The highest quality Reaper videos on the internet. I've seen similar solutions from other resources but none of them were this comprehensive and well put together. Thanks Reaper messiah.
I've learnt more things about Reaper in this video than the last 6 years using it 🤯the Menu Editor thing would have saved me TONS of hours. And will do it. Thanks mate you are fuckin awesome!!
✨Join the Reapertips discord! → discord.gg/BfEnFwjeWZ ✏One thing I wanted to add: This ReaTune method is my go-to, and it's perfect for monophonic stuff. Since it can be turned into an instant custom action, it feels frictionless, and most times it gives me a very solid starting point. However, there are times when I need more advanced stuff. Here's what I suggest: • For polyphonic/bending, use NeuralNote. This is a free VST. • For transients/drums, use MK Slicer. This is an incredible REAPER script that can do transients to MIDI really well (and many more things! I might make a full video on this).
Please do. I can't quite work out the finer details of its detector and the hi and low filter pass to get it to work how I wanted. The developer hasn't really mentioned much about it since then.
You are insane not in the tips but also the way you edit the videos, so creative man 🌟
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There's another reason why this is a godsend and the BEST idea I've ever seen for the effect: converting your stuff to music sheet! Since you are quantizing and gating the annoying noises you get a really solid foundation for any transcription. Brilliant stuff ❤
This is great!!! Thank you 🙏 Now question: this is a crazy idea but is there a way to convert mic drum pads, from the captured WAV hits to MIDI triggers??? Have an amazing day 🤘
As a guitar player, I’m curious if this would help to figure out guitar solos in recordings that I’m having trouble with, as I don’t have the greatest ears. I’ll have to give this a shot. Thank you.
Why you wanna have audio to midi? I think its useless and uneeded.. Maybe otherwise is cool from midi to WAV without recording to another channel, then you dont need all the plugins after doing that .. But i really dont see the thing to do this .. Im always happy when i have real instruments because its more easy for me
I´m a classical guitar player, and I do very basic recording stuff for the moment, I always used Reaper, because it´s also capable of doing basic video editing. The software was always great to me, but this channel of yours is really the one to go...your instructions are like a piece of art !! Thanks so much for your amazing work👌🙏 Greets from Austria
Hey Alejandro, I've been loving your Reaper theme and color palette! Awesome video! Quick question. Do you know if it's possible to do something like this but strictly for rhythmic music notes (not melodic) like 8th, 16th, 32nd, triplets etc?? For example, scatting drum patterns with your mouth then converting that audio to midi to be used by a drum sampler to trigger one shot samples. Any idea how to do something like this without having to do alot of midi editing post recording? Thanks for all of your awesome work bro! Much respect! ✌😎 - Cole Mize
Hi Cole!! thank you so much so glad to hear! For drum tracks I would highly suggest looking into the script called MK Slicer! It's amazing :D I was gonna mention it in this video but I think it deserves its own video since it can do so many things~
This is very cool and well explained. But I do feel the need to say that dynamics can totally matter in MIDI, which i assume is pretty obvious including to the presenter. I think that is probably the primary bottleneck with this method... you get midi, but not a performance.
Thank you! and yea definitely! I would just rather take care of the dynamics manually since it's usually very hard to calculate dynamics accurately from just audio in these convertors.
I'm very neurodivergent and Reaper is pretty overwhelming. Just watching you setup an Action was causing my brain to go ...Nah... too much. It's a struggle. That said, I so appreciate your effort! I'm familiar with Reaper at the most basic of levels. That is, I essentially have only used it to "master" my original tracks composed and output entirely from my Roland Fantom 08. Pretty challenging since I'm strictkly using the Roland (mainly to force learning and mastery of the workstation). Taking the stereo mix and tweeking it makes my songs sound so much better. Of course props to the pros I've learned from regarding mixing and mastering. I am no pro. LOL Also, typical of a beginner...I'm broke. So, thanks for the free theme! Maybe, down the road, when things are better, I will definately buy you a cup of coffee! Thanks again!!! Regarding the Midi, I do want to try this out. I can see how this might be good with the new AI tools that yoink out the instrument lines. Bass...Vocal...etc. From there, Midify the notes and use that as inpiration to remix or hybrid with original compositions. Doing this with chords to learn chord progressions in Midi...and modify the rhytnm and melodies... etc. Very usefull what you have shown.
