Production Tips Guitar Lessons
In these guitar lessons, I will show you various music production tips using Digital Audio Workstations such as Reaper, Logic Pro, and Reason, to help you take a musical idea and polish it.
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Fast, Efficient Techniques in Reaper
In this lesson I show you fast, efficient, music production techniques to layer a recorded guitar part in Reaper with virtual instruments to create a larger, more dramatic sound.
Exercise | Difficulty |
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Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Setting up Reaper | Easy |
In this first part of the lesson, we will get Reaper set up to make use of some very useful user-contributed Reaper scripts | |
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Converting Note Attacks to MIDI | Easy |
In this part of the lesson, I will show you how to use a Reaper script to detect guitar note attacks to be used for a layered, virtual instrument. | |
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Applying Guitar Timing, Dynamics to MIDI Track | Easy |
In this third part of the lesson, I will show you how to quickly apply the detected timing and volume of a recorded guitar part to a virtual instrument MIDI track. | |
Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments - Layer upon Layer... | Easy |
In this final part of the Layering Guitar with Virtual Instruments in Reaper lesson, we will finally get to the fun part - layering our guitar melody to create a more dramatic sound! |