REAPER 5 Explained - 26. The Project Media/FX Bay Video Lecture | A Complete Course: Reaper Tutorial - Video & Sound Editing

okay next we're gonna check out the
project media effects Bay in Reaper
now to get to it we'll go to the view
menu
and choose the project media effects Bay
and again you'll notice there's a key
command to open it up on the PC its
control B and on the Mac its command B
and if we choose it
the project media effects bay shows up
now right now it's docked but again like
all windows it doesn't have to be
we could select this
and then it becomes its own folding
window let's put it back
it makes it easy to work with because we
can see our project and the bay at the
same time now at first this seems like
the media explorer as it lists or files
but there is a difference the project
media Bay feels with just the files that
are already in a project where the media
explorer feels with the files that are
on the computer that are not in the
project already so you can import them
into your project where in this window
they're already there all the files over
here on the same files
that over here so it's dealing with your
current project
but if you do want to import files from
your computer we could still do it to
this window we can go right down here
the media Explorer
opens of that so from here we can add
files to a project
boy let's close this as we dealt with
that in the last video now let's deal
with the project media effects Bay
now the first tab up here is called
source mediator these are the files that
are on your computer we have two
acoustic guitar files and a few drum
files and like I said these are already
in a project
right up here
now if we go to this one media items
first it looks identical because at this
point we only have one item per file in
our project but that's gonna change if
we split the guitars here here
we can see down over here we now have
more acoustic guitar items because each
one of these represents the ones over
here
go back to our source media we still
only have the original ones these two
because these point to the files on your
computer by splitting these over here we
didn't create more files we just created
more items that point to those files
which is why more show up in this tab
but for the most part both of these tabs
behave the same way as you'll see let's
put these back
let's see we can do in this window the
first thing we could do is we can mute
our files right from this window
turn off the guitar just select these
both right-click it and choose mute
now the acoustic guitars are turned off
now you're probably wondering why would
you want to do this here we could just
do it right over here that is true but
in a very busy session let's undo this
it might be hard to find our justo
guitars maybe we have 12 or 15 guitar
tracks so instead of looking for them in
the arrangement window we can go right
down here go to our filter type an
acoustic guitar
and just those files show up so then we
can select them and mute them from here
so some occasions it's a lot quicker
just to do it here instead of searching
track-by-track and again this works the
same way
with the media item taps
a filter type in something like kick
and just a kick items show up or the
source media kick files
let's clear the filter now the next
thing we could do here is see the path
for our source files right over here and
if you notice they're all in the same
folder because this projects very
organized the role on the folder called
song 1
with their foundings now if you see a
file in this window that seems out of
place that means your project might be
disorganized and if you backup just that
folder you might not backup all your
files so if that does happen
just right-click it go to move copy and
choose copy file to project media
directory
and that'll copy that file to the same
directory that you're already using
so keep your files very organized this
is a good time to show you a preference
we go down here to media
an option right here that's off by
default copy imported media to project
media directory this is off by default
so if you bring in loops or sound
effects from different places it's not
going to copy them to your project media
directory so if you choose this every
time you bring in a file from a
different place it's gonna copy it and
put it in your project folder keeping
things a lot more organized so I would
suggest turning this on but again it's
off by default
but you could always change it over here
just right-click go to move copy and
copy it to your project directory
so all your files are in the same place
and we could also additional files from
this window
go right here to the Hyatt click this
green button let me hear the hi-hat
or the kick or the snare so it's a great
way of hearing our files right from this
window and we can adjust the volume of
auditioning right down over here in this
volume is just for auditioning it
doesn't change anything else
now the next thing we could do
click is check the usage this high-hat
file is in all these different places
as you can see over here
every time it's placed it shows up
under our usage so we can choose it from
here we select this one
this one is highlighted so it's a great
way of finding where each file is being
used
snare right cookie good usage choose it
and we can see that our snare is used
right here
the next option is to rename a file I
wouldn't suggest doing this with the
source media because here's a problem
that could occur let's say you save this
as mixed number one then you rename your
file and save it as mixed number two
when you go back to mixed number one
Reap is not going to know the name of
your file because you renamed it in your
directory on your hard drive so I would
recommend changing this unless you're
sure of what you're doing but what you
can do instead is go to media items and
change it here rename the active take
and from here we could change the name
of the take
as it appears over here
now the next option is retain or remove
by default all these files are going to
be removed if we erase them from the
project
so if we go to our hi-hat
and delete them it no longer shows up
over here
in the items or the source media it's
removed from the project it's still on
our hard drive it's not deleted but it's
not in this project and that's set by
default but we don't have to keep it
that way
let's undo that
go right here under retain right-click
it and choose to retain it
so now if we delete it over here
removed from a track but it still shows
it down here
fact we could see our status instead of
staying active it now says available if
we undo it
chose back up and now it's active again
what's a mute the guitars
and now they show up as active again
and what switch this back to the default
remove from the bay if removed from the
project
now the next option right down here
is replace in projects this is a very
powerful feature because we can replace
our sounds while keeping them in place
in our song
let's say for the kick-drum we want to
change the sound
go to the kick under the source media or
the media items both will work right
click it go to replace him project
and we can change each instance or we
can change all of them we can choose
other sounds in the project or browse in
our computer for the file so it's in a
new file this way
that opens up a dialogue where we can
import a whole new file
let's go to our drum sounds go to our
909
and choose a 909 kick-drum if we choose
this
you're likely replaced the kick right
here
