 Hi guys, this is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music in this quick music production tip I'm going to show you how you can copy paste or Export your entire session pretty much everything done in the session your virtual instruments your plugins your Send amounts your choice of Effects be it reverb be it delay all of your stuff which you've done in your last project Which took you a few weeks or months of effort in my case? I have a session which is about 252 tracks going fairly strong You have all the track folders and all the fun stuff Which makes Reaper awesome. I'm using Reaper which is my DAW of choice So I want to take all of this and move it into the next project and start a fresh That means I will not have any of these Items anymore. I will also not have any of the automation which I've done any of my kind of automation done for this specific Project will not be there. So I do not want the items and I do not want the automation I want to start from scratch. I want to save as many steps as possible So I've created an action for it in Reaper which I'm going to walk you through after I perform the action First of all, you just copy paste select all command a Copy command C or control C and Reaper has this great feature where you can make new project tab So you can keep the old project there while you make the new one and here you go You just hit paste but instead of hitting paste we do my kind of paste Which is what I call flush pasting which is Command control V and let's see what happens. Yes It does take a bit of time because it's pasting hundreds of tracks with hundreds of plugins and presets and whatnot So let's just give it some time. Maybe you should grab yourself a cup of coffee Right, so it's pasted. Voila and it asks you a question all envelopes for selected tracks will be removed Do you want to continue? This means do you want to remove all the automation you have done for from the Earlier project and work with a clean slate in the new project. Yes, I'm going to hit okay And once I do that the tracks are deselected and it immediately asked me to save the project So I don't have to go through that extra step into my Reaper project folder So I'm going to call this 11th of May 2023 Rifts which is what I want to call it create sub sub directory for project already made So your projects are neatly labeled hit save and you're good to go. You can go to your piano I can go into my clavey And all my presets even if I'm recording a real instrument like bass the The channel numbers are perfectly fine all of my samples all of my drums all of my virtual instruments, which I love to use The orchestra the tape machine the EQs the EQ settings, which I love for specific instruments the buses the send the send levels The well everything the Absolutely everything is waiting for you to work creatively only thing you have absolutely nothing and a clean slate So let me just show you how I did it. I go to the actions menu Shift question mark is the shortcut for actions in Reaper and I've made a custom action called flush paste And I've made the shortcut as command control V. You can set it to whatever you want. This is what works for me I hit edit action. I'm just doing that to show you what I did. So in my custom action Step one paste items tracks That means all items and all tracks from the previous project go to the new project and it works across projects Not just within the project then we have the sws extension Which I'll talk about later in the video where you delete all items on the selected tracks So inevitably once you've selected the tracks you want to delete everything on the tracks So this is the show the function for that and then remove all envelopes for selected tracks envelopes means automation data Amount of reverb at a particular time your automation settings for any parameter of any effect or volume mute pan Whatever you would choose in the old project then I would like to unselect all the tracks Why simply have them all selected it's annoying So unselect everything then file save project as and then you choose whatever you want to save it as a new Project and then there's just one more thing. I like to do I like to change my grid always to relative grid That's the way I like to work. So I just have that in you don't need it So this is the flush paste. We will type this in the description. You can check it out and All the best with this action and do stay subscribed and stay tuned to our music channel on YouTube For a lot more lessons on music theory music composition music production audio tips like this one Instrument learning piano guitar and a lot more coming your way. Cheers and stay tuned