In the last Reaper tutorial, we covered hardware MIDI devices, and Monitoring. In this tutorial, we'll be setting up Virtual Instruments and FX. Because we need both of these..
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In the last Reaper tutorial, we covered hardware MIDI devices, and monitoring. In this tutorial, we'll be setting up Virtual Instruments and FX. Because we need both of these in a big, bad way.. Right?
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Step 1 - Setting Up Instruments
One thing that you may have found confusing about Reaper in the last tutorial is the fact that Reaper is not designed to distinguish between MIDI tracks and audio tracks. Thankfully, in the virtual instrument department, Reaper is much friendlier.
In a new Reaper project, I've elected to go up to the Track Menu. Within this menu, you'll notice the good ol' 'Insert virtual instrument on a new track..' option sitting there waiting for you:
Go ahead and select this sub-menu and delight in the fact that Reaper has a dedicated Virtual Instrument track option.
Once selected, a Menu will appear listing all of your various instrument plug-ins (you lucky person, you!). But before you get to selecting and getting rid of this window, let me point out a few things:
On the left-hand side of this menu are several list options to speed up your ability to find certain plug-ins. And this should not be discounted.
Step 2 - Plugin List Options
'¨For example: Reaper will list new plug-ins that have recently been installed on your system. This is easily underestimated, but let me pose a scenario: can you remember specific times where you installed a new plug-in, only to be confused later in trying to find said plug-in? The various categories under 'All Plugins' take care of that annoying scenario. If you're not sure where to look, simply select 'New', and rely on Reaper to show you what's new to your system:
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Additionally, you have the option to sort by only VST plug-ins, VSTi (VST Instruments), AU, and AUi (Audio Unit Instruments), Cockos (Cockos has created an instrument or two as well as FX), and JS (Jesusonic Plug-ins).
What is particularly handy to me, being a ReWire jockey from Hell, is the ReWire list. Selecting ReWire allows me to quickly access applications like Reason and Ableton Live, which can run along with Reaper in real time. Wow, try saying that 3 times fast!
If you happen to double-click on any one of these options, Reason, Ableton Live, or any other ReWire application you select will instantly start. There's no having to dig around through your dock, applications folder, or however you do it normally.
Once a ReWire application has started, it is synced with Reaper. If you choose to remove it from your project, Reaper will actually shut the program off for you. I was particularly impressed with this small bit of polish, as I'm used to having to do this all manually'meaning I have to shut off Reason with Command-Q.
In our next Reaper tutorial, we will be going more in to ReWire. For now, let's move on to more virtual instrument goodness hosted by Reaper itself.
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Step 3 - Starting the Virtual Instrument
Okay, I'm going to start one up. Hold on to your hats. I'll select the 'New' filter in the Add FX menu. Here I'll select Synplant from Sonic Charge. A great instrument that I highly recommend. I'll simply double-click on it within this menu. If you don't have Synplant, choose a synth that you do own!
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And the instrument appears!
Within this menu, you get wonderful insights as to how much CPU this plug-in is using, the ability to add comments to a patch, output possibilities, etc. In the lower left corner of the Instrument window, you also have access to the 'Add' and 'Remove' Buttons. In reference to the Remove button, if you decide you'd rather use a different synth, simply remove the current one you have selected, and then use the Add button to select another one.
At this point, if you try to play your synth, it should be working. If not, you'll need to check your MIDI settings in Reaper, Part 1.
Step 4 - Adding FX
Now that we have a synth ready to go, it might be nice to add an FX plug-in onto it as well!
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This can be easily done from within our current menu, the one that we used to instantiate our instrument plug-in. Press the Add button in the lower left corner of this screen.
Now, we can add another plug-in to this track. I'm going to press the AU filter list and select 'Apple: AUDelay'. You'll now notice that the AUDelay is available underneath Synplant in my list, and since it's already selected, I can see the plug-in's GUI. From here, I can edit the Delay settings, etc.
If I decide that I'd like to bypass this effect, I can simply uncheck the box next to its name in the list. Now the effect is off, but can be re-enabled if I need it. /free-binaural-vst-plugin-sennheiser-ambeo-orbit.html.
By clicking on the Add button again, I can also add more FX plug-ins to this track. This is helpful in building up crazy, thick instrument patches that blow the mind..or instruments that sound like they are being played in a sewer (yeah, it's an art).
Conclusion
All in all, Reaper is really easy to use where virtual instruments are concerned, and with this wonderful way to stack FX, there should be nothing keeping you from making some wonderful synth parts for your songs.
In the next tutorial, we're going to get into a full-on ReWire scenario between Reaper and Reason. Make sure to check back soon!
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Rast Sound releases Organ Tones for Kontakt as a free holiday gift24th December 2020
Rast Sound has released Organ Tones, offering five playable organ presets from classic pipe to popular music tones. This library is available for free as a holiday gift.
Features:
- 250 MB unzipped for Kontakt & WAV. - 5 unique organ presets. - Playable solo instruments for Kontakt (full ver. 5.8+).
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Reflekt Audio releases free Holiday plugin 24th December 2020
Reflekt Audio has released free Holiday VST for producers and creatives across the globe with special help from our children, wives, and parents.
The holiday season is all about family and giving back.
That's why @reflektaudio and @takibrano created the free Holiday VST for producers and creatives across the globe with special help from our children, wives, and parents.
Each of the 55 sounds & instruments inside this carefully curated selection of playable round robin one shots and fully-mapped playable samples holds enough Holiday spirit to create magic in your DAW even after the Holidays.
