This is REAPER 6 - MIDI (5/15)

[Music] hi I'm Kenny Joya welcome to another one of my tutorials in this video I'm gonna show you a MIDI or the MIDI Basics in Reaper now before we get started we should set up on MIDI in the preferences so let's go up here to the options menu and to save time in the future instead of choosing preferences from down here let's use the keyboard shortcut which on PC is control comma and a Mac its command comma hit that keyboard shortcut to open up our preferences and as I showed you with the audio on the device we can set up the audio device right here to a computer audio interface where our speakers are plugged into we want to do the same thing for our MIDI devices right over here for the USB MIDI keyboard it should show up over here and then we'd select it and double click it here's the name of that keyboard and we should enable it from here and if we're using continuous controller information like with sliders or knobs we should turn on this as well I'm also going to rename my keyboard on to alias name as USB MIDI keyboard hit okay now it shows up here and if we create a new track we can put it into record instead of using our audio inputs right here as mono or stereo we could choose MIDI he is a USB MIDI keyboard and we'll set it up to be all channels I should also mention if you don't have a USB MIDI keyboard you could use the virtual midi keyboard right here let me go to view and go down here to virtual midi keyboard let me use a computer keyboard to trigger MIDI using the keys right down here Z X C and so on but we're gonna use a USB MIDI keyboard in this video and just to show you what I'm playing we're gonna add it to a screen right down here but just know this keyboard is in a part of Reaper just gonna show you what notes I'm playing so we'll set this back up to a USB MIDI keyboard now if we play the keyboard we should see level over here on the meters and we do now to create sound we need to add a plug-in to this track a virtual instrument plug-in so go to the effects hit the button and then we'll choose instruments right here the Reaper comes with a few instruments let's start off with this one right here riah sense let's double click it and that adds it to this track now if we play a MIDI keyboard we hear that sense but it's a pretty basic synth so in this video we're gonna use a different virtual instrument so sweet this one and instead double-click over here we're gonna choose recent boom at ik 5000 which is a sample playback plug-in that comes with Reaper let's double click it now Reaper doesn't come with any samples so he added a few to the Reaper stash so let's go to the internet and what search Reaper stash and we'll go to this website and we'll search Kenny MIDI and here's a file I uploaded with some sounds we can use so it's downloaded right from here and it should look like this with four sounds we could choose from a pluck synth a kick a snare and hyah let's go back to Reaper so now we could drag those sounds into this plugin let's go back to those sounds on a hard drive let's drag in the pluck sense and drop it now if we play our keyboard we hear the sound but as you'll notice if we go up and down the keyboard it doesn't change the pitch so need to change the mode right over here change this to semitones shifted and that's gonna play different notes when we hit different keys let's name our track since let's give it a color and just like we did with the Preferences what sits on a keyboard shortcut to adding colors to our tracks to make it quicker so go up here to the actions menu so Action List and what search custom track color and right down over here there's an action to change the color with a keyboard shortcut well add one I'm gonna use C and if we hit the C key after selecting our tracks we can add colors that easily I'm gonna choose a color like this now we have a synth track but before we record this part I want to add another effect to make the track more interesting so in their facts right after a virtual instrument plug-in let's see how to delay double-click right here choose the reaper plugins and go up here to read alais which the delay plug-in that comes with Reaper we'll bring the wet sound or the effect sound down a bit change the delay time to two eighth notes which is a quarter note bring a feed back up a bit as well which is handy repeats to the delay it sounds like this the delay just adds some rhythm let's make it more interesting by creating two delays that pan so paying this one to the left at a new tap and paying that one to the right and bring the length up about 15 milliseconds more create a slight delay from the left and right speakers like this let's turn on the click track right here what's a quote apart just like that we have a first MIDI part and to edit it because a bit sloppy you just double-click it to open up the MIDI editor which looks like this here's a notes that we played his the mini keyboard showing us what pitches we played and down over here we could see a velocity or how hard we hit the keys in the senator we can move on notes around [Music] just by dragging them we can make them longer or shorter we can create new ones just by drawing what delete them by double-clicking them let's quantize this performance so it's perfectly in time we'll go up here to the cue button and that opens up this dialogue it's going to quantize based on our grid a grid is set to eighth notes let's change it to sixteenths poor notes and serve certain notes and just the position we're not going to quantize the ending or the wet so it's here that quantized [Music] it sounds much better Sammy can close the media editor let's trim the front to be exactly at bar two and the end to be exactly at bar six and let's loop this part by selecting from bar to 2 bar 6 and turning on looping over here [Music] so let's add some drums to our part let's double click over here create a new track will name it drums take this track out of record and put this track into record set it up as MIDI USB MIDI keyboard the color let's hit a plug in to this track hit the effects button kuroh instruments and choose resupply Matic 5000 let's drag in the other samples we'll start with the kick and if we play a MIDI keyboard we hear the kick sample now to add multiple drums to this track will choose one key to trigger this sound because right now it's gonna be triggered by any of them but we could choose just one for this so let's hit c2 on our keyboard then with double-click right over here and it chooses what note it's gonna be triggered by so now if we hit c2 we hear the kick but if we hit any other key we won't so we could assign those keys to a drum sounds so it's copy this effects instance and paste it let's add in a snare to this one drag it and drop it on this one hit d2 on the USB keyboard double-click over here signed to d2 so if we hit d2 we should hear the snare let's do the same thing for the hi-hat Swati copy and paste to duplicate it let's drag in the hi hat drop it hit up sharp - on a MIDI keyboard double-click over here to assign it now we have three drum sounds on this track so it's record a drum part now for drums I want to do this a bit differently because I like to record on multiple passes so instead of recording the normal way we're gonna change the mode over here normally we'd record the input Weatherby audio or MIDI but with MIDI we have a few other options over here we'll choose record MIDI overdub so now we can record multiple parts on top of each other without erasing the previous part makes it a lot easier for programming drums especially in loop mode and I also want to quantize on the way in to save us some time so I'm gonna right click over here and choose track record settings input quantize that opens up this dialogue we can quantize on the way we'll change this to sixteenth notes that's what I'm gonna play on a jump part and now we can record a drum performance as a loop in this section let's turn on the metronome let's right-click it so we can see the settings for the metronome let me change the counting to be 1 bar and turn it on during recording which will give us a measure of counting before we record it's like I said we're gonna record this in multiple passes so I'm gonna record the kick and then hear it back then record the snare hear that back and then the hi-hat notice that quantizes on the way in so on playback is going to be perfectly in time so let's give it a shot [Music] and one of the useful things about recording with MIDI overdub if you can still add or change our part so with the hi-hat I just played eighth notes when I said some sixteenth notes in the spaces we could do that with MIDI overdub mode which we turned on right over here let's go back in to record an overdub those notes [Music] so just like that we recorded a MIDI performance I mean add different parts on different passes as you went through so that's pretty much it for the basics of MIDI in Reaper hope you learned something hope you could use it and I'll see you in the next video thanks [Music]

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Length: 16min 43sec (1003 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 16 2020