You are the only one making useful, up to date, and simple and easy to follow Reaper content...thank you from the world.

@andy_182

3 жыл бұрын

He literally invented reaper

@shepherdpablo8257

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it's kind of off topic but do anyone know a good place to watch new tv shows online?

@maxwellkenzo468

3 жыл бұрын

@Shepherd Pablo Flixportal :P

@shepherdpablo8257

3 жыл бұрын

@Maxwell Kenzo Thank you, signed up and it seems to work =) Appreciate it!!

@maxwellkenzo468

3 жыл бұрын

@Shepherd Pablo no problem =)

I almost crashed in tears when you showed that you can move the "in-between markers" with ctrl+alt ! THE AMOUNT OF HOURS THIS WOULD HAVE SAVED ME. Great vid as always

@realbourbonniere15

3 жыл бұрын

Same here... What a relief to know that now.

@streck0486

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, wish I'd known this before. Unfortunately, in my case it's more like THE AMOUNT OF HOURS THIS HAS ALREADY COST ME.

@lolilollolilol7773

2 жыл бұрын

In REAPER, when something is repetitive or tedious, the thought "there has to be a better way" often turns out to be true. So browse Kenny's videos and the documentation or as a last resort go to the REAPER forums and eventually you'll find it.

Not sure where I learned this, but here's another useful tip using the SWS extensions: 1) make sure to have a simple shortcut for the action "insert marker at play cursor" 2) play the song and tap along with every bar (or half note, or quarter note, depending on how fine you want the tempo map to be) 3) zoom in and match markers with transients if necessary (the more accurately you tapped, the less there is to do here) 4) go to the menu bar and look for "Extensions -> Tempo -> Convert project markers to tempo markers..." 5) set the correct time signature, indicate how many markers count for a measure (depending on 2), check "Remove project markers", and press "Convert" This will not only create a tempo map as in the video, but also add stretch markers to all items which give the flexibility to move items around and quantize them to the grid. This is useful when trying to sketch out a song from fragments of a jam session that was recorded without a click. Unfortunately, the process is just as tedious as in the video. Wish there was an easier way to do this.

@zachmillerdrums

6 ай бұрын

well, you’ve just saved me hundreds of hours

This might be the best one of all the videos of yours I've seen. It's a feature I knew had to be possible but had no way to search without knowing the terms or the method.

A potential easier solution is to create a Tempo Map by installing SWS Extensions and using "SWS/BR: Move closest grid line to play cursor". Assign a shortcut key to this custom action (I use "." (period)). Set your grid to ~quarter notes, move the play cursor to the beginning of the transient closest the beat 1 of each measure, and press the shortcut key. This will make your click fall on that transient. You can do it on each quarter note, etc., or skip a series of bars that stay on beat. You will end-up with a variety of (closely matching) tempos, and the rest of your tracks and MIDI will quantize to the grid that now matches the tempo of the audio. I had a difficult time moving the markers to the exact position using the method in the video, and It sure is a lot easier and more accurate than splitting and chopping-up your audio. Best, and thank you Kenny for all of your great instruction. :)

I have been needing this tutorial for a long time. Kenny, thank you very much. You are the best.

@georgebarry8640

3 жыл бұрын

Same...last year I slaved thru a song TRYING to get this to happen. ..it didnt work out.

Literally just as I needed this! Thanks Kenny!

This is such an incredibly useful technique! It means I can use all my old recordings and add new tracks, remix etc. Thank you so much!

These videos are most excellent. The whole library of tutorials are informative and useful. Thanx KG.

Thank you so much, Kenny. I've needed this for so long!

@georgebarry8640

3 жыл бұрын

SAME.

Kenny, you mind-reader!!!! I´m dealing with a whole session that has 9 different songs on it, each one with different tempos. I was all worried about how I was gonna deal with the tempo changes when it came to compressor´s release times, delays, editing vocals to the grid, etc... And then you post this!!! Thank you, once again, Keep them coming!!!

Love this Kenny! Thanks so much!

Thankyou very much Kenny, I requested this a few weeks back.. you are awesome sir 👍🏽

Many thanks for this video Kenny/Reaper, it has helped me a lot, tempo was also a big issue for me, either it changed my creativity flow, or it made things complicated in matching other instruments afterwards. you sorted it... yet again. many thanks for all your videos, you have opened up a world a music to me that would not have been possible. they have been a inspirational and have created lots of music... kept me sane. Thanks.

Thanks for also explaining the concept of tempo mapping. Great tutorial as always. Youre a real treasure

You don't know how big of a blessing this video is! thank you

This is fantastic !! I have fellow musicians that hate recording to clicks and insist on recording to their own tempo. This creates a huge headache for adding MIDI instruments.

@Windiguana

2 жыл бұрын

This definitely gives you the best of both worlds, you still get the feel of a human performance and you can still work with a sort of humanized grid

Thanks Kenny. Because of your videos I have learned more about real world uses of Reaper than I ever knew in 20 years using Cubase. A thousand thanks.

