Overall I think there's a lot of hidden gems with Reaper's video presets, though it's kind of a unique way of doing things and the initial learning curve, at least for me, was a bit steep. I certainly didn't have the vision for how this would turn out when I started, so there can be a real joy to doing the work because you're discovering stuff as you go rather than just trying to get the computer to replicate what's already in your head. I've used Reaper for more traditional video as well, but one thing that's fun about working in this more abstract way is you can kind of just fiddle with stuff until it look cool. But I think I've seen people use the 'show motion' effect in totally different ways so I imagine you could experiment with it to get subtler results for different genres as well. The chorus where the visuals get really ballistic is run through it because I wanted parts of this video to feel a bit abrasive and have an overwhelming-sense-of-color vibe. That one can get pretty trippy, but you can get all types of cool glitchy color effects. Then after all that I peppered in a lot of the 'show motion (subtract last frame)' preset.

Between that I got all the basic imagery and then automated their parameters so they'd move around along to the song. I did a lot of layering of processors to get interesting variations to play around with, often coupled with different color-based effects including 'colorize' and 'invert,' or the 'RGB decompose' preset. (If you buy his 'video tools course' you get a bunch of these, along with a bunch of great tutorials on sifting through video in Reaper: ) 2.) The kaleidoscope effect created by 3.) Several of the presets from EpicSounds, particularly the noise generators and the zooming functions. The oscillator is a super fun visualizer which you can customize in a bunch of different ways.

Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.There's a bunch of different processors layered on top of another, but I'd say the biggest ones for laying the groundwork were: 1.) The 'decorative oscilloscope,' which gets synced to either the full track, or one of the vocal tracks with a noise gate to cut out drum bleed.

Install the presets by going to the REAPER resources folder, and drop it into the Presets folder. In this video I explain the controls of ReaPitch and give a demonstration of various effects on vocals for monster sounds and on drums for glitch effects. Simon Young directed the animated clip, which introduces each member of the band in amusing situations before they all come together for a concert. ReaPitch is a realtime pitch shift plugin included with REAPER. Now they have shared a video for the album’s title track. Louisville, Kentucky’s White Reaper released a new album, The World’s Best American Band, last month via Polyvinyl.

Reaper music video animation