Hi all!
This is my first post here as I'm quite new to Reaper.
I'm coming from Ableton Live (bought Live 9 /Push (1)-Bundle), but lately I've been working a lot with Audio-Tracks and for that, I'd like to try another DAW.
This is why I'm currently demoing Reaper 5.78 on Win7, latest updates, 64-bit.
Already made a demo-song with it (all Audio) and especially CPU-performance and the comping-workflow is much better compared to Ableton.
Then I tried to work with MIDI and I ran into a problem with MIDI CC64 (Sustain Pedal).
I have an M-Audio-Pedal connected to Push (working fine in Ableton) and I use the "Transformator 1.2"-Script to connect Push to Reaper:
http://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/Push/Push.html.
It supports the sustain pedal.
I already checked this thread:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=166502
And this thread:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=138243
Nothing that was suggested worked for me.
Then I added ReaControlMIDI to the track to monitor incoming MIDI.
I just get "Note on" and "Note off"-messages for every key I press, but no feedback at all from the sustain pedal?
At first I thought it might be a problem with the Transformator-Script, but I've found no reports about problems with the pedal.
So after checking the Reaper Forum and seeing these other threads about MIDI CC64-Problems, I'm starting to believe it's a "Reaper-Problem"?
And it's not just a problem with pedals, it looks more like a general problem with MIDI CC64 in Reaper.
For example, I tried to manually draw some data into the CC64-lane (4-bar-Midi-Item, one chord for each bar).
And the manual sustain-data was just drawn under the first chord. The three following chords had no sustain (value=0).
The sustain-pedal started picking up for the first chord, but then it never stops. Sustains the whole MIDI-clip.
This happened with various Native Instruments-Plugins, after a while I switched to EZKeys (as it gives you visual feedback for the sustain pedal), still the same result.
Pedal not working and drawing in data manually not really working, too.
MIDI CC64 is something very basic, and something very "old" so I'd like to believe that I've missed something because I'm new to Reaper?
Sunny greetings!