Incredible, great stuff as always Kenny.

This video is GOLD. Thank you again Kenny.

A friend of mine recently asked me to add production to an earlier recording (add drums, bass, some keys and BV's etc.) but the original recordings had no click track. This will come in extremely helpful. Thanks Kenny, love your work, mate.

As always explained in a way everybody understand! Thank you Kenny for all your work and patience.

you are the only person i've found who explains this stuff so i can understand it. thank you thank you, please keep it coming...

So helpful and concisely explained. Thank VERY much!!! This is really going to speed up my workflow.

Excellent and well-explained as usual.

Wow! I usualy start my songs with rhythm guitar. This will save me from a lot of work and pain! Thank you!

Your supposedly quickly made musical examples sound better than my for-ever worked out songs. Anyway, good pedagogy, clear, efficient, well spoken. Thanks a lot.

Great as always. Thx, mate.

As always, you knowledge and expertise are supreme. Thank you for making this video.

Kenny saves the day yet again. Thank you!

Very useful. Thank you Kenny.

beautiful tutorial. thank you so much man ! This is literally game changing! I'm going to use this heaps for sure!

Brilliant. Thanks Kenny

As always, Great Video . Thanx

You are the best Kenny! Thanks.

Thank you Kenny! Super Useful!

Such an amazing video. Thank YOU.

Foawkin Ell m8 ive been searching through endless forums with no luck, THANK YOU KENNY!!

Super useful for when you don't want the click to dictate! Thank you!

Simple and powerful technique, thanks!

Amazing explanation, thanks a lot

Thank you so much! New to reaper and I really appreciate your content! Please continue to help peeps like me try to make something 🙃

Nailed it Kenny, thanks

u are a beautiful genie kenny thanks to your work REAPER will allways RULE!!!

you're mine and so many others' Reaper sherpa, thanks for putting out all of these fantastic and helpful tutorials.. every time I wonder "How can I...?" when working in Reaper, 99% of the time you've got a tutorial on it.

This is exactly what I needed to learn to record a singer/songwriter who isn't fond of playing to a click track! Thank you Kenny!

This is incredible. I am always unsatisfied with how little movement there is when I use drums on a set tempo. Now I can really use my guiding tracks an capture the feel of the song. Thanks!

3:44 I did not know you could make MIDI items ignore tempo! Crazy good tip, thanks so much!

Oh man, this is great! The song sounds so much better leaving the tempo fluctuations in.

Best video on earth you're the Reaper man!

I never got this far before abandoning ProTools for Reaper, but I can only imagine how many crashes PT would give you doing this technique! Thanks Kenny, you are the master,

@artysanmobile

3 жыл бұрын

I do this regularly in Pro Tools, with zero crashes. However, there are more hoops to jump through and it takes on the feeling of a science experiment. Despite maybe 100 full song maps, I still have to experiment to remember the unintuitive sequences. I would suggest for a future Reaper version that the process of delinking tempo from tracks be made a single operation covering all track types selected. That is a constant stumbling block and time suck.

@Adam-hs1ft

2 жыл бұрын

It's doable with Beat Detective in ProTools without any system issues, but it definitely feels much more tedious.

Wow, you read my mind with the timing of this tutorial. I was just wondering about this! Thank you.

@maxchershe9222

3 жыл бұрын

Same here :)

I had to do this for a session job a few months ago but did it in logic. It would be great if Reaper had smart tempo like logic. It would do this automatically. Maybe in a future update.

@elblopex

3 жыл бұрын

you can do a custom action for it. Thats the power of reaper! Takes a bit to create but stays there for ever

@AndyCampbellMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@elblopex Can't find anything on automatic tempo mapping in Reaper anywhere.. That would be brilliant.

@lolilollolilol7773

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndyCampbellMusic there is automatic time selection on chosen bars kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKeFuMegmNq4o6w.html so it must be possible to create a custom action that does what you want automatically. Also search "Why doesn't reaper have an automatic tempo mapping function?" and you'll find a reddit thread with some answers.

@AndyCampbellMusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@lolilollolilol7773 I used to use Samplitude Music Studio a good while back and it had a much easier to use tempo finder than Reaper. Considering all the amazing things it does do. I just surprised nobody has come up with a more efficient way to do this in Reaper. There are a lot of very clever people in the Reaper community...

Yoo thank you so much for this

These Reaper dudes thought of everything... beautiful!!

This is so f.. helpfull. Thank you for saving my life. Best tutorials ever

GREAT ! FINALLY ! Many thanks !!! -Michael

This is one of my most favorite features of Reaper--being able to make the grid match my tempo as it drifts all over the place.

Kinda reminds me Alleluia. Awesome tutorial! Thank you!

Such good tips. Thank you

Wow! Thank you so much!

Great video-- very helpful!

