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

[Chris Belle]

yeh, version 7 user here.

What Patrick said.

On 12/10/2014 11:09 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> 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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