MIDI Live Looping in Reaper (like in FL Studio, NI Maschine) | Reaper Beat Making

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  • @WodzuBeats
    @WodzuBeats  Год назад

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  • @BankHardBeats
    @BankHardBeats 3 года назад +9

    What's good Wodzu, just wanted to drop a line and say your vids have been real eye opening. Reaper has been my audio workhorse for at least a decade now, but I never really delved into the MIDI side of it until recently. I've been searching for a new workflow vibe lately and I'm really digging it so far! Keep up the great work with the vids! 🔥

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Welcome to the crew, man! I've been using Reaper as an audio tool only too back in the time, but I thought it's no different from any other DAW more associated with electronic music and its got lots of useful features.

  • @nskeip
    @nskeip Год назад +1

    You can set recording from different midi channels and switch the channel in the controller, so you will not have to touch the pc keyboard

  • @norfolknwhey4787
    @norfolknwhey4787 6 месяцев назад

    Do you have a video on how you setup your base project? The one you said you load in the very beginning?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  4 месяца назад

      I’ve made one at the beginning of the channel

  • @eff98
    @eff98 4 месяца назад

    Wow! That's awesome, man

  • @YoutubeparisnewsBlogspotFr
    @YoutubeparisnewsBlogspotFr 3 года назад +2

    Hello and thank you. The problem is that you have to play and record patterns of the same length. In fl studio, the performance mode allows you to play several patterns of different sizes at the same time 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32 - etc...
    so for example, the kick you could play on a 2 or 4 step pattern and an instrument on 8 or 16 step. Unfortunately, the performance mode of fl studio does not allow you to add midi notes in real time, you can't add midi notes while the performance mode is playing and recording because the performance mode disables the midi input of the piano controllers. So you have to put the midi notes in the piano roll before playing the performance mode. We have been waiting for years for an update to have a double midi mapping, on the imagine line forum we are many to wait.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      I got it 😀 The title is just a clickbait, haha. The workflow I've made is closer to NI Maschine afterall

    • @YoutubeparisnewsBlogspotFr
      @YoutubeparisnewsBlogspotFr 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats i don't understand, can you explain me ? do you have link ?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      @@RUclipsparisnewsBlogspotFr the video above is more like Maschine workflow

    • @YoutubeparisnewsBlogspotFr
      @YoutubeparisnewsBlogspotFr 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Ok I see. Thanks man.

    • @evilishies
      @evilishies 2 года назад

      You can record patterns of different lengths. Simply trim an empty MIDI item to the size you want, right click on it, and 'Glue' the item so that it loops when you stretch it to the length of the take.

  • @howtodostuff1244
    @howtodostuff1244 10 месяцев назад

    Great Video Woodzu!....There is something that you forgot to mention though regarding the settings. In order to make this workflow work, you also have to go to Options/New recording that overlaps existing media items/uncheck "add lanes"/ uncheck "split existing items and add takes and finally add a check to "Add media items in layers".

  • @BearFulmer
    @BearFulmer 11 месяцев назад

    Nice video, this is the type of workflow i like right here

  • @gapaification
    @gapaification 2 года назад

    thank you! seems that you can also use regions in way kinda like scenes or sequences and switch between them

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  2 года назад +1

      Great tip! I'm gonna use in the next ultimate Reaper tutorial

  • @debetrolence1991
    @debetrolence1991 Год назад

    God, you have no idea how helpful this was to me, thank you!.

  • @azerty1235931
    @azerty1235931 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video, it was really clear and easy

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Glad I could help 😉

  • @croay
    @croay 3 года назад +1

    loved the thumbnail hahah, thanks man!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      You're welcome 😎 Reaper gang!

