Using Reaper and Battery

[Majestic Mastermind]

Hi. Can someone help me?

I've made a switch from Reason 4.0 to Reaper. I'm quite new to all this professional DAW stuff. I also have Battery 3 which I'm using for a drum sampler. I'm also planning on getting an akai mpd32 soon to use with battery. But for now I will have to do my drum programming with the midi keyboard I have.

Problem is, when I press the keys the Battery 3 sampler doesn't play any sounds? Even though the "note played" thing lights up.

I have it set to midi input> all channels in the "track panel" just like the other vst that I use ( which i can hear sound from ).


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Also, all of this routing is kind of confusing. How would I go about using more than one sound in a vsti without having to keep creating a virtual instrument track in the "track panel"?

Also:

What's the difference between midi out and midi in? I set midi in for the controller I want to use to record midi notes right?

thanx. This is so much different from reason and is going to take some getting used to. But this program looks promising.

 

[Larry Jr.]

Reaper's routing is not difficult to grasp, but can be confusing at 1st when coming from another program. I normally manually route my vsts to diff tracks. There is a way that reaper automatically will route vsts (as long as it is a virtual instrument with multi out capabilities-which battery is) if you right click in the track panel, there should be an option that lets you create new instrument track. this will automatically route all of the vsts outputs to seperate reaper tracks. You will still have to go into battery and select on each cell what output you want to send sounds to. Same principle applies to other virtual instruments -given they have multiple outputs. Hope this helps. Make sure you download reapers manual cuz it is all in there plain as day and step by step. 1 question is why you would stop using reason. You can easily rewire reason into reaper. Google rewiring reason into reaper. with rewire you can route all of reasons sounds into reaper tracks similar to how you use vsts.

 

[Majestic Mastermind]

Ahh thanks!

Well, I feel I don't need Reason anymore. I mean, Reaper DOES have everything Reason has and more. and if it doesn't there is a vst that does.

These vsts I've been peepin, man they are tough. Have you seen played with that synplant vst? It's good stuff. I feel like I'm too limited in Reason.

Also, I am planning on getting this little hardware synthesizer I seen the other day.

And finally I figure I can get a cleaner mix out of Reaper.

Reaper is just for me. There is nothing that will make me switch DAW's. I've already begun learning it and playing around with it.

 

[Obitheincredible]

Cool trick is instead of creating a track in reaper and THEN adding a instrument, just drag the vst into the tracks area and it will build a track with midi to it automatically and if it is a multi out vst it will ask if you want it routed to the max with every out automatically routed to individual tracks or just in one stereo track. Makes it easy and fast to use those vsti's!

 

[Boon]

Hey Majestic,

You can go on using Reason via Rewire in Reaper. It works flawless.

Concerning Battery: there is a template made by users for this vst. Maybe this one can help you...

Go to the reaper forum and search for "Battery template"