Problems with multiple instances on Reaper

Synthesizer V Studio
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I attempted to use three instances of V2.0.7 in Reaper: one ARA (empty) and two ARA Bridged, for the lead vocal tracks and a chorus. It turned out to be a poor decision.

List of issues encountered:

  • In 90% of cases when opening the project, rendering freezes in both bridged VSTs at 0% or 1%.
  • It (sometimes) resumes only if I terminate one of the instances and reload it from a file. But then playback becomes extremely laggy (to a comical extent).
  • Any interaction with a plugin during rendering causes the entire DAW to crash.

In conclusion, avoid doing this!

I ultimately removed the chorus VST and rendered it as a WAV file in the studio.

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There shouldn’t be anything stopping you from using one copy of SV2 ARA Bridged with different voice tracks being output to separate channels in your DAW. I do this all the time with Cubase and Nuendo.

Unless Reaper is not capable of this ???

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Yes that’s what I usually do, but for the chorus there were too many voices tracks so I wanted to have only one instance with stereo output. That’s why I tried this. Bad idea :slight_smile: