ESSENTIAL File Management in REAPER DAW Tutorial
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- Set yourself up for success in REAPER by configuring these essential settings and preferences. Never lose a file again!
In this video I'll show you:
- How I organize my data on multiple drives
- What I use for backing up my data
- The TEMP folder
- Configuring Autobackups
- Storing ReaPeak files in a dedicated folder
- The project media folder
- Recorded file name wildcards
- Default Project Template
Follow up video here - • Fixing Your Disorganiz...
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It’s not boring, it’s super important and helpful. Thanks Jon!
SUPER helpful, thank you! Came here for best practices on storing peak files, stayed for the entire layout of how manage project files optimally. 🙏
Thanks Jon, even after being a REAPER user for a long time I've never set my file structure so efficiently as you suggested here. Big thanks!
First of all, thank you very much! Not just for this video, but for all your work and effort to keep the Reaper community up-to-date and glowing 9in the best sense).
But if there's something Reaper keeps missing, it is a better way to organize plugins.
WOW!
How cool would be seeing plugin folders with subfolders and actual plugin GUI IMAGES...?
Fantastic tutorial - removed uncertainties over file management, not only for this app, but more generally. Thanks!
Yet another extremely helpful and informative vid. Thanks, Jon!
Just did a fresh reaper install and followed your method. Works great, thanks!
Just moved my Reaper related folders and files to a new drive and started configuring all the settings and made some project templates to clean things up. Your videos are easy to follow and you go straight to the point. Thank you.
I'm just a hobbyist trialing Reaper and found your video super-helpful with getting an optimal setup to start from.
This is one of your best videos. I'm so glad I bookmarked it now that I'm transferring over to another laptop!
Thanks Jon, the recommendation for backblaze was worth the price of admission alone. If your back-ups don't exist in three separate drives, they don't really exist at all. Redundancy has saved me a ton of heart-ache and misery multiple times over the years. Wildcards on Track name and take. I love it! 000
Auto-backup is incredibly useful. Even when you just want to try something out, like a new plugin, you don't even have to worry about saving untitled new project. Even if Reaper crashes, which it rarely does, your project will be waiting for you in pre-selected folder. While watching this video I revisited my wildcards and made some minor changes. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you so much! The paths and backups have been confusing me for a while, and this just helps me a lot with all those stuff!
You're awesome. Not only great info, but delivered in a clear, concise, friendly, informative way . . . and you have an attractive way about you. Thumbs up!!
Very helpful video Jon ! People coming from pro tools are most of the time lost in Reaper file management system. This video will save me some explantation time during my Reaper tutorial ;)
Thank you. This is very important stuff that I knew nothing about. Keep up the good work!
Been doing this shit for a couple years and finally got tired of workflow issues. Wish I took the 13 minutes to deal with this when you first uploaded. THANK YOU!
Thanks, Jon. As usual, this was extremely helpful.
That was good. And getting these settings right makes everything a whole lot easier.
Incredibly helpful. Just setting up a new recording pc and wanted to avoid the insane mess I got in to on my old one. Thank you!
you may also like this one on fixing your messy projects czcams.com/video/EPQ5bZXoXlQ/video.html
Got a lot of nuggets on this one!! Thanks Jon!
This is SO not boring. Coming from a DAW that crashes A LOT, this is fantasyland come true!
Sorry, i found answer to my question in your video specifically on Video Templates. Thanks for having covered all my questions before in advance.
EXCELLENT video, super useful, thank you!
This is an outstanding tutorial!!! Thank you!!
This was helpful! I'm often just noodling around in Reaper and my project folders always ended up being a hot mess. Dedicated folders for backups and reapeaks should clean things up. The subfolder for project media is also a good idea.
Speaking of .reapeaks. In an attempt to get organized, I just deleted a couple of 100MBs of .reapeaks that had been cluttering up my sample folders over the years. Having those created and saved next to the files by default was really not the best decision the Reaper devs have made. Makes no sense at all for drum hits or other short samples. A native temp folder with the option to override (per audio item) would have been much more elegant.
This was great - these are all things that bothered me and are better solutions than I came up with on my own... Thanks!!!
You're very welcome!
Thanks, man. Exactly what I was looking for!
This was a life saver! Thank you so much!
