im starting to HATE

i57dwun4yb1pt8

REAPER


( and like cubase neundo again )

thebookofbob

Don't fear the Reaper!

if6was9

how come?
there's a few little things in it that bug me but I've been a happy user for about a year and a half now. I haven't felt as comfortable in any other daw

PaulBrewer

if6was9 wrote: »

how come?
there's a few little things in it that bug me but I've been a happy user for about a year and a half now. I haven't felt as comfortable in any other daw

Nor has your wallet I'd imagine?

i57dwun4yb1pt8

its not happy running vst's basically
crackling , popping , crashes and freezes

and this is just 8 drum tracks two guitars , bass , and a synth .

and funny enough , cubase seems to just sound cleaner for some weird reason i havent figured out yet

if6was9

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Nor has your wallet I'd imagine?

Been using Pro Tools LE and HD in college and I've tried using Cubase. Started out in Cool Edit/Adobe Audition so it's not totally a money thing.

Weird about the Vsts, I didn't start to get cracks and pops until the 60-70 track count and that was running alot of guitar sims with impulses as well as usual verbs, lots of EQ's and delays and stuff. That was with all the graphics running in vista aswell without optimising it for audio.

old gregg

I've never used Reaper but have been a long time user of FL Studio until starting to do live work again and have been giving Ableton Live 7 a run round the block for a few months and the only time I get the same problem is if I run some extra mem hungry vst plugins. This is a new optimised lappy with several gigs of ram, so it's not the lappy or the software. I'm mostly doing field recording based Ambient so it's not like I'm killing the thing with Psytrance . Could your issues perhaps be similar? Again I've never used Reaper so this is just a long shot.

Mick

seannash

you could try this,its a free one too

http://ardour.org/

bedbugs

I'm really happy with Cubase 4.5 these days. It seems pretty rock solid. I have REAPER and I've paid for the license, but it's never really floated my boat. It does loads and I probably should love it, but I've used Cubase for so long, I just prefer it.

My 2c

i57dwun4yb1pt8

nah , the machine is a dual 2.4 gig xeon with 3 gig ram and dual 100rpm scsi disks . ( an retired webserver ) - with xp pro tweaked .

funny how cubase sounds more real and natural than reaper - must figure out why . --- i t dont make sense.

dav nagle

Why do people use REAPER, what is so good about it?

i57dwun4yb1pt8

im gonna say im not to big a fan at the moment

PaulBrewer

dav nagle wrote: »

Why do people use REAPER, what is so good about it?

Well from reading other's posts - the fact it's very affordable is pretty cool.

dav nagle

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Well from reading other's posts - the fact it's very affordable is pretty cool.

McDonalds is a very affordable meal but it still makes me fat. Like what has Reaper got to it that is so cooooooooollllll?

PaulBrewer

dav nagle wrote: »

McDonalds is a very affordable meal but it still makes me fat. Like what has Reaper got to it that is so cooooooooollllll?

Well as I understand it, it's shareware so someone who's thinking of trying Music Prod can give it a spin without a financial commitment.
Overall most things I've heard about it are positive.
However I have no personal experience.

And yes you are looking a bit fat ok .....;)

(retaliating by calling a Mod Fat gets an instant ban)

JJV

It's not shareware. You can download a trial & that will not expire, however they expect you to pay. There is a cheap non-commercial price & a more expensive professional license. I'm using it at the moment with transition year students. They can download it & try it out for themselves. Something they can't do with Pro Tools, Logic etc. However it is a PITA having to learn a third DAW.