Is Reaper Actually Stable?

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Repaer hasn't ever crashed for me.

even when i was trial running it before i switched from Sonar I purposely overloaded it and it didn't crash, It just got very sluggish and froze for a few seconds.

So not sure what others have suggested but i find repaer to be quite stable.
 
I have NEVER had any problems with Reaper...probably because I use Sonar. :laughings:
 
reaper used to occasionally crash on me, but that's because i use a bunch of free plugins, many with bugs. after setting up reaper to firewall my plugins, no crashes, ever. now, if a plugin crashes, it might do something goofy like peak out the audio with no sound, or the gui disappears, etc., but reaper stays up and i can save my project, reopen it, and carry on. out of all of the daw software that i've tried, reaper has been the stablest for me.
 
No.

Right now, as I write this, Reaper crashes every time I hit the "STOP" button on the transport. The pause button also makes the program clip out where I need to reboot Reaper. I've asked around the Reaper forums for a couple of weeks now and recieved no solution to this problem and only one or two responses.

I'm coming off Cubase Essential for it's limited track counts and hoped Reaper would deliver more tracks (MIDI and audio) and more FX and processing as promised.

I am a $40.00 licensee. I have a 4core proc., 750 GB HD and 3+ gigs of ram. It's not my pc causing this to happen. I have uninstalled Reaper and installed it again and the same problem keeps happening. The meters clip into red and freezes the program each time the pause and stop buttons are clicked.

I was wondering if any body else has had this issue and if so, what were the work-arounds or solution to this.

Cubase 5 standard is looking more and more attractive to me every day....

I know I've been saying a few things about 'Industry standards myths' lately but I'm beginning to have a few second thoughts... Could a pro really rely on Reaper or is it definitely aimed at an amateur market where performance is not critical?

Thanks. My exact sentiments....
 
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No.

Right now, as I write this, Reaper crashes every time I hit the "STOP" button on the transport. The pause button also makes the program clip out where I need to reboot Reaper. I've asked around the Reaper forums for a couple of weeks now and recieved no solution to this problem and only one or two responses.

I'm coming off Cubase Essential for it's limited track counts and hoped Reaper would deliver more tracks (MIDI and audio) and more FX and processing as promised.

I am a $40.00 licensee. I have a 4core proc., 750 GB HD and 3+ gigs of ram. It's not my pc causing this to happen. I have uninstalled Reaper and installed it again and the same problem keeps happening. The meters clip into red and freezes the program each time the pause and stop buttons are clicked.

I was wondering if any body else has had this issue and if so, what were the work-arounds or solution to this.

Thanks. [Cubase 5 standard version is looking more and more attractive every day.]
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i haven't ran into any problems like that in reaper before, but maybe i can help you figure it out. do you have plugins running in your project when this happens? if so, which ones? what interface/sound card are you using? if you're using an asio driver, does this only happen at lower buffer settings?
 
No, I have not had that experience. So I can't suggest a workaround or a solution.

However, I wouldn't be so certain that it wasn't your computer. Although the specs are more than adequate for Reaper, there maybe something else in there that's causing your problem.
 
gecko zzed....

"I have found Reaper to be highly stable and extremely reliable.

That's not to say it hasn't crashed"

Sounds to me like you're not quite ready to admit Reaper's infalability gecko. Crashing a DAW is at the hight of instability don't you think?

Thanks for responding gecko.

I'm using the Tascam US-144 as my sound card and so far, the only vsts and fx I'm using are out of the Kontakt3 and a couple of the Reapercockoo FX. That's it.
 
BMWerks said:
gecko zzed....

"I have found Reaper to be highly stable and extremely reliable.

That's not to say it hasn't crashed"

Sounds to me like you're not quite ready to admit Reaper's infalability gecko. Crashing a DAW is at the hight of instability don't you think?

Thanks for responding gecko.

I'm using the Tascam US-144 as my sound card and so far, the only vsts and fx I'm using are out of the Kontakt3 and a couple of the Reapercockoo FX. That's it.
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does the crashing happen when you have no third party effects running? can you recreate the steps to make reaper crash or is it seemingly random?
 
I guess "seemingly random" would be the appropriate answer.
I'm only using NI Kontakt3 for the FX and vsts and maybe a couple of the cockoos FX like verb and a little tap delay. I haven't had the DAW installed and understood long enough to really lay into any serious FX and editing there-of.

I can't wait to get around the fumbling stages of this DAW. It's really very impressive and claims a lot of powers and abilities. But I can't keep myself from laughing about it for offering itself up as the next best thing since sliced bread where it can't even perform the simplist of opperations without a time-consumming glitch. HA HA HA!! I can't wait til I start experiencing all the other glitches every one else is experiencing!!:laughings:
 
BMWerks said:
I guess "seemingly random" would be the appropriate answer.
I'm only using NI Kontakt3 for the FX and vsts and maybe a couple of the cockoos FX like verb and a little tap acho. I haven't had the DAW installed and understood long enough to really lay into any serious FX and editing there-of.

