Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
MIDI Hacks: Quickly Sketching Ideas in a MIDI Track (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep35)
In this and the next few episodes, I'm gonna focus on MIDI recording and editing in Reaper. I know lots of people don't love Reaper's MIDI capabilities, and may prefer Ableton or Logic, but firstly Reaper is a good chunk of change cheaper than both, but also, I think a majority of what you like about those DAWs can be replicated in Reaper with a bit of tweaking.
In this video, we're gonna tackle the issue of quickly setting up a MIDI track for recording, so that we don't have to go through a bunch of steps just to sketch out a basic idea with our MIDI keyboards.
Like, Comment, Subscribe & hit the Notification bell for new Rapid-Fire Reaper tutorials every week and if you have any questions about Reaper, SWS, or anything regarding audio, let me know in the comments and I'll make you a video in ONE DAY!
Visit the blog post on my website where you can download every custom action, scale, toolbar, and other goodies mentioned in these videos: iddqdsound.com/post/free-downloads-midi-101-102-rapid-fire-reaper-tutorials-ep35-43
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Why I like dedicated MIDI tracks
1:03 My dedicated MIDI track for idea sketching
2:11 Setting up the load action
2:28 Quick Replace Software Instruments
2:47 My dedicated Audio Track for idea sketching
3:15 Outro & Coming up next
MIDI Hacks: Quickly Sketching Ideas in a MIDI Track (Rapid-Fire Reaper Tutorials Ep35)
In this and the next few episodes, I'm gonna focus on MIDI recording and editing in Reaper. I know lots of people don't love Reaper's MIDI capabilities, and may prefer Ableton or Logic, but firstly Reaper is a good chunk of change cheaper than both, but also, I think a majority of what you like about those DAWs can be replicated in Reaper with a bit of tweaking.
In this video, we're gonna tackle the issue of quickly setting up a MIDI track for recording, so that we don't have to go through a bunch of steps just to sketch out a basic idea with our MIDI keyboards.
Like, Comment, Subscribe & hit the Notification bell for new Rapid-Fire Reaper tutorials every week and if you have any questions about Reaper, SWS, or anything regarding audio, let me know in the comments and I'll make you a video in ONE DAY!
Visit the blog post on my website where you can download every custom action, scale, toolbar, and other goodies mentioned in these videos: iddqdsound.com/post/free-downloads-midi-101-102-rapid-fire-reaper-tutorials-ep35-43
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Why I like dedicated MIDI tracks
1:03 My dedicated MIDI track for idea sketching
2:11 Setting up the load action
2:28 Quick Replace Software Instruments
2:47 My dedicated Audio Track for idea sketching
3:15 Outro & Coming up next
