You will love Reaper. However, setting up a multitrack VSTi in any DAW can be a daunting task of routing. Of course you can simply put an app like Kontakt on a single track and use it as a single channel plugin to play a single instrument. But when you have multiple instruments, routing is the way to go.

Reaper allows you to set up Routing to permit the most complex of setups to optimize the use of multichannel VSTi. Bad news is you need a degree in audio engineering to set it up.

In the past I have setup the routing for apps such as Kontakt and ST3, but when you forget to flip a switch or create the proper send and receive, or forget to click on monitoring, or fail to select send to parent - all you hear is silence.

So I recently discovered a feature in Reaper which allows for both Template Projects and Template Tracks. With the proper template you can use it and all the routing is set up at a click of a button.

Many templates (Project templates if you are just starting or track templates if you need to add to an existing project) are available on the web by users.

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