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I just wanted to mention that we did not plan to both release a midi action video this week. It's pure telepathy! Of course as always, you went so in depth with it! Great stuff!

I was just going to comment that your lighting looks especially good right now. And then you mentioned the Skillshare course. I guess it's working. Thanks for all you do!

Amazing! I'm grabbing the Midi velocities quick insert!! As always, Thanks Jon!

I'm relatively new to recording. Until now, if I wanted to duplicate a MIDI selection to a different instrument track and play the second track in octaves, I have been manually moving the notes up one at a time. I knew there had to be a shortcut. I thought "I'll get to it later". A perfect example of laziness actually making the work harder. This one tip alone made my day. Thank you.

The custom duplicate action was just what I needed! Thank you!

I use Reaper for 8 years now and but you keep surprising me with more. This in particular is gonna be a game changer for me

Thanks for that tips! Was able to upgrade some of my shortcuts to a better ones. The more I'm using Reaper, the more I'm loving customization and whole Reaper community.

I am stealing all of these, you sir, are a genius. SO much time saving I didn't even think about!!

this was super helpful, ive been looking for the move the note/octave up down left right shortcuts and was a bit lost in the Actions screen, and now feel silly cause it was rly easy to find them :) cmg from ableton to reaper i find these workflow tweaks and actions pretty useful, thnks again

Thank you so much for this! Just what I needed!

I have already set some of these amazing shortcuts from watching earlier Reaperblog videos. And I'm probably going to forget these settings again in like two weeks.

Super useful, if I had this on my last project, I probably would have saved at least 100 hours (seriously, it was a lot of MIDI!)

Thanks Jon, exactly what i was looking for. I could not figure out how to change grid size with key stroke so easily. Working alot to input sheet music into midi editor, and with this 11:40 multiply grid size and setting notes to "grid" works perfectly.

So SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much!

your Reaper's colour scheme is ecxeptionally beautiful and easy on eyes! i think i will copy a big part of it for my Reaper and this particular video is very useful as well, thank you!

I am impressed what reaper can do......I am studio one and cakewalk user and a long time a go Pro tools user but cockos is so versatile

Excellent, Jon! Thanks so much!

Thank you john! 15:45 this is a life saver tip.

I can't wait until i am more fluid with reaper. this is epic

Helpful as always! Thanks again Jon.

This is pure Gold! Thanks!!!

The Reaper developers should just make your preferences the default. They are so thoughtful, logical and helpful. It would make the program so much more accessible to first time users.

Excellent tips! Thank you so much!

Great tips! Very happy I found this channel :)

Always great stuff, thanks for all you do.

Excellent video. Thank you.

It's really nice your effort when you are not an midi guy :) ty John.

Very very useful, thank you!

Wow man, so much good stuff!

Brilliant

Fantastic

Thank you very much!!!!! I know it may sound a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for a way to keep the sliced (Dynamic Split) audio parts' start points linked with their respective MIDI notes. So we can "fine-tune" those start points avoiding losing some clicks that the Dynamic Split can not detect properly. So we could adjust those audio slice start points and MIDI note start points (one by one) at the same time.

Wow wow wow...i was waisting for this videos for a long long time

Wow dude! How do you colour and flatten your playhead line like that? It's so helpful to see that when you're playing something

Nice!

Is there a way to make a selection of notes without a mouse? I'm thinking of something like selecting cells in Excell or Google Sheets. I remember working like that when I used trackers, and I think FL has that kind of workflow as well.

inserting a midi note with a mouse only takes a single left click. Point the cursor anywhere on the grid, click the left mouse button, hold, and move the mouse slightly.

Any tips on selecting notes via keyboard? Thanks for the vid!

I find the first tip here is most helpful for my workflow, it's nice to not have to double click everything I want to insert. How is it that you make the velocity events have those little bars that stick out from the top of the note which makes the velocities easier to grab? Mine just has points and it gets frustrating trying to grab them as opposed to bars.

How to make the midi editor remember the zoom level. When I create midi items the midi editor does remember the size of the window, but when I hit record to create a new midi item the window gets smaller.

the midi duplicate one is a life saver, idk why reaper doesn't just make that the default

is there a way to insert notes with previous note or previous selected note?

but how do you program "insert note at the mouse cursor" with A? Reaper is not allowing this. Also, how do you change the cursor to a pointer? Thanks!

i may be slow on the uptake, but what is this keyboard plugin youre using exactly. Im new to reaper and ive been looking for this exact keyboard display for reaper. I've also seen it being used in Composerily's how to sound like camellia video

Hello how do you get that horizontal "handle" on your midi velocity lane values ? I can't find how to set that up... thanks !

Is there a way to transpose notes, let's say oct up or down, directly by having selected the item, withou haveng to open the midi editor?

Can I have custom keystrokes (or actions) belonging to one specific project without affecting global action settings?

Hello !! thanks for taking the trouble to teach us Reaper. Could you tell me where I activate the horizontal bars that show the speeds? Thank you....

