I've never used reaper, but am thinking of giving it a try. I'm used to using sonar, and there's something I want to do but can't because sonar's project file format is binary and proprietary. Does Reaper have a text based project file? Thanks!
I've never used reaper, but am thinking of giving it a try. I'm used to using sonar, and there's something I want to do but can't because sonar's project file format is binary and proprietary. Does Reaper have a text based project file? Thanks!
Yes it has. Why dont you just not download it and give it try. The RPP file (project file) is readable with a text editor.
Awesome, thanks. Also thanks for the quick responses. Looks like Reaper's forum is pretty good. I'm definitely going to give it a try.
One thing to also note...The project files that you get when saving a real project may look quite complex and have lots of things. However, if you want to write/edit the project file yourself with a program/script, there are many things you can simply omit from dealing with, Reaper will use suitable default values for many things.
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Indeed, I seem to recall Pipeline telling us a story about Justin changing the mix of a song in a text editor, just to show off a bit to another recording engineer.
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On the other hand, those text files can add up to quite a large bulk if you have a lot of tracks and VSTs loaded.
It wouldn't be a bad idea if those RPP files could be zipped, and then have a new extension (RPZ - RPP ZIP?) - ZIP archives are easy to treat like directories, and there's definitively good compression ration using ZIP on text files.
question about reaper's project file format
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