Reaper 2.0 officially out!

it rocks!!

and a user is getting this cool theme ready!!!

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I bought a license a few weeks back. I sold my nuendo license and I was gonna use Reaper until I upgraded my old sonar license or try samplitude ...

forget it...I can work so fast in this program and once I figured out the routing I could only smile a shit eating grin...

I am just gonna stick with the dongle less stable reaper for now...the included plugs are decent as well.... the midi is fine for drum programming and I have flstudio if I want to get into more synth work...it is even running n my vista loaded laptop

It works perfecly with my behringer bcf2000 in mackie mode as well..woot!
 
the bcf2000 is great for my needs...

I can control volume , pan, mute, solo tracks, arm tracks for recording, run the transport ( play ,pause , rewind, etc.)... write automation curves ( but I would rather do that manually with a mouse)

I set it up to run Cubase / mackie emulation...

It can't control eq's like cubase because Reaper doesn't have a dedicated track eq...and I have never tried to get it to control plugs..you probably can't
 
Holy crap. Just downloaded reaper. The i/o routing options on it are pure gold and the freeze functions are amazing. I think I'm going to make the switch after some testing as it looks extremely promising. I was just about to fork over the dough for Cubase 4 too. Does anyone know how it is for midi? I think its hard to beat Cubase in that respect, but that may just be me.

Also, where did you get that skin? Looks great.
 
MIDI in Reaper is still fairly rudimentary, especially when compared to something as entrenched as Cubase. It depends on what you want to do with it.

Lets face it though, less-than-incredible MIDI capability never harmed Digidesign!
 
Just tested around Reaper 2 and it doesn't seem a big improvement over Reaper 1. It still crashes quite often when you've got a lot of VST-instruments and you change patches, especially on the heavier VST's. That doesn't happen in Cubase. Also the time signature and syncope noting is still extremely awkward in it. Cubase does it a helluva lot better and quicker.
 
Cubase does it a helluva lot more expensively as well.

The whole "Yeah, I know it costs less than my avarage weekly binge drinking session, but why doesn't REAPER do everything that a program which is TEN TIMES OLDER and costs 20 TIMES AS MUCH does?????" line is getting a little tired. Did you pay for your copy of Cubase? If yes then carry on using it, you deserve to do so. If not....

Reaper is also pretty damn stable for me, and I run it under Linux for fucks sake!
 
considering reaper has killer sidechaing, routing and is ultra efficient and balances over cores better than cubase the trade off is worth it..

you can even run it off a usb drive!

the piano roll is decent ...not as awesome as cubase's midi ( nothing else really is) but I havent crashed it yet ( using ez drummer, dr-oo8, and some waves plugs..)
 
I've been playing around with the new version now, and I'm really liking it. The new default theme is finally something I enjoy working with (not the screenshot posted above, that's way too colourful for me :)) and I've never had stability issues with Reaper. The MIDI features are still nowhere near Cubase, which is my primary DAW, but it's the only flaw I can think of so far. When they fix Reaper up with decent MIDI editing features, I'll probably be buying a license.
 
another reason I switched is to get out of Steinberg products as a whole...after leaving cubase midi functions out of N4 and making you pay extra to have them is ridiculous ( actually it's a sign that tells me, what else will they leave out down the road)..sure I could have crossgraded to Cubase but it would have costed $299 and I would have to have given up my N3 licencse!?!?!?!? So I decided to jump off the Steinberg train ( while my license could still fetch good coin) and reaper seems to fill the void..quite surprised really!

antoher neat feature besides the routing matrix is you can have midi on the same track and auto crossfade it with audio..reaper sees them all as the same type of file....creating sends has never been easier either..I am not to be a slaesman( heck the programmer made MILLIONS selling winamp) but it is a great cheap product....

It doesnt have cool drum map ability in the midi editor or a nice dedicated wave editor like cubase though....
 
GarageBand on the Mac is free and is a better program. That being said, I applaud Reaper's efforts to bring something similar to Windows. It really is getting better with each version and shows a lot of promise.
 
t-rave said:
the bcf2000 is great for my needs...

I can control volume , pan, mute, solo tracks, arm tracks for recording, run the transport ( play ,pause , rewind, etc.)... write automation curves ( but I would rather do that manually with a mouse)

I set it up to run Cubase / mackie emulation...

It can't control eq's like cubase because Reaper doesn't have a dedicated track eq...and I have never tried to get it to control plugs..you probably can't
Click to expand...

I have the BCR2000 sitting in front of me that I finally unpacked and setup on my desktop. For about an hour I tried to set it up but no luck, any advice? What is this mackie emulation?
 
t-rave said:
It doesnt have cool drum map ability in the midi editor or a nice dedicated wave editor like cubase though....
Click to expand...

For the drum thing are you talking about triggering samples for drums?
If so, check the .pdf manual and you can get a template that sets ReaSampomatic for drum triggering through midi or audio. It's kind of like having a cheap drumagog or something. I messed with it bit and it worked ok.

I loev the reaper.
 
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