[RWP] Migrating Project

[colin McDonald]

yes, save the RPP file, and transfer that along with any sound files, IE 
wavs, mp3's or whatever else you might have used for the project.
Save the RPP file in a folder with those files, and when you open the 
project file in Reaper, it should check for your source audio files in the 
same folder where you had the project file saved.
The project files do not save source audio if that source audio was imported 
into reaper.
The project file basically saves all your reaper bassed settings IE effects, 
mix, and all that.
Reaper processes imported audio in realtime to save processor usage and to 
speed up the process.
So, if you use say wavs in the project, then it'll make the changes within 
reaper, and save those changes in the RPP file, but will not change the 
actual source audio.  So that when you load the project back, it'll be able 
to access those source audio files again and it'll know how you had 
manipulated them previously.
In other words, if you looped a wav file, it won't actually save that entire 
sequence, but within reaper, it'll know that you want to repeat that part of 
the wav file so many times rather than actually saving that loop 50 times or 
whatever.
Other DAWS would simply save the wav file and however many repetitions you 
needed for the loop as one big wav file, then save it within the project 
folder...thus making the project file rather huge.  RPP files are really 
quite small if you look at them.
They're small because they're settings only, not chunks of processed audio.
reaper is the processor, so when settings are saved, it knows how to process 
that audio later on.
That's why reaper is very fast at what it does during processing.

HTH

Regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:08 PM
Subject: [RWP] Migrating Project


>I just made the basis of a nice project, but on this old machine with no 
>real sound card, effects, everything I need.
> So, how do I migrate a Reaper 4.21 project from one computer to another?
> Both computers have Reaper 4.21 installed, and both are running  32 bit 
> XP, so no problem there.
> Is it as simple as copying the .rpp file onto a thumb drive and pasteing 
> it into the Reaper Media folder on the other computer?
> I only use this old beater for email and surfing, and keep Reaper on it to 
> pop into to make sure I'm getting rterms right.
> It sort of crept up on me, and before I knew it, I'd made something nice I 
> don't want to lose, but not mixed down  on a 1995 SoundMax chip. smile.
> Thanks,
> Indigo L
>
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