Nice work indeed Tallisman... awesome post
It's true!! Reaper is worth looking into
I was a bit skeptical at first, but after downloading the full-bore uncrippled demo, and giving it a good spin over the course of a weekend, I was quite impressed. Coming from a Sonar background, I found Reaper to be fairly intuitive... enough to be mixing within 10 minutes of installing it, and all without having to refer much to the very well written user guide...nice. I like the looks of it (already numerous great skins can be found and d/led), and found it's interface much more mature than I would have expected. The burgeoning and fanatical community that is developing along with it is exciting, and harkens back to another time.
I did have some issues with running my 2 UAD-1 cards with it though... I would get some pretty wicked s
ering and dropouts on playback, running half a dozen or so instances each of the 1176s and LA2As... but playing around with the buffer settings in Reaper helped.
I am hoping to try it out on a laptop with my Mackie Onyx board's firewire interface, and I suspect Reaper will compliment it nicely (and be easier to figure out than Tracktion).
I don't plan on ditching Sonar just yet... but I don't think I will be un-installing Reaper any time soon either. The unbelievably cheap cost of a license makes it a pretty compelling to have it around as another tool in the box, right along with whatever other DAW you may already have.
Two thumbs up for Reaper indeed