Rendering a multi-track wav.

[VomitHatSteve]

I've got a laptop with standard stereo hardware outputs. Is it possible to get Reaper to render my projects down to wav files with more than two outputs?

I'd like to do a sort of "pre-mix" where I bounce my 30+ track project down to 4 tracks and mix those separately, and I see the multi-channel option in the render menu (which seems perfect for what I need), but I can't find a way to assign the different tracks in my project to the different channels in a multi-channel mix.

Thanks.

 

[Washburn100]

I'm not sure with Reaper, but in my DAW (Sonar), I just create busses. I usually have a drum bus, vocal bus and guitar bus. This way I now only have 4 buses (channels ) to worry about after all the other levels etc are set.

You should be able to render groups of channels and end up with 4 or 5 wave files (whatever you like). Then open a new project and place each of those wave files on a new track.

 

[pipelineaudio]

From Justin:

"create a routing track and route the stereo tracks to channels on the routing track (and unroute those tracks from master)"

"have a multichannel master, and multichannel child tracks, then file->render"

 

[RAMI]

Or...Mute everything excpet your drums and render a drum mix. Then, mute everything else except your (next group) and render that as a sub-mix, etc....

Then, open a new project and bring in all your sub-mixes and Bob's your Uncle.

No?

 

[VomitHatSteve]

Or...Mute everything excpet your drums and render a drum mix. Then, mute everything else except your (next group) and render that as a sub-mix, etc....

Then, open a new project and bring in all your sub-mixes and Bob's your Uncle.

No?

It'd be nice, but I'm creating procedurally-generated music at render time, so the different tracks wouldn't line up.