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Originally Posted by TonE
Why you want this?
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Thank you for asking this.
What I want to do with two repear instances is:
I have to record a live performance. On one reaper instance, multi-track recording with some fxes on the tracks are going on. On the other reaper instance, I'd like to play some musics and some sound effects occasionally, which is also passed to the first reaper instance for recording via rearoute or jackaudio.
It is possible to do this in a single reaper instance but there is only a single play cursor and it's moving constantly due to recording. Hence, it is cumbersome to play some music and sound effects(sometimes with looping) as the recording is going on -- I have to copy and paste a music item that I want to play on a near future timeline as quickly as possible.
Maybe it'd be better to use some loop-player vst-plugin in a single reaper instance instead? Do you recommend this approach? If so, any recommended plugins?
In the mean while I realized my route could be somewhat unconvenient. I initially thought the midi signal from my controller would go to a reaper instance window with the active focus. But it was not. The midi signal goes to all the reaper instances and I could not find an option to change this behavior.
That means, if I turn a knob in my controller in order to change the track volume, it is delivered to two virtual midi ports and they are in turn delivered to two different reaper instances at the same time. So I have to set different midi assignments between two reaper instances, and otherwise the track volume in each reaper instance would move together. Maybe I could think of two reaper instances as a single big reaper instance and assign different knobs to different tracks in two reapers.