old timer looking for the right program

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to be fair, I am not bashing Reaper, nor any other application. I personally tried it for a bit, and actually switched from Adobe Audition to Sonar 6 ONLY because of the MIDI. Otherwise I would have stayed with Adobe Audition, a program I like very much. I have since found that Sonar in my opinion surpasses Adobe in many ways in the audio ways, with the exception of the noise reduction, in which Adobe is pretty fantastic. I probably would have liked Reaper, considering the price, but I wanted the MIDI formost. I have also learned that Sonar 6 in my opinion is a significant jump, especially the producer's edition, over previous versions.
The fact that cakewalk has taken many years to evolve may be contributed that in many ways, most software applictions where evolving also. I remember some of the earlier versions, and they were ruff, but very usuable. I remember programs like CD architect that only supported about 10 drives at their inception, but is still the best CD program around.... at least to me.

I am enthusiastically looking for Reaper to evolve in more fronts, as it is a strong program. However, at the time I auditioned it, it didn't have many of the features, not counting MIDI, that I have found that Sonar has... such as the higher quality pluggins, session drummer, which is fairly decent, and the automation on their pluggins. Those are some nice features to me.

We live in great times for recording, as I remember the days in the 70's battling tape hiss on a 3340. I can only imagine what programs like Reaper...and Sonar too, will be like in a couple of years. They will both be even more amazing.
 
Reaper comes with certainly the best noise gate, which recieved much input from someone who had a good deal of input on the second best noisegate (the Sonitus included with Sonar)...just some trivia.

Reacomp is pretty badass, majortom is kickin. Reaper's plugs will hold their own just fine, and are built from the outset to accomadate professional engineers.

Yeah, Sonar kicks the crap out of REAPER in MIDI so far, as it should. I doubt that will stay too long though, but I have a feeling with all the cubase users coming onboard now it may be a different paradigm than the sonar one
 
pipelineaudio said:
but I have a feeling with all the cubase users coming onboard now it may be a different paradigm than the sonar one
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from what I understand (since I have no real in depth experience with Cubase), Sonar pretty much pales with the MIDI editing compared to Cubase. What I find interesting is that the [midi]functions don't really seem that "deep"..especially when you compare them with what you can do with the audio.

The thing is, I would pay insane amounts as compared to what software costs nowadays for what it can do. The money I blew on equipment up until I got into computer based recording still way overshadows the cost of even the pricier programs like Nuendo, and even getting into big boy level(as in $$) Profools. Even the $500 price tag I just shucked out for Sonar6 is nothing, considering I used to have tape orders that far surpassed that in the past. $40 for REAPER is basically free to me. You spend that at a resturant without even trying. That's the price of a metal 2" hub.

I'm just greatful there are so many good choices, and I really have to chuckle with the allegiances to specific products that alot of people have nowadays. Actually, it is kinda like saying a Ferrari is better than a Rolls, which is not as good as a Lamborgini, which wishes it was a Cooper, ... none of these programs are slouches. :)
.... and I guess I am actually trying to say, in the scope of things, 40 pazuttas is about the same to me as 500 bananas when you talk about blowing money on equipment. It's just that I am now also spending it on home repairs, cars, kids, grandkids, etc.... more than I did when I thought my guitar was my retirement years back! But, I still have many years to make that true too! :cool:
 
the choices in even the 100 dollar and under market right now are stupifying!

And some awesome new paradigms. I've been watching podium. I cant make heads or tails out of it at this point but it really does seem exciting
 
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