jbittner wrote:I hit the same road block in trying to use Reaper. Could only get the same two channel mix going to all six channels, even though the individual channels came up on their own faders.
OK, so let's suppose the following situation:
You have a six-channel sample set with direct, diffuse and rear samples.
You have a surround set-up, consisting of a pair of front speakers and a pair of rear speakers
You want to send the direct and diffuse samples to the front speakers and the rear samples to the rear speakers
Or you want to send the direct sample to the front speakers, the diffuse to the rears, and to mute the rear samples.
You want to be able to switch on the fly between those two situations.
Skipping some details and preferences that are not directly necessary to get things working:
Creating and using Audio output groups in HW *In Hauptwerk, go to General Settings>Audio output groups
*Click insert, and type "direct" in the Name field. Repeat to create "diffuse" and "direct" groups
*Click OK and OK the message
*Go to General Settings>Audio outputs
*Click Insert. Choose "Hauptwerk VST Link" for Audio output device. For Device Channel 1, choose [01/02](L) and for Device Channel 2, choose [01/02](R). Optionally, choose an alias. "Go to the Routing and Aux mix tab" and choose "direct" in the Audio output group field.
*Go back to the other tab and repeat the previous step, choosing [03/04] as device channels, and selecting the "diffuse" Audio output group in the second tab
*Repeat, choosing [05/06] and selecting the "rear" group.
*OK, and go to organ>load organ adjusting... Select the sample set from the list
*Select all the direct ranks and select "direct" as the audio output groups. Repeat for the diffuse and rear ranks. OK to load the organ
Routing audio groups in Reaper*Open reaper and create a new project
*Select insert>virtual instrument on new track. Locate and select the Hauptwerk VST Link. OK the message. 32 new tracks will be created.
*Play the organ. Probably you won't hear sound yet, but you will see the meters of the first three inserted tracks go up.
At this point, you may click the routing button of each track and select the hardware output corresponding to your front/rear speakers. But if I find time, I'll describe some routing tricks...