Reaper account activation issue

[sl23]

Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this issue please..

Basically, I created an account on their website, but didn't receive the activation email. My details are correct and no nothing in spam folder.

So I used the contact us page on their site to ask for help. I've sent 4 messages to them with no reply! Great way to treat potential new customers!

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

Activation e-mails can sometimes take hours, if not days, to send. That's all I dare say on the matter.

[sl23]

Even two weeks?

[DavidCarlyon]

Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this issue please..

Basically, I created an account on their website, but didn't receive the activation email. My details are correct and no nothing in spam folder.

So I used the contact us page on their site to ask for help. I've sent 4 messages to them with no reply! Great way to treat potential new customers!

I have had this exact problem. I cannot post on the forum, no reply, nothing in spam folder.
Dammit. im on my trial period and really want to do everything i can to set it up well, so i get a good read of how well it is going to work for me (pretty damn well so far)

[Psuper]

An added bonus is Reaper forums are fantastic (different username there, no need to import all the garbage posters following me around) -- a huge community, overly helpful, mature, respect for differing opinions, and little to no rabid fanboy crap.

You can still do what you need while it's in 'trail' just gotta deal with the annoying countdown. Welcome to Reaper, see ya over there!

[THE INTRANCER]

I've been watching the Reaper countdown years now... must be over 3000 days of trailing thus far

Sorry... I couldn't resist...one of my favourite 80's hits...

[sl23]

Good track!

I emailed directly and they got back to me saying it was first contact they'd received! Even tho I'd sent about 3 messages via their messaging service! So it seems they don't get any, or maybe some, of these messages.

All sorted now tho. MuLab is my first choice tho as it's much easier to use. Reaper isn't too bad but I'm struggling to get into it. It's not as intuitive as I'd hoped.

Still trying with it for now tho. More out of necessity than preference.

[testman3thousand]

All sorted now tho. MuLab is my first choice tho as it's much easier to use. Reaper isn't too bad but I'm struggling to get into it. It's not as intuitive as I'd hoped.

Still trying with it for now tho. More out of necessity than preference.

I think any DAW will not feel intuitive at the beginning. But that is different for each person. I tried FL Studio, Ableton and Reaper. out of the 3 Reaper was the least confusing.

Once you have used it long enough and worked out your workflow inside, Reaper is just like any other DAW. It is easy on the CPU. And then you have spectral editing, infinite channels, routing matrix , input and monitor FX chains, etc. Track FX chain even offers its own Dry/Wet knob .
And most importantly you can customize all the Menus and shortcuts to your liking.

The only problem (for me) with Reaper is that it's not really geared towards Loop based music and Live performance

[DavidCarlyon]

All sorted now tho. MuLab is my first choice tho as it's much easier to use. Reaper isn't too bad but I'm struggling to get into it. It's not as intuitive as I'd hoped.

Still trying with it for now tho. More out of necessity than preference.

I think any DAW will not feel intuitive at the beginning. But that is different for each person. I tried FL Studio, Ableton and Reaper. out of the 3 Reaper was the least confusing.

Once you have used it long enough and worked out your workflow inside, Reaper is just like any other DAW. It is easy on the CPU. And then you have spectral editing, infinite channels, routing matrix , input and monitor FX chains, etc. Track FX chain even offers its own Dry/Wet knob .
And most importantly you can customize all the Menus and shortcuts to your liking.

The only problem (for me) with Reaper is that it's not really geared towards Loop based music and Live performance

I would have to second everything in this post. After being a pro tools user for over a decade (back when i was making rock n roll music) i knew that thing inside out..and i was super quick in pro tools (even though by todays standards, it sucked)

In recent years i have gone back and forth between at least 5 DAWs, now i have added reaper to that. At the start, any DAW is confusing. I just tried DP yesterday, couldn't even get it going and just quit (haha)

But last week i put most of the week in to just learning reaper and setting the whole thing up
Mouse modifiers
Menus
Scripts
Themes
Contextual Toolbars
Radial Menu
Various plugins
Getting hardware (faderport, maschine, Komplete kontrol etc etc etc) to work properly and control various bits in reaper

Then made a template and saved
Screen sets
Track views
Selection sets
Envelope Zoom Presets

Along with regions, markers etc etc. Next up is snapshots.
My point is, i have now built up a really, really powerful template/starting point. Whilst it was daunting at the start, a week of discipline (barely any music making, just learning and configuring) has actually helped a lot.

I hated the midi editor - but now i have set up all of my own mouse behavior and modifiers/shortcuts/actions - it feels super charged.

I am still nowhere near fluent with it. but back to my original point - when you use one DAW as your main DAW, no matter what it is, you get really good at it. So if you just choose Reaper as your main DAW and get really good at that...that is some powerful stuff.

That was my thinking at least.
I also miss some of the Loop based stuff from live/Bitwig. I also miss the drum racks and samplers. But the thing is, i found that 90% of the time, i was in the arrange view anyway.
In fact, most of the time when i see people in Ableton - they are entirely in the arrange view. Which begs the point: why not use something that actually has a good arranger? Haha


Reaper will certainly take longer than say, studio one in terms of getting fluent in it. But it looks to me like it is a worth while endeavour.

Studio one is hyper focused on music making. Reaper can just do everything. You can have a set up for music making, a set up for podcasting, setup for sound design. If i can make that work and mostly just use one DAW, i will be happy!!

