Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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How to swap beats 2 & 4 with custom scripts (Rapid-fire REAPER Tutorials Ep78)

Hey folks! One of my lovely donors asked for a tutorial on how to swap beats 2 and 4 of a song, so here's a quick tutorial with some cool custom scripts that make this quite easy to do!

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More Info cut for time, Custom actions and downloadable material for this episode👇🏽
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Putting song to tempo & grid
1:22 Splitting Items at quarter notes
1:48 Custom Script: spk77_select every nth item
3:08 Side Tip: Useful mouse mod for this context
3:33 Swapping beats 2 & 4
4:52 Outro & livestream tease