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[Trinidad Baltzell]

Ihave a HP302 Roland digital piano. It has a usb connector that easily plugs into my computer. The problem is, Reaper is not picking up the piano. It sometimes will say something along the lines of:you've disconnected Roland digital piano but that is it. Im not looking to spend money on an actual MIDI keyboard since Im on a budget. Why won't Reaper pick it up when Garage Band picks it up fine? I would use the audio recorded in Garage Band and upload it in Reaper but for some reason, when I play it in Reaper, the recording is much slower and at a strange pitch. So I feel my only option is to record in Reaper itself. Does anyone know how to get Reaper to detect the piano?

Edit: @Caleb Hines: here is what it looks like now. Im following the tutorial by Kenny here -PrUHY and if you go to the 33 second mark, the MIDI is detected there. The one problem solved so far is that at least reaper is detecting the piano. I got rid of the screenshot. This site needs 10 reputation points for me to post 2 links.

Still trying to get it to record. I tried recording, but Reaper used the built in mic on my computer instead. Ok it's recording now but I cant hear it when I play the recording back. Here is what I have right now:

Edit 2: @Caleb Hines:Ok so I did have a VSTi connected to the track but I did not have an output so that works now. Thank you! But the solution you mention at Reaper playing at a slower and weird pitch being fixed with adjusting the rate:

The recording came from Garage Band. I have a piano recording of a song and was hoping to embellish it with different layers of sound. But when I insert the Garage Band media file, it plays at a strange pitch and much slower. If I use the rate to fix it, it still sounds off, but a bit better. Have you tried inserting a Garage Band file into reaper and listen to it playback there? It's also happening with my VSTi actually. Im using Native Instrument's Massive, and Reaper plays the sounds at a lower pitch than I configured them to be

You mention that when you record with a microphone, the playback is slower and at a strange pitch. I'm guessing that's caused by the "Rate" slider. It's the green bar in the center of the screenshot (to the right of the word "[Paused]"). In your screenshot, it says "Rate: 0.949" which may be causing your recording to play back slowly.

In the [FX] dialog for your track, you need to have a VSTi selected (a virtual instrument) in order to produce sound. If you don't have any custom VSTi's, you can try playing with Reaper's built-in ReaSynth. It'll give you a cheesy 8-bit synth sound sound, but it's a starting point, until you start collecting your own VSTi's.

EDIT: if you want real edgy music, I suggest you check out death metal (eg. Hannibal smashed by Cannibal Corpse, the deathest of death) and black metal (eg. Freezing Moon by Mayhem, the blackest of black) and work your way up from there.

Reaper is open-source software which means that people are able to make contributions that shape the direction of the program. Because of this, blind people, in close collaboration with Cockos, the developers of Reaper, have been able to write a plugin called Osara that adds a number of keyboard actions to Reaper as well as making the product speak in ways it might not otherwise. Reaper runs on both Windows and Mac, and is equally accessible on both platforms.

Although it is possible to use Reaper free forever with just a few reminders to pay for the product, the $60 U.S. is well worth the money for anyone who truly makes use of the product. Whether you are a professional musician, a singer, or someone editing podcasts for others, the sky is pretty much the limit for anyone using Reaper.

Reaper is also a multitrack editor, which means that you can add many layers of sound to a project whether it be birds, rain, wind, and water, or many instruments playing your original composition. You can add effects such as reverb to your project, and manipulate it in a seemingly endless number of ways.

In addition to the Reaper Made Easy site, you can also visit the Reaper Accessibility Website. This site is a Wiki, which means that the site receives regular contributions from experienced users. This is a great resource for starting from the ground floor as far as learning to use Reaper is concerned. Once you become comfortable with the basics, you can move on to more advanced articles of interest to you depending on how you intend to use Reaper, regardless of your operating system of choice. Many people use Reaper on both Windows and Mac, transferring projects from one computer to another for convenient editing.

