Hey, thanks guys.
The portable install is what was giving me uncertainty. Thats the only thing I could find in the manual.
Right now I have a thumbdrive filled with 16 individual wave files. ( I transfered 16 track tape)
So in theory, once I have reaper installed on both computers, I could move audio files back and forth via a thumbdrive. Like if I felt like editing on my laptop at a coffee shop or something. Correct?
Correct.
Once Reaper is installed on both, you can work on a project on either computer, so long as you keep the files for a project together.
You can do this by having a folder containing the files and the Reaper RPP project file on Computer A, dropping the folder onto a USB stick, then transferring all to Computer B. Then doing this in reverse when you've finished at the coffee shop and want to work on the on Computer A again.
However, that's a rather messy way of doing it. A neater way is to get a portable hard drive. Put your files and RPP projects in folders for each song on that, and just use that, swapping it from Computer A to Computer B as required, rather than transferring and transporting files via USB stick.
You have to make sure that Reaper and associated plug-ins are the same in both set ups. If not, you may load up a project fine on Computer A, but if you don't have, say, the same reverb plug-in on Computer B, Reaper will load up ok, but won't find the plug in. It will preserve the plug-in settings, but yo (obviously) won't hear the effect.
If you are gong to be transferring files via USB, it could get messy. You could end up with different versions if you forget to transfer and work on the wrong set of files.