I started using Reaper a couple of weeks ago, and now I just started dabbling with making my own Reascripts. It's been so fun!

So I also started digging into what scripts are already out there and I found a few like Playtime, Lil Chordbox, McSequencer, MkSlicer, Track Tags, and I'm just like damn, these are just straight up whole features the community have added to the DAW - and now I want to know what else is out there that I might have no clue about that I'd find useful.

So what are your favourite Reascripts that add whole new features to the DAW? I'd love to know what I'm missing out on.

(Plus it'd also help me know what features to not try to make Reascripts for myself. I have to confess: one of the very first scripts I made was a chord identifier, which I found out was redundant since Lil Chordbox exists 🤣)

I have used REAPER for 15 years. I own Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, and FL Studio because I used to collaborate with people that used those DAWs and it made things easier for them to share projects with me.

I have exclusively used REAPER for all my personal projects this whole time, and I now work within it exclusively and refuse to use another DAW.

Even for programming Midi, editing, every single thing is easier and quicker in REAPER for me.

Is this really a case of REAPER being difficult in these things and I just got used to it more than anything else? Does REAPER actually fall short of other DAWs in these categories and I have stockholm syndrome? Lol.

I've always thought if you glue clips together it's only about the visual appearance of the clips. However, I'm concerned REAPER does more than just change the appearance of the clips and there could potentially be issues with loss of quality when you glue them together. Consider two scenarios:

1. You have a track with multiple audio clips and want to select many of them to glue together and create one long clip that spans the length of the project.

2. You have one audio clip in which you cut out a small portion and then record another clip to correct what you cut out. You want to glue the two clips together to blend both recordings into a single clip.

In either case above, does REAPER re-process the actual audio recording and potentially degrade the quality of the recording? I would think in #1 no, but #2 yes. Does anybody know for sure?

Sometimes when I render something, I see those red things appearing, so I have to turn the volume of some instruments down to some extent to deal with them. But I just watched some vid about mixing instruments and I think the red things are some sort of overloading? So I can use a limiter to fix it instead of the volume trick?

I want to send a http POST to my homeassistant to turn a light on/off when recording. How do I script this with reascript?

I tried looking into an existing webserver option, but as far as I understand reaper doesn't actually send changes, the webremote polls reaper to see the state of buttons/tracks in a user variable rate. I would much rather have reaper send a post to a webhook when I start/stop recording via a shortcut I'm already using.

Has anyone used curl in reascript yet? Should it be possible to send something out from reaper to my homeassistant ip?

Hello friends. I'm still figuring out Reaper, and I'm delighted with it so far. My one issue I can't figure out is why I'm rendering above "0" true peak. I've got the JS Limiter at the end of the chain with the limit set at -1 (and the master volume at 0). The only thing I have after the limiter is YouLean Loudness Meter v2. The loudness meter is showing that my renders are hitting .2-.5 true peak. My questions are:

1. Why is this happening?
2. Are there any limiters within the stock Reaper program that include a true peak limit? I don't see one on the JS Master Limiter or any other stock limiters.
3. If there is no stock limiter that does it, can anyone recommend a VST download, ideally free?
   

I always set the limit at -1 and I've read that the true peak limit should be at least -.1, not crossing 0. Jazz/acoustic music. If that's bad, please let me know.

Thank you SO MUCH, this is driving me bonkers!

I've used reaper for a while now even with the UAD plugins with no issue, but randomly it just decided to not load them at all. if i load a UAD plugin or open a project with UAD plugins, reaper just hangs and crashes. I even tried running it as admin and still no luck, can someone help??

I wanted to make something that felt similar to Online Sequencer but couldn't find anything. Who knew REAPER would fill that void

I made an example of how this is used. Who I Was - Alex! , This is just the style I write and not necessarily what you need for this.

Workflow Overview

Piano Roll-Centric Workflow

Main editing happens in the piano roll.

Piano roll is docked to the left side for quick access.

Tab key toggles the MIDI editor open/closed.

Instrument & Track Management

Click tracks on the side to switch instruments.

Instrument colors match their channels for visual clarity.

Favorite instruments are saved as track templates for fast loading.

Track Highlighting Behavior

Highlighting one track: edit only that track (others remain visible).

Highlighting all tracks: edit all tracks together.

Preferred method: arrange everything on one MIDI roll without switching to arrangement view.

Things I have done:
right-hold - eraser tool
shift left click - paint tool
ctrl left click - copy drag
left click - draws note
ctrl left drag - selector tool
A - random color for track
alt 1,2,3,4,5,6 - changes grid size
enter - starts song from the beginning
ctrl shift up, down - shifts selected notes up or down one octave
ctrl shift 1 - inserts virtual instrument track

How to use

I'd recommend getting a portable version of reaper you can install the config file onto.
To import the config file. you have to go into preferences/general/import config

CONFIG FILE

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OtsJk0JIP-JUVav6pGPE_u2WFRxJ9vo3/view?usp=sharing

NOTE
My workflow is always changing so I will be making adjustments from time to time. That being said, I will make multiple versions if necessary.

Hi! I use a monogram console for my mixing (specifically for latching over midi so i can adjust the expression and dynamics post-recording). I have been running to an issue where sometimes it says it is connected, but just doesn't work. That can sometimes be fixed my exiting and re-entering reaper. I have found that I need the monogram app open before I even open reaper otherwise it just won't register to the program. But sometimes it just stops working randomly while I am trying to compose, which is super frustrating because I am in the flow and then I need to stop what I am doing for 5-10 minutes to troubleshoot. This happens consistently and I am not sure what I can do to make it stop, or at least happen less. I know that the console itself is working because when i move the sliders on the hardware, they also move on the software. However even though it says it is connected in reaper, sometimes (unprovoked), it doesn't affect the vst settings it is programed to. Please help!

