[RWP] MIDI keyboards and Reaper
powetique.com
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Mon Nov 15 09:30:48 EST 2010
@Indigo,
It took me a while to realise I had to right click on my keyboard in
preferences and choose enable to make it work too. Think I read something
somewhere, which made it dawn on me to try that. I didn't need to choose the
control messages option though; mine still works without it.
@Kevin B
Thanks for the article link. Some of those will prove useful in future
methinks.
Right now though, I wanna work with Reasynth and Reasamplomatic and would
like info on good free patches. (trumpets, pianos, drums, for example.)
Also, if it's possible, how to play .wav files through my midi, (as I've got
loads of them).
Deronke
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:25:29 -0500
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What drum software works best with reaper?...
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Hey people,
I discovered reaper last week and thanks to Reaaccess I?m exploring it.
I want some input on how to go about using my keyboard to play with reaper.
My midi keyboard that is. Since I don?t want to pay for a vst at the moment,
can anyone tell me how to do this with any of reaper?s built in plugins?
Like Reasamplomatic5000 or reasynth. Can they both do this? Does anyone know
where to get some good free patches/ banks?
Also, I?ve got wav files, is there a way to play them through my MIDI
keyboard in reaper?
Thanks in advance.
Deronke
My site: http://powetique.com
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:42:03 -0500
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
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Hi Deronke,
I'm a beginner too, after much struggling, I just got my midi keyboard to
send midi messages into Reaper an hour ago.
Yea, success at last!
Now I can go ahead and really learn how to use Reaper, which looks to have
real potential.
One tip if you're having problems getting your midi keyboard to work with
Reaper, I expected to find the name of my keyboard controller, which is an
Edirol PCR-300.
My E-Mu 0404 PCI sound card was the only midi device listed in Midi Devices.
Once I realized that I should right click on the sound card's input and
output and change disabled to enabled, plus select to have controller
messages sent from the input, I then got sounds from ReaSynth and other
synth plugs in Reaper.
There are loads of freeware VST plugs available on the web.
I'll try to find some links to sites with free plugs and post them here.
Indigo
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Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 12:30 PM
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Subject: [RWP] MIDI keyboards and Reaper
Hey people,
I discovered reaper last week and thanks to Reaaccess I?m exploring it.
I want some input on how to go about using my keyboard to play with reaper.
My midi keyboard that is. Since I don?t want to pay for a vst at the moment,
can anyone tell me how to do this with any of reaper?s built in plugins?
Like Reasamplomatic5000 or reasynth. Can they both do this? Does anyone know
where to get some good free patches/ banks?
Also, I?ve got wav files, is there a way to play them through my MIDI
keyboard in reaper?
Thanks in advance.
Deronke
My site: http://powetique.com
Bespoke poems for all occasions.
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From: Kevin Brown <cursebuster at samobile.net>
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Here is an article published some time ago,...Lots of info on plugins!...
Hi all.
Just been looking through Sound On Sound for November 2010, and one of
the questions sent in by a SOS reader was:
"What are the best freeware plug-ins?"
As there has been some discussion on-list lately about what plug-ins
people like to use, I thought I'd pass along the information that SOS
came up with on this topic (a subscription fee is needed to view the
content on the SOS website otherwise). Also making this article
particularly relevant is the mention of the plug-ins that come with
Reaper by default, as well as mentions of some of the Kjaerhus Audio
Classic series plug-ins that were included in an archive of some useful
freeware plug-ins posted to this list earlier this week.
Q What are the best freeware plug-ins?
Published in SOS November 2010
There are loads of freeware plug-ins floating around out there now, so
I find I?m getting swamped by choices. One site I checked out listed
670 of them! I?d rather not slow down my sessions looking for the
perfect delay when just sticking with a good one and working with it
would be much more productive. I?ve checked out a few of the ones
mentioned in Mix Rescue and have been quite impressed, so I was
wondering whether you could give me some further suggestions for a
couple for each basic category of plug-in. In particular, I?d be
interested in any ?go to? freeware choices. I?m on a PC, so VST would be
best.
Eoghan Brady via email
Some good freeware and donationware VST equalisers: Cockos ReaEQ,
Bootsy Nasty CS, Antress Modern Black Dragon, and DDMF LP10.
SOS contributor Mike Senior replies: First of all, you could do worse
than just download the ReaPlugs VST suite, which is a big chunk of the
Reaper plug-in complement and includes everything you?re after, in one
form or another. I?ve done whole mixes with just Reaper?s plug-ins, so
I can vouch for their effectiveness. Other particularly worthwhile sets
I?ve found are those from Antress Modern (http://antress.er-webs.com),
Bootsy (http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com), GVST (www.gvst.co.uk),
MDA (http://mda.smartelectronix.com) and Voxengo (www.voxengo.com),
which cover a lot of bases between them.
