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Question: What's the (theoretical) maximum length (in time) of Reaper projects?
Asked by wasereb4 (31.16.104.x) on May 1 2026, 4:49am
Reply on May 2 2026, 1:23am (edited at May 2 2026, 1:27am):
    Due to the use of double-precision floating point for timing in many places, I imagine things would start breaking in significant ways at 2^53 samples, which at 48khz would be more than 5,000 years. Wow 2^53 is really big.


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  • Posted by wasereb4 (31.16.104.x) on May 3 2026, 4:17am:
    Indeed. Wouldn't have guessed *that* long.

  • Posted by Mespotine (212.122.61.x) on May 4 2026, 8:33am:
    I once tried and Reaper crashed when the project was around 60+ years long. But don't know if you have expanded it in the meantime...

  • Posted by Justin on May 4 2026, 8:49pm:
    entirely possible it's still limited to 60 years, or even a month, heh.

  • Posted by Justin on May 4 2026, 8:50pm:
    I was theorizing but there might be other limits I'm not thinking about.


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