Direct Monitoring like Cubase

Read the bit about setting up headphone monitoring in the reaper manual. :) i've got my system set up to monitor at about 1.5 ms to 3ms max and i can record a whole band like this with reaper acting like a full mixing desk or like the control room section of cubendo. Even though it is not direct monitoring it is actually more flexible as direct mon does not allow much interaction with busses or fx. Try it at low latencies, it becomes invisible.

What about a class of 24 students some have distortion through guitar rig Some have software reverbs in reaper. I want everyone to hear them selves 'arm record' I want them to hear the processed sound after the computer I want to record only one student but have 'arm record' enabled for 24 students to actually hear themselves. Am I going about that the wrong way because I don't want to click input monitoring only for 23 tracks, and then have to undo that everytime EDIT* - just looking at the tone of options on the input - found an action 'Track: set selected track to record mode none (monitoring only) - mapped that to a key so its quick but its not a toggle solution only off - made a shift function to toggle it back to normal recording monitoring

thx, i think i can read into it once i need it. it was just a non-issue for me so far, because i'm running on a PC from 2002 and ADM always worked great on sx2/motu pci 424.. maybe i have to buy a new PC? PS: system is motu pci424 + HD192 + 3x 2408Mk3

i use 256 samples here - it's still relatively tight, but i find it's way more solid than 128 samples. doesn't affect my playing, anyway.

I have found Reaper and my RME Fireface 800 to be a breath of fresh air. But, I agree with Scott that ASIO DM support is essential for how I want to work. Even the Reaper manual references the fact that "many sound cards and USB or Firewire interfaces are supplied with software that can be used for input monitoring and headphone mixing". I have been following this topic since I started evaluating Reaper early this year. Instead of people who don't need or appreciate this feature telling people who do why they don't, it would be more helpful if one of the devs just spoke up and said if its ever going to be addressed. BTW, I love Toontracks Scott.

For people who use a lot of outboard but would like to have REAPER inline in their chain, DM or low latency is rudimentary.

any news on that? forgive me, but i still have my reasons to wish for DM. i'm not sure i wanna use up any CPU for a task that my audio-hardware can already do on its own. using the dsp-mixers GUI is no option for operating tape-machine-style punch-in/out locators.. i can see why many ppl have no need for DM, but there are also quite a few who would love it. any reasons for this not to be implemented? thx.

I definitely want ASIO 2 Direct Monitoring and it is one of a few features that prevent me from spending 100% of my project time on Reaper.

Hi Chris and welcome to the forums! My experience is that with the right hardware there are no issues with latency even with Reaper. And a bit of fiddling around always is necessary when you change from one software to another and don't know the new one yet. When learning to use Cubase or ProTools, you had to do it as well. The tasks of e.g. a car mechanic today are totally different from the ones 20 years ago. They had to learn to use new tools, which surely in some cases at first seemed superfluous and cumbersome to some of them. IMHO there are mainly two reasons for not using Reaper in big studios. First off, when advertising with ProTools you can get more (fortune-paying) customers, 'cos they heard of it and go "Yes, I saw it's been mentioned on other major productions on CD covers of some of the absolute superstars, so it must be the best". Whether this is really the case or not is a totally different question. Secondly, a seemingly gladly enforced argument is mentioning being a professional for decades and it is brought up not the first time here in these forums. They, who reason like this, and probably you too, got used to these (immensely expensive) equipments and DAWs (and even to the equally immense arrogance of the companies producing and selling them) and therefore see no point in dealing seriously with DAWs like Reaper. The quintessence of this mostly is something like: "Reaper? never heard of it. Hmmm, let's see, 225$? Unexpiring, full functional evaluation version - even beyond evaluation period? Aah, a toy!" Reaper surely has its flaws, but if you're used to use ProTools and Cubase (which still take some of their crap after decades of existence) or any other system, you're used to their flaws as well and developed your way of workarounds for your daily work, so you don't see them anymore as such, at least they seem to be not that obvious to you. But however, no offence intended. :) -Data

A long time ago (I think it was '99 or so) I was searching for a system in order to get my analog multitrack recordings transferred to the "digital world". It took me half or three quarters of a year (can't remember anymore) to find one. Then I found the "Pulsar"-system by Creamware (now SonicCore and the system is now callad "Scope"). And I was absolutely thrilled by the fact, that this system has absolutely no (noticeable) latency, while yet processing the signal at digital stage including EQing (4-band full parametric), compression, gating, reverb, delay.... on each channel. Even a drummer wouldn't complain about latency while yet giving him the sound he wants without using any external gear. Well, at this time the reverb wasn't that good and as I'm using this old system still (although having upgraded the software), I'm stuck with latencies of 13/13 ms at 44.1 kHz due to this old hardware when I use ASIO, because I can't set buffers below 512 samples. But I don't need to use ASIO in a recording situation. If I use it like you do, Karbo, I could still record up to 20 tracks simultaniously, while playing back the same amount of audio-channels from previous recorded stuff at the same time and mix it together on one mixer, never leaving the digital stage (if necessary). I often dug deeply into sh*t, but this buy was one of the best I ever did. -Data