Configuring reaper for outboard mixing.
Hello friends. I'm new to this forum (but not to using reaper or audio mixing/engineering) so forgive me I'm posting this in the wrong forum. I did a search and can't find any threads that seem to answer this question. But if there are and I've missed them, please feel free to link them.
I'm in the process of moving a bunch of pro tools sessions to reaper. I use an analog mixing setup, with a 24 channel board, an RME Fireface, and a rack of DA converters to route each track from the computer into the mixer inputs. On pro tools, it was a simple matter of mapping each track to the corresponding output in my I/O settings.
In Reaper, however, this doesn't seem to be as straightforward. Most of the audio tracks themselves are mono and I only wish to route each one to a single mono hardware output. Now, I understand that as far as Reaper is concerned, every audio track is considered to be stereo, even if the source files are mono. However, it seems to be also treating each hardware output as stereo pairs as well, which is not very intuitive as well as inconvenient for my mixing setup. There doesn't seem to be any way to get Reaper to treat the outputs as mono and sum each individual track to each output separately. Instead, what I am finding I have to do is is assign the first two tracks to outputs 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc., and then hard pan each track left and right.
This solution feels hacky as well as just kind of cumbersome and awkward. I'm fine with doing it, if it's the only option, but is there a more straightforward, less fiddly approach?
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