Old 05-05-2012, 03:35 PM   #1
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Default MIDI Note to start track play?

Is it possible to use a MIDI note received by Reaper to start play of a track in Reaper? Say, send C0 and Reaper will start playing Track 1.

If this is referenced in the docs and I've missed, would appreciate a page#.

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Old 05-06-2012, 03:30 AM   #2
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Is it possible to use a MIDI note received by Reaper to start play of a track in Reaper? Say, send C0 and Reaper will start playing Track 1.

If this is referenced in the docs and I've missed, would appreciate a page#.

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Depending on controller you should be able to send something to solo the track and start transport if you want that, or just continue playing live.

If all you have to control is keys at the end of keyboard manual you could combine this with a midi plugin(look at JS plugins marked MIDI).

Are you thinking of live performance and loading different instrument sound on different tracks or something?

Changing midi channel on keyboard and thereby get Reaper to respond what is on different tracks is probably an easier way to do it. You can then prepare 16 track and all running one midi channel.

I have no specific steps for you.
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You don't play a track in REAPER, you play the entire project ("song").

You can mute/unmute individual tracks, and start/stop playing the entire project. If you want to trigger these functions using MIDI messages, I suggest you look into REAPER's OSC support. It's pretty easy to convert any MIDI message you want into appropriate messages to start/stop playback or mute/unmute tracks.
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Thanks, Banned. Now that I'm thinking about the problem in the right way, I'm wondering if I can combine several steps and have them all triggered by a MIDI note? Say, on C0 solo tracks 2 and 3, then on D0 unsolo tracks 2 and 3 and solo track 4.

Will look into it.
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Thanks, Banned. Now that I'm thinking about the problem in the right way, I'm wondering if I can combine several steps and have them all triggered by a MIDI note? Say, on C0 solo tracks 2 and 3, then on D0 unsolo tracks 2 and 3 and solo track 4.

Will look into it.
Perhaps also look into using groups, you can pretty easily link the mute or solo parameters of sets of tracks.

Anyway, whatever sequence of actions you can think of would probably be easy to implement in Pd or Max. You just listen to incoming MIDI with something like [notein] or [ctlin] to listen for incoming triggers, then make them trigger a bunch of messages in a row using [trigger bang bang bang etc.] or use comma's to put multiple OSC messages in a single message like this:

[message, another message, yet another one(

Let's hear it if you can't figure it out.
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