Comments on: REAPER, Music Software from Winamp Creator, Hits 1.x and No Longer Free

By: Create Digital Music » Guitar Pedals Go DIY, Open Source

Create Digital Music » Guitar Pedals Go DIY, Open Source — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:28:30 +0000

[...] Why, we haven’t seen anything like this since the insane Jesusonic, which was rather inconveniently built into a giant crucifix before it made a comeback in software form in the beloved, absurdly affordable Reaper. [...]

By: Karl Steinberg

Karl Steinberg — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:48:59 +0000

When I saw Reaper getting mature, I thought it’s about time to sell Steinberg to someone who is dumb enough…well, suddenly these Yamaha guys came around the corner…:D

By: Stuart Fox

Stuart Fox — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:13:11 +0000

OK, Reaper looks like its well worth a try, especially since I am currently using FX Teleport over 4 PC’s to run plugins, but even though I’m a part time music masters student, I would still count as a commercial user even though I probably spend more than I make with my studio right now… This brings the price up to a level which I simply cannot pay for such an immuture application. Its a shame beacause I’d really like to try it :-(

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:57:57 +0000

program is great fewer crahsed would be nicee !!:)

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:27:55 +0000

FFT is the Fast Fourier Transform. It’s kind of sorta, well, important for waveform processing.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:19:11 +0000

Ha! Video is definitely the meaning of life.

By: SONY

SONY — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:53:02 +0000

While we are prepared to admit that our audio devs are in a mild state of shock after the release of REAPER ONE we will continue to develop and publish updates of ACID and VEGAS, God knows why.

What’s the use of life anyway? Video?

By: kasper

kasper — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:05:01 +0000

IÃ‚Â´m using Reaper every day.
As a comercial user, i think the pricing is VERY good, and like the fact that the Comercial and non-comercial has the same features, so thereÃ‚Â´s no Light version. I also have a PT Mix+ in the studio, and Nuendo, PT LE, Saw and Sonar.
For use in the Studio, this program perform very well. I can setup headphone sends faster in any other program. When recording, i can mix and route stuff, so while tracking iÃ‚Â´m also setting up the mix. Inserting plugins on the go and setup up sends for rev and delay.
The folder system is fantastic, you can setup a folder for the drums, and it acts as a groupmaster too, so itÃ‚Â´s easy to setup a master comp on it.
When setting 24 inputs for recording the matrix letÃ‚Â´s you do that in a split second. Instead of the old way where you have to click on every track and select an input. I know other DAWs has way to set the inputs, but only in sequentel order.
As far as look goes, itÃ‚Â´s just as fine as ProTools. Nothing spetacular, but fast!!!!!
I prefer a fast interface, instead of a slow one with glitter all over the place. ThereÃ‚Â´s plenty of different looks for it.
And this program is STABLE.
So as a studio DAW this is allready among the best. And the support is THE best in the entire audio buisness.
This is just my personal opinion.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:00:47 +0000

As good as it may be at this point (judging from word of mouth not personal experience), I think it definitely needs a serious rethinking of the interface. I think it’s ugly. Some people think it’s ok, others think it shouldn’t matter. Even with the color themes, it’s ugly. Less ugly sometimes, but ugly.

That’s not the worst part… The worst part is that it actually looks *confusing*. The fonts, the UI elements and controls, the icons, the contrast, the separation of the various panels, the clickable areas versus the non-clickable areas… it’s like a visual mine-field.

I am hoping some serious attention will be put in this aspect of the software so that more people will feel inclined to give it a go.

By: Tijeraspete

Tijeraspete — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:58:56 +0000

Doesn’t even have a Count In Audio Metronome.
Requires you to use lame Click Track that is so limited and can’t Count In. If you tell these people how necessary this is, they don’t listen to you and lamely argue with you that you don’t need it. Don’t bother to argue, they do not understand and will tell you are stupid for thinking this is a necessay feature.

Can’t use “Acidized Loops”. Its work around starts to distort these after stretching them over a measure and considerably after 2 measures.