First look at Reaper

evon · Post by **evon** » Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:29 pm

Just taking my first look at Reaper. Seems to be more recording oriented, which is fine with me on that point. Wouldn't mind getting a feedback from anyone here about their experience with it, the pros and cons as compared to Live.

Love the wave to midi work around. In fact, it was while researching for that functionality that I came up on it, although I had known about it for sometime now.
Anyway, would be good to hear some more pros...and cons.

[jur] · Post by **[jur]** » Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:11 pm

I don't use Reaper but have it installed because I like checking things, but one thing is sure:
Live is all about making things as direct and simple as possible, Reaper is all about possibly doing everything thanks to extreme customization features and huge menus and sub-menus.
They're almost completely opposed design and workflow-wise.

evon · Post by **evon** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 12:51 am

No, I am not looking for a Live replacement. I have tried all the major DAWs, and none can touch Live. Was just researching wav to midi and decided to give theirs a try.
One good thing is that it can be rewired to Live. Still exploring its features to see if there are any that may compliment my workflow in Live.

[jur] · Post by **[jur]** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:05 am

Does its audio to midi seems to work better than Live’s one?

evon · Post by **evon** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:04 pm

Thiers is a real time work around using their tuner vst. Haven't seen a real time audio to midi in Live.

[jur] · Post by **[jur]** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:45 pm

Ah ok, thanks for the info!
You can do real-time (with a bit of latency though) audio to midi in Live with M4L.

evon · Post by **evon** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:24 pm

Thanks jur, will check it out. I like to use my electric bass and guitar in my productions, but haven't tried M4L.
Theirs is reasonable with latency but is not polyphonic although there is also a work around for that too.
I would love to record my guitars and be able to edit the notes afterwards, of course with no extra expense like midi guitar. Hopefully, we will get a capable vst to do this soon as my research has not turned up any so far.

TLW · Post by **TLW** » Wed Jan 29, 2020 8:52 pm

Jam Origin’s MIDI guitar 2 is worth looking at if you haven’t already tried it. Works standalone and as a VST or AU plugin.

https://www.jamorigin.com/

evon · Post by **evon** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:00 am

Thanks man, will look into it and report back.

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