Many other other DAWs and audio editors have Pencil Tools for drawing clicks and glitches out of waveforms. Here’s a non-destructive alternative in REAPER using the take volume envelope.


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9 responses to “Quick Tip – ‘Pencil Tool’ Workflow in REAPER”

  1. Joel Avatar
    Joel

    Great tip! In terms of gain staging, where does this volume envelope happen – is it a trim gain, or post-fader?

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hi Joel
      Take volume envelope is after Take FX and before track input.

  2. Steve Rice Avatar

    I’m a beginner and you went waaaay too fast for me (I’M SLOW) for me to follow.
    It would have helped me if you could have highlighted some of your steps for me to get to the “mes modifyer”, “envelope segment” and ‘freehand draw’, etc.
    I went to preferences and couldn’t find anything except envelope display.
    Is there a chance you could baby step this process for us beginners?
    It’s a great tool, I just can’t figure out how to get to it.

    Thanks, Steve

  3. kibble_badger_11 Avatar

    i was trying to fix a flat spot (clip) in audio today. it was very short but still very audible. what i wanted to do was redraw the waveform….put the top of the hill back on. guessing there is no way to do this in reaper. seemed like a solution worth trying. in the end i did an edit and just removed the bit….matched amplitude and it sounded much better. still i think drawing in would be faster.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      I don’t think anything beats iZotope’s RX DeClip for this problem.
      The envelope drawing only changes volume and does nothing to reconstruct the waveform.

      1. kibble_badger_11 Avatar

        exactly. and i have rx declip! thanks for the reminder.

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