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Starting a ReWire session in REAPER
ReWire is a technology developed by Propellerhead Software that allows applications to share audio, MIDI and synchronization data. Audio and MIDI data are transferred between the two applications in real-time, allowing you to use the features in each application as if they were one.
In a ReWire session, the first application acts as the Host, and the second application acts as the Client. The Client receives and sends signals via the Host application.
NOTE: The Tempo of the ReWire Host sets the Tempo of both applications. When you launch a ReWire session, the Client application will automatically adopt the Tempo of the Host application. If you are planning to use ReWire to open an existing Project in the Client application, you should open the Client application and note the Tempo of the Project before running a ReWire session.
1. Click on the FX button of the Track that will host the ReWire application.
2. Select ReWire from the FX plug-in list.
3. REAPER will display a list of the ReWire equipped applications that are available on your system. Select the application you wish to use, then select OK.
The application you have selected will now load.
Routing AUDIO from the Client application to REAPER
The Main Mix output from the Client application will be automatically routed to the Track you have just used to start the ReWire session.
To check that audio is getting from the Client application to REAPER, load a Project into the Client application, and use either of the following methods to test playback:
Method 1. Record-Arm the Track that contains the ReWire Client
Arming the Track synchronizes the Client application to REAPER. You should now be able to hear the output from the Project in the Client application when you press Play in the REAPER Transport.
Method 2. Insert an 'Empty Event' in the REAPER Project
The other method of synchronizing the Client application is to insert an 'Empty Event' in a REAPER Track. In the example above, REAPER has automatically matched the Loop settings of the Reason Project. An Empty Event was inserted by selecting Insert > Empty Event, and the edge of the Empty Event was then dragged to match the length of the Reason Project. You can now press Play on the REAPER Transport to hear playback. With this method, the Track containing the ReWire Client does not have to be record-armed.
Routing Multiple Audio Outputs
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Multiple Audio outputs can be routed from the Client application to REAPER. Audio outputs are routed via the Audio Outputs tab of the ReWire plug-in.
To enable multiple audio outputs via a ReWire session
1. Assign the outputs in the Client application to individual outputs. The procedure for doing this will vary from application to application. Consult the User Manual for your application for more information.
2. Click on the I/O button of the Track that contains the Client application.
3. Click on the Track Channels down-arrow and select the number of Channels you wish to route.
REAPER supports 64 Track Channels per Track. Track Channels work like an internal patch bay, allowing you to patch up to 64 outputs from any plug-in used in the FX chain of the Track.
4. Click on the FX button of the Track that contains the Client application to open the FX chain.
5. Select the Audio Outputs tab.
The ReWire Output column will list the individual outputs you have assigned in your Client application.
6. Right-click on the Track Channel corresponding to the ReWire Output you wish to route.
7. Left-click to select the Track Channel you wish to route the output to.
8. Click on the I/O button to open the Routing window again.
9. Select the Send(s) you wish to route the outputs to.
10. Assign a Track Channel to a Send by selecting the Track Channel from the Audio drop-down list for that Send.
The number of Track Channels displayed will correspond to the number you selected in Step 3 of this procedure. Track Channels can be assigned as Stereo - e.g. Channel 63/64, or Mono - e.g. Channel 64.
The individual audio outputs from your Client application will now play via the Tracks you have assigned them to in REAPER.
Routing MIDI from REAPER to the Client application
ReWire gives you the ability to use MIDI instruments in the Client application as if they were normal VSTi or DXi plug-ins. You can route MIDI Tracks from REAPER to the Client, or record MIDI Tracks in the Client via ReWire.
To route a MIDI Track from REAPER to the Client application
1. Click on the I/O button of the MIDI Track you want to route to the Client application. In this example, we are going to send the MIDI from Track 6 to the Client.
2. Select the Send to the Track that contains the Client application. MIDI from Track 6 will now be sent to Track 1, which contains the Client application.
Multiple MIDI channels
Multiple MIDI Tracks can be sent to the Client application as long as they have been separated into individual MIDI channels. MIDI Routing is assigned via the MIDI Inputs tab of the ReWire plug-in.
To route multiple MIDI channels to the Client application:
1. Open the FX chain of the Track that contains the ReWire Client application.
2. Right-click on the ReWire Destination for the MIDI Channel you wish to route.
3. Left-click to select the destination from the list.
4. Repeat for each MIDI channel that you want to route.
The MIDI channels will now be routed from REAPER to the selected destination in the Client application.
