For now, Sonar remains unbeaten.Preferred DAW
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- KVRAF
- 1869 posts since 15 Sep, 2003 from Land of Crazies, USA
Just sold my copy of Pro Tools 9. It looks like I'll be buying Reaper 4 next week.
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- KVRAF
- 4340 posts since 8 Mar, 2005
A Pro without Pro Tools is a tool.Dominus wrote:Just sold my copy of Pro Tools 9. It looks like I'll be buying Reaper 4 next week.
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- KVRist
- 156 posts since 27 Jul, 2008
I'm surprised to see Reaper and Cubase as the top two so far. I thought for sure it would be Logic and Live.
I'm not very familiar with Reaper... I'm curious what can it do that Cubase can't do? Has anyone ever done a side by side comparison of features for these two DAWs? If Cubase was the same price as Reaper what would make you chose Reaper over Cubase? (BTW I'm not trying to start a DAW holy war I just would like to learn more about Reaper)
I'm not very familiar with Reaper... I'm curious what can it do that Cubase can't do? Has anyone ever done a side by side comparison of features for these two DAWs? If Cubase was the same price as Reaper what would make you chose Reaper over Cubase? (BTW I'm not trying to start a DAW holy war I just would like to learn more about Reaper)
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- KVRAF
- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
There are some vids out there (I think some free ones maybe) AND the manual is really quite well written. Version 4 is now eminent and there is even a reaper 4 pdfmichi_mak wrote:use the forum searchMarcus797 wrote:...I just would like to learn more about Reaper...
you will understand
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- KVRAF
- 1869 posts since 15 Sep, 2003 from Land of Crazies, USA
Never said that I was a Pro.keyman_sam wrote:A Pro without Pro Tools is a tool.Dominus wrote:Just sold my copy of Pro Tools 9. It looks like I'll be buying Reaper 4 next week.
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Dean Aka Nekro Dean Aka Nekro https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=162100 - KVRAF
- 6178 posts since 4 Oct, 2007 from Escaped At Last
Well i am in teh 1% club although i do use Ableton Live alot plus some other stuff. Teh 1% club 
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 668 posts since 28 Sep, 2010
Its okay little Pro Tools you were popular once, pat patDean Aka Nekro wrote:Well i am in teh 1% club although i do use Ableton Live alot plus some other stuff. Teh 1% club
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- KVRAF
- 1869 posts since 15 Sep, 2003 from Land of Crazies, USA
You mean, if Cubase was $60 ($225 for professionals), or if Reaper was $600?Marcus797 wrote:I'm surprised to see Reaper and Cubase as the top two so far. I thought for sure it would be Logic and Live.
I'm not very familiar with Reaper... I'm curious what can it do that Cubase can't do? Has anyone ever done a side by side comparison of features for these two DAWs? If Cubase was the same price as Reaper what would make you chose Reaper over Cubase? (BTW I'm not trying to start a DAW holy war I just would like to learn more about Reaper)
The price also includes upgrades to the next version for free. (I'm just waiting for 4.0 to be released, which is supposed to be in the next few days, and then version 5 and every update before 6 will be included.)First and foremost - Reaper is dongle-free. I just sold Pro Tools, and I'm thinking about selling off all my other iLok'd software. If I'm gonna have a little piece of plastic sticking out of a hub, it better hold 2 or more GB of data that I can actually use.
Second - I'm not so sure if it's what Reaper does that other Hosts/DAWs can't, but if there's things that other hosts can do that Reaper can't. As far as I know, there's very little that Reaper can't do, and I haven't run into any problems switching. Cubase (and Sonar, Logic, Digital Performer, and Pro Tools, etc) comes with a bunch of added instrument plugins, but for the difference in price, I can buy the ones I want, or use freeware. Considering the music I'm planning on making right now, I probably wouldn't use any of the included instruments in any of those hosts anyway.
Third - The level of support and community appeals to me. Problems are fixed quickly, and anyone is allowed to spend time on their forum. I used to have a Cubase.net account without *ever* using Cubase, as there's information that was posted there that would work with any host (I was on Sonar at the time), but they got really strict about only allowing legitimate owners of Cubase to participate. I understand weeding out the pirates, but typically you figure out who they are quickly enough.
Fourth - The size/speed/capability. The x64 version is 6MB. My Pro Tools install was about 1GB, and that was WITHOUT the optional instrument plugins installed. I got tired of waiting for Pro Tools to load, and being stuck with 32 bit was getting annoying when trying to work with larger sample libraries. I could rewire Reaper in, but why not just use Reaper?
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- KVRAF
- 35672 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Well, imho many Reaper users like to propagate their DAW, so chances that they might walk past this poll without voting might be small... so this poll might not be 100% representative.Marcus797 wrote:I'm surprised to see Reaper and Cubase as the top two so far. I thought for sure it would be Logic and Live.
Browsing through this forum for a while the most mentioned host is probably Live. And also the Live users often mention they use another host to master their tracks, so maybe their selection was another than Live.-
- KVRAF
- 42529 posts since 21 Dec, 2005
Oh, here we go again 
I think anyone who voted propagates THEIR daw. There are a ton of reaper users here because it does almost everything, it's stable, it's cost effective, and it gets updated frequently*
But cubey or sonar or live or whatever users are going to stick by their DAW's too
So the whole "all reaper users are just fanboys" theory really bugs me
*There has been a bit of a stalling though while the reaps get 4 ready.
I think anyone who voted propagates THEIR daw. There are a ton of reaper users here because it does almost everything, it's stable, it's cost effective, and it gets updated frequently*
But cubey or sonar or live or whatever users are going to stick by their DAW's too
So the whole "all reaper users are just fanboys" theory really bugs me
*There has been a bit of a stalling though while the reaps get 4 ready.
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- KVRAF
- 2488 posts since 2 Dec, 2004 from Sydney, Australia
1) It's KVR, that poll is totally pointless here.JD Gaffe wrote:So I'm curious as to what everyone's preferred DAW is nowa'days, or rather which one you use most.
2) Find what works for you, demo them all.
Cowbells!