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Assuming your projects were up to date you usually have to do it this way.
1. Export Midi as a MIDI file.
2. Export Audio as an AAF audio file.
The problem is that Reaper doesn't (or at least didn't) support AAF natively.
I believe there are some workarounds now- have a look on the reaper forums.
Even when all things are fully working and supported it is a bit of a cludge.
I regularly have to move projects between DAWs and I generally find it better to just export the audio, track by track, putting a 2pop at the beginning of any audio track that doesn't start at 1:1:1:1.
When I need to import instrument MIDI I just create presets for the sounds/effects chains and manually recreate the session.
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I found my old copy of SX3, which unfortunately disagreed with my current set up, can't imagine that SX2 will do any better. But it might be worth digging out an old laptop with Win7 or XP on which i think i have somewhere...
Isn't AAF proprietary to Apple, and therefore less compatible as an archive format?
And also, although it is nice to have the midi, surely it is better to have the actual desired audio, in case the VST is not available?
I try to make it a habit to leave a mix in a state where I can access full length WAV stems / tracks in the folder, usually using them for the final mix, which is generally present as an MP3 in the project as well.
This has served me well in the past when I have tried to work on older Logic and PT stuff on my newer Win machine.
Hindsight is always 20 / 20 though, and I do still have some stuff that I need to finalise in that way, which means firing up an old MBP, kept for that sole purpose.
I even have a copy of Ableton 10 on it, which I could never get to work with even the demo project, which is around the time I made the jump to Reaper - never looked back.
It has nothing to do with Apple.
Have a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Authoring_Format
It is a buggy piece of shit though.
I hate it and dislike using it.
Why would you use it?
Well some people do and it does have some advantages when it works.
I find it more hassle then it is worth.
As I said, I bounce out audio AND midi.
AAF doesn't bring midi across.
I usually want to have the midi data and the audio data when moving between workstations.
So I bounce out any audio, including rendering VSTi and AU instruments as audio, but I also bring the midi over via a midi file.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format
sorry.