[Rwp] Could Songs Of this complexity be pulled off using Reaper and Osara with MIDI strictly?

[John Schucker]

To expand on what Scott said, it really depends on the techniques you're 
using. If for example you did everything with a step sequencer, 
recording every note individually, and Reaper doesn't have a step 
sequencer, then obviously the answer would be no. I mean, in a way midi, 
or rather software instruments are just instruments. So let's assume I'm 
doing a software piano, and I want to play a piece. I could play it, and 
if I mess up, I could record it all over again. I'm not saying you'd 
necessarily want to do that, but my point is, if I did that, I wouldn't 
need to worry about whether quantizing, let's say, was accessible or 
not. On the other hand, if you just throw down your midi drum track and 
depend on quantizing to straighten it out, then it matters whether or 
not Reaper and OSARA can currently do accessible quantizing.

I can't actually help by answering your question, I haven't even tried 
making a soft synth work in Reaper yet. But I think, somebody correct me 
if I'm wrong here, that we'd need to know more about what kinds of midi 
techniques you're using and want to replicate in Reaper with OSARA in 
order to answer your question properly. The simpler you keep things, the 
more likely they are to be accessible. To take another example, I might 
use quantize, or whatever Reaper calls it, but I'm not a big midi 
editing guy. That's partly because I don't use midi much, but also 
because since I generally play acoustic stuff, I think much more in 
those terms, if I want a different note, I have to play a different 
note, not just go in and change a value somewhere. So if I were 
recording a software instrument, I'd probably just go back and record 
again if I messed something up, I mean that section not the whole thing 
obviously. So if directly editing midi notes or events or whatever we're 
calling them these days wasn't currently accessible, I don't think it 
would really bother me much. So I think it really depends on how you're 
working with midi really.