Batch MIDI Items Import Problem In REAPER

[harryupbabble]

Actually here's a solution, but you will need a newer version of Reaper with SWS extensions.

1. Load all your MIDI items on separate tracks
2. Place the edit cursor somewhere within the 4th beat
3. Select all tracks
4. Run action "Xenakios/SWS: Select items under edit cursor on selected tracks"
5. Invert item selection

This will select all items that are shorter than a full 4 beat MIDI file, so you can easily extend them all at once!

Wowie. That works! Okay belief re-enforced. Anything can be done in "newest" REAPER.

Note - step 5 should be changed to:
5. Run action "Xenakios/SWS: Invert item selection"

Also... under "Item settings", "Loop item source" should be deticked or unchecked

Okay I'm off to Google to find out how to batch export all these 422 midi items after I remove all the tom toms from them.

I think I might as well find a way to buy REAPER (have someone I know that has Paypal buy it for me, maybe). This problem being solved probably saved me hours and hours and hours of very tedious work if done manually instead of the faster way provided by ED. But should I wait for REAPER 6 to buy it?

Oh wait, how am I going to batch edit all the midi items and remove all the tom toms from them? Okay, Google time I guess.

Anyways, thanks again Evil Dragon and everyone.

[EvilDragon]

Oh wait, how am I going to batch edit all the midi items and remove all the tom toms from them? Okay, Google time I guess.

The easiest way would be to set Preferences->Editing Behavior->MIDI Editor like in the picture below




Then, if your MIDI files are across separate tracks, when you select all the MIDI items and double-click one of them to open the MIDI editor, all those items will be visible at once, and all will be editable. Tom notes would overlap, you would just select them all and delete. Easy peasy.

[harryupbabble]

For batch deleting notes, Evil Dragon's method above works great. Gracias mang.

For batch exporting midi items, I found this via Google:

dragging multiple midi files from Project Bay to a folder uses Alt + Drag (in my pc Right Alt )
-open Project Bay
-switch to Media items tab
-ctrl+a select all
-Alt+drag n drop


Before you proceed with the instructions above, make sure you save your project first so that your edits will be updated in the Project Bay.

On my Windows 7 offline computer it's Ctrl + Alt + Drag & Drop.
It seems the midi files are first copied to the desktop by REAPER and when the copying is done REAPER then moves the "rendered" midi items to the folder that one chose.
At first I was "Awww, damn I have to select all those midi files from the desktop and move it to that folder where it was supposed to go in the first place" but I just let REAPER do its thing and the files ended up in the chosen folder and the desktop is as it was, no mess created. Super. Great. It's a satisfying day.

I hope others in a similar situation to mine could make use of the info in this thread. Okay, that's that. I'm off to process 20,000+ midi items. REAPER rocks. Thanks again. Ciao peeps.