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Originally Posted by shakey.oberon
It is an issue, because you can't send audio pre fx on an instrument channel, but you can on an audio channel, thats the issue, its a restriction
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There are no distinct instrument channels, audio channels or MIDI channels in Reaper. They simply don't exist. It's all the same. And as I wrote before there is also no distinction between FX (VST/DX) and instruments (VSTi/DXi).
If you have a track with audio and have put a delay into the fx chain, you can branch the audio (pre-fx), the audio with delay (post-fx) and the audio with dalay (post-fader, post-pan). If you now exchange the delay with a softsynth, you simply can't branch off the signal of the softsynth pre-fx, because the signal isn't created at this stage yet.
So if you now have a chain where right after the VSTi comes a VST (maybe a synth and a chorus) you can't branch between them, but there's no need to, because if you create a send anyway that goes to another track, why would you put the VST right behind the VSTi instead of just creating another send to a third track and put the VST there?
I can't see whichever audio signal that goes into Reaper can't be mixed with any other signal that's played back by Reaper or created by some plugin. You can route *every* signal *anywhere* and mix it with *every* other. This is Reaper's paradigm. That's how it works, not a workaround. But: many things are not done like in Sonar or other DAWs.
So would you point me to the restriction you see?
What am I missing?
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