TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:49 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:54 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:10 pm I have a bunch of stuff I recorded at home that I'm bringing to a studio to re-amp, mix etc. They're going to be running Pro-Tools, anyone have a solid way to go from Reaper to ProTools? Otherwise I was just going to glue everything and dump the wavs, but I figure there might be crossfades etc. that the guy I'm working with might want to see/fix

I assumed it was a no go but looks like there are maybe some options but I'm sure some suck more than others

Honestly, I'd just see if I could install reaper on the studi ino computer. If not. Just bounce stems or tracks out. Do your stuff and take files back into reaper. Bounce out at start of project or at a designated marker to align easily.

that makes sense, thanks!

the fact that you can actually make a bootable Reaper install on a USB thumb drive is actually not a bad way to go as well. plugins will be a problem, but if you are just doing some tracking or reamping could be a solution.

Kniferide wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:33 am

TylerDeadPine wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:49 am

Kniferide wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:54 am

Honestly, I'd just see if I could install reaper on the studi ino computer. If not. Just bounce stems or tracks out. Do your stuff and take files back into reaper. Bounce out at start of project or at a designated marker to align easily.

that makes sense, thanks!

the fact that you can actually make a bootable Reaper install on a USB thumb drive is actually not a bad way to go as well. plugins will be a problem, but if you are just doing some tracking or reamping could be a solution.

You convinced me I'm just going to roll with my whole computer, might as well

Kniferide wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:41 am

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 6:39 am

jorsh wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:24 pm


when you're archiving a Reaper project that you may want to revisit down the road, do you prefer to render your tracks to stems or freeze them? just trying to think this through and get a system set up to save future headaches.

In the 25 years I've been doing digital recording (19 years with Reaper), I don't think I've ever created stems of a project for my own future personal use. Sometimes clients will ask for it, and I have no problem giving them a folder of their individual tracks with the plugins applied (but not run through the master bus).
The only time I've ever cared about that for my own personal use is for MIDI tracks using virtual instruments, where I'd have trouble recreating that specific synth sound or whatever if I had to start from scratch. For any other analog source audio, I figure that if I'm going to revisit a project in the future, I'm going to completely remix it anyway, using the better tools I'd have access to in that future. I'd rather have the original audio as it was captured at the time.

If I've done a bunch of comping or editing, though, I'll definitely use the "glue" function to create a new .wav file of those edits.

Exactly the same. I actually will Bounce synth tracks out as Audio when it is time to really mix once I'm happy with it and delete the midi track all together. I just mix the audio track. I burn bridges before mix time. For archive, I have in the past bounce out a track with effects or anything weird that I think might be hard to access later.

thank you, both. this is very helpful perspective.

Reainsert for reamping ? I’m not very good at this part. By the time the direct signal gets sent out and picked up by a mic and then sent back to the recorder, there’s a delay, so I have to record and then go back and line up waveforms, which I would rather not do.

I would rather hear the reamped signal in time with the rest of the track so I can make more informed decisions while moving and swapping out mics. I also want to have other elements being reamped and captured at the same time I am playing another instrument for a controlled bleed effect.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:46 am Reainsert for reamping ?

I've never used it for reamping, but I use it to send and return out to hardware like comps or guitar pedals all the time, including guitar amp sims like a rusty box or similar. It has delay compensation built in and seems to do a good enough job. A habit I did get into is putting a sharp drum machine hihat sample at the start of the signal I'm reamping to give myself a visual spike to align in the editor with, but for the most part, I don't blend a reamped signal with other unprocessed signals of the same source because phase can be really weird. I only use it as a Replace method.

You COULD use ReaInsert to send out to an amp, and on the return signal choose the IO input you are using to mic the cab. Never done it, seems like it would work just fine and has latency ping detect built in.

Ah shit yeah. I might not have set the damn Reainsert return since I created the new mic track like I would any other source to be recorded from a microphone.

Also, funny you say that about mixing di and reamped signals. I lined up everything by eye (di, reamped bass mic+ a different reamped bass mic with hpf), and combining the mic’d signals was always fine since I checked phase before recording, but blending in the original DI seemed to mess it up, even after lining up all three waveform peaks by eye.

I have a little Radial box that adjusts phase that I meant to check the DI phase with, but I can burn an hour messing around with any little task like that and just moved on to something else.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:54 pm Ah shit yeah. I might not have set the damn Reainsert return since I created the new mic track like I would any other source to be recorded from a microphone.

Also, funny you say that about mixing di and reamped signals. I lined up everything by eye (di, reamped bass mic+ a different reamped bass mic with hpf), and combining the mic’d signals was always fine since I checked phase before recording, but blending in the original DI seemed to mess it up, even after lining up all three waveform peaks by eye.

I have a little Radial box that adjusts phase that I meant to check the DI phase with, but I can burn an hour messing around with any little task like that and just moved on to something else.

Yeah, When I do, do it (hehehe) I line it up by eye or use the Melda Audio Phase align plugin, which works great for it and really great for kick drum mics. I just usually try to get a reamped signal to have everything I need in it so I don't have to balance a bunch of tracks. I'm big into trimming down track count by burning bridges and deleting tracks.

What drum VSTs are you folks using lately? I usually use MIDI to hardware (shitty 90s romplers) or Rewire to Reason's ReDrum and KONG modules. Features like multichannel outs, grouping, pan/pitch/decay etc. controls, and maybe even some kind of analog modelling crap would be cool. Free is best of course but a little $$$ for the right tool is doable.

ErikG wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:41 pm What drum VSTs are you folks using lately? I usually use MIDI to hardware (shitty 90s romplers) or Rewire to Reason's ReDrum and KONG modules. Features like multichannel outs, grouping, pan/pitch/decay etc. controls, and maybe even some kind of analog modelling crap would be cool. Free is best of course but a little $$$ for the right tool is doable.

I use Slate Drums (which I kinda hate, get EZ Drummer)
I also use Klevgrand One Shot, which I love. Spendy... Worth it if you already have a lot of samples.
I also use Cherry Audio CR78, cause it rules. Its a CR78, the best drum machine.
I also use Native Instruments Maschine, which is a headache until you figure it out, but fun.
For super easy drum machine stuff I use Sitala. (FREE! Easy! can use your own samples.
For super fun weirdness Klevgrand Skaka (Shaker Pattern Sequencer). Rules.
Also Klevgrand Borsta (Brush and hand drum Pattern Sequencer) Rules.
Also Klevgrand Slammer (Non-professional and found drum sample bank) Can add a lot of flavor. Kinda cool.

Klevgrand Fucking rules, everything they make is cool. Not the cheapest, but the least boring stuff.

have any of you mastered an EP or album within Reaper?
if so, i'm curious how you set it up when doing multiple songs.

like are you just mastering each song separately in its own Reaper project, and then rendering the mastered versions and listening to how they all work with each other as a collection, and then going back in and making adjustments in the individual projects as needed?

or are you rendering an unmastered .wav file of each song, and then importing all the song wavs for the release into a new Reaper Project so that you can hop around between songs easily? and if that's the case - are you importing each song into a separate track within the project and adding any mastering plugins you're using on the track FX chain?
i feel like that could get weird having the mastering processing on the track FX chains rather than on the master bus FX chain, but maybe i'm missing something.

i'm sure Kenny Gioia has 17 videos about this, but i... would rather... hear it... from.... the PRF

thanks in advance