER to organise tracks.

a lot of options, but you can't make simple routing( if i want create drum bus to compress/eq/etc whole kit but not mess with fx sends & balance - it's not possible. if i create a VCA and send all the drums to it and then VCA goes to folder, so when i lower the VCA - compressor on a folder receives less level of drums and the balance is changing. small things like such makes me go back to the slow & CPU unfriendly Pro Tools which, beside these disadvantages, i really enjoy.

@AudioReplica2023

5 жыл бұрын

Thats one of the downsides about Reaper. The daw has been so overwhelmed with options that gets confusing. And im guessing this is due to the communication between the community and developers. Its a great idea to have the input from the community and please them...but when the community starts taking the place of the developers thats when it gets messy ...thats whats happening to Reaper.

I've started using 'track manager' for shuffling track orders. It looks primitive but, there's much less mouse movement involved, and less chance of creating folders in error. If you position it away from the track controls & mixer views, you can check the results there in 'real time', to double check your moves.

soooooo helpful thank you

Legendary

christ thats why my mixes sound average (did not realize the folder fader did not affect send level). Thanks Kenny! vcas here i come:D

Tip: If you want to route quicker to an effect receive, hold SHIFT while dragging multiple sends.

@WillayG

4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh... that's going to save a lot of time and stress

@alkazaryyy

4 жыл бұрын

@@WillayG I know right!

Hey Kenny Thanks for all of your awesome work. I am a fan for sure. However at 13:44 where you muted the Master track, I was under the impression that the slaves should also mute. That is how it works here on v5.62. In your video, the little red triangle on the Master and Slave mutes indicating a Grouped track function seems to disappear just before you hit mute on the Master. Sorry if this was mentioned in the previous comments. I did a quick look at the old comments and did not see anything. I did go back in the video to confirm that Mute Master and Mute Slave were selected accordingly.

Rn i am struggling with mixing in FL...gona try Reaper. Thank you for great info!

Great video! Very clear and extremely useful. I assume that you can also combine Folders and VCA approach using modified routing, etc- correct?

I prefer using folders. More organized and straight forward . I dont use a dedicated fx track for everything. I like my drums using a chamber or small hall reverb, guitars a spring or plate, piano a hall...ect. So I just put the fx track inside each group of instruments and thats it. Has work for me for years so...im good.

Kenny, when you create a folder, all tracks still go (physically) direcly to the master. So, when you add FX onto the folder track, what exactly happens? Is a separate instance of that FX chain being added to each of the member-tracks (with the settings always in sync with the settings you make on the folder track)? Like exact copies of the folder-track FX chain? And if the answer is yes, where are these FX chain instances added to folder member tracks? I assume their own private FX go first, and then after them the folder-track FX chain is added... am I getting this right?

yeah!

What I do is Put all drum tracks in a Folder that goes to the Master Track; and then I create another track to use parallel compression on and run the Folder through that track and have that track go to the Master Track. This way when I adjust the volume on the Folder, it also adjusts the volume coming into the compression in order to keep the volumes moving together. Not sure if this is the best way or if there is something I am missing here, but this bypasses the signal coming into the compression track without first going through the Folder. I suppose since the volume is changing on the Folder I would have to adjust any compression on the compression track but it sounds fine. I might look into using VCAs .

This some good shhistuff!

Kenny, what do *you* do when you have a bunch of tracks you want to buss together that also use FX sends? Let's say I wanted to do a big Phil Collins-style drum kit, with a gated reverb on a send to get the snare really thundering and maybe just a smidge on the toms and kick. But I also want to route all the audio to an "ALL DRUMS" track to apply some compression and saturation and set the volume (post-compression!) in the mix. All of the techniques touched on in the video either work really well for the former or the latter, but not both. Curious to what you'd do in this situation. Thanks again for these great tutorials--keep 'em coming!

@fuckcensorship69

10 ай бұрын

bus your fx sends to a new track. then buss all your tracks plus you fx to a track you create called "all drums". turn off all the master sends except for the "all drums"

Thanks

This video is very educating. Thanks. A question: how did you achieve the colored corners in the track buttons indicating the grouped tracks?

Another great one Kenny. Only thing I was left wondering is how these three things work together? Can you put busses and VCA tracks inside folders?

@dionmonti9397

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, They actually don't need to be separate things. You can make a folder and a VCA in one track. Just assign the Lead/master VCA functions to the folder and the VCA following/Slave functions to the tracks inside the folder. This way it can be both.

Makes sense.

Hi man! Really nice video. It helped me a lot to understand the diferences. Can you answer me other thing about the same stuff? I'm trying tu use amp simulators (guitar rig/amplitube) as busses channels. Routing my guitar tracks to the buss channel with guitar rig + EQ + Comp and more. But the sound is very diferent if I put those plugins direct to the guitar tracks. Is there an explanation to this? Thx!

can't you create a track inside a folder and use that track for the aux fx like reverb, so you send your kick and snare to that track and send that track to the reverb. downside is that you have to worry about an extra track, upside: you can EQ your reverb and control volume of reverb easily and with the folder track.

VCAs @ 15:58

Hey Kenny, Boy did this tutorial came at the right time and it was well explained. I'm still a little bit unclear on how to create submixes. Do you have a tutorial on how to create a submix to send all tracks to and then how to send the submix to the mixbus when mixing, the easy way ? Thanks

@soundcrafter

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Dazzy, what you're after is basically an application of how he explained Busses here. Create a track that will be your 'submix buss', send the desired channels to that buss (and remove their send to the Master buss), then ensure that the submix buss track is sending to the Master buss.

