[Rwp] Beat-mapping in reaper, (tutorial).

[Chris Belle]

Nice one 'grin'.


On 6/25/2016 3:01 PM, Michael Kuhlmann wrote:
> Hi to the list,
>
> while working and getting familiar with reaper, I found something very 
> cool that I would like to share with you: Usually, live-recordings 
> aren’t recorded with click. But for being able to work with bars and 
> beats, you need to beat-map your project. Beat-mapping is the process 
> of telling reaper the tempo of your recording, even if it isn’t 
> completely exact, because musicians, playing live without click, don’t 
> perform like machines :-). So here is an easy way to beat-map your 
> project in 5 steps:
>
> 1. I created a custom-action that you can download here: 
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28202697/beatmap.ReaperKeyMap?dl=1. You 
> can import that into your reaper-keymap and assign a shortcut. # 
> worked for me with the latest OSARA on windows. But depending on your 
> assignments, you can of course chose a different one.
> 2. Go to your file-menu and chose project-settings. There you will 
> find to settings in the first tab, influencing the timebase of your 
> project. Set both of them to „time“.
> 3. Navigate to the first beat of your project, where the music starts 
> and press m to drop a project-marker. Press space to play your project 
> and press m  in the rhythm  of your music whilst playing on the first 
> beat of every following bar to drop project markers till the end of 
> the song.
> 4.  press 1  to access the first marker and use your go to next marker 
>  commands, to move the cursor to your markers. There you can check, if 
> your markers are at the right positions, right at the beginning of 
> bars. If some positions need to be corrected, delete the corresponding 
> markers and use your tab  and shift tab to transient commands to find 
> downbeats, where you can drop new markers.
> 5. If you are satisfied with your work, the project-markers need to be 
> converted to tempo-markers. Move your cursor to the first marker and 
> press and hold the shortcut, assigned to the beat-map custom-action 
>  for several seconds. This action sets a time-selection-start at  the 
> current position, goes to the next marker, sets a time-selection end 
> there, performs the „create measure from time-selection, detecting 
> tempo action“ and finally moves to the next marker to be repeated till 
> the end of the song.
> I think, this method is quite fast and easy.
>
> Enjoy and sorry for my mistakes in english. I hope, you can understand 
> the explanations.
>
> Best.
>
> Michael
>
>
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