I came - like so many others, too - from another DAW to Reaper (in my case Samplitude). At first I was a bit confused at the crude and old-fashioned style and layout of the midi editor. But boy: once you discover the features Reaper has to offer, it's like unlocking the gift that keeps on giving! I cannot think of any reason why I would EVER need another DAW!
People immediately put down on Reaper's midi editor for it being unusual at the default state but man it has so many cool and advanced features hidden than most daws don't have or they've recently added. Like despite being the best in the industry for midi Cubase didn't have that select "select all notes in time selection" feature and they recently added it. Please make more Reaper midi tutorials. It's IMO one of the most hidden, underrated mysterious part of Reaper that's waiting to be explored like a treasure island.
Alejandro I love your work man , your tips and guides have really really helped me as a Logic user for 17 years transitioning to Reaper ! Greetings from India !
"select all notes in time selection" is a really useful option in reaper, i turned it into a button. i use that along with "select all CC events under selected notes" I also made the move midi notes options to my number pad arrows + shift . so i can just select midi and move them around by whatever the grid is set at using these hotkeys. it's so much better. The less I have to grab the mouse, the better the workflow for me anyway. I use a lot of step input and quantize-in option for when i am playing something on the keyboard.
I for soooome for some reason try to do all my midi with my mouse and avoid the keyboard as much as possible. But the toolbar can only fit so many icons I always run out :( so I try to just use the left side of my keyboard for shortcuts but there's so many! It's definitely a workflow I'd love to polish up more.
EXCELLENT INSTRUCTIONS! This is exactly the screen settings and workflow I need to apply to my MIDI/Reaper controlled Laser Synth. Thanks! New sub, btw. 😎
Cubase has been slowing down over the past couple of updates, so despite its amazing wealth of features, and how embedded in it I've gotten over the past thirteen years, I'm seriously thinking about Reaper. This video is especially reassuring!
I’m starting to accumulate as many daws as plugins. Have been working with Logic 10 and mostly studio 1, just got cubase 13 pro, and I’m still getting reaper. I’ve seen so many comments on reaper while watching videos about other daws. A lot of folks recommend it highly. I just never thought of watching reaper videos until today. Thank you, I’m sold. For a little bit I’ll be spending more time learning daws than creating in them, but after that, look out. 🎹♥️
This is amazing, may I ask what the midi plugin for guitar, bass, drums audio sounds? My Drums plugin is used by MT power drums, I found thats a bit wierd sometime. Thank you
Wow hellion thank you so much for letting me know. I had updated the ebook this morning to fix some typos and forgot to include hyperlinks in the export settings. I just updated the book, please redownload 🙏
Is there any video of yours that teaches how to place the whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes on the top part of the MIDI editor like it is in your track?
I don't, but it's very simple! 👍 Right click the MIDI editor toolbar and press "Customize toolbar". Click on "Add..." the actions menu will show up. In the actions menu search for "Grid: set to" and you can select the ones you want. Then you can add icons to them and reorder with the custom toolbar window.
"I always ask if there's a way for the piano roll to have different CC lanes for each track. For example, I want to set up the piano roll so that the piano track only has CC64, and the string track has CC1 and CC11. I haven't found a solution yet. Could you show me if you know how to solve this?"
Hey brother I’m a extremely late bloomer in production, recording and mixing. So I’m truly grateful for the knowledge and experience you share, definitely 100% helpful. Thank you sir , and be blessed.
Started reaper about a day ago. Came from using pro tools and fl studio for about over 10 years now. Sheesh. Already a huge difference. Its like learning a new language 😂
Great video Alejandro. I recently changed my workflow to be like this as well, as per Seventh Sam’s article. It’s coming along pretty well! How do you map the color to MIDI notes?
hi reaper channel. new sub, hope you get to 10k subs soon. reaper gave me solace the last few years after my last windows computer died five years ago. i got a new windows computer and ableton, but i'm pondering buying reaper because it launches soooo fast, and has a few upper hands over ableton. cheers
I have noticed that for whatever reason midi tracks in reaper tend to be one octave above the notes that are actually right. Do you have any idea why that is?
This is some weird standard, some programs use octaves like this, others are one octave below. You can change this in settings! Go to preferences > MIDI and there's a 'midi octave name display offset' where you can type -1 to lower the octave name
And BTW just realized I kinda followed your chord workflow from your video "Easy Chord Workflow for ANY DAW" !! that thing has been engraved in my head forever and I love it!
@@Reapertips I cant see a way there to solo the track im working on from the whole mix, im looking for a solo button that has the same functionality as the solo button on the mixer.
