Reaper GUI fluidity?

tzzsmk · 02-26-2019, 01:31 PM

Hello again friends,

there's something interesting I noticed just now,
checked the latest Tracktion Waveform 10 DAW, and when zooming/scrolling, the user interface response feels so much smoother than Reaper,

hard to tell if it's useful, maybe there's some swing effect or rubber band effect,

I wonder what framerate Reaper GUI is set to, 30? 60?

(running MacOS High Sierra hackintosh, GTX980Ti with nvidia web drivers, so no gpu performance bottleneck occurs)

cheers

EvilDragon · 02-26-2019, 01:45 PM

Reaper favors audio engine performance over GUI fluidity.

dtr0q · 02-26-2019, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

Reaper favors audio engine performance over GUI fluidity.

If GUI handled by GPU it shouldn't affect audio engine.

EvilDragon · 02-26-2019, 02:18 PM

Reaper doesn't use hardware graphics acceleration AFAIK.

dtr0q · 02-26-2019, 02:26 PM

So we can have nice GUI without any loss in audio performance.

EvilDragon · 02-26-2019, 02:36 PM

Yeah of course, except that's not what Reaper is using. There's no OpenGL rendering in Reaper (or anything that depends on GPU acceleration, to my knowledge), so GPU is not used. Doesn't seem like WDL (framework Reaper is based on) supports this stuff, so it's unlikely to happen.

cyrano · 02-26-2019, 04:47 PM

Apple has deprecated OpenGL in macOS 10.14 in favor of Metal...

EvilDragon · 02-26-2019, 04:51 PM

Yeh, I know. Not removed it, though (that would be a bit insane at this point in time at least). I just mentioned OGL since it's one of the most common ways of providing hardware graphics acceleration.

tzzsmk · 02-27-2019, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

Reaper favors audio engine performance over GUI fluidity.

oh I see, fair enough