All user reviews for the Cockos Reaper 3

Installing the speed of sound
Child configuration (type the cube in the square and ball in the round)
No incompatibility (part perhaps one or two bad VST programs gratos)
One day, perhaps, I'll read the manual.

ADQUATION / PERFORMANCE

Config: PC Corei7 XP64bits (bientt seven?), But sometimes the Mac osx (iMac Core 2 Duo)
The software is extremely stable and trslger especially for the machine, allowing overloading plugins in your projects.
The only crashes I could get were read to the hardware, the OS (including Windows)
Essay on various sound cards:
-Motu 8pre
-Motu Traveler
-Edirol UA25
Well, is happening everywhere, no need to redo the entire ASIO config with a watchmakers screwdriver.

NOTICE GLOBAL

I use it for 2 years, he replaced almost totality of my audio app.
Indeed, this capacity Reaper you WORK. No frills, no buttons and sub-sub-sub menus conus by hordes of graphic designers and ergonomists surpays and alcohol!
In this app is a button, a function, clear, fast and efficient.
I do not want all the functions m'tendre dj t prcedemment said.
May-be we could just be objected that this app is not part of a Digidesign and Steinberg on and if you work for a big Hollywood studio, maybe you will (and I say good "maybe" ) of export worries in a string Broadcast.
This put hand was good to recapture the spirit "shareware" the great era and we feel that the developers (elders WinAmp project) have retrouss sleeves to lay a free software any default and well thought our little brains full of fat.
Keep it up! Cockos Go! Go!

+ Lightweight
+ Super audio engine
Lighter
+ $ 60 (free if you have no moral)
+ Makes you want to work
+ Config simplissime
+ Hte BTBR any VST /> + forms sublime wave
+ Put frquentes days
+ Support ReWire
+ Is not his money leading shareholders, but enthusiasts
+ ....

- Bugs? defects of youth? surely, but at the time when I write these lines, they will already patched.

The installation is done it without problems?
<span style="font-style: normal;">yes, it is lightweight and easy to install</span>

Have you experienced any incompatibility?
<span style="font-style: normal;">normal under Windows. I tested this software on vacation because I did not have my mac station.</span>

Is the general configuration is easy?
<span style="font-style: normal;">Yes, but it is far from Core Audio. Windows has not yet found its unified audio architecture. Too bad for its users.</span>

Is the manual clear and sufficient? ...dropoff Window
completely!

FITNESS / PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer? (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk / sound card ..)
<span style="font-style: normal;">PC standard AMD Quad Core system, 4GB of RAM, dd 1to</span>

The software works he correctly on this configuration?
<span style="font-style: normal;">Yes it is fluid. Always these stories ASIO drivers, WDM, Direct Audio, etc ...
But with a good Asio4All, it hums</span>

What performance? (If measurable)
Very good on virtual instrumentals, not tested in pure audio.

NOTICE GLOBAL

It's a nice app, which allowed me to do some of his vacation while I was not home.
It does not compare with other sequencers that I could try. As it myself an absolute fan of Logic, I can only regret the approximate ergonomics and very "windowsienne" of this software. The windows open from everywhere, and are not visually uniform, choice of colors rather garish tire the eyes (though the app is skinnable), etc ...
Gloablement, I definitely recommend this software for a beginner just penniless. But the music, it is expensive, and you have to admit, the right tools are worth their price; this one is well worth a cubase light, but no more. And it has a side that cheap does not allow me to join 100%.

In addition, the audio engine is relatively whimsical at the summons of the tracks. No worries during the mixing, but the bounces are quite significantly different for it to become annoying (like Ableton Live for that matter ...)

Good thing the developers in any case, providing a much more efficient software qu'Ardour - remaining in the free / free / cheap - in terms of ergonomics and handling. The time should be given more weight and experience in the world of sequencers.

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not recommended a pro, except perhaps for the taking, but I have not tried it, so ...

7/10, to encourage!

Installing a rapidity stupfiante
App that weighs a few bytes mga ...



ADQUATION / PERFORMANCE

See my config but it works on all my posts, IMAC, laptop ... under os X, Windows XP Pro, Linux via wine / wine Asio.
With exemplary stability
Extraordinary performance

NOTICE GLOBAL

Optimal QP report. About 50 euros for a soft standard, with endless possibilities and permanent updates
Routing limitless operates cumulation with Ardour.

vst to, plugins Cockos Reaper.

I love this app. I have called softs "major" (I have licenses <img class="smiley" src="/images/audiofanzine/interface/smileys/icon_wink.gif" alt="wink" /> I pay all invoices; recorded by the official websites etc.) and I prefer and very far away Reaper and Ardour many softs the commercial world "traditional". Then it is absurd to say that this app is only slightly rserv fortuns. I think it's just like a Ardour, counselor all who pass their last 10 years pay, pay, pay for new versions of apps ... (changing the package, changing the color of the box, we add 2/3 vsti and restarts)

We can test the software indefinitely: it pays but after 30 days it's still oprationnel. A society that trusts its customers. So we want to support Cockos.