Hi! There should be a little plus icon in the midi editor at the bottom left. Maybe you accidentally removed the lane? Or maybe it's minimized you can click and drag up to make it show up.
Yea! - track list is great, especially if you work with the MIDI editor in floating window :) These settings allow it to do the same things but from the arrange view. I super love having the MIDI editor docked and whatever I select gets mirrored into my one MIDI editor ~
Your videos are incredibly useful! I took a break from Reaper at v4 but it's time to start dialing in a workflow that will help me write more quickly. I know that it will be a fairly long process, but it will be worth it once it's over.
@@Reapertips when i click my mouse anywhere. the edit cursor follow to where i clicked. Edit cursor is the blue line where your playhead starts when you press play. When I'm in the midi editor window and click to add notes the blue edit curse follows me wherever i click to place a note and than i need to press w to send the blue edit cursor back to the beginning to play the part i just created. It's time consuming and frustrating. I want the blue edit cursor to stay at the beginning or wherever I put it. Hope this makes sense .
@@SeanOBrien888 Aaah you are right! That does happen with the default setting. I have it set so when I click it will enter a note right away without having to click and drag or double click. If you have my eBook downloaded, please check out page 61, I go over how I changed that :)
Hey Ale, how are you? I did some really cool work with shortcuts and configuration in the midi editor, and in some way I'd love to share it with you. Maybe you can improve it and share it also with the community. Btw, thanks for this tutorial!
Awesome video, many thanks to you and SeventhSam, my MIDI editing workflow is way better now! In your MIDI editor, your toolbar has lots of interesting looking icons. Do you have a video or tips sheet on what you have in that toolbar? Thanks!
@@Reapertips You're right, It works well in other projects but it doesn't work in the project where I change the settings. It's not a problem, thanks!! 👍
I use the same settings for orchestral music and it's a life saver! I have around 300 tracks and it takes double time without it. Btw i love your guitar sounds. Do you have a video for those?
Thank youuu! Exactly, I can totally see this working so well with tons of MIDI all over the arrange view. For MIDI guitars I'm using Odin 2 going through slo neuraldsp amp!
your channel is a gold mine of infos for all reaper user thanks a lot ! What is your template ? i like it a lot... and especially how do you get this view meter above your track ? thanks in advance
Hello! I use the reapertips theme. You can find here: www.reapertips.com/freebies/reapertips-theme And the VU meters here → www.reapertips.com/post/how-to-show-vu-meters-on-tracks
Thanks for your fast reply One thing I can’t find on your Chanel so I’m asking here Do you know if there is a way to change the waveform color from black to a color gradient that shows RMS and peaks ? That could be very handy to quickly adjust volcal takes volume differences not based on peaks but on general loudness without using tools like izotope insight
Oh my goodness, reaper is ridiculous. I had no idea it was so powerful and customizable. Just got cubase 13 pro, but I think I’m falling in love. 🎹♥️ is there any difference between the two licenses?
No, the evaluation version, $60 version, $230 version, it's all the same software, the price of the license is only dependent on your income with reaper.
@@Reapertips oh yeah i am using the same one too but i am having trouble finding the articulations on the midi roll, do you have tips? thanks my guy!!!
Damn!!! sounds like 2000´s Black Metal; well done Alex, I´ve already implemented a lot of these ideas into my MIDI workflow and among with the Groove Tool i´m set to go. Thanks man! 🤘🤘🤘
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I came - like so many others, too - from another DAW to Reaper (in my case Samplitude). At first I was a bit confused at the crude and old-fashioned style and layout of the midi editor. But boy: once you discover the features Reaper has to offer, it's like unlocking the gift that keeps on giving! I cannot think of any reason why I would EVER need another DAW!
And the processing efficiency!
People immediately put down on Reaper's midi editor for it being unusual at the default state but man it has so many cool and advanced features hidden than most daws don't have or they've recently added. Like despite being the best in the industry for midi Cubase didn't have that select "select all notes in time selection" feature and they recently added it.
Please make more Reaper midi tutorials. It's IMO one of the most hidden, underrated mysterious part of Reaper that's waiting to be explored like a treasure island.
Thank you! Very useful stuff. After Kenny Gioia, you're the Reaper master I've learned the most from. 😊
Alejandro I love your work man , your tips and guides have really really helped me as a Logic user for 17 years transitioning to Reaper ! Greetings from India !
That's amazing to hear Steve!! ❤️
The Seventh Sam Page is where I send every one for basic Reaper midi setup options. it's a lifesaver! Great video!
