How to record drums on reaper and do I need a license to export the song

[Matt Wildman]

We are getting ready to finish up recording our first original song! My bands name is “Crimson day”, look us up on insta. Anyway my drummer uses an electronic drum set. But the problem is that drum set is in a different location from my DAW at home and I can’t move it cause it’s on a big computer not a laptop. So I was wondering if there’s a way to record the drums onto an actual laptop using a audio interface to plug into the drum set, and then save it to a file and put it on the DAW. This is our first time ever recording so I’m open to suggestions on how to record the drums. He may have an acoustic set and we could record it with actual mics idk but I would rather deal with the electronic set. Thanks everyone!

 

[Jaylen Owens]

I use reaper as well I never actually recorded live drums but I assume you can record with a interface. Now with the license thing I have the full version of reaper I think you can export with out a liscene.

 

[Ed Seith]

An electronic kit you should be able to record the MIDI to a laptop with Reaper installed on it, then export the MIDI, move it over to your main PC and then use a plugin to re-render the drums.
No mics, no interface, just a USB or MIDI cable, I would think.

 

[Ed Seith]

No, no additional license needed.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

I literally was betting my 401k that I don’t have that Captain Ed was going to answer this

 

[Matt Wildman]

Well the problem is I can’t move the drum set here to my house where my computer is cause there isn’t any room next to the computer and my computer is a desktop not a laptop so I can’t bring the computer to the drum set

 

[Matt Wildman]

Could I put my mic that I use for vocals in front of the drum kit speaker, hook that up into my audio interface and plug that into a laptop that isnt mine and save it as an MIDI File and put it on my other computer?

 

[Matt Wildman]

I would do it the other way if my friend had reaped on his laptop and if he could get all my recorded guitar parts on there without having to re record everything

 

[Jay Ivanez]

Move the desktop to the drum kit and buy an Interface like the scarlett 2i2 or anything like that
OR
Purchase a small handy recorder like the Zoom H1 and wire the drums output into the recorder, set the levels right , use a click if necessary and just hit record . Take that track file or files and drop it into repear.
The underlying math is you actually have to make a small investment either way. Shouldn’t cost much .

 

[Jay Ivanez]

Or go get a McJob and slot for recording money .

 

[Matt Wildman]

Actually @Ed I think what you said may work. I could have my friend download reaper on his laptop, take it to the drum set, use a usb or midi cable and then just transfer it from reaper on the laptop to reaper on my desktop. That should work I think… thanks Cap!

 

[Ed Seith]

EXACTLY. Thanks for not making me explain it again .