When you have reloaded your faulty project using recovery mode, its plug-ins will all be offline, but you can re-enable them one by one to track down the culprit.Now’s the time to do some detective work, by selectively re-enabling those plug-ins you consider totally reliable. You can now re-save your project with an updated name, safe in the knowledge that every track containing audio and MIDI recordings, along with all your carefully entered automation passes, are safe.
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The chances are that your defunct project will now load perfectly, but with all its plug-ins and instruments offline and therefore inactive. Once Reaper is up on screen, you can use its normal ‘Open project’ option, but when the file-select dialogue opens, tick the box labelled ‘Open with FX offline (recovery mode)’, or if you prefer to choose from your Recent projects list, do so with the Shift+Ctrl keys held down (Shift+Command on Mac).
To recover a project in this way, launch Reaper, either using the ‘Reaper (create new project)’ option that many users should find as a launch option, or simply hold down your Shift key before clicking on the Reaper icon, to start with a blank canvas. Few users seem to know of the existence of this feature, yet it can be an absolute lifesaver. This tick box is the secret to being able to open Reaper projects that otherwise crash.The big secret to encouraging Reaper to load apparently broken project files is to use its built-in recovery mode. However, with a little background research, a few hunches and a couple of new techniques I was able to get my most recent version of a Reaper project - in other words, one of the ‘broken’ ones - up and running again with no loss of data, as well as modify my future projects so that such crashes would hopefully never happen again. The most recent version I could successfully load into Reaper was some two days old, and I was loath to abandon two days’ worth of mix tweaks. Yes, I had recent automatic backups of the song but, weirdly, they crashed Reaper too. However, I recently completed and saved the final revision of a song only to find the next morning that this project crashed Reaper every time I attempted to reload it. Yes, I’ve experienced the odd few crashes in my time but, invariably, reloading the same Reaper project got me up and running again in a matter of seconds, leading me to believe that the problem was more likely to be a third-party plug-in than Reaper itself. Nobody wants to see this error message from their DAW, but with Reaper, at least you can attempt a graceful recovery.Ĭockos Reaper has some interesting tricks up its sleeve to help you resuscitate seemingly corrupt projects.įor me, Reaper has always been extremely reliable - more so, in fact, than various other sequencers I’ve used over the last 20 years.
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