It's such a legendary article! 🥰
Faaantastic video. Adjusting all my settings now. What VST are you using for the guitars btw?
thankyou alot very informative pls how do you change your reaper plugs to be dark i mean the native reaper plugs
Do you have a video on how you set up your midi toolbar with the quarter note etc changes like that?
"select all notes in time selection" is a really useful option in reaper, i turned it into a button. i use that along with "select all CC events under selected notes"
I also made the move midi notes options to my number pad arrows + shift . so i can just select midi and move them around by whatever the grid is set at using these hotkeys. it's so much better. The less I have to grab the mouse, the better the workflow for me anyway. I use a lot of step input and quantize-in option for when i am playing something on the keyboard.
I for soooome for some reason try to do all my midi with my mouse and avoid the keyboard as much as possible. But the toolbar can only fit so many icons I always run out :( so I try to just use the left side of my keyboard for shortcuts but there's so many! It's definitely a workflow I'd love to polish up more.
Very glad you back making Reaper videos 😊💯
6:08 midi notes to track color
EXCELLENT INSTRUCTIONS!
This is exactly the screen settings and workflow I need to apply to my MIDI/Reaper controlled Laser Synth.
Thanks!
New sub, btw.
😎
My new rabbithole! :) What a great find--I wish I could bring you like 50K more subs!
Hahahahhaha it's okay! I'm happy with people like you in here ❤️
This is a great video! I really liked your composition and style. Yes, you can join my band!! Thank you
Hahaha aaw happy to hear mike!! let's gooo 🎸🚀
Really dope.. I had to change some of my setting as well... thanks for this.
weird, i never see secondar items in my MIDI editor, settings seem similiar... it always only displays the main selected MIDI item. hmmm
Agradecido también por la skin ❤
So cool! I'm gonna give these settings a try over the weekend. Thanks as always for dropping these Reaper gems!
Cubase has been slowing down over the past couple of updates, so despite its amazing wealth of features, and how embedded in it I've gotten over the past thirteen years, I'm seriously thinking about Reaper. This video is especially reassuring!
Using colors to find chord notes is a good trick!😮
I’m starting to accumulate as many daws as plugins. Have been working with Logic 10 and mostly studio 1, just got cubase 13 pro, and I’m still getting reaper. I’ve seen so many comments on reaper while watching videos about other daws. A lot of folks recommend it highly. I just never thought of watching reaper videos until today. Thank you, I’m sold. For a little bit I’ll be spending more time learning daws than creating in them, but after that, look out. 🎹♥️
@reapertips|alejandro Hi Alejandro, Microsoft Edge completely blocked this,can you address this issue?
Has this come up before?
which vst do you use for guitars? i tend to use odin for the d.i. + archetype nolly
1000th like! Well worth it, You already helped me a lot, much appreciated!
life saver, holy crap, I'm dead inside thinking about how I used to do it.
This is amazing, may I ask what the midi plugin for guitar, bass, drums audio sounds? My Drums plugin is used by MT power drums, I found thats a bit wierd sometime. Thank you
Hi Alejandro, I've downloaded your ebook, links in reaper 7 don't work at all. For a try I have opened the Reaper 6 pdf version, for a check. 😅
Omg! Thank you so much for letting me knowww. Checking ASAP!
Wow hellion thank you so much for letting me know. I had updated the ebook this morning to fix some typos and forgot to include hyperlinks in the export settings.
I just updated the book, please redownload 🙏
@@Reapertips ❤️👍
Is there any video of yours that teaches how to place the whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes on the top part of the MIDI editor like it is in your track?
I don't, but it's very simple! 👍
Right click the MIDI editor toolbar and press "Customize toolbar". Click on "Add..." the actions menu will show up. In the actions menu search for "Grid: set to" and you can select the ones you want. Then you can add icons to them and reorder with the custom toolbar window.
@@Reapertips Thank you very much!! I hope Reaper hires you as the UX/UI design
Bro you are making reaper sick as fuck thank you bro
The music sounds like sylosis lol
Like Edge of the earth era lol
Thank you for this! Was looking to revamp my MIDI workflow so this comes at exactly the right time!
thank you for passing by Tiago!! - glad it helps :D
An other amazing and useful vidéo, thanks a lot!
14:10 Reminds me of some old A7X solos, friggin breautiful man
Do u know how to tune 432hz midi instruments include drum in reaper?
My midi editor is lagging too much. Why?
"I always ask if there's a way for the piano roll to have different CC lanes for each track. For example, I want to set up the piano roll so that the piano track only has CC64, and the string track has CC1 and CC11. I haven't found a solution yet. Could you show me if you know how to solve this?"
ow that would be nice! not sure if it's possible, will try it out 🤔
Thank you for sharing
When i add midi notes i hear no sound any fix for it ?
