Be very cautious not to click on the window and move the playback cursor. Zoom and reposition your window so you can see the downbeat of the next bar. Notice they are shown as being over 712 beats per minute! Don’t worry too much about that breakneck tempo, we’re about to fix that. The highlighted region is a time selection that was created and two tempo markers have been created. You will end up with something resembling this next screenshot. Position your mouse over the start of the first beat but DO NOT CLICK IT! Instead, press your Ctrl+Alt+X shortcut key. For me this is the first drum stick of a four beat count in. Zoom your view so you can see the first downbeat of your timekeeper track. This will put the cursor at the start of your project. Rewind by pressing the Home key on your keyboard, the W key on your keyboard, or the rewind button on the REAPER transport. You can zoom in really far to place very accurate markers or stay zoomed out a bit to allow them to be a little less accurate. General Note: The accuracy of your tempo map is determined by the accuracy of your tempo markers. With your timekeeper track chosen and shortcut key created, it is time to start dropping tempo markers!
So I’m going to use the snare and kick drum as my timekeeper tracks. For this article I will be tempo mapping a straightforward blues rock number with a solid drummer. Just be sure to pick the instrument that you consider to most consistently represent the true tempo of your song. Often this will be the drums, sometimes it might be the bass, but it could be any element of the mix. We will consider this track to be the authority on where the downbeat is at any given time. It is essential to pick one of your audio tracks to be the master timekeeper track. I like to have this set on the default of Edit cursor or play cursor and the technique in this tutorial will rely on this behavior. Look at the setting for Horizontal zoom center with a dropdown box next to it. Still on the preferences window, click the Editing Behavior category on the left. You can use any combination you would like, but this tutorial will assume it is set up as Ctrl+Shift+X.Īnother option of interest to us is the horizontal zoom behavior of our DAW. I chose Ctrl+Shift+X as the shortcut so it would be easy to press with one hand.
Click the button labeled New… to create our custom shortcut and configure it as shown: Then on the left of the preferences window, choose Keyboard/Control and you will see a list of keyboard shortcuts. From the Tools menu choose Preferences (at the bottom). You can create keyboard commands to do simple or complex sequences of commands. The first thing we will need is to create a custom keyboard shortcut in REAPER.
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These are great when creating a song recording from scratch, but what if you have an existing recording to add drums for? What about taking any existing recording and adding some midi synths to spruce up your production? I’m going to show you how to use REAPER to take any home recording and tempo map it so you can add custom drums or midi elements after the fact, and have them be in perfect sync with your audio tracks. You may have seen my tutorials on creating grooves with EZDrummer and creating custom drum tracks with Jamstix 2.
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