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REAPER Portable 3.35 Development Test 1

Submitted by prapper on August 4, 2009 - 7:49am

Application: REAPER
Category: Music & Video
License: See notes below
Language: English
Description: REAPER is a fully featured multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering environment.

Download REAPER Portable 3.35 Development Test 1 [1+4MB download / 23MB installed]
(MD5: f766d3af41f68a815faf7f1bed6e808c)
Online Installer: This is an online installer that will download additional files during setup.

Plugins:

Download LAME for REAPER Portable 3.98.2 Development Test 4 [1+1MB download / 1MB installed]
(MD5: 8006178ba777d14da2c11a90184d79a9)
Online Installer: This is an online installer that will download additional files during setup.

Download Tallisman FX Chains for REAPER Portable Development Test 4 [1+1MB download / 2MB installed]
(MD5: 9b566b2fa1e312568a94ee68654e2c70)
Online Installer: This is an online installer that will download additional files during setup.
NOTE: The installer checks, then installs into, the active profile (as defined in "REAPERPortable.ini"), the default $SETTINGSDIRECTORY or, if neither of these two directories exist, 'App\DefaultData\settings' (in that order).

Download SWS Extension for REAPER Portable Development Test 4 [1+1MB download / 1MB installed]
(MD5: 887134bb120605c2f2ae96654f159d0d)
Online Installer: This is an online installer that will download additional files during setup.
NOTE: This plugin is updated quite regularly. Just run the installer again to get the latest version.

Download User Guide for REAPER Portable 3.3 Development Test 1 [1+20MB download / 20MB installed]
(MD5: 1cfe448c252bc947dbe859c68234ed1a)
Online Installer: This is an online installer that will download additional files during setup.
UPGRADE NOTE: This will delete any previous user guides from your REAPER directory.

Release Notes:

3.35 Development Test 1 (2010-03-04):

REAPER has been updated to 3.35.

3.31 Development Test 2 (2010-02-25):

Desktop folder is now called "REAPER Portable Projects" (to minimize the risk of conflicts). If you're upgrading, the folder in the settings directory (default and/or custom) will be renamed automatically but if you have something *really* valuable in there you'd be wise to back it up first :-)

Information dialogs added if user enables 'admin only' features (firewall/file associations) on a limited account.

3.31 Development Test 1 (2010-02-21):

REAPER has been updated to 3.31.

3.301 Development Test 1 (2010-02-16):

REAPER has been updated to 3.301.

User Guide has been updated to 3.3.

SWS Extension has been updated to 1.5.0 #14. No need to download again, just re-run the installer.

3.3 Development Test 1 (2010-02-10):

REAPER has been updated to 3.3.

3.22 Development Test 1 (2010-02-02):

REAPER has been updated to 3.22.

3.21 Development Test 1 (2010-01-27):

REAPER has been updated to 3.21.

User Guide has been updated to 3.21.

3.2 Development Test 1 (2010-01-16):

REAPER has been updated to 3.2.

User Guide has been updated to 3.16.

SWS Extension has been updated to 1.4.1 build #1. No need to download again, just re-run the installer.

3.161 Development Test 1 (2009-12-26):

REAPER has been updated to 3.161.

3.16 Development Test 1 (2009-12-23):

REAPER has been updated to 3.16.

Updated SWS Extension to DT4. It's now a standard PA.c online installer.

3.15 Development Test 1 (2009-12-18):

REAPER has been updated to 3.15.

As the PA.c installer can now extract the REAPER setup file correctly, REAPER Portable is now a standard online installer. As only certain items in 'App\REAPER' are preserved, make a backup!

$USERTYPE bug fixed (broken since 3.x DT9).

REAPER's file associations are now *not* added by default but you can configure this with "REAPERPortable.ini". There are now two REG files in $SETTINGSDIRECTORY. (Requires admin rights).

'Help/HTML lists (auto-generated)' were left in $TEMP. They're now backed up/removed.

Removed support for REAPER 2.x. Who still uses that thing? :-)

Data directory upgrade has been removed from the installer.

Plugins added/updated.

LAME updated to DT4. Version number display corrected. No files/functionality changed.

SWS Extension updated to DT3. Downloaded file is no longer saved after install. No files/functionality changed.

Tallisman FX Chains updated to DT4. Installer's destination directory has changed. No files/functionality changed. Also, as there seems to be something wronng with that server (regular corrupted download, even from a browser) I am hosting it. Or rather, Patrick is! All it is is a set of (incredibly useful!) user presets that appear on the forum and I can't see any licensing info. I presume this is OK, if not, I'll change back to the previous download location. Topic is here.

REAPER User Guide plugin added. This installs the PDF into 'App\REAPER' and you can open it from 'Help/Documentation'.