Nada de aburrido, demasiado importante esta información que nos regalaste. You are the best. El que quedó aburrido fuíyo cuando vi el desorden que tengo
Thanks so much, this was really clear and helps a lot!
Very VERY not boring, and I only wish I could go back and retroactively apply these settings. Thank you!
Thanks Jon, great tips.
Excellent video. Very helpful.
Please never delete this video!
This was helpful. Thank you!
Nice work thanks, 8:45 is so important to have a media folder!
Thanks Jon, this is perfect timing as I'm just about to setup Reaper on a new machine and had been scratching my head for the last couple of days on the best way to organise it all. You've just saved me a whole load of time. Cheers, Robbo
Thank you 🙏 Jon!!! Very helpful...
This is very helpful! Thank you
Thank you for the tips!
great tutorials! thank you!
Great tips! :) Wish I knew all those things when I started out ;)
Just perfect,omg!! Im gna delete and start over,i had it so confusing. Thank you a million times!! All made perfect sense,im in need of a good computer course ,but this post def saved me from lots of wasted time finding stuff. Thank you,i cannot say enough of how mundane it may seem to others,and so mindblowing to newbies like myself. Ok,sorry for long rant,but seriously keep up the posts. Im ordering the Reaper hardcopy online as we speak,and prob shoulda a looong time ago.😕
Thanks again-COREY M.
fantastic video and invaluable, thanks
Thank you man, great stuff.
Jon this not boring at all. I'm in the process of removing everything I need from a different computer so this was very helpful. If you or anyone here have any other useful tips to include prior to setting up the new computer I would appreciate it.
Very helpful. A huge thank you. If you ever want to explore themes and changes thereto I am super interested.
Hi john and the reaper blog community, After a brief one year fling with pro tools I am happy to report I am back using reaper. God what a ball ache pro tools can be. I'm back using the best 60 pounds I ever spent
welcome back!
I had the same experience back with PT7. Found REAPER and never looked back. :^)
Very helpful. Thank you
This dude is awesome thanks man.
super helpful! thanks!!!!
Very useful! Thanks
Thank you. You are great. I have just realized that we have the same glasses
Thanks for this video. :) Do you have a video on how did you set up grid changes on the transport bar? I made custom keyboard shortcuts for that.
You and people like you are saints. I know you're probably used to compliments and thanks but seriously dude reaper professors like you save lives lol
Great man, thanks
very useful. thank you
Very informative.
Yeah after I got everything set up and working with the extensions and Reapack, there was a few things I had to change in preferences and project settings break time
Time saving , thanks a lot
legend! thanks mate
Perfekt!!! Danke.
Thanks for explaining this, painful but necessary computer skills.
Thanks man!
Thank you!🎸
Perfection!
Thanks brother!
very helpful thanx
Thank you!
Very helpful thanks, just hope I didn't mess anything up. I was having issues with Reaper overcrowding my desktop with individual takes of guitar tracks for some reason. I did the first few parts of the video because that was my main issue. I just finished a project and now I have to clean up the desktop. My question is should I just save all the files to "Reaper Media" or a subfolder or..?
God bless you my good sir.
1000th like! and thank you!
whoa! that is cool Thanks for letting me know!
Thank you
A great video, Jon, hadn't even considered the Audio Files folder as an option. Will definitely change my settings now. Quick q, how did you set up the grid division buttons in the toolbar? That looks like a really useful thing.
This video
czcams.com/video/LPSro28rABg/video.html
thanks!!
Would be nice if Cockos added Optional settings to their setup file to set these kinds of settings into place.
i realy need to spend time going through all settings, data management was what was missing going between reaper and pro tools.
I was a Pro Tools user before so this should be similar
Project Templates. The biggest time save ever. I have created very complicated project templates. The default one I use has about 80 tracks in it. The default template should be filled as much as possible to allow you to just start creating. I never use all the tracks, but the ones I need most of the time are then for when I need them. You shouldn't need to add tracks just to get going (unless you are doing something very outside your norm). Project templates set up and configuration would be a great video.
I’m wondering what forbidds to release default settings that are compliant. I also struggled to get them done. It’s possible ... so ...
It’s even possible to have the same structure and behaviour that Nuendo/Cubase has ... I did it, so why not setup as default?
