ROB WARMOWSKI: Hello again everybody. Welcome to this educational video series on the REAPER digital audio workstation. Right now, we’re going to continue our exploration of the controlling track effects subject under Reaper. Track effects, of course, are a very powerful part of this program. When you get the program, a lot of effects actually come with it that are absolutely studio quality stuff, and of course normal VSTs and DXs and DXis and VSTis are supported in Reaper, but what we’re going to look at right now is we’re going to take a look at how we can move effects from one track to another. So, let’ actually get some effects up on the vocal track here. Actually, we already have one. We have a reverb going, so let’s take a listen to that.

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

Muting that there...

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

...or bypassing rather.

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

Now, if I want the -- if I want this reverb not on this track but I want it moved over to the Bouzouki track -- Let’s clear that out -- all we have to do is we hold out Alt-Shift and we drag the effects from the source track window to drop it onto the effects button of the target track, so let’s try that. We’re going to hold down Alt-Shift...

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

...and that moved the track, that moved the reverb directly from the vox. As you can see, there is no reverb on the vocal any longer. But now there is reverb on the Bouzouki.

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

And it’s the exact same reverb and it’s the same settings as well. Now, in order to bypass an effect, all you have to do is you untick the check box to the left of the effects name within the track effects window, so we showed you how to do that before. In order to get rid of effects you simply select the effect name from the track effects window and click on remove.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING BACK SOLOED BOUZOUKI TRACK AND DEMONSTRATES EFFECT REMOVAL IN COCKOS REAPER]

There’s also a remove button down here. Now, to save the current sequence, we’re going to undo that. To save the current sequence of track effects as a chain, in this window you choose the effects, save effects chain command. So, let’s actually create a quick chain here. We’ll add, I don't know. That could sound pretty awful actually. All right. Now, let’s say that we like this chain. We’re going to save it as a chain.

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

And into the effects chain’s subdirectory goes this chain saved state, and of course you probably should point this to a location that is -- that fits your working patterns better than what reverbs are -- sorry -- what REAPER’s idea of a good location for this information would be.

You can also make the current track effects the default for new tracks. So, within the -- In other words, if you wanted to create a bunch of new tracks that had this chain of processing on them, then within the track effects window, you choose effects and save chain as default for new tracks. And that’s not something that I want to do right now but it is a helpful trick to save yourself some time when you’re setting up various effects processing.

If you wanted to access the effects preferences settings within the track effects window, just choose the options and effects plugins settings command, and there they are. This will zoom you straight into the preferences window and avoid you having to go hunting around up here for the right drop-down window. And of course, the bypass for all, for all effects for a track in the track control panel, click on the effects, enable/disable toggle button, and then click again to reverse this. That is simply this blue button right here, turn off the effects. Where exactly is it here? In the track control panel, close these up, and there is the bypass button right there. And as you can see, that puts a red slash through the effects.

So, that is just still not the entire picture but a good collection of tricks on how to control your effects under REAPER. Keep your eyes on Gearwire.Com in the future for more cool videos. Thanks for watching.’