REAPER 5 Explained - 25. Media Explorer Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Reaper Tutorial - Video & Sound Editing

okay next we're gonna check out the
media explorer in Reaper now to get to
the media explorer
go to view menu
and go right here there's also a key
command for it on the PC it's alt
control X on the Mac it's option command
X and if we choose it
it opens up right down here right now
it's docked in our main window but it
doesn't have to be we can fold it
in its own separate window right here
but let's read Aki
as it makes it easier to work with this
and the arrangement window at the same
time as you'll see
now the purpose of the media explorer is
to add in media items to a project like
video or audio or even mini items now we
can do this right from our directory in
our computer we can just drag-and-drop
but the media explorer gives us more
features as you'll see and by using the
key command we can open and close it
very easily
so let's take a look at how this works
if we go down here to my desktop we see
there's a folder here called sound
library I have a lot of sounds in this
folder so if I want to drag these in to
our project this is a great place to do
it
now if we right click this folder we can
make it a database and what that does is
it puts it over here puts all our media
items in a big list all the items that
are in that folder
and we could search through them by
using the filter over here by typing kik
all my kick sounds show up where snare
know my snare sounds show up or at least
the sounds that have the word snare in
them now we don't have to use a database
let's clear this
and what's to eat this over here
we could also just make a shortcut right
click over here and this is a shortcut
list and it moves a folder over here
this makes it easier to see our folders
or subfolders within the folders
but even as a shortcut we can still
search it using the filter go over here
typing kick
while kick sounds show up along with
folders with the same name
so if you do it as a shortcut or as a
database and we can have as many
shortcuts or databases as we want
and we could delete it just as easily
right here remove it and it's gone
let's say it back in
now let's pick a sound we want to add to
a project what's going here
there's a few sounds in this folder no
addition them just click on them go to
the play button down here and we can
hear it
we could also choose autoplay now if we
choose them they're gonna play as soon
as they're selected we could also use a
spacebar to play them
hit the spacebar and we hear the sound
we could also loop them over here
so if we turn looping on and we play the
sound it's going to loop over and over
again
now down over here is the routing window
this is how we audition the sound
by default it's set up to be the main
ounce output 1 & 2 we could switch it to
headphones or any of the outputs on your
audio interface now if we go up here
this is a pretty cool option play
through selected track
let me show you that works if we make a
new track
and put an effect on it
let's use the rez filter
and let's say we want to edition the
sounds to this effect we know we're
going to use it
so we want to Edition the sounds through
it if we use reverb or delay or even
this filter so we can hear the sounds
how they're gonna sound before we choose
them
so if we select this
go to the routing and choose play
through selected track
now if we play the sound the place for
that filter without a fact or basically
through this track so it was panned to
the left
we only hear it out of the left
so it's great if we know we're going to
process a sound afterwards
we want to choose based on that
processing
let's delete that and what switch this
back to a main outputs now we can adjust
the auditioning volume
right over here but this volume is only
for auditioning it's not going to affect
when we bring the sound in
now down over here we can temple match
our sounds
so in the case of these sounds which are
loops it's going to time stretch them
that's the tempo of our song
because if we don't do that they're not
gonna match our song
so you can change it right here it's a
temple match and now it sounds like this
it's a lot faster
we could switch it the temple match half
gonna be half speed or double speed
very flexible so tape a match on
if we add it to the project it's going
to play in time with the rest of the
song
so it's imported
a few different ways we could
right-click it insert into project on
new track but before we do that let's
put a cursor right on the bar on bar 2
then right click this insert' the
project on new track and that adds it in
right here right on part two
let's hear it it's perfectly in time
because temple match was turned on
there's a few other ways of bringing it
in let's delete this we could drag it
right over here to the track control
panel
also creates a new track but it puts the
file right at the beginning
we can also drag it to a track that
already exists so if you have a track
here just drag it in
rather the timeline and place it then we
can add it to a previously created track
we could also drag it right underneath
our tracks right here and it places it
right where we drop it
but my favorite way is to double-click
it
just put the cursor random bar to
double-click this
and it imports it front impart to
now if you notice we're on the left here
it automatically names the new track
based on the file we dragged in
so this is named drum beat because the
file was named jumping now we could also
change our pitch what's to eat this and
let's say I wanted to add a kick sample
let's choose this
open our kik samples let's choose this
kick drum let's say the pitch was too
low
we can change the pitch right here
to be a lot higher now we could drag it
in
put right on the bar it makes a new
track and the pitch is raised higher
let's hear that now if you notice the
rate changes well that's because we
accidentally
left is on tempo match
that's okay because everything we
dragged in as far as pitch or rate can
be changed in the media item properties
double-click it
whatever here's our pitch and over here
is the playback rate so we can put this
back to one leave the pitch as is
that problem so now it's still pitched
up but it's not time stretched
and we can readjust the pitch as well
change the four
because nothing we do down here is
destructive we can always change it
afterwards
let's delete this now one of the best
reasons to use the media explorer
instead of dragging it in from your
directory is we could import just a
piece of an audio file or a video file
so let's go back to our loops
and go to our piano let's hear it now
the phrase is kind of long let's say we
just want to use the first part
we just wanna use this section and loop
that we can do that in the media
explorer just select it
trim it to size
let's make sure looping is on too short
let's bring it over here let's zoom in
with our mouse
and get it perfect
now that's a perfect loop but it's
shorter than the entire file so now if
you drag in just this piece with tempo
match turned on and place that
right over here on the bar and just that
section was brought in
now looping is on by default so we can
stretch this out
and just the section we brought in is
gonna loop so this area over here then
we looped is not going to be this piece
over here because we only brought in the
first half
let's turn these off because in a work
with the piano let's hear this now we
just have the first half of the phrase
this piece right here not the whole file
so it's great if we deal with an audio
file that has many different samples you
don't have to bring the whole thing in
you can open it up in here
just grab the sample you want or the
sound effect you want and just bring
that in it's a lot more powerful than
dragging it in from your directory
so anyway that's the media explorer in
Reaper let's move on
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