This is just what I was looking for last week! Unfortunately, I didn't know what to search for, and didn't see it until after I had done a work-around. I went through the song in 4-bar sections, making a time selection each section and checking the bpm indicated by that selection then setting a time change marker with that BPM at the start of each section. Hey, it worked, but your way is quicker.! You made this 2 years ago. Just my luck that it doesn't pop up until the day after I finished the song!

Buenísimos tus tutoriales!! Sería genial que pudieran agregar subtitulado en español. Aún así excelente canal! Muy útil y directo, sin vueltas. Felicitaciones

Thanks so much man!

Gold dust, you're a diamond Kenny

Thanks Kenny !!! You can also do this during playback. 1.Detect approximate tempo of song. 2.Line-up the first beat of audio to start of measure. 3.Playback song, and use the action - SWS/BR: Move closest grid line to play cursor, to create tempo track during playback.

@rrrstudios2054

2 жыл бұрын

That's a really quick way to achieve the result. Seems pretty slick so far (quick test). I'm going to do a song with it and see if it stands up. I can't believe this comment has sat here for a year and no one seemed to notice.

Perfecto!!

Thanks Kenny!

I wish I had known before now about the 'ignore project tempo' for midi items!

Been doing this technique for years in Cakewalk but have been thinking of switching to Reaper. Good to see it's possible.

thanks Kenny!

Thanks for this. I think I found an even faster way. Tab to transient, then "SWS move closest grid line to cursor" at the downbeat.

I'm doing revisions, and I learned something again. Thanks

Thank you!!!

many times thanx!!!

@REAPERMania

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Brilliant - excellent. That's exactly what I need. Thanks so much Kenny. Now - can we take an audio track that was recorded as rubato and change its timing to be rubato in a different manner?

Very good!

Really recommend checking out this action: sws move closest gridline to mouse cursor It's mu h easier than what's shown in pretty much any tutorial, including this one, sry love you Kenny

This only appears to work if -- at the time you're setting the source properties of the MIDI items to "Ignore project tempo" -- you make sure the BPM and time signature in that same dialog are set to the same BPM and time signature as the underlying project settings. Otherwise, the MIDI items still stretch/compress and get all messed up just as they did in the beginning of the video. Kenny didn't have to update these values because, when he checked "Ignore project tempo", the BPM/time sig beside the checkbox were already the same as the project settings. I tried this approach by importing and an audio track and a MIDI track (both recorded in another project at around 90 BPM) into a project where the project BPM was around 110 BPM. It took me hours to figure out why I couldn't replicate his results. I had to set the BPM/time sig to 110 when I checked "Ignore project tempo".

You just saved my day

Super cool. You could also use a similar adjust a performance to line up with an "accurate" click as well, if you wanted?

Is there anything that this Amazing DAW Can't do, compared to say..Appleton or Logic/Cubase even "ProTools"..... Well it seems to me that Reaper can hold its own against much more expensive DAWs

@yosuanicolaus

2 жыл бұрын

Reaper is the only DAW I'll ever need

Thanks as ever Kenny, this has left me with some nice ideas buzzing round. One question tho - Reaper detects transients, is there a way to do that and apply it to the tempo map? Like when splitting stuff. Even if you had to check em through that'd make it a lot quicker..

Thanks a lot for this tutorial!

The "click" may be convenient for producers (especially ones using a lot of MIDI) but "tempo rubato" is very a real thing and the norm used by conductors and many musicians when playing actual musical instruments. The tempo map technique here solves the problem of the click "killing off" the feeling and expression an artist puts into a piece, aka the ability to play freely. A tempo map would also be more foregiving of concepts like tenuto, caesura, and fermata in a song or score. It's a slower and more difficult way to produce but in the end can preserve a great performance without making it sound robotic. Thank you Kenny.

Now if we can only drag that last Wurli note in bar 18 down by a half step to the flat 6, everything will be copacetic ;-)

@SteveSensenig

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that note bothered me, too! LOL

Thank you very much!

This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

Thank you Kenny !

amazing tutorials AND beautiful music. you've got it all, Kenny!

@REAPERMania

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

love your content! it's helped me so much in my journey for home recording and demoing. is there anyway to automate this function? i.e. a function that detects transients or midi note beginnings and automates the tempo accordingly?

Wow... thanks Kenny.......

This is another great video!! I have some songs that were recorded in the late 50's - early 60s that I have to recreate. They have some drastic tempo changes. Going from one tempo to the other, is there any way to get 4 clicks into the new tempos? And can I export the click track?

I've been using Reaper for years now and I think it's the best DAW out there. But one thing I hate about it is the fact that when you choose "TIme" as timebase in "Project Settings", midi items are still affected by tempo changes. This is very counter intuitive especially when dealing with a mix of audio and midi tracks.

It's Magic!!!

Great stuff. Can you interpolate the tempos to be smoothly changing instead of making discrete jumps?

Very nice! Wouldn't it work even better by using linear tempo changes instead of abrupt (square) nodes?

perfect!

I agree!! Reaper for president!😁