Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

recorded on pro tools mixing in reaper?? How?

  • 23-11-2008 2:56am
    #1
    caesura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    I've just been sent on a recording i made in another country as a WAV on CD. The recording was done in pro tools and i plan on downloading reaper to mix the song...but i've no idea how to open a track recorded in protools using reaper!

    Being a beginner at home recording i've been using audacity for sending basic rough tracks out to people but i know audacity will only allow me to open and mix tracks recorded in audacity...in terms of mixing/remixing/editing multi tracks etc.

    This song has probably about 12 different tracks lots of guitar and vocal layers which need to be mixed.

    Is this possible at all or will something recorded in pro tools only open as a mixable track in protools?

    I'd really appreciate some advice on this one
    Cheers!

    Nb: Getting pro tools isn't an option for me at the moment.


Comments

  • #2
    DamagedTrax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭DamagedTrax


    im not 100% sure if reaper can handle OMF import but thats the only way you'll be able to open it in reaper (this is a generic file that is meant to cover all DAWs but its a little messy). also you will need to have the same fx installed as the original project to be able to utilise any fx

    if the pro-tools project was bounced to seperate audio files then you are in luck as these can be opened in any sequencer. if not then i suggest you find someone with pro-tools to bounce them for you.


  • #3
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    You don't need to actually bounce the files. You'll have to make sure all the pro tools files have been consolidated from the same start point, so when you import into the new daw they all start at the same time. In the PT session it's EDIT>Consolidate selected files.

    Open Music Format, is generally used for opening files from say protools to another system but problems can arise from that too. (Each file has a time-stamp with the information for where it is in the session.) Not least because Pro Tools uses only dual mono files as opposed to actual stereo file used in cubase for example.

    Basically, you'll have to go back to the p.tools gig and consolidate all the files into the tracks to be mixed and import from those files...


  • #4
    caesura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭caesura


    wow...thanks guys!
    But gotta be honest i can't say i understood alot of what you said there...as i was saying i really am a beginner...but i think what you were both basically saying is that i'm gonna have to go and find someone with who has pro tools and get it converted or something?

    Sounds like thats the only option?


  • #5
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    caesura wrote: »
    wow...thanks guys!
    But gotta be honest i can't say i understood alot of what you said there...as i was saying i really am a beginner...but i think what you were both basically saying is that i'm gonna have to go and find someone with who has pro tools and get it converted or something?

    Sounds like thats the only option?


    At least check with the guy who saved and backed up the session. But you really should open up the PT file to make sure you have the right tracks being used etc.

    Not enough people bother to leave any notes for the engineer following them these days. I blame the training colleges...


Advertisement