Old 04-19-2020, 07:45 AM   #1
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Hello there,
I use reaper portable install on my laptop to have everything in one place.

The thing is that I want to use ableton as a rewire slave but no rewire plugin is showing in FX's.

I have all preferences checked and I see a "reaper-rewire.ini" file in the main folder not no rewire.dll in Plugins folder.


Should I download rewire.dll from somewhere?

Thanks a lot
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Old 04-19-2020, 08:23 AM   #2
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Hi,

No.
Portable install doesn't install rewire. If you can, reinstall the same version on top of your portable and deselect portable install. But with caution..

It happened to me, and I had a normal install and a portable. I needed rewire so I reinstalled over my portable and selected rewire during that process and ended up with a corrupt reaper.INI.

Which makes sense and is not that big a deal, but now I keep my portable install w/o rewire and use it just for testing. If all is cool with the test, I then put the version I'm testing in my normal install.

I know it sounds confusing and someone may be able to explain it better:-) but its the truth.
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Old 04-19-2020, 09:41 AM   #3
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Hi,

No.
Portable install doesn't install rewire. If you can, reinstall the same version on top of your portable and deselect portable install. But with caution..

It happened to me, and I had a normal install and a portable. I needed rewire so I reinstalled over my portable and selected rewire during that process and ended up with a corrupt reaper.INI.

Which makes sense and is not that big a deal, but now I keep my portable install w/o rewire and use it just for testing. If all is cool with the test, I then put the version I'm testing in my normal install.

I know it sounds confusing and someone may be able to explain it better:-) but its the truth.
Thanks for replying,
but I do not understand, This portable install is my main and only Reaper configuration. By installing Reaper on top, i don't want to lose this configuration or get files replaced.


Is that going to do that?

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Old 04-19-2020, 12:20 PM   #4
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but I do not understand, This portable install is my main and only Reaper configuration. By installing Reaper on top, i don't want to lose this configuration or get files replaced.
Is that going to do that?
In general, you shouldn't loose any of your existing configs when installing directly over an existing install (it's basically the same procedure as doing an update by installing a newer version on top of a previous version)

But just to be on the safe side:
  1. Make a copy of your current portable Reaper install folder to a different location, first (so you have it as a backup)
  2. Then do a 'normal' install directly over of your (original) portable install location and check the Rewire option under 'Optional functionality' in the 'Choose Components' page of the installer **
This way you have a backup of your current portable install (saved in step 1) to go back to, in case you might encounter any issues with the other portable install (after step 2).


It's also shown here from 3:13 to 4:32. The rest of this part from 4:32 - 14:05 (until the Install button is pressed) is mainly an explanation of the options itself: https://youtu.be/utnzO1gn1nU?t=193
Although the example in the video uses a 4.x version of Reaper, the procedure is still the same for 5.x and 6.x versions.

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Another option is to make a 'normal' install into a different folder (so you have a 'normal' and your existing portable install side-by-side in separate folders).


In any case, it's always a good strategy to make a copy/backup of your current portable install folder first, just in case..


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** In case you need an installer of an older version (to install the exact same version in step 2 over your current portable install): As example: installing 6.07 normal over 6.07 portable. Or installing 5.99 normal over 5.99 portable.
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Old 04-19-2020, 03:45 PM   #5
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In general, you shouldn't loose any of your existing configs when installing directly over an existing install (it's basically the same procedure as doing an update by installing a newer version on top of a previous version)

But just to be on the safe side:
  1. Make a copy of your current portable Reaper install folder to a different location, first (so you have it as a backup)
  2. Then do a 'normal' install directly over of your (original) portable install location and check the Rewire option under 'Optional functionality' in the 'Choose Components' page of the installer **
This way you have a backup of your current portable install (saved in step 1) to go back to, in case you might encounter any issues with the other portable install (after step 2).


It's also shown here from 3:13 to 4:32. The rest of this part from 4:32 - 14:05 (until the Install button is pressed) is mainly an explanation of the options itself: https://youtu.be/utnzO1gn1nU?t=193
Although the example in the video uses a 4.x version of Reaper, the procedure is still the same for 5.x and 6.x versions.

