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Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 4:26 pm

Arglebargle wrote:the main catch is you can't legally marry Reaper in most states.

You don't have to marry him. He comes to you at the end, voluntarily...

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:51 am

Today I installed Reaper on my new machine and though I woukd just start over from scratch with my toolbars etc. And it is pretty intimidating actually. I have been using Studio One pretty exclusively for the last couple months and I can see how anyone jumping to Reaper can get a little overwhelmed. There are many killer features but I do think it would be really helpful for Cuckos to create some nice default setups, roll sws into the main app maybe, and streamline some of the menus. I'm back to Studio One where I have far less options but also far less distractions. I'll need a few days to recover before I attempt to configure Reaper again

h2ogun99 · Post by **h2ogun99** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:55 am

braj wrote:Today I installed Reaper on my new machine and though I woukd just start over from scratch with my toolbars etc. And it is pretty intimidating actually. I have been using Studio One pretty exclusively for the last couple months and I can see how anyone jumping to Reaper can get a little overwhelmed. There are many killer features but I do think it would be really helpful for Cuckos to create some nice default setups, roll sws into the main app maybe, and streamline some of the menus. I'm back to Studio One where I have far less options but also far less distractions. I'll need a few days to recover before I attempt to configure Reaper again

I recommend you watch the groove3 tutorial. Jumping into reaper without it is hard and would make anyone intimidated.
Now that I have done so, I'm working with it with little trouble. Having a blast to tell you the truth. Yes, it would be nice if it came more user friendly, but I understand why it is not. A few hours, and I have it just the way I want it. Kinda like it is my DAW, and no one else's.

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:03 am

Oh im ok with Reaper, I used it before Studio One just it does take an investment of energy to get set up nicely. I have my old setup I can import but though I would just go from scratch and am realizing how much I had put into getting the old setup together.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:26 pm

braj wrote:Oh im ok with Reaper, I used it before Studio One just it does take an investment of energy to get set up nicely. I have my old setup I can import but though I would just go from scratch and am realizing how much I had put into getting the old setup together.

But don't forget there's also a (DETAILED!!) +400 pages manual that covers most everything of the features. And there are other inexpensive books, too, "ReaMix" for example or "REAPER for Power User" or even "REAPER for Beginners" that can take away some of the initial intimidation because of the overwhelming features.

Only downside is that there is no updated manual for the SWS extensions - the available manual is a bit outdated and describes just a few features.

For me, a detailed and comprehensible manual is very important. I don't have a problem that there's only a American/Californian

manual available; I don't need a German one. Given that the manual is well written and easily understandable...

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:31 pm

Tricky-Loops wrote:
braj wrote:Oh im ok with Reaper, I used it before Studio One just it does take an investment of energy to get set up nicely. I have my old setup I can import but though I would just go from scratch and am realizing how much I had put into getting the old setup together.
But don't forget there's also a (DETAILED!!) +400 pages manual that covers most everything of the features. And there are other inexpensive books, too, "ReaMix" for example or "REAPER for Power User" or even "REAPER for Beginners" that can take away some of the initial intimidation because of the overwhelming features.

Only downside is that there is no updated manual for the SWS extensions - the available manual is a bit outdated and describes just a few features.

For me, a detailed and comprehensible manual is very important. I don't have a problem that there's only a American/Californian manual available; I don't need a German one. Given that the manual is well written and easily understandable...

Is ReaMix for advanced users only?

mrdr · Post by **mrdr** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:39 pm

The worst for me was a constant struggle with zoom state of midi parts. Continuous zooming out, zooming in. Devs probably never will grasp on this.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:41 pm

liquidsound wrote:
Tricky-Loops wrote:
braj wrote:Oh im ok with Reaper, I used it before Studio One just it does take an investment of energy to get set up nicely. I have my old setup I can import but though I would just go from scratch and am realizing how much I had put into getting the old setup together.
But don't forget there's also a (DETAILED!!) +400 pages manual that covers most everything of the features. And there are other inexpensive books, too, "ReaMix" for example or "REAPER for Power User" or even "REAPER for Beginners" that can take away some of the initial intimidation because of the overwhelming features.

Only downside is that there is no updated manual for the SWS extensions - the available manual is a bit outdated and describes just a few features.

For me, a detailed and comprehensible manual is very important. I don't have a problem that there's only a American/Californian manual available; I don't need a German one. Given that the manual is well written and easily understandable...
Is ReaMix for advanced users only?

Depends of who do you see as an advanced user... Of course, you need some basic knowledge from the manual, but I got most of it (and I wouldn't call me advanced, even if I know much of REAPER). My only problem is that I still hadn't enough time to get through all the ReaMix exercises...

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:52 pm

After the Groove3 I'll jump into it, so...

too

braj · Post by **braj** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:59 pm

Yeah I love the manual, just contrast that experience with Studio One which really has nearly no customization capability. Though that is a drawback on one hand it is liberating on another. Apples and oranges maybe but sometimes one just prefers one more than the other.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:04 pm

mrdr wrote:The worst for me was a constant struggle with zoom state of midi parts. Continuous zooming out, zooming in. Devs probably never will grasp on this.

It's not limited to that either. Zooming is a nightmare in reaper imnsho.

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:33 pm

hibidy wrote:
mrdr wrote:The worst for me was a constant struggle with zoom state of midi parts. Continuous zooming out, zooming in. Devs probably never will grasp on this.
It's not limited to that either. Zooming is a nightmare in reaper imnsho.

How and Why?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:35 am

hehe.

Well, I thought I've been through that but let's just say that things don't always do what they are supposed to. When I have the dock open (with whatever....mixer, plugin, whatever).....things don't do what the are supposed to here. It's really annoying. It's easier to just drag the handles because key commands ain't cutting it.

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:14 am

I hope all these things are deeper than the level I will reach in Reaper, but the zooming so far is great on my part.

The extensions look interesting though....

Those tutorial were really needed, and now I understand your grip on Reaper. Quite powerful and chameleonish.
I'm beginning to like it.

Wyrrdbryyngr · Post by **Wyrrdbryyngr** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 2:35 am

The only catch is, you have to do all the legwork to get it set up the way you want/expect. On the other hand, it's the only DAW that allows you to do that to such an extent. Most customizable by far!

And as others have mentioned, MIDI editing is not the slickest. Just takes a bit more patience.

Reaper - What's the catch?