for it look like this with the other
sound redo it and now looks like this
with every instance replaced now if you
notice
down here the old kick is gone because
we didn't set it to retain it when it
was replaced so if we retained it first
let's undo it we're back to old kick
right here let's retain it
and now let's replace it again go down
here go to all instances browse for file
we'll go back to
nine kick
and now it replaces it again
but the old one is retained see right
here so now we can retain the 909 right
here
back and forth before the nine-oh-nine
replace it with all instances but this
time we'll go to retained
and from here we could choose our old
kick
and that replaces it up here but we can
go back
over here
replace it
retained and go to the 909
and it switches it back to that kick
drum so it's a great way of switching
our sounds on the fly as it replaces
every instance of where they were placed
so let's undo all that now everything
we've been doing so far can be done with
multiple selections
so we can select all them right click
move all them in one shot
well we can retain them all the same way
for them
and retain them
or put him back to the default so we do
multiple things at the same time by
selecting multiple items or multiple
files
we could also get comments for our files
so these guitars here
we could add a comment name them keeper
and that file has the comment next to it
so it's a great place to put notes about
our files now we could also create
folders
let's right-click and create a new
folder
what's name it drums
let's make another one
anaemic guitars
and we can grab our files and just drag
them in toget ours
the drums and here now you have folders
to keep things more organized no pajamas
right here
well guitars and we could have separate
folders from media items so what set up
over here can be completely different
from what's set up over here
just a great way of keeping things more
organized
and we could delete those folders but
keep the items tweet that one and this
one and the items or files are still
there
now down over here to the lower right
there's buttons for everything I've been
showing you for usage for muting
renaming replacing and removing but we
could also go here to options now most
of these are pretty obvious but there's
one I want to show you right up here
mirror selection and bay and project
this is off by default but if we select
it then everything we do in this window
is mirrored
in the arrangement window and vice versa
so if we select the acoustic guitar left
this one is selected
we set the snare
selected down here making it a lot
easier to find just choose our kick
selected over here
hi hat over here and it selected over
here
now so far I've only shown you the
source media and the media items but
there's a few other tabs here the next
one is effects this is going to show us
all the effects in the project now
you're probably wondering why would I do
it here we could just go to our tracks
and adjust from there that is true but
sometimes it's faster
to do it from here let's say you want to
adjust the EQ on your guitars go over
here this plug-in riku check out the
instances it's on two different tracks
both acoustic guitar tracks and we could
select it right here here's the first
one
we can adjust the EQ on it
we'll go to our compressor which is only
on a kick and
just that right here
and we can readjust our compressor right
from here instead of searching for track
it's on
all the effects show up in here with
every instance that they're on
and we can change the presets from here
which is very useful so with our kick we
can go right here and change that preset
for the compressor
orthe Arbit ours which have to accuse
we can go to our preset and right-click
and not only could change it on each
instance we could change it on all the
instances go right here and change our
preset on every EQ in our project
such the effects
we can also adjust the affects
parameters we choose this all the
plugins show up here again but we click
it
the parameters use a threshold we could
right-click it
our controls make a track envelope
adjust what ad parameter modulation
right from here
and we could do it with every parameter
on every plugin
just choose it for the seek you go to
that parameter
and make that adjustment
now the next tab is for our item groups
if you remember in an earlier video we
could group our items
like a kick drum
every item can be grouped
or a snare or the hi-hat all these items
are grouped together so they show up
down here here we can see all the item
grouping in our project so we can select
them from here and it selects all the
items in that group
we could rename the group we could
delete the group
and the group is gone
they don't move together
so all the item grouping shows up right
here and we can see how many items are
in group is 158 here 79 here and so on
now for the last option take comps let's
different projects now in this project
have an item with many different takes
and if you remember we can choose each
take by clicking on them
if you want to save a comp just
double-click it all right click it go to
comps and save a comp here
as you can see we already have three
so we can record them
right from here that's comp one
come to
and comp three
but we can view them in the project
media effects Bay let's open it up
right in this tab we see a comp come one
come two and comp three
you activate them from here
activate this comp
then each take under that comp becomes
active
same with this one
and all these become active now where
this is helpful is comparing a different
comps
let's go back to a first one activate it
and see that all of them are now active
we're going to come to they're all
inactive
which means on each item the takes we
chose are different at least from comp
one to comp 2
but if we go to comm three some of these
are active because the second and third
piece are the same as comp one
so it's a great way of comparing them
the same thing down here on the last two
these last two items have the same
active take
as comp one
and we can also change it from here for
instance let's say we like comp one
but in the West item
over here
we preferred com2 we can go down here
make this one active
and now a hearing parts of cob borne and
parts of comp - let's do the same thing
for the second line
let's make that one active and now we
created a whole new comp based on pieces
of comp on and pieces of comp to
so now we can go over here
Andrey save it as a new comp
become four
now we have a fourth comp right down
here so we can compare this comp to the
other ones so it's a great way of
working with multiple cops comparing
them combining them or whatever
now let's go back to a first project
and for working on a project and we
really like the sounds that are in it
maybe we have a lot of drum samples or
effects or loops and we want to use them
for other songs we can go down here
under Bay and save it save Oh items as
new project bag then we can give it a
name
go to our new project go right here
load and merge from the original project
which will show up right here and it'll
bring in our source media the items the
effects parameters even the groups and
take comps
oh that can be brought in from one
project to another right from this Bay
it's really good for drum samples effect
sounds anything we want to use in
multiple projects we can save the bay
and bring it in to a new project so
anyway that's the project media effects
Bay in Reaper let's move on
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