Reaper:)

[classic]

Would love to see, Reaper having a Sampler Track like Cubase has on.
I know it has a sampler, but the Pitch shift and Time Strech is not implementet into it.
So, my voice sounds like Miky Mouse after a few keys up:)

Any idea if something like this is planned in Reaper or may be I totaly overlook the obwious?:)

[lfm]

Reaper has ARA, doesn't it have a good discount on Melodyne?
- all daws that implemented ARA have had this, Sonar, StudioOne etc

For quick and dirty and maybe some harmonies I use Waves Ultrapitch
- up to 6 voices from one

[classic]

Yes I know about all this ARA stuff, but it does not make use of it with the Sampler Reaper offers.
Or am I wrong?

[lfm]

I didn't get what you are doing, thought it was a vocal track.

So you record your voice doing something, and then load into sampler and play back as different notes?

Reaper 7 is release candidate running beta right now, so maybe ask for new features on Cockos forum. Have no clue if a sampler track is coming.

[enroe]

Would love to see, Reaper having a Sampler Track like Cubase has on.

No, no - Reaper will NEVER have a sampler track. Because there are
only very abstract general tracks in Reaper. No midi track, no audio
track and no instrument track. Especially not a sampler track!

That's the special thing about Reaper: a single generalized track
type can do everything!

I know it has a sampler, but the Pitch shift and Time Strech is not implementet into it.
So, my voice sounds like Miky Mouse after a few keys up:)

Any idea if something like this is planned in Reaper or may be I totaly overlook the obwious?:)

If you want pitch transformation, you can easily apply ReaPitch to
any item. There are now around 8 different algorithms for Reapitch
that cover everything.

[classic]

Would love to see, Reaper having a Sampler Track like Cubase has on.

 

No, no - Reaper will NEVER have a sampler track. Because there are
only very abstract general tracks in Reaper. No midi track, no audio
track and no instrument track. Especially not a sampler track!

That's the special thing about Reaper: a single generalized track
type can do everything!

I know it has a sampler, but the Pitch shift and Time Strech is not implementet into it.
So, my voice sounds like Miky Mouse after a few keys up:)

Any idea if something like this is planned in Reaper or may be I totaly overlook the obwious?:)

 

If you want pitch transformation, you can easily apply ReaPitch to
any item. There are now around 8 different algorithms for Reapitch
that cover everything.


Yes, lots of pitch modes.
But no such thing as a sampler track so....
 

[funky lime]

I didn't get what you are doing, thought it was a vocal track.

So you record your voice doing something, and then load into sampler and play back as different notes?

Reaper 7 is release candidate running beta right now, so maybe ask for new features on Cockos forum. Have no clue if a sampler track is coming.

if there's one thing the reaper devs don't want at this moment, it's new feature requests for v7.

[TheMaestro]

What are the cliffs notes for the features or redesign that this needs to be an upgrade from 6 to 7?

[lfm]

if there's one thing the reaper devs don't want at this moment, it's new feature requests for v7.

Feature request is for any future update large or small.
- if it get lots of votes on Cockos forum for this

As I recall for v5 it was new stuff like
- VST3 support
- ARA support
- custom metronome patterns
- officially supported by Waves plugins
- VCA faders

Not sure if notation and video editing were the big ones for v6.

No clue if anything promised for v7...

I think Cockos team did excellent in
- making a daw low on resources and full of features
- excellent work on manual

the only substandard thing about Reaper would be gui design IMO.
- hire a good designer for that
- make it look professional like ProTools, Sonar or Cubase
- have some easy checkboxes to decide which toolbar options you want ready as first install
- a couple of modules that other daws have so you feel at home
- maybe some choices if wanting keyboard shortcuts for major daws from start

I remember purchasing Reaper in 2010 v3.6 the first thing I had to do was to get aquainted with Actions and find those that were appropriate to put in buttons on toolbar.
- why give a fresh user an uphill battle with this crap the very first thing?

