One Click MIDI Programming in REAPER

[@dnashofficial]

all of the time i save in reaper from watching kenny's videos is spent watching MORE of kenny's videos.

[@JoeJohnston-taskboy]

Very helpful. Been a little frustrated with the default behavior of the MIDI editor. Thanks, Kenny!

[@atibakojo3478]

Been avoiding the piano roll in Reaper but it's time now, to start using it. Very helpful especially the grid changing. And the scale and chord add in is the bomb.

[@rano12321]

This was one of the first things I change whenever I do a fresh install of Reaper.

[@Echo_III]

Wow one click and hiding unused rows... Man, this is gold! Was working for 10 years like a noob :D

[@checkmatenate]

Reaper is GOATED because of KG! I'm slowly moving closer and closer to Reaper from Logic because of KG!

[@MattStevens9824]

Thanks for the very helpful tut and tips, Kenny! There might come a time when the Kenny Gioia avatar will talk in sync with the narration. 😁

[@asiliecrying]

I really enjoyed this tutorial, Thanks

[@ThomasECahill]

Always great stuff!

[@Arkham_Wizard]

That really helps. Since I've always wanted to recreate FL Studio mouse midi edting experience in Reaper.

[@micahhcofre]

Excellent tip kenny! This is almost how fl studio midi editor works, but in fl it remembers the length of the last note written. Is there a way to make it more like that?

[@micahhcofre]

not only length, but also pitch, pan, velocity. It just makes sense.

[@brokenrohit2101]

Cut to cut and accurate no nonsense! Awesome man!😂

[@atashbeats8055]

Kenny is the man for sure. Thanks a bunch.

[@ifaber68]

Very nice tutorial, you are a great beat maker 😊👍

[@joeking5211]

Absolutely top notch, many thks.

[@cptnemo7009]

imho one-click note insert should be default!

[@sameerbankar6073]

You dont say!

[@Shineequlity]

Thanks for the great video kenny. But i’m wondering how to use microtonal setting in reaper midi note these days. Do you know how to do it?

[@sebastianvallejoperez9754]

There is no way of inserting microtonal notes. The way to do it is finding a plugin that allows microtonal tuning (vital has it on the advance settings), and creating a .tun or scala file on another program like sevish scale workshop. There you can assign different tuning values to midi notes which then translate through the plugin. However the notes in reaper don't change, just the pitch that comes out. I teach about microtonal music and composition if you are interested.

[@Shineequlity]

@@sebastianvallejoperez9754 Sevish scale workshop is a website right? Btw ‘Full keyboard microtuning’ in a plugin which support it is not possible just with only .scl file? I read ‘list of microtonal plugin’ at Xenharmonic Wiki, it says it is ‘possible via .scl/.kbm pairs.(but not .scl support on its on)’. I didnt get what this means.

[@joeheukerott9186]

Another great one! Thanks.

[@Hocus_Tokus]

Nice video. The track and percussion programmation sound great ! The playback sound seems to be offbeat with the MIDI notes by an 8th note (though the sound is ok when you insert notes).

[@PocketSunlight]

Coooool tutorial, as ever, Kenny

[@antonm_]

2:55 Is there a way to save the new order as a preset? If not, is there even an Action that does this? This would be very useful since there are a lot of virtual instruments that have articulations split up below and above the playable keys; it would be great to group them all in one place. But it will only be useful if this new order can be saved as a preset (or created as part of a custom action).

[@dathioz]

Save the named notes, it will also contain the order of the notes ... alternatively create a template as a startingpoint

[@Hocus_Tokus]

File > Notes/CC names > Save/Load note CC names (right click in the blank space above keys/note rows to display this menu). The actions are available in action list. Guess it might be possible to save distinct custom Note names files with each VST track template ?

[@antonm_]

@@Hocus_Tokus Yeah, I already have a bunch of saved note names for each of the VST instruments that I regularly use, but it does not care about the order of the note names. I also have custom actions that load the note names for a particular instrument and add/remove CC lanes. And these actions mapped to a radial menu. It would be nice if either the order can be saved in the note name text file, or add "move named note" actions to my custom actions. But yeah, same as you, the only workaround I can think of is to save the note names and the order by saving it as a track template. Quite restrictive. Hopefully that can be addressed in the future.

