Settings
Avoid dangling project and ensure audio stems are saved in the right place:
- Project -> Prompt to save on new project [x]
Better default send:
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Project -> Track/Send Defaults -> Send gain
-18db
-> Send midi by default [ ]
Assign midi controller, press ? to see action list
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Transport play (not play/stop because that requires the button to stay pressed) -
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Transport stop -
<-
Markers: Go to previous marker/project start -
->
Markers: Go to next marker/project end
Use
Find shortcut
to find the action of an existing key
Disable auto fading on cut:
- Project -> Item Fade Defaults -> Untick all the “Fade-in/fade-out”
Navigate arrange view with middle click:
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Editing Behavior -> Mouse Modifier:
- Context: Arrange view
- middle drag
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Default action set to
Hand scroll
Center zoom on mouse position (instead of play cursor):
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Appearance -> Zoom/Scroll/Offset -> Horizontal zoom center:
Mouse cursor
Untick to disable Tiny fade in on playback start
Bind (e.g. to z
) Toggle solo for selected tracks
, to quickly solo the current track, whatever the current view.
Match item or track loudness with SWS
- select items
- show actions list
- SWS/BR: Normalize loudness of selected items/tracks
- pick items (the clip) or tracks (the mixer)
- set lufs to -14 for spotify
Find BPM
- insert tempo marker in the timeline shiftc, for example at position 5
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in TCP, change tracks timebase to
time
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change source properties: check
ignore project tempo
- ctrl drag the mark to match transient
Move items on one axis only: ctrlshift
Midi note too early
When recording midi sequence through extenal synth with the miniFuse, the audio latency is negative (recording starts a few ms after the audio play first midi).
In Preferences
-> Audio
-> Recording
, untick Use audio driver reported latency
, then adjust recording manually.
Free impulse response
For ReaVerb, use Big Gee’s Lexicon 480L, like Large Room, or Small Plate (which is bigger :)
Automatic Gain Riding
- Use loudness meter plugin to write LUFS-M env
- Move automation to track envelop
- Tweaks envelop params to inverse
Master FX by Kenny Gioia
- ReaEQ (e.g. shelft +1db)
- JS 1175 (e.g. -10db threshold, 3db gain, 140 atk, 180 release)
- ReaXComp (e.g. ratio 4/1, check program dependent release, link the thresholdm -10db threshold)
- ReaLimit
- JS Loudness Meter (to check LUFS-I for max -8)