REAPER - Where you at?!

[jeronimo]

I did my first mix with Reaper yesterday, with the 0.72 version for Mac.
And I must say, as soon as the macversion catches the windoze one, I´ll pay for my license.
And everybody, Reaper is $50 bucks if you´re not doing comercial work, if you do, the price is $200 buck, which is CHEAP!
I´m impressed with the quality of some of the bundled plugins, they´re really awsome!
Automation is ok to work with, since I´m really new to it, I might be working too hard to do thing that I could be doing differently but anyways, one day I´ll get there.
If you use windows and don´t do a lot of MIDI, go REAPER!!! You won´t be dissapointed.

[Mike Brown]

Originally Posted by ewegogetemtiger

It's not even a beta yet. only a couple of preview versions built...I suspect it will be well over a year before it is up to the PC version.

I know, I am overlooking the missing (but promised) features and looking at the functionality of the currently supported features.

To me, the most exciting thing about reaper is the community on their forums and the speed of the features being worked out on the mac version.

[garymusic]

Originally Posted by ewegogetemtiger

You can assign an external editor in preferences such that if you double click on a file it will open in another editor -- if you want or need that. Most folks find it unnecessary but I too have it set to open wave lab on the rare occasion I want to futz around with the file.

Exactly. In Cubase you can edit a file but only with Cubase's built in editor. With Reaper, you can call Wavelab or any audio editor to edit edit the audio file.

Has anyone done any summing tests with Reaper vrs other DAW software? Does the audio engine in Reaper hold up to Cubase or Pro Tools?

-Gary

[ewegogetemtiger]

Originally Posted by garymusic

Exactly. In Cubase you can edit a file but only with Cubase's built in editor. With Reaper, you can call Wavelab or any audio editor to edit edit the audio file.

Has anyone done any summing tests with Reaper vrs other DAW software? Does the audio engine in Reaper hold up to Cubase or Pro Tools?

-Gary

sure
A REAL DAW summing test - Cockos Confederated Forums

[garymusic]

Thanks...

I am a bit late coming to the Reaper party but I think the software has a lot of promise.

-Gary

[nightscope]

Originally Posted by Audio Hombre

sorry.i'm dumb.what does that mean?

It means you're stupid.



[Joke. I'm sure you're very clever]

ns

[stag]

To record a band any and i mean anything, will do. Why not Reaper?
To integrate itself with high end hardware and edit whatever the material musicians have left ( noisy preamps along with bad timing and creative enhancements as well) without worrying too much Reaper has not what it takes.(How the heck are you going to sync WL with something else)

I agree Reaper does what it does very well. So does XT, FL, Sonar, Acid,Logic, Pro Tools, Nuendo, etc.

But it doesn´t do a lot of things other do. I can´t think of anything the other hosts named before can´t do that Reaper does alone.

Please tell me one. Don´t came up with routing the Master Bus to a group that goes into an input that... Something like integrating a DM2000 or clean up a track noise with two mouse clicks. Functions common earthlings might find interesting.

One thing i like about Reaper is the way plugs are organized. I don´t like the way they are called upon. One or two many clicks, perhaps three.

[nightscope]

Originally Posted by stag

To record a band any and i mean anything, will do. Why not Reaper?
To integrate itself with high end hardware and edit whatever the material musicians have left ( noisy preamps along with bad timing and creative enhancements as well) without worrying too much Reaper has not what it takes.(How the heck are you going to sync WL with something else)

I agree Reaper does what it does very well. So does XT, FL, Sonar, Acid,Logic, Pro Tools, Nuendo, etc.

But it doesn´t do a lot of things other do. I can´t think of anything the other hosts named before can´t do that Reaper does alone.

Please tell me one. Don´t came up with routing the Master Bus to a group that goes into an input that... Something like integrating a DM2000 or clean up a track noise with two mouse clicks. Functions common earthlings might find interesting.

One thing i like about Reaper is the way plugs are organized. I don´t like the way they are called upon. One or two many clicks, perhaps three.

thumbsup

Reaper has a great sound. "click, click, click' click...."

