Yet another trick for Reaticulate: Go to REAPER Options -> Appearance -> Peaks/Waveforms and activate "Program names" checkbox (you tell me why on earth all those MIDI settings are in that page). Then, in the Arrange View, instead of those "PC" in the MIDI items, you will see the actual program name ("pizzicato", "sustain").
The fastest and easiest explanation of Reaticulate yet. A huge thanks to both of you.
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Another must-know trick: double click any articulation in Reaticulate window and it will insert the corresponding PC in your MIDI Editor. If you have some notes selected, it will be inserted at the beginning of your selection.
Buenas Ignacio me tropecé con el vídeo y veo lo de rearticulacion pero si cargo un instrumento con articulaciones keyswitch que sentido tiene esto?... Es que no lo entiendo por eso te pregunto... Saludos cordiales.
THANKS Erik and John. This tutorial was extremely valuable to me. I compose a lot for live theatre. The musical styles shift depending upon the play and the scene. Anything for a quiet duo to a honking big, full symphony orchestra. My go-to orchestral sound source is East-West Sounds. Reaticulate is an astonishing tool for creating a better workflow in composing such compositions. It's in my tool bag now thanks to you. The detailed explanation in the video was great. I hope to see more.
Thanks a lot, thats so great. Reapers options are phenomenal. I thought fl studio is a must for edm production, and reaper is only good with mixing and mastering, and now it reveals itself as a flexible switzer pocketknife for everything and more and it runs so smooth and stable. I love reaper daw! 🤗😍😍😍
Thanks Erik and Jon for putting this video together! It was a pleasant surprise to see a video like this land in my feed (because of course I am subscribed to this channel). A patient, accessible walkthrough on getting started, the basic features, and Reaticulate's Reabank annotations has been a long standing item on my to-do list, and this video will be the de facto resource for new users. Thanks! One observation: manually locating the Reaticulate reabank file and assigning it to the track as shown at 8:05 shouldn't be necessary. Reaticulate should be setting this up automatically. (It compiles all banks together (user + factory) into a tmp file and assigns that at the project level.) If you find that this custom assignment *is* necessary, I'd appreciate if you could get in touch and report it as a bug ( reaticulate.com/contact.html ). I'd like to understand why it's happening. Also, as another commenter pointed out, the easiest way to insert articulations into a MIDI item is to double click or right click the articulation button in Reaticulate's GUI, and it will insert the Program Change event at the edit cursor. I like to resize my MIDI editor so that it lets Reaticulate's UI show through from the main window, like helix.urandom.ca/public/reaper-screenshot-20190612.png P.S. I'm not sure if a violinist could transition to pizz and back as quickly as 6:13? :)
Thank you. I'm definitely not a Reaticulate expert so I had missed that double click/right click added the program change. Liking it even more now. Regarding the pizzicato switch...I don't know, maybe a real skilled violinist could manage that on a good day? ;)
Very nice tutorial, some advanced scripts like that are a bit hard to understand without video. Reaticulate had some alternative like sfer, and BSRO, but thanks to continuous dev and support, and open sourcing, it seems to have become the most solid solution for this kind of work.
X-Raym BSRO hasn’t updated for Reaper in so long. I have written him many times about updating, but get crickets. The BSRO was updated for FruityLoops, just not Reaper. I have to many libraries, this other method would take a long time to create new user articulations.
Couldn't live without Reaticulate. If you find the custom bank creating process too repetitive and time consuming you can make some spreadsheets that semi-automatically change the notes and add the correct names etc. to multiple articulations at once.
I'm trying to use "Rearticular" but in "Track Articulation" there is only the "Factory" section with the options Cinematics Series, Spitfire, VirHarmonic. "User" is not visible. How can I solve this problem?
I know I am months late and probably you solved it already, but I'll leave Rearticulate's reference page in case somebody stumbles with the same problem reaticulate.com/reabank.html
The coolest and quickest way to use and edit articulations in the piano roll is done FL Studio by the creator of BRSO Articulate Blake Robinson - you don't waste time writing the whole part and then editing articulations, you just use notes color coding and do it on a fly. Moreover this allows you to trigger multiple articulations simultaneously which is very handy for general patches.
@@rano12321 I know, I tested it and it is, first, in a very raw condition in comparison with the FL version, second, it has different approach which is very uncomfortable and inconvenient...
It's basically using program change which you could do if you edit the GM bank etc. But Reaticulate make it so you don't have to go thru 128 articulation to pic the articulation you want. So this is a welcome.
