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Here's a Getting Going tutorial I posted some time back.
It needs to be worded smoother, but it should get your soundcard and 
midi keyboard configured:
Connecting a midi keyboard to Reaper and getting going:

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 XP.
Open and close Reaper once, then Install ReaAccess, being sure to place 
a check mark with 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, arrow to device, then tab down and configure input and 
output from your audio Device, also called your 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 over to your number pad cursor; position the cursor on the sound 
card name; 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.
  Tab toUse as Audio Device and place a checkmark on it with your spacebar.
Tab down to your soundcard inputs and select the first and last inputs 
you want to use, then tab to soundcard outputs and select first and last 
outputs you want to use. tab to Okay and hit enter.
Enabling your midi device is very similar.
Still under the general topic Audio, arrow to midi device, tab to it's 
name, like the name of your midi keyboard, and get the word Enabled 
after its name by routing over to your numberPad, right click on that 
name at your numPad, then follow the configuration dialog.
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
  Arrow to Insert Virtual Synth on a Track.
Press enter.
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's name.
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.
You need to give ReaSynth an output sound engine, which can be your 
soundcard, or even the default Microsoft synth.
Tab to midi output; and arrow to a sound engine, like your soundcard or 
Microsoft synth.
Tab to monitor item; and use space bar to select either 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 beeps when 
you press your midi keyboard's keys, so you're in business, up and 
running in Reaper!
Indi


On 7/5/2014 1:55 PM, Jim wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm totally new to this list. I have done some analog recording a very
> long time ago, but mostly participated. I heard about Reaper, and did
> some googling to find this list. I'm a Windows user, and I have JAWS,
> NVDA, and Window-eyes. My son just got me a MIDI/Audio interface.
> Right now, I have a Yamaha P95 keyboard, and I was just thinking of
> using that to get notes into my computer and then finding out what
> else there is in software to make other noises. Mostly, I just want to
> get my toe in the water and start from zero to get some experience
> just putting my own ideas down and not losing them. If something else
> comes of it, good.
>
> Any advice about things to read, how to get going, no matter how
> elementary would be wonderful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim--
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> Skype: jim.homme
>
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