Creating a MIDI Sequencer for Synths in REAPER (Mega Baby)

[@MichelBarbaro]

I cannot believe I had this in Reaper! Thank you for the video!

[@REAPERMania]

It gets better. Wait!!

[@williamrustrum]

Ohhhhhh! Used this last month, but now I see some of the secret modifiers I didn't know. Thank you Kenny! I learned a lot here!

[@1tigercat2]

A huge amount of fantastic information here. It will take a few replays to get it in my skull. Thanks Kenny!

[@s3nsec0rruptr80]

Your videos are always so helpful! I had no idea how to use my synth to both write sequences and send midi to the synth! Now that I know the routing I can perhaps break free of the tyranny of Korg's 16 step sequencers and open up some of the great sounds of these synths!

[@martinlewis6661]

Fantastic information Kenny - my 'go to' for all things Reaper.

[@the_fixer_guy]

Kenny, if it wasn't for your videos I'd still be trying to figure out how to setup inputs and outputs in Reaper like I struggled with so long ago the first time I downloaded it to try it out. I'm still nowhere near an expert but I have learned so much from you. Thank you!

[@juanmedina3867]

You are my new go to Reaper guy! You are midi king brother. Your lessons inspire me to keep making music. Thank you..

[@vanhaze2000]

Really great tut Kenny ! IMHO, one of the best tutorials about Megababy, there aren't that many on youtube, Megababy maybe look ugly but it's really powerful, THX !!

[@REAPERMania]

Thanks Rob

[@fernandohood5657]

The fact u Control the patters you create via midi is a great Touch, this is the workflow i wanted , reminds me of the reason reddrum days.... well Im not going back to piano roll to write drum sequences , i got My baby now. Thnks for ths tutorial.

[@skorobagatko]

Thank you! 👏🔥

[@KopOnPodcast]

Brilliant, thank you so much! 👍

[@Vingul]

14:50 shift + right drag only alters the starting point of the note when I do it, it doesn't create more notes.

[@cynical2207]

Kenny, hi! There is little mistake on 6:58 - you saying Alt+Control, but it's just Control written on screen and also for Option+Command on Mac. Thanks for your great videos, BTW!

[@obulus1]

Anyone knows how do I have to set up the thing to record my sequence? I can record the synth but if I play the sequence the stem is blank

[@ajhall9868]

very useful - thanks Kenny!!

[@materialistadialectico4884]

Notes are not sounding when I right click on them!

[@sensudubs4421]

How do you get FX that are different instruments? Do i have to buy the full version or are there free plugins or something?

[@Flackon]

How do you sequence patterns into a full song, is changing it manually with the keys the only way? Also, how do you get it into the track, can you "bake" those patterns as a MIDI object?

[@DopamineOverload]

Reaper continues to blow my mind. Is there any way to record the pitches/notes in realtime (simple 16th notes) from a midi keyboard? Or, any alternative plugins that allow this? I'm looking for something similar to Arturia's Keystep, but in plugin form. Thanks guys!

[@CoolColJ]

Loop the timeline, turn record on, use midi record overdub mode, and set midi input to quantize to 16ths

[@jtpinnyc]

Wow this is even better than Geist's step sequencer.

[@davidvosspoor4694]

AWESOME!

[@aubinpougnant8691]

Hi Kenny, Awesome tutorial as always Do you have any idea about how I could use live? like I would like the sequencer to run only when I press a midi note

[@adastra123]

Great video by the way . Quick question , I am using a mac , how do I increase the green range so as I can see a larger range of octaves as there is no right click on the mac . I have tried the cmd and alt with the mouse but it does nothing . I will try a few more things after posting this .

[@madmatt112]

Come for the super helpful tutorials, stay for Christopher Walken's voiceover talents.

[@DopamineOverload]

Hi Kenny! Great video as always. Dumb question perhaps... is it not possible to have Pattern Change + Transpose enabled BEFORE recording a sequence? I would love to not be able to mouse and change that option after recording sequences in realtime. I wonder if I could create an action to enable that? Thx!

[@ifaber68]

Very nice tutorial, thanks 😄

[@FiericeBear]

How can I make quantize it automatically to make notes a bit later or earlier?

[@greasybumpkin1661]

15:30 for some reason, I can't open up the edit window?

[@jeremyneither]

kenny: watch all the MIDI space sounds that you can make me: okay!

[@petertremblay3725]

End up using this since the McSequencer have close to no information on how to install and when i finally managed to get it installed it throw a whole bunch of errors, spent an hour just trying to use it and end up losing my time.

[@jonathanthornton3894]

how do you actually get the midi recording in reaper?

[@Mo-hb1ww]

I love your tutorial . Please tell me how you activate keyboard and make it work. I used the (alt+B) to bring it up but its inactive and wont trigger pattern change. Help!

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

Now I'm sort of confused.. Is it possible to trigger a Hardware synth with Megababy and record the MIDI data? If so, how? The only way I could think of is to record the MIDI data using a soft synth on one track and have it trigger a hardware synth on another track, capturing the audio. You would have to mute the soft synth so you don't hear it during recording or playback right? but it would still print out the MIDI so I can edit it later? Anybody doing something similar?

