Reaper - Why NOT?
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Just as long as you recognize you've given absolutely zero factual or empirical evidence to support this stance
Marcus has kindly found some threads for Detective Sandy Vagina.
Stop being a little girl and read them - it says in the FAQ on the front page to use the search feature rather than being a little princess and stamping around in order to get your answers.
PhilR
Studio Scapegoat
I'm kinda the same in that we use Cubase 5 at the studio but I use Reaper at home. Once you get used to editing in Reaper there are many things that I prefer over Cubase. But having said that, the new VariAudio functions in Cubase are just fucking awesome. You can tune & time correct a vocal track right in the wave editor, probably the best thing they added to v5.
I think comments along the lines of "Reaper is inferior because they don't simply duplicate the main features found in other DAW's" are pointless and a little puerile. The developers obviously have their own vision for it, and don't want to simply copy features for the sake of copying.
I created a thread about Reaper a few days here because I was planning on migrating from Nuendo to Reaper. I have been testing Reaper for the past 3 days and I know that maybe it´s too soon to say that, but I´m totally convinced that Reaper is a better DAW than Nuendo on almost every aspect, at least for my needs.
ps: I´ve been using Cubase/Nuendo for the past 7 years.
ps: I´ve been using Cubase/Nuendo for the past 7 years.
Nuno Filipe
You talkin' to me?
Currently if I have to write something in MIDI I do it all in reaper. It´s much better, faster, easy than cubase/nuendo. There are some things in midi that could be annoying but I love the midi editor in reaper. Then I export the tracks and I mix in cubase, not because reaper sucks or something else but I am used to mix in cubase. But I already mix little things in reaper and I dont have nothing to complain about. But usually I dont do a lot of editing.
Norris-wf
Member
Is Cubase 5 much better? I liked the fact you could tune vocals alright, but did you notice a big difference from previous versions?
Mutant
I hate that supercow !
I just didnt like the layout....I never even tested its editing capabilities.
Oh...and btw, I checked this forum almost every day for over a year before asked a question. Its rare to post something that hasn't been touched on. I also understand what its like to sift through 50 pages of topics to find something. It sucks! But I inevitably find something esle in those 50 pages of topics that is helpful (maybe thats just my ADD lol).
Oh...and btw, I checked this forum almost every day for over a year before asked a question. Its rare to post something that hasn't been touched on. I also understand what its like to sift through 50 pages of topics to find something. It sucks! But I inevitably find something esle in those 50 pages of topics that is helpful (maybe thats just my ADD lol).
PhilR
Studio Scapegoat
Well to be honest we went from Cubase 4 Studio to Cubase 5 complete so there was a pretty big difference. Mostly features that were deliberately removed from 4 Studio though.
Zombietakeover
Member
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
Just as long as you recognize you've given absolutely zero factual or empirical evidence to support this stance
Yeah, I dunno what it is, but I can't take it seriously. I've used it a bit, for file transfer reasons, and just never liked how it was laid out or anything. The menus were ridiculously convoluted and the layout looked kind of Adobe Audition-ish.
Not to mention scrolling initiates a zoom function? What the fuck???
CatharsisStudios
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- Jun 25, 2008
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yeah i hated that at first BUT. what is awesome is that you can use the arrows to change speed of the scrub if you are zoomed in close it goes sloooow if you are zoomed far away it goes fast great for talking on the phone and getting back to the area the guitarist needs to retrack. i found that out today. reaper is almost essientaly a 100% keyboard daw
Dexter_prog
New Metal Member
Norris-wf
Member
I'm using Cubase 4 studio myself so it would be the same for me. Cheers for that guys, I think I know what I'm getting for xmas now
The scroll zooming was actually one of the first things I fell in love with in Reaper! And the layout can be customized however you want, as all the windows can be resized and rearranged, and the first thing I did was undock and maximize the mixer and routing matrix windows, so now I just toggle to them via keyboard shortcuts, and the entire main window is devoted to the edit window, so it's really like any other DAW!
As for the menus/options, yeah, they suck, but at least you only need to figure out where the options you need are (and what they're called) once
(a small price to pay for, well, a small price to pay for the program!)
KillFrenzy
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any way to disable the using scroll = zoom function? I want to use the scroll to scroll
I'm pretty sure you can change ANYTHING shortcut-wise (I think scroll is a shortcut). I really like it, and If I wanna scroll, I just point the mouse to the scroll bar. I think you can use some key to do that too (CTRL, SHIFT, ALT)
edit: btw, what's the problem with Reaper's drum editor?
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
The scroll zooming was actually one of the first things I fell in love with in Reaper! And the layout can be customized however you want, as all the windows can be resized and rearranged, and the first thing I did was undock and maximize the mixer and routing matrix windows, so now I just toggle to them via keyboard shortcuts, and the entire main window is devoted to the edit window, so it's really like any other DAW!
As for the menus/options, yeah, they suck, but at least you only need to figure out where the options you need are (and what they're called) once
Yeah, so you can customize the shit out of it, that's great... but it brings up the same issue I have with Linux:
Move away from your setup and you're FUCKED. What happens when you go to another dudes place to track or collaborate and suddenly none of your trusted stuff is there? There's no standard to it at all, and it isn't conducive to a smooth workflow when working with other people, as Ryan and I can attest to.
ParsonsMatt
Alas, Tyranny
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