Automating Plugins with ReaControlMIDI - Tutorial

It's 2019 and there are still plugins from the top companies that don't allow you to directly automate. Come on!
At least in REAPER we have a pretty easy workaround for this, with the ReaControlMIDI plugin.
In this video we'll be looking at how you can use ReaControlMIDI to work with MIDI learn in a plugin which can then be used with track automation. And see how this workflow looks in Syntronik, Amplitube and Helix.
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[@deltavistastudio124]

Thanks John, glad to know there is an good option for automation on Amplitube limitations in the VST. :)

[@sowellca6]

Thanks Jon. Great tip for that particular situation.

[@Eichro]

Also very useful when the parameter modulation option is smoother than controlling the knob directly, like those plugins that separate pitch controls by fine, semitone and octave.

[@synthlifestudios6341]

I've been looking for this this will save me sooooo much time. I'm orchestrating a string section, generally I want the expression to be the same, now I can program this with one envelope instead of a dozen. Thank you for sharing this.

[@mike_lourensmusic]

JUST WHAT I NEEDED!!! THANKS JON 😁😁😁

[@chrismcgourty1756]

Thanks buddy, awesome stuff.

[@AliceMinguez]

Super useful info, thanks!

[@Dmeekification]

Thanks for this great video!!!

[@lianpohn]

Thanks! It was very useful!

[@michal.ochedowski]

Thanks for the neat tip!

[@grichu]

OMG THANK YOU FOR THIS TUTORIAL!!!!!

[@guilllaumes]

Oh nice! It's so easy to setup, I remember trying to figure out how to get the enveloppe for parameters in Amplitube 4 a few months back and couldn't make it work, I'll start implementing that solution. Thanks!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Hello new patron!

[@guilllaumes]

@@TheREAPERBlog I'm happy to contribute a little bit to your work, you've been an incredible source of knowledge. I've learned a ton from your videos!.

[@SoundSpeeding]

Nifty!

[@laskholt]

Thank you, cannot see why any dislikes this?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

happened in the first 10min of publishing. I think someone gets up early to do that.

[@SoundSpeeding]

They must be drunk

[@gunamrit]

great tutorial but is there a chance to show how to change presets using midi notes?

[@veritykills8748]

Is there a tutorial for recording midi keyboard events (vol, pitch wheel) for reacontrollermidi so that the movement of the vol fader/pitch bend can be recorded in reaper automation? I cant find a way to record these movements

[@bu5hm45t3r]

Hi, off topic, How can i do mpe in reaper? individual note pitch bend and volume like Ableton live 11 and Bitwig studio. Thanks

[@GonzaloMoncada]

Nice! I've never seen the "Show MIDI track control panel" menu entry, awesome! A question, does Reaper have an Envelope generator triggered by midi to assign to parameters? Thanks!

[@TheREAPERBlog]

Possibly the JS: ReaRack2 - Envelope Multi-Tool
I haven't played with it yet

[@GonzaloMoncada]

@@TheREAPERBlog yeah, it's true. I didn't remember it! Thanks! I think a tutorial series of ReaRack should be awesome ;)

[@user-fv4rj6yh3i]

Please make video MIDI Automating with Vienna Ensemble Pro.

[@yaqubaxamee9146]

Hi man nice video but still don't find a solution for me , for example is I want to automate drive amp and clean amp ( not in two channel amp ) how to do it ?

[@nonpurplestar4158]

Does Reaper have the ability to give names to learned CCs in the Piano roll_?!

[@adhigeorgevlogs]

Has anyone faced a strange behavior when deleting previously recorded mod wheel automation and re-recording it?

[@paulmanstenford]

Thanks! Hey, at 3:46 when you move the automation point, the fade shape isn't linear, it's curved. How do you do that? I tried 'Default envelope point shape' but that wasn't it.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

my default point shape is slow start/end.

[@TazzSmk]

is it possible to output this via physical MIDI output? if yes, then Reaper can become replacement for entire QLab show automation O.o

[@TheREAPERBlog]

yeah you can output MIDI to hardware. I've seen people doing camera and lighting switches from reaper with MIDI.

[@clothes4060]

Hello. Can I panning individual/seperately each of midi keys?

[@TheREAPERBlog]

not easily

[@allenantony1]

could you pls share this plugin link in the description. it's not available in reaper stash

[@TheREAPERBlog]

this is included with reaper.

[@allenantony1]

@@TheREAPERBlog sorry I meant, the other one....pitchwheel control center . I downloaded the latest reapack but it's not seen there

[@ivancevich]

I use the alias functionality instead. It does the same thing, I think.

[@TheREAPERBlog]

alias = name of parameter

[@ivancevich]

@@TheREAPERBlog you can alias a MIDI CC parameter. Then just draw an automation curve and finally midi learn within the plug-in itself. I do that instead of using ReaControlMIDI

[@TheREAPERBlog]

I can't figure that out. could you show me that with Syntronik? It's free.