Should I learn REAPER??

[debu]

I've been using Reaper more lately, mainly for reasons already mentioned. As much as I like and still use Live, simple things like lack of crossfades and track grouping are getting old. Hopefully those get addressed soon.

[jamester]

As much as I like and still use Live, simple things like lack of crossfades and track grouping are getting old. Hopefully those get addressed soon.

These are biggies for sure, but the list is getting pretty long! I've always said Live could be my one and only if it would only get a small handful of more practical "daw-like" features, but honestly at this point the list isn't so small anymore.

I don't know if Live will ever "catch up", but then I'm not so sure it even wants to. That's not to disparage Live, but rather to say that it has its own direction...

[starving student]

thanks jamester.

what about the beatmakers, what does reaper have for them for instance sonar 8 has the new slicer sampler, live has of course slicer drumracks, fruity loops has the slicer/edison/slice x, protools has transfusion, reason is a beatmachine itself with great groove features

are there any videos of people using reaper to make beats i can't seem to find any, could one of you reaper guys put up a youtube that just shows you
grabbing some samples off of vinyl or whatever and mangling the fuck outta them and then making a sweet beat with reaper?

[forge]

As much as I like and still use Live, simple things like lack of crossfades and track grouping are getting old. Hopefully those get addressed soon.

These are biggies for sure, but the list is getting pretty long! I've always said Live could be my one and only if it would only get a small handful of more practical "daw-like" features, but honestly at this point the list isn't so small anymore.

I don't know if Live will ever "catch up", but then I'm not so sure it even wants to. That's not to disparage Live, but rather to say that it has its own direction...

but this is why I've felt disappointed they haven't spent more time really capitalising on what it does best - sure I would like those things I miss from other DAWs, but frankly I could live without them if session view was so powerful I could write most of my music in there and only use arrange right at the last stage

IMO it's the fact that you're forced to use arrange so early on that makes us miss all those linear arrangement things, but I came to Live for the session view and different approach, and in fact I would probably rather use another DAW for mixing arranging if it meant Live did what it does differently better. I can't see how they will ever really catch up without completely neglecting the session view and Live features, which would be tragic and I don't think they should even try to catch up

speaking of which - I remembered last night that I had a Tracktion 1 license from before Mackie bought it - Tracktion is actually a pretty cool app. I'd forgotten all about it, I guess because I have no real need for it

[adventurepants_]

thanks jamester.

what about the beatmakers, what does reaper have for them for instance sonar 8 has the new slicer sampler, live has of course slicer drumracks, fruity loops has the slicer/edison/slice x, protools has transfusion, reason is a beatmachine itself with great groove features

are there any videos of people using reaper to make beats i can't seem to find any, could one of you reaper guys put up a youtube that just shows you
grabbing some samples off of vinyl or whatever and mangling the fuck outta them and then making a sweet beat with reaper?

Reaper is completely redundant for beatmaking if you already have Live. Im not sure why you would waste any beatmaking time on it. It shines as a multitrack recorder for real instruments, and for arranging massive amounts of tracks due to the track folders and subfolders.

[jamester]

Reaper is completely redundant for beatmaking if you already have Live. Im not sure why you would waste any beatmaking time on it. It shines as a multitrack recorder for real instruments, and for arranging massive amounts of tracks due to the track folders and subfolders.

It's all relative, I certainly wouldn't say it's completely redundant. Both have their strengths and weaknesses IMO.

While I do love Drum Racks, all that sub-layering and left-right scrolling can get fatiguing to me. And frankly, if I'm going to be using another drum sampler (like Battery or Guru or Poise) I find I much prefer using them in Reaper. For one thing you can slice and drag from the arrangement into 3rd party instruments...but I've come to like RPR's midi way more than Live's for beats - as noted before there's different midi note styles and easy real-time drum mapping, in addition to one-click note drawing and no pencil tool tomfoolery, velocity adjust on the note itself, also as noted before if you're messing with midi loops you can preview them through your instrument (AD for me)...so no, I wouldn't say completely redundant, just different.

Also you can make your basic groove first, then later when it's time to mix or do some sound designing you can have all of the individual track outputs built, routed and named for you in one click. Of course, then you can save it all in a track folder for re-use.