RAS. an executable featherweight!
I never read the manual because it looks like most other DAW that I use for 20 years now, but I do not do either of customization. I just use the DAW and existing config parameters without trying to create my own.

FITNESS / PERFORMANCE

i7 / 8Gb RAM. RAS pure performance level. After the plug-ins as it works more or less well. Sometimes Reaper is doing better, some other DAW offers a slightly better performance (AC is not doubled, about 10 or 15% more or less depending on the case, but sometimes it makes a difference ) .dropoff window For example, I recently acquired Recabinet4 and everything in Reaper background I crunches and I can not really use it without changing the parameters of the first DAW X3 but with sonar, it live on. on the other hand with Sonar, if I add a little reverb greedy, I have the same problem as in Reaper. By contrast with Sonar times I can stack 30 plugs before it saturates in Reaper and I get to 35 or 40.
In short all that to say that performance level is kif kif with other current DAW (I also tested the newest versions of Cubase and Studio1).

NOTICE GLOBAL

I use Reaper from the beginning, it's been a long time! What I like most is its simplicity (eg there is only one type of track, no need to choose audio or noon or else!). I love its modularity and the ability to actually customize the interface (it must also know how to program, but there is a good community not bring a lot of good things for those like me who can not program). I like the fact that it does not scan ALL VST / VSTi if one adds that! I also like to mix in Reaper.
I like some of the original interface against, but there has very good skins developed by users.
Short for short because there would be many things to say, this is a great DAW that does bother with nothing superfluous (no sample pack or other instrument of m # $% e), offers good performance (also depends on the PC of course) and everything has a ridiculous price! So if you do not want to break the bank and also have the ability to switch from a Windows platform has a MacOS platform with the same DAW, this is an excellent choice!

Bon ben 2m30 4MB to install and later, here is version 3 installed Reaper. Everything works without any concern to me as the dj dernire beta that my DAW unique silent in recent weeks. The manual is in PDF, 460 pages in large, but clearly described in English, hard for non-English speakers, I have not read all missing time ... but if we know the V2, it is not lost.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Always the same config as before (see my review Reaper V2), and runs like ... RAS of ct l. Stable as the V2.

OVERALL OPINION

Prt still not come back another squenceur Reaper is so clean, stable, efficient and simple. Why pay more?

Installation is no problem it?

A small file to install, configure a few clicks. Very easy. The license of Systm is a little annoying to install (one file a pick), but it remains far from the infamous dongles and other established aileurs

Have you experienced any incompatibility?
None. And if there saw the frquence to update it probably seraitn rsolues quickly. Historically I've had a problem between Novation and Reaper, it took 15 days for a rsoudre Cockos and identify the problem cot Novation, more than six months to correct their bad Novation HUI protocol.

Gnrale configuration is easy?
TRS is a strength program.

The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Apart from that we should load cot yes.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer? (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk / sound card ..)
Nothing to do, it will affect the number and installs plugins, Reaper himself even as lightweight, trslger and thoroughly using the multi-core.
This will sit on 3 PC diffrent, never had a problem, most lightweight laptops with t core 2 duo 2.2GHz, 4GB of memory.

This software + hardware configuration is stable?
Never had a problem of this cot.

OVERALL OPINION

How long have you use it?
I used dj version 2 before, and three from the Premire alpha 2.9x

What is the particular feature you like best and least?
as:
<ul>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">the price ($ 60 for individuals, $ 225 for professionals)</span>

Evaluation version complte, without limitation, that 'installed and used until it has achter edcide s software

the amount of directly available rglages simple right click or shift-click

the personabilisation at all

the true multi-core support

interface (Love it or edteste, friends is always the case on this type of software)

plugins compressors by e tcompreseur band are top

possibility to encode plugins easily JS script

the formulation de'ampli guitar (simple but rpandu tojours practice)

no dongle that hand

trs own mixing engine. It is immediately apparent and when it saturates or if you mix too much, it's easy to keep at the top need to mix down with this software. No saturation and supercharged internal Chach found.

Detachable mixing the window, which you can add other views accessible via tabs (routing matrix, CPU performance of each plugin, history ....)

The internal routing capabilities. Since the mixer is made of the drag and drop a track to the other, and audio signals can be modulated utiliss custom settings for any plugin.