Help file updated.

NOTE: As there as so many changes, I'm recommending a clean install rather than a load of complex upgrade code. Just rename your current "X:\PortableApps\REAPERPortable" directory, install 3.15, run it, exit, then copy any files you need back in.

3.14159 Development Test 1 (2009-12-08):

REAPER has been updated to 3.14159.

3.1415 Development Test 1 (2009-11-28):

REAPER has been updated to 3.1415.

3.141 Development Test 1 (2009-11-26):

Completely reworked installer. Online/offline, copy local files (default or custom location) etc. See help file.

As the installer can download the setup file, these packages are now version-specific.

Help file updated.

3.x Development Test 9 (2009-11-13):

Drive letter wasn't being updated in reg file (bug introduced in DT8). Fixed.

Minor PA.c Format stuff corrected.

Help file updated.

3.x Development Test 8 (2009-10-29):

All registry paths written to file on first run. Registry entries now compatible with install to any directory.

Added SWS Extension plugin.

FX Chains updated to dev test 2. Installer now checks REAPER has been run (installs to settings dir).

Help file updated.

3.x Development Test 7 (2009-10-15):

Tweaked firewall code. $USERTYPE now checked on the way out.

3.x Development Test 6 (2009-10-02):

All settings and data now stored in the settings directory (enabling 'user profiles'). See install notes below.

Tweaked firewall code. Should now be a more seamless experience across different Windows versions.

Lots of other code tidied up.

Help file updated.

3.x Development Test 5 (2009-09-22):

Tweaked firewall code. No user interaction required now apart from setting the INI.

Help file updated.

A few minor code tweaks.

3.x Development Test 4 (2009-09-01):

256 x 256 icon removed from "appicon.ico".

Help file updated.

A few minor code tweaks.

3.x Development Test 3 (2009-08-27):

"My Documents\REAPER Media" is now backed up and restored.

Help file updated.

3.x Development Test 2 (2009-08-16):

Optional launcher features added...

Use a separate "REAPER.ini" file per host system.

Copy current projects to desktop*. Requires a clean install.

Add/remove to/from Windows Firewall (admin only).

* I debated the location on the drive of the "REAPER Projects" folder. In this release it's in "REAPERPortable\Data" but maybe it should just be in the root of the drive, if only for the sake of access and visibility. Your opinions are welcome.

"rearoute.dll" now copied in on install (if present on the local machine).

Replaced REAPER splash with PortableApps.com DT splash. Requires a clean install.

Help file updated.

A few minor code tweaks.

3.x Development Test 1 (2009-08-04): Initial release

Launcher Features...

Fully PortableApps.com Format compatible.
Automatic drive and desktop switching.
User profiles (new in DT6).
Use a separate "REAPER.ini" file per host system (new in DT2).
Copy current projects to desktop (new in DT2).
Add/remove to/from Windows Firewall (new in DT2). Requires admin rights.
Backup and restore of all local settings. File associations (optional) requires admin rights.
See help file for full information.

Notes:
REAPER is not free but will run unrestricted and with no time limit on the evaluation license.

Wavosaur Portable is a great external audio editor for REAPER Portable.

Tested with:
XP Home SP2 (Guest/Admin)

Acknowledgments:
Thanks to Patrick for hosting.

( categories:

Beta Testing

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Updated to dev test 2

prapper - August 16, 2009 - 7:32am

See release notes for changes.

Updated to dev test 3

prapper - August 27, 2009 - 5:44am

See release notes for changes.

Just a note

NathanJ79 (Homepage) - August 27, 2009 - 11:30pm

Not sure how/if you want to work this into your post, but REAPER is the program that is going to be used for developing songs for the Rock Band Network. So if you're an artist and/or with a band, and you have copyright to songs, you can use REAPER, plus a plugin that lets you edit the "note highway" for all 12 tracks (Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert for Guitar, Bass, and Drums) and the vocal pitch/tone chart with lyrics. And the people get 30% of the revenue, which could mean some decent money if a lot of people buy it.

Not sure if that plugin will be freely available, or if you'll have to pay for it. Probably the latter.

I read this earlier on IGN, which I can't access from here. I can get the link in the morning.

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I've heard about this but

prapper - August 28, 2009 - 6:43am

I've heard about this but haven't really investigated. It looks interesting. I just had a quick look at RBN and it seems like it's still in the early stages. Any more info you can provide would be great.

...as in closed beta

NathanJ79 (Homepage) - August 28, 2009 - 11:24pm

It's in the early stages as in a closed beta. :-(

I guess it's not at IGN; a quick Google search didn't turn up the article I wanted.

