My Reaper Environment for Sound Design20240912210642
My Reaper Environment for Sound Design
I often get asked about how I use Reaper for sound design, so I thought I'd share a guide to my setup, along with explanations of my methods and the reasoning behind them. This post isn't meant to be ...
Reaper Quick Tip – Easy Soloing Items20240801151457
Reaper Quick Tip – Easy Soloing Items
Here's a quick and easy way to audition media items when you are designing layered content in Reaper....
My Reaper ReaPack Repository20240730144034
My Reaper ReaPack Repository
I finally figured out how to set up my own ReaPack repository for my Reaper scripts and other resources. Most are simple scripts or JSFX geared towards assisting sound design workflows in Reaper....
Reaper vs Pro Tools for Sound Design20240712151943
Reaper vs Pro Tools for Sound Design
To date myself, my audio journey began in 1999 with a dubiously obtained copy of Cool Edit Pro, which I used in high school to record and mix music. When I studied audio at Indiana University I learne...
Reaper Quick Tip – Exporting Audio with Embedded Metadata20200511151105
Reaper Quick Tip – Exporting Audio with Embedded Metadata
The release of Reaper v6.10 has added the option to embed metadata during rendering into all sorts of files types, including BWF wav files. This is a very handy feature when editing recordings for sou...
Using a Stream Deck for Game Audio Production20180216030049
Using a Stream Deck for Game Audio Production
I recently purchased an Elgato Stream Deck in order to set up custom key commands to use with various parts of my workflow. In this post I’m going to show a few examples of what is possible with...
Reaper Quick Tip – Adjust Item Volume or Pitch with MouseWheel20170530223310
Reaper Quick Tip – Adjust Item Volume or Pitch with MouseWheel
Until recently, I didn’t know you could have a binary action that did two things within a single Reaper Action. I have always wanted to set up a Reaper mouse modifier for the mouse scroll wheel ...
Reaper Quick Tip – Creating New Tracks With Surrounding Folders20160329032431
Reaper Quick Tip – Creating New Tracks With Surrounding Folders
I’m going to start posting a series of short, more advanced Reaper tutorials geared towards game audio sound design workflows. The first involves automatically creating a group of new tracks wit...
Setting Up TouchOSC with Reaper20151201020543
Setting Up TouchOSC with Reaper
TouchOSC is a powerful app for the iPad or iPhone that lets you send and receive OSC messages over Wi-Fi to control audio applications. I’ve set it up with Reaper to create a custom control surf...