[Rwp] Midi in Reaper/qws.

[Chris Belle]

If you have sonar, then to me that is the best possible midi access 
there is,
and going to qws would be overly complicating things,
but if you want to work that way, then you just need a midi interface 
and run both sonar, and qws and sometimes you can use a multi-client 
driver to share an interface, or other times you might want to separate 
things out and use
different hardware for each, and just midi it up.

There are also any number of virtual midi tools, which can help you 
accomplish the same task,
and some soft synths even come with their own virtual midi ports.
Dimention pro
has a stand alone
mode too, so you don't have to load up sonar,
now when I did this before many years ago, I had some sort of conflict 
with qws,
and I think I was using savvy host or some such vst thingy to load my 
synth, and it didn't like it, but you could use different machines to 
separate things out and treat your synth on a separate box like it was a 
hardware module.
and run it from qws on it's own box.

that means having separate interfaces again, but you are pretty much 
guaranteed you won't have conflicts.
So in summary, you can do this, and there are many ways to approach it.






On 8/20/2015 11:11 PM, John Schucker via RWP wrote:
> Hi all. I'm thinking of playing around with midi again, and not sure 
> if I should use Reaper, or qws as several people here have recommended.
>
> I see on the qws page it says you can use software synths as long as 
> they show up as midi instruments. Can you use things like Dimension 
> Pro with it, and if so, how? If you can I'll happily go join the qws 
> list for all my qws needs, but I figured somebody here would know, and 
> I can't see joining a list just to find out I can't do something. I 
> ask because I might want to use synths with Reaper, e.g. for drums, 
> but I pretty much have the synths that come with Sonar Producer an 
> that's it. I have no hardware synths whatsoever and don't really plan 
> on getting any.
>
> If I can use those directly in Reaper, that would be even better. In 
> case it matters, for midi controllers I have two of the Korg Nano 
> things, the keyboard one and the one with the drum pads, and an 
> M-Audio Axiom 61. I doubt it does, but just in case. So at this point 
> I'm just going for hook up controller, get sequencer (Reaper or qws) 
> attached to software synth, whack thingies, make noises. Come to think 
> of it, since qws doesn't do any audio output, wouldn't you have to 
> hook the synth up in Reaper anyway? So I take it you'd set up the 
> synth and then import your already-sequenced midi from qws into Reaper?
>
> I know there's not only a qws manual but tutorials, so if that's the 
> way to go I'm good. I just need the quick basics of midi with either 
> Reaper or qws if it's better to use that instead of Reaper at this 
> point ... assuming I can use Dimension Pro with it of course. But if 
> Reaper will work, well there we go. In fact that would be ideal. But I 
> thought I'd ask about qws since I think several people have mentioned 
> it here as a Reaper companion. Again in case it matters, I'd probably 
> start with the Korg controller, they take up a lot less space than the 
> Axiom. I'd also likely start with Dimension Pro, as I have to install 
> stuff anyway, and that's the most straightforward one to start with.
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