MIDI programming

[JD01]

What I've never worked out how to do in Reaper is to get my MIDI to add to the previous stuff on the MIDI strip instead of overwriting it.

So I can't just, say, put my kicks and snares in then add the high hats on a 2nd pass. So I've never really got into MIDI programming using a keyboard.

I also don't know how to adjust sensitivity so you can get decent strength drum hits without smashing fuck out of your keyboard.

Can anyone (@Tadpui ?) give me a step by step on this. I'm finally starting to get pissed off with point and click with the mouse.

[Tadpui]

@JD01 if you right click on the record arm button for that track, you can change the record mode. One of the options is "overdub" and that'll retain what's already been recorded to that track when you record over it. Ive used that to add hihat pedal expression before. I'm not in front of reaper at the moment so I'm going by memory. I'll double check in a bit when I return to my cave

[JD01]

Great. I hope to arrive in my Cave in a couple of hours too.

[Tadpui]

I was pretty close, just didn't remember the whole names of the things.

Right click on record arm button -> Record:MIDI Overdub/replace -> Record:MIDI Overdub

That should get you going!

[JD01]

I'll get onto expression pedal for hat articulation next.