Is Reaper Actually Stable?

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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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This sounds like trolling, can you detail the problem you are having ? Not saying I can fix it by any means, just curious. Should be just a simple copy and paste matter. :)

So, its not you, and its not your OS and it's not Kontakt ( lol ) soooo.....it must be Reaper's poor design ?


BMWerks said:
...I should have never bought Cubase 4 Essential in the first place. I was trying to understand why my track count was so low. Most all of my tracks are "instrument" tracks and Essential only gave you 8. And depending on how many and what kinds of plugins you use, might only end up with 3 or 4 tracks!! Ouch! And a lot of crashes, blips, scratchy sounds, pops and freez-ups. Maybe I'll get my money's worth out of C-5. I sure didn't with ES.
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You sound like someone that complains a lot.
 
CFox said:
This sounds like trolling, can you detail the problem you are having ? Not saying I can fix it by any means, just curious. Should be just a simple copy and paste matter. :)

So, its not you, and its not your OS and it's not Kontakt ( lol ) soooo.....it must be Reaper's poor design ?




You sound like someone that complains a lot.
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I do. That's correct. But only when there's something to complain about. And I don't care if that bothers you. "Simple copy and paste matter"? Now you're insulting me. Where do you live?
 
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dintymoore said:
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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Yes, Reaper has constant version upgrades. almost every week! I don't like the dongle crap you need with Cubase (there I go again. Complaining) but I prefered the stability of C-4ES over Reaper. Track count limitations included.
 
"So, its not you, and its not your OS and it's not Kontakt ( lol ) soooo.....it must be Reaper's poor design ?"

Brilliant!
 
bmwerks, you have to admit, you're pretty much getting back what you put into the thread.
 
BMWerks said:
You're an asshole.
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You're an idiot. I truly don't care if you use Reaper or not, but the problem is obviously on your end, and you're too stupid to figure it out. The rest of us do just fine with Reaper. I use it with tons of plugs on a 6 year old machine. No problems at all. :drunk:
 
This loser is a just a troll looking for attention. He did get it, so he must be happy. Like a baby who shits his pants just to get noticed.
 
BMWerks said:
"So, its not you, and its not your OS and it's not Kontakt ( lol ) soooo.....it must be Reaper's poor design ?"

Brilliant!
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Why dont you upgrade to Kontakt 4 ? And you claim to use Kontakt 3 for FX ? Kore player and Guitar Rig are their dedicated FX handling engines, Kontakt is a great sample player, definitely not the go to for FX though.

Reaper hasnt crashed on me with multiple instances of Kontakt running, however Kontakt is known to be buggy, check out the NI forums.

So maybe its the VST's that are crashing for you ? Would they be the same VST's that caused you to say this about Cubase ?

Ouch! And a lot of crashes, blips, scratchy sounds, pops and freez-ups. Maybe I'll get my money's worth out of C-5. I sure didn't with ES.
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So it will cost you $500 to upgrade your Cubase ? With that kind of money you could by some knockout plugins and run them in your $40 Reaper.

Also, why didnt you just keep trialling Reaper instead of paying for it ? You are a money making studio ? I cant seem to find anything on you in a quick Google search, can you link me please ? I want to book in and lay down 4 tracks ( 2 stereo pairs ) using your Cubase ES lol.



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BMWerks said:
You're an asshole.
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Yes. But he's also not wrong.

You will of course post up if Cubase ever crashes on you, right?

I think in the two or three years I've been using Reaper (I forget exactly) it's crashed on me exactly twice, each time while rapidly hitting undo, when i undid something I'd done with a 3rd party plugin. That's not bad - certainly no worse than Sonar before it.

You really had that much trouble with Reaper crashing on you? And you're sure it was Reaper, and not your OS, sound card, or a 3rd party app?
 
I just started using Reaper, as all my heavy-recording friends swear by it. So far I've found it far more intuitive than Cubase and recording with/controlling it with my Zoom R24 has been an absolute snap.

Cubase used to crash on me fairly often, but it was an old version, so I never took it to heart.

I'm very happy with Reaper so far (though admittedly I haven't installed any 3rd party plugins).
 
I find Reaper to be a lot more stable than Adobe Audition 3 especially when using third party plugins. I find it rarely crashes and when it does it usually because I have a couple of other programs running in the background.
 
I think most of the problems I've ever had with any recording software has been related to soundcards and their respective drivers. My 2 cents.
 
i crashed reaper a bunch of times on the first Pent-3 i put it on, but i switched the harddrive to another motherboard and restored it and it works just fine. the other mother just didnt want to work with the reaper. atm im running pent-3 1200mhz with 700mb ram, and i got no issues. but few added plugins.

sadly i lost most of the first crap i recorded, luckly thou it wasnt worth listening to.

<and greg is an asshole, but he's usally right. asshole.>
 
Corvette said:
I think most of the problems I've ever had with any recording software has been related to soundcards and their respective drivers. My 2 cents.
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I was in the middle of a recording session when my laptop (running Reaper) just up and blue screens on me. It did this about 4 times. I was mortified and was wondering what it was about Reaper that would trip the laptop up. It finally dawned on me: try reinstalling the driver for the interface (Tascam US-1641) dummy. Reinstalled the driver, never another problem since. I felt stupid...
 
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