Hi Kenny, your channel is a goldmine for reaper users. Just wanted to know, Is it technically possible to use Folders as Busses by routing the child tracks to parent folder? If it does, it compliment each other and eliminate the disadvantages, I guess. Thanks for your time and effort for making these tuts.

Hey man, love your videos... do you know if you could setup VCA's or Folders for the Behinger BCF2000? I'm having all kinds of issues trying to get it to page up and down and figured it might be best to just assign faders individually. Rough support on this unit :/

The first idea I got after watching this video: I can send several tracks to a bus, then group them to apply individual automation and use a VCA to control FX level... SO why not use them simultaneously on one single track? Let call this thing a VCA Group Bus or Group VCA Bus or whatever. I send tracks to a bus1 (also remove them from the Master), set them, say, Volume Slave and Automation Slave and also VCA Slave. Don't forget to make bus1 a VCA Master. What about that? I didn't mention that I can also press a little Folder icon on that bus1 to hide all that tracks...

youre awesome

Is it possible to have the best of both worlds? Folders (To organise) and VCA's to not mess with wet signal? Ive tried putting a VCA into a folder and not changing the folder fader but the sound changes? Lastly Thanks for all the vids Kenny your the man!

As ever in your videos: brilliant explanation! So, if I want to stay organized AND control FX send levels of the whole folder "correctely" I could use a VCA track inside the folder (let's say just below the folder track) and then adjust/automate the levels of the individual tracks via tha VCA!? Or is that too complicated? Right now I prefer using just folders (with their faders at 0 dB) and adjust levels via the faders of the individual tracks. I have to admit that automation is a bit cumbersome doing it that way... Thanks, Kenny!

@xaosnox

7 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same and similar thing. How do these work together. Perhaps that would make a good follow up video.

@reiniervanzwieten7092

5 жыл бұрын

can't you create a track inside a folder and use that track for the aux fx like reverb, so you send your kick and snare to that track and send that track to the reverb. downside is that you have to worry about an extra track, upside: you can EQ your reverb and control volume of reverb easily and with the folder track.

how can i use vca's which seems a good method as explained for grouping plus fx sends but then incorporate parallel compression also ?

Can somebody explain the difference between these 2 methods: 1: Drum Folder - put compression on the master folder and blend to taste using wetness dial. 2: Drum buss - put compression on buss and use volume on the buss to blend to taste. What is the difference here, what am I missing? Thank you btw Kenny for these videos, incredibly helpful

This is probably going to be a question that I might have been able to find the answer for if I knew what I had to google :x What I was wondering is: Is it possible to route several channels to one channel, have an FX on that channel and have that channel output as many channels as you put in and process each channel individually? So for example I can run all my drum parts through the same saturation VST with the same settings for each part but still be able to to run the snare to a reverb but the rest of the kit not? I assume it will always sum if you route it through one vst right? Reaper can't run "shadow copies" of a VST to maintain individual channels?

you are my reaper guru. thanks for all you do! now, i have a question: i'm coming from protools and eucon avid mixer. what controller is better for me in your opinion? i'm open to use usb or eucon. any top 5 or better you can name in your experience? thanks! JAvier.

Very enlightening. So if I understand correctly, when you're using sends to FX that aren't under a folder I may create balancing issues when I'm mixing the folders against each other. This sounds like it sort of defeats the idea of mixing with the folders grouped to the left in the mixer. Would I avoid the problem if I have an instance of each FX (reverb / delay, etc.) under the same bus as my sends? I realize it may increase my computer resource use, but I typically only have seven or so folders in my mixes for Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitars, Keys, Strings/Pads, etc. And then, as you do - would I have to adjust overall volume of the folder by selecting all its tracks (including the FX return tracks) and moving their volume up/down together, but leaving the Folder level at 0/unity instead of mixing them grouped to the left in the mixer? Or would the relationship with the FX now be OK since they're under the folder? Thanks, John in Seattle

quick question: The routing matrix shows the VCA sending audio to the main mix. Is this just 'symbolic' in some way? I know it doesn't matter in practice. Additionally: if I want to use the visual group metaphor from the folders, but want the routing stability of using sends/busses to subs, will there be any surprises if I just turn off the "F" (folder or follow?) in the child tracks and use the busses to send them to the parent? It _seems_ to me, at first glance, that I'll get a normal submix at the folder track, but I my routing won't be subject to their positions in the track order.

Select all tracks >right click routing >send to, is faster. also in reverse to receive.

@REAPERMania

7 жыл бұрын

Very good tip. So hard to cover every option in REAPER. Thanks.

@frankb8616

7 жыл бұрын

i know right.. and thats only one of many ways. like select all tracks > com+shift+drag routing icon, creates sends for all as well. REAPER is awesome!

@xaosnox

7 жыл бұрын

And let's not forget the Routing matrix. Probably the quickest and easiest of all! Had to do a project in Logic recently. Man, did I ever miss that Routing matrix!

@vigilant545

7 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to quickly change post-fader sends into pre-fader sends inside the routing matrix with a mod key? Thanks.

@chrismeyers7487

6 жыл бұрын

Select all tracks >> Hold shift >> drag to desired track ;)

Hi Kenny, I have problem with panning each channel when I route to busses. If I want one guitar of three, in the guitar-buss panned hard left, it doesn't work? Even if I use the pan in the routing. I can't see what's wrong... =(

Group folders to left...mind...blown.

Is it possible to set it up so that when dragging the Io thing to create sends no window pops up? And also, can you set it up so that when dragging while holding shift it automatically sends to channels 3/4 ( for sidechain)?

can you plz tell me how i can just make a simply group like how ableton groups its tracks plz which one of these ways is the closest to it

couldn't you use master and slave VCAS from your folder group parent to adjust your wet effects track to maintain the dry/wet ratio?