Let's Record a Song in REAPER - Part 1 - Preparing and Editing Project Defaults

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This marks the first in a new series geared towards new users looking to start recording and mixing in REAPER. While the series will be more geared towards working with live instruments (guitars, bass, acoustic drums, vocals), depending on how things go, we may touch lightly on MIDI.

In this episode, we'll look at some default REAPER settings that I like change. it's important to understand some of the things under the hood so you can configure REAPER to work the way you wish to work. It's also important that you have some semblance of a plan for what you intend to do to accomplish the song goal(s) you have in mind.

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00:00 Intro
00:40 Getting Started
01:17 Startup Settings
01:50 Path Settings
03:11 Keyboard/Multitouch Settings
03:23 Project Settings
03:45 Automatic Backups
04:37 Track and Send Defaults
06:07 Media Appearance
07:37 Project Defaults
10:12 Opening REAPER with Our New Default Settings
11:26 Test Recording
12:28 Checking the Automatic Backups
13:30 Checking Our Default Project Folder
14:21 Finishing Up