REAPER

Top 5 reasons I love the shnittle shit outta REAPER:

1. mega easy hot key/macro configuration for all sorts of uses (like hmm macroing it so one button assigns me to midi control not one... but 3... no 11... nah 33 different virtual instrument tracks???)((eh I will control 2 drum kits, 3 Pads and 2 different bass patches from different vst's, reaktor, reason !at the same time! for this bridge section))

2. loads, closes itself at least 20 times faster than every other DAW I have used with all my VST's

3. lets me stack to the ceiling with more VSTs than I can manage/30 reason instruments/5 reaktor ensembles/2 units of memory and cpu hogging Superior Drummer with unseen low low buffer rates flawlessly

4. god speed time stretching with a flick of the mouse and a dash of the alt button (or whatever button you want to use)

5. drag drop any audio file known to man (practically) right in the project with a firey haste

I thank the heavens of 0101000s that read about Cockos REAPER on Gearslutz when I was researching for the most efficient DAW I could find. I tried it because people were saying it was just that. The trail download(which entails everything this momma has to offer) was something like 7-10mbs... I thought well at least it's not bloated. Come to find its the most intuitive, limitless, well thought out, configurable, genius jones software design I've seen in years of downloading every audio software suite I had heard about. It lets me do things I wished I could do in every other DAW. Where I was smashing my fucking face into the wall before I am now super soaking money shot's all over everything with relieved delight folks.

I double dog dare you to try it out for a few days.

http://www.reaper.fm/download.php

I have sailed the earth and back pirating booty but my friends this is the first time I have actually felt completely obligated to put money down on software in at least 3 years of scoring epic booty. I could find a crack for this but I am more than happy to spend $40 bucks on this thing and get updates from where its at now 3.667 to 4.99 in teh futures.

I cant say enough about how much of a relief this thing has been for outlook on production, recording, sampling, live performances etc.

Random examples of how customizable the interface design is alone

and no... I honest to god am not getting anything out of this but the peace of thoughtfulness, doesn't seem like a lot of people know about it, so I just want to spread the love

Great post, though it's actually 60 dollar not 40. I've been a properly legit registered user of the fine programme since about v0.9 - It's a fookin awesome bit of software.

I haven't bought it yet, will in the next week before my 30 day trail is up but... I don't get it is it $60 or $40?

http://www.reaper.fm/purchase.php

"

The Future of REAPER Pricing

When You Buy What You Pay What You Get

Now $150 full / $40 discounted Free upgrades through REAPER 4.99

After REAPER 4 is released $225 full / $60 discounted Free upgrades through REAPER 5.99

Fair Pricing

There is only one version of REAPER. We offer two licenses, depending on how you use it.

$225: full commercial license.

$60: discounted license.

You may use the discounted license if any of the following is true:

* You are an individual, using REAPER only for personal use.

* You are an individual or business, using REAPER for commercial use, and the yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000.

* You are an educational or non-profit organization."

Ah, looks like they're doing a reduced pricing as Reaper 4 is approaching - so for $40 you'll be able to download v3.672-v.4.999 and for $60 v4.000-v5.999

So you take yer pick !

Tough market the 50 buck range....

EnergyXT, Renoise, Reaper .. all good shit to pick from.

I love Reaper more every minute than I ever thought I could ever love anything. It's so fucking tits and clit how it treats audio and midi like they are the same grandchild when your editing. God I love it sooo much. Want sex it up

EDIT:no sleep stoned recording binge, donna type so good

the cocko's reasynth it comes with is actually pretty useful, It's nice how dry and shape-able it is from the start, I could never get these kind of synth sounds from reason. I'm using tons of VSTs on them but still you would think as simple as stock reasynth is it would be pretty pointless when you have reason, reaktor and vaz modular but I like it. I can start off with a really 8 bit sounding square synth and then shape every step of the way with glorious versatile VSTs and take it where every I want. I didn't have as much luck with being able to shape Vaz modular synths post as easy.

  On 9/1/2010 at 4:42 PM, acid1 said:

Tough market the 50 buck range....

 

EnergyXT, Renoise, Reaper .. all good shit to pick from.

I haven't used EnergyXT but I looked into it and It definitely appears that Reaper is a lot more configurable. The Reap is very intuitive once you figure out where everything is located, the search functionality etc., the way the tabs are layed out make finding certain things cake. But EnergyXT and Renoise seem very stripped down and simplified by comparison for what I'm trying to do. I'm not expert on them but that's It looks like to me. Renoise is a cool tracker and all so its got different use's. But EnergyXT appears to be no match for my precious Reap

I look into EnergyXT for a while but one of the big things I can mention that turned me off is how they had rewire so simplified and dead set. The way you route virtual instruments, make master and slave tracks, rewire everything with different stuff in Reaper is soo configurable and as far as I know its pretty unique in a lot of fucking features.

A lot of fucking people would be really surprised at the features and versatile design REAPER has that most and in some cases all other DAWs don't really have.

If it had a session view like Live I'd be all over it.

Yeah that's the one feature I'd really love to see in Reaper. If they had that then it'd completely kill Ableton (well for me anyway)

  On 9/1/2010 at 5:41 PM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 9/1/2010 at 4:42 PM, acid1 said:

Tough market the 50 buck range....

 

EnergyXT, Renoise, Reaper .. all good shit to pick from.

 

I haven't used EnergyXT but I looked into it and It definitely appears that Reaper is a lot more configurable. The Reap is very intuitive once you figure out where everything is located, the search functionality etc., the way the tabs are layed out make finding certain things cake. But EnergyXT and Renoise seem very stripped down and simplified by comparison for what I'm trying to do. I'm not expert on them but that's It looks like to me. Renoise is a cool tracker and all so its got different use's. But EnergyXT appears to be no match for my precious Reap

I'm in no mood to argue about which DAW is better for you. EnergyXT is a modular beast that you can open as a VST inside of any DAW and runs on linux. Renoise is pretty much the most powerful tracker out there.

Yeah but I am talking about a mothership to communicate and command perfectly/beat all the new and old grandchildren in to shape though. I use Reaktor and Vaz Modular, don't need any more modular capabilities and I don't want a tracker. I was comparing to them in the context of what I use Reaper for, In which I really don't think it can be beat. If something else can out perform Reaper for all the various ways I use it I will undoubtedly want that.

yep i love reaper. i use it for all of my recordings. should buy it soon really.

the only thing that would make it better would be complete integration/compatibility with buzz, hehe. using buzz instruments/effects/routing in reaper would be amazing.

Ah a fellow Buzz & Reaper user Yeah my workflow tends to be that I use Buzz for making the tracks then Reaper for mastering the track, but if they could somehow be integrated that would be awesome !

I'd pay about 5k for a mac version of Buzz :(

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:09 AM, acid1 said:

I'm in no mood to argue about which DAW is better for you. EnergyXT is a modular beast that you can open as a VST inside of any DAW and runs on linux. Renoise is pretty much the most powerful tracker out there.

Whoa. I didn't know that EnergyXT ran on Linux. Sweet!

And of course Renoise ftw.

I'll record a track or two in Ableton or Renoise occasionally, but I use Reaper for all my recording-intensive stuff.

Edit:

Ffffuuuuuuuu

Watching tutorial videos and getting closer and closer to whipping out my credit card. I can't afford that $40 now, but maybe I can pay it off in like a month, so maybe it's okay.