Soon Reaper will graduate

[therage]

Hopefully it will get it's own Forum.

This program is incredible! I will probably be staying with Sonar 5 but it will be hard for me to give Cakewalk $180 for any upgrades at this point. For general tracking work I prefer Reaper over anything I've tried. I absolutely dig the uncluterred simple GUI and the routing capabilities are off the scale!

I still need to do a little project and compare CPU usage to Sonar.

Reaper ROCKS!

[beezelbubba]

Reaper is awesome!I've pretty much forgotten about Ntrack.

[pglewis]

[jake-O.W.A.]

[pipelineaudio]

Post the results,

if they're better for SONAR than REAPER, please post your system specs and settings and I will bust ass tirelessly to get it going the other direction

[stainless]

Will it work with a digital console (motorized faders)?

and then if only it would work on OS-X

[pipelineaudio]

[stainless]

I have a Digi Control 24- if the beta version will function with the C|24I'll give it a go... I'm guessing I'll need to change my interface (it's OK as I'm looking to move away from the 002 with a Presonus Digimax

Running a G5 2.3 dual 2 GB memory, 500 GB HD (2 x 250 SATA)

[pipelineaudio]

ugh, Digidesign locks their junk so itll only work with PT

Thats why people called the C24 a "million dollar mouse" back in the day...actually a cool unit with mic pre's and such but wont work with nuendo or anything else using any of the industry standard specs, its all proprietary, the Icon system's D-Control is the same way

HOWEVER...Mackie never gave Justin the MCU spec either and yet we DO have MCU support Perhaps something could be done, but that would TRULY be a coup

Actually this could be an awfully cool challenge!

[therage]

OK,

I've put together a little test. About a minute long little tune with a drum loop track, bass and a few guitars. I did the project in Reaper then imported the individual tracks into Sonar.

My PC is a P4 2.2 Ghz with 1 GB RAM...kind of minimal by todays standard.

I decided to use Cakewalk's Perfect Space Convolution reverb. This verb has given me troubles in Sonar as it can be a CPU hog.

Sonar: 1 effect....22% CPU (Sonar CPU meter)
2 effects. 38%

Reaper: 1 effect....30% CPU (Reaper CPU meter)
2 effects. 48%

With two effects running the Windows CPU meter in Sonar was 64-71% and Reaper came in at 47-53%.

I'm thinking about trying some different effects just to see what happens.

[pipelineaudio]

As you have found, taskman is the thing to watch...there are all sorts of tricky ways programs' internal cpu meters might be tweaked to lie.

[therage]

[pipelineaudio]

One of the original issues I was concerned with with grids was the ability to turn them on WITHOUT having to turn on snapping...that kicked my ass in Vegas and slowed me down horridly.

In reaper, not only can you turn them on independantly of each other, you can set them to different values

I dont think you could start them randomly at a clipstart, unless you dropped a tempo change marker there...(it neednt actually change the tempo, just have a marker)

If you could explain the hows and whys of this behaviour, maybe it could be considered.

If it were for slicing up a section of a loop or something, I would make reaper one of your external editors, right click the item, push it to the start, do whatever slicing you wanted then hit "glue selected items" and save. You would have it back in the mix the way you wanted it

[glazfolk]

[roman]

[glazfolk]

[pipelineaudio]

thats "value-added" dagnabbit

[RedStone]

Reaper with Elastique Pro .... amazing!

[jake-O.W.A.]

I actually downgraded to pre version 2 Reaper yesterday. I don't like the way the new versons will put multiple takes visible at the same time. It's not the way I am sued to working. Is there a way to turn that feature off? I would rather right click on a track and do next take/previous take to get where I want.

[ramen]

I like how version 2 shows the old file on the same line after you render a track. Really helps me out with guitar VSTs.

[pipelineaudio]

[tmix]

Ok,
You guys are making me crazy.
I have been a loyal user of Samplitude for many years and love it.But many of the functions of Reaper I want and don't have........

If I can truly use it in conjunction with Samp as an editor it looks like I will have to take the plunge.

Pipeline can I just go to your site and find out all about it or is there a separate site that is better?

[glazfolk]

[pipelineaudio]

tmix, you know you can open a samplitude edl in reaper right?

[tmix]

I did not until yesterday.

I am guessing the EDL is a complete saved song project?
I have only saved songs as .vip projects or exported them track at a time as .wavs.

I am really interested in using reaper for fixing drum tracks ( my main instrument) but also the time / pitch stretching.

Since I am really new to hearing and finally focusing on reaper as an addition I need to check out the videos and see what it can do.

I really love Samplitude version 6.04. I don't want to upgrade because I have heard it is possibly the most stable version, but it is not up to date on features. The 2 features I'd like is the drum edits , (cutting and time snap) and the pitch -time stretch similar to melodyne.