anyone check the latest Reaper builds...wow

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since the new year they have implemented some sick new looping features I haven't seen in any other platforms...

a real cool one is highlighting a looped region within a loop for looped record mode...or as they call it "decoupling time select from loop selection"

it's hard to describe but it will be amazing amazing for punching in vocals , guitar solos...

whats nice about this is if you highlighted a solo section to record multiple takes you could listen to as many bars before and after the solo and not have to record anything on the "blank space"... also you could "punch in a part of a solo while not recording over parts you want to keep in loop record mode...my explanation probably sucks heres a video made by a cockos forumite

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the midi is also practically superb for programming drum tracks....theres a drum editor mode ( turning note lengths off) and theres some cool key maps made for ez drummer by some users and nice mutitrack templates... this stuff is exciting!!!
 
If only they could fix the random crashes to desktop when you load it up with VST instruments. And give a choice between musical and mathematical note lengths. Oh and fix the damn MIDI edge dragging to not stretch the existing content.
 
Torniojaws said:
If only they could fix the random crashes to desktop when you load it up with VST instruments. And give a choice between musical and mathematical note lengths. Oh and fix the damn MIDI edge dragging to not stretch the existing content.
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I haven't noticed any of those issues, and I've been using Reaper for a damn long time.

I must look at the new drum programming MIDI implementation, I haven't programmed drums for a few months (they update Reaper about twice a week).
 
i'm a die hard reaper user. it's literally changed my musical life as i know it! hard to believe it only cost me like 30 bucks a year ago. i spend 4 times that in alcohol every few weeks! :goggly:
 
im not putting it down in any way!! its really cool.
its just looks and acts exactly like vegas.... but cheaper.
everyones a winner
 
really??
i was sure it was.
but then ive only used vegas for mastering in the last 3 years so my memorys a little rusty!!
cool none the less.
does it have the cd burning functions vegas has??
if so im buy it for mac when they finish it
 
doc_backmask said:
I haven't noticed any of those issues, and I've been using Reaper for a damn long time.
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How can you miss Reaper not having musical note length names?

Instead of dotted 4th note, you have to guess what it would be in mathematical stems (1/6 I think). Then if you want a triole 8th note, it's 1/24 etc very unusable things off the bat. Why couldn't it just use things music has used for hundreds of years. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

And how about midi dragging?

You insert a midi track and you compose some drum stuff to it. Now you notice that the thing you need would require a few more bars. Well, in Cubase etc you just drag the current midi item from the edge and you get more midi area. In Reaper, when you drag the midi item, everything you have already composed will be stretched to the new length, completely destroying what you composed earlier since they're out of tempo and in incorrect length.
 
How can you miss Reaper not having musical note length names?

Instead of dotted 4th note, you have to guess what it would be in mathematical stems (1/6 I think). Then if you want a triole 8th note, it's 1/24 etc very unusable things off the bat. Why couldn't it just use things music has used for hundreds of years. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
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I am not a fan of this either...flstudio is like that that too and it drives me nuts.... maybe something to do with not having a score editor I would imagine?



You insert a midi track and you compose some drum stuff to it. Now you notice that the thing you need would require a few more bars. Well, in Cubase etc you just drag the current midi item from the edge and you get more midi area. In Reaper, when you drag the midi item, everything you have already composed will be stretched to the new length, completely destroying what you composed earlier since they're out of tempo and in incorrect length.
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maybe your alt key is stuck ( the midi stretches with alt drag)

not for me.... what it does is repeat your midi phrase like a loop when you drag... this for me is a great feautre..If i program a verse drum beat of one measure..I can drag it for as many more as I want and it reapeats without having to use copy and paste... so I compose my drums in parts...verse part, chorus part, fills, and drag copy and past as I need...

too add more space to your midi phrase just move the main marker bar in the midi editor as forward as you want and that time will be added in to your current phrase...then just drag it out on the main time line window..and if I add to phrase and I like where it's at..I just right click and "glue" the parts and it becomes it's own loopable phrase

they also recently added input/record quantize and you can set the percentage of swing and quantize on input...it's getting better...

works perfectly...maybe not as elegant as cubase ( which has the best complete midi editing for sure)
 
Torniojaws said:
How can you miss Reaper not having musical note length names?

Instead of dotted 4th note, you have to guess what it would be in mathematical stems (1/6 I think). Then if you want a triole 8th note, it's 1/24 etc very unusable things off the bat. Why couldn't it just use things music has used for hundreds of years. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

And how about midi dragging?

You insert a midi track and you compose some drum stuff to it. Now you notice that the thing you need would require a few more bars. Well, in Cubase etc you just drag the current midi item from the edge and you get more midi area. In Reaper, when you drag the midi item, everything you have already composed will be stretched to the new length, completely destroying what you composed earlier since they're out of tempo and in incorrect length.
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Sorry, I must have skipped over the musical note length issue when I read your original post. You definitely are correct there, and it would be useful and save a ton of time. I just haven't noticed the drag and stretch issue because I pull up the MIDI event and move the big black bar in that to adjust how many bars I need, then move the edge of the event in the sequencer, so I haven't tried what you mention.
 
I like the fact that you can see the plug-ins in a window now on the mixing window. Not sure what version added that, but it bugged me not being able to see which effects were on which tracks after being used to Cakewalk software.
 
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