This is a very cool plugin, especially for it to be a free one. My biggest critique is that it feels complicated and not very intuitive at the moment. Look at a plugin like BRSO Articulate, where you can just click an articulation and start drawing MIDI with the selected articulation, switching freely to the next articulation at a single click and with minimal interruptions while I'm trying to draw a full articulated melody. Not having to input any data in the CC lanes below either. Creating presets looks like an agonizing process, but at least you can do it once and have it forever. When I look for an articulation management plugin, I want something that minimizes the amount of clicking and scrolling I must do to just get an idea out of my head and into my DAW - Reaticulate has potential, but I would urge the developer to see how the user's process can be streamlined even further. I would love for Reaticulate to be the workflow game changer that I'm looking for (and would be willing to donate to the cause!) but I think I'll stick with the Reaper version of BRSO Articulate for now.
The REAPER Blog Ah, interesting that this wouldn’t be the spotlighted way to use it - why does the video show the clunky way? It feels a lot nicer now that I’m using it with this knowledge in mind. Would still recommend a better design for making presets, I’m a composer, not a coder. Nice plugin nonetheless!
Hi. I installed the new Update but im having some essue. When the rearticulate activate any note on the program bank, he Also play One octave above. Impossible to use my sample library from kontakt, till this moment. I need help
Is this still functioning like a keyswitch though? For example, if he'd started playing a section with staccato notes, but halfway through it so it doesn't hit the trigger at the beginning of the phrase, will it just play whatever articulation was last played? Just trying to figure out if this works like expression maps do.
good video thanks I have Albion One. I wonder if there is some thing like Reaticulate that would automatically create a "Swell" for me, especially with brass and strings? I have to spend time drawing in Mod Wheel envelopes to get the swell sounding better. Some of 8Dios have swells as an option for their Strings, Brass and Choirs for example; they are called Arcs. Would save a lot of time, especially if I could select a swell length etc.
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If the swell is just e.g. CCs indicating duration, intensity, curve, etc., it can be done. If you want to output a Mod Wheel curve then it is not possible, since Reaticulate only outputs MIDI at the same time position of your program change.
While I successfully installed It, when I apply articulation to Hypersonic 2's Contrabass GM for example It doesn't affect the articulation, It does nothing, please! can you help me to fix that?? It doesn't apply either on Sampletank 3..
Off subject: is it possible use and existing track to trigger mid notes(as with REATUNE) and edit that midi then send that midi data back to the original track to "re-articulate" the asdr for that track? I know the midi can be created and played back through an external instrument with the corrections made creating a new track, seems like this internal correction should be possible as well. Thanks
Can someone who uses both ReaTiculate with Reaper and Logic's articulation feature fairly compare and contrast current strengths and limitations between the two approaches in their current versions?
I really need help with this. I have downloaded it and followed the steps that are listed on the website to set it up. So my FX chain is: Reaticulate -> Nucleus Strings Sections multi. I cannot get it to work. I don't really understand how i am to setup so that Reaticulate understands which button the keyswitch is in necleus? In Nucleus ican see the keyswitches being the lowest not on the midi piano showing in kontakt. Question 2: is this only for midi editor? This is not meant to be used on the fly of midi recording? Only using the bank/program select in midi editor? So the concept is to apply articulations after you have recorded?
Different notes will engage different articulations in Nucleus. You'd need to know which note does what, so you can craft a bank for Nucleus with all its articulations and configure articulation to send the appropriate note. The note numbers may also be included in Nucleus Strings documentation. For your second question, it can be used from the arrange view too (in fact the Reaticulate GUI can only dock in the main window due to how Reaper works). It can also be used with real-time recording, and apart from clicking articulations in the GUI (which is awkward if you're recording realtime) there are a number of "activate articulation" actions that you can use to configure a control surface or other MIDI controller.
Thank you Erik for a great tutorial. I am trying to use Reaticulate with Cinematic Studio Solo Strings which isn't listed as one of the ready made presets, but is very similar to its 'big brother' Cinematic Studio strings. When after inserting a few articulations and pressing play, I can see the changes in articulations in Reaticulate but they do not effect CSSS. I could not find a way to read the actual Reaticulate file, when clicking on the pen I just got a new template. 1. Is there a way of opening the Reaticulate programmed file? 2. Do you think it is simply a case of not triggering the right keyswitch...? Help....??? (Forgive the ignorance and the very long message) Thanks again
I only have spitfire libraries. I use their UACC system for the articulations, which I think is pretty good. I've downloaded the scripts of Dave Healy (watch?v=eZZ3myOFpwE) and made a custom action for every articulation, and put all of them in a toolbar in the midi editor (instead of his way that he shows in the video, of having to go through a menu). This way, I just select the notes, press the button of the articulation I want and that's it.
