switching to Cubase pro 8,5 from Reaper

Cubase
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I am switching to Cubase pro 8,5 from Reaper. Can I open Reaper project files (.rpp) in Cubase 8,5?

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No. Cubase handles .cpr and .npr (Cubase/Nuendo projects) only.

There’s no DAW that reads files from other DAWs afaik. If Reaper offers .omf you have a chance to take at least some basic stuff over…

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Nope.

Steer clear of OMF. It’s a PITA and not very standardised gor a so-called ‘standard’!

Reaper will timestamp audio, so you could render everything in Reaper then import audio and Move to Origin in Cubase.

But for anything more - creating channels, busing, clip gain, level automation etc - you need AATranslator. And even that won’t transfer everything.

Same goes for transfer between any DAWs.

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Reaper has amazing bounce options so you could just print everything and import or run Reaper in Rewire. I think Reaper even uses 3rd party VSTs in rewire mode. Such a powerful DAW - excellent combo.

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Reaper has amazing bounce options so you could just print everything and import or run Reaper in Rewire. I think Reaper even uses 3rd party VSTs in rewire mode. Such a powerful DAW - excellent combo.

I think the OP already made up his mind. Anyway OMF gets the basic structure into file, import it and recreate the rest, there isn’t a good alternive to my knowledge, SSL had a Project transformer tool, but probably is aimed at protools users and for all i know abandoned by SSL.