LOVE REAPER......

[__Karlo__]

What improvements would you like to see?

An Ableton Live kind of implementation would be nice.

How is the audio editing in ableton better than reaper?

[morelia]

Well this is crazy as I don't use Live and don't like the interface. But in a brief looping experiment yesterday I learned how easy it is to fix small timing errors. You just click above the error and place it where you want. Takes about 20 seconds to fix a poorly timed two bar recording. Certainly got the attention of this second rate guitarist.

What improvements would you like to see?

An Ableton Live kind of implementation would be nice.

How is the audio editing in ableton better than reaper?

[rafa1981]

Is it way easier than Reaper's stretch markers? With those you click to insert a marker (probably with a shortcut modifier) and then move it.

[GaryG]

Is it way easier than Reaper's stretch markers? With those you click to insert a marker (probably with a shortcut modifier) and then move it.

exactly, shift+W, drag to taste...

[Sawtooth Fairy]

Strange, I just noticed that the plugin does sound, but only when I play the virtual keyboard on the GUI. My Midi keyboard does not play notes, but as I said before, the red LED in Reaper signals that the Midi keyboard works.
With all other plugins the Midi keyboard works fine.
Very odd, I never had that problem before.

Yeah, that's odd.

I think the guys on the Reaper forum could help you out faster and better. I don't know what it could be, other than the obvious issues like the midi channel or to reset all midi devices

There is a new version today, seems they fixed it

[NAD]

...I learned how easy it is to fix small timing errors [in Live]. You just click above the error and place it where you want. Takes about 20 seconds to fix a poorly timed two bar recording.

Is it way easier than Reaper's stretch markers? With those you click to insert a marker (probably with a shortcut modifier) and then move it.

exactly, shift+W, drag to taste...

I'm maybe the biggest Reaper fanboy you'll ever meet but I can still admit that Ableton got some things right. For example, the way every audio clip automatically has those transient markers that are so easy to double click and drag around. And the transient detection while not perfect is still fairly good.

In contrast, in Reaper you can run Dynamic Split on media items to add stretch markers to every transient, which is far from automatic and is obviously different from having "potential" transient markers that can be activated as a warp marker at any time. Also the transient detection is mediocre. Alternately, you can add a stretch marker by clicking in the item with a mouse modifier or by running an action via keyboard shortcut to insert the marker under the mouse. To me that's still less immediate and satisfying than Live's method.

In general, it's nice how in Live each audio clip is can essentially be viewed on it's own independent timeline which shows you the entire source file rather than just the audio within the bounds of the clip in the arrangement. That's cool. But then Reaper is so much better at so much other stuff...

[GaryG]

I'm maybe the biggest Reaper fanboy you'll ever meet but I can still admit that Ableton got some things right.

Oh totally, simple things like the macro knobs, make assigning controllers a lot easier.

Though I focus on Reaper, I have an Intro version of Live too which I find is great when I need a change of perspective or just a different way of working. Don't do much with loop based composition but there if I need it etc.

As for Dynamic Splits, yeah... I tried to use Reaper when I was splitting down a bunch of old vinyl rips but couldn't get it get right, either three split points or 627... I found the free Wavosaur best in this scenario, just seemed to work (though would only export in WAV so then used Reapers batch converter to convert to flac...)

Different tools

[jules99]

Reaper 7 Pre1 is here.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=281316

Change log:

* Includes feature branch: support rendering raw PCM data
* Includes feature branch: Development_Theme theme
* Includes feature branch: JSFX plug-in defined compile-time configuration parameters
* Includes feature branch: LV2 non-automatable patch parameter support including atom:Path
* Includes feature branch: video YUV gamut selection
* Includes feature branch: visual track spacers
* Includes feature branch: 128 channels per track
* Includes feature branch: updated Windows manifest for newer OS features
* Includes feature branch: always running non-bypassed FX when the UI is visible
* Includes feature branch: crossfade new recording with existing media items if configured
* Includes feature branch: video from background projects
* Includes feature branch: FX containers
* Includes feature branch: improvements to aligning takes after recording
* Includes feature branch: arrange view override mouse modifier sections
* Includes feature branch: toolbar armed/special animations
* Includes feature branch: pooled and unpooled ARA edits
* Includes feature branch: shortcut import/export improvements and multiple main keyboard sections
* Includes feature branch: GR metering as embedded UI for third-party VSTs
* Includes feature branch: media item fixed lanes
+ Theme: new Default 7.0 theme
# Media item lanes: improve handling when editing crossfades in comp lane to minimum length

[FapFilter]

what?
are they just skipping like 18 updates and go straight to 7?!?

[No_Use]

Reaper 7 Pre1 is here.

The Reaper devs prefer to keep discussions about pre-release versions in their own forum.
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=22836

[xbitz]

pre2 released "* Includes feature branch: FX containers" What does it mean, could you help?

BTW the refresh rate of the UI has been raised for sure, playhead goes pretty smoothly compared to the latest non-beta version

[liquidsound]

pre2 released "* Includes feature branch: FX containers" What does it mean, could you help?

BTW the refresh rate of the UI has been raised for sure, playhead goes pretty smoothly compared to the latest non-beta version

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=276772

[neverbeeninariot]

what?
are they just skipping like 18 updates and go straight to 7?!?

It's not unprecedented - https://www.reaper.fm/download-old.php?ver=4x (also v3, v2, v1...)

[FapFilter]

yes, heard about it... didn't happen to me since i've been following it's development cycle since ca. 5.50 though

[Niowiad]

v5 was quite crazy with the numbering.
The last version update was 5.987 to 5.99, and v5.9 (as in 5.9XX) had more than 30 public releases.
By the time of 5.98X I thought they'd just keep going beyond 5.999 by adding new digits

This time around I'll also need the get a new licence.