Unfortunately not. REAPER itself doesn't anything to be docked to the MIDI editor window, and doesn't allow multiple panes in floating dockers. I size my floating MIDI editor window so I can see/access Reaticulate on the main window underneath the MIDI editor.
Is it possible to set the MIDI CC11 or CC7 value when going to a new articulation? If you have a multi instrument, say violins 1 with different articulations in one patch, the volume is never 100% correct for all articulations. For instance in Cinematic Studio Strings the Tremolo patch is a bit too loud in comparison to the normal legato patch, the tremolo patch is too soft. It would be nice to correct this a bit by sending some CC7 or CC11 information on beforehand to that articulation. Is this possible?
I'm assuming you're talking about regular keyswitch? A benefit to using this is that program change is not affected when you transpose unlike keyswitchs.
Thanks guys, this a great! I immediately started programming key switches for Horns, Electric Guitars, Strummed Guitars etc and it works like a charm. No more confusion which MIDI/keyboard note was what key switch! One question: Those Bank/Program Changes have no "note length", but some instrument effects require that you keep the key switch (or even 2 key switches) pressed while two or more notes are played in sequence. How would you use this tool in that case? Should I revert to drawing that key switch as a long note in the MIDI editor, as I used to do?
You can use the note-hold output event type, in which case Reaticulate will defer note-off events for note-based keyswitches until the next articulation change. For a guitar, I suspect it works similar to Bohemian violin, where you have a "normal" default mode, and you modify your performance by holding a non-latching keyswitch note, and then release the note to return to the normal playing style. Reaticulate supports this with something it unimaginatively calls the "off program". More on that here: reaticulate.com/reabank.html#both-non-latching-and-latching-articulation-keyswitches
Thanks for this video! It's a bummer that Reaticulate doesn't assign articulations to each individual note the way Cubase expression maps and Logic articulations do.
i believe you can select the notes in the midi editor and assign an articulation. i think i saw that on reaticulate's website. however, go take a look cause i am not sure.
You just need to select the notes in the MIDI editor and double-click (or right-click) on the articulation you want on the Rearticulate's UI menu. That way Rearticulate inserts a CC message directly on the first MIDI note of your selection.
could they route midi input from different channels into one kontakt instance, and get the plugin to work? Does this plugin allow me to switch between patches in one kontakt instance? Say i have 2 patches in a kontakt instance: flute legato and flute stacatto. Will this help me to quickly and easily switch between these patches? Thanks!!!
Yep. It supports this typical multi scenario (articulation per channel in one Kontakt instance), allowing you to have one track for the instrument and use Reaticulate to switch between the patches (by means of a custom bank that captures the way you've laid out your Kontakt instance)
While having " violins" , " violas" , "cellos" tracks with separate midi channels all routed to one Kontakt instance. (Sry, for capslock, im just trying to reach someone who knows how to do it)
@@ipoponq As Jon said, the different notes would need to use different source MIDI channels in the MIDI item. If the different sections all had the same articulations and output events (like, say, Cinematic Studio Strings) then you can reuse the same bank for the different articulations across different channels by setting the source channel of the bank to Omni. If the sections needed their own separate banks, then you can add them all to the track, and pin them to their respective source channel in Reaticulate's track configuration. Hope that made sense.
@@timrideout I think it is scary at the beginning (especially for we dumb sound guys), but then you read the documentation and spend 20 minutes trying to understand how everything works and that's it. It's just a little bit of time investment for a lot of great extra functionality.
So does Reaticulate work WITH the plugin? Or does it have its own information? I don't see how that'd work. I have Miroslav Philharmonik 2 and articulations are a MAJOR pain in it. How would I use this with it?
What reaticulate does, it changes the keyswitches and cc values you need to trigger to much more manageable program change messages. you can add note value and CC values to a named program change message instead of messing around with keyswitches. What key and CC value are sent is setup in that reabank file that has some additional information that the reaticulate can use :)
Unfortunately no. There's no integration with notation yet. If you're interested in the gory details why: forum.cockos.com/showpost.php?p=2307896&postcount=950
With this (and program name turned on in Prefs - see other comment) , it is much easier to see the articulation name in Reaper than to lookup the note number/name when editing.
