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

[David P Shortland]

Hi & Greetings from The Land Down Under,

I am not sure if this will help but my song "V I P Rap" was all MIDI based 
except for the drums.

And of course ... the vocals, (large smile)

Here to listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUWlsM4F3A

Everything was played in via aKeystationPro88 & Kurzweil SP3X keyboards, 
playing various VST Synths.

MIDI was Quantised and if anything sounded too out ot place I was able to 
get into each individual MIDI Event.

HTH

Kind regards

David P Shortland
DragonScore Productions


-----Original Message----- 
From: John Schucker via RWP
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 9:12 AM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Cc: John Schucker
Subject: Re: [Rwp] Could Songs Of this complexity be pulled off using Reaper 
and Osara with MIDI strictly?

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.
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