Reaper: What exactly is ReaPack for Reaper and how to use it !

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  1. vanhaze

    vanhaze Platinum Record

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    Dear all,

    Alot of my Custom Actions i made for Reaper (and showed on my Reaper YT Channel), depend on Scripts which are available in the free ReaPack for Reaper.

    So what is ReaPack exactly ?
    Well, it is a FREE extension made for Reaper.
    This ReaPack extension provides many so called "scripts", aka Actions, which enlarge Reaper's functionality, both in the audio and midi area, by far.
    These scripts (Actions) are available in Reaper Action List when you have installed ReaPack.

    The beauty of Reapack is that you can add even more scripts by adding URL's (aka "repositories") to it.
    One such an URL is linked to a stash of scripts made by some person who mades scripts for Reaper (for free but donation is possible and preferred for good karma ofcourse).

    If you know the exact URL made available by such a person, you can then add that URL (aka repository) to Reapack and it will download all associated scripts automatically.
    And again, these downloaded scripts will appear in Reaper Action List.

    Please take a visit to www.reapack.com for free downloading ReaPack and more in depth explanation.

    Howto install ReaPack on Windows (beware: ReaPack is not compatible with Windows XP ..):
    In Reaper - Arrange Window, you see the menu "Options" on top ?
    - Click that menu
    - Then choose "show reaper resource path ..."
    You will then see a folder called "UserPlugins"
    You have to put the ReaPack .dll file in that folder !
    Then,start Reaper.
    Check in Reaper Arrange view window on top, the menu item "Extensions"
    When you click that, you will see "ReaPack". (meaning the ReaPack .dll file is succesfully seen by Reaper)

    Howto install ReaPack on OSX:

    In Reaper - Arrange Window, you see the menu "Options" on top ?
    - Click that menu
    - Then choose "show reaper resource path ..."
    You will then see a folder called "UserPlugins"
    You have to put the ReaPack .dylib file in that folder !
    Then,start Reaper.
    Check in Reaper Arrange view window on top, the menu item "Extensions"
    When you click that, you will see "ReaPack". (meaning the ReaPack .dll file is succesfully seen by Reaper)


    Knowing excactly how ReaPack works in Reaper will make your life way better :wink:

    Some URL (repositories) that you can add to ReaPack in Reaper and will provide for hundreds of new Actions in Reaper:

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Claudiohbsantos/Claudiohbsantos-Scripts/master/index.xml
    https://geraintluff.github.io/jsfx/index.xml
    https://bitbucket.org/kawaCat/kawascript2/raw/master/index.xml
    https://github.com/me2beats/reapack/raw/master/index.xml
    https://github.com/RobU23/ReaScripts/raw/master/index.xml
    https://github.com/StephanRoemer/ReaScripts/raw/master/index.xml
     
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  3. rudolph

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    Many thanks for this. Where do we put the dll?
     
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  4. vanhaze

    vanhaze Platinum Record

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    In Reaper - Arrange Window, you see the menu "Options" on top ?
    - Click that menu
    - Then choose "show reaper resource path ..."
    You will then see a folder called "UserPlugins"
    You have to put the ReaPack .dll file in that folder !
    Then,start Reaper.
    Check in Reaper Arrange view window on top, the menu item "Extensions"
    When you click that, you will see "ReaPack". (meaning the ReaPack .dll file is succesfully seen by Reaper)

    Hope this helped and Warm Regards !
    (BTW: I edited my first post in this made thread which now contains these ReaPack install
    instructions for Windows but also for OSX).
     
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  5. rudolph

    rudolph Audiosexual

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    Thanks again.
     
  6. Olymoon

    Olymoon MODERATOR Staff Member

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    Followed your instructions in win7 x64 xp1, and when I restart Reaper I automatically shows a windows whit enabled repositories :wink:

    But they are all links and as I'm using warez (my reaper is legit) I have reaper blocked in my firewall.
    So how could I make this work?

    Edit: I temporally took off reaper form my firewall, but when synchronizing packages, I receive this message 7 times:
    https://github.com/cfillion/reapack/raw/master/index.xml:
    Couldn't connect to server (7): Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Bad access :dunno:
     
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  7. vanhaze

    vanhaze Platinum Record

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    Awesome, glad it works 4U! :wink:
     
  8. Olymoon

    Olymoon MODERATOR Staff Member

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    It's not working ...
    I've enven tried by completely stop my firewall for some minutes but it didn't worked.
     
  9. vanhaze

    vanhaze Platinum Record

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    Do you mean: You have succesfully installed Reapack extension (so its seen in Reaper) but you can't download the ReaPack scripts ?
     
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    Olymoon MODERATOR Staff Member

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    Exactly :yes:
     
  11. vanhaze

    vanhaze Platinum Record

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    I am sorry for you ..
    Could you post your issue here:
    https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=177978

    I am sure you will get good and fast help here for solving your issue, the Reaper community is full of really kind and helpful people.
    You might get an answer from the maker of ReaPack, cfillion.
    I hope 4u the issue gets sorted out quickly.
     
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    Olymoon MODERATOR Staff Member

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    Ok, thank you.
     
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