[RWP] MIDI keyboards and Reaper

Tue Nov 16 06:14:31 EST 2010

Someone here asked about freeware synths, and last night I tried the 
absolutely wonderful classic SuperWave VST for the first time in Reaper.
Just google SuperWave P-8 and you'll find it, there are hundreds of extra 
patches on KVR, and it's still totally free.
All its presets are exposed in the plug's VST interface by Reaper.
They didn't show up until I sent program change messages from my midi 
keyboard, then a name of one of the presets replaced the word Default just 
below the word Preset at the number Pad.
When I left clicked that preset name I got a list of all of Superwave's 
presets at the arrow keys, so I could just scroll down to play each one.
Not every synth is exposing its presets that easily in Reaper.
Using the plug's interface I've had difficulty getting some, like 
Hypersonic, to show their presets, while in Sonar 8.5.3 Hypersonic's presets 
showed up with a little bit of clicking around in synthrack view.
Today I'll go back and try some of the uncooperative VST plugs using 
Reaper's generic interface, and try to find workArounds to get their presets 
, plus synth parameters, to display.
Indigo
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From: "powetique.com" <info at powetique.com>
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> @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
> My site: http://powetique.com
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>   1. What's the best drum software? (Kevin Brown)
>   2. MIDI keyboards and Reaper (powetique.com)
>   3. Re: MIDI keyboards and Reaper (Indigo)
>   4. Re: MIDI keyboards and Reaper (Kevin Brown)
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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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> From: "powetique.com" <info at powetique.com>
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> Subject: [RWP] MIDI keyboards and 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
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> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:42:03 -0500
> From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
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> Subject: Re: [RWP] MIDI keyboards and Reaper
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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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> From: powetique.com
> 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
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