[RWP] Streaming live with reaper.

[Patrick Perdue]

How involved do you want your setup to be?

The easiest, and, unfortunately easiest to break, would be to use 
ReaRoute Asio, Reaper's virtual Asio driver, and Edcast Asio, which is a 
version of Edcast that takes Asio input rather than WDM. There is a big 
issue with Edcast Asio, however, in that it randomly stops streaming 
after a while, but still thinks it's going. I've never quite figured out 
what causes it: CPU spikes, network latency, etc. are the theories I've 
come up with, but I can't make it reliably break on demand. It's great 
when it works though.
It might stream non-stop for five minutes or 16 days (both actual cases 
for me.)

There is also a VST plugin that streams to Icecast servers from audio 
sent to it from any VST host, called Shout VST, but it has a lot of 
really odd issues. I've used it before, and it does what it says, but 
has no way to save server info, so you have to add it every time, also 
doesn't save that information in your Reaper project, breaks archiving, 
and is just generally not very stable.

You could also use virtual audio cable from Reaper's output, but this 
limits Reaper's I/O severely, as you won't have access to multi-channel 
Asio devices. You could supplement VAC with Asio4All, but there are so 
many things that can go wrong with such a combination. Been there, done 
that. It's a mess.
Ironically, all this is much easier under Mac OS X with Reaper and 
SoundFlower+aggragate devices and something like LadioCast for 
streaming, but Reaper is far less efficient to use on OS X than Windows.

On 5/7/2013 4:12 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> hay there, anyone no of a way to stream live with reaper?
> is this even possible?
> Matt
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