[RWP] Getting sounds from a midi synthesizer to play in Reaper?

Thu May 8 14:06:06 EDT 2014

Hi Chris,

A question from a real live greenhorne here.

I have a Kurzweil K2600 and an Allen - Heath Zed 10FX usb board in my 
little home studio.  I also have a fairly new I3, 8gb Win7 desktop.

I got my Kurz to show up in Reaper 4.1, but I can't get any sounds to 
come out of my monitors during playback.  I could use an Uno midi to usb 
i/o from my keyboard into my computer, but I don't know how to set that 
up in Reaper while using the Zed for other things.

What, excluding my obvious lack of knowledge and experience am I missing.

Oh yah.  Please, when wxplaining, pretend that you are talking to an 8 
year old, even if you are just pointing me to a particular part of the 
Reaper manual. <grinn>

Here's to learning and growing!

Thanks,

John
On 5/8/2014 7:58 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> You can always go for a mackie onyx 820i, has a variety of 8 inputs, 
> and since it's a real board is very accessible.
>
> They've changed the firewire chip on those things and that software 
> isn't accessible anymore like it used to be, atleast on the 1640i 
> versions, not sure about the lesser mackie boards.
>
> But I'd still recommend it for a one of the more blindie friendly 
> options.
>
> YOu just can't beat a real board for bring all kinds of stuff together 
> easily and painlessly.
>
> I think alen heath
> makes something similar, one of my students was telling me about it, 
> there are also the midas boards, but they are only 8 inputs.
>
> If you want first class as a decent price for a whole band go for that 
> mackie 1640i.
>
> Havin those 16 firewire feeds in and back from your daw just rocks.
>
> and no fussing about with lightpipe and clocking and having to stack 
> stuff up or any of that silly stuff.
>
> There's nothing like just reaching out and turning up an aux send to 
> give a client more monitors
> Some things should just be easy.
> like that.
>
>
>
> On 5/8/2014 6:40 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>> It does! Annoyingly it's a couple of inputs short of being perfect for
>> pre-production of my band. Don't suppose anyone knows of anything with
>> a similarly small form factor with a few more ins?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 5/8/14, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> That motu seems like it'd be a nice little device.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/7/2014 12:22 PM, Jes wrote:
>>>> Chris,
>>>> As far as my audio interfaces, right now, I have the Roland VS 20 
>>>> sold by
>>>> cakewalk. I also have a Mackie pro FX 12 analog mixer, and a preSonus
>>>> monitor station.. Thanks so much for the reassurance about analog 
>>>> devices
>>>> being still used to make great professional recordings. That really 
>>>> put my
>>>> mind at ease. I still might invest in the motu audio express. Don't 
>>>> know
>>>> yet though.
>>>>
>>>> Jes
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On May 7, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> And in the big studio down town and in my own studio that's the 
>>>>> way we
>>>>> did it for years before we had soft synths and such, recorded our 
>>>>> tracks
>>>>> triggered by midi on to a real board to adats, or \
>>>>> what ever recording device.
>>>>>
>>>>> And these software companies are selling us channel strips to get 
>>>>> back
>>>>> some of that analog sound, for these guys who don't have a board, not
>>>>> that you can compare a 1500 dollar mackie to a neeve or ssl that 
>>>>> cost 4
>>>>> times what my house does,
>>>>> but you get the idea.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/7/2014 4:50 AM, Jes wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me see if I can try and explain what I'm trying to do, as the
>>>>>> subject line might seem a bit misleading.
>>>>>> I have a Yamaha Motif XS8 connected via USB to Reaper so that I 
>>>>>> can use
>>>>>> it as a midi controler, and everything works fine. I can load 
>>>>>> kontakt
>>>>>> and sfz files into Reaper, play chords on the motif and the notes 
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> sent properly from the synth to the computer. However, the XS8 
>>>>>> has some
>>>>>> incredible sounds that I want to access so that I can record them 
>>>>>> in my
>>>>>> projects, without needing to go from the line-out of the synth to 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> line-in of a mixing board where there might be hiss, noise, 
>>>>>> static, etc.
>>>>>> Is there any way to send the sounds from the XS8 directly to the
>>>>>> computer itself using midi, instead of having to solely go the 
>>>>>> analog
>>>>>> route? The XS8 has spdif, but I have nothing else in my setup that
>>>>>> allows me to use spdif and I'm not too familiar with the 
>>>>>> complexity of
>>>>>> that format anyway. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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