  • @darthcrios
    @darthcrios 2 года назад

    Doooope ! great video

  • @ВячеславМуха-х1д

    Dude you made this thAng sooo easy for me! I smashed SUB! Thank you⚡

  • @JuanMotta
    @JuanMotta 3 года назад

    Hi, how to i make loops un súper8 and use playback mode? For example, i want to play a song and make loops it, thanks for your tutorials!!!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      You're welcome 😎 Unfortunately, I don't use super8

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Kenny Gioia made a detailed tutorial about it as I remember

    • @JuanMotta
      @JuanMotta 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats thanks, any tutorial for action markers? I want to make loops and then play some audio. i need to stop the audio in some point but i can't do it, i make a stop markers but Did not work. Thanks for your time!!!

  • @DopamineOverload
    @DopamineOverload 3 года назад +5

    This is basically how I work too but I set an action for instant quantize after I record the clip, and before I move on to the next track. Super handy. You make excellent tutorials, man. Btw, which iLogic theme are you on? I always get confused with the 800 different iLogic themes he has. Thx!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Thanks a lot! It's iLogic 2.65

  • @locutz
    @locutz 3 года назад +1

    so are thedrum samples each a sepperate instance of samplomatic5000 ?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Yupp, exactly

    • @locutz
      @locutz 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats hmmm interesting i like this set up

  • @josefolter13
    @josefolter13 3 года назад +2

    THIS
    IS
    WHAT
    I
    WANTED
    TO
    KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ClintDecker
    @ClintDecker Год назад

    Man, thank you so much. I could not find how to loop my track after recording a time selection. That Record: MIDI overdub was the silver bullet!

  • @piotr_jurkiewicz
    @piotr_jurkiewicz 3 года назад +1

    rly good!
    btw, isn't camera too close? its a bit claustrophobic

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      I don't think so, you can definitely see more than just my face, so I guess it's okay 😀 My studio is 15 square meters anyway, so it's pretty small.

  • @gustavokoshikumo
    @gustavokoshikumo Год назад

    Nice video, you got one more subscriber, thanks. Do you have anything about live audio-midi looping?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  Год назад +1

      That should be easy too, I'll make a video about it in the future

  • @phantomaticsam9654
    @phantomaticsam9654 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for making this, very helpful! Would it be the same process if I wanted to loop microphone recording as well as a guitar or bass per se?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  2 года назад

      Sure, except than you can't add any more notes in the middle of the recording like you'd do with midi. You'll just have to record the loop again

    • @jamesdonnelly8888
      @jamesdonnelly8888 2 года назад

      For this you can turn to approaches in audio looping like Reaper's Super 8, or perhaps more advanced, Mobius looper (as used by Ed Sheeran)

    • @ephraimwarrior6766
      @ephraimwarrior6766 2 года назад

      l00k up video name Creating a Looper with One Track (Layers) in REAPER by REAPER Mania for guitar or bass its sick just like the video hear is.

  • @lionman0123
    @lionman0123 3 года назад

    You're the man, Wodzu

  • @matiasgoinheix366
    @matiasgoinheix366 3 года назад +1

    But is there a way of keeping the midi loop playing while recording a jam on another track?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Could you describe what you've meant more?

    • @matiasgoinheix366
      @matiasgoinheix366 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats You make a beat like the one you did there. Then add an audio track hook your guitar, hit record, and while listening the loop you made, you record on the guitar track, but without a bar limit. So when you stop, you end up with something like 20 bars.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +2

      I need to investigate this a bit more, but I'm sure it's possible

    • @TazzSmk
      @TazzSmk 3 года назад +2

      @@matiasgoinheix366 I think you can, when creating those empty MIDI items, make sure to COPY those empty items across more bars - that way when you record MIDI into the first one, it gets automatically copied over others in a row

  • @jmd76family
    @jmd76family 3 года назад

    Thank you! Was wondering how to do this in Reaper.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Same here - it was a game changer for me ;)

    • @jmd76family
      @jmd76family 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats i also use mpc software as a vst to do somewhat the same thing but really your way is the way to separate each drum part and free up valuable memory instead of multiple vst instances. Really does what I want!

