Up and Running: A REAPER User Guide
FREE DOWNLOAD : REAPER User Guide v3.141 by Geoffrey Francis (20MB PDF, over 400 pages)

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The essential and definitive guide to recording, editing and mixing with REAPER. Now fully updated for version 3.11. Includes sample project files and step by step examples to help you learn how to use the many features of REAPER.

Includes special sections on key REAPER features such as routing and audio channel splitting, as well as numerous examples of how to use and apply many of the supplied FX plug-ins.




Additional Reading

REAPER Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

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REAPER Power!: The Comprehensive Guide opens the lid on REAPER and helps you discover the real power of this incredible DAW software for recording, editing and mixing audio and MIDI. This book shows you how to get the best out of REAPER and really make the program work for you, the way you want it to, from setting it up through recording audio and MIDI, project building, editing, routing and mixing, all the way to rendering your work ready for distribution via the Internet or on CD.

The book's companion CD includes more than 100 REAPER project files that demonstrate real-life examples of the many techniques explained in the book so you can test your skills right away as you learn them.



ReaMix: Breaking the Barriers with REAPER

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ReaMix: Breaking the Barriers with REAPER does much more than just teaching you how to use basic tools (such as volume, panning, EQ, gates, compressors, delay, reverb, etc.) to get an OK mix. It also guides you through the relationships, some simple, some complex, that exist between the dimensions of sound and the dimensions of space. It gives you the confidence to use this knowledge to transform your OK mixes into great mixes.

Although not light on theory, it has a definite practical emphasis, with links to archives containing some 40 or so project files, with step by step examples. These help you put your knowledge into practice.



Home Recording for Beginners

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Home Recording for Beginners guides beginners step-by-step, through the fundamentals of home recording, using the computer as the recording medium. The emphasis is on practical instruction, delivered over the course of 30 lessons in easy-to-understand language and logical sequence and with real examples for the reader to try out. Essential technical knowledge and theory are introduced and explained along the way as it becomes relevant and necessary. It also takes the reader through what they will need (equipment and cost) if they wish to progress to creating a serious home studio. The book is not software-based, but examples are shown using REAPER, a low-cost Digital Audio Workstation.