[RWP] Getting sounds from a midi synthesizer to play in Reaper?

[Chris Belle]

What are you using for an audio interface?

YOu could by pass the board and go direct to it, if your gain staging is 
set correctly, but that's the purpose of a board, or part of it, to act 
as a good place to set things like levels and bring sound sources together.

Most of the great recordings of the last 50 years went through some sort 
of board, and if you watch your p's and q's, good balanced connections, 
and again proper gain staging, you should get a good clean signal.

One thing about analog line level signals, you don't have to deal with 
things like sample rate conversions, and or clocking, it just works.

I have everything here tied together with a nice mackie onyx 1640i, and 
it works beautifully and is very quiet.

Don't believe for a minute digital is better just because it's digital.

If you were to use another digital connection, you might encounter 
latency from going through another bus too, that's another great thing 
about analog, you get speeds of the electrical signal through the wires,
which is way faster than say handing off a signal to another sound card 
on usb or such,
if you are trying to use your internal sound card for reaper, you 
definitely need a beter audio interface, and they exist a plenty for not 
tons of money for very decent quality.

If your pres are decent, don't be afraid to just plug it in.

that eq circuit the real ones in your board, if your board isn't a piece 
of junk will add some warmth and real mojo to your sound too.

Whether digital is better also depends a lot on where the signal is 
tapped in the chain, on some pedals and outboard gear, manufacturers 
actually make the digital signal
after all the analog stuff making it not a better choice, also if you 
like the op amps in your keyboard, ie it's front end, that also 
contributes some to the warmth of the sound and it's character.

Don't get me wrong, analog can be really crappy, cheap circuits, 
over-driving stuff, picking up noise and such, but I'm saying, if you do 
your engineering right, you'll be fine.


On 5/7/2014 4:50 AM, Jes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let me see if I can try and explain what I'm trying to do, as the 
> subject line might seem a bit misleading.
> I have a Yamaha Motif XS8 connected via USB to Reaper so that I can 
> use it as a midi controler, and everything works fine. I can load 
> kontakt and sfz files into Reaper, play chords on the motif and the 
> notes are sent properly from the synth to the computer. However, the 
> XS8 has some incredible sounds that I want to access so that I can 
> record them in my projects, without needing to go from the line-out of 
> the synth to the line-in of a mixing board where there might be hiss, 
> noise, static, etc. Is there any way to send the sounds from the XS8 
> directly to the computer itself using midi, instead of having to 
> solely go the analog route? The XS8 has spdif, but I have nothing else 
> in my setup that allows me to use spdif and I'm not too familiar with 
> the complexity of that format anyway. Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> Jes
>
>
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