Thank you, Mr. Walken.

Thanks a lot. 1st time I get complete information to playback a controller. Here another tip : if you don't see Routing Button in track line in new Reaper version, watch at the bottom in the mixer section OR change the default layout like this : Options / Theme / choose (Default_5.0). Routing Button will appear. Thanks again.

Brilliant, thanks so much for this. It always takes me forever to figure out external midi devices to work with a DAW like this. I don't know why the manufacturers can't automate this configuration and make life easy.

This works like a charm on my Reaper 6 DAW...Thanx a mill bro!!..Am now a subscriber.

I have been drooling over Reaper and my VST's for a few months and totally forgot about my two Kurzweil hardware synths sitting next to me. I will restore their function in my studio now. Thanks for another cool video Kenny.

Great video. Has given my old Juno-G has a new lease of life.

Thanks. Was trying to figure out the best way to do this, and I thought I must be doing it wrong because Reaper supports midi and audio in the same track... but that didn't work, so I used this method as a fallback. Looks like the fallback was the correct method all along. ... Edit: Looking into things deeper, it looks like newer versions of Reaper have a cleaner way to do this. It can actually do what I was trying to do originally, which was to keep the midi and audio on the same track as separate takes. It just requires enabling "Monitor track media while recording", to make it actually play the midi data while recording audio. Also requires the user to manually change the input source each time, which is inconvenient... but still easier than using a separate track.

Wow thank you, I don't think I've ever seen & heard such a concise and helpful tutorial on midi set up for Reaper!

Thank you so much Kenny. This step-by-step helped me finally figure out how to use my external synths and controllers.

I was checking other youtube vids about this, but this is the one that laid everything out so clearly, and I'm a complete beginner at MIDI control (but not at music production) of a synth, and got my "new" Roland Super JX-10 to be controlled by MIDI...it's just surreal to see Reaper controlling my vintage synth and this opens an entire new world in music production for me, thanks a million and subbed as well (it's only the second time I came across your channel).

I normally use reainsert on a track to play my hardware synths. I can play or program MIDI into that track and hear the latency compensated output of the synth while composing. For mix preparation, I just print that track to a stem using real time rendering.

I'm no brainiac, so it took me a few video repeats... but after pointing my midi controller in the right direction (midi devices) I was able to FINALLY get my old Kurzweil sound module recording (in midi) like a charm by following your instructions. It's such a pleasure to have these wonderful sounds on the pallet again after so many years without (in an editable format). Thanks mucho for this detailed explanation.

Finally someone makes Midi make sense! Thank you Kenny!

Brilliant. Just connected my Roland JV-1080. Saved myself a whole lot of time by watching this video. Thanks!

Thank you so much Kenny - I spent a very frustrating day trying to work out how to do this chasing fictitious hardware problems etc. A couple of mouse clicks (the routing dialogue) and success obvious once you know (and pause to think) how but when you are looking for a problem in the wrong place I get so fixated . Fantastic series of “how to” I really must watch the lot !

Another home run Kenny! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Got the Moog 25 to work well with MIDI USB - needed to install Moog 25 Midi USB Driver. Thanks. Not able to rec Moog 25 when played /controlled (MIDI DIN IN) by Arturia KS37

You give the best Reaper tutorials - thanks again.

Fantastic video. Just what I've needed. Cheers.

Thanks so much! I built a little synth myself and had been trying to figure out how to control it via Reaper.

When he mentions turning off local control of synth, I actually bypassed this just to see what would happen using prophet 6. It seams to be working fine either way in Reaper. I recently decided to demo Logic Pro X.5 to compare workflow. From the very start of new project, I found an issue when recording 4 or more midi notes. Last 3 notes are the only audible notes when sent to Logic even though all midi data is printed. But when I playback midi track, all notes are audible when sent back to synth. Then I came back to this vid & remembered to turn off local control. Now when I record 4 + midi notes, no audio disappears. With that said, when exploring other DAW’s, I never expected to run into issues I didn’t have with the first. Clearly every DAW has its own flaws. Now I can’t automate from synth unless I turn local control back on lol.

