Rant all you like. PT has plenty of flaws, I'm well aware of that.
I'm on the mac right now, that I tried Reaper on. I don't use PCs for music, and if that's the requirement for trying the "good" version of Reaper, that's me out of the running straight away.
If you read my posts, I've very very clearly stated my opinions are the results of a couple of days worth of feeling my way around. I've repeatedly stated that I didn't look into alternate skins or probably got very deep into the program. However, I HAVE used other programs to the same "skin deep" level, and I found Reaper to be harder to get into.
I make a point of not passing comment on anything I've not used, hence the .sig. The only time I generally comment on a Reaper thread is either when someone says "you can't do that using x" and they're wrong, or when someone goes "use Reaper" when it's not relevant to the discussion. Since I've now had a little experience, I thought I'd pass on my comments as a "new user", albeit one who's used a lot of alternative software.
I'm quite happy that there's alternatives to PT, Logic and the like. I couldn't care less what the "serfs" or home recordists use, I'd be the first to agree that PT may not be the best program for them, or lots of others. It's definitely the right program for me - I use it at work and at home, need to move projects between the two easily, and also troubleshoot PT systems professionally. Even if I didn't feel it was the best tape-replacement DAW, I'd still kind of be tied to it.
I DO take issue when you or someone else recommends to someone looking to get into professional recording at a commercial studio that they look at Reaper instead of PT - that is plain simple BAD ADVICE. Nothing wrong with knowing about alternatives, but you need to know the standards first - and at the moment that's PT for the commercial recording industry. You may say "oh, but things move on"...but you need to get in to make the changes. No studio is going to hire anyone who tells them they never bothered to learn PT "because Reaper is just as good".
I don't think we are that different actually. We both seem to be saying "horses for courses", just in slightly different ways.
Merry Christmas yourself
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Originally Posted by manning1  psycho_monkey
time for a rare rant from me mate.
every technical solution has a price and plusses n minuses.
everything/all daws is in constant change and everything is BETA.
hmm..nice sig line "ITS ALL BETA"..lol.
imho PT is not the earth , the moon and the stars.
you can find fault with anything. if you dig deep enough.
various people post on the reaper forums about various pt aspects
that bug em. viz a vis other daw software.
go read the threads .
for example, and i dont know how true now with new versions of PT,..
so you tell me...
but someone told me once how various things bout pt drove em nuts.
i understand the midi aspects at one point (which is why i used powertraks years ago..)
, and you couldnt split out the
left and right of a stereo file to their own files ??
i dont wanna dredge it all up cos its merry xmas etc lol.
but lets be reasonable here .and fair.
musicians need competition like reaper.
cos without much competition look whats happening in the processor arena right now.
for example i would like an i7 , but i cant afford it.
a few vendors of something = high prices.
competition/variety breeds lower prices and thats good for us.
reaper has introduced another competitive option.
monkey its good to defend a castle, but mankind moves on.
maybe you dont like it cos many of us serfs are simply bypassing the castle ??
fyi heres a reaper users comments (whose also used PT..)
which is nice and refreshing ... a love letter to reaper and the whole community - Cockos Confederated Forums
we are all different mate.
merry xmas.
ps..you tried reap on a mac ?
its a different version to pc. |