[Rwp] Midi in Reaper/qws.

[John Schucker]

Thanks! I do have Sonar, but I was under the impression that 8.5 had 
issues under win 8 or 10, or maybe it's that the version of JFW I have 
does, I stopped at 14 but only have CT for 13. I'd really rather use 
Reaper anyway since it looks like there will be a lot more future 
support with OSARA. And honestly I'm not majorly into midi, I'm much 
more an acoustic instruments person. But I figured I'd ask since, like I 
said, I'm pretty sure a couple people have recommended qws in place of 
Reaper's midi implementation. Plus I'm using NVDA full time now, I 
actually don't have JFW installed currently and won't again unless I 
absolutely have to. Sonar was the last holdout but if I can get midi 
under Reaper or such, well there you go.

I have Sonar, so I can always go back to it if things don't work out or 
I get so frustrated that I want to break half the world. But I'd like to 
really start playing with Reaper and see how that works for me. And I'd 
like midi because, though I'm not super into it, not only does it have 
some fun synth sounds to play with as well as decent drum kit samples if 
I want a drum kit, it's also a lot quieter at night and a nice thing to 
mess with for getting ideas and such. So if midi works in Reaper I'm 
pretty much covered. I know some issues have come up with it here and 
there but unfortunately I didn't pay attention to them at the time 
because I wasn't really doing much with recording.

That's kind of why I want to get into Reaper, I'm focusing on practicing 
some new instruments now anyway, so I don't have to be super worried 
about recording. So I have the time to just mess with things and see how 
they work out for me. So given that, what's the list's recommendation? 
Reaper and qws, or Reaper all the way? I should add, I'll quite happily 
play synths as instruments if that works better in Reaper than midi 
editing. What I mean is, suppose I play bagpipes and I mess up, I have 
to go punch in and re-record. If I can do that in Reaper with a soft 
synth, select the audio and play the soft synth again to get the audio I 
want instead of editing midi data directly, that's fine with me.

I'm not so much interested in the midi part of the midi as the noises 
from the synths. In fact, since I'll mostly be editing audio, really if 
I can do the synths and live instruments in the same way, that would be 
best, as I can just start with synths and learn one form of editing 
which will serve me when I start hooking up the microphones and all. 
Actually doesn't Reaper use combined tracks? So that should work no?

For instance, say I create a four note thing with Dimension Pro, then I 
want to loop it, so I copy it 29 times to get 30 repetitions. It's 
copying both the midi and audio data yes? So if I then decide that at 
bar 13 I want to play something different, I can just select that, 
however it works in Reaper, and play a new bar, just like I would had I 
recorded a phrase on charango and copied that 29 times. Assuming that's 
correct, that's fine with me. But I could be wrong about how Reaper 
actually works.