REAPER supports MIDI and virtual instruments. This makes it very easy for you to start creating music using your favorite virtual instrument or edit existing MIDI projects.

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This tutorial is written for a complete beginner in MIDI music production. At the end of this tutorial, you should learn the following:

a.) Understanding the basics of MIDI rendering.
b.) Adding or installing a virtual instrument.
c.) Composing MIDI music using built-in editor.
d.) Exporting the original MIDI track as WAV file or MP3.
e.) Importing existing MIDI, do some routing and isolation of MIDI tracks.

Some Basics of MIDI Rendering and Import

By its very basic nature, a MIDI file (with file extension .mid) is nothing but digital data stored in your computer.

Unlike a real musical instrument recording done in analog domain (using an audio interface) that is then converted to digital file as WAV; a MIDI file does not contain any information about the real sound of its instruments. What it does contain are musical notes represented in digital form.

As a simple illustration, try the following test:

1.) Launch REAPER.
2.) Download this sample midi file to your Desktop.

3.) Let’s import the MIDI file. Go to Insert — > Media File then locate moonlight_sonata.mid. If you see the MIDI file export options, just click OK.

4.) Now position to the start of the file and hit the PLAY button. You will notice that there is no sound coming out. Why? It is because MIDI is simply a data and is not a recording of a musical instrument.

It needs a virtual instrument that accepts the MIDI data as input that will render it as audio. As a diagram:

MIDI — > Virtual Instrument — > Audio

Installing Virtual Instrument

To play a MIDI file, you need to add a virtual instrument appropriate for the music. In the above example, since Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven is a piano sonata piece. You need a piano virtual instrument.

There are lots of free VST virtual instrument in the Internet particularly for piano. Do not forget to check the integrity of the installer and developer before using them. Let’s have an example:

1.) Supposing you will use mda Piano V.1.0 which can be downloaded here.

2.) Download the exe file to your desktop and install it (by double clicking). By default, it will be installed in Steinberg VST plug-in directory.

3.) Finally, click Install.
4.) Click Close.
5.) Launch REAPER and then go to File – New Project.
6.) Let’s insert the mda Piano virtual instrument. Go to Track — > Insert Virtual Instrument on New Track.
7.) You will then see several installed VST virtual instruments. Select or highlight mda Piano.

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8.) Simply use its default settings then close the FX dialog box. Take note that it is set to record mode by default (record button enabled to red), this is normal.

9.) Now it’s the time to import the MIDI file. Go to Insert — > Media File and locate the test MIDI file moonlight_sonata.mid; in the “Midi file Import Options” just click OK.

This is the screenshot of the virtual instrument loaded with the MIDI input file:

10.) Now hit the PLAY button again and switch the volume of your audio interface/soundcard to around 50% maximum, you should now be able to listen to the MIDI sound output.

Reaper Vst Plugins Tutorial For Beginners

Cockos Reaper is one of the most advanced music production software in the studio and at home. The main “feature” of the program is that it has pattern, keyboard and audio editing. You can set an unlimited number of audio or midi tracks, not counting how many VST format virtual instruments you can add.

Reaper does not take up as much hard disk space and does not load the processor as programs from the FL Studio, Cubase, Reason or Sonar series. With this program you can work even on low-power computers with sound cards that do not support Full duplex operating modes. Although, if the sound card supports this mode, you will get unlimited opportunities to create your compositions with professional sounding even in formats such as 5 + 1, and with additional plug-ins, and 7 + 1.

A huge plus of the program is that it supports VST / VST3, not counting support for DirectX plugins. You can use both the built-in editing tools for audio or midi tracks, and third-party plugins. The program also supports the ReWire virtual instrument connection system. Thanks to the harmonious interface, you can always see what you are editing at the moment. The virtual multichannel remote control is always in front of your eyes – with its help you can instantly perform operations with changing the volume, editing effects both on a single track and on the Master track.

Media explorer

add actions to increase / decrease preview volume
add action to reset columns to default order and width, re-initialize view when new fields are added in a REAPER update
add option to group folders at top
add scrollbars to zoom / scroll preview display and increase / decrease waveform height, option to show / hide scrollbars
if options enabled, apply volume / pitch / rate adjustments when adding media to ReaSamploMatic5000 •
by default, pick up beat-synced preview immediately, add option to wait for next measure to start
display sample rate, channel count, bit depth / bitrate
display media length
display media source preferred position (BWF start offset or any other available reference metadata)
display preview position / length in milliseconds
faster metadata reading for .ogg files
fix action to go to parent folder when persistent search is active •
fix duplicate metadata potentially being written to files
fix actions to scan all databases •
fix synchronized previews being off by a buffer block
preserve unrecognized ID3 tag elements when editing metadata
set media offline before rewriting metadata, in case the file is already in use in the arrange view
snap cursor to media cues / regions / transients / chapters
support customizing file last-modified date display format
preserve user -edited (but not yet written) metadata when re-reading metadata from media •
support temporary marks for files, to track what has been previewed or other uses
support updating metadata for multi-stream files where the vorbis stream is not first
support writing edited source preferred position back to media files
add refresh button, add theme images for back / forward / up / refresh

Metadata

support time reference (start offset) in mp3, flac, ogg, opus, wavpack in addition to wav
support iXML metadata in flac, mp3 files
display mp3 event markers in media explorer and arrange view
list AXML metadata separately from BWF (they had been combined for legacy reasons)
list render metadata schemes in alphabetical order
compatibility when editing metadata for OGG files with large page sizes

ReaScript

add B_RECMON_IN_EFFECT to GetMediaTrackInfo_Value ()
add GetMediaFileMetadata
support UTF-8 font names on Windows •
do not run deferred scripts during project load •

Accessibility

option to allow space key for navigation now improve track / marker managers, track routing window, envelope window, fade editor
add option in preferences / fades to display accessible (but cryptic) fade names instead of images in menus

Media items

preserve manual fade shape when clearing auto-crossfade •
support applying media source BWF start offset to item ruler •
support section / reverse parameters in item ruler •

Render

activate “apply” button after browsing to new output folder •
respect option to embed project name in BWF when other BWF metadata is provided

Subprojects

embed subproject metadata in rendered .rpp-prox file •
support embedding source preferred position (BWF start offset)

VST

decrease latency of VST3 channel context notifications
support “REAPER record monitor in effect” attribute for VST3 channel contexts

Control surfaces

do not send duplicate CSURF_EXT_SETFXPARAM notifications in response to automation

EDL

fix importing media item fade shapes

Elastique

update to v3.3.3

Localization

support UTF-8 localization of wav render formats

MIDI

fix adjusting imported MIDI length to match project tempo map (6.17 regression) •

Peaks

warn if peaks are not buildable because alternate peaks path is configured but invalid

Project save

improve behavior when copying symlinked media on macOS / Linux

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fix potentially incorrect fadeout created when recording in item autopunch mode

Takes

fix potential crash when replacing multiple occurrences of the same source media •

Track manager

fix reordering tracks when using various sort modes •

Video processors

support UTF-8 font names on Windows •

Wavpack

improve interaction between render metadata and BWF settings

Wildcards

add $ dayname and $ datetime wildcards

Reaper Add Vst Plugin

API

Reaper Install Vst Plugins

add PCM_SOURCE_EXT_GETBITRATE
PCM_SOURCE_EXT_ENUMCUES_EX distinguishes between cues and chapter markers