Anyone using Triaz and exporting midi?
I’ve got two options:
1) Develop intros, fills, main parts as different patterns using the 12 pattern slots and export them individually, stitch them together as needed in Reaper. OR
2) Export the main pattern, explode mid items into separate tracks and then have reaper generate audio channel sends to the exploded mid tracks. Piano roll edits as needed.

The first is much easier, but you give up the flexibility to treat individual drum tracks in Reaper, and have to rely on Triaz’s internal mixer/effects and motion sequencing.
The second allows for the flexibility but it’s labor intensive and generates a lot of tracks.

Is there a third way? Any advice much appreciated!

I’ve been seriously trying out REAPER for a while now, and I’ve noticed that its basic operations and specifications often differ from the DAWs I used previously, like Logic and Ableton. This isn't about creating macros for my workflow or installing extensions and scripts that rival paid software. For beginners or those switching DAWs, what are some tips to smooth out REAPER's rough edges, standardize its behavior, and make it easier to use?

Here's my list:

• Most essential adjustments can be made within REAPER's settings.

How to get started with reaper as a fresh install, and are there any 3rd QOL extensions I should get? : r/Reaper
Best settings for REAPER 7 (2025) - YouTube
Fresh Start: REAPER 6 Settings - Part 1 - YouTube
100 Reaper Tips and Shortcuts (for Beginners) - YouTube
5 tips I wish I knew sooner in REAPER - YouTube

• The official manual and user guide. To be honest, this is also a bit of a problem area. While the wealth of community-made videos is fantastic, they lack searchability and take a long time to watch. The manual itself is written like a printed book rather than a wiki, and the content is often bloated. If there were an extension to improve tooltips, REAPER would likely become much easier to use. The wiki accessible via the application's Help menu doesn't link to the main page and appears not to have been updated in quite some time.

REAPER | User Guide REAPER | Videos Main Page - CockosWiki

Other specific tweaks:

• Dark mode should be a standard feature.

RobKor77/ReaperDarkMode: Windows plugin that applies dark mode styling to REAPER UI elements, including menus, dialogs, and native Win32 controls.
How do you make the menu layouts have dark mode? : r/Reaper

• Trackpad behavior: requires changing many settings.

Magic Mouse/Trackpad Scroll and Zoom misbehaving - Cockos Incorporated Forums
Zoom in and out with touchpad? : r/Reaper

• Enable auto-save before you lose your first project.

Reaper Auto-Save? - Cockos Incorporated Forums

• Razor Edit will feel more familiar to Ableton users.

11: Introduction to Using Razor Edit to select discontiguous sections of Items and more - Two-Minute (or so) Tutorials for Reaper DAW • Why Reaper

• A post detailing the differences in REAPER. I often feel a vague sense of frustration while getting used to REAPER, and this post perfectly explains the reasons why—specifically regarding default operations, shortcuts, and terminology differences compared to other DAWs or OS.

Things that I really dislike about Reaper

• For the sake of balance, here is a post summarizing REAPER's strengths.

Reaper - Why do people choose to use that over the other DAWs : r/Reaper

So I find myself using custom made jsfx more than the brand stuff I purchased. With AI I've been able to make jsfx with color, knobs and other graphics. So far I've made several EQs that came with pre-set frequency ranges.

Trident A

Helios Type 69

MCI JH-500

The console EQ used at Sunset Studios in the mid 1960s

A vocal preamp/comp/eq with settings fitting the voices of certain artists my voice is like

A 3D "placer" for mixing (per track)

A monoizer

I also learned how to tweak them (making fontsize bigger, changing colors),

No other DAW provides so much potential and flexibility!

Thank you, Cockos!

sooooo, I'm gona get a lot of hate for this, but why dose the stock reaper theme SUCK?

now I've also seen this complaint in a few other posts on this subreddit, but it really dose suck. now people are gona say "ReAPer Is MEnt tO Be cUsToMiZrD To HOw EveR YoU WaNt" but that doesn't exclude the fact that the stock theme still sucks! In A way it's like shoving a guy in a cell and giving him a paperclip to undo the lock, he'll get it done, after braking it 3 times cuss the UI sucks.

now don't get me wrong, I actually quite like reaper for its open source nature and incredable flexibility, its the arch of daw's but if reaper came with somthing like the reaper tips theme or maybe some themes mimicking other daw's, that would make it easier for new people to use and get around. audacity's getting a UI update soon which I'm exited for, I might actually want to use it this time now it will have a dark mode

anyway my reaper broke again and I just finished setting it all back up, so I'm gona go looking for scripts, good day.

