One of the things that i really apreciate in your teachings is that you don´t asume that the follower knows what u r doing.. That´s why u say: "You may be wondering why you wanna use this" Phrase.. Man Thank you for making it easy for us. Greetings from Sevilla Spain
You are simply the best. When it comes to explaining and showing everything in detail I have yet not found a channel that is so good as yours for tutorials. God Bless you mate.
What you're doing bringing these videos to life is wonderful. We are lazy and we want food in our mouths even when we are old. Thank you for reminding us that there is all this wonderful material.
@@erikbarrett85 Nothing in particular, it's just a way of thanking Kenny for this enormous job of spreading the features and possible uses of Reaper, bringing part of his videos already published on the official Cockos website in a practical and extremely useful order.
I’ve only just started the video, but I have watched a few others of yours and just wanted to thank you for subtle things like the small zoom-in on what you’re talking about, how you speak slowly and clearly, and how you explain every individual step of what you’re doing so that there aren’t things left for me to figure out (I promise, I won’t figure it out). Other guides just click through things and talk quickly so I have to keep pausing and rewinding to see what they’re clicking, when they’re right clicking, etc. I appreciate the effort you put in.
Thanks for this detailed explanation of Reaper IO Kenny. Been using Reaper for 5 years and I learn something new from every one of your tutorials. Keep 'em coming!
Hello Community. I have a technical question, i guess. I am struggling to understand one thing regarding the busses, folders and sends/ returns: Let´s say, i have a main vocal line, accompanied by 2 other vocal harmonies on 2 other tracks. I put them all in a folder/ bus named VOX. If i now put an fx on that folder/bus, is the fx-plugin working on all these tracks individually and builds a post-fx signal, so they build a sum again in the folder/ bus or is that a sum to begin with and the sum of all 3 tracks is send together and simultaniously through the fx/ plug-in? Or look at Kenny´s example in this video: He sends 3 Tracks to the Reverb FX. Although there´s only the one instance of a reverb fx, does it process the 3 signals from the tracks seperately in the background or the sum of those 3 tracks (regarding their send-levels, if applied)? This may not matter one could say but let´s say you also wanna use pitch correction on those 3 vocals. Now, in a audio-sum, i guess the plugin would struggle, especially when there are multiple notes at the same time because of the harmonies. So would the plugin still be able to make the pitch corrections for each track signal OR would that be impossible and the pitch would have to be corrected on each track, by itself? I never saw anybody getting into that in a video. Thanks so much from Germany!!
Question: Do you guys send your lead vocals to a bus and your backing vocals to a separate bus? Or do you send them all to the same bus? Asking because I often need different fx for the 2 and find it hard to group them all together in same bus. For example , i often need a reverb on the lead vox, and a slightly longer reverb on the backing vocals.
How do you make a bus Stereo??? For instance I have a R and L guitar track, but putting it into a bus basically makes it MONO. Meaning if I MUTE the L or R guitar it's still coming out of both speakers?
@@channeling05 Had some help from a friend. So If you right click on the volume knob for the master/other tracks, make sure its set to PROJECT DEFAULT and not the REAPER EXE. whatever it is. You may have to open a new project tab and try making the new new bus in there and then copy it into your other project. Took forever to figure out but eventually got it to work with a LOT of troubleshooting lol
I have a project with two tracks, a bass one and a drum one. Connected to my audio interface I have two headphones, one for the drummer and one for the bass player, they hear the exact same mix. What is to be done so each headphone can hear both drum and bass tracks but at the level, each musician wants, in other words, the bass player wants more bass, the drummer wants more drums. Each headphone must receive a “different mix”
This is great but i may need to get some clarification. So creating a send adds an fx to the track but not the dry instrument signal? And a bus is used to combine tracks to automate them together for fx , vol etc?
Pretty much. The mechanisms is Reaper can blur the distinction between these things to an extent. The important distinction is whether the whole signal is being sent to the receiving track and nowhere else, or whether it is being sent to more than one place. Quite honestly routing diagrams can be useful for this stuff if you end up creating anything too complex. (I try not to create anything too complex. Do as much as you need but no more.) Btw it may just be the wording of your question but to clarify, creating a send just does what it says in the tin: it sends signal from source track to target. You have to put any effects on the target yourself. (I'm pretty sure you knew that.)
Can the sends indication on the mixer panel be color coded? If I multiple sends on one channel being sent to different busses can each have a different color?
You could use a folder track when you want to put effects like EQ and compression on all the tracks together. It helps with organization and it routes automatically. When doing parallel effects (in this video it was the fuzz and reverb), use busses. You want your FX returns on a separate track rather than a folder track.
The whole bus routing thing is unnecessarily complicated. Could be so much more straight forward, like with a lot of Reaper functions. I wanna like this DAW, I really do but man, what a steep learning curve.
