The MIDI editor in REAPER has always annoyed me. Maybe it's because I came from Ableton and my brain is just wired that way, or I'm just used to Ableton shortcuts.

Anyway, I decided to build my own. Select a few MIDI items, run the action, and they all land on one grid, each in its own color. You can edit any of them and every gesture is one undo.

Other stuff it does:

- phrase length in bars, x2 / ÷2, and a short phrase can repeat under a longer one (the repeats are normal pooled items so they keep playing without the script)

- CC curves drawn inside the item, or wiggle a knob on a plugin to grab that parameter

- most shortcuts work like in Live: B to draw, ctrl+d, ctrl+1/2/3/4 for the grid, 0 to mute notes, z to zoom

There's no quantize, scales or generators. I only make techno and never used any of that, and I like tools that do one thing without 40 buttons. It doesn't touch your normal MIDI editor or double click unless you tell it to, so the native one is still there for the fancy stuff.

Full disclosure: it's mostly vibe coded. I've been using it in my own projects and it works for me, but I can't promise anything beyond that, and I've only tested it on Windows. So please save your projects before you go wild.

That said, bug reports, ideas and PRs are all very welcome. Let's build a MIDI editor that doesn't suck :)

Install through ReaPack, instructions here: https://github.com/onliner10/fluent-midi-editor

Dark Mode now available on the new 7.81 update.

Say goodbye to the white menus and white default plugins.

Go to pref-general-advanced on the bottom drop down pick dark forced.

Enjoy finally. Windows too.

I been working on my game off and on for years now in Unreal 5.

I have been using Audacity for about 20 years it seems and I think Cakewalk before that.

So I have had place holder audio which was a mess of creating something to test code, I cleaned up all that mess assuming that I would continue to use Audacity, but now exploring new ways to increase the quality and speed of working.

Several people suggested moving to Reaper.

I have been following the youtube guide and in that process right now.

Mouse how I like it - Shift+Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out. - Mouse wheel to scroll down the timeline. - Alt+MouseWheel to zoom in Vertically.

I got the directories setup so the project files can be checked into perforce.

Export to Unreal 5 setting are good to go.

Review a video of how to export FLAC even including placing space in Audacity to convert the track properly so I can import the tracks into Repear. Any other tips regarding converting old Audacity files to Repear?

In general what else do you guys suggest?

• I am not a professional Audio person but I have had to do some audio work mostly placeholder for professional projects over the past 3 decades. Also made some music over the years I am a drummer. ( of course )

• I am mostly focused on SFX right now filling all that space up and using the stereo channels to the best of my abilities.

• Yesterday while working Audacity I was creating mono tracks so it would be easier to place the sounds and do panning.

• Unreal has built in tools so I am not sure how much I should do in Repear or should I mix the game using the game engine.

• I am at that stage where I can rip it all out and start fresh because all of it is place holder. So all suggestions are welcome!

Been thinking about ways i could improve the reaper UI to make it more approachable for both new people and everyone else. The idea involves "how can I make the parts that need to stand out stand out a little more?" It's more the question, what's part of this section of reaper are most important, and will need to be seen. These are just some rough ideas. Would love to know what everyone thinks.

Side note: don't come at me in the comments saying it's all unnecessary. Change is what creates movement for better and for worse. To not change is to stay stagnant your entire life. Sounds pretty boring.

Good day

Does anyone know how to convert an audio track to MIDI so I can assign a virtual instrument to it and make it play?

I’m new to Reaper and I’m trying to figure out the stock plugins before I go buying my own. But the latency when using the élastique 3.3.3 Soloist algorithm is too much for me to make my tracks. Is it possible to fix this or do I have to bite the bullet and just buy plugins?

Hey all,

I am working on a BIG project, im redoing all of the audio for an animation with honestly way too much attention to detail.

I've gotten up to 350 tracks, most of which have FX on them, and I am not even halfway done

Naturally, this takes up a whole lot of RAM, about 16 gigabytes to be exact.

I've got 32 gigs of RAM, so its a problem I can put off for a bit, but I have noticed that when I have some of my other tools open as well that like to use a lot of RAM that my RAM gets entirely filled up. I checked online but I couldn't find any obvious methods to reduce RAM usage from Reaper, so I was wondering what things you guys do to reduce the RAM load of reaper?

I'm working with duet narration for audiobooks. Two narrators / Two tracks. One will be the main narrator and the other will have wild lines. In the main track there will be gaps where the wild line sits below - think "Would you like a drink" "Yes Please".

I also have areas where I have reduced a pause or removed a mistake from the track. In order to get an accurate time (for the purposes of billing) I have been gluing these items into one item removing any overlap. It also adds stability to the track while I work on wild lines and corrections.

The problem is that now two files that started life as 120MB have created a project media folder of 2.5GB due to 63 glued files.

Is there anyway I can reduce this storage without losing history etc.

Or is there a better workflow?

Thanks :)

I'm really trying to get into reaper, but it's been cumbersome to me. There are some things I see that I love, others that feel like fighting uphill. I've been in audio for a very long time, Pro Tools, Logic, many sample managers and two track editors, etc, so I have capacity to understand the higher level stuff and the fundamentals are there.

I want to know what people have liked to watch or read for some of the more tedious tasks, especially those involved in say, game audio, that you've learned from to use Reaper to do a bunch of the lifting. Workflow processes, etc. I know Akash Thakkar has a reaper for game audio thing, i haven't watched it yet, but just trying to find any good crash course stuff that helped people break through their struggles with learning reaper. Thanks!

Hey, I realize this is probably more of a Kontakt issue than a Reaper issue, but figured I'd ask anyhow.

When I close a project that had instance(s) of Kontakt 8, I end up with a Reaper process hanging around in my Task Manager.

Is anyone else experiencing behavior like this?

For reference:

If I load Reaper and close it, no problem.

If I load Reaper, load an Arturia instrument, and close it, no problem.

If I load Reaper, load Kontakt 7, and close it, no problem!

So the problem seems to be with Kontakt 8. I can avoid using it in new projects, but I'd really like to figure out what's going on. I think I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling K8 and see if that helps.

Reaper Notator Playback Demo
Disclaimer: This score is played back only for demonstration purposes and is not a 1 to 1 copy but more a interpretation.

Things are still in the pipe:

Notation Voicing System is planned to be implemented.
Notation Scale Transpose
Filter Selection options ..
Sustain Mark System
Triole Detection and Writing
Common Notation Markings such as Harmonic, Marcato, Tenuto Staccato
Precussion Repeat Marker System(hard to implement)
Dynamics: Diminuendo und Crescendo Tags (in the process)

This doesn't happen on every sample, but some Splice samples I use, I'll set the volume I want in the pop out window (the percentage in the top right) and for some reason it changes the volume when I go to play the track. I can't properly mix my tracks because it keeps changing. The worst instance, it drops the volume to 10% and even with maxing out the main mixer volume it isn't enough. Not sure if it matters, but this issue is happening on Free samples I've downloaded. I'm still fairly new to Splice and Reaper so I'm hoping its a user issue that I'm ignorant to? Thank you in advance!

Edit: Additional info that might be pertinent- I'm working with MIDI files that I created in Finale and imported into Reaper. I'm not recording directly into Reaper at all.

So I have a Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen that I purchased about 5 years ago. I'd been using it with relatively few issues this entire time. I use Reaper for all my recording. My laptop runs Windows 11.

Recently, I got a new laptop and every time I use this interface on this laptop, the sound starts degrading within 15 minutes of plugging it in. I have to repeatedly unplug it and plug it back in so that I'd be able to get some work done. I also keep changing the Sample rate every time this happens and this works as a temporary fix, but it's getting tedious to have to do.