@@Ace.Nikolaou The CC values will be specific for your VSTi. In my case I just had to read the manual to find what CC value corresponded with legato and repetition.
Am i being really stupid here? I've downloaded it, and i've ended up with a DLL file on the desktop..... so now what? install instructions are useless for musicians unless you have a degree in IT to go with it
I'm not sure I know how to explain it better than reaticulate.com/download.html#installation. I think it's probably as easy as Reaper lets me make it. :) Edit: since Reaticulate isn't distriuted as a DLL, perhaps you're referring to ReaPack? There are some more details at reapack.com/user-guide#installation
I've checked the video for three times, installed the plugin and I still completely don't understand how to make it work and why it is implemneted in such a way. I need to go through several menus and selections just to put one articulation to my notes? It's just ridiculous. I have Kontakt. It already has articulations assiged to very low notes like C0-D#0. My expectation has been that it should work already from the box, that is, I put that notes on a midi track along with real notes played located above them and articulation should change. But it doesn't work. So my next expectation that I should install some plugin to make it work, that is, the same midi track or some other special midi track but I just put notes below my real notes to set articulation. Instead I should work with some text files and then select special events in a special menues and make several clicks to do the task instead of just putting a note! Why? I'm not talking about that I still don't have any idea how to make work it even in such uncomfortable for real use interface.
@@TheREAPERBlog It is not put inside my midi then, it's put as another item above my midi, it's very uncomfortable to use - drag and drop etc. Btw, I've resolved my issue - it appeared that Koktakt uses not C0-D#0 but C1-D#1 notes for articulation and in such a way works from a box as expected.
There's a setting in Preferences>Media>MIDI to change the MIDI octave display offset. A lot of users change it to -1 to resolve the issue you're seeing
0at 4:10 it's confusing what the difference between the 6, name, and the group number....he just says it's the group name and doesn't make any explanation beyond that lol.
A user friendly GUI to create articulation banks is coming. Life is busy, is all. I definitely appreciate this current state is not for the faint of heart.
I love everything about Reaper except this, way too cumbersome, if you use Ableton live and have max for live use keyswitch instead, way faster and easier to use than this. I hope they make something like that in Reaper in the near future
Thanks for having me on The REAPER Blog, Jon!
Hi Erik, would you be able to share your EastWest Orchestra user patch?
Also, how do you switch between instruments on a different channel inside PLAY?
Hi Mr Erick, could you tell me which reaper theme is that?
@@wolfbachpart8871 Default Analog v 1.8
Yet another trick for Reaticulate: Go to REAPER Options -> Appearance -> Peaks/Waveforms and activate "Program names" checkbox (you tell me why on earth all those MIDI settings are in that page). Then, in the Arrange View, instead of those "PC" in the MIDI items, you will see the actual program name ("pizzicato", "sustain").
The fastest and easiest explanation of Reaticulate yet. A huge thanks to both of you.
Another must-know trick: double click any articulation in Reaticulate window and it will insert the corresponding PC in your MIDI Editor. If you have some notes selected, it will be inserted at the beginning of your selection.
Also works with right click :)
Thanks, Ignacio. I missed that one!
Buenas Ignacio me tropecé con el vídeo y veo lo de rearticulacion pero si cargo un instrumento con articulaciones keyswitch que sentido tiene esto?... Es que no lo entiendo por eso te pregunto... Saludos cordiales.
THANKS Erik and John. This tutorial was extremely valuable to me. I compose a lot for live theatre. The musical styles shift depending upon the play and the scene. Anything for a quiet duo to a honking big, full symphony orchestra. My go-to orchestral sound source is East-West Sounds. Reaticulate is an astonishing tool for creating a better workflow in composing such compositions. It's in my tool bag now thanks to you. The detailed explanation in the video was great. I hope to see more.
This plugin is a GODSEND!
Magnificent - I have subscribed to Erik solely based on this superb video.
Really good addition to the arsenal....
Thanks a lot, thats so great. Reapers options are phenomenal. I thought fl studio is a must for edm production, and reaper is only good with mixing and mastering, and now it reveals itself as a flexible switzer pocketknife for everything and more and it runs so smooth and stable. I love reaper daw! 🤗😍😍😍
You can also highlight the midi notes and double click the articulation you want to assign to those notes in the Reaticulate menu.