Thanks very much for this. I'm trying it with some recordings but ReaTune is just going crazy, adding a million notes fluttering all over the place! Trying a lot of different gates and EQs and pitch shifters, but really just want something to clean it up.
I love your Reaper Theme which i think is the best out there and i will propose to add it as Reaper Theme directly in the DAW. And i Absolutely Love your Reaper tutorials. Thank you!
This looks like a very useful action. I got hung up at 10:00. Although I have SWS installed correctly, when I go to FX browser and FX Chains, "Misc/Audio to Midi" doesn't appear in the list. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I repeat. How do any other DAWs exist at this point? If Reaper were a $500/yr subscription would it be more popular? The dudes that made WinMX are friggin' legends for giving us the powerhouse of DAW for peanuts.
Yes!! I super recommend this. I use this for the more complicated stuff since it allows for polyphonic. ReaTune is my go-to since it can be done so quickly and works great most times, then MK Slicer (REAPER script) for transients to midi stuff~
NeuralNote is good with detection as long as you can work out a good setting for the note durations. Otherwise you'd have a ton of 1/32 notes across octaves that is cumbersome to clean up... That is until this video showed up telling you exactly how to filter these kinds of events.
This is well and good for DI tracks. But what processing would you suggest for Items that are not? Say distorted guitar. would the same Hi pass filter work?
Hmmm, I opened the FX browser, scrolled down to "FX Chains", but there is nothing else there. There's no "Audio to MIDI FX chain" to right click on. Not sure how to get past this point.
Holy cow, amazing video! I came to learn one thing and learned 50 others haha, thank you so much. Also your reaper tips theme is awesome, I'm wondering if it's all black on the Windows version like it is for Mac? The one thing I can't stand about most dark themes on Windows is every menu has white, FX chains, even the main reaper window, at the top it's always bright white. Does the Windows version theme make all reaper windows black like it does in your Mac version? Again, fantastic video! Subscribed 💪🏻
Thank you so much for all of your work. I am enjoying the Reaper theme you created. Now I will work on this fantastic tip. It didn't separate the midi from the audio file, so I will try and see how to fix it.
I've abused the hell out of reatune - slamming full tracks into it and outputting MIDI of madness (because when you've got multiple instruments going it gets confused over what notes to use) - I then use these as the structures for new songs. Not realistic, not hugely useful except as a creativity prompt - but a lot of fun if there's no stakes.
That is really impressive and was much needed too. Coming from ableton I was looking for that feature for a while. The next challenge now is: drum beats midi extraction
As far as Audio to Midi magic which Reaper doesn't want to have anything to do with, it pretty much has that thing beat from a long time ago. From the JS Audio to Midi drum Triggers, MK Slicer, that script the other guys mentioned in the comments.
I was using a version of this process for years until i discovered a plugin(at the time was free, i dont know if it still that way) called Neural Note, which does the same thing in more practical way except for the thing of make the guitar trigger the piano sound
Love your videos man, but I have a problem getting this hack to work. I´ve copied your exact settings and shortcuts in the right order, but for some reason the midi track doesn´t contain any information (midi notes) after i´ve run the action. In other words, it creates a new take, but it doesn´t transform my audio into any midi signal. I´ve tried a bunch of times but nothing seems to help? does anyone here have the same problem? Keep up the good work man, you´ve literally changed my workflow!
This was great. I found I had to place another action (@ position 14 in your action list) Take: Delete active take from items. Otherwise I had the two takes on the same track. (Reaper V 7.16 Win 11)
Ah okay! I have it like that because I like the two takes. The first being the original source and the second the midi. So if I ever need to go back to the source it will be the previous take. BTW you can disable show multiple lanes for takes with ctrl/cmd + L
Thank you so much. Great tip. Would you confirm that this process of audio to midi conversion works mainly on monophonic audio source? Thank you again for sharing these precious knowledges on my favorite daw reaper.
