Cockos REAPER DDP Export Tutorial

Mastering CDs for mass replication? DDP (also known as DDPi) is the way to go! But the process within REAPER is a little tricky so watch this video to find out how to make things go smoothly.

[octooptokoppler]

A very big thank you, dude. Our press plant said "no ISO, please send a DDP". I got scared that I have to buy such expensive mastering software. But fortunately I did all the recording, mixing and mastering with reaper so it was good to see that REAPER can also make DDP files. With the help of your tutorial it was quit a simple thing.
Thank you very much and go on!

[kevinclossguitar]

I learned more about computers in one day than I did in the last twenty-five years of owning a computer! Thanks for this. Everything worked exactly as you said it would although Windows 10 made it a little trickier to find things. So glad I stumbled onto your video. My new CD will now sound exactly as I intended it to sound.

[LiverpoolXOXOXO]

Wow!!! Thanks for the time and effort you put into that. I don't think I would have been able to send off the CD without you. Really appreciate the content.

[Stephen-lcon]

This was wonderful. Helped me out a lot. Your instructions were clear and concise. I was able to make a DDP file, create an image and burn it to a cd to verify. Everything worked perfectly. Thanks again!

[tiagobecker]

Realy great tutorial, as posted before learned A LOT in the last 35 minutes!
Just for the record, ddptools is available for macOS (from the address in the description) as binary, which can be installed and run from any directroy in the system.
Also would like to point out that you can have index 0 (! markers) for every track, specially when usig gaps beween tracks, so you get the usual countdown before play starts and tracks on CD match actual wav file play time.
Thanks for yout time on doing this! Already a fan!

[BMSworldNZ]

The vertical line referred to around the 8:00 minute mark is known as a Pipe.

[spliffatomic]

Ohhh! thats what I needed bro!! thanks a lot!

[EegNoodlez]

Fantastic video, helped me get my EP off to a CD plant, thanks a bunch!

[drunkgods]

Great tutorial, thank you very much :-) I've followed all your steps to check that the Render worked, and the only slight issue I have is the frame value for most of the songs (a 10 track album) in the DDP_image.cue file are one frame out, compared to where each song actually starts in the Reaper timeline. Is that a concern, do you know? Thanks again 🙂

[Leopold]

Brilliant tutorial, just what I was looking for. Explained it all perfectly. Cheers a million!

[RealHomeRecording]

If you aren't already try using an external hard drive. Those usually run faster (7200 RPM vs. 5400 RPM of typical laptop drives). USB 2.0 or firewire if possible.

But definitely check out the Offline Audio Mixing video.

[llTheSystemll]

Cool video. Very informative. While at the CMD prompt in the ddptools dir, you can type d and then hit the TAB key to save some time and keystrokes.

[oliverarnold]

First of all - big thank you for that helpful tutorial. It worked fine here. Just one question (mentioned earlier already, but i just did not get it...). You imported the Godsmack tracks in Reaper. All at once, all in one track. Am I right that this means reaper will attach track 2 to track 1, track 3 to track 2 etc. without any silence in between? As far as i have been told, the red book standard says "leave at least 2 seconds between the tracks". Is there an "autmatical" way to do this when importing the tracks to reaper? If not, this means i have to leave that gap "manually"? What consequences does this have for the markers? I mean usually, the CD Player says -00:02... -00:01, then 00:00 and the track starts. How do i set that one up correctly?

[RealHomeRecording]

Thanks geekzine! I really had no clue what that key was called.

It looks like it has several other names as well according to Wikipedia's Vertical bar article. Vertical bar, polon, verti-bar, vbar, stick, vertical line, vertical slash, or bar, think colon, poley, and finally divider line. Phew!

[tenvolt]

You can press Shift-M to insert the marker and it will immediately ask you to name it instead of having to Edit the marker afterwards. Shift-\ is the pipe symbol | - at least that's what I learned it was called

[mikedeenz]

Awesome Adam, thanks for your great video! You explained the process perfectly. With your help I should be able to get my first master replicated perfectly. Thanks again!

[Nijend]

Tnx for the clear video. One question. I'm a newbie what I don't understand is the marker 0 is at point 00:00 the first marker at 2 seconds. What happens with the first to seconds (between marker 0 and 1) of music?

[NoxMessor]

That thing you do at +- 13:30, you can just hold shift when the "arrows" show and then just drag the mouse up =D

[SabaTexas]

Adam, Thank you very much for this video. Your work is greatly appreciated.

[RealHomeRecording]

You make the DDP files in REAPER and then verify them with DDPTools. The link for DDPTools is in the video description. Look on the right side of the page for a Windows download link.

It's underneath the Linux link, which is a little unusual but hey!