Live Looping and Recording Full Output on Reaper

[Martmart Fish]

Hi there,

I have recently just set up reaper for live looping with some custom actions which seems to work well. I want to film this as I go.

While recording in reaper, I will be looping back sections, discarding takes, just listening for a while or playing over the top without recording, so just using the audio that I have afterwards isn't ideal.

Even if I did record absolutely everything I would still have to patch it together afterwards if I was to try and sync it with video footage.

So I want to be able to just record the full output as I go to be able to sync afterwards.

I have tried Audacity, but that involves using WASAPI / Shared Loopback which has unusable latency with the buffer / block size at any setting. I have tried 1, 0 and 48, 128 etc.

I also tried JB Voice Meter Banana and the latency would not go below 128ms which is unusable. Also, the whole thing was really scratchy with every type of driver.

It just show up in Audacity but the latency was not good.

I'm using a Focusrite Clarett 2Pre on windows 10 with 32gb Ram and plenty of processing power.

Generally, in reaper the latency is amazing without any hiccups or artifacts at very low buffer sizes.

I essentially want to play around on reaper, jumping in and out of tracks whilst having another instance just recording everything as one track.

I feel like this should and could be fairly straight forward but it seems to be quite a challenge at the moment, so if anyone has any pointers that would be great.

[domzy]

"save live output to disk"? (in the file menu)

[akademie]

Hi, Martmart Fish,
Menu: "File" -> "Save live output to disk (bounce)..." also Ctrl+Alt+B hotkey

There are also two action commands in Action list, just filter list by "bounce"

EDIT: yup, domzy was quicker meanwhile while I wrote reply

[serr]

I take it you are doing stuff like jumping around in the timeline?

There's a feature to record live output to file. (Under the file menu.)
That would do it without a 2nd instance of Reaper.

You could also use a virtual audio device app like Soundflower or Loopback. Aggregate device of your audio interface + the virtual device. Send the output to channels of the virtual device from Reaper instance #1. Pick up the channels in Reaper instance #2 with this instance connected to the virtual device only.

edit
Haha. Beat twice over while typing!

[akademie]

Well, Martmart Fish, now it is triple-confirmed as the right solution

[domzy]

or you could have open a new tab and use the gmem send and receive plugins to record it into a new project in the second tab.

[Regisfofo]

Just put meldaproduction's mrecorder on your master track.

[Martmart Fish]

Wow, thanks!

"Save Live Output to Disk" Is absolutely what I was looking for and no need faffing with Audactity etc. Super easy.

Much appreciated to everyone.

[Jae.Thomas]

what options are these