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

[Patrick Perdue]

Most interfaces I know of with more I/O than the Audio Express are a 
full rack space, not including the board/interface combos, of course. 
The Audio Express's back panel is pretty tight as it is.

On 5/8/2014 7:40 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> It does! Annoyingly it's a couple of inputs short of being perfect for
> pre-production of my band. Don't suppose anyone knows of anything with
> a similarly small form factor with a few more ins?
>
> Scott
>
> On 5/8/14, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> That motu seems like it'd be a nice little device.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/7/2014 12:22 PM, Jes wrote:
>>> Chris,
>>> As far as my audio interfaces, right now, I have the Roland VS 20 sold by
>>> cakewalk. I also have a Mackie pro FX 12 analog mixer, and a preSonus
>>> monitor station.. Thanks so much for the reassurance about analog devices
>>> being still used to make great professional recordings. That really put my
>>> mind at ease. I still might invest in the motu audio express. Don't know
>>> yet though.
>>>
>>> Jes
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On May 7, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And in the big studio down town and in my own studio that's the way we
>>>> did it for years before we had soft synths and such, recorded our tracks
>>>> triggered by midi on to a real board to adats, or \
>>>> what ever recording device.
>>>>
>>>> And these software companies are selling us channel strips to get back
>>>> some of that analog sound, for these guys who don't have a board, not
>>>> that you can compare a 1500 dollar mackie to a neeve or ssl that cost 4
>>>> times what my house does,
>>>> but you get the idea.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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