Intro to Reaticulate - Articulation Management for REAPER 

Thanks for having me on The REAPER Blog, Jon!

Yet another trick for Reaticulate: Go to REAPER Options -> Appearance -> Peaks/Waveforms and activate "Program names" checkbox (you tell me why on earth all those MIDI settings are in that page). Then, in the Arrange View, instead of those "PC" in the MIDI items, you will see the actual program name ("pizzicato", "sustain").

The fastest and easiest explanation of Reaticulate yet. A huge thanks to both of you.

THANKS Erik and John. This tutorial was extremely valuable to me. I compose a lot for live theatre. The musical styles shift depending upon the play and the scene. Anything for a quiet duo to a honking big, full symphony orchestra. My go-to orchestral sound source is East-West Sounds. Reaticulate is an astonishing tool for creating a better workflow in composing such compositions. It's in my tool bag now thanks to you. The detailed explanation in the video was great. I hope to see more.

Another must-know trick: double click any articulation in Reaticulate window and it will insert the corresponding PC in your MIDI Editor. If you have some notes selected, it will be inserted at the beginning of your selection.

Magnificent - I have subscribed to Erik solely based on this superb video.

This plugin is a GODSEND!

Really good addition to the arsenal....

This is huge. Thanks!

Thank you for the great video

this is extremely useful!

Thanks a lot, thats so great. Reapers options are phenomenal. I thought fl studio is a must for edm production, and reaper is only good with mixing and mastering, and now it reveals itself as a flexible switzer pocketknife for everything and more and it runs so smooth and stable. I love reaper daw! 🤗😍😍😍

Amazing!

You can also highlight the midi notes and double click the articulation you want to assign to those notes in the Reaticulate menu.

Very good! 😁

Couldn't live without Reaticulate. If you find the custom bank creating process too repetitive and time consuming you can make some spreadsheets that semi-automatically change the notes and add the correct names etc. to multiple articulations at once.

Thanks Erik and Jon for putting this video together! It was a pleasant surprise to see a video like this land in my feed (because of course I am subscribed to this channel). A patient, accessible walkthrough on getting started, the basic features, and Reaticulate's Reabank annotations has been a long standing item on my to-do list, and this video will be the de facto resource for new users. Thanks! One observation: manually locating the Reaticulate reabank file and assigning it to the track as shown at 8:05 shouldn't be necessary. Reaticulate should be setting this up automatically. (It compiles all banks together (user + factory) into a tmp file and assigns that at the project level.) If you find that this custom assignment *is* necessary, I'd appreciate if you could get in touch and report it as a bug ( reaticulate.com/contact.html ). I'd like to understand why it's happening. Also, as another commenter pointed out, the easiest way to insert articulations into a MIDI item is to double click or right click the articulation button in Reaticulate's GUI, and it will insert the Program Change event at the edit cursor. I like to resize my MIDI editor so that it lets Reaticulate's UI show through from the main window, like helix.urandom.ca/public/reaper-screenshot-20190612.png P.S. I'm not sure if a violinist could transition to pizz and back as quickly as 6:13? :)

Very nice tutorial, some advanced scripts like that are a bit hard to understand without video. Reaticulate had some alternative like sfer, and BSRO, but thanks to continuous dev and support, and open sourcing, it seems to have become the most solid solution for this kind of work.

Will you make a video on how to create custom banks for hypersonic 2 and sampletank 3??

It's basically using program change which you could do if you edit the GM bank etc. But Reaticulate make it so you don't have to go thru 128 articulation to pic the articulation you want. So this is a welcome.

Can someone who uses both ReaTiculate with Reaper and Logic's articulation feature fairly compare and contrast current strengths and limitations between the two approaches in their current versions?

Thank you Erik for a great tutorial. I am trying to use Reaticulate with Cinematic Studio Solo Strings which isn't listed as one of the ready made presets, but is very similar to its 'big brother' Cinematic Studio strings. When after inserting a few articulations and pressing play, I can see the changes in articulations in Reaticulate but they do not effect CSSS. I could not find a way to read the actual Reaticulate file, when clicking on the pen I just got a new template. 1. Is there a way of opening the Reaticulate programmed file? 2. Do you think it is simply a case of not triggering the right keyswitch...? Help....??? (Forgive the ignorance and the very long message) Thanks again

Nice

What do you think about "Ultimate Articulation Engine by ultimate midi plugin"? It looks good.

Hi thanks for that video but i'm using EW Opus edition and i don't find user button ?

Off subject: is it possible use and existing track to trigger mid notes(as with REATUNE) and edit that midi then send that midi data back to the original track to "re-articulate" the asdr for that track? I know the midi can be created and played back through an external instrument with the corrections made creating a new track, seems like this internal correction should be possible as well. Thanks

Can you do these articulations as you are recording or only after? Thanks.

I hope someone can explain the power of ReaTrak as well

Hello I need help. Once I click add bank after track is selected. I can't find 'User' under the drop down menu just 'Factory' can you help?

Wow

Thanks guys, this a great! I immediately started programming key switches for Horns, Electric Guitars, Strummed Guitars etc and it works like a charm. No more confusion which MIDI/keyboard note was what key switch! One question: Those Bank/Program Changes have no "note length", but some instrument effects require that you keep the key switch (or even 2 key switches) pressed while two or more notes are played in sequence. How would you use this tool in that case? Should I revert to drawing that key switch as a long note in the MIDI editor, as I used to do?

I only have spitfire libraries. I use their UACC system for the articulations, which I think is pretty good. I've downloaded the scripts of Dave Healy (watch?v=eZZ3myOFpwE) and made a custom action for every articulation, and put all of them in a toolbar in the midi editor (instead of his way that he shows in the video, of having to go through a menu). This way, I just select the notes, press the button of the articulation I want and that's it.

