Reaper Documentation
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Welcome to the REAPER documentation wiki.
REAPER is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.
The evaluation version of REAPER is complete and uncrippled. There are no artificial interruptions or restrictions, and you can save and load projects normally. REAPER Home Page
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Contents |
REAPER User's Guide
- REAPER User Guide - Huge PDF Manual - Download this to learn about Reaper in addition to this Wiki manual.
REAPER Online Manual - Table of Contents:
Start Here If You Are New to Reaper:
- About REAPER - An introduction to the software.
- Quick Start! - This will get you going quickly with very little pain. Honestly.
- Common REAPER Terms - Some phrases and words you'll need to know. Skim through it now and then come back whenever you need to.
- Frequently Asked Questions - Frequently Asked Questions and (significantly) the answers to those questions.
- Registration - Once you have evaluated the software you will need to buy a license and register it, this tells you how.
Documentation Sections:
Using REAPER
the basics
- Recording Audio - Get started recording Audio
- Recording MIDI - Get started recording MIDI
- Editing Items - Change things once they've been recorded, move them, copy and paste, delete them and more.
- Edit Item Properties - Edit an Item's properties in detail.
- Effects - Documentation of the effects bundled with REAPER. Incomplete but still useful.
- Rendering - Rendering, creating a single file, an MP3 (say), from a REAPER project. And more.
going further
- Automation - Automating playback so that the volume, pan, delay length is always exactly right for each item & track at every point in the project. Or if not always exactly right, always exactly the same at least.
- Using Folders - Make your life easier by grouping tracks together logically.
- Using Effects - Some examples of how to use the bundled effects to create particular sounds and solve specific problems.
- Routing - Use the output of one effect to control another, amongst other things...
going quite a lot further
- Control Surfaces - Real knobs and sliders to adjust.
- ReaMote - Process Effects on another computer in real-time and reduce the load on your main DAW computer.
- ReaRoute - An ASIO driver that allows you to route audio to and from any other ASIO enabled application.
- ReaScript - Extend REAPER, add your own short-cuts etc. using the Perl & Python scripting languages.
- REAPER API - Extend REAPER using C++.
- ReWire - Allows applications to share audio, MIDI and synchronization data. Audio and MIDI data are transferred between the two applications in real-time, allowing you to use the features in each application.
- Reaper for Post Production
- Importing Ninjam Sessions - Work with NINJAM sessions.
Reference
- Menus - A Reference to the standard REAPER menu system.
- Preferences - A guide to setting user preferences in REAPER.
- MIDI Editor - A guide to the MIDI Editor
- MIDI Glossary - Definitions of some MIDI terms.
- Glossary - Definitions of some music recording and REAPER terms.
- Keyboard Shortcuts - REAPER keyboard short-cuts to make your (recording) life smooth & trouble free (well, a bit)
- Workspace - The REAPER Workspace and how to play in it.
Learning Resources
- Videos - Tutorial videos.
- Tips & Tricks
- Tutorials
- Trouble Shooting - When things go wrong.
- http://forum.cockos.com/ - The forums, the most important resource you have available.
Other Things...
- Help File Index - Categorized index of some of the wiki help pages
- ALL Help Pages Listed
REAPER Suggestions
Go to the Reaper Suggestions page to take a look at the results of proposals posted in the feature request forum. Visit the forum for the discussions. http://forum.cockos.com/forumdisplay.php?f=23
