ez_willis
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after a year of telling myself the learning curve wasn't worth it. total bullshit. it took an hour to get it figured. if you're considering it, do it.
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Lo-Fi Mike
New member
I'm Lovin it
Cool!!
been running reaper for a few years now and I'm still scratching the surface.
Cool!!
been running reaper for a few years now and I'm still scratching the surface.
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Runaway
Head Cook & Bottle Washer
It has excellent support & pricing and is extremely responsive and flexible IMO
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fiddler59
New member
Reaper is great and is the future imho. When they improve on takes management and comping it will be all there for me. The auto splitting of takes can make a jumbled mess if you are not careful. I use logic too and much prefer reaper except for the the above mentioned problems. I do have faith that reaper will get there, though the developers have been slow to do much about it up to this point. It is still my main DAW though.
DB
DB
Atom Bomb
Wtf is a PRS
I KNOW!!!!!!!! Right?
fuck.
In retrospect i should have done it long ago.
The learning curve is minimal. Mine wasn't an hour, i spent probably an afternoon but after that was smooth sailing.
So +1111111111111111111
Slowrider
STOP Voting!
It's a hell of a lot easier to learn than my old VS-880.
I hate digital music, in general; but if you have to go that way...REAPER is the Tits.
..and we ALL be lovin some Titties, eh?
cellardweller
New member
I'm pretty sure I'll be using Reaper instead of Ntracks in the near future...when i finally get my shit set back up again....
Just the short amount of time I've dinked with it I can tell it's much more intuitive than Ntracks....
Just the short amount of time I've dinked with it I can tell it's much more intuitive than Ntracks....
ez_willis
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I'm pretty sure I'll be using Reaper instead of Ntracks in the near future...when i finally get my shit set back up again....
Just the short amount of time I've dinked with it I can tell it's much more intuitive than Ntracks....
still lovin it. i record more now than i ever have.
gecko zzed
Grumpy Mod
^^ This.
I started out using Logic in the mid-nineties.
A few years ago I started working on a collaborative project with a guy who was using Reaper (and urged me to do the same so that we would have a common DAW).
I reluctantly started using it. But, once having mastered the learning curve (which was not too steep, more a gentle slope, really), I now use it pretty much all the time, and I am loving it. I still go back to Logic when I want to do complicated midi things or when I need to score stuff, but, apart from that, it's Reaper all the way.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
My dad (a 62-year old folk rocker) had the exact same experience, when I switched from Sonar to Reaper and then suggested he do the same. He called me up a couple weeks later saying he'd been writing and recording more than ever since he switched, since the process was so much less frustrating. It was just one less thing to get in the way.
ez_willis
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nice. .
jjones1700
Learning, always learning
I fell in love with Reaper not too long after it first came out. I bought the license and haven't regretted it since. I started off on Sonar, bought the book, and rarely ever touched Sonar again. I installed Reaper after briefly playing with Audacity and a couple of linux bases DAWs, and wondered why it hadn't come around before.
It's a no-brainer. Download Reaper, pay the $60 for the license, and get to recording!
I started off on Sonar, bought the book, and rarely ever touched Sonar again. I installed Reaper after briefly playing with Audacity and a couple of linux bases DAWs, and wondered why it hadn't come around before.It's a no-brainer. Download Reaper, pay the $60 for the license, and get to recording!
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Racherik
New member
I prefer Reaper also. Cubase had too many UI quarks that didn't do things they way I would expect.
Probably in the top 10 in terms of Bang for the Buck in the music biz.
Racherik
Probably in the top 10 in terms of Bang for the Buck in the music biz.
Racherik
loveofjazz
Sheep Defiler
I tried a couple of different recording programs before I decided to go with Reaper. I've been extremely pleased with the results. Glad you made the switch.
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Terra
Scholarly Gentleman
i had NO IDEA that this many people praised this software. What do you all like about it? I'm a logic user and I love it.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
A whole number of things.
I love their business model. A $60 "personal use" license has every feature the $200 "professional use" license does, and I respect them for pricing their program to put it into the hands of guys like me doing this for fun.
The workflow is very natural. I think the fact my dad picked it up so quickly speaks volumes.
It has a very low CPU footprint.
The routing options are almost stupidly flexible. You can send anything into anything, and receive anything from anything.
The rest of the program is pretty damned customizable and skinnable, too. You can assign damned near any function to any key or mouse combination. I didn't like the stock mouse wheel implementation, but a couple minutes with the advanced options and I had it scrolling, not zooming (but, zooming if I held down control, I think - I actually forget). I have customized play and pause functions too on my keyboard's media buttons as well. It's just very easy to do stuff like this, you can configure it to look and run like almost any program.
Besides, it's called "Reaper," and it's logo is a sythe (unless, of course, you want a custom splash screen). How badass is that?
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Terra
Scholarly Gentleman
wow. well thanks for opening my eyes, drew. I do love that the discount is for hobbyists and students, EVERY DAW should be like that.A whole number of things.
I love their business model. A $60 "personal use" license has every feature the $200 "professional use" license does, and I respect them for pricing their program to put it into the hands of guys like me doing this for fun.
The workflow is very natural. I think the fact my dad picked it up so quickly speaks volumes.
It has a very low CPU footprint.
The routing options are almost stupidly flexible. You can send anything into anything, and receive anything from anything.
The rest of the program is pretty damned customizable and skinnable, too. You can assign damned near any function to any key or mouse combination. I didn't like the stock mouse wheel implementation, but a couple minutes with the advanced options and I had it scrolling, not zooming (but, zooming if I held down control, I think - I actually forget). I have customized play and pause functions too on my keyboard's media buttons as well. It's just very easy to do stuff like this, you can configure it to look and run like almost any program.
Besides, it's called "Reaper," and it's logo is a sythe (unless, of course, you want a custom splash screen). How badass is that?
mixmkr
we don't need rest!!
at this point, how is the MIDI editing with stuff like drums...since I use Toontrack's Superior a lot?
I went to Sonar from Adobe Audition, only because of the MIDI and found that Sonar pretty much rocked over Adobe for many other reasons.
Since I'm not a keyboard player or drummer, editing MIDI is kinda important as I can just write parts I could never play (or find a drummer for).
I went to Sonar from Adobe Audition, only because of the MIDI and found that Sonar pretty much rocked over Adobe for many other reasons.
Since I'm not a keyboard player or drummer, editing MIDI is kinda important as I can just write parts I could never play (or find a drummer for).
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Greg_L
Banned
I like Reaper.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
I JUST started using EZDrummer for scratch drums, a couple months ago. I've never used MIDI in any other DAW so I can't say how it compares, but I guess it speaks volumes that I was able to work it out and get comfortable in less than an hour. When I opened EzDrummer in a track FX box, it automatically asked me if I wanted to create 8 new tracks, and send 1/2 from EZ into the 1st, 3/4 into the second, etc, so that I could mix them all individually. Pretty cool.