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MusicProgrammer wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:38 pm "Tucked away under Options, Preferences behind the Advanced Disk I/O settings are two new options. These are to Periodically close excess file handles and to Memory map peak files smaller than a size that you specify. If you’re not sure whether you should enable these or not, it probably means that you shouldn’t!"

That's not documentation, that's garbage text from someone who failed to document the program he's supposed to document. If a user is not sure whether he should enable those, it's because Cockos failed to document their program.
Are you seriously expecting a documentation about a DAW to explain to you what file handles are and why it would make sense to close them sometimes, but usually doesn't? That option was added because someone was running out fo file handles due to his project size and really doesn't concern normal users.

I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to document it. A manual can't teach you everything and has to assume some prior knowledge that can be acquired elsewhere because it's not specific to the software. You probably also complain when a manual doesn't explain what a frequency is. Maybe you also expect your manuals to teach you how to read at the beginning?
MusicProgrammer wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:02 am That's what happened to MSynth too. Never used in any of my productions; a total waste of my money.
But I guess you just like to argue because you obviously knew what you were getting into and did it anyway. Fool me once...
MusicProgrammer wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:47 pm I won't be here long. I am very smart, I was admitted to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, I have won industry acclaim for music software. If that upsets your ego, I don't care.
I think someone needs a hug :)

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"I won't be here long. I am very smart, I was admitted to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, I have won industry acclaim for music software. If that upsets your ego, I don't care."...really?...(sigh)...
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MusicProgrammer wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:47 pm I won't be here long.
And yet you keep coming back. Does Bach still rule in your house?

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steve2KVR wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:11 pm "I won't be here long. I am very smart, I was admitted to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, I have won industry acclaim for music software. If that upsets your ego, I don't care."...really?...(sigh)...
It's an older troll, sir, but it checks out.

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Held wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:59 pm Are you seriously expecting a documentation about a DAW to explain to you what file handles are and why it would make sense to close them sometimes, but usually doesn't? That option was added because someone was running out fo file handles due to his project size and really doesn't concern normal users.
How is a user supposed to know in advance whether he's a "normal user"? Cockos didn't stop to put themselves in the reader's shoes before inserting that passage of drivel into their manual. No good technical writer puts exclamation marks in a manual. Exclamation marks are for trying to sell used cars. Euclid didn't put exclamation marks in the Elements, and it doesn't make Cockos cool or hip to put exclamation marks in their manual.

Here's a better example, though. Generate a random strings of the following characters

@!`!@!~@`@!`~!~`~!@

Tell me exactly what state your Reaper track zooms will be in after that you type that string, but don't cheat and try it in Reaper to see the answer. Instead, look up those four characters in the manual on p. 36 and 37, read the documentation, and tell me the answer based on the documentation alone.
But I guess you just like to argue because you obviously knew what you were getting into and did it anyway. Fool me once...
A few years ago I told Melda I'm not buying any more until they make the manuals decent, and I gave them a few years before trying MDrummer, which I already own, this time.

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Gamma-UT wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:19 pm
steve2KVR wrote: Sat Apr 18, 2020 5:11 pm "I won't be here long. I am very smart, I was admitted to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, I have won industry acclaim for music software. If that upsets your ego, I don't care."...really?...(sigh)...
It's an older troll, sir, but it checks out.
Holy moly I thought this guy is paroding Donald Trump or something, but he seems serious :D :D
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He turns up once in a while before getting banned again (and again). His first outing here was as BachRules. He mostly has a thing for Reaper, so I guess he's branching out.

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