Jayhell
So, who's using Reaper? I have been using Cubase Studio 4 since the day it got released (many years ago). It was the bomb and I learned everything I could about it. I know Cubase (I think). Back then Reaper was this free thing and I had a look but was not impressed.
Now after contemplating about buying the newest Cubase or something else, I decided to check out Reaper again, it's cheap and it's more in my current financial ball park. Installed it last night and...
It blew my mind! They have come a long way. I'm very impressed. I played around some, and accept for the shortcut keys I have to learn it's so easy. It looks great and just the way it responds is great. Cubase 8 or whatever is probably also a step up from Cubase 4, but I really don't think I need all those bells and whistles. I have been having a lot of issues with Cubase 4 since I upgraded my Mac to Lion, basic things like the metronome don't work and the only answer I could get from Steinberg was, upgrade, it's not supported. Anyway, what am I saying...
I'm impressed by Reaper (so far) what are your opinions?
Best of all, when monitoring I always had latency problems, they are gone, gone, I tell you! ?
Manfred-Klose
reaper is awesome, user friendly and don't breakdown
ryanguit
Reaper is my fav. I have tried a lot of the others, Logic and Protools too. Just change the shortcuts to your most natural feel, It starts up fast, and as long as you are not using a load of software for your sounds, It starts the fastest. And again, plugin dependent, it is super stable.
Kalcium
Reaper is amazing, and the fact that there is a lot of support if you have trouble with it is great, their forum is a goldmine
Mixerboy
Reaper for me, if Pro Tools wasn't such a bizarre resource hog (same everything at 32% is 8% in Reaper) it would be my second place.
Finished up 2 whole songs over the course of a few days in Reaper, not one crash, had to quickly sort out some backtrack stuff in Sonar (8.5, not sure how X3 is) the other day, within 10 minutes had to restart the computer for some strange automation issue.
Jacques_nasi
I'm Also using Reaper, and love it thus far, but to be honest my experience with different DAW's is quite limited. I have however installed and tried the Sonar package I received with my roland interface, but I still prefer Reaper by miles!!!
briang-telkomsa-net
Reaper = good
Norman86
are there no completely absolutely free DAW's?
i have garage band on my ipad mini, but would prefer something windows based.
AlanRatcliffe
Norman86 wrote:
are there no completely absolutely free DAW's?
If the $50 for Reaper is too rich for your blood, try Audacity.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Reaper is still better and has an unlimited trial period - until your conscience catches up with you (pretty good payment model IMO - they place the responsibility entirely in your hands and it's cheap enough that you can't fool yourself into thinking you can't afford to pay for it at
some point).
Manfred-Klose
Yeah as alan said, reaper is free to use until you want to pay for it, after the trial period is over, it just reminds you to buy a license, but everything still works, eventually you feel bad and just buy a license. but at that price its a bargain, and you get upgrades for the next versions.
Mixerboy
There's Studio One Free, not sure how crippled it is though, but for getting started I presume it's pretty good.
If Reaper ever starts letting me down I'll serious check into that one (Presonus Studio One) before considering anything else.
Will have to see how the new Bitwig plays out as well.
BMU
I escaped from Cubase to Reaper a few years ago. No regrets. Forum support is great, the product is great and extremely powerful, and no crippled features 'lite' version nonsense.
doc-phil
I am a Reaper user. Before that I used Tracktion 3 (now extremely outdated, but a new version is on the way or already here I believe). I haven't looked back since changing. I've messed around on Cubase and just couldn't get into it...
I used Reaper for about a year before my conscience caught up with me and I bought a license. Don't regret the purchase for one second! I find it quite amazing how Reaper can cost as little as $60 and does so much, and yet Pro Tools costs thousands of Rands. I really don't believe it offers the same value for money. Just because it's the industry standard doesn't mean anything, if you can mix a great record on Pro Tools, you can mix just as great a record on Reaper.
Bitwig Studio is a new contender on the block and got good reviews in Computer Music Magazine. It's not the cheapest at 299 Euro, but you can do a lot worse.
jrs
Norman86 wrote:
are there no completely absolutely free DAW's?
http://zynewave.com/podium-free/ - the best absolutely free DAW by miles.
Does pretty much anything you need, only issue is the free version will only ever use one processor on your computer, even if you have a dual- or quad-core setup, so CPU usage goes through the roof after adding a lot of vsts.
doc-phil
jrs wrote:
Norman86 wrote:
are there no completely absolutely free DAW's?
http://zynewave.com/podium-free/ - the best absolutely free DAW by miles.
Does pretty much anything you need, only issue is the free version will only ever use one processor on your computer, even if you have a dual- or quad-core setup, so CPU usage goes through the roof after adding a lot of vsts.
So it's not really absolutely free if its usage is crippled unless you pay $$$ ?
jrs
doc-phil wrote:
jrs wrote:
Norman86 wrote:
are there no completely absolutely free DAW's?
http://zynewave.com/podium-free/ - the best absolutely free DAW by miles.
Does pretty much anything you need, only issue is the free version will only ever use one processor on your computer, even if you have a dual- or quad-core setup, so CPU usage goes through the roof after adding a lot of vsts.
So it's not really absolutely free if its usage is crippled unless you pay $$$ ?
Point taken. However, it will do far more than any other free download DAW / Recording program / Demo DAW (not counting the 60 days demo for Reaper - but technically that isn't allowed to be used without buying after the trial period, Podium Free is free forever) even with the restrictions.
domhatch
i enjoy reaper mainly because it doesn't mean i need a degree in rocket science to record music. but if i do want to get busier with things, i know it has the depth as a daw, i know it can cater for just about everything i, in my limited capacity, could throw at it.
and as someone has already mentioned, you get free updates all through the next version. i bought my licence at version 4.early, and will only have to re-licence at version 6.0. and that will only happen a long time from now...
it's worth a look, no doubt
dh|
warrenpridgeon
jrs wrote:
Norman86 wrote:
are there no completely absolutely free DAW's?
http://zynewave.com/podium-free/ - the best absolutely free DAW by miles.
Does pretty much anything you need, only issue is the free version will only ever use one processor on your computer, even if you have a dual- or quad-core setup, so CPU usage goes through the roof after adding a lot of vsts.
I was just about to start a whole new topic to ask about free recording software cos the one I have allows only 2 tracks or something... which sucks...lol.
Gonna download this over the weekend and give it a go!
