Cubase vs Reaper

[Charlie_M]

Originally Posted by bulls hit

In reaper there's no concept of buses, because any track can be a bus if you want it to. So you just click the routing button in a track and you can send the output from that track to any other track (or multiple tracks). You can also receive into that track from any (or every) other track. It's simple and versatile

That's very well put. I don' know how cubase handles routing but compared to protools I find the routing more intuitive in Reaper. I doubt that there is any routing goal you might have that you couldn't accomplish with either one, but routing does seem to me to be simpler and more intuitive in Reaper.

I'm no expert but I would put it this way: Protools routing (with buses and sends and returns and whatnot) is very much a digital realization of how you route in the analog world. Reaper on the other hand is different in the way it is set up - more like the way you would do it if the computer (not hardware) was your framework for thinking about it.

I also found the way it handles multiple takes in a single track (called "takes in lanes" for making a composite take) to be very intuitive. Different subject but related in my opinion in that is is another case of where you think about it differently if the computer is your frame of reference and not tape and that leads you to different solutions. Not night and day better or anything like that, but you get enough little things going in the right direction (making the task a little easier and more intuitive) and the next thing you know you're totally sold on it and you think it's all pretty brilliant. That's where I am with it.

Best way to get more depth on these things is download the free manual and read the chapter on routing. Better yet is to try it on a simple project and decide about it yourself. That's what I did. I was highly skeptical as first, but was frustrated enough with the limitations of PTLE that I was willing to give it a shot. Glad I did

Charlie

[bulls hit]

Originally Posted by Lawrence

12. No solo defeat... (i.e. exclude a track from being muted by the solo bus) nor any global solo or mute releases. To unmute or unsolo 16 random tracks or 64 you need to hit them one at a time or select them all first to unmute or unsolo them all at once.

Yeah I'd like to see global defeat buttons as well.

However you can unmute/unsolo several tracks using CTRL-click

[Lawrence]

Originally Posted by bulls hit

Yeah I'd like to see global defeat buttons as well.

However you can unmute/unsolo several tracks using CTRL-click

Cool. I know at least a couple of my listed "irritations" were gonna be wrong.

[Matthew Presley]

You can unsolo all tracks at once... look in the key command list. I use that all the time.

[GuitarRuss]

In terms of power, right now there is no competition. Check out these benchmarks from DAW Bench. I'm using Nuendo 3 right now but am frustrated because my Mackie Onyx doesn't allow a very big buffer size and I love plugs like Tri-Tone, IRs and other DSP hungry stuff and I wind up running out of power because Nuendo doesn't use the quad capability that well.


D.A.W Bench : D.A.W Performance Benchmarking

This has a direct comparison. I'll think I'll be making a slow move over to Reaper myself. My midi usuage is pretty basic anyway, and basically want a DAW to act like hardware and provide the least headaches.

[mdjice]

Well I switched to Reaper (thanks matt;)
and use it with my Miko. It's a great soft and I love functions such as the search engine for plugs etc..however Since the upgrade (last 3 actually) I've been having MAJOR problems such as display flickering for a few second then freezing the soft and closing reaper....not cool. Reapers has never been the most stable but it was so bad that I had to go back to an older version. Now it crashes everynow and then (just quit reaper no questions asked) but it's at LOT LESS frequent. I can live with that.
I do really like Reaper and prefere it over Cubase. I switched top PT years ago and Now use reaper for Production work.