Hi. I’m having these problems: 1. If I drag a chord or a series of chords into Reaper, it’s as if they’re imported twice, one on top of the other; 2. Even if I delete a “layer,” moving the chord in time makes it sound like there’s another chord underneath. Could it be that I have the wrong Reaper or Scaler3 settings? Can I see what settings you have? 3. Even if I delete one of the two “layers,” moving the chords on the track makes it seem as if the chords underneath continue to play in their original positions. Thanks.
Welcome to the community.
I have been using Reaper since more than ten years and I know what you are talking about because this happenrd many times to me.
In my experience, this is a random behavior that I have seen using several plugins that allow drag & drop of MIDI to Reaper: Scaler 2, Scaler 3, InstaComposer, Addictive Drums, Jamstix. I think I had this issue in ChordPotion, too.
I have abandoned most of these plugins, except Scaler 2 & 3 and Jamstix.
Normally, I do it the same way as you do - click on the top layer and delete.
The problem is that this is completely random.
There is a dialog (not always displayed in Reaper when I D&D. This dialog pops when I do drag & drop very close to an existing MIDI with series of chords, but normaly don’t see it or so rarely that I forgot:
If I click on the radio-button “Insert new media item that overlaps the target media item”, doubles are 100% certain. If the third radio-button is selected (as in the image), no doubles. If the dialog does not pop up, sometimes there they are and sometimes not.
The part of your problem that I do not understand is what you describe as “it sound like there’s another chord underneath”. This is something I have never experienced. Would it be possible to make a short video if you can reproduce this case?
BTW, I suppose you are using Windows - can you confirm?
Thanks
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Hi. First of all, thanks for your reply and the clarity. I sort of solved the problem (though I’m not entirely happy with it) by opening Scaler3 outside of Reaper (the standalone version) and dragging the chords from there. As for the “double chord” issue, I realized I was mistakenly placing the chords on the same track as Scaler when I opened it as a plugin. When I started listening, both the chords I’d pasted into the track and the ones Scaler had in the “ChordSet” played. Is this normal behavior? Thanks.
This looks like a normal behavior. The chords in Scaler play “normally” if DAW sync is on and, also, you have the ones in the track. Right-click on the play button in Arranger and see is DAW sync is checked; if so, click on the DAW sync and this should be unsynced. Then try what you did before and let me know.
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Okay, I’ll try what you said. In the meantime, thank you very much.
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