Thanks Erik and Jon for putting this video together! It was a pleasant surprise to see a video like this land in my feed (because of course I am subscribed to this channel). A patient, accessible walkthrough on getting started, the basic features, and Reaticulate's Reabank annotations has been a long standing item on my to-do list, and this video will be the de facto resource for new users. Thanks!
One observation: manually locating the Reaticulate reabank file and assigning it to the track as shown at 8:05 shouldn't be necessary. Reaticulate should be setting this up automatically. (It compiles all banks together (user + factory) into a tmp file and assigns that at the project level.) If you find that this custom assignment *is* necessary, I'd appreciate if you could get in touch and report it as a bug ( reaticulate.com/contact.html ). I'd like to understand why it's happening.
Also, as another commenter pointed out, the easiest way to insert articulations into a MIDI item is to double click or right click the articulation button in Reaticulate's GUI, and it will insert the Program Change event at the edit cursor. I like to resize my MIDI editor so that it lets Reaticulate's UI show through from the main window, like helix.urandom.ca/public/reaper-screenshot-20190612.png
P.S. I'm not sure if a violinist could transition to pizz and back as quickly as 6:13? :)
Thank you. I'm definitely not a Reaticulate expert so I had missed that double click/right click added the program change. Liking it even more now.
Regarding the pizzicato switch...I don't know, maybe a real skilled violinist could manage that on a good day? ;)
was going to thank him for touring your work
thanks jason!
Very nice tutorial, some advanced scripts like that are a bit hard to understand without video.
Reaticulate had some alternative like sfer, and BSRO, but thanks to continuous dev and support, and open sourcing, it seems to have become the most solid solution for this kind of work.
X-Raym
BSRO hasn’t updated for Reaper in so long. I have written him many times about updating, but get crickets. The BSRO was updated for FruityLoops, just not Reaper. I have to many libraries, this other method would take a long time to create new user articulations.
Couldn't live without Reaticulate. If you find the custom bank creating process too repetitive and time consuming you can make some spreadsheets that semi-automatically change the notes and add the correct names etc. to multiple articulations at once.
Dimitris Marinakis
That might make for a good future video to show that process on many kontakt libraries out there.
this is extremely useful!
Hi thanks for that video but i'm using EW Opus edition and i don't find user button ?
Amazing!
I'm trying to use "Rearticular" but in "Track Articulation" there is only the "Factory" section with the options Cinematics Series, Spitfire, VirHarmonic.
"User" is not visible. How can I solve this problem?
I know I am months late and probably you solved it already, but I'll leave Rearticulate's reference page in case somebody stumbles with the same problem reaticulate.com/reabank.html
This is huge. Thanks!
Cannot see the user item in the menu
Thank you for the great video
The coolest and quickest way to use and edit articulations in the piano roll is done FL Studio by the creator of BRSO Articulate Blake Robinson - you don't waste time writing the whole part and then editing articulations, you just use notes color coding and do it on a fly. Moreover this allows you to trigger multiple articulations simultaneously which is very handy for general patches.
The same plugin made by the same guy also exists for Reaper as well.
@@rano12321 I know, I tested it and it is, first, in a very raw condition in comparison with the FL version, second, it has different approach which is very uncomfortable and inconvenient...
Can you do these articulations as you are recording or only after? Thanks.
I installed Reaticulate but when I want to add bank don't appear the option "user" :(
It's basically using program change which you could do if you edit the GM bank etc. But Reaticulate make it so you don't have to go thru 128 articulation to pic the articulation you want. So this is a welcome.
This is a very cool plugin, especially for it to be a free one. My biggest critique is that it feels complicated and not very intuitive at the moment.
Look at a plugin like BRSO Articulate, where you can just click an articulation and start drawing MIDI with the selected articulation, switching freely to the next articulation at a single click and with minimal interruptions while I'm trying to draw a full articulated melody. Not having to input any data in the CC lanes below either. Creating presets looks like an agonizing process, but at least you can do it once and have it forever.
When I look for an articulation management plugin, I want something that minimizes the amount of clicking and scrolling I must do to just get an idea out of my head and into my DAW - Reaticulate has potential, but I would urge the developer to see how the user's process can be streamlined even further.
I would love for Reaticulate to be the workflow game changer that I'm looking for (and would be willing to donate to the cause!) but I think I'll stick with the Reaper version of BRSO Articulate for now.
you can also double-click the articulation in the UI.
