Reaper for broadcast multitrack

[huub]

Hi all,
I've installed reaper on the audio pc of our new ob truck (cinevideogroup OBV15, OBV15 Production on Flickr - Photo Sharing! )
The pc has an rme madi card.
Reaper can use any audio input as timecode (LTC) source, records timestamped Bwav and thus seems to be a perfect cheap back up multitrack recorder..
Latency of the rme is 5 ms, so i could even monitor through reaper!
First tests are promising, will let you all know my experiences!

huub

[videoteque]

Wow!!!

Some really nice pictures on that link!!!

[David Spearritt]

I am using Reaper regularly as my multichannel data aquisition software of choice. Its amazingly small, very light on resources and has been bullet proof for the up to 12 channel classical recordings I do. I only use it for multitrack recording and do post in Wavelab.

[Jim vanBergen]

Interesting.

What kind of converters do you use on the front end?
Do you split the MADI stream to multiple decks, one being Reaper?

As a ProTools guy since 1990, it's great to see such great options for newbies , and for me, possible solutions for backup.

[noamraz]

Already posted here in the past.

For the last year i am running my backup rig (M-Audio PFLB, 24 Channels) using Reaper to multitrack 24 channels on a PC Cellron Laptop.

Only good things can be sayed about the Reaper as an Multitrack Backup & Low-cost monitoring system.

Best regards, Noam Raz.

[David Spearritt]

The other main reason I use Reaper for multichannel recording on site, is that it doesn't require any sort of dongle. Enough said, nothing to get lost or stolen.

[huub]

Originally Posted by Jim vanBergen

Interesting.

What kind of converters do you use on the front end?
Do you split the MADI stream to multiple decks, one being Reaper?

As a ProTools guy since 1990, it's great to see such great options for newbies , and for me, possible solutions for backup.

Front end is Lawo mc2/66 preamps and converters, a seperate madi port is being used for the pc/rme madi card.. I'm sure there's a possibility for madi to be split, but from the start we chose to have a redundant madi port...
We insert our main (pyramix) multitrack straight after the pre amps, but use direct outs for reaper even before the insert, so if something goes wrong with the pyramix insert/madi port, the back up should still be fine.. (knock on wood, thusfar, the pyramix has been fine, even on 8 1/2 hours 48 track projects.)

[jmarkham]

Originally Posted by David Spearritt

The other main reason I use Reaper for multichannel recording on site, is that it doesn't require any sort of dongle. Enough said, nothing to get lost or stolen.

what are you doing for timecode?

jeff

[David Spearritt]

Originally Posted by jmarkham

what are you doing for timecode?

jeff

Not involved with timecode really, doing mainly multitrack classical concert recording. When video is involved we synch on DAW in post without timecode or we send analog audio to video people during record.

[huub]

Hmm, I have indeed used the reaper backup recordings once now.. The pyramix did not fail, but someone accidentally touched the keyboard with his bag and stopped the recording ..
The reaper recordings were labeled (the wav file takes the name of the track) and correctly timestamped bwav files. All was good and nobody ever noticed anything went wrong :).. It's all digital, running from the same clock, so sound is identical to the pyramix files..
the rme madi/reaper combination is such a cheap but still professional solution, needing 1 input for timecode, you still have 63 inputs and you do not need a powerful computer or superfast disk.. And also, the latency of the rme is so insanely low, you can monitor directly in real time..

[Ozpeter]

someone accidentally touched the keyboard with his bag and stopped the recording ..

One of the many great features of Reaper is that you can have keyboard shortcuts for recording that differ from those used when not recording. So you can set it to accept shortcuts to clear peak indicators, drop markers, and resume scrolling or whatever you do need when recording, but "stop recording" or anything else risky can be assigned to a hard-to-accidentally-hit combo like ctrl/alt/s - or disabled altogether, so the only way to stop is via the mouse on the on-screen transport button.

[huub]

Cool! I did not know..

[deardaddy]

Here we use Boom Recorder on Mac pro's as our backup recorder with Aurus consoles from Stage Tec and RME Madi cards.
Boom recorder is amazingly stable, easy to use and recording report is a real blessing.

It is a mac app ....

Best regards from Belgium

Pascal