[RWP] Migrating Project

[indigo]

Thanks for a great explanation, Colin.
This goes in our soon to be in 1 place Reaper Wiki.

On 3/29/2012 12:25 AM, colin McDonald wrote:
> 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>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:08 PM
> Subject: [RWP] Migrating Project
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>> 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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