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Click on a MIDI item to pull up the built-in MIDI-editor. The Reaper menu on top should change. For example the 3rd option should change from View to Navigate. In the new menu, go to View and choose Mode: Named Notes. Then double-right-click a note on the far left of the edit window (where the black and white keys were) to rename it. Type in anything. Hit tab to go on to the next key. Then go to File and choose Customize Note Names / Save Note Names To File. That makes a little text file that you can even edit directly. In your next project you can load this file, using Customize Note Names / Load Note Names From File. There's also Customize Note Names / Merge Note Names From File, and Customize Note Names / Clear All Note Names.

You can put in any text. You can put in "5/4", "3:19", "H♯", "I♭", "D^" or "E+" among others. You might even be able to control the font with Reaper themes. To make a black key, you put in a special character. This example uses "█" (Unicode 2588 / "full block") ahead of the actual note name but you could use anything. Just copy-paste that. For other special characters, you may use Character Map on Windows, or refer to [~~http~~://www.wikihow.com/Make-Symbols-on-a-Mac this tutorial] for Mac.

You can put in any text. You can put in "5/4", "3:19", "H♯", "I♭", "D^" or "E+" among others. You might even be able to control the font with Reaper themes. To make a black key, you put in a special character. This example uses "█" (Unicode 2588 / "full block") ahead of the actual note name but you could use anything. Just copy-paste that. For other special characters, you may use Character Map on Windows, or refer to [https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Symbols-on-a-Mac this tutorial] for Mac.

This example uses underscores to make the note names on the white keys line up with the black key names. An octave was done this way in Reaper. Then the file was saved and TextEdit was used to cut and paste more octaves. The note numbers were edited to run 0-127. If your keyboard has MIDI notes 21-108 (standard 88 keys), you can delete lines 0-20 and 109-127. Then after you load it, choose View / Show/Hide Note Rows / Hide Unnamed Rows. Less to scroll through.

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You could use gray block characters to get three colors or more. Many possibilities! The text files containing the note names used for the screenshots are here: [http://www.TallKite.com/misc_files/19-tonePianoRolls.zip www.TallKite.com/misc_files/19-tonePianoRolls.zip]

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLO8KqDXhKk

===Useful Scripts===

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 Click on a MIDI item to pull up the built-in MIDI-editor. The Reaper menu on top should change. For example the 3rd option should change from View to Navigate. In the new menu, go to View and choose Mode: Named Notes. Then double-right-click a note on the far left of the edit window (where the black and white keys were) to rename it. Type in anything. Hit tab to go on to the next key. Then go to File and choose Customize Note Names / Save Note Names To File. That makes a little text file that you can even edit directly. In your next project you can load this file, using Customize Note Names / Load Note Names From File. There's also Customize Note Names / Merge Note Names From File, and Customize Note Names / Clear All Note Names.
-You can put in any text. You can put in "5/4", "3:19", "H♯", "I♭", "D^" or "E+" among others. You might even be able to control the font with Reaper themes. To make a black key, you put in a special character. This example uses "█" (Unicode 2588 / "full block") ahead of the actual note name but you could use anything. Just copy-paste that. For other special characters, you may use Character Map on Windows, or refer to [http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Symbols-on-a-Mac this tutorial] for Mac.
+You can put in any text. You can put in "5/4", "3:19", "H♯", "I♭", "D^" or "E+" among others. You might even be able to control the font with Reaper themes. To make a black key, you put in a special character. This example uses "█" (Unicode 2588 / "full block") ahead of the actual note name but you could use anything. Just copy-paste that. For other special characters, you may use Character Map on Windows, or refer to [https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Symbols-on-a-Mac this tutorial] for Mac.
 This example uses underscores to make the note names on the white keys line up with the black key names. An octave was done this way in Reaper. Then the file was saved and TextEdit was used to cut and paste more octaves. The note numbers were edited to run 0-127. If your keyboard has MIDI notes 21-108 (standard 88 keys), you can delete lines 0-20 and 109-127. Then after you load it, choose View / Show/Hide Note Rows / Hide Unnamed Rows. Less to scroll through.
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 You could use gray block characters to get three colors or more. Many possibilities! The text files containing the note names used for the screenshots are here: [http://www.TallKite.com/misc_files/19-tonePianoRolls.zip www.TallKite.com/misc_files/19-tonePianoRolls.zip]
+See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLO8KqDXhKk
 ===Useful Scripts===