This is the best series I've seen on Reaper's midi editor, really a huge help! One trick I've been trying to figure out is if there is a to ripple delete between two midi notes. Do you have any suggestions for that? It would essentially make reaper complete for me.
I think the great thing about REAPER is it's community, the kind of people it attracts, true hackers that get to the core of things and aren't distracted
These videos are great. You are inspiring me to dig deeper into all the customizations. I hope your channel keeps growing and you do well here on RUclips.
Thanks Jim! Means a lot coming from you!! Love your drumming skills! btw check out the channel 'Let's talk about Reaper' it's by a drummer using Reaper so could be up your alley :)
Hey folks! Something I forgot to mention but will in the blog post as well: The command for changing grid size by mousewheel is by mpl, so you need Reapack for it. If you wanna know how to install Reapack, here's a video: ruclips.net/video/S2a4QWqZ53M/видео.html
Ahhh yes especially back then it's super fast. Sorry about that :) These days I try to keep them fast cuz it's what most viewers want (we took a vote lol) but the new stuff is still a bit slower, and I also include extra info and more details in the blogposts so check those out :)
Hey man! Your videos are amazing! I have a question. How do you bind the hotkey that allows you to use AWSD to select midi notes. I'd love to know which action you are using to do that :) Thank you!!
Thanks for the kind words! Check out 6:06 and I have a list of all the actions. Go to action list (you can press the shift+? Key) on the top where it says section, select MIDI Editor, then search for each action, press Add and hit the hotkey. Take a few mins to aet set up but it's worth it!
oh nvm I found it :) Select note of same/left or right pitch. I subbed to your channel because you are the only one I found covering this stuff in this detail!! Can't wait to watch more.
Hi, great video, but why are some actions missing when I search them through the filter list, like "zoom to time selection" and "duplicate selected notes one octave"? I only want to add certain shortcuts. Am I missing something?
I do not understand why the rush in getting things said. I recommend you pause between tips so that the tips flow similar to how a normal conversation with your audience would be conducted. I think your subscribers will appreciate that. Your content is great BTW.
Thanks! This is an old video and also my 30th video or so, so yeah I was totally going too fast back then! New videos are hopefully better paced. In my defence, since I've slowed down the pace, almost no one watches my videos to the end :)
Great video! I found your editing velocity tip to be very helpful. My question is where in Reaper's setting can I can create my own hotkeys to bind my own commands (i.e 'w', 'a', and so forth) to edit and create different ranges from 1 or 10% louder or softer when editing velocities? Also can I set the midi's velocities to show the dynamics (i.e. 58, 72, or 39) without having to use my mouse to drag and lower or raise a midi's velocity? If so, how can I set this?
Hey Eric, To create your own hotkeys: Go to actions list (Actions>Action list or press ?) and then on the top right from the dropdown menu choose MIDI Editor and you will see the list of actions in the MIDI Editor. Find the command you want from my list (you can also search for them on the top left window), then click on it, click on add on the bottom left, and press the key you want in the window that pops up. For seeing the velocity value, from the same actions list menu (MIDI Editor) look for 'View: Show velocity numbers on notes' and run it once. It'll now show the velocity numbers in the lane :)
Question, is it good practice to always try to draw in and edit notes with the keyboard or just try to grab and manipulate notes with mouse? I am confused on how to strike a balance. Maybe is there an example of you composing with midi that could help? Edit: I am wondering if it is useful to have these things: Ability to zoom in so that the notes are vertically bigger so I can more accurately place notes with my mouse; and ability to just single left click to place a note and dragging out note length, instead of having to do the thing where you have to move the cursor a bit to the left when single clicking before it starts placing and before you can start making it bigger to taste.
Hey great question! I think it totally depends on what you prefer, but I always start by playing some stuff, then editing with additional notes and Quantization :)
@@IDDQDSound Ah okay thanks. I do have a digital keyboard and ideally I'd like to compose midi by playing, but I am afraid that voicemeeter or something else is adding too much input latency. Have you made a video about that yet? Also my piano playing isn't that great haha. One last question is: You have a lot of tutorials but I am wondering if you've considered making a "start here" playlist in your channel just so I know where to click if I'm a beginner.
Hello friend, whe ni move beetween notes with A D S W my edit cursos changes together, i noticed in urs it doesnt change it.. how i do that? prevent from moving the edit cursor
Can I create hotkeys to trigger events within a VST? (ie., left arrow key triggers a VST effect on or off. Or triggers items within a VST itself, like if a keyboard had a phaser). I have a bluetooth pedal that is really a page turning device but thought I could use it to trigger events in a VST in reaper since it has keystrokes mapped to each switch.