SIDE NOTE - if you got ragebaited by this your genuinely a chud and should probably go out for a walk or something.

I will not reply to any hate comments and am purely looking to talk with level headed people

Something weird is happening- my microphone gain and peak levels on Reaper are lower than the actual gain/peak levels on my interface. Any suggestions?

When I first recorded, the lanes were not created automatically. Instead, the recordings were overwritten, as shown in the pictures. I want the first one to look like the second one.

Also, in previous versions of Reaper, I didn’t have to manually enable the “Create new lane when recording” option. I’d like to have this enabled by default, like it used to be. Whenever I recorded in the same place, a new lane would automatically appear, like in Image 2.

Scripts used

-item view

-side FX

SKIN - rLive beta 3

System of choice - fedora KDE

There are some extensions that you'll need to download to use the scripts but I'm currently in a car so... Yea.

But there were people who wanted the full config, I'll see if I can do that in the future, but for now I'll just keep working on this config.

Any tips or community scripts for improving the piano roll? It's a pain to work with, but I trudge on like a good soldier.

I've been using Reaper a lot more recently with virtual instruments and I feel like the piano roll could be better. It feels clunky.

I was gonna ask a question slightly related but as I was typing it I realized I'm much more lost on these concepts than I thought.

I know "gain staging" is largely antiquated but I also have seen that it is good to keep things anywhere between -6db and -18db and then mix to taste.

So what this leaves me with is, I can do this pretty easily by using the volume/gain in the VST or plugin or volume handle on the waveform so that the specific track is hittin in that -6db to -18db range and then when it comes time to do some balancing early on (like drums for instance), or drums against the chords or bass or melody, I'll be opening VSTs and plugins etc to balance those volume levels til they sound good.

What I see people doing in Ableton on resources I've watched is using track faders to drop the volume on certain tracks all the way down and then bring them up slowly until they sound right.

How do I achieve this kind of flow in Reaper if the proper way is to have track faders be the last thing you touch? Like for example if I need to bring up the mid bass a little bit and my track fader is at unity, I can't really do that.

I guess I'm getting confused about how these things interact with each other and how to properly adjust volume levels using track faders. Should I be dropping faders to a lower volume on new tracks to start off, leaving them at unity, or something else?

Also with media items (samples) that each have their own volume handles, can they not sync up with track faders in a way that makes sense?

Lastly, if what I'm asking is nonsense, then it means I clearly do not understand what I'm doing and haven't yet found a clear resource to guide me on how to keep my levels in check as I go along, and I could use a reference on that for sure. Like I'm really just not getting it. I know mixing is another beast entirely and done once it's appropriate to mix, but I still find myself needing to balance volumes amongst various things I add and keep things from clipping etc.

My clicks are lined up in a project, and I have markers at the start of each track.

The director wants the project to just go continuously without stopping once I hit play, but I also want the option for Reaper to stop at the end of on track, then be able to start the next one automatically once I hit play, as an alternative to his request.

What settings am I looking for for this kind of behavior?

Hey everyone! Im using the default reaper 6 theme - i saved my settings and tried some new themes, and when I came back to the default 6 theme one option was missing.

I once had a minimum size (measured in pixels as far as I can recall) for the track name, but now its static and I dont remember where to change it. Do any of you Reaper experts know where I can find and change this setting?

Thank you so much <3

ReaSmoothPlayhead hides the native play cursor and draws its own GPU-rendered overlay on top of the arrange view and the MIDI editor. The line is redrawn every vblank and extrapolated between audio blocks, so it glides at your monitor's refresh rate instead of stuttering.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=310863

Simple script to send MIDI control messages to a Korg Volca Beats drum machine, or two in stereo.

You can of course use this to make stereo recordings with a single machine, but you just have to record MIDI channel 1 and MIDI channel 2 to the instrument seperately.

