nathannn wrote:Nice tip. Out of curriosity, how long have you been using Reaper? I decided to give it a tenth chance about a year ago and I finally clicked with it. It took a while to set it up how I like it, but after setting it up I have been using it almost as much as Live.
Same time frame and story basically. Was looking at going back to Logic for MPE support, ( left at 8 ), bought it even, then demoed Reaper again and finally started liking it. Mostly as a Mac user, the key commands are all sorts of fucked up, but you can change even the mouse behavior, and once I could option/alt click drag to copy a note in the MIDI editor, change the behavior to where it's a double click to create a note, and click drag selects notes etc. it started to make sense.
I use it more than Live at this point. Both Digital Performer and Live are not MPE compatible, plus the CPU hit is literally on my system: 8 instances of Diva in divine mode in Live, 11 instances in DP, and 13 in Reaper. Probably never give up Live or DP 100% but Reaper is a blast once you get beyond the 100,000 choices you don't need and awkward ugly GUI and UX it comes with out of the box.