MIDI VELOCITY FXs Placement?

[johnlewisgrant]

How to I get MIDI fx at the TOP of the fx signal chain?

Right now, I place the MIDI fx BEFORE my Kontakt instrument in the applicable track fx.

This works fine. But I wonder if there's a more efficient way, in situations where you have multiple tracks with a different Kontakt instrument on each track?

I'm trying to avoid the work of putting the same MIDI fx in every single track. There might be, I'm thinking, a way to instruct Reaper to apply a single instance of a MIDI fx to ALL tracks?

[nait]

All the MIDI is going to be identical for each track, right? If so, you have a couple options. You can put all the kontakt instruments in the same FX chain. If you want to apply different FX to them individually you can still do it this way, but I'd say it's a little easier to break them into their own tracks.

The other thing you can do is have a track for MIDI (or pick one of your Kontakt tracks to have the MIDI on it). I would create a folder/track structure something like this:

->SomeGroup
---->MIDI Track
---->Kontakt Track 1
---->Kontakt Track 2
---->Kontakt Track 3

Then you want to ensure that you route the MIDI from MIDI track to Kontakt Track 1-3. Turn off the audio routing, as you won't need that.

You can apply group FX to the whole group at "SomeGroup" level. Stuff that might go there.. some glue compression, for example.

This example above is what I use for drums sometimes too, where MIDI track is all the MIDI for the drums, and various note ranges are routed off to drum parts underneath it (same folder level though).

Again, this example above is for the scenario where either you're routing all the same MIDI to the same tracks (ex. layering), or you're routing individual note ranges to each of the tracks. If your MIDI is completely unrelated between the tracks, I wouldn't do anything complex at all and just have each track have it's own MIDI on it.

Hope that made some sense!

[johnlewisgrant]

Originally Posted by nait

All the MIDI is going to be identical for each track, right? If so, you have a couple options. You can put all the kontakt instruments in the same FX chain. If you want to apply different FX to them individually you can still do it this way, but I'd say it's a little easier to break them into their own tracks.

The other thing you can do is have a track for MIDI (or pick one of your Kontakt tracks to have the MIDI on it). I would create a folder/track structure something like this:

->SomeGroup
---->MIDI Track
---->Kontakt Track 1
---->Kontakt Track 2
---->Kontakt Track 3

Then you want to ensure that you route the MIDI from MIDI track to Kontakt Track 1-3. Turn off the audio routing, as you won't need that.

You can apply group FX to the whole group at "SomeGroup" level. Stuff that might go there.. some glue compression, for example.

This example above is what I use for drums sometimes too, where MIDI track is all the MIDI for the drums, and various note ranges are routed off to drum parts underneath it (same folder level though).

Again, this example above is for the scenario where either you're routing all the same MIDI to the same tracks (ex. layering), or you're routing individual note ranges to each of the tracks. If your MIDI is completely unrelated between the tracks, I wouldn't do anything complex at all and just have each track have it's own MIDI on it.

Hope that made some sense!

Great. That's exactly the info I'm looking for!