Reaper bugs

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#1

There’s a software problem where the “Arturia Program” mode is a bit hit and miss in Reaper.

  1. We Reaperians need to disable all KL61 Midi outs to have any recognition of the Arturia VSTi in the screen (although faders/knobs work, we cannot see for which parameter, or instrument)

  2. Activating the screen connection to an Arturia VSTi require removal and re-adding to a track (in the first instance)

  3. Switching Reaper tracks between two or more Arturia VSTis confuses the KL 61mk3 completely and often the screen freezes with the last working VSTi

I hope developers will note this and address. Reaper is, after all, the DAW of choice for the intellectual software dev :slight_smile:

Thanks anyway for a delightful instrument in so many other ways!

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#2

Hey @powertree thanks for identifying this bug! We’re sorry to hear about it.

We will let The Arturia Devs know about this in order to add it to their priorities and they will contact you.

Please let us know if you find any other issue.

Best :zap:

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#3

Also noticed in Arturia Mode Program on my Mk3 Keylab Essential when midi mapping the knobs to Kontakt 8 player in Reaper for some reason - when I get to knob 7 from the LHS to R, Kontakt as a Fx plugin crashes and takes the track down with it.

Not an issue under DAW’s Program though but if switching between Analog Lab and Kontakt then one just has to keep up with the program button change as one goes. I also found that Midi channel assignment has no effect with Midi Mapped Actions in Reaper so if I assign know 1 on midi channel 7 to adjust track balance in Actions - it adjusts balance of Track 1 across all midi channels.

Work around for me, luckily when using Kontakt, is to map the last knob on the RHS to Selected Track Balance and then just use the drum pads to select tracks and that knob for the balance adjustment leaving the other 8 for use within Kontakt.

#4

Hi - an update and work-around for my points 1 and 2. The problem scenario is when you have more than one instance of the Arturia VSTi on multiple tracks in Reaper. I found that the keylab display would not recognise and switch/follow the selection when you changed tracks, or armed another reaper track for recording.

So the workaround when arming a different track in reaper, is to press the search/magnifier hotkey on the keylab (bottom left under the display), then hit the back button on the keylab. Then the keylab gets the message and dispay and faders/pots will follow the new instance of the VSTi on the current reaper track.

Better!

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