I like BSRO as well and wish the guy who made it would update it like he did for FL DAW. The guy is like a ghost and never replies to that inquiry.
The REAPER Blog Ah, interesting that this wouldn’t be the spotlighted way to use it - why does the video show the clunky way?
It feels a lot nicer now that I’m using it with this knowledge in mind. Would still recommend a better design for making presets, I’m a composer, not a coder. Nice plugin nonetheless!
Will you make a video on how to create custom banks for hypersonic 2 and sampletank 3??
Hi. I installed the new Update but im having some essue. When the rearticulate activate any note on the program bank, he Also play One octave above. Impossible to use my sample library from kontakt, till this moment. I need help
Hello I need help. Once I click add bank after track is selected. I can't find 'User' under the drop down menu just 'Factory' can you help?
Is this still functioning like a keyswitch though? For example, if he'd started playing a section with staccato notes, but halfway through it so it doesn't hit the trigger at the beginning of the phrase, will it just play whatever articulation was last played? Just trying to figure out if this works like expression maps do.
Very good! 😁
good video thanks
I have Albion One. I wonder if there is some thing like Reaticulate that would automatically create a "Swell" for me, especially with brass and strings?
I have to spend time drawing in Mod Wheel envelopes to get the swell sounding better.
Some of 8Dios have swells as an option for their Strings, Brass and Choirs for example; they are called Arcs.
Would save a lot of time, especially if I could select a swell length etc.
If the swell is just e.g. CCs indicating duration, intensity, curve, etc., it can be done. If you want to output a Mod Wheel curve then it is not possible, since Reaticulate only outputs MIDI at the same time position of your program change.
@ thanks, yes, its a mod-wheel curve - a set of points over time that would automate a swell
I thought reaper 6 improved midi editing so that doing that should be very easy no?
What do you think about "Ultimate Articulation Engine by ultimate midi plugin"? It looks good.
While I successfully installed It, when I apply articulation to Hypersonic 2's Contrabass GM for example It doesn't affect the articulation, It does nothing, please! can you help me to fix that?? It doesn't apply either on Sampletank 3..
Wow
Off subject: is it possible use and existing track to trigger mid notes(as with REATUNE) and edit that midi then send that midi data back to the original track to "re-articulate" the asdr for that track? I know the midi can be created and played back through an external instrument with the corrections made creating a new track, seems like this internal correction should be possible as well. Thanks
Can someone who uses both ReaTiculate with Reaper and Logic's articulation feature fairly compare and contrast current strengths and limitations between the two approaches in their current versions?
I really need help with this. I have downloaded it and followed the steps that are listed on the website to set it up. So my FX chain is: Reaticulate -> Nucleus Strings Sections multi. I cannot get it to work. I don't really understand how i am to setup so that Reaticulate understands which button the keyswitch is in necleus? In Nucleus ican see the keyswitches being the lowest not on the midi piano showing in kontakt. Question 2: is this only for midi editor? This is not meant to be used on the fly of midi recording? Only using the bank/program select in midi editor? So the concept is to apply articulations after you have recorded?
Different notes will engage different articulations in Nucleus. You'd need to know which note does what, so you can craft a bank for Nucleus with all its articulations and configure articulation to send the appropriate note. The note numbers may also be included in Nucleus Strings documentation. For your second question, it can be used from the arrange view too (in fact the Reaticulate GUI can only dock in the main window due to how Reaper works). It can also be used with real-time recording, and apart from clicking articulations in the GUI (which is awkward if you're recording realtime) there are a number of "activate articulation" actions that you can use to configure a control surface or other MIDI controller.
Thank you Erik for a great tutorial. I am trying to use Reaticulate with Cinematic Studio Solo Strings which isn't listed as one of the ready made presets, but is very similar to its 'big brother' Cinematic Studio strings. When after inserting a few articulations and pressing play, I can see the changes in articulations in Reaticulate but they do not effect CSSS.
I could not find a way to read the actual Reaticulate file, when clicking on the pen I just got a new template.
1. Is there a way of opening the Reaticulate programmed file?
2. Do you think it is simply a case of not triggering the right keyswitch...?
Help....???
(Forgive the ignorance and the very long message)
Thanks again
I only have spitfire libraries. I use their UACC system for the articulations, which I think is pretty good. I've downloaded the scripts of Dave Healy (watch?v=eZZ3myOFpwE) and made a custom action for every articulation, and put all of them in a toolbar in the midi editor (instead of his way that he shows in the video, of having to go through a menu). This way, I just select the notes, press the button of the articulation I want and that's it.
