all right welcome to the channel. this is part two of connecting a behringer xr18 to reaper
if you like videos like this then please subscribe . part one was setting up the behringer xr18
part two is setting up reaper i will put a link to part one right here
the first thing we need to do is connect your xr18 to your reaper computer with usb
and pc users will need the reaper usb drivers installed on the reaper computer
okay let's get started in reaper mouse over to options and click it
scroll all the way down to preferences and click that on the left side highlight device under audio
open the audio system drop down choose asio in the asio drop down you should see the
x18 listed so choose that enable input should be checked the first drop down should be one
in one the second drop down should be 18 and 18 output range one out one last 18 out 18
check request sample rate in the first video we set the xr at 48k so we need 48 000 here
block size 256. i left the bottom line checked as the default now click ok
now let's build our tracks
mouse up to the left side to the track area right click and choose insert multiple tracks
in the drop down you can actually type in 18 put whatever name you want in the name area
i'm just going to type track and then click ok this will give us our 18 tracks
each track will be named track one track two track three track four all the way to track 18.
let's scroll our tracks and get to track number one if you left click in the meter section you
can choose the xr18 preamp channel let's just go one to one so track one is one track two will be
two track three will be three track four will be four all the way to track 18 which will be 18.
at this point if you've done everything in the first video as far as the xr18 settings go
you should be able to get signal from the xr18 into reaper connect a mic into input 1 on the xr18
and we can check this on the track and check for signal testing one two three four test test tests
all right now we can move the mic to another channel on the xr18 and it should come up in
the corresponding track here in this case track two testing one two three four test test test
at this point if your plan is to record a show or session on this computer
then bring the tracks or the computer back to your studio and connect to a different audio interface
then you're effectively finished this will be all you need to do on the other hand let's say
you want to do something like a virtual sound check where you're bringing back
all 18 traction reaper into the xr18 then it's gonna take some more settings inside of reaper
reaper by default only sends two channels of output
which is from its master the left and right output to whatever audio interface it's connected to
this next part is going to be a bit more advanced this does mean this video will run longer than
five minutes but i will try to keep it close alright let's take a look at reaper again
this first step is only necessary for virtual sound checks in cases where you want to mix all
18 tracks inside the xr18 in that case click the routing button on the master section of reaper
mouse down to the very bottom of the tab and you'll see a drop down choose none now close the
window reaper will no longer output a left right mix now we need to sign the routing of the track
outputs individually starting with track one click the routing button mouse down to add new hardware
output choose one out one close that window now we'll do the same with the routing button
on track two add new hardware output two out two close now the routing button on track three
add new hardware output three out three do the same thing for all 18 tracks all the way to 18
out 18. depending on the reaper theme that you're using the routing buttons could look different
they could even be in different locations including on the tracks themselves
in any case the routing buttons will work the same reaper does offer another way to
do this and that is through the routing matrix so let's take a look at that
mouse up to view click it scroll down to routing matrix and click it this
will give us a matrix to work from follow the master section across to out one and click it
and again you'll want to choose none in the window that comes up the track numbers are on the left of
the graph and as you come across each line you'll be able to see the outputs on track one click in
the box for out one on track two click in the box for out two on track three click in the box
for out three continue on one to one until you get to track 18 and out 18. now we will feed 18 tracks
individually into the 18 inputs of the xr18 i would suggest saving this as a template mouse over
to file click it mouse down to project templates choose save project as template and name it
and save it you can now load this xr18 template anytime you start a new project with the xr18
in fact besides these basic settings you could also name the tracks and even color code the
tracks even match the xr18 this is a quick look at my reaper template for the xr18 this basically
matches my track colors and track names in the x air edit program speaking of the x air edit
program let's take a quick look now that we've set everything up when you're ready to record a show
or session click the in out button and mouse over to usb returns for recording the show or session
mouse over to the off analog button hit it tell it okay and that now quickly sends all 18 channels of
the xr18 to reaper when you're ready to play the tracks back through reaper go to the usb returns
and now click the channel 1 through 16 button now click ok to load it that sets all 18 inputs of the
xr18 to take their signal from the usb input and that should be the 18 tracks from the daw
even if you leave the default reaper routing in place doing your mix down and reaper
using the xr18 interface to feed your studio monitors you'll still use the same x air edit
usb return presets the default reaper routing will have the master output the left right
feeding the behringer xr18 into channel 1 and channel 2. and that should do it i know
this was a lot of info and i hope i made it easy enough to follow thank you for watching and please
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