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bradh
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If dealing with polywav files and default-recording the mix is a pain, you can always buy the Musician Plugin ($100 USD), which only records the ISOs as individual wav files; if you want to record a mix you can do that in the MixPre afterward (even doing live adjustments to the mix on the fly while the mix is being recorded), but of course that involves resampling. I find the Musician Plugin a lot more intuitive to work with, as it's much more like recording into a DAW.
For those MixPre users who subsequently import into Reaper, there's a quick script within ReaClassical for handling the polywavs...see video in link below. It gives you a track naming table window, as well as the option to create a stereo wav out of the first two (main pair) iso mono files.
If ReaClassical isn't your regular DAW, it's probably best to engage with it as a portable install, to keep it separate from regular Reaper...I'll add install video guide links below for Windows/Mac/Linux portable installs (eg on a usb thumb drive), as well as the ReaClassical manual, which gives you the processes as text. Hope you find it helpful
Importing polywav files video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDl6...aVQ4Z&index=11
Portable install for Windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTFi79rwsg
Portable install for Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef0kSwq8xgc
Portable install for Linux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXod8qd9xeE
ReaClassical user manual, as quickstart:
https://reaclassical.org/quick_start_guide.html
User manual, as PDF:
https://github.com/chmaha/ReaClassic...cal-Manual.pdf
In the latter, you'll want pages 16-18... and 31-33
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'19.2 Multi-Channel Audio Import
If you use a portable recorder such as a MixPre, you might have a multi-channel com-
bined file. ReaClassical includes a special function for converting these into a stereo
pair + mono track set. Import your multi-channel media using a single regular track
(for a horizontal workflow) or multiple regular tracks (for a vertical workflow). Then,
simply press F10 (no need to select the items). Answer yes to the prompt that appears
if the first two channels should be treated as stereo interleaved (i.e. they represent
your main pair).
Depending on the choice made, the number of tracks in the resulting
folder(s) will adjust accordingly. If the user selects ‘no’ to keep all tracks mono, the
folder track is left empty so that the Prepare Takes T function is able to create a
muted guide track (more on this later!). Then you are given the opportunity to name
your tracks.
Obviously if you decide to move to a vertical workflow after exploding
using a single track, you can always use F8 to create your source folders then drag
the media to where you want them. If you need to bring in new takes after editing has
started, simply use the function on an empty project tab then copy or cut them into the
original project tab into the desired folder on the timeline'