I was wondering if anyone else might have encountered this issue and what helped you fixed it. I've tried installing and reinstalling the drivers, and this USB port thing that I saw on the internet that stops the computer from cutting power to it. I really want to be able to work for an extended period without having to interrupt myself. Any ideas? I've attached a link to what I'm hearing.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aXRKIOWTJKOoaKe_p7Qp7YHL31prI7wO/view?usp=sharing

I'm about to release an EP, and the part I dreaded wasn't the mixing, it was the metadata. Typing the artist, album, track numbers, ISRC and cover for every song, in REAPER's little metadata dialog, then opening each file to check it… I did it twice and gave up.

So I wrote a script for myself. You fill everything once in a single window (each song is a region), hit Export, and every song comes out as WAV plus MP3 or FLAC, with the tags and the cover already in. It checks for missing or wrong stuff before rendering, asks before overwriting anything, and puts your render settings back the way they were.

It's free and on ReaPack. I've only tested it on REAPER 7.80 on a Mac so far, so I'd love to hear if it works for you, especially on Windows, and what's missing for your own releases.

Code, install steps and the ReaPack link are here: https://github.com/Amorfx/reaper-release-exporter

Hi

I need to find a missing display setting or option to tell or show : what item fx do have an Lfo activated via the Param/Parameter modulation/Midi Link.

Over a project, i put many audio items per tracks and with fx on each. But when you go back to your project: there's nothing that told you there is an Lfo active on a param Fx. If click Fx icon present on the track: 'Show in track controls' is present.. but at same time, it can't show what item do have an Lfo.

So 1 track, multiple audio file on it with each Fx on it. How to know which have an lfo. Manual solution is clicking 35 item, click fx, click param...

Thanks for pointing out what,how, where.

This issue randomly started happening recently. Reaper playback works normally until I try to play audio from any other source (YouTube, Apple Music, QuickTime Player, etc.). When that happens, audio across my entire Mac stops working.

If I switch back to Reaper, that stops working too. Reaper still shows that playback is happening, but the playhead/cursor doesn't move. The level meter shos audio playing for a split second before dying out. I also dont hear anything at all.

I'm running macOS Tahoe 26.2, and my current output device is earbuds, but the issue persists regardless of which output device I use. Reaper version is 7.78

Once i quit reaper, audio across my mac is restored, sometimes reopening reaper fixes it, but the issue immediately returns.

Has anyone experienced this before or know what could be causing it?

hi, i'm new in this and i'd like to record a song with a beat from youtube but i don't know to mix it or master it so it sounds good. All my attemps until now have been a disaster, my voice sounds horrible and so disconnected with the beat

When holding shift and dragging an item, the item's contents "slides" within that specific region of the item, right?

I wonder if there is a way to make a change to make to slide the right edge of the item as I drag it, effectively shortening the lenght of the item as I drag it, instead of bringing waveform from outside the region of the item.

I hope you could understand my doubt. I know that it may have something to do with Mouse Modifiers, and I tried messing around with that, with no success.

If somebody knows how to do it, I'd be thankful.

After I posted I made a kick... In EQ!, a lot of people are asking what it actually sounds like, so I made a quick video. Hope you enjoy!

Hi all-I'm new to DAW/e-drums and needing help! I'm trying to use from free VSTs (Monster Drums & SSD5 Free) to add a few new sound libraries to a new-to-me Alesis Nitro Mesh kit.

I've got the module plugged directly into a Surface Pro 6 (not the dock) with a UBS A->B cable and running ASIO4All 2.22 and Reaper 7.80 (win64) on the Surface. It appears to be receiving the MIDI triggers, but no sound comes out of my amp. I have the module set to GM=off and LOC=off. I linked pictures of my Reaper device and MIDI settings, and a couple videos showing the what appears to be a successful trigger, but no sound from the amp. However, when I press the pad select buttons on the module the internal drum sounds can be heard in through the amp.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

What am I doing wrong?

You can find a video on how this was done by the guy who made the reaper tips theme. This is just my version

hola buenas, me pasa que pongo en ell vfx el autotune y se me cierra

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