Hey brother
I’m a extremely late bloomer in production, recording and mixing. So I’m truly grateful for the knowledge and experience you share, definitely 100% helpful. Thank you sir , and be blessed.
@@derrickrichardson9620 wish you the best!!
Started reaper about a day ago. Came from using pro tools and fl studio for about over 10 years now. Sheesh. Already a huge difference. Its like learning a new language 😂
Omg that's awesome!! Wish you the best in your new reaper journey :D
Please make a video how to change velocity & pitch of drums (kind of trap fillers) like FL studio. I can see you put that in your toolbar.
Ohh good one! Okay!
What instrument are you using for guitars Alejandro? Sounds great.
I must spend more time on my midi. Thanks for the tips.
Helloo! I am using Odin 2 by Solemn Tones :D
You`re the man who always make me back again to open reaper ! Thanks for awesome tips
Aw that's so amazing to hear! I get inspired by comments like yours to open reaper again and make something haha :D
How do I put that VU and Mixer on the right of the screen? External plugin? Do you have a video showing it?
Hello! I made a tutorial about it here → www.reapertips.com/post/how-to-show-vu-meters-on-tracks
Thanks@@Reapertips
too fast boy!
Great video Alejandro. I recently changed my workflow to be like this as well, as per Seventh Sam’s article. It’s coming along pretty well! How do you map the color to MIDI notes?
Thanks Alejandro I have found your channel great for helping me with Reaper.
to quickly save screensets : shift+F7 (or F8 or F9). give it a name and hit enter. to recall, simply press F7 - F8 or F9
The ascending 16th notes definitely sound like moonlight sonata 3rd movement
hi reaper channel. new sub, hope you get to 10k subs soon. reaper gave me solace the last few years after my last windows computer died five years ago. i got a new windows computer and ableton, but i'm pondering buying reaper because it launches soooo fast, and has a few upper hands over ableton. cheers
How do I extend the range of the midi editor? for example: having the limit from -C1 to -C2
Just in time! I'm editing again with Reaper! You just save me 😀
I have noticed that for whatever reason midi tracks in reaper tend to be one octave above the notes that are actually right. Do you have any idea why that is?
This is some weird standard, some programs use octaves like this, others are one octave below. You can change this in settings! Go to preferences > MIDI and there's a 'midi octave name display offset' where you can type -1 to lower the octave name
@@Reapertips yeah I thought there has to be some kind of standard, but reaper is always off an octave. Thanks for that!
Lots of cool tips! Did you adjust the width of the piano keys area on your MIDI editor?
I love your channel!
Thank you Ben! I super admire and respect you. Been watching your videos for a lot of years so it's safe to say you are an influence in my style 🥰
And BTW just realized I kinda followed your chord workflow from your video "Easy Chord Workflow for ANY DAW" !! that thing has been engraved in my head forever and I love it!
@@Reapertips That means so much, you're doing amazing work here!
Reaper really needs a solo button in the midi editor, closing the window the solo/unsolo is so annoying
There is! Open the track list view. It's in the midi toolbar
@@Reapertips I cant see a way there to solo the track im working on from the whole mix, im looking for a solo button that has the same functionality as the solo button on the mixer.
Where is my velocity lane? Lol it's gone and I don't know what I did
Hi! There should be a little plus icon in the midi editor at the bottom left. Maybe you accidentally removed the lane? Or maybe it's minimized you can click and drag up to make it show up.
I found it thanks
Thank you so much for this, Alejandro! I needed these reminders!
For edit multi track, why don't you use "TRACK LIST"? With that you can edit all track and midi item you want, select all you want to see and more...
Yea! - track list is great, especially if you work with the MIDI editor in floating window :)
These settings allow it to do the same things but from the arrange view. I super love having the MIDI editor docked and whatever I select gets mirrored into my one MIDI editor ~
Your videos are incredibly useful! I took a break from Reaper at v4 but it's time to start dialing in a workflow that will help me write more quickly. I know that it will be a fairly long process, but it will be worth it once it's over.
Super worth it!! I'll be uploading a songwriting video soon :3
awesome and really helpful video!
how do you get the edit cursor to not follow when click your mouse? Mine is following me and doesnt stay put.
Hi sean! Not sure what you mean 🤔
@@Reapertips when i click my mouse anywhere. the edit cursor follow to where i clicked. Edit cursor is the blue line where your playhead starts when you press play. When I'm in the midi editor window and click to add notes the blue edit curse follows me wherever i click to place a note and than i need to press w to send the blue edit cursor back to the beginning to play the part i just created. It's time consuming and frustrating. I want the blue edit cursor to stay at the beginning or wherever I put it. Hope this makes sense .
