Outlines major features and functions of REAPER’s piano roll and MIDI editing. Topics include: – Basic editing – Snapping – Velocity/controller editing – Recording – Quantizing – Actions menu – MIDI clips, looping; MIDI clip fade and gain – Piano roll docking, inline piano roll
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August 2nd, 2010 at 10:34 pm
awesome thanks
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Merci beaucoup pour votre aide.
Thank you very much for your helpfull videos.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 pm
i have 1gb of ram and windows 7 but Repear hangs when i use Guitar Rig in fx more than 2 times?
any solutions
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I can’t hear you as well in this vid as I could on your first vid :/
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Wort,
Hey man, nice tutorial; gives a good overview of REAPER’s UI in very little time.
Wanted to ask, do you know any good sources for free sample libraries? I’m relatively new to digitally produced music, so pardon me if perhaps I wasn’t searching Google with the correct keywords, but I was told that quality freeware sample libraries can be found out there. Any you could point me to?
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 pm
@RogetMusic Just to update on video in Reaper64 – it IS now supported, as of 3. 52 I believe. Quicktime MOV still isn’t supported though, for some reason related to Quicktime itself not supporting 64bit yet.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
@ac252c Yep! Open one track, then in the piano roll window click Options –> “Reuse MIDI editor for other items, keeping other items as secondary”
You can also edit them simultaneously using the main track view, just click a clip and press E. FWIW, I do however prefer Sonar/Cubase’s way of handling multiple tracks at once.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Hey thanks for the tutorial. Can I display and edit multiple tracks simultaneously in a single piano roll window?
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:57 pm
@RogetMusic : I just read the Post Production article, great resource! Later on I’ll try to import a video and check how it behaves. . . I’m more and more intrigued by Reaper right now: I just tested it on a small project and found out that the virtual instruments latency is even lower than in Logic, nice! Thanks for your reply (here under)!
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:05 am
On Cockos’ wiki, check out the article “Reaper for Post Production” – cockos[dot]com[slash]wiki/index. php/Reaper_for_Post_Production
IMO Reaper is the best program out there for music editing, and when they finish overhauling video in 32 and 64bit it’ll be amazing for sound design. Compositionally it still seems friendlier to the assumptions of pop genres rather than film scoring, it’s still not supereasy to add measures, change timesigs/tempos without moving MIDI, etc. Getting there though!
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:25 am
That’s a good question – Reaper64 currently has *no* video import ability, as they’re doing a massive overhaul of the video engine. Reaper32 however still has it and they’re constantly iterating on it. XVID/DivX AVI, and H264/PhotoJPEG MOV are the most recommended formats for fast seeking and best sync.
Tempo mapping is there and has been improved, but I’m still not 100% sold on it as compared to Logic/ Sonar. It’s worth a try but Reaper still has a few idiosyncrasies when adding time/measures.
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:35 am
First thanks a lot for your Tutorials series: everything is brilliantly explained! Actually, after having watched your tutorials, I tried Reaper and i’ve been very impressed so far! I’d just like to ask you a couple of questions about the application of Reaper to film scoring: is the video sync reliable? Further, is there any tempo map facility (when dealing with several sync points on a cue, for example)? Thanks again for the nice job!
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:02 am
You could get the PadKontrol, you could get a keyboard that has pads on it as well (forget what models feature that but they’re out there). Or you could even just get both really, no reason you can’t have multiple USB MIDI devices going at the same time.
It is possible to use a computer keyboard with Reaper too – set input to “Virtual MIDI Keyboard” and open it with View—>Virtual MIDI Keyboard (alt+B), highlight that window and play away.
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 am
@RogetMusic – Thats what I had misconceptions about. That was a. . . KEYBOARD. like. . . a piano keyboard. Hahaha. And here I am thinking it’s possible with a QWERTY. lol.
Thanks so much for that. And the video was pretty sick!
While I’m here though, do you think a keyboard is most efficient? I just Amazon’d for MIDI controllers – and came across stuff like the Korg PadKontrol USB – would stuff like that be better for exclusively tracking drums? or is the keyboard versatility worth it?
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:22 am
Hehe, yep. I just kinda played it in live from the keyboard in one take, just for demo purposes. Probably not enough time to give a keyboard-drumming tutorial, but in the meantime feel free to check out my friend’s keyboard drumming vid – he’s way better at it than I’ll ever be!
watch?v=0yWW6lUjC88
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:32 am
I’m extremely new to this, so maybe you can give me a bit of a pointer.
Correct me if I’m wrong: Reaper is your DAW, you used Kontakt as your VSTi (or some other sort of plugin) and it works through MIDI – Each MIDI note being assigned to another drum hit. You hit record, and play drum hits. Stop recording, and playback is possible.
I think I have that straight. But. . . you were able to play all that with a. . . keyboard? Confusing.
August 3rd, 2010 at 2:26 am
you have no clue how much this has helped me, thank you very very much
August 3rd, 2010 at 2:33 am
hahaha Native instruments are the BEST
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:20 am
OMG PLEASE HELP ME!
Sorry. . . im only 13 (almost 14) i just got reaper. Before i used mixcraft (really crappy). . . i have no frekin clue how to use this thing. I can’t get a way to add a virtual instrument. . . can you please help me thank you!!!
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:58 am
@craigelliottmusic
if by resize you mean ‘timestretch’
then its even easyer in reaper
you just hold shift and hold left click the end you want to time stretch.
im a recent reaper convert.
beeen through nearly every daw going and reaper 4 me is the best by far.
August 3rd, 2010 at 4:14 am
And yeah, an effects talk might be my next video once I have some spare time, which might not be for months. Mostly everything works just as you’d expect though, with some nice new features here and there.
I might do a brief sidechaining tutorial as well, there are already some Reaper sidechain tutorials on youtube but it’d be nice to start doing quick and simple ones within this series.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:10 am
Here’s all the plugins currently in my Favorites folder:
JS: LOSER/StereoField
Ambience (free vst reverb)
ReaComp
ReaEQ
ReaFIR (good visualizer of your freq. response)
ReaPitch (BRILLIANT realtime pitchshift!!)
ReaTune (autotuner. . . it’s ok)
SIR2 (really nice truestereo convolution reverb, costs only $200 or so)
TLs Maximizer (free maximizer, very transparent)
As you can see, most of these are included Reaper. Simple but gets the job done. For synths/samplers you’ll need external VSTs though.
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:18 am
Yes exactly! Thank you. . . I tried it on a laptop so that’s why I didn’t see this functionality. Thank you. . . . . so the included plugs are really basic I assume? You’d really want to use external vsts with this I assume. . . is that how you use it?
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:00 am
Hmmmm by “resize” do you mean like zooming in and out?
On Reaper that’s all about the mousewheel. MW regularly for horizontal zoom, ctrl+MW for vertical zoom, alt+MW for horizontal scroll, ctrl+alt+MW for vertical scroll. This is the same in the main track view and the piano roll view.
I also set the middle-button to “Scrolls browser-style” in the preferences, under Editing Behaviour > Mouse.
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:16 am
Wow. . . thanks so much for making these. I’m considering switching from Nuendo 3 to Reaper. The only thing that I see is really missing as far as I can tell is the way nuendo allows you to resize by click dragging the ruler and draging up down or right left. I use that so much for navigating the page. . . do you know how I can do this the same way as in Nuendo in Reaper.
Thank again. . . . I hope you make another video. . . where can I find out about what kind of effects Reaper offers?