13.52 Retroactive MIDI Recording
REAPER’s action list (main section) includes five actions which enable you to record MIDI material retroactively.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 13 Working with MIDI Items Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
REAPER’s action list (main section) includes five actions which enable you to record MIDI material retroactively. This enables you to experiment with your keyboard so that if you create a passage that you like you can retroactively record it. These actions (which can be assigned to a toolbar if you wish) are:
MIDI: Clear retroactive history MIDI: Insert all available retroactively recorded for armed and selected tracks MIDI: Insert all available retroactively recorded for armed tracks MIDI: Insert recent retroactively recorded for armed and selected tracks MIDI: Insert recent retroactively recorded for armed selected tracks
Example
This example uses REAPER’s Virtual MIDI Keyboard, but you could use any installed external MIDI input device.
- In Arrange view, create a new track and add a virtual instrument (e, g, ReaSynth) to its FX chain. 2. Click on the track’s red record arm button to arm it. Right click over the button and make sure that Monitor
input is enabled. 3. Right click on the record arm button, select Input MIDI, then your input device (e.g. Virtual MIDI keyboard),
then a channel or All Channels. 4. Run the action MIDI: Clear retroacti7ve history to clear out any existing history from the buffer. 5. Arm the track but do not press the record or play buttons on the transport bar. 6. Make sure that this track is selected and play a few notes on your input device. Stop playing after a few
seconds. 7. Run the action MIDI: Insert recent retroactively recorded for armed and selected tracks 8. The notes that you have just played will be inserted as a new midi item.