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mccrabney · 06-20-2017, 05:00 PM

my laptop is about as powerful as one could buy.

i fully anticipate that the playstart itself will not be as realtime as "hit the PLAY button on the downbeat and reaper starts immediately" even though software like Ableton Live purports to do that. that's not a problem

what i'd like is something that would at least start playing inside a short looped time selection before the project content starts that i could silently and manually sync to the external content ala tap tempo, and then remove the loop selection to begin the project.

ie:

[______]~~~~~~~~~

meanwhile dropping in a REAPER project to an external beat is not an option unless i'm not using my typical FX set. instead i'm leading/concluding these multisong live projects with filtering ins/outs, ambient noise rises and falls, and straight up cold start/ends that rely on quick switches to external sampler trigger noises in order to maintain the flow.

i've long since accepted that i'm going to have to bully REAPER into being a live electronic music performance tool, so workarounds are just fine.

06-20-2017, 05:00 PM	#6
mccrabney Human being with feelings Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 3,672	my laptop is about as powerful as one could buy. i fully anticipate that the playstart itself will not be as realtime as "hit the PLAY button on the downbeat and reaper starts immediately" even though software like Ableton Live purports to do that. that's not a problem what i'd like is something that would at least start playing inside a short looped time selection before the project content starts that i could silently and manually sync to the external content ala tap tempo, and then remove the loop selection to begin the project. ie: [______]~~~~~~~~~ meanwhile dropping in a REAPER project to an external beat is not an option unless i'm not using my typical FX set. instead i'm leading/concluding these multisong live projects with filtering ins/outs, ambient noise rises and falls, and straight up cold start/ends that rely on quick switches to external sampler trigger noises in order to maintain the flow. i've long since accepted that i'm going to have to bully REAPER into being a live electronic music performance tool, so workarounds are just fine. __________________ mccrabney scripts: MIDI edits from the Arrange screen ala jjos/MPC sequencer \|sis - - - anacru\| isn't what we performed: pls no extra noteons in loop recording \| - - - - - anacru\|sis <==this is what we actually performed.