For anyone trying to use prerecorded audio with this method, you need to right-click the speaker icon (Record Monitoring button) and select "Monitor Track Media When Recording" and then record. Or right click media item and select "Apply track/take FX to items as new take (MIDI output)" instead of record for a faster result if working with a long item.
I have tried both ways that @vauteau5140 shows and it does lay out a midi item but it is empty, no notes to be seen. And in Kenny´s method only the 2 bottom strings of my bass show up, the A and E strings don´t record. Any ideas?
@@loretoz I take the bass up two octaves to improve on tracking. @DLCoker666 I'm having the same issue. The track won't export as a MIDI take, even though I can hear Kontakt output the signal. I'm trying to send the MIDI to a new track as a workaround, and that's not working, either.
It's crazy how useful these tutorials are. I recorded a bass track for a song and wanted to use a completely different sound for it. I converted it to midi, used a bass plugin, and it worked perfectly. Thanks for that tutorial.
That's exactly what I want to do (I don't have a bass guitar. . only regular guitar). I hope I can find a bass midi sound that can interpret string bends info properly. . because I want a smooth bend. . not jumping from note to note.
Ce que j'aime dans les vidéos de Kenny, c'est qu'il dit en quelques minutes ce que d'autres mettraient des heures à expliquer. De plus, sa diction est bien articulée et facile à comprendre pour un non-anglophone. Merci. Ceci dit, pour la technique exposée ici, il faut prévoir une certaine latence, qui ne convient pas à un jeu un peu rapide. Mais c'est le problème de toute conversion live audio vers Midi.
I feel like Reaper needs an audio to midi conversion option command. Ideally with several algorithms…this is the type of stuff that really makes PT stand out in modern age
Incrível como é tão útil com diversas aplicações e ao mesmo tempo é tão simples, estava pesquisando uma forma de escrever tabs tocando o instrumento ao invés de usar o mouse, fazendo isso do video e gerando o midi é só importar no programa de tabs. a outra alternativa é o usar o melodine pra fazer o mesmo mas tem um certo trabalho de edição depois pra limpar algumas coisas, dessa forma vc já consegue corrigir na mesma hora só tocando de novo. Esse vídeo resolveu muito mais do que isso! Simplesmente maravilhoso!
This is really great for something that is already included. I had a bit of latency between the guitar being played and the synth being triggered. I am not sure if this is the best solution, but when I turned off the 'automatic pitch correction' in ReaTune's 2nd tab, I have almost no latency now. Just in case, I ran my signal in mono as well and bypassed my other gear I normally have inline for recording. Granted, its picking up every single note and its tough to not bend and play 100% monophonic, but this will really be useful. Thanks Kenny.
Your inline gear probably isn't the problem, any latency would be due to your CPU speed. Having a faster computer would probably be the only way to improve the latency.
I have the same problem. about 500 msec latency to be more precise. Apparently the buffering mode in the "tuner" tab of ReaTune is set to "non live input", but I cannot find this "non live input" tab anywhere.
the video is excellent! did anyone find out more about this topic "picking up every single note and its tough to not bend and play 100% monophonic"? I am still having a latency that is probably because of CPU (however in my notebook are 12 of them - so it´s probably not about CPU in my case) AND it´s super tough to exactly play 100% monophonic on a six string... how are you managing this?
Mr. Kenny Gioia Sir, You Are Certainly The Foremost & such a Dynamic Teacher For Reaper, Its Incredible Man! ThankYou For This Video, Wow! To be able to do this with just a Regular Guitar and Not even to have Purchase an Expensive MIDI Guitar such as a Godin and then also to have to have with that a Roland GR55 etc etc etc in order to do all these things, But this Awesome, ThankYou Sir once again And The Lord Jesus Bless You Man!
Another great video of yours has helped me. I wanted to have my drum program record the kick pattern in MIDI format from the routed audio drum trigger to that track and I did not know to change the output to Midi
first, thanks for this. I followed the example and it worked great. I used an E tuning fork. This function alone might justify the purchase of Reaper. I'm working with Reaper as a possible replacement for Reason.
Holy Shit, If you ran for President now I would vote for you dude, awesome dude, I was looking for a plugin to do this and it is in Reaper all along. Seriously, you need to run next election.
Is it possible to do the reverse of what you did? I already have MIDI notes. Now I want them to sound using a one-shot bass sample sound (2-3 seconds) that I have.
