[RWP] A controversial topic, to upgrade or not to upgrade

[Jim Snowbarger]

My off-topic comments on Sound Forge, raised in the below message.  SF8 is
by far the best version, rock solid, stable and snappy.  
You can edit right down to the level of atomic accuracy.  Later versions
have bosted of new features, but most of which are graphical enough to
require some serious work, like the work Steve Spamer has done with the many
totally graphical plugins.  But, they offer very little advantage for us.
Some folks think that some of the plugins are a little better quality.  That
might be.  It's not readily apparent to me.
But, SF11, the latest,  is the worst version to date.  Scanning is more
sluggish, and there is some interaction with jaws that is causing occasional
confusion over the cursor location, especially when adjusting selection
endpoints.
I sell a set of jaws scripts for sound forge.  So, I have been working to
try to resolve that issue.  But, it appears to be a flaw within sound forge
itself.  I am attempting to get somebody knowledgeable in Sony to dialog
with me  in search of the root cause.  But, true to life for any major
corporation, they have not yet been rewsponsive.  I continue to try.
But, for my own audio work, I use SF8, because it is sufficient, doesn't get
in the way, and lets me get my work done, quickly and efficiently.



-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Tor Tollhag
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:33 AM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] A controversial topic, to upgrade or not to upgrade

It depends on a bit what you want to do.
The rea access scripts haven't been updated since 2011, but work fairly well
even with the latest reaper version.
A few things are broken but there's some ways around that.
Also they fixed a bunch of stuff in reaper 4.
On this laptop I run the 64-bit version of the latest reaper, however I also
run the 32-bit version of reaper 3.78.
That way if something would be seriously broken I can go back to that.
As for soundforge I would love to test out the later versions of that, but
no idea how they work with screen readers. I don't have Soundforge installed
on anything now, but might try that out.
Not sure if I'll try a new version or stick with the very old soundforge 8.
But you should definetly try out the latest reaper. It works quite good for
me anyway.



2014-12-09 22:24 GMT+01:00, Jes <jessmith at samobile.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> So, after all these years, from like 2011 or so, I have been using 
> Reaper 3.76, along with Sound Forge version 8, to get my audio 
> production work acomplished, and these two tools are an excellent 
> package for me.
> I am of the philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." 
> Therefore, is it really necessary to upgrade products to the latest 
> release, or can I stay with the current versions of stuff for ten or more
years?
> Thoughts?
> Thanks.
>
> Jes
>
>
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