Can reaticulate dock into mid editor?I hoped that can accomplish it
Unfortunately not. REAPER itself doesn't anything to be docked to the MIDI editor window, and doesn't allow multiple panes in floating dockers. I size my floating MIDI editor window so I can see/access Reaticulate on the main window underneath the MIDI editor.
Is it possible to set the MIDI CC11 or CC7 value when going to a new articulation? If you have a multi instrument, say violins 1 with different articulations in one patch, the volume is never 100% correct for all articulations. For instance in Cinematic Studio Strings the Tremolo patch is a bit too loud in comparison to the normal legato patch, the tremolo patch is too soft. It would be nice to correct this a bit by sending some CC7 or CC11 information on beforehand to that articulation. Is this possible?
yes it can be written into the ReaBank file. Check out 7:15 in the video
please some one explain me why is this should be easier than using regular plugins articulations changer?
It solves the problem to remember each plugin command and to go and add multiple command for each change
I'm assuming you're talking about regular keyswitch? A benefit to using this is that program change is not affected when you transpose unlike keyswitchs.
Nice
Seems like a great tool! I didn't get what the cc's are.
cc is control change. Modulation and other effects that the instrument may respond to
Thanks guys, this a great! I immediately started programming key switches for Horns, Electric Guitars, Strummed Guitars etc and it works like a charm. No more confusion which MIDI/keyboard note was what key switch! One question: Those Bank/Program Changes have no "note length", but some instrument effects require that you keep the key switch (or even 2 key switches) pressed while two or more notes are played in sequence. How would you use this tool in that case? Should I revert to drawing that key switch as a long note in the MIDI editor, as I used to do?
You can use the note-hold output event type, in which case Reaticulate will defer note-off events for note-based keyswitches until the next articulation change. For a guitar, I suspect it works similar to Bohemian violin, where you have a "normal" default mode, and you modify your performance by holding a non-latching keyswitch note, and then release the note to return to the normal playing style. Reaticulate supports this with something it unimaginatively calls the "off program". More on that here: reaticulate.com/reabank.html#both-non-latching-and-latching-articulation-keyswitches
@@anothercrappypianist Thanks! I'll give it a go :-)
I hope someone can explain the power of ReaTrak as well
Thanks for this video! It's a bummer that Reaticulate doesn't assign articulations to each individual note the way Cubase expression maps and Logic articulations do.
i believe you can select the notes in the midi editor and assign an articulation. i think i saw that on reaticulate's website. however, go take a look cause i am not sure.
You just need to select the notes in the MIDI editor and double-click (or right-click) on the articulation you want on the Rearticulate's UI menu. That way Rearticulate inserts a CC message directly on the first MIDI note of your selection.
I instaled all but do not appears in "Actions".
But it is in the scrripts folder so I can open it from reaper this way. Not the idea anyway.
open action list, click 'new action...' then load reascript, select the file.
@@TheREAPERBlog 0.o You are a wizard.
Thank you very much!
could they route midi input from different channels into one kontakt instance, and get the plugin to work?
Does this plugin allow me to switch between patches in one kontakt instance? Say i have 2 patches in a kontakt instance: flute legato and flute stacatto. Will this help me to quickly and easily switch between these patches?
Thanks!!!
Yep. It supports this typical multi scenario (articulation per channel in one Kontakt instance), allowing you to have one track for the instrument and use Reaticulate to switch between the patches (by means of a custom bank that captures the way you've laid out your Kontakt instance)
@@anothercrappypianist thank you. I am trying to get this going. haha
It worked! I made a stacatto button for Session Strings Pro!!!! Awesome. thank you!!!
Reaticulate is not working for me for some reason. I have it set at the top of the FX chain, but it simply isn't triggering any MIDI signal.
HOW TO TRIGGER one note staccato and one legato at the same time IF THEY ARE ALIGNED one above each other!?
While having " violins" , " violas" , "cellos" tracks with separate midi channels all routed to one Kontakt instance. (Sry, for capslock, im just trying to reach someone who knows how to do it)
those would be on separate MIDI channels
@@ipoponq As Jon said, the different notes would need to use different source MIDI channels in the MIDI item. If the different sections all had the same articulations and output events (like, say, Cinematic Studio Strings) then you can reuse the same bank for the different articulations across different channels by setting the source channel of the bank to Omni. If the sections needed their own separate banks, then you can add them all to the track, and pin them to their respective source channel in Reaticulate's track configuration. Hope that made sense.
is there a repository of articulation banks that people are sharing?