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the least
<ul>

Interface plugins .. pout as the software is beautiful, both for plugins is not Intgr top

not many plugins included with

plugin synth rotten sampler plugin not top, not top reverb plugin (but there are plugins available free elsewhere, and I now have something else)

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Have you tried many other models before acqurir?
I made a full assessment before: Cubase, Sonar, Ableton Live and Apple Logic I rcement essay.
Cubase did not seem diffrent trs. can be better done. but infinitely more expensive, heavier, and with a dongle, so they are not.
Sonar, I dtest interface.
Live top interface, but vritable problem in Reason via ReWire audio (which sounds a compress and without dynamic despite the absence of any effect)
The one that takes the road in front is Logic, but it has more bugs, is less stable and costs intgre ultra expensive if the diffrence in the price of hardware. Besides, I know a sound ing DCID turning ProTools - trade policy and lack of support for their hardware a little old - Logic 8 and then to pass under Reaper because too many bugs and instability Logic.
How do you report qualitprix?
Ideal

Exprience with, you will do again this choice? ...
Oh yes.

Installation is no problem it?
<span style="font-style: normal;">yes, it's lightweight and quick install trs</span>

Have you experienced any incompatibility?
<span style="font-style: normal;">normal windows. I test this software on vacation because I did not pimp my station.</span>

Gnrale configuration is easy?
<span style="font-style: normal;">Yes, but it is far from Core Audio. Windows has not yet been unified audio architecture. Damage to its users.</span>

The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
completely!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer? (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk / sound card ..)
<span style="font-style: normal;">Systm standard PC AMD Quad Core, 4GB RAM, 1TB of HDD</span>

The software works he correctly on this configuration?
<span style="font-style: normal;">Yes it is fluid. Always stories of ASIO, WDM, Direct Sound, etc ...
But with a good Asio4All, snoring</span>

What performance? (If quantifiable)
Trs good instrumentals on the virtual, not pure audio test.

OVERALL OPINION

It's a nice soft, which allowed me to do some of his vacation when I n'tais wrong with me.
It does not compare favorably with other squenceurs I could try. As it myself an absolute fan of Logic, I can only regret the ergonomics approximate and trs "windowsienne" of this software. The windows open everywhere, and are not visually uniform, the choice of colors rather garish tired eyes (though the app is skinnable), etc ...
Gloablement, I definitely recommend this software just a beginners dsargent. But the music was expensive, and you have to admit, the right tools are worth their price this one is well worth a cubase light, but not plus.Et has a ct cheap to me adhrer not allow 100%.

In addition, the audio engine is relatively fancy at the time of the summation of the tracks. No worries for the mix, but the bounces are quite significant for this DIFFERENT in becoming teachers (commeAbleton Live a little there ...)

Trs good to dveloppeurs in any case, providing a much more efficient software qu'Ardour - remaining in the free / free / cheap - in terms of ergonomics and grip. Time should give them more weight and exprience in the world of squenceurs.

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not recommended a pro, but can be for the taking, but I have not tried it so ...

7 / 10, to encourage!

Installation nickel. J'apprcie the relationship of trust that the editor offers the user: no iLock or whatnot no limitation usr version valuation, following the two rates we use the bte, no flicage ... It's rare enough to be stressed.

The manual is excellent, in English, but there is an initiative of translation in French (search the forum) ...

Software trslger, trs super stable and fast.

It is not against it by francis is updated polusieurs times a year, taking into account the suggestions of users (which would not be possible if we had to translate every time) .. I personally prfre non Frenchified version, a version hurt Francisc ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Anything. My setup is not so much rcente trs powerful and not in terms of what is happening now: laptop centrino 1.2 GHz, 1 GB of memory ... (I think).

Short runs without a problem and much faster than Cubase SX for example.

OVERALL OPINION

J'tais Cubase for 18 years and I pass by Reaper for about 3 months. I tell this adventure here ( https://fr.audiofanzine.com/sequenceur-generaliste/cockos/Reaper-3/forums/t.363369,en-passage-de-cubase-vers-reaper-peut-etre.html ) ...

Difficult to say which particular feature I like most. The routing is super powerful, but I think what I like is the phlosophie gnrale software. Everything is possible, everything is configurable: it's not short the software that requires the fawn to work, but the user. Tight deadlines and to work on trs diffrent DIFFERENT projects. You can configure it for use "cubase-like" axis or a more "electro-live" ... A pleasure.

There are also a myriad of functions which can happen but they are matrise ds, open up new horizons: twelve o'clock gniaux plugins, templates of tracks, superimposed tempos DIFFERENT, routings volumes s. ..

I miss just the audio from Cubase containers, but it can be even when dbrouiller parat otherwise and it is being implmentation ... follow. A little too low for the audio edition, but it can work with an external editor.

Unlike Previous notice I did not not weak export audio (but there's a lot of options are available that allow an export in poorer quality may be one of these options silent she selected) and I think the software is recommended for use is pro.