Thank you soooo much! - Yess, this should cover all of the simple monophonic stuff really well. For more advanced stuff, I would go with: • Neural Note (third-party free VST) for polyphonic stuff • MK Slicer (REAPER script) for drums/transient stuff
I do think that either you have never heard a real bass play, or (hopefully) you are trying to make a bass line for EDM, in which case it doesn't matter if your bass as it is sounds terribly bad and lifeless
Hello Johan! I agree it could have sounded better, tho I don't think that's the point of this video. I could make a whole video about humanizing midi since that's a pretty extensive thing by itself.
Amazing video! I've not had much experience with other DAWs but I'm fully delving into Reaper. Have been using it for a few years and I am forever amazed at what you can do with it
Brilliant stuff. I just started learning about recording and chose Reaper because I respect it's creators and community (like you!). Thank you for this. Liked and subbed.
Big thanks! Very power action! I have completely repeated both the FX chain and the Custom Action - all the steps are one in one, but now I have two takes displayed in one item: wave and MIDI. Not like yours. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
I am a middle aged woman, I don’t play an instrument, don’t know what reaper is and don’t own a computer… but I still watched this video…
hi mom!! 😇
😂😂@@Reapertips
you are awesome
Why is this one of the best comments I've seen on all of YT? She must have been so lost!
@@timandmonica it really is!! I still think about it, I love it hahahahahahaha
reaper god is back 😍❤
This is 100% the best Reaper channel as far as I'm concerned, awesome stuff!
The highest quality Reaper videos on the internet. I've seen similar solutions from other resources but none of them were this comprehensive and well put together. Thanks Reaper messiah.
Woaaa, thank youu! I super appreciate this 😭
@@Reapertips Pls never stop making these videos.
Thank you, Reaper has so many amazing features that I would have never discovered on my own
I've learnt more things about Reaper in this video than the last 6 years using it 🤯the Menu Editor thing would have saved me TONS of hours. And will do it. Thanks mate you are fuckin awesome!!
✨Join the Reapertips discord! → discord.gg/BfEnFwjeWZ
✏One thing I wanted to add: This ReaTune method is my go-to, and it's perfect for monophonic stuff. Since it can be turned into an instant custom action, it feels frictionless, and most times it gives me a very solid starting point. However, there are times when I need more advanced stuff.
Here's what I suggest:
• For polyphonic/bending, use NeuralNote. This is a free VST.
• For transients/drums, use MK Slicer. This is an incredible REAPER script that can do transients to MIDI really well (and many more things! I might make a full video on this).
Please do. I can't quite work out the finer details of its detector and the hi and low filter pass to get it to work how I wanted. The developer hasn't really mentioned much about it since then.
This theme should be paid for .. it should be official
Wanted to ask, what theme is this??
@@galgogergo Reaper tips theme.. it's free
It's amazing - I highly recommend you donate to Alejandro because the theme is just world class
Thank you everyone for the nice comments 🥹❤
You are insane not in the tips but also the way you edit the videos, so creative man 🌟
There's another reason why this is a godsend and the BEST idea I've ever seen for the effect: converting your stuff to music sheet! Since you are quantizing and gating the annoying noises you get a really solid foundation for any transcription. Brilliant stuff ❤
This is great, my man. Appreciate ya!!
Genius!
This is great!!! Thank you 🙏 Now question: this is a crazy idea but is there a way to convert mic drum pads, from the captured WAV hits to MIDI triggers??? Have an amazing day 🤘
Yeeeep! look into MK Slicer script, it's my favorite way to get transients into MIDI super fast!
@@Reapertips no way 😳 I'm checking it right away!!! Thank you, thank you 🙏
*SUBSCRIBED* Holy moly this is great.
As a guitar player, I’m curious if this would help to figure out guitar solos in recordings that I’m having trouble with, as I don’t have the greatest ears. I’ll have to give this a shot. Thank you.
Why you wanna have audio to midi? I think its useless and uneeded.. Maybe otherwise is cool from midi to WAV without recording to another channel, then you dont need all the plugins after doing that ..
