Reaper Live Use - separate project as master mix

[SmokeJumperMusicUK]

I wonder if this is possible in reaper and, if so, if anyone can give some tips on how best to set this up.

I'm currently preparing a live setup using reaper. I'm going down the route of having separate songs in separate projects and opening the projects in project tabs. I have SWS extensions installed and I've disabled "run background projects". This means that only the visible song/project is using resources (I think). Using various actions, etc I can easily switch between song/project tabs.

Each song, routes individual tracks to various busses that are the same in each project, i.e. Click, Drums, Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Bass.

What I would like to do is have a separate (master) reaper project to act as a "Master mixer". i.e. I could route the individual busses from each individual project to the "master mixer" in same way as if I had outputted each buss to a separate channel on an external mixer.

Thanks in advance
Nick

[domzy]

Unfortunately i don't think it's quite so simple as having a "master tab", but if it's because you need to mix between different buses there are a couple of workarounds
1) use a mixer plugin on the monitor FX bus and have your songs as multi-channel output - maybe using lbx stripper to make a custom plugin
2)use another app as your mixer - Mulab free or ableton lite or something, as long as it can do ASIO, you can use ReaRoute to link them (this is actually possible using 2 instances of reaper, if you have 2 soundcards, but it's a bit wobbly to set up, and i don't think you can use Rearoute on a portable install)
3) if your soundcard has a loopback facility you might be able to route tabs into other tabs, or maybe even with something like voicemeeter

[mschnell]

Hi Nick
(There is a dedicated subforum for discussion Reaper "Live use" issues.)

The concept of project tabs does not allow for routing between different project tabs.

If you need something like this, you supposedly need to do a single big project for all tabs.

Subprojects might help, but right now there are no "Live Subprojects", but only "pre-rendered" subprojects. Those might or might not help in your case.

SWS LiveConfigs can mute and unmute tracks for saving CPU when only parts of the tracks are used at a time. But it will just unmute a single of the tracks it manages, not multiple ones. I don't know if moving the tracks that are originally in a tab in a folder track and have same muted/unmuted (does the CPU saving apply to daughter tracks).

Of course scripts can be done that mute/unmute tracks, see ReaPack -> "Mute or unmute Track X" and ReaPack -.> "Midi Fade X".

-Michael

[lexaproductions]

Originally Posted by mschnell

Hi Nick
(There is a dedicated subforum for discussion Reaper "Live use" issues.)

The concept of project tabs does not allow for routing between different project tabs.

Not quite true
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...8&postcount=10

I’ve been using Reaper like this weekly for three years. Works great. You must enable the « run background projects option and the more songs you have the bigger the hit on the cpu. But I did a stress test and my 2012 laptop starts to break a sweat at about 300songs. So it’s no biggie.

Reaper has been a workhorse for me in live sequencing.

[domzy]

Originally Posted by lexaproductions

Not quite true
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...8&postcount=10

wow! nice..

[mschnell]

Originally Posted by lexaproductions

https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...8&postcount=10

saying -> "You will now have loopback hardware outputs and inputs (you can output on one project tab, and read on another project tab)."

That's really interesting stuff, indeed.

How do you control which tab is "playing" ? For decent "Live" usage it would be necessary to derive that action from a Midi message from some hardware controller.

-Michael

[lexaproductions]

Actually you can have two tabs playing if you want. The transport always control the front most tab

[hopi]

Originally Posted by lexaproductions

Not quite true
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...8&postcount=10

I’ve been using Reaper like this weekly for three years. Works great. You must enable the « run background projects option and the more songs you have the bigger the hit on the cpu. But I did a stress test and my 2012 laptop starts to break a sweat at about 300songs. So it’s no biggie.

Reaper has been a workhorse for me in live sequencing.

thanks for this very interesting 'secret' info... just tried it and works as it says but.... does not work on portable installs I guess cuz it depends on the rearoute dll... and apparently we can't have that working in a portable

unless... someone can tell me otherwise???

[lexaproductions]

Dont know if it’s a window’s issue but I know for a fact that it works on a Mac. Portable install or not.