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[Jim]

Hi,
Thanks for this. This sounds like something I can handle.

Jim

On 7/5/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> 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--
>> e+r=o
>> Skype: jim.homme
>>
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