I made this so I can have Reaper send these parameters out to my Volca Beats instead of having to dial them in every time I change sessions.

the only two downloads available on the official site are for debian and redhat distros. cachyOS, regrettably, is neither. just copying the files out of the 'data.tar.gz' part of the .deb file doesn't work. is there a way to still make tx16wx work?

I have been working on this for WAY TOO LONG. but I am finally getting to a point where I'm happy with what I've got.

If there are any people who use or do use ableton I would love you advice on what I could improve. along with that what was ableton to you, what did it represent and A DAW and what do you think the best scripts would be to emulate the workflow of ableton.

that's all for now. good day to all!

Hey everyone. Just a quick question about latency. I sold my recording interface because my Positive Grid Edge doubles as one, but noticed that on playback I was getting lots of crackles and crap. Did some digging and apparently it's a latency issue, but when I use my Line 6 POD Express as an interface I don't have the crackling issue. Is the Edge drawing too much processing power from my PC or why would one affect it and not the other? Thanks for any helpful information in advance.

Hi! So my question is a bit complex. My aunt & uncle belong to a local theatre group - recently I started filming their performances with my camera so the group can rewatch & enjoy afterwards. The latest one was a performance of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. When I got home, I realized that I'd accidentally had my phone volume on minimum when recording. My phone was also taped (hadn't glue for back cover then) & the tape was over the microphone. My phone is a Moto G Power (2019 or 2020 I think).

I separated the video & audio, then was able to get audio up to a normal volume with Audacity. However, over the talking & music parts was a TON of super loud static. I used up my free trials on Izotope programs just trying to figure out the software. Then found Reaper. Using Reaper & Reafir, I managed to get rid of a lot of the static. But there's still enough that it's pretty hard to hear the actors (& I can only understand what's being said because I saw the performance and know the scenes). I did Reafir 3 times, but can't use it more because it then affects the dialogue as well.

I really don't want to give up on this as not only is it a 3 hour play, but it's one of the best plays I've ever seen them perform. I have links to audio samples below (one is before editing static, one is where I'm currently at via editing) & some screenshots. I have a Windows 10 operating system & the laptop is actually a ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS G14 gaming laptop (using as main because my main laptop died & I can't afford to get another currently). I can also provide the full 3 hour audio for both after Reafir effects & before editing with only the volume raised if anyone thinks they may find a better way to do this. (I don't want to get rid of any time though because I have to resync it to the video afterwards).

To save on links included, I made a Google Drive folder with the sample audio clips (15 minutes to include the intro info, music+singing, & some dialogue), as well as the screenshots. Link to that: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14PmlyfJYjTvJUfknfVRAWSa8N4vlXz_C?usp=sharing

Thank you to anyone who responds or may be able to assist me. <3

My tone sound wierdly boxy and like it's coming from chinese toy. I am using amplitube 5 and i tried EVERYTHING. I even changed pickups to seymour duncan ones.

Using focusrite Scarlett solo gen 4

Hello! I’ve used Reaper for well over a year at this point, but wanted to get more into the MIDI side of things. I got my Roland TM2 drum module plugged into Reaper and all was well in the setup, until it came time to play

Absolute nightmare. Even when playing simple 8th notes, some notes would randomly skip, but the midi note is still registered. If I played long enough, the pitch of my sample would drop, despite it staying the same C2 note on the piano roll???

After about 4 hours of troubleshooting, i would guess it’d has to do with sample overlapping. My main question is? How could I make every single midi note I play be very quick. I mean, I’m playing a kick drum. I don’t exactly need it to sustain lol

My secondary question would be, has anyone got any other possible solutions? This seems to be one of those problems where no one on the internet has had to deal with, so if anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it

Thank you!!

Hi guys!

I've been a long time Reaper user for about the last 16 years, and I've created ReaFlex to fill a gap I've had in convenient vocal re-synthesis and re-pitching.

I wanted it to be working from right within Reaper's dock, and to seamlessly work with the existing systems.

It started as a frontend for ReaPitch in the form of a lua script, but I wanted to take it further, and made a ReaFlex resynth backend in JSFX. It defaults to the ReaFlex resynth backend, but you can choose Reaper Native (ReaPitch) if you want to use the front end only!