Hey Mark! nice idea and interesting question! It depends on the VST. For example, in waves plugins, You can run SWS actions to toggle next or previous preset. Also if you have windows there's a hacky way of making actions that click on a specific area of your screen, but yeah if you can tell me the name of the plugin in question maybe it could be done :) You could also see if you can use CSI to map your device to MIDI commands :)
i think youre using a mac. because i dont think reaper is reading my shift key as a modifier. is there any work arounds? i set 4 hotkeys, and now im stuck for past hour trying to do these other ones, and shift isnt being read, its acting like its not being pressed
Hmmm that's curious...I know with alt there's a preference but with Shift I've never heard of it. What happens when you press an action that by default has shift in it, like Shift + F to open the FX browser? If those don't work that may be something outside reaper?
Hi mate, I recently watched a video where there guy was using abeleton I think it was, anyway, he wrote out a d Minor scale in 3 octaves and pressed "fold" and it got rid of all the notes that aren't in d Minor, leaving him with d Minor with no spaces between the notes on the midi grid, then wrote a song with just random notes that were all in d Minor, looked great and didn't know this was possible, how can I do this in reaper? Cheers.
@@IDDQDSound no problem, glad I've found you, I do have another question, any idea why quantize doesn't work? I've tried everything and it just doesn't do nothing, thought it was because I was using the free version of reaper, so I bought a license but it's just the same, cheers man.
I'm sure my question is very simple, but I haven't found the answer in any video or in the Reaper help: How do I change from Write to Select in the Midi Editor? By default it is always on write and when what I want is to select, I always write. Please help
This question deserves its own video for sure, but to give you something quick: -By default you can select stuff by either clicking on the note, or by right dragging the mouse to select multiple notes. -if you want to have a write and a select tool, you can set that up. I have a video for a pencil tool if you wanna check it out. For a select tool it would be same procedure different actions. I will do a vid on this in more detail asap but check this out in the meantime: ruclips.net/video/EoYUCX-WF-I/видео.html
Somehow the duplicate thing is not working for me, it just jump to the next step and does nothing. Also that ctrl shift d isnt working like on your thing here. could u help me please?
Hey dude! I'm confused a bit because I didn't mention duplicating in this video. I talk about it another video though :) Anyway, I can definitely give you some ideas: -Open action list and from the top dropdown make sure the MIDI Editor is selected, then you can click on find shortcut and press the hotkey. Does a command come up? If it says no shortcut found, you need to assign it! The command is called duplicate events. Search for it, and then on the bottom click on add and press the hotkey and hit okay. Lemme know if that solved it. Otherwise you can also look up my video on duplicating MIDI notes where I give 3 different ways of doing it :)
@@sicknotelvd You have to drag with the right click and select the whole chord, and also you have to have an empty area afterwards. If you have those with duplicate events it should work. You can also select all the notes, and you can use command and drag on the notes, and it will make a copy and you can place it anywhere. Hope this helps :)
Hi,i saved your hotkeys to to change Grid Size and import to my reaper configuration and every thing ok.but when i use it ,reaper has a problem with that, and show up a window= Reascript error Can't load file: MPL Scripts\MIDI editor\mpl_Adjust MIDI Editor grid (mousewheel).lua
Hey Farhan!! So yeah it seems like you are missing this Mpl action that I'm using! You need to download that separately from ReaPack! Once you do, just re-import my actions and you should be good to go!
You can also open the config file with a texteditor, and then look for mpl_adjust midi editor, and just erase it, but get that action because it's pretty great!! :)
Hey Juan! Normally they're on my website but there seems to be an issue right now. So while I fix that you can find all the downloadables here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JzJZV6opKjN4nU2SDeh82-N7Eh-P2VXU?usp=sharing Go to MIDI 101 & 102 downloads and this is episode 36's downloads :)
@@IDDQDSound Hi, i have i already instaled the paste custom action but when i use it, reaper open up a window with the midi item properties, what is the problem?
@@BrunoNeureiter the exact action name is: CC: Set CC lane to 001 Mod Wheel MSB can't think of any reason why you wouldn't have it though...headscratcher!!
Thanks Nick! To be honest, Ableton does MIDI better than any DAW in some ways, and if you have it there's no need to fully switch! I think I painted myself into a corner by customizing Reaper to the point that going anywhere else just doesn't make sense to me :)
@@nickskywalker2568 It's def possible. Maybe a slower than usual start but it pays off in the long run for sure! Lemme know if there are any specific Ableton Features you miss in the MIDI realm, and I'll include fixes and workarounds to it in a video!