Our love for production shines bright and we hope to spread some joy with this plugin.
Don't be a hohoho.
Give the gift of free playable Holiday sounds for yourself and a friend by sharing the link to this page.
Also one last thing before you go. When you download this plugin Taki and I have included our version of the 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' melody in MIDI format for you. =).
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Solcito Musica releases free Arido 3.33 VSTi and free SuperSonico 7.45 VSTi 23rd December 2020
Solcito Musica has released Arido 3.33 VSTi and SuperSonico 7.45 VSTi full versions for free.
What's new in Arido v3.33:
First full free version. Improved stability due to new version of the developer software. Solved issues with certain presets.
What's new in SuperSonico v7.45:
First Full Free version. Added Moog filter. Now the Filter gain depends on resonance to avoid volume excess. Optimized the internal series/parallel connections of Filters. Improved the Filter selectors, now eat less CPU. Optimized the Pulse generator of Oscillator. Simplified the internal structure, improved the width control curve. Greater maximum length in Envelope steps. Improved the Pitch Bend. Improved the curve of manual rate control of LFO. Added an optional Edit Label in LFO to set the local tempo manually. Added Phaser FX. Solved undesired deactivation of FX when changing presets or when setting certain controls. Optimization of rate range of FX. Now the FX rate has exclusive values for Echo, different than FX rate values of other FX. Improved load time. Ager indication up to 2021. Presets of earlier version can be loaded but not full compatible.
Until now, Solcito Musica released Stand Alone versions for Free and VSTis for Donationware. Now both Arido and SuperSonico VSTis are downloadable in Full Free VSTi versions in 32-bit and 64-bit. No more Stand Alone versions.The donation is important but not an obligation.
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NoiseAsh updates free Sweetcase Electric Piano to v1.3.2 22nd December 2020
NoiseAsh has updated Sweetcase EP (a free plugin) to version 1.3.2.
Sweetcase is a virtual instrument plug-in that takes your electric piano parts very easy level and realistic right in your computer, with warm and professional sound quality.
Core Specifications:
- Warm, realistic and extremely customisable professional vintage electric piano sound with nice special 3D GUI. - Like most of NoiseAsh Audio products, this is a Ready to mix instrument. That means your e-piano tracks won't need to be tweaked hard for modern analog vibe. All samples were recorded, mixed / mastered through classic analog gears such as tape saturator, tube eq and compressors. - Many round robins and different velocity layers for realistic sound. - Bass Boost, Bell, Modulation (Pan, Tremolo and Pitch). - Sustain Level & Hold Time Envelope controls. - Algorithmic Reverb, Phase Modulation, Sleek Parametric Eq. - Friend of CPU. - Resizable GUI.
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Sample Logic releases Taste the Fury free Kontakt instrument21st December 2020
Sample Logic has released Taste the Fury, a free Kontakt instrument library featuring a Taiko drum ensemble instrument from the full Drum Fury percussion library.
Sample Logic invites you to experience the potential of DRUM FURY with a free single Taiko Drum Ensemble instrument straight out of the apocalyptic collections of drums found in DRUM FURY. If you like this first taste, then just wait until you can feast on all the fury of the full DRUM FURY library, an extensive 11 GB collection of over 100 apocalyptic KONTAKT drum instruments. This is epic cinematic percussion at its finest, featuring multi-sampled performances that have been captured and programmed to perfection. A world of percussion awaits you!
Full retail version of Kontakt, version 5.8.1 or higher (Will not work in the free Kontakt Player!)
Mac OS X 10.11, i5, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended) Windows 7, 8, 10, Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended) 62 MB free disk space for TASTE THE FURY sample content COMPATIBILITY (Mac 64-bit only; Windows 32/64-bit) Stand-alone, VST, (AU) Audio Units, AAX
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Klevgränd gives away a new virtual instrument - Santa Guiro21st December 2020
The annual Christmas gift from Klevgränd is now available for download on their web page.
Guiro is a free giveaway from Klevgrand. In short, it is a Guiro that you can play using the modulation wheel on your MIDI controller. If you've always wanted to play in a Latin band and don't have a Guiro (but a mod wheel on your MIDI controller), this is definitely worth checking out! Totally free, if you have a Klevgrand account (which is also free).
Usage
To play the Guiro, hold down a MIDI note to set the stick down. Then use the modulation wheel (control change #1) to start scraping. Cha-cha-cha!
To get your copy, simply login to your Klevgrand account (or create a free account). When logged in, Guiro will be available as an ”exclusive member content” in the user area. Merry Christmas!
Guiro is available as an AU/VST/AAX plugin for macOS & Windows.
Enjoy!
Requires macOS 10.9 or later, Windows 7 (SP1) or later, running a AU, VST or AAX compatible 64-bit host. Also requires a MIDI controller with Modulation wheel (or capable of sending MIDI CC #1)
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Full Bucket Music updates free ModulAir synth to v1.2.0 19th December 2020
Full Bucket Music has released ModulAir synth version 1.2.0 for Windows (VST) and Mac (VST/AU).
Changes since v1.1.0:
- Four new modules (Sample Player, Keyed Gate/Modulation/Signal). - Noise wave for oscillators. - User-defined Startup bank. - Added 'MIDI Thru' and 'Ignore Program Change' options. - Many internal improvements and fixes.
ModulAir is a modular polyphonic software synthesizer for Microsoft Windows (VST) and Apple macOS (VST/AU) written in native C++ code for high performance and low CPU consumption.