Cockos

In this pair of tutorial screencast videos, we show the specifics on using and controlling an effects bus in Cockos Reaper. Conserve effects processing using sane plug-in processing schemes that don't uselessly burn...  

Since it's the shareware DAW with the payware feature set, Reaper had a lot of thought put into the visual presentation of the various essential windows used during producing and recording. Check out just some of these...  

Get smart about using your plug-ins: a multitrack session doesn't mean that you will need separate instances of FX on each track necessarily. Consider the drum submix: you may well want to have all drum channels sent...  

In this Gearwire tutorial video clip, we finish our look at the controlling of track FX in Reaper. In part one we checked out the expected bits and here we look at keyboard shortcuts that really speed up your work with...  

Handling your VST and DX effects in Reaper is pretty straightforward, but as usual there are a few subtle innovations in how these plugins are handled. Follow along as we take a close look at the process of managing FX...  

Check out the basic looping functions in Cockos Reaper in this video screencast tutorial from Gearwire. See the features and the keyboard shortcuts as well as some thought about how to use the features in this Gearwire...  

In this video screencast tutorial we check out the Reaper features for Zooming and Navigation. Getting from here to there in your Reaper project is easy, as long as you know how the controls work and where the keyboard...  

The tutorial video juggernaut rolls on, leaving no stone unturned in our effort to share what we know about Cockos Reaper. In this clip, we check out the basics of Reaper's Track FX controls and features. Learn how to...  

Shortcuts and hidden features get exposed in this tutorial screencast video covering Cockos Reaper, the shareware DAW with the payware feature set. Check out the specifics behind the Big Clock and Track Controls in this...  

In this tutorial screencast we check out the track routing features in Cockos Reaper. Long story short: anything in any track can be sent to any other track and any track can receive from any other. The shortcuts to...  

Reaper's transport bar is the playback control center of Reaper, and like so many features in the program, at first glance one can miss the power elegantly built into the most common DAW features. This tutorial video...  

In this screencast tutorial video exploring the Reaper DAW from Cockos Corporation, we get a chance to examine the Project Settings window. More than a straight tutorial, this short jump through this feature begins to...  

Cool features in Reaper abound, stashed seemingly everywhere in the program. While that description sounds like a recepie for feature bloat, Reaper manages to balance terrific levels of power with a completely sane, predictabl...  

ASIO drivers are a fine alternative to native Windows audio I/O drivers for many machines. Since the release of the freeware ASIO4ALL driver pack, improved performance and reduced latency are now in reach of even modest...  

Customizing your recording and playback environment variables is an old feature in DAW development as a whole, but Reaper's implementation is pretty free of quirks or counter-intuitive productivity-halting misfeatures....  

In this tutorial screencast demonstrating the various features of the Reaper Digital Audio Workstation for Windows (OSX Version still in beta) we explore the basics of Audio Routing and once again get our eyes opened to...  

Another special feature of Reaper is its ability to be run from a USB jump drive or other external drive. This allows you to take the recording environment and its preferences and settings with you to wherever you need...  

Install the average application under Windows XP or Vista and watch dozens of files get added in bizarre locations all over your system - to say nothing of a broad range of registry changes. The chaos makes it pretty...  

Flexibility and power is the order of the day for the Reaper DAW. Even if a Reaper feature is not new to the DAW world at large, Reaper's implemetation is normally the best exact implementation. In this tutorial screencast...  

Not only is Reaper less expensive than competing DAWs, it goes out of its way to be easy on your hardware budget as well. In this tutorial screencast video, we check out the plug-in environments in Reaper for Visualizations,...  

Reaper is a DAW program of an entirely contemporary technical design. It is very much different than DAWs that started their lives as MIDI sequencers, only integrating audio years after their original development. Reaper...  

Launching Reaper is an operation that gives you some important options and also demonstrates the power of Reaper in terms of its integration via remote control and data transfer (ReaMote and ReWire). This tutorial screencast...  

Plugin handling is another area where Reaper really shines. Without your arsenal of VSTs and DXis, you'd feel naked, but they can be a bear on your system resources when your host application is bloated and buggy. But...  

Audio is the same as anything else in computerland - you gotta get it in before you can get it out. In a new tutorial screencast video, Cockos Reaper is set up for basic audio I/O using Reaper's Audio Preferences. This...  

In this latest installment of a continuing series of tutorial screencasts for the revolutionary Reaper DAW application, we get a chance to see the Reaper features that arm and record audio onto specific tracks. Check...  

In this tutorial screencast, we take a look at the features Reaper implements for proper naming of tracks inside a Reaper project. The base names of the tracks figure into the file names that underly the tracks, so...  

In this Part Two of our Reaper tutorial screencast, we show the Reaper DAW's nice set of expanded features for creating new projects. Reaper functions and features that protect against loss of work are part of the action....