If spending 10 hours a day mixing, maybe on two monitors making up all you see all day
- and you hate what you see?

it's vital you like what you see spending all this time with a gui
- there are loads of feature requests for this on Cockos forum

[funky lime]

if there's one thing the reaper devs don't want at this moment, it's new feature requests for v7.

Feature request is for any future update large or small.
- if it get lots of votes on Cockos forum for this

As I recall for v5 it was new stuff like
- VST3 support
- ARA support
- custom metronome patterns
- officially supported by Waves plugins
- VCA faders

Not sure if notation and video editing were the big ones for v6.

No clue if anything promised for v7...

I think Cockos team did excellent in
- making a daw low on resources and full of features
- excellent work on manual

the only substandard thing about Reaper would be gui design IMO.
- hire a good designer for that
- make it look professional like ProTools, Sonar or Cubase
- have some easy checkboxes to decide which toolbar options you want ready as first install
- a couple of modules that other daws have so you feel at home
- maybe some choices if wanting keyboard shortcuts for major daws from start

I remember purchasing Reaper in 2010 v3.6 the first thing I had to do was to get aquainted with Actions and find those that were appropriate to put in buttons on toolbar.
- why give a fresh user an uphill battle with this crap the very first thing?

If spending 10 hours a day mixing, maybe on two monitors making up all you see all day
- and you hate what you see?

it's vital you like what you see spending all this time with a gui
- there are loads of feature requests for this on Cockos forum

honestly, one of reaper's biggest strengths in my opinion is that in many ways, it doesn't try to behave like all the other DAWs. a lot of your requests here are basically like "i want reaper to behave like a different DAW" and at that point, why not just use the other DAW instead?

the uphill battle with the toolbar thing? nah. i'd rather they give me an empty toolbar, than fill it with 50 things i'll never personally touch. we'll just have to disagree there. most things you've cited as flaws, i see as features.

and i could have worded it better, i meant specifically, popping into the v7-specific reaper forum and making feature requests is frowned upon. yes, there's a separate feature request subforum, i just meant don't use the v7 subforum because it is not for feature requests.

[enroe]

Yes, lots of pitch modes.
But no such thing as a sampler track so....

Really:

Pitch shifting and time stretching are not tied to a sampler or sample tracks.
Especially in Reaper, there are almost endless options for time-stretching
or pitch-shifting audio clips - at a very high level.

[lfm]

honestly, one of reaper's biggest strengths in my opinion is that in many ways, it doesn't try to behave like all the other DAWs. a lot of your requests here are basically like "i want reaper to behave like a different DAW" and at that point, why not just use the other DAW instead?

the uphill battle with the toolbar thing? nah. i'd rather they give me an empty toolbar, than fill it with 50 things i'll never personally touch. we'll just have to disagree there. most things you've cited as flaws, i see as features.

If you use the key 'm' to set a marker with text in another daw, why having to use another key in Reaper?
- and loads of other commands you are used to

The lasso marquee is right mouse button in Reaper, which is hell on a laptop as I discovered I am running trial on.
- I had to go to manual to figure that out, since left mouse button is always used for all selecting in other daws
- so hold right touchpad as you do a lasso circular motion with other finger at the same time with the same hand
- not convenient unless having a mouse
- so commands could be adapted to such things
- make threshold as low as it goes for newcomers

It easier to remove buttons in a toolbar, than to first figure out which action goes with what you want and then pick an icon and things.
- many toolbar managers are just drag and drop outside toolbar and gone

If you use the special features of Reaper like ramping playback speed and many things, I can understand what you are saying. Those features does not exist in the same manner in other daws.
- I see nothing special in Reaper otherwise

Reason to use one daw and not another could be due to headroom for what you want to do is there.
- what you have in common, use the same key command is convenient not learning another dozen of those.
- looking through menues or manual and finding what to use

But I use daw as tape recorder, arm for record and record in realtime, repeat for some tracks and done tracking and start mixing.

But want alternative to Sonar as I don't have surround mixing in my version 7 years old. Also some VST3 multiout does not work in Sonar so could be convenient if Reaper works to do that project there.

