[Rwp] Anyone successfully tracking midi in Reaper?

[Chris Belle]

Reaper is tricky because it's default behavior is for enclosing items to 
be replaced by enclosed ones.
YOu also have options on the track menu applications menu
for monitoring media items when recording.
Unless you want to set your recording options
to record in lanes, and item mix behavior to always mix,
so it acts like sonar, it's kind of foreign to what we're used to.
The other way around it is to record each take on a different track.
That get's messy too, some folks use track folders to neaten up this 
type of over-dubbing.
The take and item system is supposed to be the proper professional way 
to edit, slip editing and all that, but for a blindy it can be tricky, I 
think having take lanes and moving eerything along a consistant time 
line makes more sense at least to my old brain anyway.
Trying to decide which take on which item is active
or best, or to play all of them to build up a looped thing can get nuts, 
and you're in good company snow man and Bryam Smart
have this problem too and they are brilliant.
so I don't feel so bad for not getting it just right the first 50 times 
'grin'.
so I think the take and item system might be fine when you have distinct 
separated phrases,
but
mind bending when you have a bunch of stuff going on layered so since we 
can't just glance at things and see what's there, the recording in lanes 
with each item being a new recording works for me and is the most sonar 
like.
YOu just have to set it up that way.


On 4/14/2016 3:01 PM, Rod alcidonis, Esquire wrote:
> Hi guys:
>
> I have now setup my control surface as best as I believe I could but 
> for some reason, I cannot consistently record midi in Reaper. 
> Sometimes I hear my tracks, other times I don't. I am doing all of the 
> routine -- create track, select input, enable monitoring. I would 
> finish recording one track and when I go to attempt to record another, 
> the subsequent tracks are not audible. I think this is unnecessarily 
> complicated. I am not given up yet when it comes to midi but I am 
> close to getting there.
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> Rod Alcidonis
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