[Rwp] Midi in Reaper/qws.

[Juan Bello]

well, as far as punching in.. you can probably try this:  For example
I made a misstake, while recording and wish to continue from a
 certain place.

 In reaper it is possible to continue recording by overdubbing, by
 using the trim command, which cuts audio from the start of the project
 up to the start of the selection, or from the end of the selection to
 the end of the project. You should prepare a few access keys from the
 handy sws extenssion, (install it if you haven't) they are:
  Xenakios/SWS: Trim/untrim item left edge to edit cursor
 Xenakios/SWS: Trim/untrim item right edge to edit cursor
 I have set them to alt plus shift plus left and right arrows respectively.

 Also, make sure you have keys assigned for the commands move media
 items up/a bit. and move media items down/a bit. i have those set to
 control and up or down arrow keys, but its again, matter of choice.


 1. disarm the track you made a misstake on, locate the last bar or two
 before the misstake happened.
 2. Create and arm a new track and start recording from those two bars
 until you make another misstake or you eventually finish the song.
 3. Go back to the first track and to the place where you started
 recording, and place the start of your selection where the misstake is
 just about to happen. (the closer the better). Press shift plus end on
 the first track and erase the selection with the delete key.
 4. Now, to eventually fit one audio with the other, press escape to
 eliminate your selection, then play the file as normal from the point
 you are on, noticing a smooth transition between the audio you had and
 from what you just recorded just to make sure, although this is
 optional. Now, set your selection starting point to this same place,
 and use the Trim/untrim item left edge to edit cursor command on the
 second track. This will ensure we have the portion that is just needed
 to append it to the original recording.
 5. Here is when reaper's magic and power are totally worth its cost
 and much more. Stop the audio if you haven't done so, and on the
 second track select the media item you have there (control plus right
 arrow should do it if you have the reaAccess or the osara plug ins in
 use), then use the command move media items up one track/a bit. And
 that's it! you can play the file from whichever bar you want before
 your misstake, only to notice that... its absolutely gone, and there
 isn't even a trace. not even a single click or a pop because of
 reaper's excellent automatic crossfades that just got your back.


2015-08-21 1:21 GMT-05:00, John Schucker via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
> 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.
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