Reaper on OSX !

[thenoodle]

..."This is not true at all. My mobile rig is a Ludic Genex6-96 feeding word to RME HDSP9652's set to sync to word. REAPER just interfaces with your hardware, it does not add another layer between the card's word clock and the app's...."
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Fill me in on something then. I have a Nuendo session up on a pc. I have reaper on a second pc. Word out of pc one to a master clock. That master clock then sends word to the 2nd pc (where Cubase is normally loaded and which syncs fine with the Nuendo on the master pc).

Let's say I want to record a track on Reaper with Reaper starting and sync-locking to Nuendo whenever Nuendo is thrown into play or record.

In my experiment, if I start the Nuendo system playing, Reaper sits there. It doesn't chase. If I activate a track to record in Reaper, same thing. The only way Reaper will move is if I hit it's own record button...and then off it goes...in sync with itself, not the incoming word from the master pc. In other words, Reaper isn't seeing the clock even though the sound card in the Reaper pc is set to external word sync.

So, What's the secret to getting Reaper's transport to chase, lock, and sync to timecode coming in via external word? I'm not finding any Reaper menus or help topics that remotely mention this.

[manning1]

noodle...
i'm not sure exactly what your trying to do ....but i would go into
detail on the reaper forum. i havent done it...cos i dont need it....
i do everything in reaper.
but i understood there was some way to use an option in reaper
to "wire" between reaper and another application.
mebe someone else can clarify...via rearoute or rewire ??
if u check the rpr installer ..when u install rpr noodle....
there are options for installing rewire n rearoute if i remember.
but i would check on the reaper forum for in depth details.
all the best.

[pipelineaudio]

Originally Posted by thenoodle

In my experiment, if I start the Nuendo system playing, Reaper sits there. It doesn't chase. If I activate a track to record in Reaper, same thing. The only way Reaper will move is if I hit it's own record button...and then off it goes...in sync with itself, not the incoming word from the master pc. In other words, Reaper isn't seeing the clock even though the sound card in the Reaper pc is set to external word sync.

So, What's the secret to getting Reaper's transport to chase, lock, and sync to timecode coming in via external word? I'm not finding any Reaper menus or help topics that remotely mention this.

Wordclock is not for transport sync, it is for sample sync

For transport sync you would want SMPTE, MTC, or Midi Clock

At this point, reaper's transport will not chase, but it will send sync in the form of Audio SMPTE or MTC

[thenoodle]

Yes, wordclock + mtc or adat sync alone are some of the choices for getting transports to sync. Which when I mention that Reaper can't sync, chasing other transports is what I mean. Reaper can't see the internal card's incoming positional or sync information when driven from an outside computer. So it just sits there. The most common communication between computers in this studio is wordclock + some flavor of time code.

As I mentioned, it's not a deal breaker for everyone, but in a studio relying on multiple computer programs to lock up and follow each other in tight sync, Reaper has no sync ability as a slave. As a master, sending smpte out an audio out is a technique that is...welll...clunky.

Rewire is a different animal for a different use.

[pipelineaudio]

Originally Posted by thenoodle

Yes, wordclock + mtc or adat sync alone are some of the choices for getting transports to sync. Which when I mention that Reaper can't sync, chasing other transports is what I mean. Reaper can't see the internal card's incoming positional or sync information when driven from an outside computer. So it just sits there. The most common communication between computers in this studio is wordclock + some flavor of time code.

As I mentioned, it's not a deal breaker for everyone, but in a studio relying on multiple computer programs to lock up and follow each other in tight sync, Reaper has no sync ability as a slave. As a master, sending smpte out an audio out is a technique that is...welll...clunky.

Rewire is a different animal for a different use.

As mentioned before it can send out MTC as well. REAPER will likely soon chase smpte, but you are still mixing apples and oranges when you confuse sample sync (which should only matter between hardware) and transport sync.

Not sure if ADAT sync is an issue this century, but if someone wanted it and could provide the specs, it could possibly be implemented

[sonnylarsen]

If that sort of word syncing is a feature you want you should head over to the reaper feature request forum. If it is something many people need Justin will probably get it added quickly. That's how REAPER works. You want something. You tell Justin. If it makes sense, it shows up in the app.

I have tested the Mac preview build and it has worked flawlessly so far. It lacks the features of the PC version at this point, but what is there works great for me on my iBook G4.

[Sergievsky]

I read you could burn cds from it. How are its capabilities regarding that? Maybe it could be used for mastering?

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by pipelineaudio

Wordclock is not for transport sync, it is for sample sync

For transport sync you would want SMPTE, MTC, or Midi Clock

At this point, reaper's transport will not chase, but it will send sync in the form of Audio SMPTE or MTC

Yeah... when I realized people were talking about oranges and calling them apples, I hadda laff...

Boy.

[number3prod]

I'm brand new to DAWs as I came from a totally analog background. I needed to pick up producing and I tried all of the majors (ProTools, Logic, CuBase, etc etc.). Somewhere here (gearslutz) I found out about Reaper and downloaded it.

Way better than any of the others. I'm used to output pot matrix's that always easily allowed me to bus and send any amount of a channel anywhere in the system. I was shocked how hard this simple task was with modern DAWs.

Until Reaper. Reaper's routing works the way I'm used to, and the busing is even transparent. Simply click "Add send" and send it somewhere.

The way it deals with takes is also much more user intuitive, and makes perfect sense.