[Rwp] wav files and file size limits and things and stuff

[Patrick Perdue]

Yeah, super long recordings are certainly no problem with Reaper. I've 
had it recording for over two weeks straight before.
Try that with SoundForge. Actually, don't.

On 11/3/2015 9:25 AM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
> I also love being able to record directly to flac, and other formats.
>
> It's scarey, I'm actually beginning to understand this little beast,
> I am still too chicken to do an actual recording session with it with
> clients, till things become second nature to me, but I've gotten a lot
> of work done with reaper mixing and production wise.
>
> It's pretty much been my go to for a two track recorder and I trust it
> better than anything else I have around here for super long recordings.
>
> Soundforge kind of get's flaky after 12 hours or so.
>
> On 11/3/2015 5:20 AM, Patrick Perdue via RWP wrote:
>> Not really. The only thing stopping a wave file from being larger than
>> 2GB is the wav header itself, not the data. Reaper can just work
>> around that. It’s cool like that.
>> I have opened huge contiguous files in Reaper before (accidentally
>> once created a 28GB wave file) and it worked fine.
>>
>>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 6:14 AM, Chris Belle via RWP
>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Reaper must use a proprietary form of wav file when you render bigger
>>> wav files than will fit
>>> in the wav file limits.
>>>
>>> I think that is just over 2 gigs.
>>> if I remember right.
>>>
>>> Because I had a situation where I had a wav file which would not open
>>> in sound forge.
>>> Soundforge does the w64 format,
>>> but for some reason it wouldn't open a two gig plus something wav file,
>>> so there must be several ways of packing 64 bit wav files, other than
>>> w64.
>>>
>>> Because the extension never changed, with sonar when you export a
>>> huge file they change to w64,
>>> and sound forge knows about that but reaper does something different.
>>>
>>> Probably old hat for you
>>> old timer repaerarians,
>>> but this is new to me.
>>>
>>> Reaper nicely records everything in 1 gig chunks,
>>> at default, so it's not a problem to use the pieces, but when you
>>> want to export a large hunk, then so far I've just exported in
>>> sections and stayed under 2 gigs.
>>> I'll have to dig through the manual to see if it says anything about
>>> this, I didn't see anything when I looked at rendering the first time,
>>> in the user guide I have there's surprisingly little about technical
>>> things like this,
>>> and the type of dithering and noise shaping used,
>>> other than yes they're there and you can use them or not 'smile'.
>>>
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