  • @HRLDmusic
    @HRLDmusic 3 года назад

    As always, another educational content. Thanks Dominik.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      You're welcome, my man!

  • @JC-fj7oo
    @JC-fj7oo 3 года назад

    I'm wondering if you could put a keyboard shortcut to change the length of the input quantize notes? Probably more difficult than it sounds but might be possible.
    What I do personally is just input quantize to the fastest notes I think I will hit in a track, ie 16th notes for piano usually, 32nd for hihats... Then it's not always quantized to *something* in the song and usually sounds ok when I'm live looping. And when you stop you can hit quantize again and change to longer notes if you need it. But it's seemingly impossible to go to shorter notes. ie if you record in autoQ 1/4 notes then you lose any 1/8 notes you played forever. They just weren't recorded. But if you hit "fix overlaps" and change 1/8 notes to 1/4 notes it's no problem, they automatically jump to the nearest 1/4 note and sound fine.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      You'd have to look for that in the actions menu, but it may be possible

  • @gerardoritacco
    @gerardoritacco 3 года назад

    Is it possible to create more than one region that contains loops and then switching between them using, for example, a button from a midi controller?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Here's what I found: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=234967

    • @gerardoritacco
      @gerardoritacco 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Thanks! Is exactly what i want!

  • @IDDQDSound
    @IDDQDSound 3 года назад

    dude those hihat fingers tho!!!!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Glad to see you there 😀 magic hands 👐

  • @cchriss_official
    @cchriss_official 7 месяцев назад

    Can this work with normal audio or only when recording a midi input?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  7 месяцев назад +1

      Shouldn't be an issue, but I haven't been using it like that

  • @spacechango684
    @spacechango684 3 года назад

    great video bro.

  • @CM_Civillian
    @CM_Civillian 3 года назад

    Such a great teacher. Thanks for this.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      You're welcome, Chris! If you have any further questions about Reaper you know where to find me ;)

  • @TazzSmk
    @TazzSmk 3 года назад

    also it's possible to filter MIDI notes by key when jammin melodies ;)

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      What do you mean by filtering midi notes?

    • @TazzSmk
      @TazzSmk 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Kenny explains it in this video: ruclips.net/video/dRN5NToxBlw/видео.html ;)

  • @BLUEGOBEATS
    @BLUEGOBEATS 3 года назад

    Love you man! Quick question.
    When i go into the midi editor and go to use the key snap feature... it isnt there.
    It seems like every video i have come across the feature is already there, but not it my case. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Are you sure you're running the latest version of Reaper?
      If you are you can try bringing back the default settings

  • @patbreacadh
    @patbreacadh 2 года назад

    Super-helpful video. Thank you!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  2 года назад

      You're welcome my friend 👊

  • @alevphoto3366
    @alevphoto3366 3 года назад

    Thanks bro, just a question; in reaper i cant switch on the tracks when the recording is on, how can i switch without stop the recording?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      I don't know if you watched the whole video, but I showed how to make some custom hotkeys to make it happen

    • @jamesdonnelly8888
      @jamesdonnelly8888 2 года назад

      One gotcha to look out for is that when switching tracks, you'll notice that for Wodzu, the track selection also armed the track and unarmed the last track. If you want to use Wodzu's method (easiest and best), then do as he says and map a convenient key (or stick with the ctrl+alt+up/down built in mapping which is fine for me), but make sure that you go to the Track menu, and make sure the following option is checked: "Set all tracks to automatic record-arm when track selected". Otherwise you can use a midi controller that is routed to each track via midi channel. If you set up your controller to work via midi channels, you can arm all tracks, then use your controller to choose the midi channel, then you don't need to do anything in Reaper.

