Video: 100 Reaper Tips and Shortcuts (for Beginners)

100 Reaper Tips and Shortcuts for beginners is here! This video is geared primary for folks who want to learn Reaper from the ground up. An excellent tutorial for budding podcasters, music producers and more.

Feel free to navigate around quickly with the timestamps below:

0:00 Intro

File Management Tips

1:52 Set path to save ‘media files’

2:45 Create Sub-Directory’ & ‘Move Media into Project Directory’

3:30 Disable ‘Select File to Save or Delete’ box

3:55 Create ‘Temp’ Folder for ReaPeaks and Backups

File Management Shortcuts

6:28 Project Settings

7:26 Open New Project

Open Existing Project

Save project

Save project as…

Render project to disk…

Quit REAPER

Display the windows for various settings and options

8:07 Preferences

8:50 Action List

9:26 Snap/grid Settings

9:35 Metronome Settings

9:47 Show Keyboard Shortcuts

10:00 Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Essential Default Tips & Tweaks

11:01 Change ‘Transport: Go To Start of Project

12:13 Importing Audio & Media Files

13:23 Fix ‘Double Click’ item

14:42 Right click menus

14:58 Reverse Scroll Wheel Zoom Horizontally

16:25 Zoom on Mouse Cursor

17:05 Undock Mixer

Transport Control Shortcuts

17:39 Play/stop

17:48 Go to start of project

18:00 Go to end of project

18:10 Record

18:30 Toggle Looping

Screen Appearance

18:53 Full Screen View (toggle)

19:09 Grid Lines display (toggle)

19:21 Grid Lines on top of items

19:43 Show/Hide FX browser window

19:57 Show/Hide master in track view

20:09 Show/Hide media explorer

20:21 Show/Hide mixer

20:30 Show/Hide navigator window

20:50 Show/Hide video window

Navigate and Zoom within a project

21:12 Track, go to next

Track, go to previous

21:32 Track height, toggle maximum

Track height, toggle minimum

21:47 Zoom in horizontal

Zoom out horizontal

22:00 Zoom in vertical

Zoom out vertical

22:47 Zoom in/ Out of Selected Track(s)

22:59 Zoom In/ Out of Time Selection

Working with Media Items

23:45 Snapping, toggle

24:13 Temporarily Disable Snapping (Mouse Modifier)

24:23 Split item(s) at edit cursor

24:55 Split item(s) at time selection

25:24 Selecting items with mouse modifiers

25:43 Marquee select (Mouse Modifier)

25:56 Select all items

26:07 Copy selected item(s)

26:23 Paste selection from clipboard

26:39 Copy / Paste (Mouse Modifier)

26:57 Delete selected item(s)

27:02 Undo previous action

27:12 Group items

Ungroup items

27:38 Locking Items

27:56 Toggle items mute

28:18 Enable Crossfades

28:44 Crossfade Item(s)

29:01 Crossfade items within time selection

29:14 Ripple editing: cycle modes

Other navigating and editing mouse modifiers

30:48 Change behavior to zoom vertically on mouse (preferences)

31:14 Zoom vertically

31:31 Scroll horizontally & Vertically

Track controls and track management

32:03 Insert new track

32:26 Insert Multiple Tracks

32:44 Color tracks

33:04 Duplicate Track(s)

33:12 Delete selected track(s)

33:20 Go to next track

33:26 Go to previous track

33:32 Select all tracks

33:40 Show Master in track view

33:49 Volume & Pan Envelopes

34:06 Move Envelopes To Track Lane

34:16 Creating Envelope Points (Mouse Modifier)

34:27 Drawing automation with Pencil Tool (Mouse Modifier)

34:34 Zoom to max track height (toggle)

Zoom to min track height (toggle)

34:49 Show/Hide Track Manager

Mouse modifiers for tracks

35:10 Select a range of tracks

35:23 Toggle track’s selection status

35:32 Mixer: Fader Movement (Precise)

35:42 Mixer: Clears all mutes & solos

Working with Time Selections, Loops, Regions and Markers

36:24 Create Time Selection

36:38 Loop, set begin point

Loop, set end point

36:51 Clear time and loop point selection

36:57 Insert Marker

37:12 Insert Maker (Prompt to name/ edit)

37:23 Region, create from time selection

Mixer View FX Item Mouse Click Modifiers

37:49 Insert FX

38:01 Bypass FX

38:08 Delete FX

38:15 Float FX configuration

38:20 Show FX Chain

Useful Links:

Reaper Blog Vids:

File Management

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk6WLWDYlyU&t=12s

Kenny Gioia Vids:

Preferences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh1SLvUsDeI&t=5s

Mouse Modifiers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1b2DCfKiYk

Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOegtqEOv1Q

Zooming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlF3oY0lEC4&t=12s

Editing Basics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX9odvs_lM

Ripple Editing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXwrW5Dc9nE&t=8s

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