Have either of you checked out the Playtime plugin for Reaper? It looks a lot like Ableton. I bought it a couple of years ago but never found the time to use it.
Jim, I haven't seen it but would love some Ableton functionality. Will check it out! @Germo .S, yeah dude I know what you mean, it can definitely get crazy but I slowly customized things a bit at a time and over time I feel like I have quite a solid build going on :)
This is the best series I've seen on Reaper's midi editor, really a huge help! One trick I've been trying to figure out is if there is a to ripple delete between two midi notes. Do you have any suggestions for that? It would essentially make reaper complete for me.
Yeah that could be doable! I gotta think the custom action through, but I'm on it!
hey Liam. Did the tutorial on Ripple delete. Check it out and lemme know if it's how you wanted it:
ruclips.net/video/AIE9m03lr8o/видео.html
I haven't even watched a full minute. Immediate upvote for talking speed and time stamps. God bless you, you fucking legend.
Thanks so much! This is the fast-talking challenge for the ADHD-minded :D
I think the great thing about REAPER is it's community, the kind of people it attracts, true hackers that get to the core of things and aren't distracted
Indeed! Reaper's community is incredible!
These videos are great. You are inspiring me to dig deeper into all the customizations. I hope your channel keeps growing and you do well here on RUclips.
Thanks Jim! Means a lot coming from you!! Love your drumming skills! btw check out the channel 'Let's talk about Reaper' it's by a drummer using Reaper so could be up your alley :)
@@IDDQDSound Thanks. Yes, I've seen his channel.
You're facilitating the musicmaking process of many, thank you and kudos!
Thanks so much for the kind words! Needed them today :)
I keep coming back to these insights over and over. Just great, thanks for the effort!
Thanks buddy!!! I gotta do more MIDI stuff cuz folks seem to really like those!
This was very helpful and inspiring. Thank you very much for your work! :)
My pleasure!!! Got loads more of MIDI stuff so hope you enjoy them when you get a chance :)
Hey folks! Something I forgot to mention but will in the blog post as well:
The command for changing grid size by mousewheel is by mpl, so you need Reapack for it.
If you wanna know how to install Reapack, here's a video:
ruclips.net/video/S2a4QWqZ53M/видео.html
Super useful solutions, man! Lots of people that Reaper's MIDI Editor lacks some features, but the thing is it's more of a DIY thing ;)
Totally agree man! Glad you liked them! Nice beats btw :)
Excellent. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Great man! So much information in just 7 minutes ... Thank You so much! For me as a not native english speaking person, it´s quite fast.
Ahhh yes especially back then it's super fast. Sorry about that :)
These days I try to keep them fast cuz it's what most viewers want (we took a vote lol) but the new stuff is still a bit slower, and I also include extra info and more details in the blogposts so check those out :)
@@IDDQDSound thx. I will check it out soon.
Gnarly dude! Inspired a few of my own. Thanks. :)
Thanks!! let us know what you came up with too :)
Fantastic stuff my dude, this helped LOTS!
Thank you my dude!
Great video my dude. Keep up the good work!
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Cok sagol dostum :)
Hey man! Your videos are amazing! I have a question.
How do you bind the hotkey that allows you to use AWSD to select midi notes. I'd love to know which action you are using to do that :) Thank you!!
Thanks for the kind words! Check out 6:06 and I have a list of all the actions. Go to action list (you can press the shift+? Key) on the top where it says section, select MIDI Editor, then search for each action, press Add and hit the hotkey. Take a few mins to aet set up but it's worth it!
oh nvm I found it :) Select note of same/left or right pitch.
I subbed to your channel because you are the only one I found covering this stuff in this detail!! Can't wait to watch more.
Yooo midi hotkeys go BRRRR
BRRRRRRRR
Hi, great video, but why are some actions missing when I search them through the filter list, like "zoom to time selection" and "duplicate selected notes one octave"? I only want to add certain shortcuts. Am I missing something?
impressive, well done
Thank you!! Glad you like this. More in this MIDI playlist: ruclips.net/video/akqKvLiO0xc/видео.html
Gooood stuff, I'm using some of these!
Thanks buddy! Please do! :)
I do not understand why the rush in getting things said. I recommend you pause between tips so that the tips flow similar to how a normal conversation with your audience would be conducted.
I think your subscribers will appreciate that. Your content is great BTW.
Thanks! This is an old video and also my 30th video or so, so yeah I was totally going too fast back then! New videos are hopefully better paced. In my defence, since I've slowed down the pace, almost no one watches my videos to the end :)
very useful
Thank you!
thanks, that was great content
My pleasure! Please share with your REAPER friends haha :)
Thank you so much 💐🎉
Most welcome 😊
Great video! I found your editing velocity tip to be very helpful.