But i really dont see the thing to do this .. Im always happy when i have real instruments because its more easy for me
I´m a classical guitar player, and I do very basic recording stuff for the moment, I always used Reaper, because it´s also capable of doing basic video editing. The software was always great to me, but this channel of yours is really the one to go...your instructions are like a piece of art !! Thanks so much for your amazing work👌🙏 Greets from Austria
Hey Alejandro, I've been loving your Reaper theme and color palette! Awesome video! Quick question. Do you know if it's possible to do something like this but strictly for rhythmic music notes (not melodic) like 8th, 16th, 32nd, triplets etc?? For example, scatting drum patterns with your mouth then converting that audio to midi to be used by a drum sampler to trigger one shot samples. Any idea how to do something like this without having to do alot of midi editing post recording? Thanks for all of your awesome work bro! Much respect! ✌😎 - Cole Mize
Hi Cole!! thank you so much so glad to hear! For drum tracks I would highly suggest looking into the script called MK Slicer! It's amazing :D I was gonna mention it in this video but I think it deserves its own video since it can do so many things~
Is there a way to do the same but with drums instead?
Just posted a video showing how :D
Great tips as always! Is it possible to convert single track drums audio to midi somehow?
OUTSTANDING !!! Thank you so much for sharing these tips It is mind blowing !
AMAZING CONTENT! =)
This is very cool and well explained. But I do feel the need to say that dynamics can totally matter in MIDI, which i assume is pretty obvious including to the presenter. I think that is probably the primary bottleneck with this method... you get midi, but not a performance.
Thank you! and yea definitely! I would just rather take care of the dynamics manually since it's usually very hard to calculate dynamics accurately from just audio in these convertors.
once you know reaper it literally leaves any other daw in the dust.. its so good. Great video thanks
Yesss! I’ve been needing this custom action! Been doing it the long way this whole time. Thank you so much
Very impressive.
Can you make same video and action for Live KICK and Snare Drum ?))) PLEASE )))))))))))
Working on it :D
@@Reapertips fck yeah ))))
reaper is so tempting😂
You are amazing. 😊
How would you do this for drusm? I'm looking for an easy method to extract grooves from drum loops...
I'm very neurodivergent and Reaper is pretty overwhelming. Just watching you setup an Action was causing my brain to go ...Nah... too much. It's a struggle. That said, I so appreciate your effort! I'm familiar with Reaper at the most basic of levels. That is, I essentially have only used it to "master" my original tracks composed and output entirely from my Roland Fantom 08. Pretty challenging since I'm strictkly using the Roland (mainly to force learning and mastery of the workstation). Taking the stereo mix and tweeking it makes my songs sound so much better. Of course props to the pros I've learned from regarding mixing and mastering. I am no pro. LOL Also, typical of a beginner...I'm broke. So, thanks for the free theme! Maybe, down the road, when things are better, I will definately buy you a cup of coffee! Thanks again!!! Regarding the Midi, I do want to try this out. I can see how this might be good with the new AI tools that yoink out the instrument lines. Bass...Vocal...etc. From there, Midify the notes and use that as inpiration to remix or hybrid with original compositions. Doing this with chords to learn chord progressions in Midi...and modify the rhytnm and melodies... etc. Very usefull what you have shown.
666th like lets go
Thanks very much for this. I'm trying it with some recordings but ReaTune is just going crazy, adding a million notes fluttering all over the place! Trying a lot of different gates and EQs and pitch shifters, but really just want something to clean it up.
does it works with chords?
I love your Reaper Theme which i think is the best out there and i will propose to add it as Reaper Theme directly in the DAW.
And i Absolutely Love your Reaper tutorials.
Thank you!
Yo that would be sick. Reaper finally getting its much-called-for aesthetic revamp.
Thanks Alejandro, this works great and is super useful !
WOW! Cool! Thank you!!! How can I get all these commands for audio to midi?
This looks like a very useful action.
I got hung up at 10:00. Although I have SWS installed correctly, when I go to FX browser and FX Chains, "Misc/Audio to Midi" doesn't appear in the list.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
does this work with vocals?
Yea! It's best with vocals and monophonic things
The best solution to a convoluted process - THANKS LOADS!
