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Re: REAPER PAF extension ready for download and testing! [message #102889 is a reply to message #102862] Fri, 20 March 2009 17:33 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
W Mark Wilson is currently offline  W Mark Wilson   UNITED STATES
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Way cool
M-dub

"Administrator" <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote in message
news:49c194d5$1@linux...
> Hi all. I don't think this was specifically announced, but I'll make it
> official: Reaper now supports PAF import via an extension coded by
> developer Xenakios!
>
> It's available right now for download at this link:
> http://stash.reaper.fm/v/2421/libsndfilewrapper.zip
>
> This should be considered a beta - it's not complete yet, but even in its
> present form it will allow the PC version of Reaper to load .paf files
> generated by the PC version of PARIS without limitation (ie 16 and 24 bit,
> 44.1 and 48k), and pafs generated by the Mac OS version of PARIS with
> limits (44.1 and 48 k 16 bit only - still pursuing the 24-bit versions).
> Developer Xenakios reckons the problem with the Mac version of paf to
> merely be a bug in libsndfile (the open-source "library" created by
> brilliant coder Erik de Castro Lopo that he used to create the paf
> extension). I contacted Erik right away to ask him to check this over, got
> an immediate response asking for more specific info, passed the contact
> over to Xenakios who followed up, and now we wait for a fix. I can't
> estimate the wait time (it might be today or in two weeks), but don't
> worry, we're not giving up on it.
>
> This version works for *importing* PAF into Reaper, not exporting PAF
> *from* Reaper. Exporting to PAF is more work. But it would *definitely* be
> desirable for those puppies to go back into PARIS as easily as they came
> out, so let's get this thing downloaded and tested and show our gratitude.
>
> The prevailing ethos at Reaper is to get everything consistent across
> platforms, so I'd rate the odds that a Mac OSX version of the extension
> will eventually arrive as being pretty good.
>
> I'm extremely happy with this first interaction with the Reaper coders. We
> asked for a feature of interest only to our small community of users of a
> long-discontinued platform; the fact that they built something that works
> this well for us, within *days*, is pretty exciting (although in fact I'd
> privately predicted "three days" :d).
> If you want an idea of "where we go from here", check this thread out
> (scroll down to post #9): http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=33427.
>
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