13.1 Introduction
REAPER has a number of techniques for manipulating and editing your MIDI items.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 13 Working with MIDI Items Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
REAPER has a number of techniques for manipulating and editing your MIDI items. In brief these are:
- Many of the commands on the arrange view right-click media item context menu can be used with MIDI items as much as they can with audio items – for example you can create and manipulate multiple takes, add MIDI FX to a take’s FX chain, cut, copy and move items, and so on.
- In addition, there are commands on the arrange view right-click item context menu that are specific to MIDI items and only MIDI items. We’ll get to these soon enough.
- You can open any MIDI items or selection of MIDI items in REAPER’s MIDI Editor for detailed ed0iting. You can choose either to open a single item, several items together in the same single MIDI Editor window, or to use a separate window for each item.
- For quick MIDI editing, you can edit the track in-line. This makes the item’s content available for editing without needing to open a separate MIDI editing window. This is covered near the end of this chapter. Before looking at editing, however, we'll resolve a couple of other issues of importance to MIDI users.