Cannot see the user item in the menu

good video thanks I have Albion One. I wonder if there is some thing like Reaticulate that would automatically create a "Swell" for me, especially with brass and strings? I have to spend time drawing in Mod Wheel envelopes to get the swell sounding better. Some of 8Dios have swells as an option for their Strings, Brass and Choirs for example; they are called Arcs. Would save a lot of time, especially if I could select a swell length etc.

The coolest and quickest way to use and edit articulations in the piano roll is done FL Studio by the creator of BRSO Articulate Blake Robinson - you don't waste time writing the whole part and then editing articulations, you just use notes color coding and do it on a fly. Moreover this allows you to trigger multiple articulations simultaneously which is very handy for general patches.

While I successfully installed It, when I apply articulation to Hypersonic 2's Contrabass GM for example It doesn't affect the articulation, It does nothing, please! can you help me to fix that?? It doesn't apply either on Sampletank 3..

Hi. I installed the new Update but im having some essue. When the rearticulate activate any note on the program bank, he Also play One octave above. Impossible to use my sample library from kontakt, till this moment. I need help

This is a very cool plugin, especially for it to be a free one. My biggest critique is that it feels complicated and not very intuitive at the moment. Look at a plugin like BRSO Articulate, where you can just click an articulation and start drawing MIDI with the selected articulation, switching freely to the next articulation at a single click and with minimal interruptions while I'm trying to draw a full articulated melody. Not having to input any data in the CC lanes below either. Creating presets looks like an agonizing process, but at least you can do it once and have it forever. When I look for an articulation management plugin, I want something that minimizes the amount of clicking and scrolling I must do to just get an idea out of my head and into my DAW - Reaticulate has potential, but I would urge the developer to see how the user's process can be streamlined even further. I would love for Reaticulate to be the workflow game changer that I'm looking for (and would be willing to donate to the cause!) but I think I'll stick with the Reaper version of BRSO Articulate for now.

Is this still functioning like a keyswitch though? For example, if he'd started playing a section with staccato notes, but halfway through it so it doesn't hit the trigger at the beginning of the phrase, will it just play whatever articulation was last played? Just trying to figure out if this works like expression maps do.

I installed Reaticulate but when I want to add bank don't appear the option "user" :(

I really need help with this. I have downloaded it and followed the steps that are listed on the website to set it up. So my FX chain is: Reaticulate -> Nucleus Strings Sections multi. I cannot get it to work. I don't really understand how i am to setup so that Reaticulate understands which button the keyswitch is in necleus? In Nucleus ican see the keyswitches being the lowest not on the midi piano showing in kontakt. Question 2: is this only for midi editor? This is not meant to be used on the fly of midi recording? Only using the bank/program select in midi editor? So the concept is to apply articulations after you have recorded?

Seems like a great tool! I didn't get what the cc's are.

Thanks for this video! It's a bummer that Reaticulate doesn't assign articulations to each individual note the way Cubase expression maps and Logic articulations do.

Reaticulate is not working for me for some reason. I have it set at the top of the FX chain, but it simply isn't triggering any MIDI signal.

Is it possible to set the MIDI CC11 or CC7 value when going to a new articulation? If you have a multi instrument, say violins 1 with different articulations in one patch, the volume is never 100% correct for all articulations. For instance in Cinematic Studio Strings the Tremolo patch is a bit too loud in comparison to the normal legato patch, the tremolo patch is too soft. It would be nice to correct this a bit by sending some CC7 or CC11 information on beforehand to that articulation. Is this possible?

So does Reaticulate work WITH the plugin? Or does it have its own information? I don't see how that'd work. I have Miroslav Philharmonik 2 and articulations are a MAJOR pain in it. How would I use this with it?

I'm trying to use "Rearticular" but in "Track Articulation" there is only the "Factory" section with the options Cinematics Series, Spitfire, VirHarmonic. "User" is not visible. How can I solve this problem?

Can reaticulate dock into mid editor?I hoped that can accomplish it

please some one explain me why is this should be easier than using regular plugins articulations changer?

could they route midi input from different channels into one kontakt instance, and get the plugin to work? Does this plugin allow me to switch between patches in one kontakt instance? Say i have 2 patches in a kontakt instance: flute legato and flute stacatto. Will this help me to quickly and easily switch between these patches? Thanks!!!

I instaled all but do not appears in "Actions". But it is in the scrripts folder so I can open it from reaper this way. Not the idea anyway.

why would you prefer to use reaticulate instead of overwriting the midi notes that change articulations ?

Does this work in notation view?

HOW TO TRIGGER one note staccato and one legato at the same time IF THEY ARE ALIGNED one above each other!?

is there a repository of articulation banks that people are sharing?

I didnt understand how he knew 68 was legato and 69 repetition... can smone clarify?

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0at 4:10 it's confusing what the difference between the 6, name, and the group number....he just says it's the group name and doesn't make any explanation beyond that lol.

Хорошая игрушка. Особенно для тех кто использует больше 100 разных библиотек. Надо попробовать.

Am i being really stupid here? I've downloaded it, and i've ended up with a DLL file on the desktop..... so now what? install instructions are useless for musicians unless you have a degree in IT to go with it

I dont see how this will improve my beats

Things like these are the reason people say reaper is for nerds.🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is nerd stuff period

I love everything about Reaper except this, way too cumbersome, if you use Ableton live and have max for live use keyswitch instead, way faster and easier to use than this. I hope they make something like that in Reaper in the near future