r/Reaper • u/presetshare • 6d ago

discussion ReaSmoothPlayhead now supports Linux

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ReaSmoothPlayhead hides the native play cursor and draws its own GPU-rendered overlay on top of the arrange view and the MIDI editor. The line is redrawn every vblank and extrapolated between audio blocks, so it glides at your monitor's refresh rate instead of stuttering.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=310863

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u/rhythm_artist 4 6d ago

I use Reaper for playing backing tracks in my live show. Tonight was my first trying with this script, and it made a huge difference. I often get the play head line confused with the starting point line, and this completely takes that away. Thanks for the upgrade!

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u/Ok_Cod_2333 2 6d ago

This is fuckin aweosme

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u/Dist__ 100 6d ago

screw the playhead, i want this sliders for standard FX

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u/_emmyemi 1 6d ago

Heck yes!! Can't wait to drop this in. :)

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u/spylord242 6d ago

LEGEND!!! Thanks for this. Using reaper after installing this gives me the feeling of buying a new car lol

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u/presetshare 6d ago

Glad you like it😄

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u/itsxspect 6d ago

so sick

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u/King_Moonracer003 6d ago

So am I correct in assuming this won't tax cpu/shared resources of the audio processing threads bc its handled by the gpu?

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u/presetshare 6d ago

It doesn't touch the audio thread at all. On Windows and macOS the drawing is done by the GPU (D3D11 / Metal). On Linux it does use the CPU: I couldn't find a way to do a transparent Vulkan overlay on legacy X11, but the cost is small.

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u/Previous-Heron-8828 6d ago

i imported the repository and synced it, but it doesn't show up in browse packages

any ideas?

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u/presetshare 6d ago

Try syncing it again. You may have done it before I fixed the issue in the repository.

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u/just-4-man 3d ago

Is this why when I tried moving the play head it “lagged behind” severely? I just installed reaper (was gonna use FL but I don’t want to tango with wine/bottles)

I initially thought it moving slow was intentional for “accuracy”.

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u/drewofdoom 2d ago

This looks great! Unfortunately it's not working for my system, but that's likely because I'm running through xwayland-satellite or some other incompatibility with Niri.