A Reaper question

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  1. Tropidechis Guest

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    Is there a way to export one's composition as a set of .wav files where
    each .wav file corresponds to a Reaper track?

    After studying the users guide I thought that the Consolidate command
    was what I needed, however it appears to only work for audio tracks.
    The composition I am working with consists of only MIDI tracks and when
    I use the Consolidate command, Reaper appears to go through the motions
    of consolidating in less than a second and nothing is written to the
    destination directory. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, because the
    documentation makes no mention of Consolidate only working with audio.
    Tropidechis, Aug 12, 2010
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  2. Glennbo Guest

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    The killer robot Tropidechis <> grabbed the controls of
    the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons...

    > Is there a way to export one's composition as a set of .wav files where
    > each .wav file corresponds to a Reaper track?
    >
    > After studying the users guide I thought that the Consolidate command
    > was what I needed, however it appears to only work for audio tracks.
    > The composition I am working with consists of only MIDI tracks and when
    > I use the Consolidate command, Reaper appears to go through the motions
    > of consolidating in less than a second and nothing is written to the
    > destination directory. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, because the
    > documentation makes no mention of Consolidate only working with audio.

    I've never tried that function. Have you tried exporting to stems? I
    think that's what people use to dump their songs to individual wave files,
    but I've not messed with that one either. If you are trying to get tracks
    out of Reaper into some other recording/mixing app, you might also want to
    look into ReaRoute, which is a multichannel virtual audio patch cable that
    looks like an ASIO driver to the other app. I've used ReaRoute to dump 16
    or more tracks in one shot between Reaper and Sonar.

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  3. Tropidechis Guest

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    On 2010-08-12 23:47:44 +1000, Glennbo <> said:
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    > I've never tried that function. Have you tried exporting to stems? I
    > think that's what people use to dump their songs to individual wave files,
    > but I've not messed with that one either. If you are trying to get tracks
    > out of Reaper into some other recording/mixing app, you might also want to
    > look into ReaRoute, which is a multichannel virtual audio patch cable that
    > looks like an ASIO driver to the other app. I've used ReaRoute to dump 16
    > or more tracks in one shot between Reaper and Sonar.

    Thanks for very much for that info.

    Exporting as stems will work, but it is a bit painful workflow wise
    because the stems are inserted as new audio tracks into the Reaper
    project and the original MIDI tracks are muted. I was hoping there was
    a method which didn't modify Reaper project.

    I suppose I should explain what I am doing. I sometimes like to use
    Melodyne to create rich harmonic textures by stacking an instrument and
    varying the formants. This kind of f..ckery is not suited to real time
    processing (and Melodyne is not 100% stable when run as a VST), so I
    like to import the stuff as discrete .wav files.

    Your suggestion of ReaRoute would be ideal except that ASIO is not
    available on Macs, but you put me onto the right track as there are
    some OS X user space core audio drivers which do much the same thing
    (SoundFlower, Wormhole). So I will experiment with them.

    Thanks again for the help. By the way I really like your "Musica Mundus" :)
    Tropidechis, Aug 12, 2010
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    The killer robot Tropidechis <> grabbed the controls
    of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons...

    > Thanks again for the help. By the way I really like your "Musica
    > Mundus" :)

    Thanks! Polymod plays some spectacular synth solos on that one.

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