Is REAPER the current best long term choice?

[liquidsound]

Shame there's nothing can be done about the FX windows background. Nothing worse than a glaring bright light piercing through the darkness.
That's on Microsoft.

I use the "Insert Virtual Instrument on a new track" command to skip the "horror white" impact and then if I need to add to the FX chain I just click on an empty TCP effects slot [you need to load Ripertips Theme (TSP Rightside FX) to get those slots] so it bypasses the blinding white background; just the Plugin window.

[eLawnMust]

Is REAPER the current best long term choice?... NO!

[syntonica]

The appearance? One theme change, and I've been good.

I recently discovered the 'Reapertips theme' which has become my favorite theme by far. It's based on another theme, Smooth 6. Shame there's nothing can be done about the FX windows background. Nothing worse than a glaring bright light piercing through the darkness.
That's on Microsoft.

It's actually on Reaper. The latest version still does not respect dark mode on macOS. All windows have a bright white bar across the top and white backgrounds if they use the system window calls.

[liquidsound]

Is REAPER the current best long term choice?... NO!

You're right!
It's the "Only Choice"

[a9k1tp]

Reaper's only weakness is midi programming with mouse/trackpad. It is the worst DAW when it comes to this. You have to search for 3rd party scripts to make it behave as a basic midi editor like Ableton or Studio One.

Apart from that, it is the best DAW which happens also to be ugliest, no matter what skin you apply.

[audiojunkie]

I think Logic is a better value for money. for $199 it has a great selection of instruments, plugins and sample content.

That's because it's subsidised through sales of Apple hardware though, so you have to include the cost of hardware in that assessment.

It doesn't change what a bargain Logic is, but Reaper exists across Linux, Win and Mac so universally hard to beat. Especially now we have access to so many great free or 'cheap' plugins.

I don't like Logic. It's got the most expensive copy protection out there, and the dongle that is used to authorize the software is as big as my whole laptop! Two thumbs down!

[liquidsound]

^^^ iMac... iLok... iDislike...

[Monsieur_FyP]

All it takes is for the name Logic to appear somewhere on KVR, and immediately the twaddle starts to proliferate...

[xbitz]

Reaper's only weakness is midi programming with mouse/trackpad. It is the worst DAW when it comes to this. You have to search for 3rd party scripts to make it behave as a basic midi editor like Ableton or Studio One.

Apart from that, it is the best DAW which happens also to be ugliest, no matter what skin you apply.

really don't know what's wrong with you, but seriously.

[audiojunkie]

All it takes is for the name Logic to appear somewhere on KVR, and immediately the twaddle starts to proliferate...

In all fairness, my "twaddle" was purely in jest and meant for humorous effect.

[Monsieur_FyP]

Don't take it personally, but this "jest" is too automatic not to be annoying...

[lotus2035]

Reaper's only weakness is midi programming with mouse/trackpad. It is the worst DAW when it comes to this. You have to search for 3rd party scripts to make it behave as a basic midi editor like Ableton or Studio One.

Apart from that, it is the best DAW which happens also to be ugliest, no matter what skin you apply.

really don't know what's wrong with you, but seriously.

What's the name of your theme?

[audiojunkie]

Don't take it personally, but this "jest" is too automatic not to be annoying...

[xbitz]

Reaper's only weakness is midi programming with mouse/trackpad. It is the worst DAW when it comes to this. You have to search for 3rd party scripts to make it behave as a basic midi editor like Ableton or Studio One.

Apart from that, it is the best DAW which happens also to be ugliest, no matter what skin you apply.

really don't know what's wrong with you, but seriously.

What's the name of your theme?

https://forums.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=286521

[Trancit]

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Apart from that, it is the best DAW which happens also to be ugliest, no matter what skin you apply.

really don't know what's wrong with you, but seriously.
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Try to make it look like this on Windows... perhaps then you´ll understand what people claim about!

Themes looking great and consistent in every single DAW... just in Reaper it´s mostly impossible to make it look consistent without tons of tweaks and additional tools to do what others do out of the box...