Thanks! Personally, I like to program my synths and record them, but, obviously, I want to quantise it and then, convert that MIDI info. to an audio signal like you show here. I knew that you can send that MIDI information of any synth to any DAW without triggering a VST, but this is the first time I can do it. Regards! By the way: I find Reaper much more easy to use than Cubase.

my go to vid. EVERY time i forget something in the process XD perfection, then magic

Thankyou SO MUCH for this informative and well made instructional video. You have opened an unknown channel for me.

Omg thank you! This was driving me nuts to set up!

Thank you man. I am just strugling with my minibrute 2s.

Excellent video, Kenny. Thanks!

Very helpful-thanks!!

You're a lifesaver! ♥️

I play your videos so much that even my partner now knows your voice, she hasn't a clue what Reaper is though :)

Damn! Solved a question I've had for a long that I didn't know how to ask! Finally!!!!!

Brilliant Kenny.Thankyou

I'll use this workflow to my Yamaha DTX-750 drum. Hope it runs well. Many thanks Kenny!

You ROCK!!! Once again I needed to know how to do something and you got me covered. Just got an external keyboard, watched the vid, Wham! I'm playin piano Thnx Bud

How to view the keyboard like that at the bottom?

Thaks GOD of Reaper ! I was getting crazy trying to figure it out how to do it

Will this method work for an iPad app which has sounds like Garage Band or Geo Shred?

AWESOME!!! THANKS KENNY!!!

Really useful! Thanks

save it as a track template so that you don't have to set it up every time ps. love your vidoes

Thanks this helped me out!

Genius!

You da man!

Really helpful, I will try on my external korg m50

Thanks Kenny!

actually the reason why i love reaper, is, that you can use only one track for audio _and_ midi. i hate having to use two tracks for a hardware synth - in reaper you can only use one track for both, which is what i massively prefer.

Wow took me a few days to find this tutorial. Thanks though, it makes sense. Just trying out some DAWs and for user feedback I find that with cakewalk you can get this MIDI setup working almost intuitively by playing around with it. With Reaper i get totally lost (until you watch the tutorial). For me its not intuitive to convert the track to a MIDI track in Reaper and something Reaper could improve. I also find Reaper is crashing in that it just wont play a piece until you restart it. Im trying to figure out what Im doing that could make that happen.

Superb, clear and useful information. Thank you. Subbed.

In this video you explain how to record the sound from an external synth on an audio track. Is it possible to import midi instruments from an external arranger keyboard and use them in Reaper as vst instruments?

Bravo!

So I'm working in Reaper 6 now and I've followed all your suggestions and still I can't get it to work. I get levels in the midi track but my audio track doesn't show any levels. Suggestions? I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks Dude. This helped me a lot.

@2:55 for some reason my Behringer UMC404HD doesn't show up on this drop down. It' shows as enabled both in and out under Preferences-> Audio-> Midi devices. However it doesn't show up on that drop down. My MPD218 shows up there but not the audio interface.

THANK YOU so much Kenny. You are invaluable on this long rocky road. Again, I do have a question: At 3:06 you selected channel 1 but subsequently never referred to it again; so did you need to select a channel? And, now thinking about it, what are these channels? Once again thank you.

How did you get the keyboard graphic to show up at the bottom of the screen?

Lets say I wanted to remap a multipad 12 and Korg Krome to use the drums in the krome?

what if your MIDI interface is NOT showing up in the MIDI section? how dyou fix this?

Luv you Kenny thanks..RG

Whoah you just saved my life

Followed all steps exactly. Using Kory M50 synth. Audio comes thru to REAPER fine but MIDI is not getting thru (nothing on the meter). In preferences I enabled SSL 2+ MIDI but still nothing. Any ideas anyone...Please?

your reaper looks different than my reaper so unfortunately pretty much no help at all

Newbie Question: In the beginning of video to set up audio device you chose Soundflower. From what I googled, that is a program you buy to route signals. I'm a windows guy and I'm brand new to DAWs. What is the usual device that would be selected on this menu? If it isn't your keyboard and it isn't your audio interface, what is it?? Your soundcard? Thank you.