Very cool, Kenny! In addition to the stereo canned audio Master track, I need to send any combination of image MIDI mixes to 2 different MIDI busses for 2 independent laser synths, one for each projector. But, one projector usually needs X inverted and with complimentary colors to the other projector. Otherwise, it needs an independently controlled different image, via it's own MIDI tracks. The busses will be controlled via a master touchscreen, running Touch OSC. Voila! Home Laserium! Badda-bing, badda-boom. Just like that! 😎
Selecting all the tracks and trying to send it to the bus doesnt work for me at all. All it does is tie all the tracks together with eachother rather than the bus, essentially making the bus pointless even though they are all routed to it
Another very helpful video Kenny. There seems to be a little error at the end where you say "That's pretty much it. That's effects and effects plugins in Reaper."
This is not really how bus tracks should work, reaper has so many awkward ways of doing things, like how midi cc is still from actions. Reaper is a mess.
I'm lost at 4:48 if send is POST fader, ie AFTER fader then why does the fader affect the level!?!?!? Agghhh! Sends and busses always confuse me,. Love your videos, learnt loads over the years, I sort of get it but it's sketchy lol! Cheers.
One of the things that i really apreciate in your teachings is that you don´t asume that the follower knows what u r doing.. That´s why u say: "You may be wondering why you wanna use this" Phrase.. Man Thank you for making it easy for us. Greetings from Sevilla Spain
Much needed I'm glad you did this one and the clarity in which it's done! Thanks a bunch.
I’ve used Reaper for several years but I still learn new things by watching your excellent videos. Thank you!
You are simply the best. When it comes to explaining and showing everything in detail I have yet not found a channel that is so good as yours for tutorials. God Bless you mate.
What you're doing bringing these videos to life is wonderful. We are lazy and we want food in our mouths even when we are old. Thank you for reminding us that there is all this wonderful material.
What does that mean?
@@erikbarrett85 Nothing in particular, it's just a way of thanking Kenny for this enormous job of spreading the features and possible uses of Reaper, bringing part of his videos already published on the official Cockos website in a practical and extremely useful order.
I’ve only just started the video, but I have watched a few others of yours and just wanted to thank you for subtle things like the small zoom-in on what you’re talking about, how you speak slowly and clearly, and how you explain every individual step of what you’re doing so that there aren’t things left for me to figure out (I promise, I won’t figure it out).
Other guides just click through things and talk quickly so I have to keep pausing and rewinding to see what they’re clicking, when they’re right clicking, etc. I appreciate the effort you put in.
Thanks for this detailed explanation of Reaper IO Kenny. Been using Reaper for 5 years and I learn something new from every one of your tutorials. Keep 'em coming!
the info is so dense but so well explained. thank you
Cleared it all up for me! Great tutorials.
You are just the greatest. Thanks for everything you do.
Awesome 🎉
Brilliant!!! Just brilliant!!
Cheers Mr G!!
Your videos are awesome. Thanks for your content 😊
Thanks!
Thank you teacher!
Thank you so much!!!
nice introduction music. Love your channel, thanks
Kenny = G.O.A.T.
thanks
group modify shortcut 7:00
7:55 buss effects
9:40 parallel effect
Oh this is how i set up drums and guitar busses🤔🍻
Can you do a video on recording and mixing screams - like screaming / metal vocals?
Hello Community. I have a technical question, i guess.
I am struggling to understand one thing regarding the busses, folders and sends/ returns: Let´s say, i have a main vocal line, accompanied by 2 other vocal harmonies on 2 other tracks.
I put them all in a folder/ bus named VOX.
If i now put an fx on that folder/bus, is the fx-plugin working on all these tracks individually and builds a post-fx signal, so they build a sum again in the folder/ bus or is that a sum to begin with and the sum of all 3 tracks is send together and simultaniously through the fx/ plug-in?
Or look at Kenny´s example in this video: He sends 3 Tracks to the Reverb FX. Although there´s only the one instance of a reverb fx, does it process the 3 signals from the tracks seperately in the background or the sum of those 3 tracks (regarding their send-levels, if applied)?
This may not matter one could say but let´s say you also wanna use pitch correction on those 3 vocals. Now, in a audio-sum, i guess the plugin would struggle, especially when there are multiple notes at the same time because of the harmonies. So would the plugin still be able to make the pitch corrections for each track signal OR would that be impossible and the pitch would have to be corrected on each track, by itself?
I never saw anybody getting into that in a video. Thanks so much from Germany!!
Thanks. Miguel Capelo
This was awesome, thank you.
Great stuff, thank you
So helpful. Thx!
Question: Do you guys send your lead vocals to a bus and your backing vocals to a separate bus? Or do you send them all to the same bus? Asking because I often need different fx for the 2 and find it hard to group them all together in same bus. For example , i often need a reverb on the lead vox, and a slightly longer reverb on the backing vocals.
