[RWP] ReaAccess development update (of sorts)

Wed Sep 28 09:38:10 EDT 2011

Reaper is not open source, but user driven.
It's written by Justen Frankel, I believe his name is, the author of 
WinAmp, but differs from Sonar and others in that input from users 
really does drive its development.
You join Cockos forums where you put in your suggestions for the next 
changes, discuss changes with other users, and the list of proposed 
changes shows that 1 or 3 or 500  users want that feature, and when 
there's enough demand, it gets done..
Justen reads the forums, and is often there discussing user's needs.
Otherwise, you can learn the Jessasonic programming script, or the SWS 
programming script, all free, and make really deep changes in Reaper.
Even with no programming skills, look at the actions list, where there 
are thousands of actions; with their shortcuts, and realize that you can 
assign custom shortcuts and get many actions that aren't included in 
what ReaAccess does by default.
I'm hoping we'll eventually cooperate on writing our own ReaAccess 
manual, and make our own changes in Reaper, with the supplied tools, on 
top of whatever ReaAccess provides.
JS and SWS scripts, plus changes in the actions list, should be little 
files we can choose to download and incorporate into our own individual 
setup or not, as we prefer.
What I'm not hoping is that someone will seize  the opportunity to grab 
a monopoly, with a complete jaws only package for $500.

On 9/27/2011 9:36 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
> I am not skilled in that area of writing programs either,...I thought
> Reaper is more of an open source software?,...I mean, It appears that
> people make lots of plugins for reaper, don't they?...
>
> I wonder how much it would cost to pay someone to write an access
> program for reaper?...
>
> I would gladly pay for a "closer to home" accessible program for
> reaper,...I think it would be well worth it!...
>
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> Original message:
>> You would think that the API itself would be published. How did Ivan and
>> friends learn of it?
>> Personally, I am not skilled in the art.
>> But, it would appear that, if that project is going to be successful, the
>> one of providing access to Reaper, it needs to be brought a lot closer to
>> home.
>> But also, what you see here is an unfortunate shortcoming of volunteer
>> efforts. An effort like this is pretty complicated, takes a lot of
>> time and
>> effort, and a lot more likely to be successful if the person writing the
>> access pluggin also needs it personally.
>> I wish I had the skill.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Derek Lane" <derek at pdaudio.net>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] ReaAccess development update (of sorts)
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>>> Too bad the decompilation of DLL's isn't practical, otherwise, the
>>> questions of being able to talk to the reaper API, add functions to said
>>> API, and talk to screan readers of all sourts could be answered.
>
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com>
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 8:12 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] ReaAccess development update (of sorts)
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>>>> I guess old Ivan fell in the vodka tank.
>
>>>> Maybe there are others around, hopefully closer to us, smart enough to
>>>> develop a similar pluggin.
>>>> One can always hope.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
>>>> To: <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:22 PM
>>>> Subject: [RWP] ReaAccess development update (of sorts)
>
>
>>>>> Hey all,
>
>>>>> I relay this news to RWP with the proviso that nobody shoots the
>>>>> messenger. Cyber handshake on that before reading any further.
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>>>>> As most of you will be aware, a few months back Ivan issued a list of
>>>>> features and fixes expected in ReaAccess 2.0 for a September release.
>>>>> At this point, nobody English-speaking involved in ReaAccess's upkeep
>>>>> has a clue what's going on. I've written to Ivan for info, but having
>>>>> given him fair time to respond and received nothing, I thought I'd
>>>>> fill RWP in on what's hot on the rumour mill.
>
>>>>> Word on the street is that the ReaAccess project has a new
>>>>> Moscow-based owner or owners unknown. I've heard rumblings that the
>>>>> plugin will be a paid product from 2.0 onward, but haven't seen
>>>>> anything about a price. Similarly, haven't been able to track down
>>>>> anything about a firm release date.
>
>>>>> I think it's worth pointing out that this is exactly why ReaAccess
>>>>> doesn't have a proper site, doesn't have anything beyond the absolute
>>>>> bare bones of documentation, and has struggled to make a positive
>>>>> impact. Beyond the first few versions when time spent translating and
>>>>> bug swatting felt like time well spent, I haven't been able to justify
>>>>> pouring resources into the project (much as I love the DAW it enables
>>>>> me to use. There have been plenty of offers of what would have been
>>>>> valuable contributions flat out declined by the development end of
>>>>> this opperation, and even more contributions promised that never
>>>>> materialised due to a lack of faith in the way the project has been
>>>>> run from day one. Sad to say it chaps, but it seems like those
>>>>> reservations have been realised. If that applies to you, take comfort
>>>>> in the fact that you guessed the correct basket to place your eggs in.
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>>>>> For now, that's all I've got in the way of an update. Russian speakers
>>>>> on here may wish to investigate www.reaaccess.ru, perhaps there's a
>>>>> list like this one being maintained where you might be able to get
>>>>> more info from our elusive developer (or his new boss). Should you
>>>>> have any success, 75 plus RWP's here would appreciate the heads up.
>>>>> This list will still be actively moderated and the latest build of
>>>>> ReaAccess that I have will remain available, until the man says
>>>>> otherwise.
>
>>>>> Remember what we shook on a couple of minutes ago...
>
>>>>> Scott
>
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