Another great resource is the Reapers Without Peepers email list. This is a very high-traffic list, but it is well moderated. Although the list owner keeps subjects on topic, Reaper is such a powerful piece of software that many areas of discussion are permitted.

The Reapers Without Peepers (RWP) moderator can also provide you with access to a shared Dropbox folder that contains a ton of great content from tutorials to examples of audio and music produced with Reaper as well as information about virtual instruments and audio interfaces that work with Reaper.

For anyone who is serious about producing high-quality audio using software whose developers are truly interested in making their product accessible to the blind, Reaper is a great program to consider. Making Reaper even more appealing, there are a number of high-quality training resources, both free and paid, that can help you learn Reaper as a blind person. At $60, Reaper is affordably priced for most, and provides a 60-day trial period before you are asked to purchase the software. It runs on Windows and Mac, and works with VoiceOver, JAWS for Windows, and NVDA.

Reaper is developed by Cockos, Incorporated. There is a 60-day evaluation period, after which time the program costs $60 for versions 6.0 through 7.99. At the time of this writing, Reaper is at version 6.60.

My Lexicon Alpha came with Cubase LE, but I'm looking at Reaper based on it's tutorial and the fact that I can actually play midis through the default MS Synth at least on my onboard soundcard-had no luck getting play back to work under cubase- but not my audio interface. So the following questions are based on using a Lexicon Alpha, (latest ASIO drivers) with Reaper x64.

You're asking the wrong question; there's no such thing as a MIDI synth. The only reason things work with your on-board soundcard is that you're sending MIDI data (NOT Audio!) to the soundcard's internal MIDI port and it is producing audio because most onboard soundcards still have General MIDI playback built in. What you're doing is sending several tracks of MIDI data to the soundcard at the same time, and it's turning them into probably-not-so-good-sounding audio. You should be able to do the same in Cubase: send MIDI data on MIDI tracks to your on-board soundcard (so probably you just didn't set something up right).

You're never going to get good-quality results by just trying to play back MIDI files, but if you really want to try, search around for a General MIDI player plugin, or wait for someone who might know if one exists to comment here.

What I suspect you really want is to take a MIDI file and use it as a starting point for remixing, running the MIDI data from each MIDI channel through one or more instrument plugins. If so, take a look at this list of free music software. There are all kinds of plugins to produce sounds of different instruments; you'll have to say more about what sounds you want to create to get more specific suggestions.

You don't have to output MIDI data to any of your devices to make Reaper produce sound. Reaper can deal with MIDI data and produce sound internally. Reaper interprets MIDI data as sound by passing the MIDI data to a virtual instrument (a VST in most cases) which produces a sound that is played through the interface. In other words, the VST does the work that you're used to having the MS Synth on the soundcard do.

Reaper doesn't have much in the way of included VST instruments (which is fine since there are a lot available online), but it does have the ReaSynth VST which will at least let you make sure everything is working properly.

Now open the Virtual MIDI Keyboard (View > Virtual MIDI Keyboard) to see if it works. Hitting keys on the keyboard generates MIDI data which is fed to ReaSynth, and ReaSynth's audio output is played through the interface. If everything is set up correctly, you should hear a tone when you click on the virtual keyboard.

But how can I direct Reaper to play the file through the Interface using the FX chain and the like? I recently found that there are alternatives to MS GS Synth, but I haven't found out how to use them and direct to the interface; the one I tried, Cool synth, isn't working properly. I don't a hardware synth like a keyboard yet so I'm stuck with a software solution at this time.

Go to Track, Insert Virtual Instrument on New Track. Select the synth you want to insert. Then go to View, Media Explorer. Browse to the MIDI file you want to import. Drag and drop it on the track you just created.

The disconnect (for me) was not knowing the difference between a VSTi, which I take it that means it's an input or file that does the actual translating of the midi file, and the rest of the VST plugins, which alter the output of the tone, (Or close enough to get me working now).

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