New Shortcut For Creating Unison Overdrive Phrases
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Hey everyone, I just wanted to share a custom shortcut I created that may save you some time. In the RBN Docs, it tells you to use the U command to burn an overdrive phrase across all opened MIDI tracks to create a unison phrase, but this command is no longer in the released Rock Band Reaper toolkit from this site. I really wanted to have this feature, so here’s the Custom Action you can create to do the same thing.
(Using Reaper 4.22)
Open the actions window (?), select the MIDI Editor section from the top right dropdown menu and click the “New…” button next to custom actions. Here you can add basic actions from the regular list to make your own. Here is the order of actions to add:
1. Edit: Copy
2. Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
3. Cycle to next secondary MIDI item
4. Edit: Paste
5. Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
6. Cycle to next secondary MIDI item
7. Edit: Paste
8. Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
9. Cycle to next secondary MIDI item
10. Edit: Paste *
11. Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection. *
12. Cycle to next secondary MIDI item. *
* These are only needed if you also have a 5 lane keys track. If you do not have keys, remove these parts so you do not double up the overdrive on the first track. You may want to make separate macros for w/ keys and w/o keys. Or if you are more clever than I, you can figure out a way to make it work with either situation.
Now all you need to do is assign it to a key (I put it to U). Open up all your instrument tracks in the MIDI editor (ctrl alt e) and author overdrives for one of the tracks. Select the overdrive and press U to burn it through!
Hope this helps
” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />Well that’s pretty nifty. I thought I’d want to use the “burn through” command at first, but now when I author the OD for B/G/D/K, I start with putting in the drum fills then, also in drums, I start adding the unison markers checking the other instruments individually to be sure they’ll all work together well. When that’s done, I go through the other instruments one at a time putting the alternating, non-overlapping ODs in place. So now I’m not sure if a burn-through would make life easier or not. It still might save me some time, though, so thanks for the info! How much time did it take you to figure that out?
It wasn’t too long – I was finishing up the OD on my new song this morning and got hung up on the part in the docs that says to use the U command. I’ve done Unisons without it a macro before, but the engineer in me couldn’t leave the problem unsolved. I looked at a few of the other custom commands to see how it was done, the rest was trial & error.
1. Edit: Copy
2. Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
3. Cycle to next secondary MIDI item
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Thanks for the tip. Are you able to elaborate a tad please.. I cant find the items stated.,…
From my customs window I see…
Edit : Copy items
Item navigation : Move cursor to start of items
.. I cannot find Cycle to next secondary Midi item…?
Are you able to send a screen shot so I can see exactly what you have configured for your macro..?
Thanks
Open the actions window (?), select the MIDI Editor section from the top right dropdown menu and click the “New…” button next to custom actions. Here you can add basic actions from the regular list to make your own.Colonel
I am not questioning that – having successfully navigated to the basic actions list …
It is the specific actions quoted here – the ones I find do not exactly match .. and the Cycle to next Secondary midi item I cant find listed at all….
ColonelI am not questioning that – having successfully navigated to the basic actions list …
It is the specific actions quoted here – the ones I find do not exactly match .. and the Cycle to next Secondary midi item I cant find listed at all….
You really need to take a step back and understand that your knowledge of this process is extremely, and I mean extremely, limited. If you understand that, you understand that you need to read Reaper’s documentation, RBN’s documentation and take what experienced users tell you as golden. In thise case, you have NOT successfully navigated the MIDI list, in fact you have not grasped the concept of the Actions menu being different when you open it in the main window and when you open it in the MIDI editor, as it has been explained to you. Open the Actions menu from a MIDI window and you will find your actions there.
Edit : Copy itemsItem navigation : Move cursor to start of items
These are MAIN WINDOW Actions menu list item. You need to open a MIDI WINDOW and work from there.
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