(a) INSERT (from the menu bar at the top of the screen) SETTING UP TRACKS TO MAKE MIDI DATA RECORDABLE You can download the Reaper User Guide (free) here:ģ. 22 of the Reaper User Guide to explain this (Section 1.15 'Setting Up for MIDI') ENABLING MIDI DEVICES (SOFTWARE CONNECTION TO MIDI CONTROLLER, DONE IN REAPER Note: If you are using a USB to connect to your computer, and you also have an audio interface (because you have a microphone or other instrument plugged into it), there will be 2 USB's going into your computer - one from the MIDI controller to your computer, and the second connecting your audio interface and your computer.Ģ. This is usually accomplished by either (1) using a USB cable, going from the USB output on your MIDI controller, into your computer's USB, or (2) by going from a MIDI 5 Pin DIN output on your MIDI controller, into the 5 Pin DIN input on an audio interface. HARDWARE CONNECTION OF MIDI CONTROLLER TO COMPUTER OR AUDIO INTERFACE Setting up your Reaper Track(s)' inputs to make MIDI data recordableġ. A software set up, i.e., enabling Reaper and the MIDI controller driver to connect - this is done in Reaperģ. ![]() ![]() A hardware connection (MIDI controller to computer or to Audio Interface), andĢ. See Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts.You need to connect your MIDI controller to your computer.ġ. And yes, you can re-assign keyboard shortcuts. I'd consider either MIDI or computer keyboard. So regardless of whether you continue to use two passes or instead choose to literally cut the work in half by doing it in one, the virtual keyboard isn't really a great choice for the sort of copying operation you are describing. So it's going to least efficient of these methods. The virtual keyboard pretty much requires you to look at the screen. But within that pass, there is still the choice of virtual piano, MIDI, or typing (leaving aside the possibility of simply clicking in the score, which is obviously least efficient by far).īetween virtual piano, MIDI, and computer keyboard, I'd say either MIDI or computer would be most suited to the sort of copying operation you are discussing since either can be done easily without taking your eyes off the source material. So if you are looking for a more efficient method, definitely get it done in a single pass. It's literally over twice as many keystrokes keystrokes / clicks to do it that way. the cursor right key of my laptop keyboard.ĭo you know how to do that, or does anyone you know?įirst, in general, it will be fewer keystrokes / clicks *by far* if you simply enter the pitches while entering the rhythms rather than first entering the rhythms then going back and entering the pitches. So I would like if there was a possibility to assign a single note (any note) to e.g. I would prefer to indicate the actual measure to be copied with my left index finger, and enter that single note with the thumb of my right hand without leaving my right middle finger from the 5 of the numeric keyboard: as I said any note will do. So I must check what I have done too often! Here lies the problem: when I lose contact I make mistakes. I have only my eyes for reading the music I want to copy. I use my left hand for entering one single note at a time I use my right hand for determining the note value. The sheet music that I want to copy lies left of my laptop on my desk. When using my method (above) for entering the rhythm I have a problem: If you don't mind: I have another question: ![]() I agree, that an midi device is faster for phase two than the virtual keyboard: I have an EWI (Electric Wind Instrument) and an electric piano, but the EWI is for this not so good, and the piano is in another room than my laptop: I intend to buy a little midi keyboard. Next, if necessary, I can complete the score: slurs, etc. Next I change where necessary two adjacent quarter notes in dotted notes: that makes the Then I use the virtual piano keyboard and the re-pitching tool for entering the real notes. C (any note will do) with the alphabetic keyboard.įor a dotted note (quarter note with dot) and eight note I enter two quarter notes. I enter with my left hand only one note e.g. First I enter the rhythm: my right hand middle finger on number 5 of the numeric keyboard. flute music) in Musescore my method is as follows: As to your comment "not sure if you literally meant to suggest the mouse must be used when entering notes, but that isn't true - typing note names is the more usual / more efficient method."
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