[RWP] Getting forward

Fri Jul 5 15:15:21 EDT 2013

...and the next questions...

How I open the VST window and make program changes?

Viele Grüße

--
Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de

-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 7:40 PM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] Getting forward

Reaper lets you advance or jog through recorded audio by pressing and
holding your left and right arrow keys.
  Stop pressing left or right arrow when you arrive where you want to be.
As for measures, when you're all the way left on a track, by hitting w or
home key, you're at measure 1 beat 1, then press your page down key to
advance.
Measures and beats will be spoken as the cursor moves along the timeline.
Same when you press page up, you hear the measure and beat as the cursor
moves back to the left.
Press the end key to go to the end of track, and the length of track is
spoken.

On 7/5/2013 12:41 PM, Stephan Merk wrote:
> Hi Indi,
>
> the MPC Renaissance is not just a drum machine, it is a combined 
> Groove Box/Sample Player/Drum Machine and a very intuitive and 
> complete sequencing unit. You have a hardware controller with it's own 
> display, audio engine, pads and touch sensitive control knobs as well 
> as the software component which is the heart of the MPC. But if you 
> want to, you can throw the PC into a treasure because all is 
> controlled by the hardware. That gives you the feeling of a real 
> hardware machine and it's workflow combined with all you expect from a 
> real DAW: Audio and MIDI sync, VST, also controlled by the hardware, 
> programming like the real MPC's but with the benefit to use also the 
> mouse in the DAW frontend on the computer. But the software isn't 
> accessible and I have to use the hardware with a magnifying glass. 
> However this solution fits all my needs, are they some issues which I 
> want to solve with Reaper. The first is the XLN Audio software which I 
> cannot really control by the MPC hardware because of missing program 
> change commands. I can't chose a drum kit as I like, as well as 
> different piano types. Because of the migration to 64-Bit, some 32-Bit 
> VST's won't work anymore since in the 32-Bit release. In Reaper the 
> 32-Bit VST Bridge can handle all of them,
> x64 as well as x86 plugins.
>
> Because of my experiences with much sequencers and rhythm generators 
> and the known workflow using patterns and songs, creating a loop for 8 
> bars and set the notes as I want to, delete them or use the step 
> sequencers, I'm very familiar with this and it's a workflow which only
needs a few buttons.
> Example: Triggering a drum pattern, delete a hi-hat, the same with 
> melody tracks with the connected keyboard. IF it's ready, copy the 
> loop and re-construct it to a break, fill-in or whatever.
>
> In Reaper, it seems that I have only one measure from starting point 
> till the ending point and I have to measure the song in this way. As 
> you described, I have to look into the editor, find out each note by 
> searching (not by hearing as in the MPC) and telete it manually. If I 
> have a song with
> 32 bars of the same groove, I have to re-create it 32 times or maybe I 
> can mark, copy and paste it. But with much, much more key commands 
> except for one simple erase key on the MPC.
>
> It's hard to explain, but it seems to me if someone changes from a 
> bicycle to a big truck. :D But both wil get you into the goal, the 
> truck not even much faster. ;-)
>
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> --
> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 6:29 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Getting forward
>
> You are suffering from comparing Reaper to your drum machine moves 
> from the Akai MPC.
> No, Reaper is not as simple to use as a drum machine, but you can't do 
> detailed editing in a drum machine; like you can in Reaper.
> Just learn the couple of shortcuts to get into Reaper's midi editor, 
> and you'll soon make note changes as quick as on the MPC.
> Indi
>
>
> On 7/5/2013 6:16 AM, Stephan Merk wrote:
>> Hi Indi,
>>
>> that sounds a little complex. I remember on Voyetra about a similar 
>> way, a piano roll editor, in which the notes are played if I went 
>> arount with the arrow keys. But here, as well as on the MPC Ren, I 
>> can hold the erase button together with the wrong note and key, so 
>> it's away. A much faster way I think. I guess that's not really 
>> possible in
> Reaper?
>>
>> However, I'll try out your steps you wrote.
>>
>>
>> Viele Grüße
>>
>> --
>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
>> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 4:34 AM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Getting forward
>>
>> I think I understand what you want.
>> Do you want to delete or edit 1 wrong note in a track, really 1 wrong 
>> note in an item?
>> You go to the midi editor.
>> First select the track, by up/down arrowing to it.
>> Then select the item that has the wrong note.
>> either press shift+A or ctrl+shift+right arrow to select an item.
>> With the item you want to edit selected, press ctrl+alt+E.
>> You will hear the words midi editor.
>> Press enter and you are in the midi editor.
>> Press alt+V to bring up the view menu.
>> Arrow to Show as list, and press enter.
>> Now you will have a very neat display, with the midi notes events all 
>> laid out in lists on the track's time line.
>> Each note/event list  is numbered.
>> Press your tab key to sort through the note events, and at your arrow 
>> keys you can change values, like the note's pitch, position on the 
>> time line, note length, and more.
>> If your note on velocity is too high or low, change it at the value
field.
>> If the note number is wrong, so you hear the wrong drum sound, change 
>> it at the value field at your arrow keys.
>> When finished editing, tab down to OK and press enter.
>>
>>
>> As to recording only part of an item, without losing the part that is 
>> correct, select the track, then select the item, as described above.
>> Use your right and left arrows to move the cursor to the place the 
>> recording went wrong; then press the letter S to split the original 
>> item into two items.
>> One of the now 2 items will contain the recording you want to keep 
>> and the other will contain the recording you want to redo.
>> You can now delete the recording you don't want to keep, if you like; 
>> and record a new item correctly.
>> I hope this helps,
>> Indi
>> On 7/4/2013 4:29 PM, Stephan Merk wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Now I tried something more and found how I can create multiple tracks.
>>> I did this as follows:
>>>
>>> 1. Inserting Virtual Instrument with Ctrl+Ins, in my case Addictive
Keys.
>>> 2. Metronome set to on and press R for Record and play the things I
like.
>>> 3. Stop with space bar, I was asked to save the file which I were 
>>> able to rename or same as described. In my case Addictive Keys.
>>> 4. After Track 1 was created, now inserting Track 2 with Addictive 
>>> Drums as I did above.
>>> 5. Reaper asked me to create several tracks for each instrument. If 
>>> I do answer this with Yes, a track for each instrument will be created:
>>> Bass, Snare, Tom etc.
>>> 6. Now my first stumble: If I press any key also drums and piano was
>> played.
>>> If I press record and Reaper warns me to record multiple tracks, the 
>>> first track was overwritten. So I had to do is uncheck the rec 
>>> marker on Track 1 before recording the next tracks.
>>> 7. To do this, select arrow keys till you hear Track 1. Press Tab 
>>> untel Rec mode or so is spoken, state is on. Now press space to 
>>> change the state to Off and - very necessary - press Enter to save 
>>> this
> state.
>>> 8. Then, after recording, you will only record the drum tracks.
>>>
>>> Now, there are some issues I have:
>>> 1. Non-pattern based sequencers need to copy a drum style for some 
>>> bars, but how?
>>> 2. During recording, on my MPC I was helped by fast forwarding 
>>> through the track and clear out one special note or key. Is this 
>>> possible in Reaper, too?
>>> 3. Is there a feature to overdub, e. g. to record partial melodies?
>>>
>>> But nice to see that it's working now! ^^
>>>
>>>
>>> Viele Grüße
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>>
>>>
>>>
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