making the full switch to reaper

[DankStar]

Now that my old logic express doesn't play nice with el capitan on my mac I'm going full reaper. No sense paying $200 for logic pro x when they'll just make it incompatible in a year or two with whatever apple has out at that time.

Seems to work so far, but I haven't done a full tune with it yet, just some rudimentary tests. I'm not super excited about how the midi editor screen looks but I'm hoping I'll get used to it.

I've already been using it on my PC but not for hard-core drum sequencing and mixing.

Any good tutorials you guys refer to would be great. I found a few but there's a lot out there to weed through.

Usually I need help with these types of things:
- how to automate tempo
- how to edit midi notes for drums
- how to snip off/delete portions of audio in a track (the string noise before a guitar plays its part for example)
- how to mix in real time (might not need that one actually)

Most other stuff I can figure out, but any shortcuts or cheats with using midi controllers triggering drums and then modifying the notes/hits are appreciated.

 

[ginormous]

Re: making the full switch to reaper

Here's some google goodies to get you started. YMMV as to the current OS version.

Mac Pro Video - Reaper For Mac

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: making the full switch to reaper

Cool tutorial, man!

Other than that, you can customise everything in the Actions / Show action list menu. You can add / modify shortcuts the way you see fit. Here I have all the edit functions on my left hand, very similar layout as you play Skyrim or Doom Split S, clip mute A, delete D, undo F redo G, copy C, paste V and so on. It makes editing fast beyond imagination. Whenever I feel a function missing I just open the Action List menu and add a shortcut to it. Now I can edit drums for a whole track around less than an hour, by hand. No beat detective hell and everything clicks to the desired position instantly.

 

[DankStar]

Re: making the full switch to reaper

Awesome - I need to put in some shortcuts like that. The more I use it the more I like it. I may even like the midi editor better than logics, now that I've learned a few things. I think the only thing I'll miss is some of the built in effects, especially an analog tape compressor I used on everything. Gotta be something similar floating around though.

 

[DankStar]

Re: making the full switch to reaper

Cool tutorial, man!

Other than that, you can customise everything in the Actions / Show action list menu. You can add / modify shortcuts the way you see fit. Here I have all the edit functions on my left hand, very similar layout as you play Skyrim or Doom Split S, clip mute A, delete D, undo F redo G, copy C, paste V and so on. It makes editing fast beyond imagination. Whenever I feel a function missing I just open the Action List menu and add a shortcut to it. Now I can edit drums for a whole track around less than an hour, by hand. No beat detective hell and everything clicks to the desired position instantly.

thanks a lot for that tip - helped me get out of a jam with combining midi loops on separate tracks. given the mac mouse only has one click and the shift/control buttons are assigned to something else in reaper I was able to assign a shortcut to "select all within a track" and then glue them together into one midi loop. I was banging my head against the wall until I remembered your shortcuts trick.

edit: ok, the midi combination thing isn't working like I'd like, but it's almost just as easy to copy the notes out of a short loop and paste them into my "master drum loop"