My question is where in Reaper's setting can I can create my own hotkeys to bind my own commands (i.e 'w', 'a', and so forth) to edit and create different ranges from 1 or 10% louder or softer when editing velocities?
Also can I set the midi's velocities to show the dynamics (i.e. 58, 72, or 39) without having to use my mouse to drag and lower or raise a midi's velocity? If so, how can I set this?
Hey Eric, To create your own hotkeys:
Go to actions list (Actions>Action list or press ?) and then on the top right from the dropdown menu choose MIDI Editor and you will see the list of actions in the MIDI Editor. Find the command you want from my list (you can also search for them on the top left window), then click on it, click on add on the bottom left, and press the key you want in the window that pops up.
For seeing the velocity value, from the same actions list menu (MIDI Editor) look for 'View: Show velocity numbers on notes' and run it once. It'll now show the velocity numbers in the lane :)
@@IDDQDSound Thanks! Just created some actions and I'm excited to save some time using these shortcuts. I appreciate you :)
I don't know why, but my action list doesn't have a Navigate up or down option, just next or previous note..
Question, is it good practice to always try to draw in and edit notes with the keyboard or just try to grab and manipulate notes with mouse? I am confused on how to strike a balance. Maybe is there an example of you composing with midi that could help?
Edit: I am wondering if it is useful to have these things: Ability to zoom in so that the notes are vertically bigger so I can more accurately place notes with my mouse;
and ability to just single left click to place a note and dragging out note length, instead of having to do the thing where you have to move the cursor a bit to the left when single clicking before it starts placing and before you can start making it bigger to taste.
Hey great question! I think it totally depends on what you prefer, but I always start by playing some stuff, then editing with additional notes and Quantization :)
@@IDDQDSound Ah okay thanks. I do have a digital keyboard and ideally I'd like to compose midi by playing, but I am afraid that voicemeeter or something else is adding too much input latency. Have you made a video about that yet? Also my piano playing isn't that great haha.
One last question is: You have a lot of tutorials but I am wondering if you've considered making a "start here" playlist in your channel just so I know where to click if I'm a beginner.
Hello friend, whe ni move beetween notes with A D S W my edit cursos changes together, i noticed in urs it doesnt change it.. how i do that? prevent from moving the edit cursor
Can I create hotkeys to trigger events within a VST? (ie., left arrow key triggers a VST effect on or off. Or triggers items within a VST itself, like if a keyboard had a phaser). I have a bluetooth pedal that is really a page turning device but thought I could use it to trigger events in a VST in reaper since it has keystrokes mapped to each switch.
Hey Mark! nice idea and interesting question! It depends on the VST. For example, in waves plugins, You can run SWS actions to toggle next or previous preset. Also if you have windows there's a hacky way of making actions that click on a specific area of your screen, but yeah if you can tell me the name of the plugin in question maybe it could be done :)
You could also see if you can use CSI to map your device to MIDI commands :)
i think youre using a mac. because i dont think reaper is reading my shift key as a modifier. is there any work arounds? i set 4 hotkeys, and now im stuck for past hour trying to do these other ones, and shift isnt being read, its acting like its not being pressed
Hmmm that's curious...I know with alt there's a preference but with Shift I've never heard of it.
What happens when you press an action that by default has shift in it, like Shift + F to open the FX browser? If those don't work that may be something outside reaper?
When selecting bottom note in midi editor with "S" key and if there is no lower note, selection is disabled...Is there a way to fix this ?
Hmmmm good question. I don't think so, at least not with this action unfortunately :(
When you do the WASD thing, what the actual command that you have linked?
It's in a list at the end of the video and in the blog post :)
@@IDDQDSound thanks!
Hi mate, I recently watched a video where there guy was using abeleton I think it was, anyway, he wrote out a d Minor scale in 3 octaves and pressed "fold" and it got rid of all the notes that aren't in d Minor, leaving him with d Minor with no spaces between the notes on the midi grid, then wrote a song with just random notes that were all in d Minor, looked great and didn't know this was possible, how can I do this in reaper? Cheers.
It's in this video: ruclips.net/video/tqyrbtYWg3U/видео.html
@@IDDQDSound thank you very much for your help, I've subbed, great channel.
@@deeforty Thanks! Welcome aboard and lmk if you have any more questions!
@@IDDQDSound no problem, glad I've found you, I do have another question, any idea why quantize doesn't work? I've tried everything and it just doesn't do nothing, thought it was because I was using the free version of reaper, so I bought a license but it's just the same, cheers man.