This article at Wired is basically the same thing but with a lot more info. And they link to the REAPER plugin you need. The other article did not. Same beautiful screenshot shows a multi-channel OGG, the RB note highway in 2D, and the same in 3D. Sounds real interesting.

Oh, and a second program, called Magma, is required to actually complete the project. It's like the authoring step in making a DVD. You can set everything up, but it's still got to be packaged in the format the Rock Band program can read. Magma handles that, I guess, and that's what seems to be in closed beta.

Too bad I don't know how to do any of this stuff, because this is like, the next big thing after CDs and MP3s. It doesn't get any smaller/simpler than digital music; for listening, that is the end of the line. The next step is to do more with the music, in this case sing and play along with it. The next format for music will not be any smaller/clearer, but rather more interactive. Who knows what form that will take; before 2006-2007 I never would have imagined this stuff.

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Thanks for that link, it was

prapper - August 29, 2009 - 3:39am

Thanks for that link, it was an interesting read. I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

It was mentioned briefly on the REAPER forum a few weeks ago and there are a couple of interesting links there too.

Having said all that, I have never played the game...

Game vs. Program

NathanJ79 (Homepage) - August 29, 2009 - 5:22am

Well, "the game" is pretty lame. I mean, it ain't bad, but if I want to play a game, I'll be playing a game... like Oblivion (see avatar), or Shadow Complex (new Arcade game, new Super Metroid clone they have). People think of Rock Band as a "game", but it's really more of a "program". Sure, it has game elements (score, failing=dying; passing=winning) but it's really just a platform to play along with music. It's hard to think of it as "not a game" because it's only on game platforms (not the PC at all) but it really does bend the rules. A karaoke machine isn't a game, because you can't fail, but you can turn off the ability to fail and the crowd noises, which makes the game react much less to ineptitude - just the track flashing red if you're doing badly. (Though you can even turn the track off and use it like a video jukebox, that's called performance mode, a challenge to play sight unseen, but it's best left with just singing.)

Walmart and Amazon have Rock Band 2 for $99 for all platforms. That's one guitar and one drum set, both wireless, batteries for both, a wired microphone, the program disc, drumsticks, instructions, and a code to download 20 "bonus" tracks. Then you rent the first one and pay $5 online to export like, 53 of the tracks. Four or five online are free, including "Still Alive" from Portal, an iCarly (Nickelodeon's answer to Hannah Montana) song, and a few others.

It isn't my favorite thing to do on the Xbox - it's mainly my wife, her brother, and his friends' thing, but it's cool to tinker with. And now people can make their own tracks, and get paid? That's going to eclipse MySpace Music, Last.fm, MP3.com (in its heyday), Pandora, and just about any music service you can think of not called "iTunes". But who knows, in five years' time, maybe you can get "just about anything" between the Rock Band Music Store (about 800 songs there now) and the Rock Band Network. Could happen.

And to wrap all this up with a point, you're working on a portable version of this program, and that's great, because independent bands don't stay in one place. I've seen the multi-channel OGGs that Rock Band uses. They're 25-60MB apiece. Audacity can open them; I guess REAPER can too. Point is, I don't think Walmart sells less than a 2GB drive now. A 4-16GB drive can have a ton of tracks, a few audio editors... an independent band could really take their production on the road more so than ever before. And on top of that get their songs into the Rock Band network? So yeah, keep up the good work.

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FYI, the RBN plugin installer

qwertymodo - October 30, 2009 - 3:30am

FYI, the RBN plugin installer can be found here and it is free to download

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Updated to dev test 4

prapper - September 1, 2009 - 6:04am

See release notes for changes.

Updated to dev test 8

prapper - October 29, 2009 - 9:34am

See release notes for changes.

Having install issues

TRexian - November 2, 2009 - 11:21am

Installed the non-expiring, non-crippled evaluation version to C:\REAPER. Run the portable launcher, both from the PA window, and "manually", and it looks like it runs (although it doesn't look like it copied anything), but the folders are empty.

Installed version appears to run.

Edit:
Just re-read the install notes. I first ran the installer without a local version installed. It didn't work. Then, I downloaded/installed, and when I ran the portable app, it didn't prompt me to copy.

Edit2:
Ah.... installed to the default location and was prompted to copy. Looks like this one is working. May want to have NSIS check for contents in the default directory, and if not, either get it from the registry, or have the user navigate to it.

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Sic semper tyrannosauro.

Thanks for the report. I'll

prapper - November 2, 2009 - 1:18pm

Thanks for the report. I'll look into it. Glad you got there in the end

EDIT:
Just been looking at this and I can't get the install path from the registry Here's the registry entry -

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\REAPER]
@="C:\\Program Files\\REAPER"

So what do I put in "CopyFromRegKey"? It won't work without it. The installer compiles and installs but complains it can't find the files (I commented out "CopyFromDirectory=%PROGRAMFILES%\REAPER" for testing purposes).

