MIDI note name actions
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Actions to customize user friendly MIDI note names
Each pitch can be given a user friendly name in REAPER's MIDI editors. This is especially useful with drum sounds, but can be beneficial in other use cases as well. For example when using instruments which utilize an area of pitches as keyswitches, or patches which consist of different soundscapes or loops across the pitches. Give them a descriptive name and it gets far easier to identify what plays where. Some plugin instruments can hand over their note names to REAPER. those will automatically appear in the MIDI editors, but there are also means to do it manually.
Mind that although you edit and load them in the MIDI editors, note names are track based. If you have names defined for one MIDI item, they will appear on each MIDI item in that track. Each MIDI channel can hold it's own set of note names, so a single track can have loaded 16 different note name sets.
Other related actions are: View: Toggle show note names, View: Hide unused and unnamed note rows, Mode: Drum Map (a.k.a. "named notes mode")
Rename current note (Cmd ID 40411)
Sections: MIDI Editor, MIDI Event List
Opens a text input field for the highlighted note row, also called active position.
Save note names to file (Cmd ID 40410)
Sections: MIDI Editor, MIDI Event List
Spawns a dialog to save the currently visible set of note names to a file. These are simple plain text files and can be located anywhere on your system, but preferably in a folder called "NoteNameFiles" in REAPER's application data folder.
Load note names from file (Cmd ID 40409)
Sections: MIDI Editor, MIDI Event List
Spawns a dialog to load a note name file you have saved or downloaded previously into the current track.
Clear all note names (Cmd ID 40412)
Sections: MIDI Editor, MIDI Event List
Removes all note names of the currently visible channel. Note names on other channels are kept.
