ROB WARMOWSKI: Hello again everybody, and welcome to this series of instructional videos on the Cockos REAPER digital audio workstation. Today, we’re going to take a look at how exactly to control effects in REAPER because REAPER does provide you with a number of tools that can help you manage your track effects. You can change the order in which the effects are applied. You can copy or move any effects from one track to another. You can save and you can retrieve any sequence of effects. There’s a chain that can be easily inserted into other tracks. You can bypass an individual effect or an entire chain or you can specify a default set of effects. It could be automatically inserted into new tracks for your project.

So, let’s take a look at some of the tasks here. If you wanted to adjust the values for track effects parameters, just drag with the mouse. Now, what exactly did I mean here. Well, let’s go ahead and insert -- We got a project up here.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING A SOLOED VOCAL TRACK FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

We’ve soloed out the vocals, and we’ve got a loop selection here. We’re going to click on effects and we’re going to add some reverb to that. We’ll just go ahead and look that way. We’re going to tell it to generate a reverb.

[ROB WARMOWSKI APPLYING REVERB TO A SOLOED VOCAL TRACK FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

We can increase the room size here.

[ROB WARMOWSKI APPLYING REVERB TO A SOLOED VOCAL TRACK FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

That’s kind of a subtle reverb. We’ll open up the wet a little bit.

[ROB WARMOWSKI APPLYING REVERB TO A SOLOED VOCAL TRACK FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

It’s a little more obvious. And this is a good example of dragging with the mouse, scrolling with the mouse wheel over the fader. You can do that as well. Now, if you want to change the track effects order for a track, all you have to do is drag and drop the effects name up or down within the track window, so let’s go ahead and add a second effect, say for example...

[ROB WARMOWSKI PONDERING ON EFFECT SELECTION FOR A SOLOED VOCAL TRACK FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

...we’ll put the dynamics processor. We can reduce the output gain and also select the various frequencies where these things take place. Now you can see that there’s a kind of a low pass filter on in place here, and we can have that low pass filter appear before or after the reverb. Right now, it’s appearing after the reverb. We can reverse this by simply grabbing here and dragging up. And so now reverb is actually working on the attenuated frequencies that the reverb effect is working on.

If you wanted to copy effects from one track to another, all you have to do is you hold down Ctrl, you drag the effects from the source track window and drop on the effects button to any other track. So, let’s say let’s get rid of the reverb here, and we do that by clicking in and clicking remove. If we want to add the same reverb that is currently on the vox track and we want to add it to the Bouzouki track, simply hold down control and drag the effects from the source track window, source track effects window, and drop on the effects button for any other tracks, so let’s try that, and onto it it goes. And now there’s an effects active, this exact same effect and exact same settings, exact same settings and effect are active for the Bouzouki track here. Let’s listen to it and see what happens.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING BACK SOLOED DRY BOUZOUKI TRACK FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

All right, and that’s dry, and that’s with a little wet.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING BACK SOLOED BOUZOUKI TRACK WITH EFFECTS FROM A PROJECT LOADED IN COCKOS REAPER]

Now, there are some of the track controls or the track effects controls in REAPER. Watch Gearwire.Com in the future for more videos covering the REAPER digital audio workstation and plenty of other cool software. Thanks for watching.