Is REAPER the current best long term choice?
- KVRAF
- 1875 posts since 8 Jan, 2005
I have it installed and fire it on occasionally to get the newest updates and to see if i like it better than the last time I did...
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- KVRist
- 302 posts since 25 Jun, 2005
Indeed, and let's not forget licensing too. Managing installs is super easy - you're not at the mercy of remote servers to be available or dongles to be active. Plus the portable install option is really considerable for anyone wanting solid redundancy.
The 'cost' for a lot of competing DAWs is within the suite of tools they come pre-installed with, on that front REAPER is very vanilla and thus keeps cost down. Most REAPER rigs probably have total software investments of thousands once the plugins have been accounted for.
It's not 'cheaping' out if you're wanting the most CPU efficiency from those investments. You're purely paying for the base, and not doubling up on buying numerous included stock EQs/Comps/Instruments that you may never need.
- KVRAF
- 2373 posts since 9 Jan, 2014 from Worldwide
Yes, Reaper is very good!
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- KVRAF
- 3623 posts since 5 Jan, 2006 from UK
It's been a long time since I had a license, but it looks like Retrospective MIDI record is finally in there? That's been one of the main things keeping me in Cubase land.
- KVRAF
- 1875 posts since 8 Jan, 2005
Reaper is too expensive to me for what it is.... and I'm a person who actually pays for quality porn. On the internet. Tell you that
That's for how much I dislike it
That's for how much I dislike it
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- KVRAF
- 1522 posts since 29 Oct, 2015 from Jupiter 8
Cool story. Live and Bitwig are too expensive for me too, for what they are… and i have a lot of expensive stuff. (And a recent demo of FL Studio is still lurking around on my Win machine too) Does this make them crap?
The GAS is always greener on the other side!
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- KVRAF
- 1522 posts since 29 Oct, 2015 from Jupiter 8
dunno, i would call them more “redundant“ for my use case, but what do i know? - at least regarding Live & Bitwig - FL Studio i hate (working with), but that's just a personal thing and obviously not universally valid.
The GAS is always greener on the other side!
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- KVRAF
- 1522 posts since 29 Oct, 2015 from Jupiter 8
Sure, i ruled them out, because Reaper already does pretty much everything i need PERFECTLY fine. (Except for some 2 major annoyances in the forms of bugs on Mac that are not present on Windows)
The feautures those would give me over Reaper are either not super important to me (or not important at all) or can be achieved quite nicely with the help of some third party plug ins.
I'm sure i would survive quite well with either of the others too if i didn't have Reaper, but Bitwig would rub me wrong at least with it's price tag, which is almost as bad as a subscription model in my book.
The feautures those would give me over Reaper are either not super important to me (or not important at all) or can be achieved quite nicely with the help of some third party plug ins.
I'm sure i would survive quite well with either of the others too if i didn't have Reaper, but Bitwig would rub me wrong at least with it's price tag, which is almost as bad as a subscription model in my book.
The GAS is always greener on the other side!
- KVRAF
- 1875 posts since 8 Jan, 2005
Then why look elsewhere?
I do because although I like Live a lot, it's just not there yet. Logic is a clusterfuck of bugs and plugins not working... Renoise is the best i have, but I do also need to record vocals, and Renoise does not do that remotely well. FL is a frankenstein of a daw...
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- KVRist
- 302 posts since 25 Jun, 2005
- KVRAF
- 1875 posts since 8 Jan, 2005
Does it? Does it also have a go f* yourself option? It shouldskijumptoes wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 12:48 pm Big difference though, REAPER can clean itself up after you've finished a session (File > Clean current project).
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- KVRist
- 302 posts since 25 Jun, 2005
Yeah, you can use sub-projects for that. Just create "me_giver.rpp" and repeatedly insert it into "me_receiver.rpp" project until your back arches.
Then File > Cleanup, and you're done for the evening.
- KVRAF
- 1875 posts since 8 Jan, 2005
Nice. That's what you should do, then.skijumptoes wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:25 pm Yeah, you can use sub-projects for that. Just create "me_giver.rpp" and repeatedly insert it into "me_receiver.rpp" project until your back arches.
Then File > Cleanup, and you're done for the evening.
Anyway...
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