[Rwp] How in the world do I select a certain patch?

Christopher-Mark Gilland clgilland07 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 00:01:24 EDT 2015


Excellentness!  That's precisely what I needed to know.  Then, I guess I 
just use the standard shift+P to modify the parameters of the Ray Control 
Midi plugin?

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gianluca Apollaro via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] How in the world do I select a certain patch?


Hi,
After you set you're hardware as a midi output, you need to use
ReaControlMidi, that is a reaper plugin. Add it to your track and you
should be able to change the patches if you're hardware responds to
program change messages
Hth,
Gianluca from Italy
SkypeID: gianluca8815
Il 14/04/2015 14:51, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP ha scritto:
> No, this does support audio.
>
> OK.
>
> Let me be as specific as possible.  I wasn't going to be as the last time 
> I was, I got my F**king ass bitten off publicly on list, by a few people, 
> and therefore I've purposely made it a point to not write, in their words, 
> a novel.  But in this case, it's looking like I need to do more 
> explaining, as you all don't seem to get the type hardware I'm using. 
> Maybe you do, and I`! just don't get what you all are saying.
>
> Firstly, no need to educate me on midi most likely, unless you still! see 
> me going wrong with my logic, (no pun intended, LOL!) but anyway, here's 
> the two scenareos.
>
> Firstly, I have a Roland RP401R Rosewood digital piano which has built in 
> speakers.  It also has a line out on the back of it, which I'm running 
> into one of the stereo channels of my interface.  I totally get that the 
> sound I get from the unit will have to be sent through the line out, down 
> the chain to my interface's channel line in, which then will be fed into 
> Reaper. I totally totally get that.  I further also totally get that midi 
> isn't audio. You can't know the amount of times I've had to tell people 
> this!  It's gets so freaking old!  Anyway, this digital piano in my 
> personal opinion is more of a very low end/very very and did I mention, 
> very! souped up digital piano.  I say that because it's not got all the 
> features by any means you'd find on a pro grade keyboard.  The emphesis 
> definitely is more on the piano functionality, however, it does have a 
> bank of samples built on board probably about 300 of them in addition to 
> the 11 different featured piano samples it offers.  So, you have all the 
> norms like drums, strings, organs, brass, woodwinds, guitars, bases, etc. 
> The samples are actually incredible!
>
> Anyway, so I connect the piano to my system via USB which asyncronisly 
> does midi in, and midi out.
>
> So, what I'm trying to do is, if I go into Reaper, and I hit ctrl+T to 
> create a new track, name it, then hit enter to save the track name and 
> insert the track into the project, Then, I'm trying firstly to figure out 
> then how to set the input and output to my Roland midi device.  I presume 
> it's the same as setting the input and output on a midi track which I 
> import from a midi .mid file. More about that though in a second.
>
> So, now, let's just say I figure it out, and I get the in and out on that 
> track set to midi for my Roland piano/keyboard.  I've also set local to 
> off on my piano menus so that the only sound I hear when hitting notes is 
> that produced by the midi data when that track is armed.  So now, what I 
> want to know is, firstly, I'm hitting keys and hearing a grand piano.  I 
> want to now instead however hear say a saxophone.  So, what I'm firstly 
> asking is, before even hitting R to record anything on that track, how do 
> I set the patch to a sax instead of a piano as it now is?  I get that 
> shift+P would work to let me adjust parameters on the last touched track 
> on all its effects in the chain, but that's just it.  There are no effects 
> yet on the track.  There are no soft synths either as I'm doing this 
> stricly via hardware.  The sounds won't be coming from a software virtual 
> instrument. They'll be coming from the sounds built into my Roland piano, 
> then sent out the Roland piano's line out, back into my interface, then 
> captured in Reaper onto an audio track during the final mix.  Does that 
> make a little bit more sense?  This Roland isn't just a controller.  It's 
> a full fledged digital piano workstation.  It has built in speakers, and 
> built in sounds.
>
> OK, as for the two senarios, that was the first.  Here's the second.
>
> Let's say that I have a midi .mid file and I go into Reaper, no tracks in 
> the project, go to the insert menu and then to media file.  I then browse 
> for, and open the .mid midi file which already has been pre-recorded, 
> probably not even from within Reaper initially.  We're talking just a midi 
> file maybe I find online for example.  I say to import the tempo map etc, 
> tell it to import all tracks seperetly, etc.  So now, I have a project, 
> say with 13 or so tracks.  Piano, base, drums, toms, tiko drums, strings, 
> flute, etc.  I down arrow through each track, tab into the strip, and set 
> the outputs from none over to my Roland.  I do this on all tracks, then, I 
> hit w, or home, either or to move to the start of the project, and then 
> hit space bar to play.  I definitely do hear the midi file now routed 
> through the sounds in my Roland, and all sounds beautifully gorgeous. 
> Then, however, I get to thinking.  You know that flute track?  Hmm!  I 
> think actually a claranette would a sounded better, or hmm, maybe even a 
> trumpet, instead, even better yet.  So, I down arrow to the flute track. 
> I hit F2 to rename it to say... trumpoet.  OK, now, I tab through the 
> items on it's strip like input output, volume, pan, etc.  Nowhere though 
> do I see anywhere to select a patch.  I can't hit shift+P as there are no 
> effects in the chain on that track, as it's all being done via hardware. 
> Therefore, I can't exactly menipulate the patch that way, and change it 
> from flute to trumpet. So then, how do I?
>
> Does this make more sense?  Again, I didn't wanna do this.  I didn't wanna 
> write a novel this long, but it's looking like I'm being misunderstood 
> left and right with what exactly I'm trying to do.  So, I hope this clears 
> things up, and for those who would bitch at me for writing such a long 
> message, get over it!  How else would I have explained, you think I 
> wanted? to write something this long?  Uh, no?
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help.
>
> Chris.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "ROBIN Alexis via RWP" 
> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 8:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] How in the world do I select a certain patch?
>
>
> Oh, so you have to record in audio. Your midi keyboard only send midi
> instruction, not the sound bank.
>
>
> Le 14/04/2015 14:08, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP a écrit :
>> OK, but I'm not wanting to do this with a software synth.  You're not 
>> following.  I have a keyboard connected to my interface.  I want to play 
>> the track and have it play through my keyboard's midi in.  So in other 
>> words, the keyboard is going to be producing the sounds with its built in 
>> patches. I just need to know once I up and down arrow to the track how 
>> then to change the instrument both before, and after the track has been 
>> recorded. Say I recorded a track with a flute, but then I decided, you 
>> know, this would a sounded better had I used an oboe instead.  I don't 
>> wanna have to go back and redo the entire track over.  I  just want to 
>> change it's patch on the fly.
>>
>> Again, I'm not doing this with a software synth.  This is going to be 
>> done through the sounds on my keyboard.
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle via RWP" 
>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:32 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Rwp] How in the world do I select a certain patch?
>>
>>
>>> Also how you do a patch will differ depending on the synth you pick.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/14/2015 2:13 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP wrote:
>>>> So, I've created a track, and set its output to my Roland midi 
>>>> controler. Now, how in the world do I select what patch I want to use 
>>>> on that track? Say for example I want to record a sax instead of a 
>>>> piano? I tabbed through the track strip, but I don't see any options to 
>>>> let me select a particular patch preset.  Same goes if I go to my 
>>>> insert menu in the menu bar, then to media, and simply import an 
>>>> already recorded midi file, then want to change the preset on one of 
>>>> the tracks to a different instrument.
>>>> So, how's this done?
>>>> Chris.
>>>>
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