ROB WARMOWSKI: Hello again everybody. And welcome to this series of educational videos covering the Cockos REAPER digital audio workstation. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at the basics of track effects in REAPER. The track effects of format of VST or Direct X as well as VSTi and DXi can be added to any track.

We simply pick a track. Let’s listen here. We’ve got a vocal track up here. We’ll solo it. And in order to add an effect, you simply click the effects button on that track, and you will see a list of stuff that is currently on your system, and as we can see, we’ve got a list here of stuff that’s on my system, but one of the interesting things is that there’s a really good selection of tracks effects that are supplied with REAPER including the Cockos effects and the Jesusonic multi-effects unit. Anything that starts with JS is a Jesusonic patch, okay, and as you can see there are quite a few of these here.

There are also VS -- under VST, if you see a list of -- where are they? Here. Here. These VSTs, they come with REAPER. You can tell that they are REAPER effects because they start with the R-E-A prefix. So, you got ReaComp, ReaEQ, ReaFIR, ReaGate, ReaInsert, ReaStream, ReaNINJAM, ReaVerb, etc. Let’s pick a REAPER ReaVerb and show how we simply add this to the vocal track. So, I’ll just go ahead and double click that. I’ll select a loop, get a loop selection here going. Go ahead and hit play.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING SOLOED VOCAL TRACK OF A PROJECTED LOADED ON COCKOS REAPER]

Now, let’s see what we can do to add some reverb here.

[ROB WARMOWSKI APPLYING REVERB TO SOLOED VOCAL TRACK OF A PROJECTED LOADED ON COCKOS REAPER]

I’m not actually finding any echo reverb controls here. We do have the pre-reverb setting here, which basically adds a delay, a pre-delay to actually compensate for long delay, but lets leave that lone for now.

[ROB WARMOWSKI ADDING REVERB TO SOLOED VOCAL TRACK OF A PROJECTED LOADED ON COCKOS REAPER]

There we go. The ReaVerb plugin, I’ve forgotten for a minute, contains generator -- various generator presets that allow you a huge amount of variability and flexibility in how you actually generate the reverb. So, you can actually generate reverb using a reverb generator or you can put on a reverse generator.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING SOLOED VOCAL TRACK OF A PROJECTED LOADED ON COCKOS REAPER WITH REVERB]

And I’d be lying if I told you 100% what I knew what was going on here.

[ROB WARMOWSKI PLAYING SOLOED VOCAL TRACK OF A PROJECTED LOADED ON COCKOS REAPER WITH REVERB]

But as you can tell, you can have a whole lot of fun playing around with the various. Now we’re actually going to reverb the reverb, and things can get very weird very quickly but in a controllable and fun way. So, there’s some basics on using effects on tracks in Reaper. Please watch Gearwire.Com in the future for more videos, and keep it on Gearwire.Com. Thanks a lot.