How do you make a bus Stereo???
For instance I have a R and L guitar track, but putting it into a bus basically makes it MONO. Meaning if I MUTE the L or R guitar it's still coming out of both speakers?
I too am looking for an answer to this question.
@@channeling05 Had some help from a friend. So If you right click on the volume knob for the master/other tracks, make sure its set to PROJECT DEFAULT and not the REAPER EXE. whatever it is.
You may have to open a new project tab and try making the new new bus in there and then copy it into your other project.
Took forever to figure out but eventually got it to work with a LOT of troubleshooting lol
@@channeling05 Oh and MAKE SURE your guitar plugin is set to STEREO
ive said this before and ill say it again, the skeleton mixes at the end is a bop
thank you !!!!!!
914 likes? you deserve 914k AT LEAST!
so send/receive is also similar to a bus...the difference being bus is easier for lots of tracks?
I have a project with two tracks, a bass one and a drum one. Connected to my audio interface I have two headphones, one for the drummer and one for the bass player, they hear the exact same mix. What is to be done so each headphone can hear both drum and bass tracks but at the level, each musician wants, in other words, the bass player wants more bass, the drummer wants more drums. Each headphone must receive a “different mix”
This is great but i may need to get some clarification. So creating a send adds an fx to the track but not the dry instrument signal? And a bus is used to combine tracks to automate them together for fx , vol etc?
Pretty much. The mechanisms is Reaper can blur the distinction between these things to an extent. The important distinction is whether the whole signal is being sent to the receiving track and nowhere else, or whether it is being sent to more than one place.
Quite honestly routing diagrams can be useful for this stuff if you end up creating anything too complex. (I try not to create anything too complex. Do as much as you need but no more.)
Btw it may just be the wording of your question but to clarify, creating a send just does what it says in the tin: it sends signal from source track to target. You have to put any effects on the target yourself. (I'm pretty sure you knew that.)
Can the sends indication on the mixer panel be color coded? If I multiple sends on one channel being sent to different busses can each have a different color?
there are no colors on my routing button.
What is the purpose of creating separate headphone mixes?
If I don't see the route button on the track, how do I get it back on?
When would you use a bus vs a folder?
Right. They are related.
You could use a folder track when you want to put effects like EQ and compression on all the tracks together. It helps with organization and it routes automatically. When doing parallel effects (in this video it was the fuzz and reverb), use busses. You want your FX returns on a separate track rather than a folder track.
wah maina
fire vid bro. can u do it on sum vocals?
Kenny, when setting up an effect bus like reverb does it matter what the "input" for that track is that you select?
why are tracks louder when they send to a bus? Have been having this issues
The whole bus routing thing is unnecessarily complicated. Could be so much more straight forward, like with a lot of Reaper functions. I wanna like this DAW, I really do but man, what a steep learning curve.
What's the difference between this and using a track as a folder?
Very cool, Kenny!
In addition to the stereo canned audio Master track, I need to send any combination of image MIDI mixes to 2 different MIDI busses for 2 independent laser synths, one for each projector. But, one projector usually needs X inverted and with complimentary colors to the other projector. Otherwise, it needs an independently controlled different image, via it's own MIDI tracks.
The busses will be controlled via a master touchscreen, running Touch OSC. Voila! Home Laserium! Badda-bing, badda-boom. Just like that!
😎
Hello! Can we record the bus track? Thank you!
czcams.com/video/seMZMZuiWmU/video.html
@@REAPERMania Thank you very much, but I will need the FX.
So a send is a bus in reaper? Man that’s confusing me coming from other daws lol.. I love reaper though.
Selecting all the tracks and trying to send it to the bus doesnt work for me at all. All it does is tie all the tracks together with eachother rather than the bus, essentially making the bus pointless even though they are all routed to it
Another very helpful video Kenny. There seems to be a little error at the end where you say "That's pretty much it. That's effects and effects plugins in Reaper."
this. is how. it looks. to read. the way. you talk.
no not for me , no sound coming out of bus tracK
Why would you need a separate headphones mix?
I mean, a mix is a mix right?
You wouldn't send a different mix to CZcams than to Spotify would you?
For live tracking of instruments.
This is not really how bus tracks should work, reaper has so many awkward ways of doing things, like how midi cc is still from actions. Reaper is a mess.
I'm lost at 4:48 if send is POST fader, ie AFTER fader then why does the fader affect the level!?!?!? Agghhh! Sends and busses always confuse me,. Love your videos, learnt loads over the years, I sort of get it but it's sketchy lol! Cheers.
bc it is POST fader. meaning it takes the signal AFTER the fader. 😂😂
Me too, ill have to go over this area more myself..lol
Thanks!