[davidperetz]

Originally Posted by stag

To record a band any and i mean anything, will do. Why not Reaper?
To integrate itself with high end hardware and edit whatever the material musicians have left ( noisy preamps along with bad timing and creative enhancements as well) without worrying too much Reaper has not what it takes.(How the heck are you going to sync WL with something else)

I agree Reaper does what it does very well. So does XT, FL, Sonar, Acid,Logic, Pro Tools, Nuendo, etc.

But it doesn´t do a lot of things other do. I can´t think of anything the other hosts named before can´t do that Reaper does alone.

Please tell me one. Don´t came up with routing the Master Bus to a group that goes into an input that... Something like integrating a DM2000 or clean up a track noise with two mouse clicks. Functions common earthlings might find interesting.

One thing i like about Reaper is the way plugs are organized. I don´t like the way they are called upon. One or two many clicks, perhaps three.

the best thing Reaper does that non other can do is the Print Fx function.
if your mixing ITB and want to print fx on any other Daw (including my hated - loved HD rig) you get delayed channels, Phase issues, panning issues ( stereo shifting) freezing Channels and you can run into distortion problem if the channel fader was set up wrong.
with reaper the you get the same audio material pin point to the precise place it was before and without pan and volume fader changes - only the fx printed on the audio (and the original audio track becomes a previous take on the same channel so you can go back anytime without problems - now that a feature i would love to have on PT )
so if you want to work with extreme heavy cpu Shark plug ins ( the amazing Nebula!!!) and you want to run it on every channel out there (try Harmonic distortion panning once and you will understand how undefined is the panner in daw when it's not in LCR position) so reaper is the way to go.
beside that - reaper has the best gate there is in Daw-land and Hard-land, how simple and essential is the concept of pre open gate that look ahead? yet none other gate can actually give you the whole transient without side chaining with an pre advanced ghost track etc. etc.
and the routing matrix is phenomenal for parallel compression and any other split and parallel processing.

for me as a mixing DAW there are two thing the reaper lacks.
1 an easier and more compact GUI - it really tends to give you too much unwanted info and most themes are completely unusable after half an hour
2. a better automation represantation.

[stag]

This is from SX1. It has unlimited undoes. One can close the project, save it a thousand times and the original is there.

If one uses XT1 or has the patient to save chains of fx as presets, or a la Nuendo which has batch offline processing....

I´m really glad for Reaper users. I would give it more attention but i´m very happy with my setup right now, so i can´t be bothered.

Please, show me more nevertheless.

Thanks.

[captain caveman]

So, just to clarify, Cubase has had Reapers revolutionary Print FX function for 6 years.

[captain caveman]

Originally Posted by davidperetz

if your mixing ITB and want to print fx on any other Daw (including my hated - loved HD rig) you get delayed channels, Phase issues, panning issues ( stereo shifting) freezing Channels and you can run into distortion problem if the channel fader was set up wrong.

I think you must be talking about mostly PT issues there, those are non-issues on Cubase. Especially the distortion bit, which doesn't apply to floating point engines (unless of course the gain-staging is wrong, but then the distortion would print anyway seeing as the inserts are usually pre-fader).

[357mag]

That black interface that the poster shows is not by default. The default interface is quite attractive. Plus you can download different skins to make it look like Ableton, Cubase, Pro Tools, and others.

[Jidis]

Originally Posted by 357mag

you can download different skins to make it look like Ableton, Cubase, Pro Tools, and others

Not to bash the Reaper GUI (I've gotten to like the Vixie1 skin), but it does seem to retain certain elements from skin to skin. I've seen some pretty drastic extremes on the skin thing, and while it's not easy to put a finger on what it is, I can usually feel Reaper peeking through somehow (again, not that that's a bad thing). Wish I knew how to make one, but I'm too lazy.

[plexisys]

I just bought Reaper (PC) two days ago. I found it very straight forward to use and it has plenty enough features. For the $50.00 you really can't go wrong.

Will it replace PT? No yet. But it's still in it's pretty early stages and seems to have a healthy community so I think there is some excellent potential for development down the road.

[357mag]

Reaper gives you unwanted info and buttons? You must be referring to Sonar and Cubase and Adobe and...

Reaper is quite simple visually.