[testman3thousand]

All sorted now tho. MuLab is my first choice tho as it's much easier to use. Reaper isn't too bad but I'm struggling to get into it. It's not as intuitive as I'd hoped.

Still trying with it for now tho. More out of necessity than preference.

I think any DAW will not feel intuitive at the beginning. But that is different for each person. I tried FL Studio, Ableton and Reaper. out of the 3 Reaper was the least confusing.

Once you have used it long enough and worked out your workflow inside, Reaper is just like any other DAW. It is easy on the CPU. And then you have spectral editing, infinite channels, routing matrix , input and monitor FX chains, etc. Track FX chain even offers its own Dry/Wet knob .
And most importantly you can customize all the Menus and shortcuts to your liking.

The only problem (for me) with Reaper is that it's not really geared towards Loop based music and Live performance

I would have to second everything in this post. After being a pro tools user for over a decade (back when i was making rock n roll music) i knew that thing inside out..and i was super quick in pro tools (even though by todays standards, it sucked)

In recent years i have gone back and forth between at least 5 DAWs, now i have added reaper to that. At the start, any DAW is confusing. I just tried DP yesterday, couldn't even get it going and just quit (haha)

But last week i put most of the week in to just learning reaper and setting the whole thing up
Mouse modifiers
Menus
Scripts
Themes
Contextual Toolbars
Radial Menu
Various plugins
Getting hardware (faderport, maschine, Komplete kontrol etc etc etc) to work properly and control various bits in reaper

Then made a template and saved
Screen sets
Track views
Selection sets
Envelope Zoom Presets

Along with regions, markers etc etc. Next up is snapshots.
My point is, i have now built up a really, really powerful template/starting point. Whilst it was daunting at the start, a week of discipline (barely any music making, just learning and configuring) has actually helped a lot.

I hated the midi editor - but now i have set up all of my own mouse behavior and modifiers/shortcuts/actions - it feels super charged.

I am still nowhere near fluent with it. but back to my original point - when you use one DAW as your main DAW, no matter what it is, you get really good at it. So if you just choose Reaper as your main DAW and get really good at that...that is some powerful stuff.

That was my thinking at least.
I also miss some of the Loop based stuff from live/Bitwig. I also miss the drum racks and samplers. But the thing is, i found that 90% of the time, i was in the arrange view anyway.
In fact, most of the time when i see people in Ableton - they are entirely in the arrange view. Which begs the point: why not use something that actually has a good arranger? Haha


Reaper will certainly take longer than say, studio one in terms of getting fluent in it. But it looks to me like it is a worth while endeavour.

Studio one is hyper focused on music making. Reaper can just do everything. You can have a set up for music making, a set up for podcasting, setup for sound design. If i can make that work and mostly just use one DAW, i will be happy!!

and learning Reaper won't be especially difficult when we've got all those Kenny Gioia tutorials on youtube

[DavidCarlyon]

Yes! Absolutely! That guy has doe a great job of breaking things down. Wish i had found that a week ago.
It is a really great community though. Never seen a DAW forum where people are so helpful...ever.
Same goes with the company - their whole model is really admirable. It just makes you want to be a part of it. I really hope i can make it work with reaper. My search for the right modern DAW as been long and tiresome.

[Psuper]

Yes! Absolutely! That guy has doe a great job of breaking things down. Wish i had found that a week ago.
It is a really great community though. Never seen a DAW forum where people are so helpful...ever.
Same goes with the company - their whole model is really admirable. It just makes you want to be a part of it. I really hope i can make it work with reaper. My search for the right modern DAW as been long and tiresome.

Absolutely. If anything the community frowns upon people who criticize constructive negative feedback - it's like everyone actually wants Reaper to succeed or something... whodathunk.

[Kr3eM]

Absolutely. If anything the community frowns upon people who criticize constructive negative feedback - it's like everyone actually wants Reaper to succeed or something... whodathunk.

[EvilDragon]

MuLab is my first choice tho as it's much easier to use.

While MuLAB definitely has some things going for it, one thing I am absolutely annoyed at it is that you have to CLICK on a submenu to open the next level of the menu. Or did Jo change that recently (didn't check on MuLAB in about a year or so)? That sort of thing is making his DAW unnecessarily more complicated and slower to use.

Oh and MIDI editor in MuLAB is totally not fast to use compared to Reaper's (protip: mouse modifiers).

[DavidCarlyon]

Yes! Absolutely! That guy has doe a great job of breaking things down. Wish i had found that a week ago.
It is a really great community though. Never seen a DAW forum where people are so helpful...ever.
Same goes with the company - their whole model is really admirable. It just makes you want to be a part of it. I really hope i can make it work with reaper. My search for the right modern DAW as been long and tiresome.

Absolutely. If anything the community frowns upon people who criticize constructive negative feedback - it's like everyone actually wants Reaper to succeed or something... whodathunk.

yeah i am actually finding it quite inspiring. I just really want to find a permanent DAW home at the moment. I have been through so damn many in recent years. This one, although it felt like a bit of a nightmare at first, feels like one can make it act like an extension of oneself.
And they keep moving fast, updates all the time etc.
There is also a lot of room to grow with this DAW.

I see reason is in your tagline - is that your main DAW?