Reaper 3.0

[Shan]

REAPER 3.0 - May 22, 2009

Changes: A HUGE upgrade!

• Automation lanes
• Nested track folders
• Multiple tabbed projects
• Multichannel (greater than stereo) media support, including MOGG
• FX parameter controls on track and mixer control panels
• Customize toolbar icons and actions
• Programmable MIDI joystick/game controller support
• Inline MIDI editing
• Edit multiple MIDI items in one editor
• Sync MIDI editor to arrange view, including looped items
• Export project MIDI, with tempo map support
• MIDI event filter
• Track MIDI controls (manage bank/program changes, sysex, automate CC)
• MIDI hardware timing improvements
• Full sysex support
• All-native graphics rendering engine (better appearance and performance)
• Memory use improvements
• Soft controller takeover, including FX parameters
• MORE! Too much to list here!

Looks like a great release from Cockos. A big congrats to their team.

Shane

[henge]

Beat me to it shan. This is a very signifigant upgrade to a great app. Just about to checki t out!thumbsup

[teamsterjim]

I can get super fast accurate external MIDI contol on my analog synths finally.......!!
I haven't upgraded w/ Cubase ever since these guys came out w/ Reaper 1.0.
I still use it for MIDI Drum tracks, but only because Reaper doesn't recognize Gigastudio's dll. ID yet.
But Cubase is pretty much going to stay where it is and eventually get phased out as they have zero customer support, charge for every upgrade and leave a trail of unfixed bugs behind them.
These guys are great with their customers, and I love seeing the underdogs whupping on the Big Bloaters.
Besides, I don't need a sequencer to create my parts or make coffee.
I pray Reaper remains a stable bug free app.
It seems like everybody else always keeps adding and adding, while never fixing.........
If Reaper starts adding these crappy IR/native reverbs, etc. I'll know they have become another bloater and look for another new basic creator...
Just the Meat & The Potatoes Please...

And R 3.0 is such a pleasure..............Thanks. thumbsup

[lpkyer]

Very cool....Thanks guys

[ThetaAlpha970]

Mac and PC are pretty much up to speed. It's been a Great "Beta" app for me. It's good to see them keep their licensing the same.

[Nordkrog]

No movie import?

[rackdude]

Does it have OMF and AAF?

[Matti]

Sure there is ( video )

Matti

[arimaka]

reaper,

Give us true surround panning and FX!!!

[cooker]

Nice to know reaper isn't butt-ugly anymore I should download and try it again (but not for the looks)




edit: crashed

[Stiff]

Cool. Guess it's time to try it out again thumbsup

[PitchSlap]

I've been using R3 since the first alpha and its turned into a huge release.

Even with all the new features its still lightning quick.

Reaper 3 takes under 3 seconds to load. When I fire up Cubendo 3 to convert old projects it takes minutes just to initialize my plugins.


(BTW, OMF support is available via a free plugin on the forum, just search for it)

[poshook]

Installed on Mac, it seems to be buggy, can not insert media file or virtual instruments into track ... DELETE

[recall]

I tried it again today to see if I could use it as an alternative to PTLE, but I found it to be very buggy. I could not repeat the same bug each time - IOW something different crashes it each time while what crashed it previously doesn't crash it.

Weird.

Still it looks nicer and thats a big deal for me if you sit in front of it for hours each day.

[Empty Planet]

I love Reaper, there are some amazing design ideas in it, and the people in the forums, while zealous to a fault, are really nice, smart and helpful, but after more than a year with the program, I've seen the light and I'm stepping up to Samplitude.

For me, Samplitude 10 is like Reaper, but grown up, past all the design- and feature-related growing pains Reaper is undergoing at the moment. Just this past couple weeks of working with it has been a real joy, work-flow-wise and sonically. And a relief. I don't have to fight it.

Reaper is a cool app, and will get better and better, and I'm happy I supported them. I'll revisit them in a few years and see what's cookin'.

Cheers on the new version!

[TheArchitect]

Originally Posted by recall

I tried it again today to see if I could use it as an alternative to PTLE, but I found it to be very buggy. I could not repeat the same bug each time - IOW something different crashes it each time while what crashed it previously doesn't crash it.

Weird.

Still it looks nicer and thats a big deal for me if you sit in front of it for hours each day.

Let me guess, you use a MAC? The mac side isn't as polished yet. but the PC side has had a several year head start.. It will get there

[styphon]

Come down to earth with me guys.

Reaper is far from "unbuggy", I tried it last month with a Vista machine, quad-core 2.8 mhz processor, 4 gigs of ram and....

I spent hours trying to stop it crashing, I never got to use it more than 10 minutes without a crash. So I gave up, its annoying enough trying to get hardware to work with VISTA, why have the same trouble with a DAW.

And I also wonder, will the same thing happen if I try this 3.0 version? Or will my inability to let things go blow my whole night TRYING to get it to work?

