Ok, a quick tute in case anyone ever needs to use TALs awesome Vocoder within Reaper. TAL Vocoder II is cool in that it just uses the left and right channels for the modulator and carrier rather than any fancy side-chaining malarky. Obviously this could be useful for any plugin that uses a similar scheme. Also this is the simplest 101 way of doing it, you can play with having everything on one track if you like. I like things simple. 
I'm using the Reaper 5 pre-release in case you're wondering about the GUI...
Kai, firstly create three tracks with your carrier (typically a harmonically rich synth), modulator (speech...) and the vocoder itself (don't forget to click the Input Mode button so it receives external audio). I've also created a fourth folder track so I can keep everything tidy and together:
a.PNG
Route the carrier and modulator tracks to the vocoder track by simply dragging the IO button (ROUT in R5) to the destination IO button.
Open the IO on the Vocoder track and pan the carrier hard left and modulator hard right:
d.png
That should be it:
https://soundcloud.com/lighthugger/vocoder-demo

I'm using the Reaper 5 pre-release in case you're wondering about the GUI...
Kai, firstly create three tracks with your carrier (typically a harmonically rich synth), modulator (speech...) and the vocoder itself (don't forget to click the Input Mode button so it receives external audio). I've also created a fourth folder track so I can keep everything tidy and together:
a.PNG
Route the carrier and modulator tracks to the vocoder track by simply dragging the IO button (ROUT in R5) to the destination IO button.
Open the IO on the Vocoder track and pan the carrier hard left and modulator hard right:
d.png
That should be it:
https://soundcloud.com/lighthugger/vocoder-demo
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