Found it :)
github.com/jtackaberry/reaticulate/tree/master/userbanks
@@timrideout Hey man, that looks great, how can you add them to rearticulate?
@@timrideout haha didn't see it was explained just down there in the link, thanks for sharing man
@@StoneSea A whole lotta hacking... :-/
@@timrideout I think it is scary at the beginning (especially for we dumb sound guys), but then you read the documentation and spend 20 minutes trying to understand how everything works and that's it. It's just a little bit of time investment for a lot of great extra functionality.
So does Reaticulate work WITH the plugin? Or does it have its own information? I don't see how that'd work.
I have Miroslav Philharmonik 2 and articulations are a MAJOR pain in it. How would I use this with it?
What reaticulate does, it changes the keyswitches and cc values you need to trigger to much more manageable program change messages. you can add note value and CC values to a named program change message instead of messing around with keyswitches. What key and CC value are sent is setup in that reabank file that has some additional information that the reaticulate can use :)
Does this work in notation view?
Unfortunately no. There's no integration with notation yet. If you're interested in the gory details why: forum.cockos.com/showpost.php?p=2307896&postcount=950
why would you prefer to use reaticulate instead of overwriting the midi notes that change articulations ?
With this (and program name turned on in Prefs - see other comment) , it is much easier to see the articulation name in Reaper than to lookup the note number/name when editing.
I didnt understand how he knew 68 was legato and 69 repetition... can smone clarify?
I think it showed in the virtual instrument
@@TheREAPERBlog hmm thanks!
@@Ace.Nikolaou The CC values will be specific for your VSTi. In my case I just had to read the manual to find what CC value corresponded with legato and repetition.
Am i being really stupid here? I've downloaded it, and i've ended up with a DLL file on the desktop..... so now what? install instructions are useless for musicians unless you have a degree in IT to go with it
I'm not sure I know how to explain it better than reaticulate.com/download.html#installation. I think it's probably as easy as Reaper lets me make it. :)
Edit: since Reaticulate isn't distriuted as a DLL, perhaps you're referring to ReaPack? There are some more details at reapack.com/user-guide#installation
I've checked the video for three times, installed the plugin and I still completely don't understand how to make it work and why it is implemneted in such a way. I need to go through several menus and selections just to put one articulation to my notes? It's just ridiculous. I have Kontakt. It already has articulations assiged to very low notes like C0-D#0. My expectation has been that it should work already from the box, that is, I put that notes on a midi track along with real notes played located above them and articulation should change. But it doesn't work. So my next expectation that I should install some plugin to make it work, that is, the same midi track or some other special midi track but I just put notes below my real notes to set articulation. Instead I should work with some text files and then select special events in a special menues and make several clicks to do the task instead of just putting a note! Why? I'm not talking about that I still don't have any idea how to make work it even in such uncomfortable for real use interface.
you have the ui open, then doubleclick the articulation name to add the articulation change at the cursor position.
@@TheREAPERBlog It is not put inside my midi then, it's put as another item above my midi, it's very uncomfortable to use - drag and drop etc. Btw, I've resolved my issue - it appeared that Koktakt uses not C0-D#0 but C1-D#1 notes for articulation and in such a way works from a box as expected.
There's a setting in Preferences>Media>MIDI to change the MIDI octave display offset. A lot of users change it to -1 to resolve the issue you're seeing
@@TheREAPERBlog Thank you for the hint)
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0at 4:10 it's confusing what the difference between the 6, name, and the group number....he just says it's the group name and doesn't make any explanation beyond that lol.
This may help: reaticulate.com/reabank.html#anatomy-of-a-standard-reabank-file
Хорошая игрушка. Особенно для тех кто использует больше 100 разных библиотек.
Надо попробовать.
стесняюсь спросить, нахрена тебе столько библиотек?
Things like these are the reason people say reaper is for nerds.🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is nerd stuff period
A user friendly GUI to create articulation banks is coming. Life is busy, is all. I definitely appreciate this current state is not for the faint of heart.
I dont see how this will improve my beats
I love everything about Reaper except this, way too cumbersome, if you use Ableton live and have max for live use keyswitch instead, way faster and easier to use than this. I hope they make something like that in Reaper in the near future