Thanks. I like your tutorials. Do you have any tutorials on your long toolbar at the top of the screen?
mostly explained here
czcams.com/video/gtYp_5AgSWc/video.html
It’s so true mismanagement of my files has resulted in significant negative impact on my art and ability to create there needs to be a crash course when installing reaper lol
Why is Peter Sagan giving me reaper tips? , awesome. 3 times world champuon AND recording engineer.
thank you so much ! this is great. I'm wondering at the end though you had the example project folder. I thought the .RPP and .REAPEAKS files would then be in their separate TEMP folders , instead of the project folder. Something I'm missing ?
at 11:35 you see 1 project file, backup file (the previous manual save), 3 video exports. No peak files or autobackups there.
Question- is it possible to transfer files and sync them using cloud system? Like one drive?
Hay quick question ,easy question Is the master track the one you put a limiter on ? why is there no decent tutorials at how to get the best level using the master track and which plugins for limiters on the master track it appears that most tutorials are always on about the darn drums . I like to get a karaoke track from you tube sing along with a vocal , is there a tutorial on this . I guess one still does comp eq reverb on the vocal track although what is done on the master track ? What is the best level for the karaoke track . What is the best level for the audio to match the Karaoke track , let say an Elvis Karaoke track, There is nothing on this for reaper ,any help towards appreciated . I have cronic arthritus and like to sing along , have reaper a mic a mixer . looking forward to some input.
Warmly J
Awesome video again!! Thank you. Do you recommend putting these files on the system drive or can you put them on the audio drive?
I have temp files on my system drive. I don't think it makes a difference so long as their managed.
@@TheREAPERBlog thank you. Your videos are very helpful.
Idk how you manage to make this so simple and i have no idea how i manage to not understand it still.
just using it every day and talking to a lot of users with different backgrounds and experiences
Thank you Jon. I have a question: what hub are you using today to connect all drives to macbook pro M1 ? Are currently using all SSDs ? Thanks again !!!
Currently my 2 external NVME drives are connected directly to my Mac Studio thunderbolt ports.
I have an old OWC Thunderbolt 2 hub, plus hubs on monitor and audio interface for additional usb devices.
I've been using dropbox for a few years. Would it be worth it to switch to Backblaze? Or do you think dropbox is good as well?
I followed the instructions on the blog page on how to set up backups and an 'audio' file for projects, using the 'project settings' option. The backups work, but nothing has ever gone into the 'audio' file, it´s always been empty. I´m obviously doing something wrong somewhere, but I have no idea what. Any ideas? Thank you!
Why not set the peak files location to be a subdirectory of the project directory (which as in your case could be on a fast-connection external disk, maybe even a SSD) ?
main reason is so it's just one place to clean up
isnt there an option to delete / not keep the takes you're finally not using in the project? I thought i saw tat somewhere but can't find anymore.
10:56 if I add a wildcard AFTER recpass it changes the 001 into 100... how do I avoid this?
7:41 FYI on my system, this is now in its own tab under Media, called "Import"
@@zbsfm yep, lots of preferences moved in v7. New, better defaults too
This is complicated stuff.
That's one reason I like recording on a tape machine!
Have you tried calibrating a tape machine? 🤔🤔
im with you on that , this is like a crash course in programing
After
recording over a clip why it's become mess
stereo track change to mono PREVIOUSLY recorded clip is gone! ? any way to avoid hope you help
Thanks in advance 😁🙏
CAN I GET TO TALK TO U ABOUT SOMETHING. I HAVE A ISSUES WITH REAPER
I just worked on this after losing multiple files 🤪
Great video, Jon. I use a combination of Backblaze and pCloud. So did I understand correctly that you keep your rendered mixes in the same folder as the project? Also, if the ReaPeaks files are in a different folder, doesn't this cause problems when opening old projects, or does the main Reaper project file rebuild the ReaPeaks files if they are not there?
Sorry - just rewatched the video and you do explain that Reaper just rebuilds any missing ReaPeak files when starting up the project.
rendered mixes go in project folder, sometimes in a subfolder if there are many.
My versioning on mixes is usually 1,2,3… and when artist asks for changes I add letters
@@TheREAPERBlog Ok, that's something for me to think about. I've always rendered to a 'Mixes' folder in a different location, but it makes sense to keep things simple.