I write, play, direct, and produce music and videos as a multi-instrumentalist on keyboards, guitars, bass, lap steel, and as a bad singer. I work with numerous schools, churches, music groups, and community organizations. Town Troubadour Emeritus in the 06040, Guitarist for The Guinea Pigs, and oldest living member of MARMO, winner of 2019 CT Songwriter's Association Competition, Co-Leader of the UUS:E Coffeehouse/OpenMic since 1999. Look for my tech channel in the links below.
Are you able to have an interface with studio speakers hooked up to it and also have the akai plugged into the computer via usb? What would you set your audio settings to in reaper to hear the sound through the studio speakers when playing the akai? Thanks
Yes of course. I use a focusrite 2i2 Gen3. In my Reaper Preferences, under Audio/Device I make sure my audio interface is selected, and that I have all the volumes turned up to the desired level, and it just works. On the track itself I have the Record Monitoring set to On.
@@DThompson55 Also, when you make presets in the editor like yours "Danny Midi" do you need to make sure that preset is selected before you open Reaper? Thanks again
@@sheldonswan45 The presets in the MPK Mini Editor only affect the keyboard itself, how its buttons work, which midi notes and CC they send. They have to send what Reaper is expecting, so to that extent I guess you're right, it does need to be loaded. But not before Reaper is started.
344 views and only one comment in 2 years is unreal. A beautiful rendition of a surprisingly tricky song to sing. Keep singing! This song needs to go viral. It certainly speaks a current message.
I feel Lap Steel really likes reverb. I would get a nice one that also has a little bit of delay. I bought a Behringer DR600 because it was cheap. It's ok. I still use it. I also use an EB-VP volume pedal, but it takes some practice. Those are the main ones I use. When I listen to Larkin-Poe, they sometimes use overdirve and distortion. Personally I like a traditional Tube Screamer style of overdrive.
However, the running time of the sample changes with each note. So this use of the samples is definitely not the same as in the Reaper Media Explorer! Because if I transpose a sample in the Media Explorer, the running time of the sample remains the same...which is not the case in your example. 😉
@@DThompson55 Can you give me an example, please? I don't understand it. I just tried it, but you can't transpose note values with the same sample duration using the keyboard. And to be honest, I don't know what to do with the ReaVoice.
@@DThompson55 Reaper was acting up for me earlier, which is why it wasn't working. Now after restarting my computer, it works. You're the first person to give me the tip about ReaVoice. Thank you so much! It's a good thing I watched your video short clip. Buddy, I'm really impressed because the quality of the Reaper sampler with real-time transposes is much better than the TAL sampler. With the TAL sampler, the samples often start to clink and distort after the 3rd note up or down...but with Reaper, the quality remains pretty stable even when going up or down an octave. So thank you again! 😉👍
@@DThompson55 I am totally enthusiastic about the ReaSampler. Up until now I had always neglected it because I had no idea what it was capable of. I have the TAL Sampler... well, as of today it is most likely no longer of any use because it cannot achieve the same highly professional quality.
Hi, I see a few knock-offs on Amazon that look identical to the Rogue and SX. One in particular is called a Batking. Any thoughts? Will be my first lapsteel. Thanks.
i don't know anything about that maker, but the description looks sketchy to me. Guitar is misspelled, they call it a pedal steel in the description, the wood is poplar, which is not a hardwood. I'd pass just based on attention to details. But boy, prices sure have popped on lap steel guitars, recently. Prepandemic the Rogue RLS-1 could be found for around $100.
Merci! So glad you took time to comment. I really had fun building on top of what DW gave me to work with. He's a great collaborator, plus an emotional performer and songwriter. All the visuals are his. He travels extensively.
Look at those beautiful people. To your question, sister: “don’t grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be be.” You are more gut and grizzle than sugar and a weak coffee with cinnamon. The cults of curiosity. Sing your hearts out 41. How do you know real love or do you? Flannery O’Conner on the symbolic weight of literature.
Or, alternately, phrased: A Good Man is Hard to Find without all those bells and whistles, blood and gore, the crass and the deformed of the literary imagination in its embrace of the slouch, the broken wing and bone, the crush, the sublime, the pinpricks of torture, the mundane and the sacred, the crass again and the foul, Reimagining Poet Olds’ in the poem about perfection the one with throwing axe and the absence of the gauntlet.
Hello! Is this method still relevant? Or is there a difference with Windows version? I have v7.11(win) and can't find the extensions menu. p.s. Did not understand that extensions option should have been installed earlier
AH HA! Yes, ReaPack must be installed first in order for the extensions menu to appear. AND the menu looks different with the latest SWS extensions. But neither of these changes are part of the 7.1 install. I will add to my description that you must install ReaPack for this to work.
