23.3 Sending Audio from REAPER to Another Application
This example looks at sending a project from REAPER to another DAW.
Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 23 Using REAPER with Other Applications and Devices (Overview) Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70
This example looks at sending a project from REAPER to another DAW. You might wish, for example, to use one of that DAW's native plug-ins on a track or tracks. If you know your other application well enough and have already set it up to use ReaRoute you should be able to apply these guidelines. They are:
- Open REAPER. It is important that you open REAPER before the other application. 2. Open the project file that you wish to use. For each track that you wish to use, create a hardware output to a different ReaRoute channel. 3. Open the other application (e.g. Sonar, Cubase, Ableton Live) and create a new project file. 4. Insert into your new file one new track for each track that you wish to bring in from REAPER. For each track, the input should be set to correspond with the equivalent output used in REAPER. For example, if in REAPER you set a track’s output to ReaRoute Channel 1, then the corresponding new
track in your other DAW will need to have its input set to Left ReaRoute ASIO ReaRoute REAPER Channel 1. 5. Within the second application, start recording. Within REAPER, play the song. 6. Stop both when the song finishes. 7. When finished, first close the other application and then close REAPER. You should always remember – Open REAPER first, close it last. In many cases it would be easier and quicker simply to import the wave files directly into the other application. There are, however, other instances when it may be advantageous to use ReaRoute instead. For example:
- It might not be easily possible to line up all tracks. Some may start and finish at different times.
Others might consist of a large number of media items each of short duration. It would be difficult to import these piecemeal.
- Some tracks might consist of a combination of MIDI items and audio items. Many applications do not
let you mix MIDI and audio on the same track. This way, they are all taken across as audio.