cclarry 31,875 Posted March 26 There are many Reaper users here.... 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lionel 250 Posted March 26 Definitely Reaper users here. The is the Deals section, btw. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sander Verstraten 927 Posted March 26 8 minutes ago, Lionel said: Definitely Reaper users here. The is the Deals section, btw. Yeah, there is a severe lack of Deals on Reaper. It's always the same price, and there isn't even the option of a subscription. 1 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralfrobert 335 Posted March 26 3 minutes ago, Sander Verstraten said: Yeah, there is a severe lack of Deals on Reaper. It's always the same price, and there isn't even the option of a subscription. Don't give Justin any bad ideas. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sander Verstraten 927 Posted March 26 2 minutes ago, ralfrobert said: Don't give Justin any bad ideas. I think he's too busy pushing out updates every month to be concerned with changing his business model 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralfrobert 335 Posted March 26 3 minutes ago, Sander Verstraten said: I think he's too busy pushing out updates every month to be concerned with changing his business model Yes, I think he is quite happy coding his DAW and with how things are. Looking at the DAW market, one can save a lot of money using Reaper. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bapu 6,682 Posted March 26 I have a Reaper license. I use it occasionally. But my go to these days is Studio One. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Walton 2,162 Posted March 26 1 hour ago, ralfrobert said: Looking at the DAW market, one can save a lot of money using Reaper. Or you could use Cakewalk and save even more. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ralfrobert 335 Posted March 26 9 minutes ago, Brian Walton said: Or you could use Cakewalk and save even more. Point taken. I have a Reaper license and like the small hard disk footprint, stability, and tight coding approach that has been taken. Like Bapu, I've chosen S1 for everyday work, however. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bapu 6,682 Posted March 26 2 hours ago, ralfrobert said: Looking at the DAW market, one can save a lot of money using Reaper. 57 minutes ago, Brian Walton said: Or you could use Cakewalk and save even more. Not if you need to run on a Mac or want to be multi-platform compliant. 😉 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kitekrazy 2,658 Posted March 27 7 hours ago, Sander Verstraten said: Yeah, there is a severe lack of Deals on Reaper. It's always the same price, and there isn't even the option of a subscription. Plus they seem to never get the DAW right with all of those updates. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abacab 8,029 Posted March 27 I have Reaper installed as a secondary DAW, with Studio One as my chosen go-to. Reaper is a highly efficient, stable DAW. The thing I really like about Reaper is that a track is a track. It can route MIDI or audio as needed. It's all up to you what you do with a track. There are no dedicated track types such as instrument tracks, MIDI tracks, or audio tracks. Very flexible! So you can insert a MIDI plugin (such as an arpeggiator that outputs MIDI) on the same track as a virtual instrument. Just place it in the plugin chain ahead of the instrument, no second track or special routing setup required! Or you can easily route audio directly into an instrument plugin that presents an audio input to the host. One use case would be sampler plugins that can record live audio from a direct input. Other DAWs with strictly defined track types might not allow audio input to an instrument track. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Last Call 276 Posted March 27 I love Reaper, my fave skin is Jreng Metric and mixing in Reaper is a breeze, creating aux busses tracks is so easy and fast. UNLIMITED TRACKS forever. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarcL 785 Posted March 27 4 hours ago, abacab said: The thing I really like about Reaper is that a track is a track. It can route MIDI or audio as needed. It's all up to you what you do with a track. There are no dedicated track types such as instrument tracks, MIDI tracks, or audio tracks. Very flexible! Yeah, that's great! But on the other hand I miss that there is not a dedicated Mono track setting, i.e. it is more complicated to set it up using mono plugins. I use mostly CbB, because I prefer the totally zoomed in audio view, the Radius stretching and I am also more fluid in working with it. On the other hand I am absolutely a fan of Reaper's great batch processing (can even be used on a folder outside the daw) light installation (I like the portable install, no Windows hassles) performance (very light on cpu, run's even on my old i5 laptop without issue) user-friendly authorization super-fast plugin scan absolute reliability (I never had an issue for years, except with plugins) possibility of tape-like stretching (naturally affecting the pitch; I used it to fix old tape recordings) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
