Installation of Reaper and ReaRoute

• 1. Download and install Reaper for windows : Reaper
• 2. Launch the Reaper installer
• 3. Go to Optional functionality, and check "ReaRoute ASIO Driver"

• 4. Follow the instructions to finish the installation
• 5. Launch Reaper and open a multitrack project

How to route audio from Reaper’s tracks to NESS

• 1. In the Reaper project, open the “Routing Matrix” tab (View > Routing Matrix of “alt+R”)
• 2. Uncheck the sends of each track to the Master bus
• 3. Check for each track the corresponding Rearoute output to set up the sends from Reaper to Rearoute.

Routing audio from Reaper to NESS

How to route the audio from NESS to Reaperde

• 1. Press CTRL + P to open the preference panel. Go to Audio > device and select the driver of your sound card.


Sound card configuration in Reaper

• Add a new audio track to your project: Track > Insert new track at end of track list

Adding the multichannel audio track for NESS outputs

• 3. In the Route menu of the new track, change the number of channels to match the number of outputs of NESS
• 4. In the same menu Route, uncheck all sends to the Master bus
• 5. In the same menu, add a multichannel send to the hardware outputs of your soundcard. The number of channels to send can be set after selecting the first sound card output to use.

Routing audio coming from NESS to the hardware outputs of the sound card

• 6. Arm the NESS track, configure the recording format to multichannel and select as input channels the channels of ReaRoute
• 7. Right rick on the meters of the NESS track and check Record: disable (input monitoring only)

Selecting ReaRoute channels as inputs for the NESS track NESS

The outputs of NESS are now routed via ReaRoute to Reaper, then from Reaper to your sound card outputs.

See Blackhole & Core Audio >