Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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How to Route Audio & MIDI Between Any two DAWs (Rapid-fire REAPER Tutorials Ep80)

Hey folks! As promised, here's the non-ReWire tutorial for sending audio/MIDI from REAPER to other DAWs and back. For PC users, I did my best on the blog to nudge in the right direction, but some of this stuff will be different cross-platform.

Watch this video by Kenny Gioia doing the same thing with REAPER and Logic Pro X: youtube.com/watch?v=3q78Qi_1pgo

Soundflower (Virtual Audio Interface for Mac users): soundflower.en.softonic.com/mac
loopMIDI (Virtual MIDI Bus for PC Users): tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
ReWire Tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=9wpndk1v75Q

More Info cut for time, Custom actions and downloadable material for this episode👇🏽
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Chapters:
0:00 Why not Rewire?
0:42 Setting up a Virtual MIDI Bus
2:20 Sending MIDI out of REAPER
3:59 Receiving MIDI in Destination DAW
4:45 Setting up a Virtual Audio Interface
6:20 Setting up an Aggregate Audio Device
07:41 Routing External Audio into REAPER
08:38 Demonstration & Potential Issue
9:52 What's missing from our Setup?
11:07 Public Meltdown