hello guys and gals.
i having a bad couple of weeks and really could do with some advice using reaper and guitar pro and vsti.
my drummer fell off a roof at a rave 2 weeks ago and badly broke her pelvis. she not gonna be playing drums for probably at least six months. so ive now decided to enter the world of home production to keep myself occupied.
this is what ive got:
ive got guitar pro which ive used competently for several years.
ive downloaded reaper which ive semi-got my head around
ive bought bfd eco drum software which i really like.
ive downloaded kontact5 demo and a couple of other free vsti's including evm bassline
ive got an m-audio fast track interface which i have working well with reaper (pro tools se was a waste of money but at least i got the interface. was quite surprised it worked with reaper as protools se wouldn't allow 3rd party plug ins!)
i'm the song writer in my band and the bassist is in another band so its down to me now to do everything. so i want to use virtual instruments as my band for the time being and to compose with. ive always done it in guitar pro but want to start using daw.
what i want to do is get my guitar pro files into reaper and then apply virtual instruments. seems simple enough. ive checked out plenty of tutorials on this and what they have all told me to do is go to guitar pro and export it as midi (ive been doing it each time in a project with just 1 track bass or drums) so ive exported and saved a midi file. then in reaper import it onto a track. done that can open up the sequencer grid thing and there is all the midi data on the grid. go to fx and apply a vsti either bfd eco or evm bassline or kontakt 5 demo. go back to sequencer with midi grid thing and on the piano roll next to it none of the keys adjacent to the midi data have sounds assigned to them.if i mouse click the keys an octave above they do have sounds. so my question is how do i make the midi data from guitar pro line up with the correct keys on the piano roll? i cant believe the nightmare im having trying to work this out. i was hoping to have a bank holiday weekend playing guitar not working out software!!
another question is how have you all gone about learning to use software to record and compose with? did you go to uni or sit here like me struggling for hours on end? is there a tutorial video or evening course you did? im pretty serious about music. i do it for the love and passion, i play dub reggae mixed with punk so never gonna make any money but i still want to learn to do it to as high a standard as i can. i just hate it when i spend hours using a computer without seeing any creative results! spent an evening the other day working out how to cut and past more than one item!
thanks for any help and advice and whoever helps me solve this reaper guitar pro issue will have a glass raised in there name :-)