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DarkStar · 05-06-2019, 04:33 AM

Hello Jr_vw2 and welcome to these forums. You'll find many helpful people here and a lot of useful information. Make sure that you:

get the excellent User Guide by Nicholas too: http://www.cockos.com/reaper/userguide.php,
check out Kenny Gioia's great video series: http://www.reaper.fm/videos.php,
and the Groove 3 video series: https://www.groove3.com/reaper-training-video-tutorials.

Yes, you are right: the MIDI from the keyboard in "only" data, not any sound. You can Record the MIDI data in Reaper then edit it to fix any timing issues, missing notes, wrong notes and so on. Loads of details are in the User Guide.

As for hearing the results, you may be able to send the MIDI out of Reaper, via the Scarlett back to your piano. Or, as you said, add a software plug-in onto the track where the MIDI is. To try this out, after recording some MIDI (or just editing notes into an empty MIDI clip), you could add the Reaper ReaSynth.

Now, as for plug-ins: there are hundreds (thousands) to choose from; all the way from free up to several hundreds of $. What sort of sound do you want? Then we can offer some ideas. You might like to get the latest issue (printed or digital) of Computer Music magazine. Then you will get on DVD (or download) a big range of synths, FX and other plug-ins.

05-06-2019, 04:33 AM	#2
DarkStar Human being with feelings Join Date: May 2006 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 19,681	Hello Jr_vw2 and welcome to these forums. You'll find many helpful people here and a lot of useful information. Make sure that you: get the excellent User Guide by Nicholas too: http://www.cockos.com/reaper/userguide.php, check out Kenny Gioia's great video series: http://www.reaper.fm/videos.php, and the Groove 3 video series: https://www.groove3.com/reaper-training-video-tutorials. Yes, you are right: the MIDI from the keyboard in "only" data, not any sound. You can Record the MIDI data in Reaper then edit it to fix any timing issues, missing notes, wrong notes and so on. Loads of details are in the User Guide. As for hearing the results, you may be able to send the MIDI out of Reaper, via the Scarlett back to your piano. Or, as you said, add a software plug-in onto the track where the MIDI is. To try this out, after recording some MIDI (or just editing notes into an empty MIDI clip), you could add the Reaper ReaSynth. Now, as for plug-ins: there are hundreds (thousands) to choose from; all the way from free up to several hundreds of $. What sort of sound do you want? Then we can offer some ideas. You might like to get the latest issue (printed or digital) of Computer Music magazine. Then you will get on DVD (or download) a big range of synths, FX and other plug-ins. __________________ DarkStar ... interesting, if true. . . . Inspired by ...