New Axiom 49 Limited Edition working with Reaper

I am copying this message from the M-Audio forum. After some online research and fooling around with keyboards at GC and Sam Ash i picked up the red Axiom 49 Limited Edition to use to enhance recording in Reaper. It took me a few days to get my head around the best way to do this, but I now have the Axiom controlling Reaper's transport controls, the 8 sliders doing fader duty on 8 channels, the buttons below the sliders acting as mute toggles for each track, and the rotary controllers as pan controls for each track. Changing Axiom programs controls the voices in my TTS-1 plugin using different instruments for each of the 4 zones. Also, the pads are mapped to the drums properly. I think this will really speed up the editing I will be doing in MIDI to enhance my analog recordings. So far no huge surprises, but it was a little hard to get my head around a method that would work for the zone and group buttons to do Mute on/off. My next project is to get the controls to work with some of my other VSTs - hopefully without having to recall a different pre-set (might not be possible). sfletcher

Well worth it I would say 

I have the Axiom 61 and it is fantastic. I have compared it to some really expensive keys (albeit they have onboard sound) and it compares very favourably. My friend is a keyboard player who every band wants to have. He plays just about every style from ragtime blues to very strange space synth stuff and he has never commented on my Axiom. He never uses a computer based setup as he does not trust them for stage work. Just privately (ok very publicly here on the interweb) I think that his lack of comment is either because he thinks it is really good or a POS. I do not think it is a POS because I find it so handy to use. Anyhows I like mine and would easily pay a few dollars more for one I could use on stage that looked good even though I use keys then only to trigger stuff and play a few easy chords and sounds.

Axiom 25 Reaper 

I have the axiom 25, (answer)the axioms work great with reaper. The question is, how do I control more parameters with the axiom it only has 8 pads and 8 rotaries;I have a friend who programmed his to control reaper with up to 24 controls each, how do I do this? He did go to Harvard though :)