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Below you can find my tutorial notes, free downloads, and other blog post on the topic of audio. My music, libraries, tutorials, custom actions and scripts, and everything else I do is available for free forever! However, if you enjoy my tutorials, Sound Design, Music, or the free downloads and other services I offer, please consider tipping through Paypal, if you can afford it!
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Arya Afshar
Mar 25, 20214 min read
25+ Hotkeys for Track Controls (Rapid-Fire REAPER tutorials Ep68)
Hey folks! In this episode we will look at some hotkeys to control your tracks easily, and more importantly, without having to resize...
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Arya Afshar
Mar 21, 20214 min read
Maximizing Screen Real Estate Tips & Hotkeys (Rapid-fire REAPER Tutorials Ep67)
Hey Folks! In this episode we're talking screen real estate, and best ways to maximize every precious inch of your display! In the past,...
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Arya Afshar
Mar 18, 20214 min read
Optimizing Zooming defaults in REAPER w/ Hotkeys & Mouse Mods (Rapid-fire REAPER Tutorials Ep66)
Hey folks! In this episode, we're gonna be looking at a few preferences, Hotkeys and Mouse Modifiers all related to zooming! It's not...
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Arya Afshar
Mar 14, 20215 min read
Audio to MIDI Drum Trigger JS Plugin Explained (Rapid-Fire REAPER tutorials Ep65)
Hey folks! In this episode I wanna show you a very useful JS plugin called 'Audio to MIDI Drum Trigger'. This Free plugin allows you to...
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Arya Afshar
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Smart Markers 202: SWS Marker Utilities/Smart marker toolbar(Rapid-Fire REAPER tutorials Ep64)
Hey folks! In this episode we're bringing all the info from Smart Marker Episode 1, Episode 2, and Episode 3 together, and introducing...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 27, 20213 min read
SWS Smart Marker 201: Skip Markers & More (Rapid-Fire REAPER tutorials Ep63)
Hey folks! This is the third episode on Smart Markers, so if you found yourself confused, watch episode 1 and episode 2 first! We're...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 26, 20215 min read
Smart Markers 102: Smart Markers for Live Audio/Amp Sims (Rapid-Fire REAPER Tutorials Ep62)
Hey folks! This episode is part II of Smart markers, so watch the last episode here. Excited to be doing this episode with a little...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 22, 20212 min read
SWS Smart Markers 101: Intro to Smart Markers (Rapid-fire Reaper Tutorials Ep61)
Hey folks! In this episode, I want to introduce you to one of SWS' most powerful features, smart markers, aka action markers. Basically,...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 19, 20213 min read
Padre LFO Generator: LFO/Randomize Items, Takes & CC (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep60)
Hey folks! In this episode I'm gonna show you, through a few examples, the SWS Padre LFO Generator. It's one of the best SWS features...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 15, 20211 min read
How to Split your MIDI Keyboard to play different VSTi (Rapid-Fire REAPER Tutorials Ep59)
Hey folks! Good to be back with another tutorial! We took a vote on the channel and seems like MIDI and SWS tutorials are the type of...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 8, 20212 min read
MIDI 202: 20+ More Actions for MIDI Editing (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep58)
Hey Folks! A while back we did a couple of videos on useful MIDI Hotkeys and useful Mouse Modifiers for Editing MIDI Events and CC. They...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 5, 20212 min read
Setting multiple tracks' inputs in sequence aka cascading inputs (Rapid-Fire REAPER tutorials Ep57)
Hey Folks! In this episode I will show you multiple ways to set the input of multiple tracks sequentially. This is a useful feature if...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 2, 20213 min read
How to do Audio Tutorials Episode 2: Making a tutorial Editing Template
Hey folks! In this episode I wanted to show you my tutorial editing template. If you're a REAPER user, feel free to download my template...
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Arya Afshar
Feb 1, 20211 min read
How to Set up Tab to Transient Pro Tools-style (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep56)
Hey folks! In this tutorial, I want to show you how to set up the Tab to Transient function from Pro Tools in REAPER. If you've used Pro...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 29, 20211 min read
How to Solo in Front (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep55)
Hey folks! In this tutorial, I wanna show you how to set up Solo in Front or Solo Dim. It modifies REAPER so instead of soloing a track...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 25, 20216 min read
How to do Audio Tutorials - Episode 1: Setting up your DAW & OBS
Hey folks! This is the first episode of a new series I'm starting on How to make audio tutorials! There's frankly a ton of these OBS...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 22, 20211 min read
How to Jam in any key without knowing Music Theory (Rapid-fire Reaper Tutorials Ep54)
Hey folks! In a previous MIDI episode, I showed you how you can snap your MIDI notes to any scale you want. Today, as per request of my...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Sound Design for Visual Media - Tutorial Notes Ep11
Hey folks! In this episode of 'Sound Design for Visual Media' we will be doing an SFX Pre-mix. I'm gonna walk you through the entire...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 18, 20211 min read
Ripple Delete MIDI Events & How to design your own custom action (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep53)
Hey folks! We interrupt our SWS Resources Tutorial series to create a custom action asked by Liam on YouTube. This was a great question...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 18, 20215 min read
Sound Design for Visual Media - Tutorial Notes Ep09
Overview In this episode, I wanted to show you how I designed the vocalizations for the robot in this video, which was one of the...
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Arya Afshar
Jan 8, 20214 min read
Celebrating 50 RFRT Videos (Free Downloads)
Hey folks! Today I'm happy to be celebrating our 50th Rapid-Fire tutorial! Thank you so much for being with me so far, and I hope to be...
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Arya Afshar
Dec 8, 20208 min read
Free Downloads: MIDI 101, 102 (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep-35-43)
Hey folks! On this blog post you will find all custom actions, scales, toolbars, icons, and other goodies I mentioned in episodes 35-43...
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Arya Afshar
Dec 3, 20202 min read
Free Reaper MIDI Map files for Drum Plugins!
Hey folks! In this page you can download all MIDI Key Maps for Drum Plugins, Keyswitch instruments and so on. I will make this per viewer...
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Arya Afshar
Nov 26, 20208 min read
Sound Design For Visual Media - Tutorial Notes Ep08
Episode 8: How I won a Sound Design Competition (Part 1) Overview In this episode and the next, I want to break down some of the Sound...
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