@@SeanOBrien888 Aaah you are right! That does happen with the default setting. I have it set so when I click it will enter a note right away without having to click and drag or double click.
If you have my eBook downloaded, please check out page 61, I go over how I changed that :)
@@Reapertips THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!
how did you draw midi items with pen
Do you have a video of article about how you built that drum view? Thanks in advance!
Yes! Check out my how I write drums video, I linked in description :D
Awesome video will def be trying.
Was that the shakalaka from mhtri???
Thank you!! and hahahaha it's from breath of the wild I think? idk I have a bunch of random sound effects in my hard drive
What font is that in the theme? I like it
Fantástico trabajo!! Es posible en español? Estaría muy bien!
Estaba pensando en lanzar el libro que tengo en español, creo que sería sencillo de hacer :D
Hey Ale, how are you? I did some really cool work with shortcuts and configuration in the midi editor, and in some way I'd love to share it with you. Maybe you can improve it and share it also with the community. Btw, thanks for this tutorial!
Aw would love to hear it brian! thank you :D
@@Reapertips let me know if we can have a 10 min video call. Hugs!
Awesome video, many thanks to you and SeventhSam, my MIDI editing workflow is way better now!
In your MIDI editor, your toolbar has lots of interesting looking icons. Do you have a video or tips sheet on what you have in that toolbar? Thanks!
Thank you!! I may make one soon :D
@@Reapertips This must be done ! Respect !
As always, stunning wisdom, thanks
Great Video ont this subject, everything is explained thoroughly and i love it!
aw thank you so much! ❤
Amazing settings! 😄 It's really useful. Question: The option "show note names on notes" doesn't work with this settings, how can I fix it?
hi tamara! It should work 🤔 to show note names on notes press alt+0
@@Reapertips You're right, It works well in other projects but it doesn't work in the project where I change the settings. It's not a problem, thanks!! 👍
Capo. Muy buena información y con calidad visual espectacular
Gracias :D!!
I use the same settings for orchestral music and it's a life saver! I have around 300 tracks and it takes double time without it. Btw i love your guitar sounds. Do you have a video for those?
Thank youuu! Exactly, I can totally see this working so well with tons of MIDI all over the arrange view.
For MIDI guitars I'm using Odin 2 going through slo neuraldsp amp!
@@Reapertips keep up the good work! I've seen many reaper channels for tips but yours is always on point. I love your work!
your channel is a gold mine of infos for all reaper user thanks a lot !
What is your template ? i like it a lot... and especially how do you get this view meter above your track ?
thanks in advance
Hello! I use the reapertips theme. You can find here: www.reapertips.com/freebies/reapertips-theme
And the VU meters here → www.reapertips.com/post/how-to-show-vu-meters-on-tracks
Thanks for your fast reply
One thing I can’t find on your Chanel so I’m asking here
Do you know if there is a way to change the waveform color from black to a color gradient that shows RMS and peaks ? That could be very handy to quickly adjust volcal takes volume differences not based on peaks but on general loudness without using tools like izotope insight
some dope tips there...again. changed my settings
Appreciate it Davi! Thank you for being here!
This is insanely useful!
INCRIVEL VC E TOP
What guitar library do u use?
I used Odin 2 in here ~
Great video! Thanks
thank youu for watching!
Oh my goodness, reaper is ridiculous. I had no idea it was so powerful and customizable. Just got cubase 13 pro, but I think I’m falling in love. 🎹♥️ is there any difference between the two licenses?
No, the evaluation version, $60 version, $230 version, it's all the same software, the price of the license is only dependent on your income with reaper.
@@rano12321 Gotcha, thank you. 🎹♥️
my guy! thanks for this , curiou
s of what midi guitars you using???
Haihai dio! I'm using Odin 2, running through neuraldsp SLO amp
@@Reapertips oh yeah i am using the same one too but i am having trouble finding the articulations on the midi roll, do you have tips? thanks my guy!!!
Odin II the open source synth is what you are using for the midi guitar sound?
@@explainlight no sorry! The Odin II by solemn tones
@@explainlight odin 2 from solemn tones
Damn!!! sounds like 2000´s Black Metal; well done Alex, I´ve already implemented a lot of these ideas into my MIDI workflow and among with the Groove Tool i´m set to go. Thanks man! 🤘🤘🤘
1:02 weird, on Windows the menu item is called Preferences