Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 11 minutes ago
Mapping Drum Kits & Keyswitches to Piano Roll (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep42)
In this episode I want to show how to name your MIDI notes when working with Drum Kits or Keyswitch Instruments, and how to automate this process so you don't have to manually write in the note names.
If you use any Drum plugin, like EZDrummer, Superior Drummer, GGD, Kontakt Drum Libraries, East West, or even ReaSamplOmatic5000, usually there's a convention on which note contains which sample, and usually you can find those in the user manual and with the tricks I'll show you today, you can quickly turn those into something Reaper can read and show you in Piano Roll.
Visit my blog page for more info and to download custom actions, cheat sheets, toolbars, keymaps and so on:
iddqdsound.com/blog
If you requested a MIDI Map, or if you want to browse the ones already posted visit this link:
iddqdsound.com/blog/rfrt/42
Like, Comment, Subscribe & hit the Notification bell for new Rapid-Fire Reaper tutorials weekly, and if you have any questions about Reaper, SWS, or anything regarding audio, let me know in the comments and I'll make sure it’ll make it to a tutorial ASAP.
Download my custom actions: https://stash.reaper.fm/u/IDDQDArya
Donate to IDDQD Sound if you like the work I do: buymeacoffee.com/iddqdsound
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Naming MIDI Notes
1:32 Finding MIDI Note Numbers
2:00 Creating Keymaps quickly
2:33 Preparing Reaper Keymaps with Google Sheets
3:45 De-cluttering Text with TextEdit
5:49 Importing Keymaps into Reaper
6:20 Review with Keyswitch instruments
6:55 Outro
Mapping Drum Kits & Keyswitches to Piano Roll (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep42)
In this episode I want to show how to name your MIDI notes when working with Drum Kits or Keyswitch Instruments, and how to automate this process so you don't have to manually write in the note names.
If you use any Drum plugin, like EZDrummer, Superior Drummer, GGD, Kontakt Drum Libraries, East West, or even ReaSamplOmatic5000, usually there's a convention on which note contains which sample, and usually you can find those in the user manual and with the tricks I'll show you today, you can quickly turn those into something Reaper can read and show you in Piano Roll.
Visit my blog page for more info and to download custom actions, cheat sheets, toolbars, keymaps and so on:
iddqdsound.com/blog
If you requested a MIDI Map, or if you want to browse the ones already posted visit this link:
iddqdsound.com/blog/rfrt/42
Like, Comment, Subscribe & hit the Notification bell for new Rapid-Fire Reaper tutorials weekly, and if you have any questions about Reaper, SWS, or anything regarding audio, let me know in the comments and I'll make sure it’ll make it to a tutorial ASAP.
Download my custom actions: https://stash.reaper.fm/u/IDDQDArya
Donate to IDDQD Sound if you like the work I do: buymeacoffee.com/iddqdsound
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Naming MIDI Notes
1:32 Finding MIDI Note Numbers
2:00 Creating Keymaps quickly
2:33 Preparing Reaper Keymaps with Google Sheets
3:45 De-cluttering Text with TextEdit
5:49 Importing Keymaps into Reaper
6:20 Review with Keyswitch instruments
6:55 Outro