Hi all, audio was clipping and I had a ton of latency when I played my keyboard. We changed some aduio settings in Reaper and lowered the latency buffer. Now NVDA freezes when I open Reaper or it crashes alltogether. If I minimize Reaper and NVDA has not crashed it will start talking afor anything but Reaper. I have no idea what is going on and I am desperate. I even disabled LBL OCR and LBL as someone suggested these could be causing it. Nothing has changed. I am running the latest version of Reaper, NVDA and I changed my audio driver to ASIO4All. I am running the lates version of Windows 10 on a laptop with 32GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD hard drive. Thanks for any help!

Vegas Pro user for…forever

There’s a function called “trimmer”. Say someone read a script in a 45 minute session…and you clipped out one of the takes to use in your main project. If later you decide you want to try a different take of that same line, instead of searching the raw file for that spot in the session where that line was being read…you just right click and choose “open trimmer”. The original 45 min session pops up in the exact place of that original trim…and you can immediately listen to (and choose from) any of the other takes around it.

Very handy when you have people reading lines of a script and changing up inflection between each read…you don’t need to search the whole darn session it takes you right to the spot.

I hope I’m explaining this clearly…and I really hope Reaper has this functionality.

Thanks for any/all help

You can open up the Trimmer window…an

• Direct clickable GUI buttons for all the Channel Monitor modes. Faster workflow.

Link: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2888699#post2888699

is there a way to not hear myself sing, but still record my mic so it gets picked up on discord? I cant seem to get used to hearing myself with that 10ms delay which is annoying, please help lmao (i already tried turning off input monitoring but then discord doesnt pick up my voice)

Hello, does anyone know if there is plugin similar to Reaper's ReaTune in Ableton? what I need is  audio to midi translation in real time: i wanna feed realtime audio signal thru a mic and get the software to translate it in midi tones that will trigger sounds from my vst/sampler/simpler and play it back in real time. (sorry for my perhaps unprofessional wording-i am self-taught and not a native english speaker). thanks in advance!

Hi guys!

Is there a way to select all MIDI notes on a specific BEAT? Let's say Beat 3 throughout the MIDI item, (1.3, 2.3, 3.3 etc.) while in the MIDI editor. I've tried messing with the MIDI filter, specifically the "Position in measure" feature but it's labeled in terms of note duration (1/2, 1/4, etc.). It seems to be relative within a measure (instead of in absolute terms within the project timeline) and I can't get the math to add up to the third beat? It's certainly possible I just don't know how to use it. I watched Kenny's videos on the subject and he didn't really touch on the position function.

I've also tried to use a MIDI Note Selector script I found from Lokasenna but it's relative as well. Selecting every other note doesn't exactly work if there's ghost notes etc.

I'm trying to quickly mess with grooves while doing scratch takes. Put the snare on 3 instead of 2, for example. I get why there is a relative feature for more humanized performances, but I'm using plug-ins and snapping directly to the grid while writing.

Any thoughts?

just downloaded reaper how can i connect my digital piano to the reaper I seen the midi but no sound o can’t hear the notes

It's probably best in the long run to understand what a plugin what's happening. Trying to imitate paid plugins with very limited resources helps you listen a lot more details.

Which plugin should I try to do?

Hey everyone,

happy to share TableTracker v1.50 with you, now with a proper UI.

For those unaware: TableTracker lets you generate and maintain a track hierarchy based on a .csv table. For example: Instead of manually creating each track for a voice over session, you could create a small table from the recording script you already have at hand and just import it all! And if some more lines are added, you can just update the .csv and use TableTracker to sync it with Reaper.

It can also sort everything alphabetically/reverse alphabetically and return to the original sorting any time, as well as automatically delete tracks which are not or no longer within the .csv file.

It's free/pay what you want, enjoy!

The plugin called "MIDI curves" allows you to customize how your pads respond and the resulting note velocities that are produced. The way I have it, the velocities of the pads are still recorded unaltered by the plugin, then when the plugin is on I get the altered velocities. I'm trying to record the MIDI notes having the velocities that the plugin has altered. Is there a way to do this?

It would be the equivalent of placing the plugin before the input of the track so that the effect gets recorded.

I couldn't see if anyone else had mentioned this but Justin was on Mr Bill's podcast this week talking about a variety of things

https://youtu.be/_RZSiCG9rSY?si=osFywDtq24DHadmu

Trying to play around in Reaper and I can't seem to use any JS VSTs. The video shows that there is some form of output (the yellow bar moving up) but it doesn't play noise or make the green bar the way the ReaSynth does. Anybody know any fix for this?

https://reddit.com/link/1n7xw74/video/xaf17wx232nf1/player

I've been trying every keybind combination i have in an attempt to make this line not linear, but i've not been able to do so. How do you add a curve on stretch marks?

There are certain things I already love about Ableton, but certain midi editing stuff I'm used to is eluding me. Anybody else a switch-hitter that can explain this? In Reaper, you can move notes around in midi editor and then click back a couple beats or whatever to play from there to quickly audition what you just did. With Ableton I'm pulling my hair out trying to compose like I've gotten used to bc space bar just starts at the top of the clip. Can't seem to figure out what is surely a simple way to just move the playhead to keep starting at the same part in the middle of the clip.