@@ugopalazzooddo8405 Exit the program a set it up again, it needs several attempts sometimes, also try deleting track and creating a new one and setting it up again you will get it working of sorts! Mine is not working very well, but I can get some sounds out of I'm using V6.32 and they still have not sorted it properly!
same here, everything is set just fine, i hear the audio and it modulates, it even records the guitar signal if its not selected to record the output. When i put "record output midi" the sound still runs but nothing records in the track
Many thanks. So, if I wanted to convert an already recorded audio loop (.WAV) to MIDI, would I have the .WAV loop on one track, and set up another track to record the output of that track to MIDI (in the way you do it here)?
I had never even heard of taking audio and converting it to MIDI. That's wild. I mean, once I get a grasp on that, the possibilities, sheesh. Oh, hey, Mr. Kenny, ISWYDT, Eric Burdon and The Animals... 😁
Does it simply mean that we don't need Roland GL-3 MIDI pickup, we don't need some expensive interface with MIDI? All we need is just to connect guitar to the computer (via some normal cheap interface) and with this Reatune plugin we can do all those choirs, pianos, violins etc? Nothing more is needed?
I couldn't get this to work properly with a bass guitar. I have small arthritic hands so I'm a poor bass player but I need to write them for my songs. I just bought PunkBass from Submission Audio and was looking for a way to convert the basslines I played to MIDI so I could fix my poor playing and have PunkBass take care of it. I followed Kenny's instructions but when I hit record the MIDI recording was all over the place. It picked up some high notes but none of the low ones and even the higher ones it picked up were a total mess.
For bass, I would set the Window Size (on the opening tuning screen) to 200ms. That should catch all of the lower notes. Also, apply a bandpass filter (I usually set it at between 600 to 3000 hz) before anything else in your chain. This will filter out a lot of the 'garbage' frequencies and overtones.
Can you use a mic'ed kazoo for input instead of a guitar? Asking so I don't waste time if this is not a thing to attempt. Having a kazoo produce recorder or flute sounds for instrumental passages when I am performing with my ukulele would be really cool. Thank you.
Trying to follow along. I don't have the library of instruments that Kenny has. Do any of the stock Reaper instruments (ReaSynth for example) work to let me convert audio to midi? When I try on any of the three stock instruments, when I play my guitar, I get nothing recorded. Any ideas? Thanks.
I just find out this video and tried to trigger virtual bass with my guitar. It seems to work just like Kenny shows, but as I have slow computer, there is a lot of latency. I tried to solve this problem by switching monitoring off, but now there is no signal going to track. Should it work like that?
How to remove latency when using low end strings i would like to use my guitar as a bass i have an 8 string then i'll use the recorded midi as my bass parts but it's difficult since there's latency when recording.
Hey Kenny, is there a way to link these midi inputs to perform specific actions as you play a specific note? Just like We can do with a midi controller or keyboard.
don't know why, but i can't record the midi.While playing everything is fine, but when recording - notes don't recond in playlist. I did record output midi - but it doesn't works
Anyone know how to get midi controlled audio without the original instrument in real time? So if I want to jam as a bass player with a guitar for example in a live setting and hear only the midi controlled bass
Anyone had any luck coming up with a scheme to have ReaTune address MIDI velocity? Tracks pitch great but only puts out at velocity 127. it's kind of a deal breaker for vocal to midi control of kontak instruments.
I bet this would work pretty good for live performance if you can achieve decent latency, for example, if you want to play a virtual instrument with your guitar. Would you need to route the output on a bus to another track with the virtual instrument and then mute the audio track? Or can you just turn down the audio output of the ReaTune plugin? Sounds like something to experiment with.
For anyone trying to use prerecorded audio with this method, you need to right-click the speaker icon (Record Monitoring button) and select "Monitor Track Media When Recording" and then record. Or right click media item and select "Apply track/take FX to items as new take (MIDI output)" instead of record for a faster result if working with a long item.
Thank you sir ❤
I have tried both ways that
@vauteau5140 shows and it does lay out a midi item but it is empty, no notes to be seen. And in Kenny´s method only the 2 bottom strings of my bass show up, the A and E strings don´t record. Any ideas?
@@loretoz setting at tuner "window size 50" "overlap 4x"
@@loretoz I take the bass up two octaves to improve on tracking.
@DLCoker666 I'm having the same issue. The track won't export as a MIDI take, even though I can hear Kontakt output the signal. I'm trying to send the MIDI to a new track as a workaround, and that's not working, either.
