I had cubase when I bought this. Reaper IS better. But I sold cubey, so was just listing hosts I currently own.jeffh wrote:That you've tried. The "big boys", aka Cubase, Logic and ProTools are not getting mentioned as contestants whenever people declare Reaper to be the king, and I can only assume that was because they weren't ever tried in any depthhibidy wrote: Reap is best, by far, not even close. Did I mention how much better it is?
Ableton was always a weird niche kind of DAW that never favored MIDI or instruments, Fruity Loops was always just this weird thing marketed towards "beginners" just like Reason, and the newer stuff is likely not matured yet, just like the early days of Reaper found it a bit lacking in many ways...
But FFS, let's not declare Reaper superior to the "big boys" without actually trying them... and I personally despise Cubase, Logic and ProTools(nor have I personally tried their most recent versions), but fair is fair...
WOW, that's pretty extreme.jeffh wrote:ZOMG, who would ever object to having to sit idle waiting for a new dongle to arrive because your old one broke, or the usual shiteness of a fresh X.0.0 release of Cubase, that will take Steinberg 6-12 months to fix, at which point the next version will be coming out with new features they could've put in the last versionsqigls wrote:jeffh wrote:...I ditched Cubase for Reaper...
What, is it still not released or something?If all of the above hasn't happened to you, then you clearly haven't been a Steinberg customer for very long...sqigls wrote:WOW, that's pretty extreme.jeffh wrote:ZOMG, who would ever object to having to sit idle waiting for a new dongle to arrive because your old one broke, or the usual shiteness of a fresh X.0.0 release of Cubase, that will take Steinberg 6-12 months to fix, at which point the next version will be coming out with new features they could've put in the last versionsqigls wrote:jeffh wrote:...I ditched Cubase for Reaper...
Please, raise your hand if this exact situation has happened to you.
Um, yeeeah.
Steinberg suck, but really!? You make it sound like this kind of thing is happening to everybody.
Yes of course but I was not talking about the ASIO / driver buffer. Reaper has quite a few buffer settings you can tweak in the preferences. One of them is directly related to the anticipative FX engine. It's default at 200ms but if you put it to something like 600ms then I can suddenly run a whole bunch more plugins before it starts stuttering. Of course you'll loose some responsiveness of the DAW but being able to squeeze a few dozen more plugins is worth it when you get in trouble.machinesworking wrote: Changing buffer settings helps any DAW load more plug ins.
256 or lower for composing and 1024 or higher for mix down.
Yeah, well, kinda figured. But it's still strange. The reap is optimized so it only shows what is actually being used and doesn't bog down on one core (at least not on windoze.TheoM wrote:
you're funny. you're not seeing the cpu usage increase because of your extra cores.. live has one meter for ALL cores.. so you can put a plug in on it worth 20% of cpu, and nothing will rise until you have maxed out that 20% on all your other cores, or if one of the other cores loads something more than 20%, then the figure will go to that, and won't increase until other cores get loaded, and so on.
Cubase I doubt. I don't doubt that Reaper will improve, though when is up in the air.DuX wrote:I can absolutely believe these percentages, since neither Cubase nor Reaper are OS-X native. They will get better with time, though.
Who knows for sure? It has a pre-rendering trick it does to save resources. You really notice this with doing stress tests, it hits 70-80% and stays there for at least double the plug ins.It will be interesting to see how DP will perform on Windows... I kinda like that proggie, but I don't think it will perform better than even Cubase.
actually (just for the record), I've been a Cubase user since the Atari.jeffh wrote:If all of the above hasn't happened to you, then you clearly haven't been a Steinberg customer for very long...
Yours Truly,
(paying) Cubase SX 1-3 Customer (ie: that's $2000 I'll never get back...)
Would you rather they release it buggy as hell?hibidy wrote:That's pretty sad. That was the big announcement at namm 2012! They had a working alpha (or beta?) then and it's still not released. Anyways, it's not really on my radar anymore (like a cat-crazy host) but still, that is pretty lame.
My experience with a broken dongle was someone at steiny support sorted me the same afternoon right before a holiday, after hours where he was. I didn't even have it registered, as that dongle went back to pre-Yamaha times and I avoided dealing with 'My Steinberg'. I needed that to get VSL to replace licenses ASAP, which was no factor since a 'vienna key' which can be got at Guitar Center has 180 starts for anything you have. I was able to keep using Cubase. FTR Steinberg did not need to ship me a key.sqigls wrote:WOW, that's pretty extreme.jeffh wrote:ZOMG, who would ever object to having to sit idle waiting for a new dongle to arrive because your old one broke, or the usual shiteness of a fresh X.0.0 release of Cubase, that will take Steinberg 6-12 months to fix, at which point the next version will be coming out with new features they could've put in the last versionsqigls wrote:jeffh wrote:...I ditched Cubase for Reaper...
Please, raise your hand if this exact situation has happened to you.
Um, yeeeah.
Steinberg suck, but really!? You make it sound like this kind of thing is happening to everybody.
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