Elevate Your Audio Production with REAPER: An extensive guide to recording, editing, and mixing with a powerful DAW

English | 2025 | ISBN: 978-1835885420 | 362 Pages | EPUB | 34 MB

Drawing from 40+ years of combined experience, authors Marco Galvan and Christopher Bolte take your sound and music production skills to the next level using REAPER’s versatile features and intuitive user interface

Key Features

• Set up REAPER to record high-quality audio on your computer
• Leverage advanced audio mixing and techniques to enhance the quality of your productions
• Explore efficient workflows for music production, podcasts, immersive sound, and more, using REAPER’s customization options and shortcuts

Among the digital audio workstations (DAWs) revolutionizing the way we create and manipulate sound, REAPER stands out as a comprehensive and customizable solution. Written by two professional sound engineers with extensive credentials, this book helps you make the most of this DAW by guiding you through each step of using REAPER, from initial setup to advanced professional techniques, to produce high-quality audio content.

Starting with the basics, you’ll learn how to install and configure the software to suit your specific needs. Through practical examples, you’ll explore REAPER’s extensive features, covering everything from initial recording sessions to the final stages of mixing and mastering. You’ll also be guided through creating a complete musical production, learning how to utilize REAPER’s tools to capture the best takes and edit them to perfection. Whether you’re working on music, podcasts, or sound design for video, you will discover techniques for mixing and mastering your projects, ensuring they achieve optimal sound quality and volume for distribution.

What you will learn

• Understand the fundamentals of the REAPER DAW and learn how to configure it
• Perform audio editing and processing tasks within REAPER
• Record and edit MIDI using virtual instruments
• Explore techniques for effective audio mixing in REAPER
• Understand and apply the core principles of audio mastering
• Customize REAPER to suit your individual workflow needs
• Create complete music, podcasts, and immersive audio production projects