Go into settings, see Preferences, then under General there will be a few ‘Undo’ settings. The nature of production, particularly the mixing stage, is one which is not linear and so it makes sense to make undo and redo as simple as possible. The sends are arranged vertically along the left side and the receives are horizontal across the top starting with the Master/Parent track. You just click the box which intersects the row and column of the two items you wish to route together. It looks intimidating at first glance but it’s a simple grid layout and it’s actually really easy to use. Whereas otherwise, you’ll have to check the settings for each track separately, the disabling master sends one by one before sending tracks to a grouped channel, in the routing matrix you can do all of this and more in one window, thus saving a lot of time.
The routing matrix can be accessed via alt + r and it’s a much, much faster way to set up routing for all of your tracks. With that said, let’s talk about a useful tool I wish I’d been taking advantage of earlier on in my learning process – the routing matrix.
With a large number of customizable settings available, try to focus on what you don’t like and find out if there’s a way to change it in Reaper. It’s often easy to forget where you changed a setting and be frustrated having to find it again after you realized you liked the previous behaviour. I highly recommend working with Reaper for a while and then looking into the settings (Options 🡪 Preferences or ctrl + p) a little at a time, making small changes and seeing what you prefer. If you move the mouse over to the left side, to the Track Control Panel (where each track is named and can be enabled for recording), the mouse wheel scrolls vertically among your tracks. Note that you also have the traditional scroll bars for these purposes as well as the pluses and minuses (+/-) next to each scroll bar for horizontal and vertical zooming. Holding alt and scrolling the mouse wheel scrolls the window horizontally and holding ctrl + alt while scrolling the mouse wheel scrolls the window vertically. Holding down control while scrolling the mouse wheel zooms in and out along the vertical plane. With the mouse inside the main track window (the area where your recordings show up), scrolling the mouse wheel zooms in and out on the horizontal plane. You can then move the delineated zoom box around with a left click and drag, moving quickly across your entire Reaper template. The Navigator helps you get around your project quickly, allowing you to select, via right-click and drag, any area within the Navigator window as a zoom box. Enter the Navigator, accessible by default with control + alt + v. You’ll find that scrolling is one way to get around your project but it’s slow, especially with bigger projects. Reaper Youtube Tutorialįor those of you that would prefer a visual walkthrough, watch this 10-minute Reaper tutorial video on YouTube below… Getting Around Quickly And Other Routine Tasks This guide is based on the latest version of what Reaper includes in 2019. Most notably, this tutorial includes getting around Reaper’s audio interface quickly, enabling, and recording midi and audio tracks and editing automation, audio and automation midi editing.
This is for you, the reader, to take away what I consider to be key skills both to expand creative possibilities within Reaper and to become more efficient with routine music production tasks. Instead, my goal here is to cover some of the ground between the beginner and advanced users as there is a lot that Reaper offers. If you’re a beginner to Reaper automation or are just starting out with music production software, make sure to check out my previous article, The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Reaper. It’s also worth mentioning that this isn’t a Reaper daw (digital audio workstation) review. There is a lot to learn about Reaper and this brief guide cannot cover it all.
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