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Old 21st October 2007   #12
manning1
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jay M.
i seem to remember a thread on the reaper forum about a way to do surround.
dont quote me though. cos i skimmed over it as i dont do surround.
i think it involved useing one of the reaper plug ins.
but i might be wrong.
thus you might wish to ask about this on cockos forum.

as to unlimited dsp, as far as i understand it....
one is only limited by ones computer power.
which stands to reason of course.
as we move foreward to more and more cores in processor architectures
in the next few years,
some are saying hundreds of cores (in R n D labs being worked on),
this will allow of course a huge number of plugs/tracks.
i seem to remember a reaper user showing it running a crazy number of tracks
on an 8 core pc with 200 ssl plug ins if you scan the threads.
in my case i use no more than 50 tracks.
one handy feature is that rpr tells me if i have a plug in consuming a lot of dsp processing power.

Mr superburton.
if you DO check reaper out.
make sure you really delve into the over 100 included dsp plug ins.
some folks on seeing the plug in suite is free would jump to the erroneous conclusion
they might not be any good.
nothing could be further from the truth.
their breadth of features will amaze you.
includeing things like 1073 emulation etc etc.
in particular also pay carefull attention to the free included stillwell and loser plug ins,
as well as the cockos offerings.
why i like this environment is i need not worry bout dongles.

there has been a huge update with version 2 with even more goodies.
also pay carefull attention to reapers extensive routing capabilities.
which folks love.
really theres just so much.
so i would suggest spending at least a week delving into it.
includeing how you can incorporate external outboard gear mate.
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