  • @desibasil6226
    @desibasil6226 3 года назад

    Thanku bro...love from India 🇮🇳❤

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱 😎

  • @jamesdonnelly8888
    @jamesdonnelly8888 2 года назад

    Hey Wodzu, thanks for this really great intro into Reaper beat recording. I would like to know your thoughts on extending this approach. How can we control reaper so that the last 'take' can be saved on another track? Ideas? Great work, very inspiring!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  2 года назад

      Thanks! Could you describe it more precisely? 😉

    • @skurys
      @skurys 2 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats not op, but I'm thinking a way to save on the fly what's on a particular track (say track 1), switch instruments on #1 and then continue to add layers to it. So you'd have say 5 tracks but be able to have way more combined once added to the loop. Allowing to built up multiple sounds together but only the current one be "redoable" while the others are committed unless clearing the whole thing.
      The kinda stuff you see people do with a hardware looper (ie with an RC-505)

  • @chumbo
    @chumbo 3 года назад

    Wow! What is that super cool theme you're using in Reaper??

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      iLogic by Blankfiles - link's in the description ;)

    • @chumbo
      @chumbo 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Thanks, just bought it!! :-)

  • @MusicByIanLtd
    @MusicByIanLtd 3 года назад +1

    Just commenting to help bump your video in popularity. 😀

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Thanks a lot! Let's get higher 😀

  • @loft_music_group
    @loft_music_group 3 года назад

    Здравствуйте, как купить вашу тему для reaper ? HD Logic 1080p

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Sorry, I don't speak Russian

    • @loft_music_group
      @loft_music_group 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats How do I buy your I logic v3.0 theme?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      @@loft_music_group this is not my theme, you need to donate to Blankfiles - the link to Reaper Forums is in the description

  • @WodzuBeats
    @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

    🔌 VST plugins (affiliate link): pluginboutique.com/?a_aid=60813052ad2a2
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  • @MushyBrainBeats
    @MushyBrainBeats 2 года назад

    Whats going on with the metronome?

  • @AttamanKing
    @AttamanKing 3 года назад +1

    Yeah man, very useful give thanks!!!! now i gonna nitro my workflow and mistreat my keyboard lol

    • @crnkmnky
      @crnkmnky 3 года назад

      Nitro? Mistreat?! 🤕 #StopDaViolence 🎹
      (Nine Inch Nails or Jerry Lee Lewis style, lol)

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Glad I could help, my man! Wodzumane at your service!

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      I think Attaman is not a native English speaker 🤔

    • @AttamanKing
      @AttamanKing 3 года назад +1

      @@WodzuBeats hahaha...nitro means potentialize something in brasilian slang dialect...and mistreat because of my lack of sensibility to hit the keyboard to make midi records, get it?! Anyway, i need to improve my english lol

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +2

      I thought that nitro means just to make something faster haha

  • @jackfukin3089
    @jackfukin3089 Месяц назад

    Live looping live quantization

  • @ulfrohdin
    @ulfrohdin 3 года назад

    And don't forget input quantization.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад +1

      Good point! I've probably mentioned it in some other video

  • @GhostSamaritan
    @GhostSamaritan 3 года назад

    That first clap sounds like a snare, though.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      That's a regular polo trap snare, but I like to call it "clank" 😀

  • @forever3797
    @forever3797 3 года назад

    Hi I'm a subscriber and love your videos especially this one - could you please help - I'm looking for my first DAW and so far I'm leaning towards Reaper heavily, but so far the research I am doing always leads me back to Ableton Live, which I'm not too keen on.
    1) I want to be able to do live jamming of pre-recorded Reaper loops triggering them from something like a Novation Launchpad. Basically making a recording of my pre-recorded loops like a drum machine within Reaper.
    2) I also want to be able to change the drum sounds/samples in the loops on the fly, eg change kick/snare/hats as the jam progresses
    3) I want to be able to do the above and record it within Reaper.
    Does anyone know if this possible? Any help much appreciated

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      What do you mean by triggering pre-recorded loops? Audio or MIDI?

