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SETTING UP REAPER WITH ZOOM AND M -AUDIO KEYBOARDThis document is directed towards using the Zoom as a control surface for Reaper. It addresses basically the use of controlling analog inputs such as microphones into the Zoom and connecting the M-Audio keyboard, which is a midi device, illustrating an ideal application of multiple midi controller interfaces. References are given at the end to posts published in the Reaper forum and directed to by correspondence with member Solger, who was primarily responsible for sorting out the problems I experienced.Install the Reaper, ASIO (ASIO4All) and Zoom drivers into the computer, if not already done. These can be downloaded from the web. A good download site for the Zoom ASIO driver is ? up the Mackie control for interfacing. First download and install it from the web. There are many sites to download it from. Attach the Zoom by its USB cable to the computer.Switch on the Zoom and open Reaper in a new project. Start a new project in Zoom. Press the USB button on the Zoom and select AUDIO INTERFACE. Select [CONTINUE] to use the previous project settings, or RESET to start from scratch.Go to Options/Preferences in Reaper and under Audio System select ASIO and under ASIO Driver select ZOOM R16_R24 ASIO Driver, which should appear if the drivers were installed correctly. (The ASIO driver should also be in the list, but it will not be used).In the Reaper menu on the left, click on Control/OSC/Web. This should bring up a window which oks as follows, displays the Mackie control. Clicking on this entry should bring up another window which appears as follows:Click OK and then return to the Preferences window and select Audio-Device. Under Audio System make sure that this is set to ASIO and under ASIO Driver, Zoom R16_R24 ASIO Driver.Click in the Enable Inputs checkbox, and under First, select 1: Input channel, and under Last, select 8: Input channel. If you wish to utilize the second bank of the Zoom you will have to switch to the second bank on the Zoom by pressing the 9-16 Tr button after going back to the home screen of the Zoom. I haven’t tried this yet, but in principle this is what is required. For the present, we will use only 8 channels, of which one will be for the M-Audio keyboard. Remember channels 5 and 6 can be used for condenser mics, in which case the switch on the Zoom must be set accordingly. Leave the Output Range as it is – there will only be two channels, first is 1 and second is 2.Under the Midi devices menu on the left, click on MIDI Devices and the Zoom should appear listed in the pop-up window on the right. DO NOT ENABLE THE ZOOM MIDI CHANNELS. This was done in the audio settings in (6) above. If you enable the Zoom settings under this Midi devices option, it will not work, and you will spend hours tearing your hair out. The final Audio Device window should look like this: Under the VIEW menu item, select TRANSPORT and ROUTING MATRIX.The transport control buttons should appear at the bottom, and the Routing Matrix will be hidden at the bottom. To view it hover the mouse near the bottom until it changes to a double vertical arrow, and drag it up, when the routing matrix will become evident.If you now press CTRL – T 8 times, 8 new tracks will appear in Reaper, as well as the grid.Now click in each corresponding channel-track cell of the top matrix rows, where it states MASTER OUTPUT, channel 1 to track 1, etc, to have a diagonal red line sloping from left to right., which simply associates the Reaper channels to tracks. But we must now associate the Zoom inputs with the Reaper channels, and this is done by moving down the matrix to the INPUT CHANNELS matrix where we allocate a particular device input to the allocated Reaper channel. We do this by clicking on the relevant cell, or on the arming button on the left of each Reaper track. The grid should appear as follows:Note that line 5 does not have a cell marked. This is because we are going to allocate the MIDI keyboard with channel 5, as described below. We are now ready to record. If there is a mic plugged into any of the Zoom channel inputs, and the Reaper track is armed (click on the ARM button on the left of the track and it should turn red), you should see the level indicator next to the channel controls and tracks starting to flicker, which indicates that it is ready to record. You will see the levels moving if you speak into the mic. Click OK, and test the connection by moving the faders of the Zoom and ensuring that the corresponding fader or pan knob moves in Reaper.Test a few of the channels by plugging a mic into the appropriate Zoom socket. These cell allocations can be changed at any time to accommodate the keyboard or whatever.To enable playback, you must ensure that you click on the little rectangular icon on the right of the name track bar (next to the record/arm button) which will take you to the “routing for track x” box, and you must click on the little “Master Send” box to enable that track, otherwise you will not hear sound through the speakers. Confirm that this is working by checking that the master fader control is displaying the track as you speak into a mic.NOTE that you can use either the ASIO4All driver or the ZOOM driver. The latter is fine, since you will have recorded via the ZOOM except for the keyboard. So if you leave it connected under “Preferences” to the Zoom driver, then remember to plug in the speakers to the ZOOM device monitor output, and not the COMPUTER. If you use the ASIO4All driver, then plug it into the computer.CONNECTING THE M-AUDIO KEYBOARD:Although the keyboard, as separate MIDI controller, will not be routed via the Zoom, but will connect directly via USB to Reaper in the computer, the Zoom driver can still be used, provided that the speakers are plugged into the Zoom. This means that the keyboard backing can be recorded simultaneously with vocals. To start off, connect the USB cable from the keyboard to a spare USB input on the computer. If there are not sufficient inputs on the computer, you may have to use a USB extender box. This should power the keyboard on.Now select a channel (in this example, channel 5), by clicking the left or right hand arrows, just below the display, and it will will briefly display the channels as c01, c02, etc. until you find the desired one.In order to enable the keyboard in Reaper, it must first be associated with an effect, so click the Fx button on the associated track and select an effect such as Organ, Piano, whatever, and click OK. If you can’t see the OK button because its hidden by the task bar, then double-click the Fx selection. The effect should pop up in a separate window.Display the Routing grid, and the M-Audio inputs should appear. Under the line Ch X: Oxygen 49 (where X is the channel allocated in Reaper to the M-Audio – in this case channel 5), click in the cell corresponding with the Reaper channel as was done with the mics. The routing grid should now look as follows: You should now see movement in the vertical indicator of the Reaper track and hear the sound when playing the keyboard. You’re ready to record.Remember to check the “Master Send” box for the M-Audio, as in (17) above.Remember to set “Monitoring” on in the chosen Reaper track, otherwise you will not hear the keyboard when you play it.You’re now ready to record via the Zoom inputs and Keyboard input simultaneously.REFERENCES FROM REAPER FORUM: When the R16 is set up as Control Surface (Mackie Control), disable the R16 MIDI input and output in the MIDI Device settings:?: settings for Master Track: settings: Master Send for individual tracks: Playback configuration: more references:? and ................
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