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Latest update. It will load MIDI projects but splits the synth track and the MIDI data into 2 seperate tracks. I had to go to the track outputs and reroute them to the various soft synths.
It did load a track with some vst effects but they were also seperated into what Reaper called a Matrix track.
Effects has to be one the (audio) track the originally was. Synth are in fact 3(!) tracks, one with synth, one with MIDI and one with FXes (after synth).
What I have asked to test is which effects are transferred correctly and which not. The project structure is not yet converted and in general the subject of a separate discussion...
Just Another Bloke
I hope Alexy will eventually get to maintaining folder structures.
At the moment, I see no reason to ever convert Sonar folders. That sounds almost useless for me.
Current (not fixed) plans, the subject of correction by someone good in Reaper (to apply "best practice"):
* tracks are grouped using its original outputs. So if you have GTX1...GTX10 with output to GTX Bus, the bus becomes a folder with these tracks included. The hierarchy can have several levels (for buses and AUX tracks). But routing is done with Master disabled, completely by sends. So the project can be easily reorganized, down to "flat" level, by (group) dragging tracks.
* In general, Synthes will be in a separate "folder" called "Synth Rack". All incoming MIDI tracks are sub-tracks of corresponding synths. "Instrument" tracks are in the normal project structure. That is guided by the Sonar specific approach for Synth. In Reaper, they are always FXes. In Sonar they are special.
In future version, that structure can be "optimized" in some particular cases. F.e. if a Synth was connected to one (and only one) "Simple Instrument Track" in sonar, only one track is created for it (with MIDI, synth itself and following FXes).
But I propose we wait with the discussion at least till you see how that works in practice (with a bit of luck, not so long). The implementation (I mean the code) is well prepared to modify the "rules of Reaperafication".