Unlock the power of REAPER with this brilliant rapid-fire guide by Chris Bolte

REAPER is an incredible tool for us in sound – and in this brilliant, rapid-fire presentation from AirCon 26, sound designer and audio implementer Chris Bolte (BØLT) presents a ton of features, extensions, workflows and clever ways you can make the most of it. Check out the chapter guide below the video to jump straight to your preferred topic:

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0:00Introduction 0:46Presentation starts 2:01Who am I?2:47Act one: Hidden features 2:56Spectral editing 4:59Interactive HTML render statistics 6:44Video editing in REAPER 8:18Toolbars as context menus 9:18Reference images 9:34Shortcuts via MIDI 10:32Act two: Ideation & control 10:45Time stretching algorithms 12:17XY pad extension 13:27Playdium extension 15:48Parameter modulation 17:23Act three: Efficiency to the max 17:34Rendering extensions 18:49Rendering & wildcards 20:03Render multiple projects at once (render queue)21:03Fixing clipping during render 21:45Act four: Mind-blowing features and extensions 21:56Turn any FX chain into an IR 23:22ReaVerb is seriously deep 24:55Portable REAPER installation 25:49ReaPet extension (focus timer)26:30Closing and conclusions 26:51Additional resources and links 28:22Q&A: Fixing artifacts when rendering videos?

Companion guide

Want to dig deeper into the features in the talk?

Christopher Bolte has written a companion guide to this presentation – The Guide to REAPER Radness – which expands each topic with tutorials, deeper explanations, and links to the extensions and scripts he uses:

Get the in-depth REAPER Radness guide here

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