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

[Keith Hinton]

Great song, David.
In terms of what MIDi techniques I used, I did use some quantising,
but otherwise, nothing fancey beyond adjusting tempo.
It will be interesting to see what Reaper can do with MIDI in general.
I have always wanted the ability to edit MIDi events directly.
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Keith.

On 10/3/15, David P Shortland via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 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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