klushund wrote:So you managed to get it working stable? I tried different things but took Cubase finally. -- and then changed to Sibelius (which is mighty but not intuitive, I think; and has only one Rewire-Channel).
Could you please give a short description of your setup? Maybe I can get my setup right?
It's easy.
Once you have both Notion and Reaper installed, and ReWire turned on in both (it's on by default in Reaper), you just open Reaper first, add a Virtual Instrument on a track and select ReWire: Notion from the list. You will have a new track with the Notion input.
Then you open Notion and it will detect Reaper as Rewire master. From then on you can play the score from any point in either Notion or Reaper. If you aren't getting sound from the notion track, you should try arming the track for recording and/or turning on forced monitoring. But check if you are getting sound from Reaper, by turning on the metronome for example.
I used the metronome in Reaper and a simple woodblock on every beat in Notion to check the sync, regarding that both had the same time signature. I observed that Notion was slightly behind, but I am sure there's a way to sync it better somewhere. For the time being, the ASIO4ALL drivers work much better than the other options, and reduce the lag to almost nothing. (I am on Windows btw).
Playing a video file in Reaper is the easiest thing in the world. Just drag the video inside Reaper and it will create a new track with the audio waveform. Then you can open the 'video player' window from the menu or ctrl-shift-v.
Time markings in Notion will be ignored and tempo will be handled by reaper, which in my opinion is much more consistent when working for film. You can add the same tempo changes in notion just for compositional reference and for working on the soundtrack on notion alone without Reaper turned on.
In this setup I see Notion as the big orchestra that sits among other instruments, voices and effects that can be added together in Reaper. Great if you want to use pianoroll to compose for certain instruments (in parallell to those inside Notion).
Plus, reaper is really affordable and fits in less than 10MB disk space. It's amazingly complete. I guess many parts of the UI are economic, leaving the typical cool looking interface for the main screen only. (As opposite from most DAWs in which the cool but memory hungry knobs and gadgets became a must).