It’s easy to smooth the dynamics of midi velocity in Reaper to create a more compressed even sound. First, open up the item needing compression into the piano roll.
Piano part with too much velocity / dynamic for this piece
Select all the notes. Then right click on an empty part of the grid (not on a note) and in the dropdown menue select: EVENT PROPERTIES and change the type to NOTE
Then in the Velocity box you can use *(multiply) or / (divide) to reduce the overall dynamic of the velocities. For example using *.25 or /4 will give you a 4:1 compression ratio. Hit apply and the velocities will be squeezed.
The velocities have been compressed
Then while everything is selected, grab the velocities and bring them back up to around 75% or wherever suits your piece.
Need more compression – just repeat the process. I usually find this process plus a little bit of manual tweaking is a really quick way to get a more even sound.
If you are using the excellent Crispytuner from Brainworx / Plugin Alliance and struggling to get the Rewire feature working in the Graphical mode – this is a fix I have found to work.
Go to the old Crispy Tuner site and download BUT… In the installation process uncheck everything except the Crispy Rewire Device (DO NOT INSTALL THE PLUGIN) just the Rewire device!
Then I have found, that if I restart Reaper – add an empty track to my project, and on that track add (as an FX) the CrispyRewireDevice, you can control the timeline of Reaper from within the CrispyTuner Interface, which takes this excellent plugin to a new level.
Some of the best tuning I have experienced and great value from Plugin Alliance.
Low latency (Mixing Mode) – Record and bounce your vocal tracks with low latency Zero latency (Live Mode) – Sing into the bx_crispytuner effect with zero latency, the perfect tool for live performances bx_crispytuner Subtle to Extreme tuning effect – THAT well-known automatic vocal tuning effect Enable and Disable Notes – Fast workflow with our enable and disable notes feature in every mode Pre/Post Filters for more accurate tuning – New Filter Section for better pitch tracking and crisp clean vocals Key detection with the bx_crispyscale plugin (included!) – Detect the key/scale of your track and send it straight to the bx_crispytuner with the innovative bx_crispyscale User interface color options – Different colors for easier viewing and editing in all three modes Complete flexibility over vocal tuning Transition Time Tightness Correction Amount Scale Transpose Global Tuning Formant Editing Formant Shift Formant Preservation Total vocal shaping Vibrato Shape Vibrato Amp Vibrato Frequency Vibrato Pre/Post Delay Vibrato Fade in and out Target Note editing Portamento effect Adjustable resizing and zooming Full plugin resizing Easy to use zoom-controls Help pop-up windows with detailed descriptions – Guided pop-up windows to help you understand our features on the go. Easy authorization – No dongle required Scale presets included to dial in your vocals – 17 preset scales from Major, Minor, and other modal scales 7 Tools for editing in graphical mode – All the tools you need to edit your vocals with ease Simple Mode – A simple interface with the most important features of automatic tuning Advanced Mode – Exposes all settings for automatic tuning Graphical Mode – Fine-grained editing with all the tools you need for every part of the recording performance Full compatibility VST2, VST3, AAX, AU
For years and years I mostly recorded with Apple’s Logic stock Steinway sampled piano VI – not so much for the sound but for the feel. It’s just always been very playable. All of the piano albums I have done including tracks like Eternity were done on that piano.
But there are now better options and one of those is Fluffy Audio’s ‘Scoring Piano’. It delivers a beautiful rounded rich sound without any harshness and it’s super nice to play. Often you listen to demos of VIs and think they sound amazing but when you come to play them, you eventually feel disappointed. The real test for me is – after a couple of months am I still using it…. and with the Scoring Piano… yes I am. It features in the track below called ‘Sweet Moments’.
A quick easy way to extract the audio from a video is to drag your video into Reaper, and then simply select the audio in the timeline, and then right click the selection and hit ‘Glue’. This will bounce the audio to WAV (or whatever format you have selected in Project Settings / Media – it defauts to your recording Format – e.g. WAV 24bit)
As that process has now created a new audio track – you can delete the video file from project media if you no longer need it want to save space.
If you are selling a digital download product on Payhip and want to require the customer to tick a terms and conditions check box before they pay, this is how you can set that up.
This product is triggering a Terms and Conditions choice
Once signed into your Payhip account go to ‘Account’ on the right, and click ‘Settings’. Then select ‘Advanced Settings’ and scroll down to ‘Checkout Settings’. You’ll see an option to: Display your own questions for customers to answer during checkout.
