<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1251"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes you can. I have opened cwp files in notepad before. None of these are exactly 100% fully human readable, but they give you enough info that you could try to recreate a corrupted project or edit one if you know what you are doing.<div><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Victor Tsaran <<a href="mailto:vtsaran@gmail.com">vtsaran@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div>I didn't realize that one could view the Protools project files in a text editor. I don't think you can do this with Cakewalk Sonar files though. Wish you could!</div><div><br><br>*** *** ***<div>Find me on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/vick08">http://www.twitter.com/vick08</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 12, 2014, at 3:45 PM, TheOreoMonster <<a href="mailto:TheOreoMonster@reaperacc.es">TheOreoMonster@reaperacc.es</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252">Actually you are somewhat on the right track, you export the stems from reaper, but yu do it so all the tracks start at the very beginning and end at the same point. that way the the person working inantoer daw import all the wav files at the start of the project and they line up. This is true even if the guitar doesn’t start until measure 8 and keyboards doesn’t come in till measure 21 and etc. When exporting the stems it would just insert silence in the guitar or keyboards files where no audio exist as a blank place holder. Once they have the wav’s imported in pro tools they can save it as a PT session file. As christ pointed out before, even if you were both using pro tools unless you both had all the same exact plug ins installed, they still wouldn’t be able to open your pro tools session with out issues. Thats why sending wav file stems is the way professionals trade and collaborate on sessions.<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now if you care for the more detailed explanation.. keep reading…</div><div><br></div><div>.RPP files and PTF, or PTX are just the project file format for reaper and protools respectively. the project files are tiny files that basically contain info about what to do with the wav files in the project, and doesn’t contain any actual audio information. For example the RPP file tills reaper that track one is named guitars and has a eq, compressor and reverb in its insert and they are set to these settings etc. You can open an RPP or PTF/PTX file in a text editor like notepad or text edit and look at one yourself to see what info it contains.</div><div>On Jul 12, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Jes <<a href="mailto:jessmith@samobile.net">jessmith@samobile.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Thanks a lot Crystal, it really helps. I would never, ever, ever use a virtual machine for any kind of audio stuff. Virtual machines ain't made for that.<br><br>Original message:<br><blockquote type="cite">I've never used protools but have done a lot of research on it - I<br>also, have never been able to wrap my head around reaper other than<br>just using it for recording - everytime I try to use a plug it is very<br>um...not as streamlined? I'd say. Reaper has a big learning curve<br>for me and I want to try to learn it now but when I look at Protools<br>manuals and guides it just seems like a lot simpler of an interface.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">But since you know what you're doing in regards to using both<br>interfaces I take it I'll just throw in my 2 cents:<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">Will there be challenges in protools on a Mac? Yeah, probably. Will<br>there be challenges on windows with Reaper? Yeah, most definitely.<br>Windows isn't a system built for audio engineering, and though as<br>Chris said you can build a custom Windows rig, it would probably cost<br>more or about the same as the Mac and Protools that will be ready to<br>use out the box. Yes, Protools could break, but imo Reaper has more<br>of a possibility of breaking because ray access works on an older<br>version of Reaper.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">Protools is the industry standard: If you want to be level on the<br>same playing field as our sighted peers, then idk I'd go with<br>protools.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">To be honest, I've sort of not wanted to learn Reaper because I<br>eventually want to get a Mac with protools.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">I've gone on the Mac for Protools lists and seen 2 things: The<br>interface is easy to pick up (the protools manual has about 80 pages<br>worth of keystrokes in it) and the accessibility stays well,<br>accessible throughout updates, and if they break something in an<br>update Avid fixes it pretty quickly in the next update.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">If you want something to use out of the box and already know Voice<br>over: Yeah, personally I'd go with Mac/Protools. Will you have to<br>use multiple programs to work around some things? Probably, but<br>let's face it: Being blind with technology, that's just par for the<br>course no matter what you use. Honestly I'd probably have both a PC<br>and a Mac (not Mac with bootcamp, but a legit PC) just so you have<br>both options available to you so you don't feel like you made a<br>mistake in switching.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">Hope this helped! Like I said I don't super use either DAW, but this<br>is just from research I've done/opinions I've formed from trying to<br>use Reaper and reading up on protools with voice over.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">Crystal<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">On 7/12/14, Kevin Brown <<a href="mailto:cursebuster@samobile.net">cursebuster@samobile.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Lots of great points!,...I am one of those guys who likes to spend the<br>time tweeking, and bolting things together...<br>So,...Reaper works fine for me,...then again, I am not as advanced as<br>many of you on this forum...<br></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Another point for me is, I am totally hooked on system access, and I<br>find that reaper works very well with system access...<br></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I like some of the points you made Cris,...I may look into getting a<br>windows machine custom built,...but, I am still going to use<br>reaper,...I just love this DAW...<br></blockquote></blockquote><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br>RWP mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RWP@reaaccess.com">RWP@reaaccess.com</a><br><a href="http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com">http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><br><br><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br>RWP mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RWP@reaaccess.com">RWP@reaaccess.com</a><br><a href="http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com">http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com</a><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>RWP mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RWP@reaaccess.com">RWP@reaaccess.com</a><br><a href="http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com">http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com</a></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>RWP mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:RWP@reaaccess.com">RWP@reaaccess.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com">http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com</a></span><br></blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>RWP mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RWP@reaaccess.com">RWP@reaaccess.com</a><br>http://reaaccess.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp_reaaccess.com<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>