[Rwp] Automating effects

[Chris Belle]

Well, one thing that does work is the volume up and down with alt down 
and up arrow.

that particular action seems to honor the automation readand write modes.

So one could make a send to a bus with your fx, and then if you automate 
the volume on the track you are in essence automating
the return bus instead of the send.

One guy on here says he got it to move by big amounts by slowing down 
reaper's playback so he could move a big distance in a small space, 
using the qwerty keyboard,

One  thing you could do using the item based fake automation most folks 
do here for mixing volume and pan changes and such is to make a copy of 
your track one with all dry, and one with all wet with the fx you wanted.

Then slice up and dice up your fx track and raise and lower the volume 
as you like,
for instance you know it's common to use delay to repeat just a few 
words of a verse or chorus,
you can raise the volume of jus that item slice, and then turn it down 
after that.

And by growing and shrinking your edges you can make your transitions go 
smoothly between big value volume or pan changes in items.

This kind of sonic carpentry works so well for so many things,
my long time client Earl who writes country and folk songs, and has nary 
a care for missed 8th or quarter notes,
or turning the beat upside down, well, reaper to the rescue to put him 
relatively back on the beat 'grin'.
I haven't totally mastered this type of editing yet, but ifI mess about 
with it I can usually make it better than it was.
Something Patrick could probably get perfect in 30 seconds 'grin'.


On 9/7/2015 11:11 AM, Justin Macleod via RWP wrote:
> There are various ways to produce/mimick automation in Reaper. Apparently it
> works better with Osara than Rea Access, in that you can customise envelopes
> after you have created them. Under Rea Access, if you mess it up you have to
> go back to the beginning and do it again.
>
> I don't know more than that but www.cavitraining.org is about to run a short
> course on Reaper with Osara which is to include info on how to customise
> fade and panning envelopes.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Justin
>
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> Subject: [Rwp] Automating effects
>
> Hi, I've just been reading the conversation on this list about effects
> chaining, in wrich Chris intimated that automating effect parameters was a
> bit of a chalenge. I was planning to start using Reaper with Osara on
> windows this week, or at least attempt to start playing with it. One of my
> major reasons for using Reaper above Protools, which I've been working with
> for a year on the mac, is to be able to automate plugin parameters using a
> control surface, through midi learn. So, having read Chris's comment about
> plugin automation, I am looking for some clarification about if and how this
> can be done. Thanks.
>
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