“Manual” to my mind implies something absolutely and fully comprehensive but not necessarily instructional. I think the first release of the User Guide was about 60 pages! It’s just gone on and on from there really …įor you, is there a difference between a User guide and a manual? Apart from anything else, it was a really effective way for me to learn the program. Despite it being still a fair way from being fully featured there was so much I loved about it that I have never looked back since.īut … there was absolutely no documentation or instructional material available at the time, something that was causing a fair amount of frustration to a fair few people – so I decided to write one. I’d been getting more and more frustrated with my old DAW until somebody said to me, “Have you tried REAPER?” I downloaded the trial (I think it was about version 1.6!) and installed it. You’ve been writing the user guide since forever, how did that start? The user guide download and links to Geoff’s other books can be found hereīelow is an email interview with Geoffrey this week.

He’s also a regular on the forum, always friendly, knowledgeable and helpful under the handle Nicholas. He’s also written a few other books: REAPER 4 Unleashed REAPER Power!: The Comprehensive Guide ReaMix: Breaking the Barriers with REAPER and Home Recording for Beginners.

If someone says to RTFM, he’s the guy that wrote the thing you’re supposed to read. Geoffrey Francis is the author of Up and Running: A REAPER User guide, aka the REAPER User Guide.

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