I programmed a piano parts and it sounds robotic. I tried to lower the velocity, moved the timing etc but still it sounds robotic. Dnt know what to do now. :(

Is there a free app to write midi guitar in reaper The piano roll gives you treble and bass clef I just want the treble clef for guitar in the piano roll

Hi Jn, I was wondering how you get that horizontal line on the velocity section? Thx, Jeff

CAn I panning piano midi each note by note ?

Can you make a video about Midi CC actions,especially Multi tool?

Hi Jon, just wondering if you have any videos on the best way to set up and record a bass VST in Reaper. Thanks 🙏

what kind of computer are you using I'm using a mac mini 2020MI ventura 13 ios I point and press a nothing happens

Hey Jon. I've been using REAPER for some time now and have had little success with midi functions. I am using an external controller( Yamaha Motif ES 7,, yeah, I know, that's ancient). I have reinstalled the only Yamaha driver available( Yamaha usb midi driver WDM) and ran through the Reaper midi device ins and outs. The ES 7 is recognized as a possible output device but ''not'' as an input device. Any advice? I am curios about the midi ID numbers and how they are configured. I've never seen anyone address that in any videos. The input and output devices that 'are displayed' do not always have the same number. Seems the devices should share the same ID regardless of input or output designation??

Unfortunately midi notes actions for UP/down semi tone are broken when using the new custom ordered named notes, I pointed this out in both bug and pre-relase forums but I think I got ignored.

I’m trying to figure out how to put in a rest? If I’m putting in a drum groove I don’t want to put an instrument hit on every beat. Or doing cord gun. I’d like to be able to put in a rest for one beat when I want.

Thanks Reaper Blog. Just curious, is there a way to prevent the playhead from moving to the end of the inserted notes and just stay in its original position?

What’s the finest amount you can move a midi note? Looks like the default ticks per quarter note is the finest but hoping I can get it in smaller increments

Hi, can the background be color graded? Like, the first bar is light blue, and then the further to the right in the project I go the darker the color scheme gets?

Any shortcuts for taking a stacked set of notes and making them an arpeggio instead?

How do you make it so you can hear the preview of the note being inserted via the key command? I can hear it when I use the mouse but not the keyboard

I googled the shortcut keys for reaper on mac on my keyboard for entering notes is command + num 5 I tried that it works but a pain in the butt its easier just to click twice to enter. On my mac keyboard I don't have a insert key so I haven't figured that one out yet

How do I select notes via the time selection in the Editor ? I can only make a time selection but the notes stay untouched by it. I am on Mac

Hi, how do you make it possible when you click on a note to put it on at once, so you don't have to stretch it out a bit to make it appear in the midi editor

Is there a shortcut to duplicate a note at the same position but at a different specific pitch (even if you have to type it manually)? That one would be quite useful to add keyswitches (granted, you might have to move your keyswitch a few pixels forward afterwards so it's active when the actual sounding MIDI note is played).

Hello Reaper man, the midi window is not even opening and so I'm stuck on day one and it's been a few days. I got some musicxml ( midi ) files to actually play and that part was pretty easy. However if I am unable to program the midi files I won't get anything done. I have over done my budget and can not afford lesson yet. Please see if there is some way to resolve this by myself.

I have a question about panning in midi editor it doesn't seem to work on vsts have you been able to figure that out?

I can't find the insert midi note actions in my actions list 😢

How about a drag while adding midi notes for hi hats instead of clicking them in?

9:28 can´t do that in windows

It's like he is reading our minds guys. can you give us some tips on Quantizing, and Humanizing and aslo... Freezing Tracks.. i do not really understand what it is doing,, it is not the same as Ableton, I want to render tracks to audio so you can unplug those vst's and save cpu while working on stuff. It is super easy to understand in Ableton but in Reaper i just don't get it... what is going on when i Freeze a Track , what does that actually mean, and there are a few different options for Freezing Tracks as well, i do not understand. edit: i found your video from 4 yrs ago about freezing tracks. You have a lot of videos.

why is there no smart daw? should be able 2 create a track, pick up instrument, hit a note and boom... routed 2 that track. gain stage, tone shape etc... repeat for all tracks as needed and hit record. y no auto bpm? auto grids? etc... where are all the a.i. elements? we have plug n play everywhere. why no plug and record? y is the focus of a daws capabilities mostly put on the backend of recording? shouldn't it be mostly on the front end?

Smile man..

Sorry about my dumbness - "Insert Key"? I've searched all over my fullsized Mac keyboard - no insert key.

Is it just me or has Jon's voice been sounding a little nasal and phasey these days? I'll have to revisit some older videos but it seems that lately whenever I click REAPER Blog after watching, say Curtis or Bandrew there's a definite weirdness that my ears have to adjust to.

What a mess. Reaper is for coding nerds with too much time. Cubase has all this midi functions as standard with very fast and better workflow. Reaper ist not so good in Midi.