And also good if having issue with a plugin in one daw, to have another to try it in, as you contact support and to narrow down.

Stop using one daw is often you stumble on some showstopper thing that it's unstable or something, or using silly amount of cpu.
- like the new video engine I waited for in Cubase which were a cpu hog
- so went to studioone since track templates for a project could easily be transfered
- then I found other showstopper stuff in studioone and went back to Sonar

That's how it's been....

[choomaque]

Okay, serious question: does REAPER has the ability to store ALL of the user preferences and customization in a single JSON file, and a built in console/shell to use git to store branch different versions of that config JSON in a git repository?

Honest responses only.

[lfm]

I've only used sourcesafe, svn and bazaar durin my active years.
- but there is no need to have everything in a single file
- you check out any branch that can be several file structures just as easy
- just some file types to exclude that you normally don't want to take up space with when comitting to repository

If git is a mature file versioning system it can do that too.
- does it only do json files, or?

About Reaper in particular I have no idea.
- just enter for windows c:\user...reaper and all config would go with it.
- I found not data for Reaper below c:\programdata
- but would not be surprised if somebody did an sws extension that did what you ask for?

But have been thinking about using a versioning system for really large projects.
- can be very useful since daw backups usually handle project file only
- if you make mistakes with deleting or corrupting audio files and other stuff that would not be covered,
- but a versioning system could do that, just commit project in between to repository

[funky lime]

honestly, one of reaper's biggest strengths in my opinion is that in many ways, it doesn't try to behave like all the other DAWs. a lot of your requests here are basically like "i want reaper to behave like a different DAW" and at that point, why not just use the other DAW instead?

the uphill battle with the toolbar thing? nah. i'd rather they give me an empty toolbar, than fill it with 50 things i'll never personally touch. we'll just have to disagree there. most things you've cited as flaws, i see as features.

If you use the key 'm' to set a marker with text in another daw, why having to use another key in Reaper?
- and loads of other commands you are used to

The lasso marquee is right mouse button in Reaper, which is hell on a laptop as I discovered I am running trial on.
- I had to go to manual to figure that out, since left mouse button is always used for all selecting in other daws
- so hold right touchpad as you do a lasso circular motion with other finger at the same time with the same hand
- not convenient unless having a mouse
- so commands could be adapted to such things
- make threshold as low as it goes for newcomers

It easier to remove buttons in a toolbar, than to first figure out which action goes with what you want and then pick an icon and things.
- many toolbar managers are just drag and drop outside toolbar and gone

If you use the special features of Reaper like ramping playback speed and many things, I can understand what you are saying. Those features does not exist in the same manner in other daws.
- I see nothing special in Reaper otherwise

Reason to use one daw and not another could be due to headroom for what you want to do is there.
- what you have in common, use the same key command is convenient not learning another dozen of those.
- looking through menues or manual and finding what to use

But I use daw as tape recorder, arm for record and record in realtime, repeat for some tracks and done tracking and start mixing.

But want alternative to Sonar as I don't have surround mixing in my version 7 years old. Also some VST3 multiout does not work in Sonar so could be convenient if Reaper works to do that project there.

And also good if having issue with a plugin in one daw, to have another to try it in, as you contact support and to narrow down.

Stop using one daw is often you stumble on some showstopper thing that it's unstable or something, or using silly amount of cpu.
- like the new video engine I waited for in Cubase which were a cpu hog
- so went to studioone since track templates for a project could easily be transfered
- then I found other showstopper stuff in studioone and went back to Sonar

That's how it's been....

one time when i used to wait tables, and i was very new at it, i would greet people with "how are you doing today?" it was meant as a rhetorical question, but one day when i was already quite busy, i greeted a woman who was dining by herself and asked her how she was doing. she burst out into tears and proceeded to tell me all about how her dearly beloved cat had just died. i just had to stand there awkwardly, actually busy as f**k, and conjure up some sympathy while this woman bawled her eyes out in the middle of my crowded section.

after that, i stopped greeting tables with open-ended questions. really, stopped using "how's it going?" and similar greetings. only statements. no more tears.