Once ticked you will be able to add a checkout question which will appear on the checkout pane if a customer buys any of your products, or you make the question only appear for specific products. Very handy if you have different terms for different products. If you choose specific products you’ll then be able to add the relevant products, but you can edit this at any time.
Then add your question. Here I am going to choose ‘Legal’ as I want to ask the customer to agree to my terms in order to purchase:
I’m going to select legal type question to add T&Cs
Then you can type your question or statement. For example: I agree to the terms and conditions. And if you want to link that text or part of it to a webpage – somewhere where the customer can review the terms – hit the # symbol and enter the URL. Important! Also make sure to hit the spanner icon and make this a ‘Required’ question – so the customer has to agree to the terms in order to purchase your product. As you make these changes you should see the checkout pane on the right updating with your changes. Once happy – remember to ‘SAVE CHANGES’ – and then SAVE SETTINGS – and that’s it.
If you later add more products and want to add those to your exisiting terms and conditions question – come back into advanced settings – come down to your Checkout settings, and the specific question you wish to add to and click: ‘Edit Checkout Question’. Then click: Questions will be displayed if one of these products are in cart (edit)
Now you can add and remove products from this question.
It’s a really professional feature and easy to setup on Payhip
How do we embed tempo and slice/transient/stretch markers into a rendered out audio file from Reaper. It is done in the Render Dialogue where there are several options: Note – when working in Reaper you cannot embed a Root Key, as it has no project key option. You can embed a key using Acid Pro.
Option 1: Render as WAV file only No other options selected – no embed tempo or stretch markers. When you bring this file back into Reaper it will load straight onto a track and will not try to conform to the project tempo. Looking at the info for this imported file you can see it has no tempo or slice information. However if you then subsequently change the project tempo, it will affect the play back speed of the loop if you have your timebase items set to Beats (position, length, rate) as opposed to Time in Project Settings. If you dont want this behaviour set it to Beats (position only)
No tempo or slice info
Option 2: Render as WAV with embedded tempo. Tick the ‘Embed Tempo’ option and render. When you import this file back into Reaper you will be given the option to let Reaper adjust your file to the project tempo or ignore it. (This import option displays according to your Preferences in Media/Import)
When you look at the info for this imported file you can see it now has a heading called: ACID with the BPM of 110.
Option 3: Render as WAV with stretch markers (seems to embed tempo whether selected or not)
To do this you need to add some stretch markers or transient guides to the item in Reaper. That’s a separate topic for another day. You can only render with stretch markers with the ‘Source’ set to ‘Selected Media Items’ selected in the Render dialogue window. Now when you import your file back into Reaper you will have more options in the Import Media Dialogue. First of all the dialogue is now called: ‘Slice Import” and there are 4 options:
And when we look at the info for the imported file, it now has slice information as well as BPM.
It’s worth knowing that whether you add transient guides or stretch markers to your item in media and then render – when you import that file back into Reaper and choose to import the file with transient markers, they will appear on the item as green transient guides not stretch markers. As soon as you touch or move one of them they will become stretch markers.
Question is, does having this embedded information help with how flexible you can be moving away from the original tempo and key. I used to find that loops made in Acid Pro and called Acidised loops could take more stretching before unacceptable artifacts crept into the sound, but maybe not so much these days. The main difference I can see is that Acidized Loops contain extra information: not just the tempo and number of slices but the number of beats and the root key. However with the time stretching algorithms in most DAWs, it’s quite easy to manipulate basic WAV files. I’m not sure whether to carry on Acidising the WAV versions of my loop collections or just offer WAVS with embedded tempo and maybe slices and Apple Loops. The important thing would be to always include the BPM and Root key in the file name.
How to tighten the timing of audio in the Reaper DAW. Using stretch markers to improve the playing and timing of a recorded piano piece. Recorded on a 1930s Berlin built Steck upright piano to a click track. By adding Reaper stretch markers to the main transients you can move parts of the recorded audio to tighten up the timing to the grid or beat. To manually add a stretch marker place the cursor where you want it to go on the wave form within an item – usually just before transient (highest / loudest part of the waveform) and click while holding down option/alt and cmd/ control. To remove a stretch marker – option or alt click it.
If you have audio files that you would like to protect, then one way to do this is audio watermark them. In other words, add an extra piece of audio, like a voiceover or sound effect, to the audio file that repeats perhaps every ten seconds or so. If you have a lot of files, then to do this manually would take a lot of time.
AG Watermark Generator
Luckily there is a very good program to do all the work for you, and you can download a free demo and try it out.
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