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

[Scott Chesworth]

Quantising, tempo adjustment, and the MIDI event list are all doable.
Your best bet is probably to grab a free VST synth that has easily
accessible presets to get you going and just... well... get going.
I've seen a synth called Firebird get recommended a few times here, so
perhaps start with that and give us a shout if you find yourself in a
bind.

Good luck
Scott

Sent from my portable device. It really doesn't matter which one, does it?

> On 4 Oct 2015, at 06:36, Keith Hinton via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>
> 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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