[RWP] Tutorial for new Reaper users?

[Indigo]

Hi and welcome to the list.
Here's a simplistic how to; sorry if it's too basic in places, but it 
should get you going.
Indi
How do I connect a midi keyboard to Reaper?


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 drivers that came with your sound card and keyboard.
Install Reaper 64 on Windows 7 64, and Reaper 32 on Windows 7 32 bit and 
XP.
Open and close Reaper once, then Install ReaAccess, being sure to place 
a check mark with your space bar on which screenreaders you want to use 
with Reaper and ReaAccess.
Open Reaper, and deal with the splash screen, and the continue to 
evaluate option, until you decide to buy it.
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 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 
checkmarks with spacebar on use as audio device.
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, repeat the above steps, tab to Okay and hit enter on it.
Enabling your midi device is very similar.
Still under the general topic Audio, arrow to midi device, tab down to 
the line with the names of your midi keyboard and midi interface and get 
the word Enabled after their name using the same routing method 
described above for audio device.

Tab to apply, okay, and hit enter.
You can test to learn if midi messages are getting into reaper by 
loading a soft synth onto a track.
Press ctrl+I to get the insert menu for loading a soft or virtual synth.
  Tab to Reaper's folders where virtual synths and effects plugIns are 
stored.
In VST, 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.
Tab down to Record source, which should be Input.
Tab to Arm for Record, and press spacebar to turn armed on.
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 beeps when you press keys on your midi keyboard.
Have fun.

On 11/26/2013 3:08 AM, John Schucker wrote:
> Hi all. I'm sure this has been asked fifty million times before, but I
> didn't readily see anything while browsing the archives, though I didn't
> get through them all of course. I've installed the latest version of
> Reaper. I've installed Reaaccess. I just ran Reaper, I saw something in
> one message about opening and closing Reaper and then installing and
> running reaaccess, but it seems to work, hitting r gave the warning
> about no tracks being armed. I've downloaded the pdf user's guide for
> Reaper.
>
> Now what? Are there any getting started articles or podcasts or what
> have you? A way to get a list of keys Etc. for reaaccess? I have no idea
> whatsoever what I'm doing with this thing. Any free accessible soft
> synths to set up and play around with? I do have Dimension Pro and
> inserted that as a DXI instrument, at least I think it did, but I have
> no idea how to interact with it and load a program/preset in Dimension
> so I can see if my keyboard will play, or even, for that matter, if my
> keyboard and sound cards are detected and configured.
>
> Mind you I don't expect a ton of hand holding, if there's documentation
> point me at it and I'll happily do my homework. I have Sonar but that
> seems to be broken, and I've been hearing about Reaper for a while now,
> so thought I'd give it a try. So I mean, I know what ASIO is and all
> that good stuff. BTW, how accessible is Reaper on the mac? It would be
> nice to have the same DAW on both machines.
>
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