I'm sure my question is very simple, but I haven't found the answer in any video or in the Reaper help: How do I change from Write to Select in the Midi Editor?
By default it is always on write and when what I want is to select, I always write. Please help
This question deserves its own video for sure, but to give you something quick:
-By default you can select stuff by either clicking on the note, or by right dragging the mouse to select multiple notes.
-if you want to have a write and a select tool, you can set that up. I have a video for a pencil tool if you wanna check it out. For a select tool it would be same procedure different actions. I will do a vid on this in more detail asap but check this out in the meantime:
ruclips.net/video/EoYUCX-WF-I/видео.html
@@IDDQDSound Thank you
Somehow the duplicate thing is not working for me, it just jump to the next step and does nothing. Also that ctrl shift d isnt working like on your thing here. could u help me please?
Hey dude! I'm confused a bit because I didn't mention duplicating in this video. I talk about it another video though :)
Anyway, I can definitely give you some ideas:
-Open action list and from the top dropdown make sure the MIDI Editor is selected, then you can click on find shortcut and press the hotkey. Does a command come up? If it says no shortcut found, you need to assign it! The command is called duplicate events. Search for it, and then on the bottom click on add and press the hotkey and hit okay. Lemme know if that solved it. Otherwise you can also look up my video on duplicating MIDI notes where I give 3 different ways of doing it :)
@@IDDQDSound hey, ctrl d worked now, dont know why it havent before. but that copy the note thing where u create a chord doesnt work for me
@@sicknotelvd You have to drag with the right click and select the whole chord, and also you have to have an empty area afterwards. If you have those with duplicate events it should work.
You can also select all the notes, and you can use command and drag on the notes, and it will make a copy and you can place it anywhere. Hope this helps :)
Hi,i saved your hotkeys to to change Grid Size and import to my reaper configuration and every thing ok.but when i use it ,reaper has a problem with that, and show up a window= Reascript error Can't load file:
MPL Scripts\MIDI editor\mpl_Adjust MIDI Editor grid (mousewheel).lua
Hey Farhan!! So yeah it seems like you are missing this Mpl action that I'm using! You need to download that separately from ReaPack! Once you do, just re-import my actions and you should be good to go!
You can also open the config file with a texteditor, and then look for mpl_adjust midi editor, and just erase it, but get that action because it's pretty great!! :)
Hi, i want this custom action, where i can find this? i can´t find it in the repaer stash, thanks!!!
Hey Juan! Normally they're on my website but there seems to be an issue right now. So while I fix that you can find all the downloadables here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JzJZV6opKjN4nU2SDeh82-N7Eh-P2VXU?usp=sharing
Go to MIDI 101 & 102 downloads and this is episode 36's downloads :)
@@IDDQDSound thanks You!
@@IDDQDSound Hi, i have i already instaled the paste custom action but when i use it, reaper open up a window with the midi item properties, what is the problem?
@@JuanMotta are you on our discord? I can show you the fix. It's hard to explain in text. You can also email me at info at iddqdsound dot com
@@IDDQDSound thanks i'm going to send to you an email
Don!
Why don't I have the show mod wheel action?
Oh I think it's called CC: Set CC lane to 001 Mod Wheel MSB
Yeah it should be native! Just make sure your section is MIDI Editor!
@@IDDQDSound didn't see it though
@@IDDQDSound same with the velocity lane, but I don't need that particular one
@@BrunoNeureiter the exact action name is: CC: Set CC lane to 001 Mod Wheel MSB
can't think of any reason why you wouldn't have it though...headscratcher!!
Feel like my brain got bigger
Nice. Good to hear :)
no time to loose
Ain't nobody got time these days ;)
Your'e a don!
The midi editor is the only part of reaper that keeps me from switching fully from ableton!
Thanks Nick! To be honest, Ableton does MIDI better than any DAW in some ways, and if you have it there's no need to fully switch! I think I painted myself into a corner by customizing Reaper to the point that going anywhere else just doesn't make sense to me :)
@@IDDQDSound thing is reaper is reaper has so many more advantages! I want to be full o reaper
@@nickskywalker2568 It's def possible. Maybe a slower than usual start but it pays off in the long run for sure!
Lemme know if there are any specific Ableton Features you miss in the MIDI realm, and I'll include fixes and workarounds to it in a video!
Have either of you checked out the Playtime plugin for Reaper? It looks a lot like Ableton. I bought it a couple of years ago but never found the time to use it.
Jim, I haven't seen it but would love some Ableton functionality. Will check it out!
@Germo .S, yeah dude I know what you mean, it can definitely get crazy but I slowly customized things a bit at a time and over time I feel like I have quite a solid build going on :)