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01-28-2015, 10:58 AM
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What has been your experience exporting midi from sibelius for use in Reaper?
What has been your experience composing in Sibelius, exporting the midi and using it in Reaper? Does it work pretty good?
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01-28-2015, 01:29 PM
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what a douchey sounding question lol. I'm just wanting to hear from people who do this all the time. I plan on doing it myself and don't want to get super involved in big projects and then come across something lame.
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02-17-2015, 08:31 PM
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You are probably no longer monitoring this thread, but it seems to work pretty well. I've been doing it for a few months now casually, but I've been using loopbe30 to pipe midi data into Reaper for live playback of Sibelius using Reaper as a host for VSTi's.
I think that the importing process is cumbersome enough that realtime playback is a worthy goal to at least have a sense of how the virtual instrument is behaving in response to the midi data.
Two suggestions:
1. There is absolutely no way to synchronize the tempo of reaper and sibelius, so you may as well not bother rewiring sibelius to reaper. The only downside is that any effects and synthesizers that rely on the project tempo matching up will be off, but it's not such a terrible or common thing that it is a problem.
2. On the same note, I believe rewire caused playback irregularities in this configuration.
I worked many hours to find a way to overcome these limitations before abandoning them, so I really don't believe there is currently a way. This is more a limitation of Sibelius from what I understand, as it can't really act as a master or slave to a 3rd party beat clock.
These issues won't affect you upon midi import anyway, so you can just consider the live playback to be a nice demo.
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02-17-2015, 08:36 PM
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Also, here are some examples of why this configuration is beneficial:
1. Mapping - If you are mapping midi values to trigger specific samples, like with drums or something, it is easiest if you can set the vsti to "listen" for the midi value you want to correlate with a given sample, and then just click the note on the staff in sibelius. You could do that on the grid in reaper, but it seems more error prone to me.
2. Key switches - when you are writing, you are undoubtedly going to be using articulation/dynamic markings, which in performance are going to need to be executed by midi value getting mapped to a key switch. You could always go in and add these values after importing to reaper, but then if you need to re-import due to modification, you'll lose those changes. Best just to add the keyswitch notes as an additional voice in sibelius and "hide" the note so it doesn't contaminate the visual score, so that all of your midi data remains consolidated.
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02-21-2015, 09:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by apolloronsteel
You are probably no longer monitoring this thread, but it seems to work pretty well. I've been doing it for a few months now casually, but I've been using loopbe30 to pipe midi data into Reaper for live playback of Sibelius using Reaper as a host for VSTi's.
I think that the importing process is cumbersome enough that realtime playback is a worthy goal to at least have a sense of how the virtual instrument is behaving in response to the midi data.
Two suggestions:
1. There is absolutely no way to synchronize the tempo of reaper and sibelius, so you may as well not bother rewiring sibelius to reaper. The only downside is that any effects and synthesizers that rely on the project tempo matching up will be off, but it's not such a terrible or common thing that it is a problem.
2. On the same note, I believe rewire caused playback irregularities in this configuration.
I worked many hours to find a way to overcome these limitations before abandoning them, so I really don't believe there is currently a way. This is more a limitation of Sibelius from what I understand, as it can't really act as a master or slave to a 3rd party beat clock.
These issues won't affect you upon midi import anyway, so you can just consider the live playback to be a nice demo.
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This isn´t true at all, specially the part where it denies the possibility to sync both programs´tempo. I´ve been working daily with Rewire for at least one year and a half and it´s been working pretty well -with some quirks, allright, but perfectly usable-. Posts 1 and 7 of this thread give the basics of the procedure :
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=137265
The latest developments in the pre-release stuff have even enhanced the tempo sync, I would think.
Besides that, midi importing from Sibelius works pretty well, of course.
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03-04-2015, 12:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by memyselfandus
What has been your experience composing in Sibelius, exporting the midi and using it in Reaper? Does it work pretty good?
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That works pretty well. I use Sibelius rewired to Reaper, playback is a little wobbly but good enough. Importing midi from Sibelius is pretty straightforward.
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