I repeat. How do any other DAWs exist at this point? If Reaper were a $500/yr subscription would it be more popular? The dudes that made WinMX are friggin' legends for giving us the powerhouse of DAW for peanuts.
There's a free vst called NeuralNote that uses ai to do this, it also supports more complicated stuff like polyphonic chords and pitch bends.
NeuralNote is awesome
Having something quick for more simple stuff is good too
I'm keen to see how this compares
Yes!! I super recommend this. I use this for the more complicated stuff since it allows for polyphonic. ReaTune is my go-to since it can be done so quickly and works great most times, then MK Slicer (REAPER script) for transients to midi stuff~
NeuralNote is good with detection as long as you can work out a good setting for the note durations. Otherwise you'd have a ton of 1/32 notes across octaves that is cumbersome to clean up... That is until this video showed up telling you exactly how to filter these kinds of events.
Hello, It doesn't work for me. When I run the action, the midi section keep in blank. Any help, please? 🙂thanks!
I can't do the sixth point:
Insert FX chain: Misc/Audio to MIDI
Can somebody help me. I can't get it to appear in custom action
Hola: es muy muy bueno el contenido Alejandro, muchas gracias, y mi primer problema: cuando quise bajar el tema que usas me rechaza la coneccion....
I love the work you do. I just can't follow. I tried. Thanks!
This is well and good for DI tracks. But what processing would you suggest for Items that are not? Say distorted guitar. would the same Hi pass filter work?
Hmmm, I opened the FX browser, scrolled down to "FX Chains", but there is nothing else there. There's no "Audio to MIDI FX chain" to right click on. Not sure how to get past this point.
Holy cow, amazing video! I came to learn one thing and learned 50 others haha, thank you so much. Also your reaper tips theme is awesome, I'm wondering if it's all black on the Windows version like it is for Mac? The one thing I can't stand about most dark themes on Windows is every menu has white, FX chains, even the main reaper window, at the top it's always bright white. Does the Windows version theme make all reaper windows black like it does in your Mac version? Again, fantastic video! Subscribed 💪🏻
Absolutely amazing Alejandro!
I couldn't find the chain FX, the FX folder is empty on my software! Thank you
Thank you so much for all of your work. I am enjoying the Reaper theme you created. Now I will work on this fantastic tip. It didn't separate the midi from the audio file, so I will try and see how to fix it.
There's on-track MIDI-editor. As far as I remember it's hotkey E on MIDI-item.
Love your reaper theme, love your tips. Keep on making such videos🔥🔥🔥
Can’t wait to use this! I love the breakdown of the custom action too, amazing work as always thank you!
I've abused the hell out of reatune - slamming full tracks into it and outputting MIDI of madness (because when you've got multiple instruments going it gets confused over what notes to use) - I then use these as the structures for new songs. Not realistic, not hugely useful except as a creativity prompt - but a lot of fun if there's no stakes.
That is really impressive and was much needed too.
Coming from ableton I was looking for that feature for a while.
The next challenge now is: drum beats midi extraction
"ak5k_Drums to MIDI"
That script exists
Ableton is pretty impressive that it gives a 1 click solution but there's no room for any control, you kinda have to blindly trust the software.
As far as Audio to Midi magic which Reaper doesn't want to have anything to do with, it pretty much has that thing beat from a long time ago. From the JS Audio to Midi drum Triggers, MK Slicer, that script the other guys mentioned in the comments.
Dude, do you have a life? Well, whatever... you always create some good sh!t thanks!!!
Great information presented in a very professional and clear way!
Means a lot thank you!!
I was using a version of this process for years until i discovered a plugin(at the time was free, i dont know if it still that way) called Neural Note, which does the same thing in more practical way except for the thing of make the guitar trigger the piano sound
wow reaper, wow Reapertips.
THANK YOU
Just what I need, another way to procrastinate from making real music.
Can't ReaTune produce sounds below C2?
is there a way to do this for audio of drums that you want to convert to MIDI?
Love your videos man, but I have a problem getting this hack to work. I´ve copied your exact settings and shortcuts in the right order, but for some reason the midi track doesn´t contain any information (midi notes) after i´ve run the action. In other words, it creates a new take, but it doesn´t transform my audio into any midi signal. I´ve tried a bunch of times but nothing seems to help? does anyone here have the same problem?
