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I have BFDALL inserted on track 1.
BFD ALL has 17 VSTi outputs.
1/2 - Overheads
3/4 - Room mics
5/6 - PZM mics
7 - kick in
8 - kick out
9 - snare top
10 - snare bottom
11 - hi hat
12 - low tom
13 - med tom
14 - high tom
15 - crash cymbal
16 - ride cymbal
17 - other cymbal
this is what i want to accomplish using reaper, and only reaper.
I want a track at the top to serve as the "master track" where all of these subsequent routings go to, and therefore it has the only send to master. I want to put my midi tracks in here as well, for BFD. I dont want ANY of the individual channels going here exclusively. I simply want this for master control of BFD.
I want to next have 3 more stereo tracks for
overheads (which would make it track 2)
room (track 3)
pzms (track 4)
after that, i want to bus them to
wet mix (track 5)
to raise and lower the sound of all of the tracks together, or process them together if i wish. this would send to the master BFD track.
after that, i want 2 mono tracks
kick in (track 6)
kick out (track 7)
(would be nice if these were collapsable cause it wouldnt be too often i would need to process the in or out of a kick)
I want to sum them to mono (most sequencers, like reaper, have a tendency to put the kick in on the left and the kick out on the right, which of course screws alot up, so...) and send them to a bus
kick bus (track 8)
the same for snare top and bottom.
snare top (track 9)
snare bottom (track 10)
( I would also want these to be collapsable because i wouldnt always want to say, put compression on the bottom snare mic)
I would like these to sum to mono (most sequencers, like reaper, have a tendency to put the snare top on the left and the snare bottom on the right, which of course screws alot up, so...) and send to
snare bus (track 11)
then a single track for hihat (track 12)
for the toms, i would like to combine channels 12-14 into one track for toms. This would probably require sending each tom to a track
low tom (track 13)
med tom (track 14)
high tom (track 15)
would be nice to have these tracks collapsable.
and then bussing those to
toms bus (track 16).
same thing with the cymbals.
crash cymbal (track 17)
ride cymbal (track 18)
other cymbal (track 19)
and then bussed to
cymbals bus (track 20).
after this i would like all of the bussed tracks (8,11,12,16 and 20) to send to a "DRY MIX" track (track 21).
then this one would send to the master BFD track.
of course, it would be very nice if this whole thing could just fold up underneath the BFD master track (track 1)...
if ANYONE understands what i just wrote, any help would be appreciated. I dont want to have to use an external host for routing. And reapers routing, although flexible, leaves a bit to be desired in this situation.
Track 1: BFD master
Track 2: Overheads (sent to wet mix track 5)
Track 3: Room (sent to wet mix track 5)
Track 4: PZM (sent to wet mix track 5)
Track 5: Wet Mix (sent to BFD master)
Track 6: kick in (sent to kick bus track 8 as mono, centered)
Track 7: kick out (sent to kick bus track 8 as mono, centered)
Track 8: kick bus (sent to "Dry mix" track 21)
Track 9: snare top (sent to snare bus track 11 as mono, centered)
Track10: snare bottom (sent to snare bus track 11 as mono, etc)
Track11: snare bus (sent to "dry mix" track 21)
Track12: hi hat (sent to "dry mix" track 21)
Track13: low tom (sent to tom bus track 16)
Track14: med tom (sent to tom bus track 16)
Track15: high tom (sent to tom bus track 16)
Track16: tom bus (sent to "Dry mix" track 21)
Track17: crash cymbal (sent to cymbal bus track 20)
Track18: ride cymbal (sent to cymbal bus track 20)
Track19: other cymbal (sent to cymbal bus track 20)
Track20: cymbal bus (sent to dry mix track 21)
track21: dry mix (sent to master BFD track)
I used this routing in FL studio all the time and it kicked butt for ultimate control of every aspect of the drum sound