But on to some specific things I like, all of which have proved their
worth in the heat of Mix Rescue! For general-purpose EQ?ing, I do like
Reaper?s ReaEQ a lot, but for extra colour, try Bootsy?s Nasty series
and the Antress Modern emulations. DDMF (www.ddmf.eu) have a great
donationware linear-phase EQ called LP10, too. For synth-style
filtering, I usually just tend to automate ReaEQ, but Camel Audio?s
Camel Crusher (www.camelaudio.com) and Ohm Force?s Frohmage
(www.ohmforce.com) have more obvious attitude, if required. As far as
dynamics are concerned, ReaComp and ReaXcomp in the ReaPlugs set are,
again, good all-round workhorses, but things like Georg Yohng?s W1
(www.yohng.com), Buzzroom?s BuzMaxi 3 (www.x-buz.com), Bootsy?s
Density, Jeroen Breebaart?s PC2 (www.jeroenbreebaart.com) and the
Antress Modern vintage emulations all get regular use on my projects.
ReaGate and ReaFIR are a solid bet for most expansion and
noise-reduction tasks, so I?ve never really bothered looking elsewhere.
My freeware fallback for chorus, phaser, and flanger effects is
Kjaerhus Audio?s Classic series, and although I could no longer find a
web presence for them at the time of writing, it?s still possible to
find the plug-ins hosted on other sites via Google. MDA?s Leslie and
The Interruptor?s Wow & Flutter (www.interruptor.ch) are cool for
general modulation grunginess and I use those a lot. For
tremolo/chopper effects, try Tweakbench?s Cairo (www.tweakbench.com) or
Oli Larkin?s Autopan and LFO Chopper (www.olilarkin.co.uk). When it
comes to distortion/saturation, there?s lots of good stuff and I admit
to being a bit of a collector in this respect. Some of my favourites
are Bootsy?s Ferric, GVST?s GClip and GRecti, Jeroen Breebaart?s Ferox,
MDA?s Combo and Bandisto, Mokafix Noamp (www.mokafix.com),
Silverspike?s Rubytube (www.silverspike.com), and Voxengo?s Tubeamp: so
much dirt, so little time! For more outrageous grainy and grungy
effects, DBlue?s Glitch (http://illformed.org) is a good bet, as are
Jack Dark?s outrageous Darkware series
(www.gersic.com/plugins/hosted/darkware/darkware.html) and Tweakbench?s
Pudding and Sideslip.
The Interruptor?s delay plug-ins are good, as are GSi?s WatKat
(www.genuinesoundware.com), Tweakbench?s Maelcum and GVST?s GDuckDelay.
That said, I tend to use ReaDelay for basic delay requirements most of
the time. Smart Ambience is a great functional reverb demo, but
Christian Knufinke?s SIR (www.knufinke.de/sir/sir1.html) with impulses
from Echo Chamber (www.memi.com/echochamber/responses/index.html) takes
the cake for me in the freeware reverb department. For stereo image
adjustment and M/S processing, my clear favourites are Voxengo?s MSED
and Flux?s Stereo Tool (www.fluxhome.com). The latter has one of the
best stereo vectorscope displays I?ve encountered anywhere. Speaking of
displays, Roger Nichols? Inspector (www.rndigital.com) was my metering
and spectrum-analysis plug-in of choice for a long time, although
Voxengo?s SPAN is also good. I tend to use Schwa?s payware Schope
instead for most things these days, however. And speaking of Schwa
(www.stillwellaudio.com), they have a great freeware bitscope plug-in
called Bitter that can be handy for digital troubleshooting. The TT
Dynamic Range Meter is great if you?re interested in the mastering
?loudness wars?; you can get it free on request via the Brainworx site
(www.brainworx-music.de).
Finally, here?s a couple of odds and ends. Although I?ve yet to come
across a decent, simple, freeware pitch-shifter, if you?re after
freeware pitch correction, look no further than GVST?s GSnap, which is
pretty effective and has seen use in a number of Mix Rescues before
now. If you?re a fan of Aphex-style psychoacoustic enhancement, also be
sure to fire up Stillwell Audio?s exciter, one of the plug-ins
available within the ReaPlugs ReaJS host, which does the same kind of thing.
836679
Published in SOS November 2010
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