Reaper music composer - in 'portable' format

[mikewalsh]

Evening, all.

Thought I'd better start a topic here of its own.....though the detail is already elsewhere.

See HERE.

How useful it may be, I can't say. But it does run.....in a fairly broad range of Pups, too, from the look of things.

Enjoy!

Mike.

[taersh]

Reaper portable?
Why?

After extracting the reaper archive one can run reaper from every location.
It's portable by default!

No need to install Reaper, no need to have Reaper portable versions.

[s243a]

Reaper portable?
Why?

After extracting the reaper archive one can run reaper from every location.
It's portable by default!

No need to install Reaper, no need to have Reaper portable versions.

Well, at the very least it lets us know its portable but perhaps Mike added some extra stuff to it so as to make it even more portable.

[mikewalsh]

Might have known one of our music "experts" would have a pop at me over this one..!

The main difference, TBH, is that this keeps your config self-contained, too. Reaper may be portable by default, but it still writes all its config stuff into the save (at /root/.config) every time you run it....

So this keeps it 'local', just sym-linking it out to the expected location when it runs. Thought it might help a few folks, perhaps; really, it's just more practice for my packaging skills..!

I guess this is more for those just starting out with music-production, who want to try things out. You long-term 'composers' will already have everything set-up just the way you want it.

Mike.