I can't wait to get around the fumbling stages of this DAW. It's really very impressive and claims a lot of powers and abilities. But I can't keep myself from laughing about it for offering itself up as the next best thing since sliced bread where it can't even perform the simplist of opperations without a time-consumming glitch. HA HA HA!! I can't wait til I start experiencing all the other glitches every one else is experiencing!!:laughings:
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you want to know what most of the buzz about reaper is? it's the people behind it. while the other companies were/are dicking customers around in all sorts of ways, cockos was/is listening, being decent and fair, creating kickass software. before reaper, you had to get special plugins to even do sidechaining. hell, you couldn't even rearrange the order of plugins without a big hassle or get creative with the routing. i demoed sonar, audition, and settled on cubase for a while until i jumped on reaper. all of those daws crashed, sonar being the worst. i couldn't use most of the free vsts in cubase due to severe crashing. audtition, no vsts. reaper is stable, and if you take the time to learn how to set up your plugins in their own process (it's pretty simple), i doubt that you'll see reaper crash again. many plugins have bugs, and cockos has made things so that other companies plugins have much less of an impact on reaper's stability. when i first started using reaper, i and a lot of others were hitting the devs up pretty hard with feature requests, and often saw things implemented the same day, and bug fixes the same day. i've been pretty much set for a while, so i'm not as active in discussing features/bugs as i was back then. those guys are bug fixing maniacs over there, and the whole process is transparent. if you can show how a bug can be recreated, they'll fix it. try that with other companies, but don't hold your breath. also, cockos doesn't play the multi-version game. one version, no bs. after you've spent enough time in reaper to know a little something, you're going to see how stable, light, fast, logical, and feature packed reaper is. there's a lot more in there than what first meets the eye.

my suggestion to you for your stability problems is to firewall your third party plugins. commercial and free stuff can and often do have bugs, free stuff sometimes has more because those devs aren't spending as much time on maintaining the free plugs. do a search at the forum over there, check the manual, and if you still have questions, ask.
 
BMWerks said:
gecko zzed....

"I have found Reaper to be highly stable and extremely reliable.

That's not to say it hasn't crashed"

Sounds to me like you're not quite ready to admit Reaper's infalability gecko. Crashing a DAW is at the hight of instability don't you think?

Thanks for responding gecko.

I'm using the Tascam US-144 as my sound card and so far, the only vsts and fx I'm using are out of the Kontakt3 and a couple of the Reapercockoo FX. That's it.
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You'll see from earlier that I've experienced Reaper crashing a few times (as has Logic, which I used before Reaper). So I don't assert that Reaper is infallible.

But have you gone through the process of elimination to see what it is that might be causing the crashes? For example, have you loaded up a new Reaper project, inserted a single WAV file, then (without any plug-ins) experienced the same problem on hitting stop or pause?

Have you then progressively added plug ins to see whether the problem arises with one or the other?

Thousands of people attest to Reaper's versatility, power, stability and currency (me included). Instability is most often caused by plug-ins, and that should be the first place to start looking. The next most likely cause is through viruses or malware. So make sure your machine is not wreaking havoc with your applications.
 
Hey Corvette.

You said you've used Reaper. (in the past) May I ask if you are now using a DAW for recording and if so, which one might you be using?

Thanks.
 
It is my belief that, Reaper is actually unstable based upon all the comments, suggestions, references and communications I've had with the good folks at Reaper and here. The issue I've been having with Reaper has not been resolved even after 4 weeks of investigations and dialog with tech support.

I am leaving the program behind and forfieting the $40.00 I paid for registration/license. I no longer can take the time away from our business of composing music and recording clients here at the studio.

We have decided that buying the Cubase 5 standard edition will be an investment garenteed to allow production and the features bundled within, will greatly be worth not having to go online to download vsti's from hell riddled with bugs and fixes. Why Reaper couldn't include vsti's in their program is most likely the reason it's so inexpensive.

The Cubase $499.95 price tag will be a small price to pay knowing that these bugs, fixes and obsticles encountered with Reaper will never happen again.

We have determined that, it is nothing the user (me) is doing or, not doing to cause these crashes to happen and that it is not Kontakt v3.0 combined with Reaper and the OS that results in this insideous interruption of work flow.
 
BMWerks said:
It is my belief that, Reaper is actually unstable based upon all the comments, suggestions, references and communications I've had with the good folks at Reaper and here. The issue I've been having with Reaper has not been resolved even after 4 weeks of investigations and dialog with tech support.

I am leaving the program behind and forfieting the $40.00 I paid for registration/license. I no longer can take the time away from our business of composing music and recording clients here at the studio.

We have decided that buying the Cubase 5 standard edition will be an investment garenteed to allow production and the features bundled within, will greatly be worth not having to go online to download vsti's from hell riddled with bugs and fixes. Why Reaper couldn't include vsti's in their program is most likely the reason it's so inexpensive.

The Cubase $499.95 price tag will be a small price to pay knowing that these bugs, fixes and obsticles encountered with Reaper will never happen again.

We have determined that, it is nothing the user (me) is doing or, not doing to cause these crashes to happen and that it is not Kontakt v3.0 combined with Reaper and the OS that results in this insideous interruption of work flow.
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Awesome. Congrats on being the only person in the world that can't use Reaper. Thanks for stopping by! :D
 
Lots of people use Reaper, I've just briefly checked it out.

I bought Cubase 4 (and it came with SX3) earlier this year for $200. Before that I was using a 1999 version of Cubase (VST/24 4.1.r2).

For me, since I don't really use plug ins or VST's much at all, there were really little/no improvements going from the 1999 version to Cubase 4. The only reason I "upgraded" is because the old version wouldn't run on OS X. For what I do, the 1999 version was fine, for me actually superior to Cubase 4.

The constant version upgrades are to me, pretty much bullshit.
 
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