Sorry Lee, I don't have answers for your problem but I thought I'd jump on here to ask a few questions of my own. I am thinking about selling my Alesis Master Control and purchasing one of these ZED R16's as well. I really miss having eq's at my fingertips.
It appears to me the negatives of this unit are 1) no track solo buttons (would have to do that from Reaper with the mouse I suppose) 2) no track record enable buttons (again - use mouse), and 3) no motorized faders - although I seriously think they are over-rated anyway.
So I'm guessing the workflow is to record with the faders in audio mode utilizing the eq's and all the standard features of the mixer, setting up your audio channels in Reaper the same way you would with any firewire audio device. That seems fairly straightforward.
Then during mixdown you change the faders to midi mode so you are controlling Reapers faders, right? I'm a little bit confused what happens audio-wise at this point. Are the eq's still active? Or is this now functioning strictly as a control surface? I think I would still want to use Reaper's rendering functionality, along with automation and vst instruments and effects as I normally would do. I have no outboard effects or hardware.
During overdubs I would assume the faders for the already recorded tracks would be in midi mode and the track you are recording/overdubbing the faders would be in audio mode? Or am I getting this all wrong?
Sorry if I'm over-simplifying this but I'm trying to get an idea of the change in workflow I'm going to have to go through if I decide to shell out the money for one of these units.
Thanks in advance for any feedback from anyone who would care to comment...
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