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Originally Posted by DazGsy
Out of interest, is it possible to have full installations of both 64-bit and 32-bit on a Windows PC without causing any problems?
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Yeah, a portable installation basically means that all application resource files are placed within a single folder. So you can have multiple portable installations (even of the same version) located in their own folders without interfering each other. And you can also simply copy/move just the single portable install folder to a different internal/external drive or computer, if necessary. Hence the term 'portable' ...
This is useful if you want to install, for instance, Reaper 32-bit and 64-bit side-by-side. Or even different versions of Reaper 64-bit (as example: the previous v5.35 and the current v5.40) in case you want test out new features of an update without interfering with your current Reaper install or config ...
In comparison, a default non-portable Reaper install will put its resource files to a default location (in case of Windows: "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\REAPER") which will be shared by all non-portable Reaper versions installed on the same system.
The REAPER resource folder location is accessible in Reaper via Options -> Show REAPER resource path ...
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As a side note:
The only additional features not directly available in a portable REAPER install are ReWire and the ReaRoute ASIO driver (for routing AUDIO and/or MIDI between applications).
But in case you want to use one of these features also in a portable install, you'll simply have to do an additional step:
(1) Make a portable install first
(2) Run the installer again and make a default install (with the ReWire and ReaRoute ASIO driver option now available and checked) into the same portable install folder you used in step (1)