Hello everyone … Today we are going to see 10 REAPER plugins that you should know. This video was chosen by the subscribers of Patreon and Cafecito. Let's start with a very practical plugin, which is used to expand or contract the Stereo Image. This plugin is called Stereo Enhancer, and we only have three controls. With the control that says Low, we are going to control the Stereo Width, in the bass. And with the control that says High, we are going to control the Stereo Width, in the treble. The control that says Crossover, handles how far the bass goes. If I set the Bass and Treble controls to 0%, the output will be Mono. And the further you push these two controls to the right, the more Stereo the track will play. (Got it!) Let's do the test: Let's move on to a Stereo image meter: This plugin is called Goniometer, and it has a very simple interface.
By giving Play to the project, we will see a graph here, which will show us how Stereo is the audio. If we only see a straight line, then the audio is Mono. (Got it!) We can adjust the graph mode here above with the option that says Display. We have to choose Points, Lines or Rays. And down here we have a correlation meter, so this plugin is a 2 X 1. Let's see a bit, how it looks: Let's continue with a sound intensity meter, which is always useful: By default, we have several meters in this plugin.
On the left we have a True Peak Stereo meter, although we can set it to Mono, with this button on the right. We also have LUFS meters. A momentary LUFS meter. A LUFS Short Term meter, or short term. And on the right an integrated LUFS meter. The one that says LRA is a loudness range meter. If we click on any part of the graph, we can reset to this graph.
And if we click on the button of the unknown, here at the bottom right, we can configure it to taste. Let's see the plugin in action a little: Let's go to a plugin that the subscribers of Patreon and Cafecito asked me: This is the De-esser, which REAPER has incorporated. The plugin works very well, but since it does not have a graphic, it may be a bit more complicated to hold the hand, than the methods we saw in the video on How to Remove the Eses. (Well Marge, it could be worse!) The first thing we have to set, here in the plugin, is the frequency control, which changes according to the voice. I have an equalizer here, the ReaEQ, so we can see where the Ess are in this example. After setting the frequency, we have to set the threshold and the ratio. This depends a bit, on the recording, and how much the Ess sound, which we want to attenuate.
We can monitor the audio that is processing if we activate the option here in On, in this list. And we can also change the way this De-esser works. We have two modes: A Hipass Mode or a Bandpass Mode. (Don't talk to me with tongue twisters!) The Hipass Mode, it would be a high pass filter, which would be something like this: And the Bandpass Mode, it is a band pass, which would be this style: If we use a band pass filter , we have to adjust the bandwidth of the filter.
Before continuing with the video I wanted to invite you to subscribe to the channel. If you like the tutorials I do, click the Subscribe button, and activate the Tinkerbell so you don't miss any video. (To order Captain!) And if you want to help a little more, I invite you to subscribe to Patreon or Cafecito. Subscribers to Patreon and Cafecito have some rewards, for example, they can access exclusive material, only for subscribers. For example, the test projects in this video. Let's continue with another plugin, which I also find very practical. This is ReaStream and we can use it to connect the audio output of a track to another program that also supports VSTs.
It can be on the same computer, or on different computers on the same network. (Very clever, eh!) We can give this plugin several uses: We can, for example, connect the REAPER output to the OBS, or also the REAPER output to another digital audio station, or to any program that supports VSTs. For example, I have this test project set, so that the output of this track, which says: "To OBS", goes to the OBS. I have it set to transmit audio locally.
And in the OBS I have an audio capture, with a filter, where I have ReaStream set to receive audio. (Hey, hey, slow down Brainiac!) If I play a note on this synthesizer, which I have here, then it will send the audio output to the OBS. This is a good alternative, to the forms we saw, in the video of How to Send the Output of REAPER to the OBS. Let's move on to a plugin that allows us to sequence rhythms: This plugin is called MIDI Sequencer Megababy, and we already saw it on video a while ago, in more detail.
With this plugin we can sequence Drum rhythms, melodies or even chords. To use it, we have to add it to the effects chain and move it to the beginning. (That's very, very important!) But with the mouse, we can draw, for example, a Drum pattern. And when I play the project, we are going to listen to it: In addition, it has a Piano Roll mode, to make melodies, or we can even make chords.
Let's move on to a plugin, which we can use to make Drum Replacement in an easy way. In a video a while ago, we saw how to use the ReaGate, to do this technique. But also, we could use this plugin here, which is called Audio To MIDI Drum Trigger, to do this. We can use this plugin in the same way that we use ReaGate. The main thing we have to adjust, here in this plugin, is the MIDI Note down here.
I'm going to use 38, which is for the Box. And then we can adjust the threshold, with these two controls above. Here we have another plugin that is quite practical, it is a plugin to adjust and / or compress the speed of MIDI Notes. For example, if the plugin that we just saw, to do Drum Replacement, detects the notes with a little slow speed, then we can use, this other plugin, to adjust that. (What a trick, right?) With the control that says Volume Offset, we can control the intensity of the notes, so that they sound with more or less intensity. And with the control that says Scale Factor, we can compress the notes, if we use a value between 0 and 1. Let's try this a bit: Let's continue with a plugin to make Arpeggios, with virtual instruments. This plugin is called MIDI Arpeggiator, and we have to add and move it to the beginning of the chain, otherwise it won't work. (Why do you say it so bluntly?) I have here a MIDI Item, with some chords, for us to test a bit.
The control at the bottom that says Velocity, will control the intensity of the notes. If we set it to 0, it will use the intensity of the chord notes. By default, the plugin will play Arpeggios with quarter notes. If I want Eighths, then I set the control that says Rate to 2. And if I want Sixteenths, then I set it to 4. With the second control, we can manage the duration of the notes. If we want to change the Arpeggios mode, we can change it here in this list. The way that says Down would be down, and the one that says Up, is up. And then we have some controls to add up to 3 variants: Usually, we will want to add Octave variants. So, for example, we could set this to 12, 24 and 36: Or -12, -24, -36, for the lowest Octaves: If we choose the upper or lower mode, it makes a note, and then, the notes of the variants.
But if we choose the alternative top mode, or the alternative bottom mode . So it makes a pattern first, then a varied pattern, and so on. Let's move on to another MIDI-related plugin that we also saw in the Tips To Improve Your Workflow video in REAPER, but that I also wanted to mention now: (Nice guy!) With this plugin, called MIDI Note Filter, we can use it. to make splits, on a MIDI keyboard, and thus control different virtual instruments, with the same keyboard. We have to define the range of notes that the plugin lets through. The control that says Lowest Key would be the lowest note, and the control that says Highest Key would be the highest note. To know what numbers we have to enter in these two controls, we can see the REAPER Virtual MIDI Keyboard, which has the numbers of the notes here above. In this project, I have an Acoustic Guitar set up, here in the bass.
And a Bandoneón, in the treble. With the same keyboard I will be able to control these two virtual instruments: Good. What did you think of these plugins? If you would like me to do a second part at some point, with more plugins that did not enter this video, leave me in the comments. Before I go I want to thank the subscribers of Patreon and Cafecito. And also those who leave a Like, a comment, share the videos, and subscribe to the channel. Thank you very much and see you next ….