
As soon as i open FL Studio ( empty project), my macbook fans start spinning and go through the roof. Way better than GUI Reaper imho.(duhhh: "vector graphics").īut. The GUI of FL Studio is looking really great to my eyes ("sharp" / "defined"). I do have a Dell Monitor connected to the macbook with little scaling set. I run FL Studio - latest mac version on my macbook Retina 2015. Logic 9 went from something that looked like a smooth 30hz playhead refresh rate to what must be an atrocious 2hz on Logic X, spawning a load of long frustrated threads on Apple's community forum and Gearslutz.would be great to see Reaper do exactly the opposite I saw Justin's interview where he mentions admiring John Carmack, cmon let's get some Quake 2 butter smooth refresh rates into Reaper!!!! It's hard to tell a realtime Reaper running on a fast desktop computer from someone demonstrating a feature with a captured gif video on the forum, because the updating rate is so low by default. The thing is that modern computers & gpu's have no problem animating a DAW gui with a fluid refresh rate, and you can already see this in Reaper even by setting your mixer Hz preference to 60hz, have it onscreen at the same time as the arrange window in progress and you can see the disparity between the super fluid meters and the playback cursor staggering along the top ruler. demo) you can see an example of what I mean when an app is built to refresh the playback cursor very slickly, it makes the overall waveform navigation experience a lot more pleasurable and easier to quickly zone in on edits. If you are on the Mac and have access to Twisted Wave (e.g. I'd estimate that Reaper is typically updating the playback cursor no more than 5 times a second maybe less, and I don't know about anyone else but it gives an impression of sluggishness and 'lagging' behind the audio. For a long time I've thought that the main arrange window would benefit from the same responsiveness.


We can adjust the Hz of the mixer meters to 60hz (or more if your monitor supports) and it goes a long way to improving the clarity of the metering. Is it possible to speed up the refresh/rate of the Playhead Cursor and overall arrange window updating? I do a lot of zoomed in edits chopping samples about and it's often very hard to visually gauge where you are when the transport is in motion (without using tab to transient) because the Reaper gui is sluggish.