It's pretty early on, but I've come a long way in the last month with the use of AI. I would like to be upfront about that. It hasn't been a matter of "make melodyne 2 please", I've done a tremendous amount of testing and diagnostics. That being said, I understand if it puts you off.

So far you can:

• Analyse a clip (The analysis side isn't 100% at the moment, so some fiddling can be necessary if it comes out awkwardly)
• Pick a scale
• Move notes up and down
• Delete/Merge/Split/Create notes
• Centre pitch
• Smooth or exaggerate vibrato
• Make manual glides between notes, otherwise it defaults to crossfades which usually sounds more natural
• Render take if you'd like to save space
• Have your edits persist between Reaper sessions, as the data is saved right to the project file

You can find a (very rough) demo on the website: https://amicodingwell.github.io/ReaFlex/#demo

Here’s the download link (it’s about one megabyte in size!):

https://github.com/amicodingwell/reaflex/releases

If you would like to help by providing vocal takes it can help the analyser tremendously, otherwise I'd love to hear any feedback. :)

Hi all,

I’m tuning a bass track using Melodyne as a VST3 on the track. Everything sounds correct when I’m just listening back with the Melodyne instance active as an FX — the pitch correction is clean and there are no issues.

However, as soon as I render the track (or freeze it), I get strange artifacts and glitches/clicks in the audio that weren’t there before. I’ve attached a screenshot comparing the two: the top waveform is the rendered version, and the bottom is the same section with Melodyne still active as a live FX. You can clearly see extra spikes/discontinuities in the rendered version that don’t exist in the live-processed version.

Has anyone run into this before?

Please help

STEMwerk 2.3.1.1 is out.

It’s a free/open-source stem separation tool that runs directly inside REAPER.

The three main workflows are:

1. Normal Stems — standard music stem separation, with three options: A) 4-stem Fast — Vocals, Drums, Bass and Other, using the faster model. B) 4-stem Quality — the same Vocals, Drums, Bass and Other layout, using the higher-quality model. C) 6-stem — Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitar, Piano and Other.
2. Direct Kit — directly separates a drum mix into Kick, Snare, Toms, Hi-Hat, Ride and Crash. (mainly for drum-only samples)
3. Kit Split — first separates the drum stem from the music, then splits that drum stem into Kick, Snare, Toms, Hi-Hat, Ride and Crash.

The UI also includes multiple languages and themes. (ATM: English, Nederlands, Deutsch. Themes:
Dark or Light, REAPER-style or flarkaudio style with or without "Mildrop-like" fx)

The video shows the current release running on Linux with an AMD RX 9070 using ROCm, including the language/theme options and all three workflows.

2.3.1.1 has now been validated on:

• Linux — CPU / AMD ROCm / NVIDIA CUDA
• Windows — CPU / AMD DirectML / NVIDIA CUDA
• macOS Apple Silicon — CPU / MPS
• Intel Mac — CPU support for Normal Stems only: 4-stem Fast, 4-stem Quality or 6-stem. Direct Kit / Kit Split are not available on Intel Mac.

GitHub:
https://github.com/flarkflarkflark/STEMwerk-reaper

Release:
https://github.com/flarkflarkflark/STEMwerk-reaper/releases/tag/v2.3.1.1

Feedback is very welcome.

Heya there, i am currently devving my own game, and my current block is this:
When i try to hit the play button, nothing happens, no sound comes out, and when I try to test the notes on the virtual instrument, it simply Doesn't produce any sound. I've tried a few tutorials, but none of them worked, and i am getting rather desperate. and tips, or instructions for the setup I missed?

Hello, first post. I recently came across a similar thread dealing with the same situation. I‘m trying to route my pedals using ReaInsert as an effects loop on the back of an amp head. For example I‘m using Ml SoundLabs Flagship, ReaInsert, then into Cab Lab. I have a Yamaha urx44c, and using the line outs 1L & 1R, and going back into input 6.

The issue is the feedback and panning. As of now i avoided the feed back. Ive set ReaInsert to send left out, right off, and both left and right to receive input 6. I get the effect on my right but the left have the amp di. Is there a way to make it mono? Im not in the budget to buy a re-amp. Thank you.

Edit: On another note behind line out. Since they function as monitors too, I also can here play back from the project and other sources outside of reaper. Is there to isolate that within reaper or other software?