Why you left REAPER?

[NERF_PROTOSS]

I couldn't get the named marked tracks to render with their named titles in Reaper.

I used an action to convert regions from markers but when using the render dialog,all the regions can not be named as seperate tracks.

I have each track marker named with a Hash (#1 to #7, 7 tracks in the file) then it's title after that but Reaper can not see that marker info when rendering.

I tried converting regions from markers in Cakewalk and I don't think that has the function at all,here we are in 2020 lol.

DAWS by nature love to make the most practical,simple things very hard to implement then cram them with a billion functions and features we don't use.

I would have probably rendered em by now just doing it the old fashioned way by looping each track and rendering from the loop points.

Reaper,you are too hipster for your own good.

it's unclear to me what you mean by "adding markers to the start of each song in a large file and rendering them as seperate tracks"

what are these songs in this file? are they multitrack stems? are they separate audio clips? is it one long audio clip?

[ElevateAudio]

Because of the piss poor PDC. Put Waves AR TG mastering on the master bus and then bypass/unbypass a few times to hear the weak PDC struggle to keep up. I know of no other major DAW's that behave like this. It's hard to believe Reaper is so far behind in this area. Really surprising.

[Halonmusic]

Although i mostly use energyXT3 for everything

energyXT... 3??? Is there such a thing?

[EDIT - indeed, there is. Wow, I've been out of the game for a while now. Carry on... nothing to see here...]

[worldshaker]

I felt like I wasn't learning how to use a DAW. I felt like I was changing my preferences/settings to do things other daws do by default. I feel like if I had to use Reaper, I would be fine, but it's not very inviting.

[Smasha]

I couldn't get the named marked tracks to render with their named titles in Reaper.

I used an action to convert regions from markers but when using the render dialog,all the regions can not be named as seperate tracks.

I have each track marker named with a Hash (#1 to #7, 7 tracks in the file) then it's title after that but Reaper can not see that marker info when rendering.

I tried converting regions from markers in Cakewalk and I don't think that has the function at all,here we are in 2020 lol.

DAWS by nature love to make the most practical,simple things very hard to implement then cram them with a billion functions and features we don't use.

I would have probably rendered em by now just doing it the old fashioned way by looping each track and rendering from the loop points.

Reaper,you are too hipster for your own good.

it's unclear to me what you mean by "adding markers to the start of each song in a large file and rendering them as seperate tracks"

what are these songs in this file? are they multitrack stems? are they separate audio clips? is it one long audio clip?

Yes I had a long file that needed to be seperated into different tracks so i used markers at the start of each track which I named and numbered then converted into regions.

In the region marker/manager all the regions have their own seperate names but when rendering,they only have one name,the original name of the file.

I tried using wildcards but once again,they only reference the original file name not the newly created region numbers and titles.

I converted the markers to regions and the regions now show each track title in the marker/region manager but they REFUSE to be used when rendered.

The RENDER To dialog box is what the files are named too,not the region names.

Can't we do this? Am I requesting something that can't be done?

I give up.

Is there a DAW that does this?


I wish I had a Mac,I reckon Logic would do this without stuffing around.

Reaper is illogical.

[jasonbrianmerrill]

I had to go get some coffee. I'm back now, though.

[Smasha]

I FINALLY GOT IT WORKING.

It was a wildcard.

I tried every one but the one that I didn't use was the wildcard named regions,LOL,how embarrassing.

I'll go hide now.

DUH!

I just couldn't see that wildcard hidden under all the others until someone kindly pointed it out on the Reaper forum.

[antismap]

The Route button is not visible in the TCP when using the default 6 skin out of the box, although it is shown in the mixer (and the mixer is visible by default....). Route becomes visible in the TCP when the mixer is hidden, or after tweaking the v6 Theme Adjuster script (or switching to the v5 skin). This is crazy default behaviour, IMO.

Agreed, actually arrived to this page from google by searching "no route button reaper" after searching for a good 10min why no route buttons were not on the TCP. I had the mixer on my second monitor and didn't notice the dissapearing / appearing route bouton depending on the focussed view.
Strange UI choices...