[TheArchitect]

Originally Posted by styphon

Come down to earth with me guys.

Reaper is far from "unbuggy", I tried it last month with a Vista machine, quad-core 2.8 mhz processor, 4 gigs of ram and....

I spent hours trying to stop it crashing, I never got to use it more than 10 minutes without a crash. So I gave up, its annoying enough trying to get hardware to work with VISTA, why have the same trouble with a DAW.

And I also wonder, will the same thing happen if I try this 3.0 version? Or will my inability to let things go blow my whole night TRYING to get it to work?

Exceptions make the rule I guess but your experience is not common place on the PC side of things.

Your first issue is VISTA. LOL Even Microsoft can't run away from that fast enough.

[rk.]

It's running fine for me on Vista. 2.6ghz dual core, 2gb ram. Got to say i'm well impressed, first time i've tried this software, it loads in 1-2 seconds and it's solid as a rock from there on out. I like the UI a lot too, nice and simple.

I'll be buying a license unless my experience changes for the worse in the next 30 days.

[Heartfelt]

Originally Posted by styphon

Come down to earth with me guys.

Reaper is far from "unbuggy", I tried it last month with a Vista machine, quad-core 2.8 mhz processor, 4 gigs of ram and....

I spent hours trying to stop it crashing, I never got to use it more than 10 minutes without a crash. So I gave up, its annoying enough trying to get hardware to work with VISTA, why have the same trouble with a DAW.

And I also wonder, will the same thing happen if I try this 3.0 version? Or will my inability to let things go blow my whole night TRYING to get it to work?

Sorry to hear. There WAS indeed an issue... I think it was 2.53 or so that was
HORRID and a crashamatic. I posted on the site, was informed the same day,
rolled back and continued making music.

Outside of that, it is uncommon for me to crash and I use VSTI's, an SSL Duende
PCIe on Quad Phenom with Vista 32bit home.

I think you'd be safe now to try again and it certainly wouldn't cost you anything.
Rob

[Heartfelt]

My first impressions:

• We now have track icons available. Nice touch to keep you from having to read as you scan up and down.
• Being able to open multiple songs at the same time is simply amazing, especially when mixing... you can quickly reference between different tracks and change any of them.
• In the midi screen, the velocities are color coded... nice touch.
• The velocities are dragable in a much better way now, allowing you to really... fine tune a performance. I didn't realize until now what the old version lacked. Also as you drag the velocity of a midi note, the numeric value shows... very cool.
• The subgrouped tracks, they use the term folders, are nested and now visually much clearer.

[chris_m]

I've been using the reaper 3 beta on my vista 64bit machine since months and it has been crashfree even on very large and cpu intensive projects.

[Lawrence]

I've been testing the betas since they started posting them and I've had crashes wil all of them. Crashes while previewing in the browser and other things like that.

Vista 32.

I just restart it and go back to work... but it does crash occasionally. It's being reported by some on the forums.

[Alxi]

Work very well here....downside, my control surface is not yet supported ( motor Mix ). The new automations are awsom.

-Alxi-

[fastonkeys]

Speaking of controllers... does anyone know if Yamaha StudioConnections protocol is supported?

Thanks in advance,
Adrian

[C_F_H_13]

Installed Reaper on my Macbook, and I'm loving it. Yeah it's not perfect, but it's a great way for me to use the VST plugs that just don't work with my wrapper, and I like alot of the free plugs it comes with. I also love being able to import any file format.

I've been a protools user for 10 years now, and this is the first app I could see using in tandom.

[Heartfelt]

my fav features so far are being able to open multiple songs and nestable folders... being able to sub group within sub groups. Reapers previous excellent routing just got bumped up a notch.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Heartfelt

my fav features so far are being able to open multiple songs and nestable folders... being able to sub group within sub groups. Reapers previous excellent routing just got bumped up a notch.

+1!

The song tabs are pretty amazing.

Shane

[GuitarRuss]

I'm thinking of making the switch now that version 3 is out. I just couldn't live without folders and automation lanes before, so the new version has addressed these. I just have a few questions for those in the know.

How is Reapitch? How does it compare to Melodyne, if at all?

Are there any nasty surprises besides lane editing for those wanting to switch from Cubendo?

Does is play well with Mackie Onyx drivers?

[henge]

Originally Posted by GuitarRuss

I'm thinking of making the switch now that version 3 is out. I just couldn't live without folders and automation lanes before, so the new version has addressed these. I just have a few questions for those in the know.

How is Reapitch? How does it compare to Melodyne, if at all?

Are there any nasty surprises besides lane editing for those wanting to switch from Cubendo?

Does is play well with Mackie Onyx drivers?

REapitch uses the elastique pro 2 algo's which are very nice indeed. Good for small pitch shifts.I've never used melodyne so I can't compare for you ,unfortunately. Reaper 3's been solid on my machine by the way.