REAPER 201 is a series of articles for intermediate users to accomplish specific production tasks.
On the forum, Get_Rad asked:
Is there a way to just simply remove all FX at once from a project and start with a clean slate?
There are a few ways to do this, as with most tasks in REAPER.
One simple way is to select all tracks (Command/CTRL+A), then ALT-Click the FX button on each of the tracks.
Karbomusic has a solution to completely reset and zero the board using custom actions.
How clean do you want the slate? I say this because you can build a custom action to just remove all FX or one that does what I call “zeroing the board” which removes everything and sets all faders back to zero. Just add the following to a custom action:
Just remove all FX:
Track: Select All Tracks
SWS: Clear FX chain for selected tracksZero everything:
Track: Select All Tracks
SWS: Clear FX chain for selected tracks
SWS Remove sends from selected tracks
SWS: Remove receives from selected tracks
SWS: Reset volume and pan of selected tracks.
Track Unselect All TracksJust create a new custom action and add the actions above for the result you want and run the custom action. You can assign this to a keyboard shortcut but my suggestion is to just pin it to the Actions menu since it might be a little devastating to accidentally hit that key.
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