[Rwp] Anyone successfully tracking midi in Reaper?

[Chris Belle]

yes, reaper doesn't
honor track volume settings with midi, but it does work with item volume 
settings.
Interestingly enough, the item volumes work on stuff on the same midi 
channel, but different items,
so reaper must be doing something under the hood to make that happen.
I don't think it's just velocity scaling because I took an organ part 
and was able to record several passes with each item being a different 
volume.
Also you can always render your midi to audio to work with in a more  
friendly way.

On 4/14/2016 3:42 PM, Rod alcidonis, Esquire wrote:
> Chris, thanks for the detailed info. I am afraid I might not even be 
> that far yet. In my case, I am able to load one midi track and record. 
> When I try to record subsequent tracks, that's when it goes south for 
> me. Also, I just noticed that the volume faders are not functioning to 
> change values on midi tracks.
>
> I am looking forward to making the changes you have  suggested but 
> first, I need to get the thing to record on a consistent basis for 
> tracking purposes.
>
>
> Rod Alcidonis, Esq.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Belle
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 4:21 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Anyone successfully tracking midi in Reaper?
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Rod Alcidonis
>>
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