Reaper Midi Drum Tips by Alex

ibmorjamn said:
I found this video ,Hopefully this will be useful for whoever doesn’t know the tips.
There is a lot of info but it looks like I can use a lot of it.


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Yay! To learning to program midi in your DAW! Probably, maybe, arguably, more important than choosing between the big name drum programs.
Yes, it’s a pita sometimes. Getting it to sound really good….not mechanical.
 
It is something I have to dig in to. Most of my problem is when I am on something I am trying to create I don’t have time to program a midi sequence but the Reaper videos are great because it gets to stuff buried in menu’s.Not only that Reaper is constantly upgrading stuff. I have resisted the most recent upgrade.
I intend to purchase Reaper soon.

If I am going to tweak all of that stuff and save to use again it could be worth it.
Between all of the projects I have going and on hold, I don’t give myself much time.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Yay! To learning to program midi in your DAW! Probably, maybe, arguably, more important than choosing between the big name drum programs.
Yes, it’s a pita sometimes. Getting it to sound really good….not mechanical.
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I agree, I still don’t have access to BFD 3.
They did return a email. I did purchase 3 just because it was cheap enough.
I guess my beef with EZ is as many things as I have purchased from them I never felt I got my money’s worth after the original purchase.
I do like BFD Player, the free version and that is also why I bought it.
 
ibmorjamn said:
I guess my beef with EZ is as many things as I have purchased from them I never felt I got my money’s worth after the original purchase.
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Once you get the hang of dragging the EZ midi into a midi track in your DAW, for further editing/fine tuning, you may(or may not) change your mind about that.
I’ve not purchased extras, as I prefer to program it my own cheap-a$$ self. Or…I source free midi, and mangle it to my disliking.
I may change that this year…I may not…. I wouldn’t mind picking up some new kits, and seeing what a couple of the midi packs have for me. I have trouble finding 5 midi packs that I actually think I would want…every time they have one of those type of sales.

There’s no shortage of free midi to find out there…

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www.freemidi.org www.freemidi.org

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Just a few that have plenty of stuff to hack to pieces.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Once you get the hang of dragging the EZ midi into a midi track in your DAW, for further editing/fine tuning, you may(or may not) change your mind about that.
I’ve not purchased extras, as I prefer to program it my own cheap-a$$ self. Or…I source free midi, and mangle it to my disliking.
I may change that this year…I may not…. I wouldn’t mind picking up some new kits, and seeing what a couple of the midi packs have for me. I have trouble finding 5 midi packs that I actually think I would want…every time they have one of those type of sales.

There’s no shortage of free midi to find out there…

Free Midi - Best Free High Quality Midi Site

Download free midi songs. Over 28,386+ free midi files and as mp3. Search, add, request midi. TV Themes, Movie Themes, Video Game Themes. New, Popular, pop, rock, country, jazz, folk, hiphop, soul, classical.
www.freemidi.org www.freemidi.org

bitmidi.com

Popular MIDIs — BitMidi

Listen to free MIDI songs, download the best MIDI files, and share the best MIDIs on the web.
bitmidi.com bitmidi.com


Just a few that have plenty of stuff to hack to pieces.
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Right, I can do the drag and drop midi. From EZ to Reaper also the Urigitone midi plays wiEZ editor , in Reaper same with other players like Addictive drums. I have not done of a lot of editing midi in Reaper but that will be a goal from here forward. No reason to not have good drums. I don’t mind using EZ drummer 2 , they are just to expensive. I decided not to buy EZ 3. It’s not worth $99 to me. Oh and thanks for the links.
 
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ibmorjamn said:
I am such noob but I like this reaper video.
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Glad to see you’re progressing well in to the drum programming and routing in Reaper. There’s a fair amount of information out there for this stuff now…you can find presenters that you like, and understand, more easily these days…good stuff.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Glad to see you’re progressing well in to the drum programming and routing in Reaper. There’s a fair amount of information out there for this stuff now…you can find presenters that you like, and understand, more easily these days…good stuff.
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It’s such basic stuff but if you have never done this it’s good to find help.
Plenty help with Reaper.
Kenny Gioia always does great work , he is quite dedicated it seems.
 
I loaded BFD player in the last on the song I did and Reaper as the DAW and it made several stereo tracks and a lot more mono tracks / 32 tracks I think.

That’s when I realized I know “0” about routing the individual tracks.
I always looked at the grid for routing with a question mark.
 
ibmorjamn said:
I loaded BFD player in the last on the song I did and Reaper as the DAW and it made several stereo tracks and a lot more mono tracks / 32 tracks I think.

That’s when I realized I know “0” about routing the individual tracks.
I always looked at the grid for routing with a question mark.
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Yep…that’s why I like to “keep it simple” when putting stuff together, then…when I’m sure it’s worth it…I might blow it into micromanagement mode for hyper control.
I am not a fan of the grid view of routing…once in a while maybe…but it’s not the way I think intuitively…I visualize pathways more comfortably.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Once you get the hang of dragging the EZ midi into a midi track in your DAW, for further editing/fine tuning, you may(or may not) change your mind about that.
I’ve not purchased extras, as I prefer to program it my own cheap-a$$ self. Or…I source free midi, and mangle it to my disliking.
I may change that this year…I may not…. I wouldn’t mind picking up some new kits, and seeing what a couple of the midi packs have for me. I have trouble finding 5 midi packs that I actually think I would want…every time they have one of those type of sales.

There’s no shortage of free midi to find out there…

Free Midi - Best Free High Quality Midi Site

Download free midi songs. Over 28,386+ free midi files and as mp3. Search, add, request midi. TV Themes, Movie Themes, Video Game Themes. New, Popular, pop, rock, country, jazz, folk, hiphop, soul, classical.
www.freemidi.org www.freemidi.org

bitmidi.com

Popular MIDIs — BitMidi

Listen to free MIDI songs, download the best MIDI files, and share the best MIDIs on the web.
bitmidi.com bitmidi.com


Just a few that have plenty of stuff to hack to pieces.
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Ahh ha, found it. @Thatbastarddon
 
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I have a song that has percussion, it sounds like a drum machine. It works for some commercial songs. It’s not working for me. So I will take the wav file and convert it to midi.
 
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