It’s a very basic synth designed for 8bit music, but you can get a very diverse range of sounds. Using the same Magical 8bit plug, you can use square, triangle or noise and two types of pulse. You will be asked to confirm you want to do this.Ĭlick the FX button on each track in turn and add the Magical 8Bit Plug instrument, and adjust the tone, length and sound of the notes while paying back the track. Uncheck the first checkbox, if it isn’t already, and load them all into one track. Sometimes you might want separate tracks, and sometimes you will want all the tracks in one to play them on the same instrument. You will be prompted and asked what you want to do. To get the MIDI file into Reaper, just drag and drop it into a track like you would with a WAV file. Also, to be our instrument, go and download a copy of the wonderful and free Magical 8bit Plug as the chipmusic instrument you are going to use. We are going to turn it into chipmusic, a spot of Bach, perhaps the Brandenburg Concerto 3. But formats move on and times change.įor example, the only version of Quicktime which supports the old general MIDI format these days is Quicktime 7 which you can still get and should have in your toolkit anyway to play old file types.īut what about making MIDI files into music? Is there a way to use these old forgotten pieces of music – classical, rock and game music – to make our own little tiny musical masterpieces? Reaper to the RescueĪlthough it’s not well documented, Reaper does a pretty decent job, better than most DAW software, of turning MIDI into music.

Most browsers used to support MIDI files natively but now most of them don’t, which is a shame for those online music sites which host large amounts of MIDI files like the one in our example. MIDI is an outdated format, at least as a way of storing musical performances, and online music has moved on quite a lot since the ’90s. In this article we will teach you how to add MIDI files to Reaper and how to orchestrate and mix a final product, in this case a fine example of Classical Chipmusic.

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