100 Reaper Tips and Shortcuts for beginners is here! This video is geared primary for folks who want to learn Reaper from the ground up. An excellent tutorial for budding podcasters, music producers and more.

Feel free to navigate around quickly with the timestamps below:

0:00 Intro

File Management Tips
1:52 Set path to save ‘media files’
2:45 Create SubDirectory’ & ‘Move Media into Project Directory’
3:30 Disable ‘Select File to Save or Delete’ box
3:55 Create ‘Temp’ Folder for ReaPeaks and Backups

File Management Shortcuts
6:28 Project Settings
7:26 Open New Project
Open Existing Project
Save project
Save project as…
Render project to disk…
Quit REAPER

Display the windows for various settings and options
8:07 Preferences
8:50 Action List
9:26 Snap/grid Settings
9:35 Metronome Settings
9:47 Show Keyboard Shortcuts

10:00 Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Essential Default Tips & Tweaks
11:01 Change ‘Transport: Go To Start of Project
12:13 Importing Audio & Media Files
13:23 Fix ‘Double Click’ item
14:42 Right click menus
14:58 Reverse Scroll Wheel Zoom Horizontally
16:25 Zoom on Mouse Cursor
17:05 Undock Mixer

Transport Control Shortcuts
17:39 Play/stop
17:48 Go to start of project
18:00 Go to end of project
18:10 Record
18:30 Toggle Looping

Screen Appearance
18:53 Full Screen View (toggle)
19:09 Grid Lines display (toggle)
19:21 Grid Lines on top of items
19:43 Show/Hide FX browser window
19:57 Show/Hide master in track view
20:09 Show/Hide media explorer
20:21 Show/Hide mixer
20:30 Show/Hide navigator window
20:50 Show/Hide video window

Navigate and Zoom within a project
21:12 Track, go to next
Track, go to previous
21:32 Track height, toggle maximum
Track height, toggle minimum
21:47 Zoom in horizontal
Zoom out horizontal
22:00 Zoom in vertical
Zoom out vertical
22:47 Zoom in/ Out of Selected Track(s)
22:59 Zoom In/ Out of Time Selection

Working with Media Items

23:45 Snapping, toggle
24:13 Temporarily Disable Snapping (Mouse Modifier)
24:23 Split item(s) at edit cursor
24:55 Split item(s) at time selection
25:24 Selecting items with mouse modifiers
25:43 Marquee select (Mouse Modifier)
25:56 Select all items
26:07 Copy selected item(s)
26:23 Paste selection from clipboard
26:39 Copy / Paste (Mouse Modifier)
26:57 Delete selected item(s)
27:02 Undo previous action
27:12 Group items
Ungroup items
27:38 Locking Items
27:56 Toggle items mute
28:18 Enable Crossfades
28:44 Crossfade Item(s)
29:01 Crossfade items within time selection
29:14 Ripple editing: cycle modes

Other navigating and editing mouse modifiers

30:48 Change behavior to zoom vertically on mouse (preferences)
31:14 Zoom vertically
31:31 Scroll horizontally & Vertically

Track controls and track management

32:03 Insert new track
32:26 Insert Multiple Tracks
32:44 Color tracks
33:04 Duplicate Track(s)
33:12 Delete selected track(s)
33:20 Go to next track
33:26 Go to previous track
33:32 Select all tracks
33:40 Show Master in track view
33:49 Volume & Pan Envelopes
34:06 Move Envelopes To Track Lane
34:16 Creating Envelope Points (Mouse Modifier)
34:27 Drawing automation with Pencil Tool (Mouse Modifier)
34:34 Zoom to max track height (toggle)
Zoom to min track height (toggle)
34:49 Show/Hide Track Manager

Mouse modifiers for tracks

35:10 Select a range of tracks
35:23 Toggle track’s selection status
35:32 Mixer: Fader Movement (Precise)
35:42 Mixer: Clears all mutes & solos


Working with Time Selections, Loops, Regions and Markers

36:24 Create Time Selection
36:38 Loop, set begin point
Loop, set end point
36:51 Clear time and loop point selection
36:57 Insert Marker
37:12 Insert Maker (Prompt to name/ edit)
37:23 Region, create from time selection

Mixer View FX Item Mouse Click Modifiers

37:49 Insert FX
38:01 Bypass FX
38:08 Delete FX
38:15 Float FX configuration
38:20 Show FX Chain

Useful Links:
Reaper Blog Vids:
File Management
   • ESSENTIAL File Management in REAPER D...  

Kenny Gioia Vids:
Preferences:
   • Preferences to Know in REAPER  Part ...  
Mouse Modifiers:
   • Mouse Modifiers  Introduction  
Recording:
   • This is REAPER 6  Recording Audio (4...  
Zooming:
   • Zooming in REAPER  
Editing Basics:
   • REAPER 5 Explained  6. Basic Editing  
Ripple Editing:
   • Ripple Editing in REAPER  

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