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'Here is my current, very naive, work flow for transcription, tho I’m not very good at it, I keep tweaking my work flow to make the process faster. Still it takes dozens of hours per song. So I keep looking for ways to make myself better at it.. I can’t run riffstation on my current laptop (too old). I saw there is a desktop and ios app, Capo, which has a lot of stars on the apple app store, I cant run it either, but it says it figures out chords etc, automatically.
1. Find the song. almost always, on youtube. for difficult popular songs: also search “(track name) isolated” to find the (ripped) isolated tracks, but this doesn’t work for not-so-popular songs. Also search for live versions of the song, may be handy for later tricky parts.
2. use youtube-dl to download the youtube video to a local .mp3 or .mp4
3. buy the album. so I’m not ripping off the artist.
4. Make a new reaper project, set the BPM to 100. Setting BPM is handy for later. (Thanks to ROTM for confirming this tip)
5. import the .mp3 or .mp4 into a new Reaper project (importing mp4 is better). break out the hifi headphones.
6. 1st transcription step: Lyrics. Use reaper’s global slow downer and loop the complete track. First try might be 50%, then after a few loops, maybe to 70%. write down the lyrics on paper and figure out first guess at the song form. Use metronome with Tap Tempo to find BPM, write at top of lyric page. Dont trust lyrics posted online.
7. Use the cursor to scan thru the reaper project to locate the sections of the song. Add Markers to the start of intro’s, verses, choruses, outro’s.
I’ve started to realize that listening for drum fills, can also be a handy indicator of transitions to different song sections.
8. Make Regions using these markers, name the regions according to song part, like, Verse1 Verse2 Chorus1 Chorus2 Bridge, etc. On tricky parts, may have to use the metronome, sync’ed to the audio playback, to find the 1 beat, to find the start of sections, that’s where, tapping out the BPM early, helps out.
Starting to look like this, (altho this is a snapshot of transcribing licks, not song sections),
reaper-transcription-thing-hush
9. Set the global slowdowner to “1.0” and “Preserve Pitch”. Use Render, to render the project regions, using the output name, “Trackname-$region-$tempo.mp3”. Use “Add to Render Queue”. I think it’s called $tempo. It’s why setting the BPM to 100 is handy, because then tempo also mirrors the slowdown percentage and that variable can be used in the filenames easily. Note it would be easier and more direct if Reaper had a $rate variable which expanded to the Global Rate percentage, but, it doesn’t (I believe).
10. Change global slowdowner to .8, .7. .6, .5, .25. For each of these repeat step 9 to Add To Render Queue. (Make sure “Preserve Pitch” is checked otherwise it is a time wasting mistake.)
11. Render all in the render queue. Go make lunch, come back later. All the while, thinking, “There must be a better way to do all of this.” Ok now finally ready, there should be a ton of output files, like, Wildlife-Verse1-80.mp3 etc. Move all files to mp3 player. (mp3 player is optional but handy because, who wants to be chained to a laptop for the hard paper work in the next step.)
Work flow is pretty much done, now start the time consuming step.
12. For each song section, use the mp3 file starting at 70% slowdown, listen using Repeat-1, begin transcription using the lyric sheet to write out the chords and measures, with guitar in lap. Start with easiest song sections, like, maybe skip the intro until last. For tough parts, switch to the 25% slowdown version (that one is the most painful), and/or, loop in Reaper while watching the video, hopefully showing the guitarist fingering something. Four days and 40 hours later.. transcription is either progressing well, or all hope is lost and need to find the nearest jazz guy.
So… Rock n Roll is usually easy right? So it shouldn’t be that hard! Right? Right? :-/
13. Revisit the Reaper project periodically to fix bugs in the song form, like, what seemed like the Bridge, is not, it’s some Coda thing, which doesn’t follow anything, so just call it, Outro1 and Outro2 or whatever. Hopefully this doesn’t mean, re-rendering and getting all new mp3 output files, which basically means, song was guessed completely wrong, but, I’ve had to do that twice now.
14. Even if a song seems simple, do the above anyway, because the rendered files will definitely come in handy later.. there is always some trick to every song it seems like.. such as, later wanting to transcribe the drums “how’s that beat go again? It doesn’t sound right”..
I’m glad Doug explained his own early transcription method to me long ago, because, previously I really had been certain that “musicians must be doing this some better way, with better tools and more genius talent, since it seems I’m quite clueless here”.
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