[machinesworking]

Because of the piss poor PDC. Put Waves AR TG mastering on the master bus and then bypass/unbypass a few times to hear the weak PDC struggle to keep up. I know of no other major DAW's that behave like this. It's hard to believe Reaper is so far behind in this area. Really surprising.

I'm not in front of Reaper, but it's very possible that it's more of a feature than a problem, if in fact PDC is only struggling in this specific case. Some DAWs, most, do not relinquish hardly any CPU back when the plug in is bypassed, only if it's not processing information, if Reaper does, it would show up as a more drastic effect on things like PDC etc.

[eivind]

Well - the demo is still on my computer, but I have been using Cubase since SX. I d/l'd Reaper out of curiosity - and I have friends who use Reaper. So it's nice to have access to it the one time a year that I need to convert something to and from Cubase/Reaper.

Recently I also discovered that it treated MIDI-channels in a somewhat more play-friendly way. Thing is - some years ago I built myself a virtual pipe organ console. That is four manuals of keys, some buttons between the manuals - and - of course a 32-key pedal board (the latter I didn't build myself - it was imported from Minnesota to Norway - which is a story in itself).

I wanted to set up the Arturia CS80-V as a virtual Yamaha GX1.. now - my organ manuals are currently split on MIDI-channels - not MIDI-ports. This works nicely for my Hauptwerk organ within Cubase. But if I wanted to have 4 or 5 instances of the CS80-V and play them on separate manuals - I run into trouble with Cubase. Appearantly - with Reaper this is possible. So kudos to Cockos there.

I have not spent much time with Reaper - but on the rare occasion when I open it - I learn a little bit more about it. So - if I ever leave Steinberg - I recon Reaper to be a strong contender for my next DAW. I like the fact that it has a small footprint in terms of size - because it tells me that it's very well written. I cannot say the same about Cubase.

[MuzikFreq]

Some tools don't work wlas intended.
Lfotool is kinda jank and broken in reaper

[nucleox]

I failed miserably to left Reaper. It's like going back to stone age. I just can't.

If you see it from the point of view of only graphics and looks, of course is like "going back to stone age", but even that affirmation is a lie, reaper is designed to be customized entirely. Applying a skin can make it look life FL Studio, Cubase, Ableton and many others, even like old school equipment.

That's graphics, when it comes to functions and capabilities it's another hole history, I've done things on reaper that none other DAW can do, and the ReaPack makes even bigger the firepower of reaper: Scripts that can do from updating your daw without you doing anything else but press "ok", to a scale and chord creator, everything totally customizable for the user.

Of course, the thing that is not the best is it way to organize its menus and functions, it's annoying looking for something and not finding it or having something where it doesn't make sense at all, i get it but with some customization that problem is solved.

[nucleox]

Some tools don't work wlas intended.
Lfotool is kinda jank and broken in reaper

Remember that 60% of reaper is made by their users so, professional quality is not always present.

[Jazzguitar]

Some tools don't work wlas intended.
Lfotool is kinda jank and broken in reaper

Remember that 60% of reaper is made by their users so, professional quality is not always present.

Your crass comment reflect your ignorance. Although it is true that Reaper is not perfect and the net is invaded by novice scriptwriters, 60% not even much less of what makes Reaper is not what non-professional do.

Justin Frankel (Founder of Cockos) has given a open code nature to Reaper, which encourage to third parties to create scripts, but the main code is developed by full-time contracted professionals and from time to time developers carefully select and add the best third parties scripts functions to the program as native features.

Like yourself pointed in your last post, Reaper have a resource implemented already a while ago, ReaPack, which allows to browse the 99% repository new scripts and utilities by third parties. It is always updated day by day. Almost every script comes with its description and info. The exploring and choices and everything is done inside reaper, with a internet connection of course. Those scripts you have total free will to NOT USE and uninstall them if you don't like it.

Thousands of Reaper users, myself inc, use scripts that are really a design prodigy and help to improve Reaper with new o improved existing features, without having to pay a penny with counted exceptions. Open your eyes friend and investigate better before handling figures and meaningless percentages.

[Tj Shredder]

I failed miserably to left Reaper. It's like going back to stone age. I just can't.

If you see it from the point of view of only graphics and looks, of course is like "going back to stone age"

He pointed out that all other DAWs feel like stone age... He tried to leave and failed because of that...