With your timekeeper track chosen and shortcut key created, it is time to start dropping tempo markers! So I’m going to use the snare and kick drum as my timekeeper tracks. For this article I will be tempo mapping a straightforward blues rock number with a solid drummer. Just be sure to pick the instrument that you consider to most consistently represent the true tempo of your song. Often this will be the drums, sometimes it might be the bass, but it could be any element of the mix. We will consider this track to be the authority on where the downbeat is at any given time. It is essential to pick one of your audio tracks to be the master timekeeper track. I like to have this set on the default of Edit cursor or play cursor and the technique in this tutorial will rely on this behavior. Look at the setting for Horizontal zoom center with a dropdown box next to it. Still on the preferences window, click the Editing Behavior category on the left. You can use any combination you would like, but this tutorial will assume it is set up as Ctrl+Shift+X.Īnother option of interest to us is the horizontal zoom behavior of our DAW.
I chose Ctrl+Shift+X as the shortcut so it would be easy to press with one hand. Click the button labeled New… to create our custom shortcut and configure it as shown: Then on the left of the preferences window, choose Keyboard/Control and you will see a list of keyboard shortcuts. From the Tools menu choose Preferences (at the bottom). You can create keyboard commands to do simple or complex sequences of commands. The first thing we will need is to create a custom keyboard shortcut in REAPER.
These are great when creating a song recording from scratch, but what if you have an existing recording to add drums for? What about taking any existing recording and adding some midi synths to spruce up your production? I’m going to show you how to use REAPER to take any home recording and tempo map it so you can add custom drums or midi elements after the fact, and have them be in perfect sync with your audio tracks. I hope our Reaper drum maps help make your MIDI editing life a bit easier.You may have seen my tutorials on creating grooves with EZDrummer and creating custom drum tracks with Jamstix 2.
If you have any questions, please review the video above and if you still need help, send us an email and we'll help you install the drum maps. Tip: to remove the "piano keys" in order to see the names more clearly, go to the Reaper menu: View > Mode: named notesĪs you can see from the image above, clearing the "piano keys" from a drum map makes it much easier to see the drum names. The note names will now appear in the MIDI track's "piano roll" view (left side as shown above). Paste our folder into your Reaper ‘MidiNoteNames’ folderĪ) Double click on a MIDI track to open the MIDI editorī) Reaper menu File -> Note names -> Load Note Names from file Open your Reaper ‘MidiNoteNames’ folderĥ. Open our ‘Extras’ folder (included in each product's download)Ĥ. You can find it by using the load notenames file command:įile > Note Names > load note names from file > Choose fileĢ. On a PC, it's typically in App Data > Roaming > Reaper > MIDINoteNames Here are step by step instructions on installing the drum maps:ġ. Here's a link to a video I created showing you how to install and load the drum maps. They are essentially an editing tool allowing you to see the names of each drum when editing a MIDI loop (please see below). These are also called "MIDI Note Name" files. Recently, someone asked how to install our collection of "drum maps" for Reaper.
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