REAPER 5 Explained - 14. Track and Project Templates Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Reaper Tutorial - Video & Sound Editing

okay next we're gonna check out track
and project templates in Reaper now
track templates is one my favorite
features in Reaper and I really wish was
included in every DW as it's so powerful
and such a time saver as you'll see so
here's the situation we're working on a
song we have a bunch of tracks here and
we just recorded a lead vocal now when
working with this artist we're gonna
record many songs with them so we don't
want to start off each song having to
reset up a vocal sound if we love the
vocal sound we have right now on this
track with the input set up to a vocal
mic a monitoring setting
FEX on the track
we've a low-pass filter a compressor a
de-esser and a high-frequency boost
and we also have some effects ends we
have a reverb and an echo which is being
sent from here
he's a reverb and he's the echo
so these two tracks are effects returns
so we really like the sound we have so
as you work with new songs we don't want
to start all over again
and that's what track templates comes in
what we're going to do for this
situation is select each track we need
if we just choose the vocal we're not
going to have a reverb in our echo so
let's choose all three select them all
go to the track menu and choose save
tracks as track template if we select
this
a directory opens up where we can save
it in a folder that's already created in
Reaper quote track templates we'll give
it a name
and then right down over here are two
other options we can include the track
items in the template which is the vocal
audio recording we don't really want
that for our next song and we can also
choose to include envelopes
well automation again we're not usually
gonna need that because the automation
for this song isn't gonna be the same
for the next one so all we want to save
is the vocal track and all the settings
along with our effects returns
so it's save it and now let's say we're
working on another song let's open a new
project
new tracks
and let's say now we're ready for vocals
we don't want to have to start all over
again so you go to a track menu
and choose insert track from template
then we could choose right here a great
lead vocal
and it automatically adds those tracks
or the vocal tract
with our input said the same way a
monitoring or effects
pass filter compressor and the rest
along with our sins
to a reverb and a reco
returns right here
with our reverb
in a reco
all set exactly how he left it so it's a
great starting off point as we work on
each song
let me show you another example
set up here with live drums bass
tire tracks lead vocal and background
vocals but after we done with it we want
to work on another song
very happy with how he set up the drums
again with our inputs our effects in
each track and anything else we want to
save so we don't want to start over
every time we want to record drums so we
can do instead you select our drum
tracks and this time we're going to
right click which is the same as the
menu
and go to save tracks as template
again we can save it as wife drums again
we're not gonna save our items or the
envelopes
and now for working on a new song
and we want to start off with live drums
just right click over here choose insert
track from template
and choose live drums
and it opens up exactly the same
all of our inputs volumes are effects
everything's exactly the same so it's a
lot quicker than starting over now
there's one other example I want to show
you I've a tracking this project set up
with some effect sounds I have a couple
reverse sounds and allow booming sound
and these are very common effect sounds
I like to add to my songs or projects
so rather than dragging them in and
losing the volume for them the effects
for them I like to add them to my
projects as is so we can do this with
track templates just select it
right-click it save tracks his track
template
and we'll name it effect sounds
now the one thing I want to do different
is I want to include the items so that's
kind of the point of this now if I set
up any kind of weird panning or
automation it could include this as well
so let's do that
and now it's say this
now if we go back to a first project
and we decide we want to add some effect
sounds just select the track before the
place we want to put it right-click it
choose insert track from template
effect sounds
that's gonna import it right here along
with the sounds and if we had some
envelopes included they would be there
as well
so that's how the track templates work
it's quite a time-saver
go back to our project with the live
drums
so let's say this is our live session
and we're planning on doing many songs
set up the exact same way with the live
drums the bass a bunch of guitars vocals
and background vocals so really happy
with all these tracks now we could set
it up as a track template
but instead let's set up as a project
template so we start our new song it's
gonna start off with all these tracks
again with all the volumes the pans the
effects and all the inputs so to start
off let's delete all the audio well
select this hit select all ctrl a on the
PC or command a on the Mac then just
delete it now let's make sure all the
items are gone and they are I don't save
this yet we're gonna save this as a
project template go to the file menu and
go to project templates and choose save
project as template
again this is very similar to a track
template
except it's based on an entire project
so we can name this live band set up
now if we kept the audio we could put it
in a directory we'll copy it but we're
not gonna bring any audio into this
template it's safe
so if we close this song
and don't save it because we just
deleted or the audio
and now if we're ready to start song 2
just go up here
and instead of choosing new project go
to project templates and choose what we
just saved live band setup and we choose
it
all the tracks open up
with all the volumes their pans the
effects and so on so ready to start the
second song with all the same settings
again it's quite a time-saver
and we can set up and save many
different types of templates depending
on the working on it could be a program
project with many virtual instruments or
video projects once you get it all set
up we could save it as a project
template
find a template that you want to start
off with all the time we can save it as
a default project template let me show
you how to do that
let's close this
and let's say that template is how we
want to start off every new project go
to our preferences
project
and right over here we can choose our
template right now it's set to nothing
so we start every new song it starts off
blank
can browse to the template we just saved
I've been set up choose this one and now
every time we open a new project when
stood here it opens up to that template
our live drums the bass guitars and
vocals
so this is how you prefer to work on
every single project just choose it
right here or you can just choose them
as you need them delete it from here
and just choose them from here project
templates and choose the template you
want to use
so anyway that's
project templates in Reaper I hope you
learned something and I hope you use
these to work faster and smarter
and let's move on