Can something similar be done with only a USB cable? I can record midi data into reaper with my deepmind 12 via USB cable but I can't figure out how to send the midi notes back to the deepmind if I want to mess with the audio while the midi track loops.

can a midi keyboard be used instead of the midi interface? using a model d which isn't functional without the keyboard so the midi ports are already taken.

Thank You!!!!

I need help. So I have a digital Piano and followed all the steps, so the input is being registered but for some reason i hit the note and i hear it out of the speaker of my piano and after half a second the same sound comes out of it again. so all audio is coming out of my piano and not the program

is it possible to call a particular synth patch from the reaper? Is there any instrument definition setting available (like MIDI device manager in Cubase ) where you can configure the hardware instrument (voice bank and patches). Even in Logic X you can set the midi environment if you don't want to use GM default which, I guess, is not available in Reaper either

So do you have your synth plugged into an audio interface using a midi cable and two cables going into inputs 1 and 2? I'm trying to use a Yamaha DTXM12 via USB Midi. I can get it working for midi , but I don't get any of the Yamaha's internal sounds unless I instead plug it into my interface's preamp inputs. This is all so confusing for me. I play drums. You hit them and they make sound. Thanks for your help!

hi i didnt do this way i solo the synth track and choose render file instead,is it the same?

Hey Kenny. I'm really looking into upgrading to reaper. How is it at sending midi cc information to external gear? In FLstudio there is a vst for sending midi information out, its has several assignable knobs for sending midi cc out. I've made presets for all of my synths that are capable of receiving midi cc information. FL even remembers my cc parameters in saved projects and can recall parameters and automation from different songs. Will I be able to make presets and recall cc information in reaper?

Thank you! How to make it look like this: to see the played notes? Is this a plugin?

Why do u need external midi hardware output?? Is midi input not enough to record that synth ? Please clarify. Thnxx brother ❤

I'm using REAPER and I can't seem to get this to work with my synth, but that's not the focus of my comment. I'm sure I'll get it, but I have a question on why a person would need to record this way? Not meaning to be dense, but can anyone explain the advantages of recording the midi data first and then the audio track from the midi, versus just recording the synth via audio without the midi? What I see here, and in other videos, is essentially a process of laying down an audio track, but with the addition of a midi track first. So....if the idea is to create an audio track, why not just record the audio? I'm not asking this to be a prick, but as a complete midi newbie that started down this midi rabbit hole a week or so ago after only recording via the audio outputs of my synth for the past couple of years or so. I'm a simple home recording person that records their own music for fun, hobby, tinkering, etc. No live performing or any of that. I retired a handful of years ago and had always wanted to get into synths and purchased a Korg Kronos to cut my teeth on. I've used it to learn to create sounds, drum tracks, recording...etc. I compose my own music with my Korg running the audio outputs to my audio interface. The audio interface is then plugged into the computer via USB and my monitors connect to the output of the audio interface. When I'm ready to record I arm a track, hit record, play the piece for the track, then repeat the process for however many tracks a piece of music needs. If it's a complex piece then I record the tracks to the built in sequencer on the Kronos first, edit and quantize the tracks, then record the tracks into my daw. So, is it a case of a synth not having a built in sequencer, in which case you record the midi into the daw so the software can quantize and edit the midi data before laying down the audio track itself?

it seems to me like todays daw's are overly complicated. I just need to plug that shit in and record, whats so fucking complicated about that?

Thank you. For some reason my keyboard volume is so low. i have tried to turn up the gain, but it is still insanely low

Its the layout of your virtual keyboard in reaper it's different than my Windows version, Kenny. You use any different theme or is the standard layout in Mac's version?

