I've had reaper kickin around for the last few years for "utility" use. I've been a PT@work & Sonor@home user for years. Just re-setup my home rig with a new i7 this last weekend I had all I could take with the pile of ass that is X1. So I thought hey great PT 9 to the rescue I'll feel more at home anyways. Wrong. It's ASIO support is crap. Well at-least with my monstrous dual TC konnekt/Lynx hybrid. PT9 will not access channels over i/o slot #32. Even if your not using them & don't have them allocated into your I/O setup. Well all of my Lynx via ADAT start@ #33. I made a crazyass work around and started to continue a mix in progress. PT9 was falling on it face with very moderate processing & would lose sync whenever the TC ASIO control panel was in use, It's completely unreliable.
That got me wondering what Reaper was up to these days. Downloaded ver 4, installed SWS. Found Adams PT customizations/this forum & have been blown away with reapers functionality. I have been pushing it very hard this past week & it is just idling along.
If you are a "power user" & have the mindset to actually setup reaper for your personal workflow It's 2nd to none. For my tasks I can't think of anything it can't do well/smooth.
It's playing perfectly nice at the moment with 50+ tracks/32 channels of external hardware inserts/the usual chaos of plugz/SSL duende/automap/ & a faderport. It's a 1st for me to have all of that just "work". My last Sonar 8.5 rig had to be highly tweaked & always felt a bit on edge. I'm able to crank away on the music once again & reaper happened to be the glue.