Keep up the good work man, you´ve literally changed my workflow!
Hihi! I would first test if your FX chain is working. Make sure you have the checkbox to send MIDI notes in ReaTune enabled :D
oh i never know it , it think it just have transferring midi to audio only
does this app also record pitch benders?
Man youre the best!! You always have the answers for what i need
Alejandro is one of the coolest guys on RUclips!
you are best of the best. well done. good evening from greece
heym how did u put your Fx in the tracks like pro tools ?
bass from guitar better do with ezbass!
true! that thing is sooo amazing
@@Reapertips BUT your custom action audio to midi r amazing! It's a pity that I'm too lazy to do this(
is there any way to do this with chords?
You sir are a gift to all reaper users and to the world!
why can't I download your theme?
where can I put the piano in a folder.. i have tried but didnt work
I think I found my Reaper channel, subscribed and a thumbs up.
yaay welcome aboard :D
Fuk fl studio ima download reaper!
Hi. How do you install your theme? I placed it in C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\InstallData\ColorThemes but it doesn't show up? Thanks 👍
hello! You can just double click on the theme or just click and drag it into REAPER. I included a PDF with more details! :D
Excellent video, as always.
This was great. I found I had to place another action (@ position 14 in your action list) Take: Delete active take from items. Otherwise I had the two takes on the same track. (Reaper V 7.16 Win 11)
Ah okay! I have it like that because I like the two takes. The first being the original source and the second the midi. So if I ever need to go back to the source it will be the previous take.
BTW you can disable show multiple lanes for takes with ctrl/cmd + L
Can you do chords?
It sounds pretty off
SUUUUUUUUUUPER INTERESTING THX!!!!!!!!!!!
wow magic)) thanks bro
Thank you so much. Great tip.
Would you confirm that this process of audio to midi conversion works mainly on monophonic audio source?
Thank you again for sharing these precious knowledges on my favorite daw reaper.
Thank you soooo much! - Yess, this should cover all of the simple monophonic stuff really well.
For more advanced stuff, I would go with:
• Neural Note (third-party free VST) for polyphonic stuff
• MK Slicer (REAPER script) for drums/transient stuff
hehe great :-D this is the way i sued form y video "announcement" to turn my audio into MIDI for the "VU" FX I use on DaVinci :-D
work with poliphonic sounds?
Hey! Can you help me please?
What I can do, if I dont have "Insert FX chain: Misc/Audio to MIDI" in action list?
Hello! Please check 10:02 ✨
Only works for monophonic instruments i guess... Wont work for converting piano or organ into midi?
For polyphonic things I recommend the free plugin NeuralNote :D
I do think that either you have never heard a real bass play, or (hopefully) you are trying to make a bass line for EDM, in which case it doesn't matter if your bass as it is sounds terribly bad and lifeless
Hello Johan! I agree it could have sounded better, tho I don't think that's the point of this video. I could make a whole video about humanizing midi since that's a pretty extensive thing by itself.
I would love to see how you mixed this!
Amazing video!
I've not had much experience with other DAWs but I'm fully delving into Reaper. Have been using it for a few years and I am forever amazed at what you can do with it
Your videos are so helpful to artists. Thank u so much for doing this for free. Hopefully u win the lottery or something as karma
Hahaha that'd be amazing (or a curse?) thank you so much!
Great ..Thanks brother 👍
Hola; como le pones el emogi???
Brilliant stuff. I just started learning about recording and chose Reaper because I respect it's creators and community (like you!). Thank you for this. Liked and subbed.
Any chance it can fo chords yet?
Big thanks! Very power action! I have completely repeated both the FX chain and the Custom Action - all the steps are one in one, but now I have two takes displayed in one item: wave and MIDI. Not like yours. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Hi Bob, thank you! Maybe it's showing all takes? You can press ctrl + L to toggle the view to show a single take
@@Reapertips Oh yeah. I've already figured it out. Thank you for answering! And thanks again for the powerful action. 👍
This is gold❤
It's free online to do plenty of resources webpages and apps. Nothing special
hi william thank you for the input :D