Methodically following your video I successfully connected my older Yamaha digital piano to a MIDI interface and was able to create a track in Reaper. Thanks for that! However, what I REALLY want to do is to use the Yamaha piano to "play" the voices from my old Kurzweil rack module and and use Reaper tracks to record/playback. Once I connect the Yamaha MIDI out to the module's MIDI in I am only left with the module's MIDI out and thru as connections to the MIDI interface. Can you shed light on what the proper connections should be? Thanks.

excellent

THANKS!

how to get the keyboard in the Reaper interface? Usually i always successed watching your video, but this time ....fault

Cool video. All simple and clear. But I have a problem with recording my synth. When I play on the synth (Roland JP-8000) I hear the stereo sound, but when I recorded synth into the Reaper (through the stereo input - ASIO in 3/4) I hear the mono sound =( Finally I got the audio file where both wave-forms are identical. The JP-8000 connected with a sound card (E-mu 1212M PCI) through the pair of the two mono-inputs L/R, as usually. So then why I can`t to record the stereo signal from my synth? Help me please to resolve it.

Hi guys made all the steps and it all goes well untill i put the input mode back to recording -no sound is coming out and no real recording happends from the midi channel to the audio - any ideas? thanks.

At the end, you said to duplicate the tracks if you want to add new sounds. But in my case, that’s re-triggering the original track’s midi, so how would I add different sounds from the same keyboard to different tracks w/ this method, while still hearing the sound I just previously tracked during playback? Do I have to freeze all the midi I just recorded for tracking, and then unfreeze when I want to edit the midi later?

Hi - I use a Nord Stage 3 and I'd like to use the sounds on this keyboard and not what would be available via MIDI. That being said, how do I begin connecting my Nord Stage 3 to my PC? Is there something else I need other than the Nord Stage 3 and my PC? I have Reaper downloaded and installed. Thank you.

HI Im Kenny NO JOYER , and in this video i have managed to follow all the steps and still no Gioa ....doesnt help that these vids do not use the current reaper version

Great video! I've connected a Korg Triton studio. I'm trying to record the midi track from the internal sequencer into Reaper 6. I've set up 16 tracks in my DAW for each midi channel. I get signal and audio for midi channel 1 only. but not for midi channels 2-16. What do I need to do the able to record all 16 channels from the Korg Triton to Reaper 6? Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, Kenny! I hope you can help me with one issue. I connetcted hardware synth via MIDI in Reaper like you did in this video. So, basically I'm recording MIDI signal first with monitoring only on the main synth inputs, then quantize the notes and then I'm recording an audio signal given by the notes I recorder earlier. I'm using an arpeggiator synchronized with DAW tempo, but on start of some sections of the song it plays just the single note, while the MIDI signal has solid four beat note and arpeggiator is still on. The other three bars in the section being played and recorded normally. What it can be, what's the problem?

hi im using yamaha keyboard as usb midi. i don see MIDI hardware outout in routing. . its still as 'no outputs' rest all working fine thanks for that.. please help i want to record midi and audio separately.. tats really helful

What borough?

How do I send midi out (via a DAW track(s) ) from a Nektar Impact LX25+ to an external synth ?

I guess Reaper is a bit more complicated than Bitwig. In Bitwig I can record 600 various sounds on my Impacat LX 61+ keyboard right a way. Here it will take time to learn how to do it. If it is even possible? Any good hints on how to do it in Reaper? Thanks, Michael.

Can you set it so that REAPER will take midi clock instructions from an external source?

quick question, do i have to plug in midi cables if i just want to record the audio from the keyboard?

Thanks for the info. Very useful. How do we set up an external synth to just play a VST like say Spitfire Labs etc? Thank you.

Awesome. I'm totally new to this. Is there a way to shape the audio signal with daw plugins?

the video is exact what I am looking for, anyways I hear my synth but I cannot reproduce routing the wave audio of the Synth on reaper. I think this works only in combination with an external audio interface... I just plugged my microbrute via USB to my DAW, well most things work but as I told there is missing that routing part. Would have been cool if you show not only perfect video but also simple videos that show what is possible, if you do not use an audio interface, that would be my suggestion ;.)

what to do for the latency?

Wait what I just have a midi cable from my piano to my PC is that not going to work

This video did not work Mr. Walken... My DX21 is unresponsive

EDIT: I figured it out! Thanks! Can this work with a simple midi to usb cable adapter, directly from the keyboard into the laptop? I have an audio interface, but I don't have the midi cables you described, so I can't plug the keyboard into it. What's happened is that my keyboard can record a midi sequence, but I hear no audio when I play it back.