--------------

Another option is to make a 'normal' install into a different folder (so you have a 'normal' and your existing portable install side-by-side in separate folders).


In any case, it's always a good strategy to make a copy/backup of your current portable install folder first, just in case..


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** In case you need an installer of an older version (to install the exact same version in step 2 over your current portable install): As example: installing 6.07 normal over 6.07 portable. Or installing 5.99 normal over 5.99 portable.
Hi there, thanks for this explanation.
I did the whole thing but still no rewire shows.

instead, the size of my portable install is like a 100 mb's bigger,

Thanks a lot
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Old 04-19-2020, 06:04 PM   #6
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Hi,
OK.
When you reinstall over the top of your current install, there is a window showing what will be installed. Under additional functionality, open that branch and select rewire. Continue with install.
Is there a particular reason your checking portable in the first place? I mean besides..everything in one place?
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Old 04-19-2020, 07:40 PM   #7
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OK.
When you reinstall over the top of your current install, there is a window showing what will be installed. Under additional functionality, open that branch and select rewire. Continue with install.
Is there a particular reason your checking portable in the first place? I mean besides..everything in one place?
Hello, yes I checked rewire under additional functionality.

I love having everything in one place and under a dropbox synch folder.
Any changes I make is inmediately backed up.

It is the only installation I use so it makes it easier for me to manage my settings.

I wonder what is mising here, this rewire stuff is making lose time.
Also, why is the "normal" installation adding 100 mb's more of size, I don't want my portable install to be bigger, or that big!

Isn't there a simply rewire.dll I could just paste in Reaper plugins folder?

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Old 04-20-2020, 05:07 AM   #8
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Hello there,
I use reaper portable install on my laptop to have everything in one place.

The thing is that I want to use ableton as a rewire slave but no rewire plugin is showing in FX's.

I have all preferences checked and I see a "reaper-rewire.ini" file in the main folder not no rewire.dll in Plugins folder.


Should I download rewire.dll from somewhere?

Thanks a lot

Just install full version of reaper in another folder.

Then no worry of anything getting corrupt.
Just a thought you could consider.
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Old 04-20-2020, 05:31 AM   #9
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I forgot to mention in my previous post: you might have to do a computer restart afterwards for the changes to take effect.

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Isn't there a simply rewire.dll I could just paste in Reaper plugins folder?
As far as I know, the main reason why the install option is only available in a normal install, is that the .dll file needs to be installed to a system folder (which might also include updating some registry entries).

For example, on Windows 64-bit, the default location for the ReWire.dll is:
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C:\Program Files\Common Files\Propellerhead Software\ReWire\
Otherwise, you might perhaps try if using the installer from here makes any difference: https://www.reasonstudios.com/download/updates_rewire/

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The thing is that I want to use ableton as a rewire slave ...
In case you don't know this article yet: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/ar...er-DAWs#reaper

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Also, why is the "normal" installation adding 100 mb's more of size, I don't want my portable install to be bigger, or that big!
On Windows, the 'normal' install adds an InstallData folder: https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...97&postcount=1
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On Windows, you will see that the installer creates, in your Program Files\REAPER directory, a new folder called "InstallData". This contains data that will automatically be installed (by REAPER) to your AppData\REAPER directory (listed above). The installer might also create some _user folders in the "InstallData" path, so that your existing customizations can be preserved separately.
Since the InstallData folder will be created again the next time a normal Reaper install/update is done, there should be no problem to delete this folder (or to move it to a different location, if you want to keep it as a backup, just in case).
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Old 04-20-2020, 09:05 AM   #10
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Hi,
OK.
When you reinstall over the top of your current install, there is a window showing what will be installed. Under additional functionality, open that branch and select rewire. Continue with install.
Is there a particular reason your checking portable in the first place? I mean besides..everything in one place?
Hello, this is a real mess, now I have a bunch of files named "conflicted copy 2020-04-19).ini" ..

Now I want to go back to normal and forget about rewire, I give up
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Old 04-20-2020, 03:15 PM   #11
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Me too.
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Old 07-01-2020, 03:20 PM   #13
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Hello people,
So definetely there is no way to use Reason as a Rewire in Reaper? Anybody can give me some hints?

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