[@darkmadder9897]

This is actually only the midi data, you have to "print" it to your track or it records nothing. So you could switch out any synth and it will play the same thing. You just run this into your hardware synth and off it goes, but of course will need to adjust for the audio difference between synths. You could run the "synth" data into a drum machine and it would play the notation you programmed in megababy. The main point of using a synth while programming this is simply because megababy makes no sound on it's own, making composing difficult without an instrument linked/chained to this sequencer. I'm sure you've figured all this out on your own by now - just sayin'...

[@rasbelix6413]

Damn, that's great !

[@rotrecording4542]

Hi Kenny, great video. I'm not really a keyboard player, but i want to add some synth sounds and other instrument sounds to my recordings. I posted this question over on G3G but I just wanted to ask again...I got a new MIDI keyboard recently that was bundled with XPand!2, which I see you're using here, but for some reason Reaper doesn't seem to have it in it's list of plug-ins. I've installed it to the same folder as all my other plugs, and rescanned but still nothing. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

[@diiegopc]

How can I have that virtual midi keyboard?? 😱😱😱😱😱

[@craigdaubbeats-rapinstrume9185]

Xpand2 is awesome!!

[@solaryzer]

Great stuff ! But are there any scales ??

[@vanhaze2000]

I am afraid not .. but ..Just put the plugin JS:MIDI Snap to Key AFTER Megababy plugin and choose a Key in that plugin. Now all midi notes output from Megababy will be constrained to your choosen Key !

[@solaryzer]

Great thanks ... am loving Reaper !

[@Woeful_Ostrich]

Is there a way to set this up with my external synth? I'm using a behringer model D

[@s3nsec0rruptr80]

Behringer model d wouldn't be able to input any notes but if you set a midi track to output on the same channel as the model d, you can totally control it

[@boragungor777]

Very nice ! =)

[@destroso]

I cant get it to trigger my vst :(

[@talongregory4375]

Can you use the step sequencer to activate the midi arpegiator?

[@REAPERMania]

I don't see why not.

[@iamhandsome4291]

7:48

[@cathywilson1273]

WOW!!! Nice! I have a question. Could the computer keyboard be used to enter/control the midi data?

[@roninenlightened6350]

Yes, you can press alt+B in PC or option+B on Mac to bring up reaper's virtual midi keyboard.

[@cathywilson1273]

@@roninenlightened6350 Thank you so much for your response! :-)

[@swirekster]

M E G A B A B Y >:D

[@citadelo5ricks]

Great video as usual Kenny. I'd like to see Reaper focus on improvements to the midi editor in particular multi track editing. It has the lead there from the DAWs I've looked at (Logic, Live) but I have not looked at Cubase which I hear is better. Megababy is not a forward step on midi editing in Reaper.

[@premnepali7992]

how can we transport these note to piano roll ?

[@HansPeterWillems]

you can midi record the output of the sequencer, then you have it as notes in your track

[@premnepali7992]

thank u

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

how do i sequence a hardware synth?

[@ourxbox1]

Wondering the same thing

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

@@ourxbox1 I've actually since learned how to do it. You can use MegaBaby and send the MIDI data via the Route function to your hardware synth. Then you can record the audio from it on a separate track.

[@MJBadTour1]

@@mackenlyparmelee5440 Can you please explain this in great detail?

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

@@MJBadTour1 I'll try it's been a little while since I did this. Basically though I used a yamaha reface cs plugged into my pc via its usb port, and also had the audio signal routed out through an audio interface via 1/4 inch. The signal path went pc -> synth via USB, then synth -> pc via 1/4 inch. I had a MIDI sequence programmed in reaper in one track, had the signal send routed to the synth which played the sequence and I just recorded the synth's audio output in a separate track. Lemme know if this helps

[@carlosmaranhao5637]

legal..

[@artemkapustin7247]

okay

[@chezchezchezchez]

Thanks for the great tutorial Kenny! Btw... You forgot the word STEP in the title!!

[@vanhaze2000]

YOU forgot to thank Kenny for the effort. Which is way more important imho 🙏🏼

[@REAPERMania]

It felt too long and I didn't want people to confuse it with Step Recording.

[@chezchezchezchez]

Rob van Hees thx. Done. :-)

[@eddyyannarella]

In my reaper don’t sound??? You dont explain very well

[@rafaelceottomusic6918]

the sequencer must be placed before the synth on the fx chain

[@lardosian]

Thanks, only little constructive criticism I would give is that you tend to put lots of strange pauses in between every 4/5 words which can sound a bit robotic, kind of puts me off watching more of your videos.

[@ZakRahman]

As far as I am aware, this is done on purpose - to make it really easy to follow. Remember, there are many non-native English speakers who use these tutorials, so slow and clear is fine. Interestingly, on Groove3 Kenny's tutorials don't have these pauses. Just sharing a bit of info. It's well worth putting up with this on youtube.

[@jtpinnyc]

You're kidding right, Kenny's vocal flow makes it easier to follow and absorb information.

[@darkmadder9897]

No way a robot has that awesome accent!