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Reaper programming resources

Here are some resources for creating scripts/programs for the Reaper digital audio workstation:

AdmiralBumbleBee.com – ReaScript Tutorial – From total beginner to GUI-based script

ExtremeRaym – Raymond Radet’s website, author of ReaScript tutorial series, package of ReaScripts, and has a Github repo of scripts (also this one)

ReaPack.com – Package manager for Reaper

Cockos Forum – Building a GUI in Lua

Adam T. Croft – Introduction to ReaScript (I did the “Hello World” section, and it worked!)

ReaperBlog – ChordGun tool

SWS Extension – another Reaper tool

Reaper – ReaScript page (also ReaScript API page)

This ought to be enough to get me started! I want to create some functions to do computer-assisted composition…

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  • I have been in several conversations in the last week (voice and email) where the concept of “working together” in software development came up, and several threads emerged:

    how the original developer doesn’t/shouldn’t have to do everything – others can contribute (to me, a key concept in open source)
    how interested/engaged users can be an important force in the direction in which a software application or tool goes forward

    Dave Winer has written about this many times:

    The magic of working together

    Key concept of the open web: working together

    Working together means this: If someone else has a good-enough way to do something, rather than reinvent what they do, incorporate what they do into what you do.

    Working together (SOTN 2018)
    Working together in 2019

    I have tried to follow that second point in several ways:

    My blog uses WordPress, I did not develop my own blogging tool
    I use River5 as my RSS reader engine
    I use RiverBrowser to display my own rivers of news

    I document and evangelize how to create your own rivers of news
    I document how to use tools like River4 and 1999.io

    I help others set up these tools

    I am getting ready to start working in the computer music area again after a long absence, and I am reviewing available tools to see if they fit the areas I am interested in. In that way, I am trying to practice the concepts of working together as I have outlined above.
    Anyone want to work together with me? Let me know!