You are really a great teacher. And the attitude you carry which is just go ahead and get started with it does permeate through the listeners for sure. Thanks for such a great video :)
hello there ,i like the demo on sheet with notes ans tabs , am from quebec and would like to find sheets, books that shows the same way ,lern songs ect. thank you for your answer!!
Well Bonjour Howdy! The absolute best book I've found for learning the techniques is Andy Volk's Exploring C6th Lap Steel. Other than that I do not have any recommendations. Check out The Steel Guitar forums, where they have some recommendations - bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewforum.php?f=8
hi thanks for video i ve got a problem;;;;; write : Les entrées MIDI suivantes ne peuvent pas être ouvertes: MPK mini 3 Les sorties MIDI suivantes ne peuvent pas être ouvertes: Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth MPK mini 3 Thank you for attention
@@DThompson55 Apologies. There was a mistake on my part. I thought MPK mini 3 included sounds. I see that no. But it works perfectly with other virtual instruments. I would like MPC to appear in Reaper. It is not appearing at this time.
Good night. Thank you very much for your explanations. I'm having a hard time getting my controller to work though. What you configured as you in Reaper and it doesn't work. There are a few features that have changed with the latest Reaper update. Could you help me? Thank you so much.
oye gaucho - I'm on the latest Reaper 7.07, and I still use this same set up almost every day. Let me see if I can come up with some troubleshooting tips.
@@gaucho.mdq1 you can email me at danl_thompson@hotmail.com In Reaper, look your preferences/audio/midi devices, and make sure your AKAI is listed there. It should show Input, All, and Control are all checked, and it has an ID number. If not check your ASIO drivers are installed correctly. This is the most common problem.
Hi, I have a question. I bought an Akai MPK Mini MK3 midi keyboard. I would like to use the cc key function of the keyboard to assign reaper actions to the PADs using a section customized by me, for example: putting a track into record, muting a track... To be used in live to easily change tracks assigned to my midi keyboard and therefore have different sounds. I tried to do this, for example: putting track 1 into record but when I immediately release the PAD button the track goes back not into record as before. How do I assign the action with a PAD key, in CC mode so that even when released it remains? (For example I tried to do it by assigning the action to the letter Q on the keyboard and in this case once the letter is pressed it functions and the track remains in record). Thanks!
People will and should wonder what the heck I'm thinking here. I've been looking at advanced features of Reaper, among them the MK Slicer, which is what happened to Doug's vocals. But also considerable time working on new techniques of tempo mapping, and forcing a prerecorded drum loop to match Doug's subtle .variations in timing. Days spent reorganizing my samples libraries. I'm hoping these practices will pay off in the coming weeks and months.
Thank you so much! You’re a freaking guru! I picked a “used” one still in the box on Marketplace for $80 today. I can hear the AKAI through my external monitors which are outputs from a Digitech guitar processor I’m using as my audio device in Reaper. I can see the AKAI recording on a track in Reaper but I can’t hear anything on playback. This will give me some direction in sorting that out tomorrow.
Can you get it to do anything? Play notes even? Even with the right out of the box defaults the keyboard should send midi notes to a midi track, and if you have a midi instrument in the FX of that track you should hear something. Can you get that much to work?
HAVE I ALREADY WATCHED THE OTHER VIDEOS? COULD I HAVE ALREADY LEARNED HOW THIS DEVICE WORKS FROM OTHERS BY THE TIME YOU RESPONDED? I REALIZE HOW INCOMPLETE YOUR VIDEOS ARE, BUT CAN I TELL YOU HOW UNHELPFUL THEY ARE?@@DThompson55
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So everything works...except with Super8. For some reason, the pads work perfectly with any drum vst but as soon as i try to use them with Super8 Looper (in CC mode also) they just don't work at all. The keys work fine and you can see the feedback in the bottom right corner of Super8's UI, but nothing with the pads. As they can't communicate with Super 8, despite the fact that there is feedback from the monitor when i hit them....
I enjoy a challenge. I've always thought of Super8 as more or less requiring a foot pedal driven midi controller, so I never got that into it. And by requiring I mean if I'm playing guitar, which is my primary instrument, I'm not going to pause to hit a midi controller with my hand at the start or end of a phrase I want to loop. But.. I think this is a noble thing to figure out when I get back from the road trip we're currently on.
@@DThompson55 Indeed, as a guitar player myself, i'd use a foot controller ( i have a foot switch plugged to the sustain jack entry at the back of the Akai) to trigger record/play functions...and then use the pads to arm a different track when i'm done playing a riff. It was pretty easy to setup on Ableton but i'm sure it can be done on Reaper..i just can't figure out. Enjoy your road trip and thanks for your videos!!
There are two vocalizations going on. The 2nd one is kind of indistinct, but I liked that it was unintelligible and I'm hoping that's what you're referring to, and not my various attempts at guitaring?
Thank you so much for this, had this thing for so long and have barely used it because I didn't want to learn how to set it up. So quick and easy when its explained properly
