[RWP] setting up midi in reaper

[Indigo]

How to Enable a sound card and connect a midi keyboard to Reaper?


There are too many ways to connect a sound card to your computer to 
cover here, but if your midi keyboard  has a USB cable, plug that into 
your computer.
If you want to use midi caples, plug a midi cable from midi out on the 
keyboard to midi in on your audio/midi interface card, and vice versa, 
from midi out on your sound card to midi in on your keyboard.
Install all midi and USB drivers that came with your sound card and 
keyboard.
Install Reaper 64 on Windows 7 64, and Reaper 32 on XP.
Open and close Reaper once, then Install ReaAccess, being sure to place 
a check mardk with space bar on which screenreaders you want to use with 
Reaper and ReaAccess.
Open Reaper; tab to continue to evaluate option; press enter.
You will be in track view.

press ctrl+P to go to options/preferences, which is a tree structure.
Under Audio, you need to arrow to device, then tab down and configure 
input and output from your audio Device, also called sound card, and 
select  ASIO if your sound card offers it.
You should find a line with the name of your sound card, with the word 
Disabled after it.
You need to change Disabled to Enabled
The general method for all screenreaders is to route the sound card's 
name; or the word Disabled, over to your number pad cursor; position the 
cursor on the sound card name or Disabled; or bring focus to it in NVDA; 
then right click at the number pad. and the configure dialog should pop up.
Press enter on the configure dialog, and at the tab key; place a 
checkmark with your spacebar on use as audio device.
Tab down further; where You need to enable the first and last audio 
input jack you want to use from your sound card.
Tab down to output from your sound card, select first and last outputs 
to be used.
  Tab to Okay and hit enter.
Enabling your midi device is very similar.
Still under the general topic Audio; arrow to midi device.
Tab down to it's name, and arrow  to its name and the word Enabled after 
its name.
Route to the number pad; find the keyboard's name or disabled; right 
click at the number pad; and you get the configuration dialog.
Press enter and the dialog opens.
With the spacebar, place checks on use for midi input, and also on use 
to transmit control messages, if you want.
Tab down and enable your keyboard to receive midi, if your keyboard has 
internal sounds you want to control from Reaper.
Tab down and Press enter on okay.
You will exit the configuration dialog and go back to Options/Preferences.

Tab to apply; press enter, then tab to okay and press enter.
You will be returned to track view.

You can test to learn if midi messages are getting into reaper by 
loading a soft synth onto a track.
Press ctrl+Insert, the insert key up near the home key.
  Tab to Reaper's folders where virtual synths and effects plugIns are 
stored.
In Reaper's VST folder, arrow to the included synth called ReaSynth, and 
press enter on it.
It will load onto its own track.
Arrowing up or down selects a track.
Arrow to the new track that has  ReaSynth on it.
Press tab and tab down to Record source, which should be Input.
Tab to Arm for Record, and press spacebar to turn armed on.
You need to give ReaSynth an output sound engine, which can be your midi 
keyboard, if it has built in sounds.
  Tab to midi output; and arrow to the name of your midi keyboard.
Tab to monitor item; and use space bar to select on;  or normal.
Be sure to press enter before exiting; to save these settings.
You will be returned to the track view.
While arrowed to the track With ReaSynth; you should hear its oscillator 
like sounds when you press your midi keyboard's keys.
Feel free to correct mistakes, anyone.

Hope this helps,
Indigo L
On 12/8/2012 7:45 PM, Justin Thornton wrote:
> hi,
> could someone please explain how to set up a usb midi sport interface with reaper so I can get my keyboard working?
> this would be most helpful thanks
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