How do I keep lyrics in sync with a remote singer using REAPER?
Keep the lyric sheet inside the REAPER project and send the project or template to the remote singer. They open the same session, the prompter is already loaded with the same markers, and both ends are reading the identical sheet at the identical point in the song.
Remote sessions fall apart over small mismatches. A lyric revision that only one side received turns into a confusing twenty minutes before anyone works out that the two rooms are looking at different words.
Storing the sheet in the project makes the lyrics part of the session rather than an attachment to it. When the project travels, the words travel with it, at the right point on the timeline.
For live-monitored sessions over a remote link, the singer runs the prompter locally against their own copy of the timeline, which avoids depending on video latency for something as timing-critical as reading ahead.
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They need the prompter itself, which has a free trial, plus the same DAW project. Everything else can be bounced to audio.
You can, but sending the project keeps the markers with them, and the markers are the part people forget.