This guy's doing god's work man I swear
Well, he's doing Cockos' work... but that's almost the same thing...
My jaw just hit the floor. I had no idea you could do this.
pick your dusted jaw and go use this feature :D
Kenny is the best.
6 years of using Reaper EVERY day and didn’t know you could do this. Thanks for the video!
Happy to help!
It's crazy how useful these tutorials are. I recorded a bass track for a song and wanted to use a completely different sound for it. I converted it to midi, used a bass plugin, and it worked perfectly. Thanks for that tutorial.
That's exactly what I want to do (I don't have a bass guitar. . only regular guitar). I hope I can find a bass midi sound that can interpret string bends info properly. . because I want a smooth bend. . not jumping from note to note.
I'm bout to turn my glockenspeil into the dirtiest synth
yes!
ahahahaa!
You're an absolute hero Kenny. I've been using reaper for about 5 years and didn't know you could do this. Game changer!
I just used this method for my mic. I wanted to sing/hum my melodies and it works!!! Thank youuuuu!!!
As a guitarist, this video gonna save couple years of my lifetime. Thank a lot dude and merry Christmas!
In one second I was able to send a complicated guitar riff track to a synth vst for doubling and it was perfect. You're a God
I've been wanting to use my guitar as a midi trigger and I had no idea it was this quick and easy.Thanks again Kenny!
OK I have been already using Reaper for years on end but THIS just blew my mind... I cannot thank you enough!
This is beyond cool. The possibilities are mind boggling.
This is the first time I've consulted a tutorial, and I tried it, and it ACTUALLY WORKED. 😱
*I'm comin to join you, Elizabeth!!*
Ce que j'aime dans les vidéos de Kenny, c'est qu'il dit en quelques minutes ce que d'autres mettraient des heures à expliquer. De plus, sa diction est bien articulée et facile à comprendre pour un non-anglophone. Merci.
Ceci dit, pour la technique exposée ici, il faut prévoir une certaine latence, qui ne convient pas à un jeu un peu rapide. Mais c'est le problème de toute conversion live audio vers Midi.
I will make sure I call your name at the Grammy's, this is AWESOME!
Great video. Had no idea this could be done natively within reaper. Thank you.
I feel like Reaper needs an audio to midi conversion option command. Ideally with several algorithms…this is the type of stuff that really makes PT stand out in modern age
Great Tutorial, even better than your usual ones: You found a way to have a midi guitar with a regular guitar!!!
Absolutely what I needed right now!
Kenny, that's an awesome tip! Thanks for sharing! I had noticed the send to midi check box, but never thought about using it.
Thats a Beautiful Melody too Kenny by the way Sir
This so useful. It is glitchy, which just adds to the vibe of what it does. Thanks for this.
After 10 years using Cubase, I saw that the Reaper is the most powerful and useful DAW in the world.
Incrível como é tão útil com diversas aplicações e ao mesmo tempo é tão simples, estava pesquisando uma forma de escrever tabs tocando o instrumento ao invés de usar o mouse, fazendo isso do video e gerando o midi é só importar no programa de tabs. a outra alternativa é o usar o melodine pra fazer o mesmo mas tem um certo trabalho de edição depois pra limpar algumas coisas, dessa forma vc já consegue corrigir na mesma hora só tocando de novo. Esse vídeo resolveu muito mais do que isso! Simplesmente maravilhoso!
I'm not a bad gutair player but I suck at keys real bad. This really is a revelation to me. Fantastic. Thank you.
This is really great for something that is already included. I had a bit of latency between the guitar being played and the synth being triggered. I am not sure if this is the best solution, but when I turned off the 'automatic pitch correction' in ReaTune's 2nd tab, I have almost no latency now. Just in case, I ran my signal in mono as well and bypassed my other gear I normally have inline for recording. Granted, its picking up every single note and its tough to not bend and play 100% monophonic, but this will really be useful. Thanks Kenny.
Your inline gear probably isn't the problem, any latency would be due to your CPU speed. Having a faster computer would probably be the only way to improve the latency.
I have the same problem. about 500 msec latency to be more precise.
Apparently the buffering mode in the "tuner" tab of ReaTune is set to "non live input", but I cannot find this "non live input" tab anywhere.
