Saving alternative mixes in Reaper

[Armistice]

So I'm assuming somewhere there's a way of saving your complete mix parameters somehow, so that you can then go and attempt an alternative mix, but still have the original to check against.

So far I've just been working on a single

But can't quite work out how that's done - well, that's probably not true, I can see that you could save it as a separate project file with a different name but wondering if there's another way to keep it all in the one project file and easily switch between versions without having to close Reaper and open it again...

On my old standalone you'd save everything as a scene.... and 1 button recall.

Any tips?

[jiff 41]

I think what you need is SWS snapshots (check it out??)

[jonny deep]

You can have more than one project open in tabs. I don't recall how this is done.

[jiff 41]

See there's always more than one way in REAPER, i love it, (but when will it make me famous! that bit of it isn't working!)

[Mr Clean]

Click File - New Project Tab. (Or CTRL+ALT+N) Select all tracks on previous tab, (CTRL+A) copy, (CTRL+C) paste into new.(CTRL+V) Two projects accessible via tabs. Repeat for more.

Done

[jonny deep]

Click File - New Project Tab. (Or CTRL+ALT+N) Select all tracks on previous tab, (CTRL+A) paste into new.(CTRL+V) Two projects accessible via tabs. Repeat for more.

Done

In Cubase, when you have more than one project open only one is active. You have to activate a project before you can play it, which takes some time as it unloads the current mixer and loads the new one - this can be several seconds if it's a complex project, lots of effects, etc. Is Reaper similar, or is it more instant?

[Mr Clean]

I did. Thanks for pointing that out.

In Reaper it is quick to flip between the two. You can play two mixes simultaneously as well, although obviously with the more plugins etc this could cause issues. I usually bounce down to stems/freeze tracks to ease the processing on the comp.

[jonny deep]

I did. Thanks for pointing that out.

No worries, I've edited my post accordingly as well - now neither of these posts make sense!

[Armistice]

Thanks people....

Again, seems strange that you can't do it "natively" in Reaper... although you can do it.

I can see the plug in thing has value if you've finalised your tracks.... but if you set it up and later go "Hmm... could do with another <insert instrument here> you'd have to go back and add it to your original mix and your secondary mix in two steps...

I'll check out both options... I don't do it much, just wanted to know.

Cheers all...

[VomitHatSteve]

I usually have a minimum of 2 or 3 projects open in tabs when I'm mixing (old versions and other mixes for reference). It switches between them pretty seamlessly.

As said before, ctrl+alt+n opens a new tab. Double clicking a project to open it while another project is open will also launch the second one in a new tab.

Edit:
Oh yeah, +1 for just saving your alternate mixes with new file names. That workflow works for me.