A REAPER session run by Master REAPER

Master REAPER

Your whole REAPER session, by voice. Every track, every plugin, every menu, the transport, the mix, loops, MIDI, automation and renders — say it, and REAPER does it.

Sentient Systems Labs · Bobby Brooks

The Problem

Your hands are on the instrument,
not the mouse.

A session is hundreds of small moves: arm a track, load a synth, pull a fader, find a loop, set the tempo, mark the chorus, bounce the stems. Every one of them means stopping the music to go looking for a menu.

“The idea is gone by the time you find the setting.”
The Solution

You speak.
REAPER responds.

Master REAPER is a voice engineer sitting inside your session. Talk to it the way you'd talk to an assistant engineer — “put a Prophet on a new track”, “turn the bass down a little”, “loop bars nine to seventeen”, “give me a disco break” — and it happens in REAPER, on the real tracks, while you keep playing.

It knows every track and every plugin in the session by name, runs any REAPER action or menu item, and knows the REAPER manual and scripting reference by heart, so “how do I…” gets a real answer.

REAPER session
A REAPER session with the Arturia V Collection on its tracks — Mini V4, Analog Lab, CS-80, Jup-8, Prophet-5, OP-Xa, ARP 2600 and more.
The Mix

Faders, mutes and FX,
by name.

“Turn the Jup-8 up to 70.” “Mute the drums.” “Bring back the bass.” Master REAPER sets track levels, mutes and unmutes, loads plugins onto tracks, applies your saved FX chains, freezes tracks to audio and resets any plugin to a clean slate — all by the track names in your session.

REAPER mixer
The session's mixer: synths, a channel strip, a 1073, Kontakt and a loop track, every one reachable by voice.
Every Plugin

Any knob on any plugin,
on any track.

Set or read any parameter on any plugin: “open the filter on the Mini”, “what's the cutoff on the Prophet?”, “more release on the pad”. Or shape it by feel — brighter, darker, warmer, fatter, punchier, wetter — and tell it “perfect” or “too much”. It learns your taste, so next time “warmer” means your warmer.

It can draw automation too: “open the filter over the next eight bars” becomes a real automation ramp on the plugin.

Arturia Mini V4 in REAPER
Arturia Jup-8 V4 in REAPER
Arturia Prophet-5 V in REAPER
Mini V4, Jup-8 V4 and Prophet-5 V running on their own tracks in the session.
Writing

From an idea to a song.

Lay out the song — “intro four, verse sixteen, chorus eight” — and the regions appear on the timeline. Ask for a bassline, a chord progression or an arpeggio and it writes the MIDI onto the track. Set the tempo, loop a span of bars, and drop in loops by name or by feel from a library of more than 32,000 drum, bass and instrument loops.

Arturia Analog Lab in REAPER
Analog Lab on track 4 — any of its sounds can be called up and shaped by voice.
The Ear

It hears the whole mix.

With EAR·SAY on your tracks, Master REAPER hears every one of them at once. It can tell you what's masking the vocal, how the balance sits, how the master is doing, and how your mix compares to a reference — and it dims the monitors while you talk to it.

Everything it does

The full list.

List tracksKnows every track and instrument in the session.
TransportPlay, stop, record, pause.
Track volumeSet any fader, 0 to 100%.
Mute / unmuteSilence or bring back any track by name.
Create trackA new named track, with a plugin loaded if you ask.
Add pluginLoad a synth or effect onto any track.
Set parameterAny knob on any plugin on any track.
Read parameter“Where's the filter?” — it reads it back.
Shape by feelBrighter, darker, warmer, fatter, punchier, wetter, drier.
Learns your taste“Perfect”, “too much”, “not enough” teach it your amounts.
Reset pluginBack to the factory default, clean slate.
Draw automationA ramp on any plugin control over a span of bars.
Generate MIDIBasslines, chords and arpeggios written onto a track.
Song skeletonIntro, verse, chorus laid out as regions.
Set tempoAny BPM.
Loop barsSet the loop range and turn repeat on.
Find loopsSearch 32,000+ loops by name.
Loops by feel“Vintage funk break”, “boom bap beat”.
Load a loopBest match onto a new track, repeated for the bars you want.
Name your media“Save this as my drum loop” — load it by that name later.
FX chainsApply a saved FX chain to a track.
Freeze trackRender a track's FX to audio and lock it.
RenderOpen the render for the whole project.
Render stemsBounce every track out as stems.
Any REAPER actionSave, undo, markers, split, glue, zoom, metronome — any menu item.
PreferencesRead and change any REAPER setting by voice.
MacrosSave a multi-step routine — “set up my session” — and run it again.
Your habitsTells you your most-used moves and suggests macros.
REAPER knowledgeAnswers “how do I…” from the REAPER manual and scripting reference.
The EarHears the whole mix through EAR·SAY: masking, balance, the master, references.
Talkback dimDims the monitors while you talk to it.
The Team

Built by Bobby Brooks and his exclusive secret agent team of world class musicians.

Bobby Brooks
Bobby Brooks
Concept & Architecture
Recording engineer, producer, and music educator with over 45 years of professional experience. Former staff engineer at Motown's Hitsville Studios, the legendary Universal Recording Corporation in Chicago, and Wonderland Studios. Bobby's artist credits include Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Whitney Houston, Quincy Jones, Bruce Swedien, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Rick James, Teena Marie, Eddie Murphy, Andre Cymone, Jody Watley, Ice-T & Body Count, Black Sabbath, P.O.D., Def Leppard, Motörhead, Sepultura, DeBarge, The Notorious B.I.G., The Fugees, Lazy & Crazy Bone, 2Pac, Maurice White, Mariah Carey, Stanley Clarke, Brandy, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Patrice Rushen, The Temptations, Third World, The Dazz Band, George Duke, Billy Preston, Chaka Khan, MC Hammer, Gerardo, Diana Ross, Herb Alpert, Lionel Richie, Ray Parker Jr., Tina Turner, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Common, Baby, Dionne Warwick, Aaliyah, The Jacksons, Ray Charles, and many more. His credits include two Super Bowl halftime shows — Super Bowl XXVII with Michael Jackson (1993) and Super Bowl XXX with Diana Ross (1996) — and game audio on Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
45 Yrs Experience Motown / Universal 2× Super Bowl

The musician speaks.
REAPER listens.

Keep your hands on the instrument and your ears on the music. Master REAPER runs the session.

Bobby Brooks  ·  Sentient Systems Labs