@@D_M_Wolfe Did you ever find this setting? I'm having the same issue...
the video is excellent! did anyone find out more about this topic "picking up every single note and its tough to not bend and play 100% monophonic"? I am still having a latency that is probably because of CPU (however in my notebook are 12 of them - so it´s probably not about CPU in my case) AND it´s super tough to exactly play 100% monophonic on a six string... how are you managing this?
Mr. Kenny Gioia Sir, You Are Certainly The Foremost & such a Dynamic Teacher For Reaper, Its Incredible Man! ThankYou For This Video, Wow! To be able to do this with just a Regular Guitar and Not even to have Purchase an Expensive MIDI Guitar such as a Godin and then also to have to have with that a Roland GR55 etc etc etc in order to do all these things, But this Awesome, ThankYou Sir once again And The Lord Jesus Bless You Man!
Awesome. Exactly what I was hoping and looking for. Top stuff.
once again.... thank you Kenny! goldmine!
OK, This just saved me a bunch of money. How awesome!
You're a freaking superstar Kenny!!! ;D
I won' have to rush learning the piano.....
Pretty awesome, never realized Reatune could output MIDI
Unreal! Kenny I have just tried this and it works a dream!! You Sir are a genius!! :-)
I have to figure out how to turn my vocals into MIDI using these tips, but anyways, the KennyPedia did not disappoint. Thanks!
This just freakin solved a huge problem - I suck at piano/keys. I'm a guitar player. Thank you. I'm gonna try it right now!
Why do I think of Christopher Walken each time I watch your vids :-) I bet you do a killer impression :-)
That was exactly what I was going to say.
I like your new video's thumbnail! It's more exciting and informative than the usual one.
Problem. I hear the plugin and set Record output (MIDI) but recorded track is empty. 🤔
You can use the Kodai application, to record your instrument and convert to midi. It works with polyphonic recording.
Most helpful reaper tutorials ever but also most distracting cadence of speaking ever!
Another great video of yours has helped me. I wanted to have my drum program record the kick pattern in MIDI format from the routed audio drum trigger to that track and I did not know to change the output to Midi
this video is a revelation to me!!! I didn't know it was possible! Once again, THANKS!!!!!!!
The video tutorials are always helpful to me.
Thanks for the same 😊
Reaper & Kenny both are awesome!!!! ❤
Just realized Kenny has the same vocal inflection as Christopher Walken but much more subtle. Compliment!!!!
It's called being from NYC bro XD
This is groundbreaking!
I did learn something, I can definitely use it, and I will see you next time...THANX!!!
first, thanks for this. I followed the example and it worked great. I used an E tuning fork. This function alone might justify the purchase of Reaper. I'm working with Reaper as a possible replacement for Reason.
Your videos are brilliant, thank you so much
Wow yet another interesting thing I learned about Reaper! Thanks for sharing this!
I always wanted an easier way to do this THANK YOU. I recently moved to reaper.
I had no idea this was possible. Really cool!
Holy Shit, If you ran for President now I would vote for you dude, awesome dude, I was looking for a plugin to do this and it is in Reaper all along. Seriously, you need to run next election.
This is so incredible !
Is it possible to do the reverse of what you did? I already have MIDI notes. Now I want them to sound using a one-shot bass sample sound (2-3 seconds) that I have.
You are such a STAR🌟
Does anyone know why mine isn’t working? I’m doing everything Kenny said, but when I try to record audio, nothing appears in the track.
Same here. Stuck.
@@ugopalazzooddo8405 Exit the program a set it up again, it needs several attempts sometimes, also try deleting track and creating a new one and setting it up again you will get it working of sorts! Mine is not working very well, but I can get some sounds out of I'm using V6.32 and they still have not sorted it properly!
same here, everything is set just fine, i hear the audio and it modulates, it even records the guitar signal if its not selected to record the output. When i put "record output midi" the sound still runs but nothing records in the track
My mind has been blown!!
So sick, what this DAW is capable of.
Hi all! Any ideas how also capture pitch variation, like slides out or bends? 🤔
This is pure awesome .Thanks Kenny , very useful tip .
Thank you. Your videos are extremely helpful and useful. The time and effort are gReatly appreciated. Have a great New Year.
Kenny..i love you
I got a lot of latency when I engaged the Automatic Pitch Correction. I'm at 128 Buffer
Holy Shit..Kenny, you're the king
Many thanks. So, if I wanted to convert an already recorded audio loop (.WAV) to MIDI, would I have the .WAV loop on one track, and set up another track to record the output of that track to MIDI (in the way you do it here)?