[@Hocus_Tokus]

@@antonm_ Thanks. I thought named note order was saved in the custom name notes files.

[@antonm_]

@@dathioz I actually tried reordering the note names in the text file (ie. Note 122 placed after Note 0 in the file --- typically the values are in descending order), and it did not work. EDIT: A specific case that I tried this on is with my note names for the Umansky Bass VST. The "Force String" key switches are at the top, after all the playable notes, while the articulations (ie. Slap, Pop, etc.) are at the bottom, before the playable notes. I moved the "Force String" note names (122 to 127) at the bottom of the file (before the articulations - 0 to 16).

[@cupboardhomestudio971]

Thnx Kenny 😉🎼👍🏽

[@AfonsoOliPer]

1:12 how do your items not snap fully to the grid but only when your mouse is close to the grid?? i want that pls

[@manu_elle_arg]

Excelent guide thank you!! I have a question, is there a way for you to group samples like hijat? So that when I use a open hh and then immediately a closed hh the second one shuts the previous one

[@fredmarmo523]

Thanks for the info 🎉

[@Ram-Music]

As always, you are a genius😊

[@SYCHR0N]

Have the editing mouse buttons changed over time? I'm using reaper for about a decade, and I create midi notes by single klicking or klicking and draging, and delete by right clicking. As far as I remember, I never changed this?

[@studio.kaedinger]

Exactly... so I wondered what this video is about...

[@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP]

the default is double click to insert a note, at least since 5.98

[@studio.kaedinger]

@@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP That might explain it, I use Reaper since 3.75, must have been around 2012 or 2011 or so...

[@TheFLMGang]

you have finally started to make actually good music

[@KW-qh1pd]

I think most of us are here to learn about reaper not critique his musical talents!

[@wintersolstice2887]

We are all here to learn about reaper…kenny is a gold mine of knowledge and puts out great content for all of us FOR FREE so we can grow in the DAW. It’s the highest form of Social Service in my books

[@REAPERMania]

@@TheFLMGang What was before?

[@lbird2]

@@KW-qh1pd Exactly. These are tools to help THE USER make music. We all have our own tastes in music. What's to be gained by pointing that out? Am I supposed to say "Oh, shit you're right! The music I've spent a lifetime exploring and falling in love with is all crap."

[@TheFLMGang]

​ @Luther Bird hey why do you sound like a uncle in his 60s yelling at their son

[@ianlahaye9476]

Kenny, is this look in the new Reaper update? I admit i almost never download the updates. I should. This looks so much more modern than my current midi map and would save me so much time! Thanks!

[@electricwhiterabbit]

I would like an option to be able to hold a key on my PC keyboard that will determine the velocity and then click. So in turn i would like to have 5 different velocities and then i can click while holding down a specific velocity key. Any idea how to do that?

[@antrix1331]

I want same thing but for midi items in arrangment view. So that I can program my drum kit (which is present in few different tracks). Is it possible?

[@rejistry]

So good 👌🏽

[@BenMartinBox]

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@landonfinnerty2391]

Kenny Rocks

[@ThePilate30]

I don't know why my triangles look so tiny on my midi editor

[@Hocus_Tokus]

You just have to change vertical and horizontal zoom settings in the MIDI editor.

[@ThePilate30]

@@Hocus_Tokus thank you, I'll give that a shot 👍

[@bobbyincidemetal]

Thank you, Kenny!!

[@gaudinni]

Thanks!

[@johannessens6018]

thanks man!

[@varunraghuvanshi3194]

❤❤❤❤

[@shykall]

Hi Kenny , the problem with Key Scale option, is that when you copy an item, it does not stays ticked in the new iteration. So, almost every time I forget to check it in the copy, and move the notes , until I notice that Ihave to check it again. Which is very annoying.It is weird that the copy, is not the same as the original. That said, I love reaper, and admire the work behind and around it. When I use this DAW, it feels that there is always, some sort setting, tweak, or action, (like a magic spell ) that will make every technic possible. Thank you very much for your priceless and numerous tutorials. There are so many subjects treated , that I'm sure I can find " how is called, the mouse shadow in the second moon" . For another movie reference : Thank Master Kenny Jedi .

[@ashamael]

I used one click to click like so fast on this video!

[@NickMACK1473]

watching from Grenada in the caribbean. reaper is boss

[@DLJMUSIC]

Genius!