DAW Project Support: Reaper

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This issue track activity and needs for Reaper project support in OwPlug. The decision to support a DAW depends on various factor: technical constraints and format documentation, maintenance cost regarding updates, and DAW popularity across the community.

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‌List of supported DAW project format: https://github.com/DropSnorz/OwlPlug/wiki/Projects-and-DAW-Support

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Scope

Analyze Reaper project files (.rpp) and extract VST, VST3, AU references.

Format overview

Reaper project files (.rpp) are XML-like files. A custom parser might be needed to process them.

Object example in rpp file

<MASTERPLAYSPEEDENV
  EGUID {FEEF0100-3D5B-4A99-90FF-44C67F057EB5}
  ACT 0 -1
  VIS 0 1 1
  LANEHEIGHT 0 0
  ARM 0
  DEFSHAPE 0 -1 -1
>

Implementation details

Implement an ANTLR4 grammar to lex/parse Reaper Project files. (Reaper 7 for minimum supported version) Use antlr parsers to extract plugin nodes. Add Reaper logic to the existing discovery package, like how it's done for Ableton.

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Community Reaper .rpp parsers

• Perlence/rpp - Python (51 ⭐)
• davemod/UnityReaperParser - C# (12 ⭐)
• GriffinSauce/reaper-project-parser - TypeScript (6 ⭐)
• nbudin/rpp - Ruby ( 3 ⭐)
• JamesDunne/rpp-parser - Go (3 ⭐)
• audiocloud/reaper-chunks - Rust ( 2 ⭐)
• SwatGetmann/reaper_parser - Python ( 0 ⭐)
• martinfabian/ReaperreadeR - Java (0 ⭐)
• s95rob/ReaParser - C++ (0 ⭐)

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Released in OwlPlug 1.26.0