Comments on: REAPER App from Winamp Creator Now Less Fugly, Coming to Mac

By: John V

John V — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:49:35 +0000

For the record: REAPER is fully skinnable now… check this long thread at KVR about that

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=184399&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

And btw it took me one week to learn that this DAW is the BEST out there….

By: spudboy

spudboy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:39:16 +0000

I’ve only been using it for mixing my band, but for that there is no competition on the PC. Was SO sick of Cubase’s routing limitations, couldn’t hack trying to mix in Ableton (wish they would sort it out cos I love that app), Reaper has totally solved my problems in this area.

No way I’m gonna spend x amount to upgrade to Cubase 4 now, Reaper totally owns it for audio. MIDI side is limited but honestly, there are updates every day, I can’t see it taking too long to get up to speed on this side.

By: dana9

dana9 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:03:26 +0000

i was so surprised just by the size of the download then the price, it has an intuitive learning curve, (something i miss ever since my MAC died and had to move to a windows system, i LOVED Logic), it has some features i was impressed with, example being able to route a soft synth to an audio track and record the out put (given it is a sort of track freeze that can be a pain, but then i like messing with audio tracks). it would be nice to see some future implementation, support for Acid loops, beat matching and of course track freeze (but as i said earlier there is a work around for that, the improved GUI and Skins is a nice addition, it used to be as fugly as an offspring of two very close cousins from the west Virgina hill tops, “like the movie “The Deliverance” fugly, i am keeping an eye out on this one, “much potential” as Yoda would say, it has features that make my work flow go smoothly and it doesn’t tick me off as much as much Cubase or Sonar (god i hate Cubase, i wish Apple would have some heart and port Logic back to the PC platform), but then again i haven’t really had the time i would like to emerse myself into it…

wish there was a full manual along with the “basic Reaper user guide”, but the half the fun of learning is exploring…

r…..

By: Marvin

Marvin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:51:11 +0000

I think Reaper audio features are amazing for such a small app, but lacks many basic functionality yet, (eg, you cant use the mouse to change values like tempo,etc, and many more things like that), besides that, midi it’s just almost a joke, and it seems it wont be a priority for its developers,

maybe in 3 years could become a valid alternative to any of the establish DAWs,

but right now it’s not for me……

By: pipelineaudio

pipelineaudio — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:37:48 +0000

You can choose whatever font you’d like. In fact you can use different fonts in different parts of the UI. Also you can choose color and size.

By: Mr.E

Mr.E — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:51:28 +0000

The ability to skin colours and widgets certainly helps with the fugliness of this software, but IIRC you can’t alter the fonts, which also aren’t nice imho.

Apart from the fonts, I find the whole interface looks too cluttered. There are more elegant ways of presenting everything in one screen, and Tracktion provides a much better attempt I think.

Peter – did you know that the guy who coded Reaper is the same fellow who started the whole “Gnutella” filesharing revolution?

By: pipelineaudio

pipelineaudio — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:41:05 +0000

“I like a LOT of what he has done with icons and so on. But, I think it could really benefit a whole lot from taking advantage of some more shades other than black and midnight. Itâ€™s like Iâ€™m looking into a pothole almost.”

Be careful what you ask for LOL! Im a fan of BRIGHT colors…heres a screenie of my Neve 8128 theme

http://stashbox.org/15312/10722224049-mixer-thing-%5Bmodified%5D-REAPER-v1.828-Registered-to-pipelineaudio-Commercial-license.png

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:53:14 +0000

I like a LOT of what he has done with icons and so on. But, I think it could really benefit a whole lot from taking advantage of some more shades other than black and midnight. It’s like I’m looking into a pothole almost.

By: pipelineaudio

pipelineaudio — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:28:26 +0000

“I donâ€™t know why you think Iâ€™m bashing Reaper, Iâ€™m not!”

Im not, just clarifying…did you see the api theme for reaper? I really love it! Theres lots more too, but like you say, the faders are still the same basic size and shape

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:07:09 +0000

I too don’t understand why Steinberg refuses to allow skinning, let alone any customization of the interface. No, I don’t consider having a million windows positions all over the place as customization. The only reason I bought the Cubase 4 upgrade was for the improved GUI, but they could have done a lot more, IMO. I don’t know why you think I’m bashing Reaper, I’m not!