[RWP] Recording in Reaper

[indigo]

Hi Gianluca,
If your midi keyboard has built in sounds, and you want to record those 
sounds directly to a stereo audio track in Reaper here's how:
1-- Your keyboard should have its audio line outputs plugged into the 
audio line inputs of your sound card.
You will also want to either connect your midi keyboard to your computer 
with a USb cable; or to your midi interface card with standard midi 
cables, so you can record midi tracks later.
2.  In Reaper's options/preferences, ctrl+p, If you have correctly 
enabled your midi keyboard and midi interface ; in both audio devices 
and midi devices; you will hear your keyboard when you play it.
  3--Insert an empty track with ctrl+T.
Name the inserted track something meaningful, like stereo audio from my 
keyboard, or whatever you like.
4-- Select that new track with your up/down arrow keys; and tab down in 
its track properties to these settings:
Set record mode to input.
Set arm for recording to on.
Set midi output to your midi keyboard.
In my case I arrow up 1 space to the word MM6.
Set monitor to normal.
Press enter to save your settings.

If you record with these settings you will get Reaper's default mono 
audio recording.
To get a stereo recording here's what I do:
1--With the new audio track selected, Press ctrl+right arrow to select 
the track's first item, you'll hear no item Selected; because you 
haven't recorded an item yet.
2--Press ctrl+up arrow, and quickly press the applications key.
A menu will display ; that reads:
Monitor Input M.
Arrow down to Input Stereo and press enter.
At that point I hear my soundcard's outputs named,  you may hear 
something else, or nothing.
Press enter until you return to track mode.
3--While the audio track is selected; Press the letter R to begin a 
stereo audio recording on your track.
Press R again, or press spacebar to stop recording.

4-At this point you can tab down and set the Armed for Recording to off, 
then press enter to save settings; or leave armed for recording set to 
on, if you want to do additional takes.

5--To play your audio recording Press the letter W to go to the 
beginning of the track; then press either the letter R; or the spacebar 
to begin playback.
You should hear exactly what you played on your keyboard.

  Each time you make another recording another item is added to the track.
By pressing ctrl+right arrow, you can jump to each item along  that track.


I just tested this on my offline daw, on the just installed Reaper 
version 4.21, which works exactly the same as my good old version 3.78, 
only it  requires pressing ctrl+up arrow to make menus display.
Installation of  version 4.21 left all my settings and projects intact, 
and they work perfectly in version 4.21.

Yea!!!
Hope this helps,
Indigo L



25/2012 3:33 PM, Gianluca Apollaro wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm interested in understanding if it is possible converting a midi to
> audio not using the vst. I have a roland vsc midi output device and I
> would like to have those sounds turned into audio, but everything I
> tried didn't work. Using vst and soundfonts I can do it very quickly,
> but I don't have neither good vst or soundfonts.
> I hope there is a way to do that.
> Thanks.
> Best regards,
> Gianluca
> SkypeID: gianluca8815
>
> Il 25/03/2012 20:22, Alex Westphal ha scritto:
>> Hi Indigo!
>>
>> My Tyros is connected via USB to transmit Midi. Is it possible to
>> transfer
>> that midi data to an audio track without the mixer? Awesome. I tried
>> it with
>> your explanation, but I didn't hear anything after creating a send to my
>> audio track.
>>
>>
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