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

[Patrick Perdue]

I i'm doing most of my audio editing work in reaper these days, even some to track stuff. That having been said, I will not be throwing sound Forge away. It is just too useful. I still use version eight as well, mostly for its Asio support. Not necessarily for time critical stuff, but because of the way my audio interface works. Overall, I think I actually prefer version seven though. I use it with NVDA, most of the time with speech disabled, as I find that speech slows me down unless I need to edit specific values or something.

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> On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:56 PM, Jim Snowbarger <snowman at SnowmanRadio.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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