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Submitted by jayendra on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 02:04.

If you want to get ableton working with ninjam and reaper heres how I do it.

Install reaper 32 bit - open the 'additional options' menu before the install - tick the 'rearoute' option which doesn't install with normal install - VERY IMPORTANT

Setup a track in reaper - input, stereo, rearoute 1&2
Open Ableton
Audio preferences - 'asio' - 'rearoute'

Okay recording audio in ableton won't work but... synths do and audio samples do

Watch the ableton sound go to that channel on reaper.

Now you can make another track in reaper for your audio stuff - guitar, mic etc

I have both those channels sending to ninjam
you can have ableton channel in reaper on 3&4 send to ninjam - that way you can have 2 channels when you jam.

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The only thing I'd add is

Submitted by pljones on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 08:58.

The only thing I'd add is that you might want to mix locally down to stereo before transmitting - it's more convenient for everyone else in the jam (and uses less bandwidth). Of course, it's not as much fun editing the clipsort afterwards when you do it like that, so there are benefits to keeping each track on a separate channel.

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yeah good point - I only do

Submitted by jayendra on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 15:47.

yeah good point - I only do it that way because if someone has a drum loop and their instrument playing I find sometimes I have to adjust their levels which wouldn't be possible without telling them.

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Try this for recording audio

Submitted by AndyMc on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 18:39.

Try this for recording audio in Ableton, on REAPER make the tracks for ya audio in, then add a send in the IO of each track to a ReaRoute channel, then on Ableton set its input's to them ReaRoute Channels. You might get nice low latency and be able to add fx in ableton on ya live inputs. Now on the REAPER window on the input tracks you made, ARM them but don't enable the monitor on those tracks or the dry signal will be picked up by ReaNINJAM on the Master FX. Oh you should be able too also put a ReaRoute on the Master IO too, then you can Record NINJAM Live in Ableton, but don't monitor this track on Ableton of your create a looped feedback.

For any wannabe's just copy and post this else where to pretend it was your idea, or add some pictures to look cool. ;P

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thanks andy will try :)

Submitted by jayendra on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 00:17.

thanks andy will try :) excellent

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Thanks for posting this

Submitted by Hooserdaddy on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 21:19.

Thanks for posting this Jayendra. I got it working, suprised to find my CPU taking only maybe 2% for both Ableton & Reaper playing a wave through, on a dinosaur Pentium 4 PC.

Might mention you need to arm the track in Reaper and click Record Monitoring to On within the same track in the mixer (probably basic but got confused with this new version of Reaper).

Would be really nice if somehow they could get clocks & play buttons etc sync'd up.

I'll try Andy's method at some point.

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For my fellow oft neglected

Submitted by maxthedog on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 21:45.

For my fellow oft neglected OS X users, I recommend using jackOSX to route the output from Ableton Live to Reaper.

Works great, and jackOSX provides a straightforward and intuitive virtual signal router.

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