inserting Kontakt midi patterns?

[jeffsanders]

I'm messing with Shimmer Shake Strike (a Kontakt percussion library), and can't figure out how to get the midi patterns onto a track in REAPER.

I'm used to EZ Drummer, Addictive etc. where drag and drop is possible.

I can obviously listen along with the track, but how do I insert patterns? I'm guessing they trigger with a midi keyboard. Arming a track seems to record a WAV file.

[EvilDragon]

Aren't you lucky that the person who scripted SSS is right here?


Well, the design of SSS is different than other libraries, so we opted not to offer MIDI drag&drop, because editing them would be less than obvious, since nearly every hit is preceeded by a preroll sample of certain duration, and so on - not only would the MIDI itself look weird, but editing it would in a lot of cases mess things up considerably. So, you can only edit patterns via the GUI and play them back via keys. That's all there's to it.

[jeffsanders]

If I hit record in REAPER, it records a WAV on the track SSS is on.

So if I have my midi keys plugged in, it will insert the midi data to trigger each pattern on my track? SSS does sound sick - I need to find out how to use it. Like back in the day when uTonic came out, I had a mess of a time getting those patterns going.

Been years really since I did much with midi. lol

[EvilDragon]

That's because you probably have the track set to record audio output of it, instead of recording MIDI input...

There's a manual that comes with SSS, might wanna read it

[jeffsanders]

The manual says to do that. I just don't know how to do that LMFAO. I read it first thing. Doesn't really get into it on the video lessons, either.

I figured it out. Inserted a MIDI clip, then drew in the corresponding keys for each pattern.

"RTFM" answer posters all get a pat on the back today.