I didn't know Christopher Walken was making reaper videos, seems fitting with his Dead Zone role.
I have latency problem, I'm using steinberg ci2+
I had never even heard of taking audio and converting it to MIDI. That's wild. I mean, once I get a grasp on that, the possibilities, sheesh.
Oh, hey, Mr. Kenny, ISWYDT, Eric Burdon and The Animals... 😁
This is great Kenny, I've been looking for a way to do this......thank you
Glad to help
That's awesome! Thanks!!
Really awesome! Thanks a bunch!
Holy fooooking moly. Amazing.
That was massively helpful!
Great stuff... It’s like an instant Flaming Lips song!
Does it simply mean that we don't need Roland GL-3 MIDI pickup, we don't need some expensive interface with MIDI? All we need is just to connect guitar to the computer (via some normal cheap interface) and with this Reatune plugin we can do all those choirs, pianos, violins etc? Nothing more is needed?
Is there a way to convert loops/samples into midi notes
for falcon 3 VST3i midi out in reaper. Right click record midi. will work in first test . Thanks
I couldn't get this to work properly with a bass guitar. I have small arthritic hands so I'm a poor bass player but I need to write them for my songs. I just bought PunkBass from Submission Audio and was looking for a way to convert the basslines I played to MIDI so I could fix my poor playing and have PunkBass take care of it. I followed Kenny's instructions but when I hit record the MIDI recording was all over the place. It picked up some high notes but none of the low ones and even the higher ones it picked up were a total mess.
For bass, I would set the Window Size (on the opening tuning screen) to 200ms. That should catch all of the lower notes. Also, apply a bandpass filter (I usually set it at between 600 to 3000 hz) before anything else in your chain. This will filter out a lot of the 'garbage' frequencies and overtones.
Can you use a mic'ed kazoo for input instead of a guitar? Asking so I don't waste time if this is not a thing to attempt. Having a kazoo produce recorder or flute sounds for instrumental passages when I am performing with my ukulele would be really cool. Thank you.
very cool, wonder if it is possible to make a direct connection from Reaper with makemusic finale
does anyone know how to convert a previously recorded audio signal to midi?
that's really amazing thank you Kenny
Trying to follow along. I don't have the library of instruments that Kenny has. Do any of the stock Reaper instruments (ReaSynth for example) work to let me convert audio to midi? When I try on any of the three stock instruments, when I play my guitar, I get nothing recorded. Any ideas? Thanks.
I just find out this video and tried to trigger virtual bass with my guitar. It seems to work just like Kenny shows, but as I have slow computer, there is a lot of latency. I tried to solve this problem by switching monitoring off, but now there is no signal going to track. Should it work like that?
I'm struggling to get this to work. I can hear the VST playing my guitar notes, but it's not recording anything.
Fantastic Kenny. No need for me to now invest in a midi controller ( Me thinks) , like you , Im better on guitar than keyboard . Thanks
Reatune doesn’t work with 7-string guitars tuned to B or lower.
How to remove latency when using low end strings i would like to use my guitar as a bass i have an 8 string then i'll use the recorded midi as my bass parts but it's difficult since there's latency when recording.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on bass. Any solutions?
Hey Kenny, is there a way to link these midi inputs to perform specific actions as you play a specific note? Just like We can do with a midi controller or keyboard.
don't know why, but i can't record the midi.While playing everything is fine, but when recording - notes don't recond in playlist. I did record output midi - but it doesn't works
this was pretty awesome
Anyone know how to get midi controlled audio without the original instrument in real time? So if I want to jam as a bass player with a guitar for example in a live setting and hear only the midi controlled bass
Anyone had any luck coming up with a scheme to have ReaTune address MIDI velocity? Tracks pitch great but only puts out at velocity 127. it's kind of a deal breaker for vocal to midi control of kontak instruments.
Any ideas how to convert already existing track? It works while playing live, but I need to convert something that's already recorded on guitar.
Kenny, I love you
I bet this would work pretty good for live performance if you can achieve decent latency, for example, if you want to play a virtual instrument with your guitar. Would you need to route the output on a bus to another track with the virtual instrument and then mute the audio track? Or can you just turn down the audio output of the ReaTune plugin? Sounds like something to experiment with.
Latency isn't an issue if you choose pads or strings and layer that with your live guitar sound.