CopyFromRegPath=HKLM\SOFTWARE\REAPER
CopyFromRegKey=

Is it the same bug as this?

Ooof...

TRexian - November 2, 2009 - 2:07pm

Brushing a couple years' worth of accumulated dust off my NSIS scripting, but can you just use the @ as the key?

Alternatively, you could just assume the program files location for the app, and do a quick check of that location for reaper.exe. If it is there, continue. (Fancy would also be checking MD5...) If not, open up a dialog and instruct the user to navigate to the Reaper directory and use that as your write-to location.

Regardless, the vast majority of users won't be as 'creative' about their installs.

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Fixed

prapper - November 26, 2009 - 7:42am

Should be fixed now in 3.141 Development Test 1

Updated to 3.141 Development Test 1

prapper - November 26, 2009 - 7:42am

See release notes for changes.

Updated to 3.1415 Development Test 1

prapper - November 28, 2009 - 3:40pm

See release notes for changes.

I have REAPER installed

qwertymodo - November 29, 2009 - 5:58pm

I have REAPER installed locally, and when I went to install REAPER Portable, it downloaded the installer BEFORE asking if I just wanted to copy my local installation. I think it should ask that before you download, and if you say yes skip the download. But I guess that's an issue with the installer, not the app, so I don't know if there's anything you can do about it.

Also, the REAPER installer gets left behind in the /Data folder... again, probably nothing you can do about it, just mentioning.

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Download

prapper - November 29, 2009 - 9:33pm

Yeah, the PA.c Installer is either download or copy, but not both (as far as I can tell) and I can't make it ask before it downloads. You can skip it by hitting the cancel button but you have to be quick I presume you were given the choice not to install though, so no harm done.

Leaving the REAPER installer behind is a feature! You can reinstall REAPER Portable offline or install/upgrade another machine without internet access. If you're sure you won't need it again, just delete it. I should've added some install notes above really.

When the next version of the PA.c Installer is released, hopefully it'll be able to extract the downloaded EXE instead of having to install then uninstall it but, to be honest, I'm finding having all the choices quite useful here (even if they go a bit 'beyond the brief') so I might leave them in.

I hope everything else is working OK for you, it can do a few unusual things

I can't install the LAME

qwertymodo - November 30, 2009 - 12:10am

I can't install the LAME plugin, it keeps telling me the downloaded copy of LAME is no good and quits. The base app works great though. Good job.

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LAME

prapper - November 30, 2009 - 12:32am

Hmm... version is the same but the file seems to have changed. Let me check it.

EDIT: There you go, give that one a try.

My external HD is currently

qwertymodo - November 30, 2009 - 12:42am

My external HD is currently tied up as I'm watching videos on my Wii, but I'll try it out once this episode of House MD is over

Edit: I just tried running it to a random directory on C: and it finished successfully, so you fixed the error I was running into.

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Updated to 3.14159 Development Test 1

prapper - December 8, 2009 - 7:51am

See release notes for changes.

For some reason, I can't load

qwertymodo - December 18, 2009 - 6:20am

For some reason, I can't load a custom color map in MIDI roll view editor (File>Load color map from file...). No errors, it just doesn't change the colors. Seeing as I use REAPER for Rock Band customs, the color map is really useful.

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Tried These

prapper - December 18, 2009 - 9:19am

I don't use this feature myself but I just downloaded the file in this post and they seemed to load and change the colours OK. You could give them a try as a test.

Nevermind, I just tested it

qwertymodo - December 19, 2009 - 3:39am

Nevermind, I just tested it out some more, and it seems to be a problem on my end. Some tracks work with a custom color map and others don't, even different tracks within the same file... I'll have to figure it out.

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Updated to 3.15 Development Test 1

prapper - December 18, 2009 - 11:44am

See release notes for changes.

IMO this app need a lot more

BuddhaChu - December 18, 2009 - 8:19pm

IMO this app need a lot more work. I thought the point of downloading the Reaper installer file was so you could extract it to the ../App directory for the user. That's not happening and I was prompted to install Reaper to the local hard drive (on C:\). Not good. If you can't extract the files from the installer with 7-zip to the correct location, you need to extract it on your dev machine and pre-package the whole thing for the user.

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Latest Version

prapper - December 18, 2009 - 8:36pm

You must have an older version, download 3.15 DT1, it does what you expect. I can't repackage it because it's not open source. Or free, for that matter.

Anyway, the 'install' version also optionally did an immediate full uninstall. Can't please everybody...

Follow up

BuddhaChu - December 23, 2009 - 11:31am

Follow up: Yep, a new version fixed my issues. I had d/l & installed that morning a few hours before you posted the update.

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