Your explanation of how to set up the midi controller in Reaper really helped me out. Now I have my Line 6 FBV Mkll foot switch set up to start and stop when I'm recording. Thank you !!!
you sir are a legend, i was beating my head against the wall and no other video gave a simple answer like you, next time you're in Scotland i'll buy you a pint lol.
Michael, thank you, I have used Reaper for years, but, i am totally new to Midi and Midi controllers, 3 days, and notice that there is no clear use of Reaper in the Midi world. Even Kenny Jioi has been able to help me. If you go to Ableton, or Logic Pro, they all kind of omit Reaper. So you have given me hope.
Hello Michael. This video was brilliant!!! My Minilab 3 will be arriving today and I was looking for instructions on how to set it up to control stuff in reaper. This w/b a tremendous help. Cheers mate!
Great video! I am just new on midi controllers. Yesterday I adquired a M-Wave 25 and I am understanding a lot of things with your video! Thanks again. 🙏
I just got the KMI QuNexus MPE keyboard which is supposed to control up to three tracks simultaneously. So now I'm wading through the ReaLearn controls in the extensions menu.
I will at some point, nothing planned at the moment but as I make things in reaper I’m sure I’ll have some ideas for videos come up. I’m always open to suggestions as well!
This is great, but also illustrates the inconsistency of reaper. I use it for recording, it's new lane system is great. But, reaper is such a distraction because learning it becomes the focus, rather than making music. At least for me.
@@MichaelRiggsMusic you can get totally lost in Reaper or any DAW when you are first starting so when some gives you a starting point and you are able to navigate, it make all the difference in the world, thank you.
Thanks for the video. Question, what about if you want to do 16 channels instead of 8 with the sliders? What I did on my controller was 1-8 midi channel 1, 9-16 midi channel 2, etc, but have to be changing midi channels on my controller constantly, can't figure out how to easily change scenes, it works, but maybe you have an easier way. Thanks for your tips.
Thank you Michael. I’m really frustrated lately cuz I just got a 2nd midi controller, so instead of just setting midi assignments to things like “all channels” now I’m having to assign specific channels and ports and I.D. numbers and I often don’t know why it doesn’t work when it doesn’t or why it does when it does. Last nite after hours of cussing I think my new keyboard started working again cuz I turned it off and back on. Ugh…
YEAH, IF YOU PLUG IN a keyboard to connect it to a A MIDI CHANEL on your DAW that is alredy open/on, it can seem like its not working. If you change the daw to a different midi chanel, then switch back (eg were on ch1, its not wotrking so you switch DAW to receive on Midi ch 2 (for just a few seconds)), then back to midi ch 1) then it works.
I was kidding, obviously, but now I got my own Minilab mkII (just today), and this tutorial was insanely helpful, so let me express my gratitude in a proper fashion ;-) THANK YOUUUU!
This is gold! Thanks for the awesome video! Little question here: lets say that i want to change the notes given by the pads in my midi controller, for example, the pad number 1 gives an E1, pad number 2 gives an F1, etc. So i want to change the pad number 1 to give an D1 instead of E1, can it be done?
Super cool, thanks. Been struggling with this for a while. One thing you don't cover, is how to 'record' these volume changes whilst mixing? I'll search around more.
Good point, yeah this video was more for setting it up but recording those changes is a good idea for a future video. For now if you haven’t found it already I think what you’re after is the “trim” control on the track. That will open a window where you can click a checkbox for any effects you want to control and record. I think you’ll need to change some of the settings to arm the tracks for any live changes during playback to get recorded. I think that’s also a checkbox and there are some options at the top of the window as well.
I am wondering if this is also possible with a midi keyboard app on my phone that I'd connect to my pc? I tried doing so but it seems like reaper doesn't detect it as a midi controller
Hello again. If you set your arturia controller to control DAW actions (I use reaper also) will it still continue to control the DAW while using Analog Lab s/w? The Analog Lab s/w auto configures itself to the minilab controller/ (all the knobs, and sliders (minilab 3)) when in use. Thanks
how does Mackie Control Universal work, should it automatically map these controls including transport? I'm trying to get a control surface hooked up, and I have it set up in the control surface menu within Reaper presets, but nothing is happening as it should.
It helped me a lot, thanks! But my midi controller doesn't have those options to change a button to toggle, is it possible to do within REAPER? I'd like to toggle recording with a button for example.
Hello once again. Can you set controls for more than 1 DAW? I use reaper. I will be participating in a beatmaking workshop and the s/w is Ableton Live 11 Lite. I want to set controls for reaper, which I can from this video (Thanks) Will I be able to set a "Memory" or template using Midi Control Center? Thanks.
thanks a lot for the video, I'm almost there but I have a problem with the program editor 3 for akai mini, I have an error message that appears when I want to program the pads for the drums, the message is as follows: check that the akai mini is properly connected to the computer. the akai is connected and I can even hear it on reaper but cannot change the notes.thanks
Hi there! I've got a problem and I guess you are the person who knows the solution. I have assigned knobs on my AKAI MPK mini mk2. I use the Analog Lab plugin. The knobs work but there's no affect to the sound. Thee virtual knobs move but there's no effect in the tone. I have to use mouse to get any change. Could you help me, please? :)
Ok.. and how to do if.. i would like to use controllers of my arturia kelab "stop" or "record". I can define them in actions of reaper, but there is a problem. They correspond to notes of piano roll, so , if I set a record botton, it gives me an information that it's a note number 95. When I start playing in hit this note, reaper starts recording, if I play note 94, it stops in transport.. any suggestions how to solve this problem? How it could difference the DAW controll bottoms from keys?
I’ve also had this issue, I haven’t tried to fix it yet but there are some options where you enable the controller in settings to use it for control only or control and note input I think. That might affect both the pads and keys though. If you figure out a fix I’d love to know what you did
The two furthest left knobs on this controller do feel slightly stiffer than the rest. I think it is because those knobs can be clicked in like a button while the rest are just simple knobs
