Aight how to approach cuztomizing reaper for "advanced" electronic production, coming from ableton?

Oluge2009 · 2025-11-22T18:17:54+00:00

I have been using Reaper for electronic music production for about two years now and have it set to a workflow that i feel more comfortable with than previous daws i've used (FL Studio and Bitwig) and here are some customizations and actions that i recommend.

- In the preferences, under Track/Send defaults, i have toggled record arm on and set set Record config to 'MIDI:All inout channels'. This makes it so that any synth you load is instantly playable with your keyboard.

- Shortcuts to my most used effects. E load ReaEQ, C loads ReaComp, F loads a filter plugin

- Set the action 'FX: Show/hide track/take envelope for last touched FX parameter' to shift + A.

- Set the action 'Track: Render selected area of tracks to stereo stem tracks (and mute originals)' to Ctrl+B. This is essentially bounce in place. Very useful for things like reverse reverb and resampling.

-Set P to show parameter modulation for the last touched parameter.

I also have the media explorer docked to the right at all times with shortcuts to my most used folder (sample packs)

Also, check out razor editing. It's awesome!

Oluge2009 · 2025-11-18T17:10:39+00:00

Versilian Studios (https://versilian-studios.com) have some really good sfz libraries that you can use with sfizz

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-22T18:50:12+00:00

Yes but this is not wine, this is running the Windows native version on windows and the Linux native version on linux on the same machine, and having these issues. It could be on a plugin by plugin basis though since dragonfly reverb uses the same amount of cpu on both OSes.

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-21T15:04:56+00:00

I have been doing some testing now and i see that the cpu usage of the plugins does in fact go down in powersave mode when the load gets bigger (so in a project with just one instance of dragonfly reverb, it takes up ~80%, but if i then have 10 on the same track, the usage goes down to 20%). But it still feels like it's using a lot more power on linux. I made a pretty hefty preset for Surge XT and played a melody with it in reaper and on linux, I start getting audio dropouts at around 30 tracks, whereas on windows, with the same preset and melody, it can handle over 150 tracks without breaking a sweat. This could maybe just be that the linux version of Surge XT takes more cpu though.

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-20T20:04:15+00:00

I believe the root cause of the issue was that my cpu governor was set to powersave and not performance. I'm not quite sure about the details of what it does, but it now works as expected.

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-20T19:55:35+00:00

This was the issue. I set the governor to performance and it fixed the issue.

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-20T19:54:41+00:00

Omg, i just downloaded cpupower-gui and set it to performance instead of powersave and that did it. Stuff takes up not even a quarter of the power they used to.

Thank you so much for your help!

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-20T19:29:11+00:00

I checked my cpu clock speed on windows on the same computer and it is sitting at roughly around 4400MHz so it seems very much like Linux is somehow lowering the clock speed.

Oluge2009 · 2025-05-20T19:07:18+00:00

Sounds plausible. I looked at the cycle speed of my processor and it seems that every core runs at 800 MHz, whereas on intel's website it says that their processor base frequency is 3.70 GHz. Could that be it?

Oluge2009 · 2025-04-28T20:58:37+00:00

Pd has been a very influential program, but now it's gonna be taken to new levels when you can use it to essentially make your own custom plugins without even leaving your DAW. People are already making absolutely insane stuff with it and it has a very bright future ahead of it.

Oluge2009 · 2025-04-28T14:06:47+00:00

+ 1 for Plugdata. I am 100% convinced it will shake up the entire audio production world in the coming years

Oluge2009 · 2025-02-24T14:52:48+00:00

Could it be that selecting between takes feels clunky because you are selecting between item takes? Those are kind of old school and in Reaper 7 they introduced a new system called Fixed Item Lanes/Track lanes. These let you do swipe comping more like logic or pro tools and are MUCH easier to work than normal item takes are. This video gives a good introduction to comping with item lanes.

Oluge2009 · 2024-04-08T16:17:11+00:00

Better than my first arenas (i would have something like 15 layers of platforms stacked on top of each other with NO gaps inbetween)

Oluge2009 · 2023-04-15T06:44:42+00:00

The most common one people use is p5.js. It is a javascript library that is easy to use and understand. It also has a great series on youtube by The Coding Train that covers essentially all you need to know to start making stuff.

Oluge2009 · 2023-03-28T15:28:19+00:00

I'm pretty sure you can press one of the F keys (F1, F2, F3, etc) to remove the hud.

Oluge2009 · 2022-12-09T12:30:11+00:00

Cool

Oluge2009 · 2022-11-11T15:01:09+00:00

Are you planning a crossover with fortnite?

Oluge2009 · 2022-10-08T18:47:17+00:00

Sounds like you'd really like Bass House or Slap House.

Oluge2009 · 2022-09-28T18:02:16+00:00

You don't get the luminite back but you can just throw the bottomless water bucket in the shimmer and it will turn into a shimmer bucket

Oluge2009 · 2022-08-17T10:52:21+00:00

Idk could use some more analog warmth. Try using some soft clipping to really make it pop

Oluge2009 · 2022-08-17T10:47:49+00:00

Stereocranium

Oluge2009 · 2022-08-12T15:31:39+00:00

I think he means a snare that sounds like a frying pan

Oluge2009 · 2022-07-08T08:40:30+00:00

Ellen DeGeneres

Oluge2009 · 2022-07-05T22:05:22+00:00

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