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Smoother waveforms and meters in REAPER

In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to make your meters and waveforms in REAPER look way smoother 👌

REAPER allows you to customize the smoothness of your meters and waveforms. By default, the settings are quite low, resulting in a jagged appearance.

I am going to go over how you can customize each of these now.

🌊 Smoother waveforms

You may have noticed that when REAPER is recording, waveforms are drawn very slowly. And it's because the default refresh rate of this is only 3 Hz. We can crank this to 30 Hz and make it look waaay smoother like this:

Waveforms when recording.
Waveforms when recording.

This is especially cool if you film videos like this!

Setup:

  1. Go to Preferences > Recording.
  2. Where it says "Show preview ...update frequency", set it to 30Hz.
  3. Done! Try recording and your waveforms should look much nicer 😊

🎚 Smoother meters

Meters can also be quite adjustable!

Track and plugin meters.
Track and plugin meters.

Setup

  1. Go to Preferences > Track Control Panels.
  2. Where it says “Meter update frequency”, set it to 30 Hz.
    I also suggest changing “
    Meter Decay” to about 40 db/sec.
  3. Done! Your track meters should look way smoother now.

If you have VU meters on your tracks, they should also be looking better now 🙂

That’s it!

If you notice any performance hiccups you can lower the frequency numbers to maybe 15 or lower. I personally don’t notice any difference with these settings even in older machines.

Enjoy 💙