[RWP] Assigning midi tracks?
Ken Downey
KenWDowney at blindlabyrinth.com
Thu Oct 23 11:03:55 EDT 2014
Nothing whatsoever happens.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Assigning midi tracks?
> Shift+P doesn't work for you? What do you get when you hit that
> keystroke? I've never heard of that being broken before.
>
> Scott
>
> On 10/23/14, Ken Downey <KenWDowney at blindlabyrinth.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, I'll try that. Hopefully not too much other stuff got broken in
>> Reaper 4 lol. By the way, I found out about control-up, and I interrupted
>> jaws when it said it couldn't find the handle... so I didn't hear the new
>> menu pop up. Thanks for this!
>>
>> I've already made two podcasts. I've just got to edit them down. My
>> friend
>> and I are in the planning stages of a conservatory of music for the
>> blind,
>> in which I'll be teaching the sound and music design component. The first
>> podcast breaks down into five lessons: recording midi input, (with the
>> shortcut of adding a virtual synth since I couldn't figure out those
>> moves
>> lol,) creating a basic software synth with ReaSynth, including parameter
>> modulation, adjusting midi parameters through using sliders, numbers, and
>> learned midi behavior, automating the effects using the already learned
>> MIDI
>>
>> knobs, and, finally, just for fun, a demonstration of the radical things
>> that can happen when you experiment. I use the ReaPitch plug-in,
>> modifying
>> the pitch shift full range and formant shift full range with the foot
>> pedal
>>
>> and mod wheel, and play a short BlindLabyrinth promo clip through it so
>> the
>>
>> listener can hear how the plugin works. Then I go back to parameter
>> modulation and use it to modulate the formant, which makes the piano I
>> play
>>
>> through it sound... phased? Like a wawa? Well, you can decide that.
>> In the second podcast, I assign some action keys. First, I remap menu
>> customize to alt shift control c to make way for parameter modulate,
>> which
>> becomes alt-control-shift m. Also, since shift p doesn't work, I assign
>> it
>> to alt-control-shift p. Midi learn parameter becomes alt-control-shift-l,
>> and show envelope becomes alt-control-shift-e. (Automation is easier than
>> ever after that.) Then, I assign knob 12 to change last touched
>> parameter.
>> That way, if you're on something and can't see what it does, just turn
>> that
>>
>> knob. Then, I assign knobs 13 to 18 to every parameter in the Ring Mod
>> plugin, go back through, show how they work, and end by showing a
>> parameter
>>
>> list (alt-control-shift-p) of the ReaPitch parameter and just how easy it
>> is
>>
>> to adjust all the parameters just by using the list.
>> I wrote most of this stuff down for the gurus that don't need the podcast
>> but can benefit from the info. HTH.
>> Ken
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Assigning midi tracks?
>>
>>
>>> Hey Ken,
>>>
>>> Aha, you're using Reaper 4 then if you're seeing that behaviour. An
>>> API string changed when they revamped stuff for Reaper 4 and it broke
>>> the ReaAccess function to access the track context menu. A temporary
>>> fix is to hit CTRL+Up a few times (3 presses works here), then
>>> navigate to the desired track and hit your Application key as usual.
>>> Worth noting that the context menus are very context sensitive, hence
>>> why I made a point of saying navigate to the desired track before
>>> attempting to get the menu you're looking for. As you've already seen,
>>> hitting the Application key after making a move to the beginning will
>>> get you a totally different set of contextual options in that menu, as
>>> would navigating to an item instead of a track, as would a bunch of
>>> other moves. There's a whole rabbity network to disappear into here,
>>> not just a rabbit hole.
>>>
>>> Hth, and keep us posted
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> On 10/22/14, Ken Downey <KenWDowney at blindlabyrinth.com> wrote:
>>>> When I select a track and hit the context key, Jaws says handle of
>>>> current
>>>> track not visible. When I hit w to get to the beginning and do it, I
>>>> get
>>>>
>>>> a
>>>> selection menu, but nothing about inputs. The only way I've found so
>>>> far
>>>>
>>>> to
>>>> do this is to insert, then delete, a virtual instrument.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Jim Snowbarger
>>>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:09 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Assigning midi tracks?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try this. Select a track with arrow keys, press the context key,
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> up
>>>> arrow in the menu to Midi Input.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Ken Downey
>>>> To: reapers without peepers
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:48 AM
>>>> Subject: [RWP] Assigning midi tracks?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK, this is supposed to be so simple, but I'm not seeing it in
>>>> either
>>>> reaaccess or the keyboard ninja hot key list. How do I assign a track
>>>> to
>>>> record midi data instead of audio data? When I hit tab I get the
>>>> Reaccess
>>>> stuff, and set record to midi output, but it doesn't seem to work. I've
>>>> tried sending output both to my keyboard and to the gs wavetable and
>>>> nothing
>>>> either way, although it does tell me that I've recorded new midi items
>>>> which
>>>> is odd. What am I missing here!
>>>> Ken Downey
>>>> For a fresh perspective of Christianity, visit my blog at
>>>> longing4god.wordpress.com,
>>>> and my podcast network at
>>>> www.audioboom.fm/channel/honest2god .
>>>> For experimental electroacoustic music that is out of this world,
>>>> visit
>>>> www.BlindLabyrinth.com .
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>>>> is
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