    • @forever3797
      @forever3797 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Possibly both, I suppose I might be asking can you set up your own drum machine in reaper? I have looked at some VST drum machine plugins but have not seen any I like. Currently I can run a bunch of hardware drum machines that are MIDI clock synced but I can change each of their loops/patterns individually to have a great big drum loop jam. Whilst changing the patterns I can also change the sounds that are being played by the MIDI in real time.
      I'm wondering how to do this with Reaper - can Reaper do this somehow or would I need to use VST drum machine plugins within Reaper? It is easy to do this with hardware right in front of me but I suspect it will be difficult to be switching between VST drum machines in real time, changing patterns and also changing the sound that are being played by the MIDI patterns. I hope I am making sense. Any help is vastly appreciated as I don't know wow where I am going re software. It appears Ableton is set up to do something like this but I would prefer to go with reaper for the customization and the community.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      @@forever3797 I barely use any hardware, so I don't think I can help. The only live looping technique I know is shown on the video

    • @forever3797
      @forever3797 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Ok maybe I need to clarify better - this is not about hardware - I was only using hardware as an example of what to to in Reaper. Thanks for thinking about it.

    • @jamesdonnelly8888
      @jamesdonnelly8888 2 года назад +1

      Hi Forever, I hope this is not too late to help, but there is an excellent addition to Reaper by a user named Helgoboss, and it's called Playtime. This extension adds a session based mode of recording and performing, which closes a gap between the native features of Reaper and Ableton (and others). Version 1 of Playtime is outstanding, and well worth the small cost. It's developed professionally and very well supported by the excellent dev, who is highly engaged and visible on the Reaper forums (Reaper's community is a thing to marvel at). Don't tell Helgoboss I told you but version 2 is on the way, and will be better in some ways, although it won't do exactly everything v1 does. I personally am sure I'll have both versions (you need to pay separately for each) because it's a cheap and high quality addition. He also has another tool called ReaLearn, which might help you with point 2), as it's a super smooth and intuitive way to map midi controllers. There is another tool for this as well called CSI (control surface integration), which I personally prefer for now, but this requires a bit more involvement in mapping templates. Playtime does not make Reaper into something that can do everything Ableton does, but for me it's close enough, especially since Reaper is by far the most configurable and extendable DAW (my subjective opinion, other opinions welcome, but be nice :) Let me know if there's anything more you need to know about Reaper, but from someone who has deeply used Cubase and Logic over 2 decades, I find Reaper the best by far.

  • @avrahax7714
    @avrahax7714 Месяц назад

    +1 subscriber

  • @shanu6478
    @shanu6478 3 года назад

    🙏

  • @brailyndsummers
    @brailyndsummers 3 года назад

    Bro, were you typing on your keyboard upside down for a minute? Lol.

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Actually the whole video is a mirror reflection 😀

  • @CTBlaze
    @CTBlaze 2 года назад

    Reaper is so far from being intuitive, if you are used to Maschine ;)

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  2 года назад +1

      Agreed, haha :D But you can make lots of custom actions to make it mouseless

  • @algardner5228
    @algardner5228 2 года назад

    Can loops beat match easily?

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  2 года назад

      Yeah, you just stretch them to the desired beat length

  • @ErinIsBlueBlue
    @ErinIsBlueBlue 3 года назад

    Very clever, Dominic ! You are fresh as f***. Excellent video !

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      Noone has ever descibed me as "fresh" before, haha :D Thanks for watching and glad I could help!

    • @ErinIsBlueBlue
      @ErinIsBlueBlue 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats In the energetic meaning of the term of course. So... Stay fresh ! :)

    • @WodzuBeats
      @WodzuBeats  3 года назад

      I know, I know 😀 Just fooling around. Stay fresh too!

    • @ErinIsBlueBlue
      @ErinIsBlueBlue 3 года назад

      @@WodzuBeats Indeed ! Thanks !