Good evening Reaper friends:
A few weeks ago I was at Skywalker Sound as assistant orchestrator / copyist for the Sundance Composer Lab. The Sundance Composer Lab is a wonderful program for up and coming film composers, led by Peter Golub. Below is a blog that gives a brief behind the scenes look into the unique world of film music orchestration.
http://www.avidblogs.com/sundance-fi...ywalker-sound/
I've posted about this before in the lounge, but I figured that many Reaper users do not frequently visit that particular subforum, so for the benefit of everyone, I am posting this in the general section as well.
Of special mention is that Reaper saved the day -- in combination with AA Translator. I did not mention this in the blog, but the reason I used Reaper rather than Pro Tools, is that I had issues with my iLok -- couldn't get iLok authorized. I swapped iloks with Marco (the lead orchestrator) and the dongle worked fine, but for whatever reason, it was messed up on my computer.
We couldn't figure out what was going on, and with the massive workload and time pressure quickly settled on a workaround:
1. I converted the incoming PT sessions with AA Translator
2. Marco exported the midi tracks from PT, and gave them to me
3. I imported the midi tracks manually into Reaper and lined them up with the cues
It's bit clunky, and between you and me, I would have preferred to work in Pro Tools ... it would have been much easier. Easy is gold in high pressure environments.
But --- it is what it is and you have to be flexible and think on your feet. Reaper saved the day. As did AA Translator (thank you Michael and team!!!).
Reaper shined in other ways, too ... in unexpected ways. As goes without saying, I proudly wore my Reaper T shirt all weekend (thank you Pipelineaudio / Aaron). On of the sound designers I ran into on Friday noticed it, and asked me about it ... we had a long and interesting discussion about the pros and cons of Reaper versus Pro Tools. He is one of the young and upcoming sound designers at Skywalker Sound, looking for something "light and easy" to have at home, in addition to Pro Tools which is ubiquitous at Skywalker Sound.
Well, and there you go. :)
A few weeks ago I was at Skywalker Sound as assistant orchestrator / copyist for the Sundance Composer Lab. The Sundance Composer Lab is a wonderful program for up and coming film composers, led by Peter Golub. Below is a blog that gives a brief behind the scenes look into the unique world of film music orchestration.
http://www.avidblogs.com/sundance-fi...ywalker-sound/
I've posted about this before in the lounge, but I figured that many Reaper users do not frequently visit that particular subforum, so for the benefit of everyone, I am posting this in the general section as well.
Of special mention is that Reaper saved the day -- in combination with AA Translator. I did not mention this in the blog, but the reason I used Reaper rather than Pro Tools, is that I had issues with my iLok -- couldn't get iLok authorized. I swapped iloks with Marco (the lead orchestrator) and the dongle worked fine, but for whatever reason, it was messed up on my computer.
We couldn't figure out what was going on, and with the massive workload and time pressure quickly settled on a workaround:
1. I converted the incoming PT sessions with AA Translator
2. Marco exported the midi tracks from PT, and gave them to me
3. I imported the midi tracks manually into Reaper and lined them up with the cues
It's bit clunky, and between you and me, I would have preferred to work in Pro Tools ... it would have been much easier. Easy is gold in high pressure environments.
But --- it is what it is and you have to be flexible and think on your feet. Reaper saved the day. As did AA Translator (thank you Michael and team!!!).
Reaper shined in other ways, too ... in unexpected ways. As goes without saying, I proudly wore my Reaper T shirt all weekend (thank you Pipelineaudio / Aaron). On of the sound designers I ran into on Friday noticed it, and asked me about it ... we had a long and interesting discussion about the pros and cons of Reaper versus Pro Tools. He is one of the young and upcoming sound designers at Skywalker Sound, looking for something "light and easy" to have at home, in addition to Pro Tools which is ubiquitous at Skywalker Sound.
Well, and there you go. :)
