Reaper, Master input??

[AgeOfGeburah]

Does Reaper not have an master input track where I can put effects in order to record the wet signals?

I've been trying to route tracks to make this happen. But can't figure it out.
Any other way to do this if there are'nt such a thing as Master Input track?

God I hate being lost when using other stuff then I'm used to.

Thankfull for any answers!

 

[Sean in Silence]

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking.
But yes there is a master track with an fx chain on it
although I'm not sure that's what you're looking for

 

[Metaltastic]

Nah, he means is there a way to put plugins on the input track (no need to say master, it just confuses people ) so that all recordings done through that input have the plugins printed on them. As far as I know the answer is no, though I also don't see any particular reason to do this anyway (rather than putting plugins on the recorded track) unless you're that concerned about CPU usage!

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

if you wanted tracks with the effects printed on them, I'd just do it via the FX chain and bounce each individual track (if you were trying to save cpu usage/memory, for example)

 

[Sean in Silence]

Nah, he means is there a way to put plugins on the input track (no need to say master, it just confuses people ) so that all recordings done through that input have the plugins printed on them. As far as I know the answer is no, though I also don't see any particular reason to do this anyway (rather than putting plugins on the recorded track) unless you're that concerned about CPU usage!

ooohhhhhhh gotcha
yea
master is what threw me off
hahaha

 

[DanLights]

yeah I´ve had the same doubt, I just record using the fx as monitor, then if I decide the fx is definitive (in my case the amp sim/ts/impulse) I bounce it to save CPU if I´m sure I won´t change that, and that way I always have the original DI track just in case

 

[KillFrenzy]

Please, don't record with definitive FX.. lol
But if you really want to, it's possible. I'm sure it is. Even if you need to route the signal out of one track (post-fx) to another's input. Just never had to do it and never tried so.

 

[Mutant]

Click the "in" button, select "record output".

 

[DanLights]

Click the "in" button, select "record output".

thank you kind sir

 

[onqel]

I don't have Reaper on this computer(laptop), but I think you could also right click the waveform after you're finished recording (the waveform in your "fx track"), and select "Apply track FX as new take" or something..

 

[DanLights]

yeah that's what i do but because I didn't know the "record output" thing mutant pointed out, now I know I can do that too

 

[AgeOfGeburah]

Yeah I know most of this stuff, the thing is I cant have 4 - 6 FX Chains running at the same time, If I do the SoloC > 8505 chain that is 8 - 12 Amp VSTs at the same time. Already there the CPU fails.
I'd love to be able to record using DI tracks, but It honestly wont work. And to bounce or record output would work, but then I must activate the FX chain for each track induvidually every take. The problem is that the CPU fails and there's this stuttering/Latency when I'm monitoring with that amount of AmpVst's, So It's impossible to record a good take.

I've heard that It's strange a computer cant run 8 instances of soloc/8505 without lag. Does this seriously work for you guys? Can you monitor 4 tracks with full fx chain on all of them?

My computer specs:Intel Xeon With 4 x 2.8gHz Cores and 3gb Ram. WinXP
Should this work with my setup?

 

[onqel]

one instance of TSS and one instance of 8505 takes up 4.5% cpu on my machine while monitoring.. Intel Q6600, 3gb ram, winxp
I usually have no problem running 5 instances of the plugins, haven't tried anything higher

 

[KillFrenzy]

Yeah, it's very strange that your machine can't run TONS of instances. Maybe it's a matter of configuring Reaper correctly for multi-core CPUs. Althoug it always worked flawlessly with my Q6600 just out of the box.

 

[AgeOfGeburah]

Yeah I've had a thread up about Reaper and performance before and I got all help that were avalible, still It did'nt make a difference.
I have about the same performance in Cubendo aswell. So I have to presume it's something other than the application that is failing. Can't think of anything

 

[Metaltastic]

I regularly run like 8-10 tracks in Reaper all with TSS --> 8505 --> Boogex on them and not the slightest bit of performance hitch! (2.5 Ghz Penryn T9300 Core 2 Duo Laptop here, with 2 GB RAM)

 

[P-E]

^ Gotta love Intel processors.

My AMD 2.2 GHz are starting to feel a tad slow with many instances.

 

[AgeOfGeburah]

Ok Marcus, now got me wondering. What OS are you running by the way?
My computer should manage that aswell I guess.

 

[Metaltastic]

Windows XP Professional! (fuck some Vista) And since I bought it from a company that specializes in making recording computers (Rain Recording), it came with all the useless shit disabled/uninstalled

 

[AgeOfGeburah]

Oh I see, this is strange to me. But I'll do format and then reinstall again. This time being careful with what I install/update. If there's any way for you to list what services are running on your system, that would be really helpful, I might document what I'm doing and perhaps post an little guide to better performance in WinXP, if I get any good results that is

Any tips before I do this would be appriciated