Archive for the ‘Using Reaper’ Category
Render / Freeze Track Reaper
To render a vst instrument or effect in Reaper frees up your CPU resources.
To render or ‘freeze’ your track: choose TRACK and you will see two render options
The above picture shows the ‘Stereo’ stem render option.
The above picture shows the ‘Mono’ stem render option.
Sometimes too many VST’s can clog up your PC/Laptop this usually manifests itself in spluttering audio and audio dropouts – freezing or rendering these tracks to audio helps relieve your processor and increase your options.
Tip: Make a backup of your file before you do anything drastic – make a new copy of your song as well and rename it.
The way I usually do this is like so,
1. Original File = song.rpp
2. Backup File = song_backup.rpp
3. Rendered File = song_render.rpp
This may seem excessive but get yourself into the practice of backing up everything,
believe me if you don’t one day you’ll wish you had…
Editing Reaper – Split a track
Splitting a track in Reaper is pretty simple -
Works for Midi and Audio
Find the place you want to split the track, use the mouse to select the area on the work area and press ‘S’
This will then split the track as below.
If you want to fix the track or connect or ‘Glue’ parts together…
Select the two areas you want to glue together and press ‘G’
Import Midi Into Reaper
Insert – Media File or use the keyboard shortcut using theĀ ‘INSERT‘ key.
Once you’ve located the file to be imported and chosen it a box like the one above will appear.
If you have downloaded the drums from this site then you need to untick both boxes before you press ok.
Otherwise it will import 6 tracks.
If you’ve gotten files from elsewhere then find out which track you wish to import or prepare yourself for some manual deleting.
You should now have a nice drum file ready for playing.
Don’t forget to change your midi drum instrument to channel 10.
If you need to change the tempo/bpm
If you don’t know what BPM or TEMPO means it basically relates to the speed of the track.
BPM = Beats per minute – a lower number here will produce a slower track.
The control above is for the whole track.
Setting Up A Drum VSTi Reaper
For this tutorial you’ll need to download – wollo beat a free VSTi drum machine…
You’ll need to install the VSTi in your VST folder. Here is a tutorial-how to install VST


















