SmartLX
10-15-2009, 04:41 AM
I'm playing with the trial version of Reaper right now, and the one thing it doesn't seem to have is a basic MIDI composer/sequencer.
In case I've got the terminology wrong, I mean the facility to pick a virtual instrument and tell it to play C#, B, A and so forth until you have Mary Had a Little Lamb. Reaper only seems to use prerecorded MIDI and actual sound samples.
I quite like Sound Anvil and have for years (hooray for actual notation!), but its advanced functionality appears limited even in its latest incarnation. I don't see myself creating anything on the technical level of AeroZ's Wicked n' Floating (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01627/) with Anvil alone.
So, how do you folks get your MIDI?
- Is there a composer feature in Reaper I haven't found yet, or a plugin?
- Is there a rival package along the lines of Reaper that includes this function?
- Failing that, can .mid files created in a basic program like Anvil be easily imported into a larger package and the tinny instruments replaced? (Or else, where can you get good instruments for Anvil? I think it takes VST.)
Every single note of every remix can't possibly have been played live. What do you do?
In case I've got the terminology wrong, I mean the facility to pick a virtual instrument and tell it to play C#, B, A and so forth until you have Mary Had a Little Lamb. Reaper only seems to use prerecorded MIDI and actual sound samples.
I quite like Sound Anvil and have for years (hooray for actual notation!), but its advanced functionality appears limited even in its latest incarnation. I don't see myself creating anything on the technical level of AeroZ's Wicked n' Floating (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01627/) with Anvil alone.
So, how do you folks get your MIDI?
- Is there a composer feature in Reaper I haven't found yet, or a plugin?
- Is there a rival package along the lines of Reaper that includes this function?
- Failing that, can .mid files created in a basic program like Anvil be easily imported into a larger package and the tinny instruments replaced? (Or else, where can you get good instruments for Anvil? I think it takes VST.)
Every single note of every remix can't possibly have been played live. What do you do?