This is not a scattering gas can not take control ... and the community (or French internationnale) around the software, though small in number seems quite dynamic.

Reaper is not only an outsider in the field of DAW, and expensive mons its class ... I would be inclined to say that it is my opinion over its competitors (Cubase, Logic, Sonar ...) on almost all points. So why not use it ... Try it. <img class="smiley" src="/images/audiofanzine/interface/smileys/icon_wink.gif" alt="wink" />

The installation is done it without problems? 10 seconds

The general configuration is easy? yeah

Have you experienced any incompatibilities? No one ...

The manual is clear and sufficient? ... yes ... full armored tricks and everything is explained with examples ...

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer? (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk / sound card ..)

Mac 1 / 2 pc / multiple soundcards / keyboard / MIDI Controller /

This software + hardware is stable? yeah you're set ...
The software works he correctly on this configuration? yeah ... both on Mac and PC ...

What performance? (If quantifiable) of the bomb

OVERALL OPINION

Did you try many other models before getting this one? Cubase Nuendo / Logic / ProTools / live /
What is your opinion about the value for the price? € 45 unbeatable ..... it does everything that other DAWs do ... has put the carrot ... quality level and feature it lacks nothing ...

Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice? ... fo'shizzle ....

Installation and updates without problem.
Manual English and partly in French.
I like the sampling rate fixed directly to the driver (and not per project).
Nevertheless, the system automatically compensated for time is not very accurate in my setup and I can fix it manually. I also sometimes problems of shutter lag noon that I still struggle to explain ... But other major apps have their shortcomings in these areas.
The plugs are a bit ugly but suddenly very readable and very effective, and there are no presets ... (Well some selected properties). It grows to think about each parameter and it is very beneficial.
I do not advise this software for a beginner, it is more for sound engineers or experienced home-studio owners and musicians hardliners.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I have a black MacBook 2.2 4GB RAM and a GHTZ edirol FA-101 and it runs in the top super-efficient ...
The pleasure of this program is that it does not bug, it's super stable.
We can let it run for hours and hours without problem. Besides, I have no recollection of harmful bug with Reaper!
The plugs are super light and do everything asked of them at the speed of light and in addition they sound crazy!
The ultimate power is here, access to effects and settings quickly and intuitively zoom in roulette a pure genius.

OVERALL OPINION

But it's been 6 months I use it myself and I ended up attached to the mower!
I paid the license because a small thing like it should support as it exists.
I remember the beginnings of fruityloops ... Cheap too, but over time the updates that have significantly changed and enriched the program that ultimately became as expensive as others in its full version. So do not worry dear Internet ... reaper what does not today it will do tomorrow.
Reaper is a very soft oriented audio, MIDI is not as developed as in cubase, here was a bit like connecting cables and power to create entrances and exits around the table ... In this I find very reaper sound-oriented design as a ProTools more than a musician friend's garage band or logic.

4 MB to install only this software is not there to be clever and reconfigure the entire OS to its sauce.
Transparent and non-intrusive installation, a feast of good education.
The choice of drivers is easy and detailed.
Only the organization of soft disorienting a bit, but it is always the case when switching from one brand to another. Each publisher has its logic.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

32-bit XP SP3, Terratec USB 6 starts at 40 Euros, Asio driver Asio4All.

This sequencer runs and glides smoothly, as I said above, it is not there to be clever and in operation, he really knows how to be discreet.

Only the start of Reason in ReWire was a bit complicated, but everything else I mostly feel that it is he who is in my service and not the reverse.

The possibilities are endless routing, I can put as many plugins as insert I want to have as much as I want Sends per track, send any audio anywhere, just like in Reason. It changed me a lot of stiffness in Cubase in this regard.

In addition, all menus, all shortcuts, all toolbars are customizable to inifinite loop too, we can really customize it to the sauce.

Finally, the changes are permanent, and improvements are published several times a month. It is a policy very intelligent.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two years.

Being accustomed to Cubase before, the change was a bit laborious, but I have clearly become more flexible. Make a side-chain is a breeze for example.

Pros:
- Flexibility of routing, which allows editing of effects of lunatics, with the same flexibility in analog.
- Management of effect parameters, the possibility of modulating them either by internal LFO, or by the volume of any track. One can imagine such a gain at 550 Hz Eq on the guitar down to the foot of each GC.
- The possibility of any parameter in the sauce
- Software-intrusive and break-up, quick start, detailed configuration. At no time have I felt that the software prevented me some things to "protect me from myself". We have the opportunity to make huge crap without safeguards, it's really fun, like the feedback loops that bring the VU meter to + 256 dB. I love it.
- The updates permanent.

Cons:
- GUI does not clever either. So, this is not graphically beautiful and smart, but many Skins are available for download.
- The feeling of confusion and disorientation when one comes from another sequencer.

Value for money as huge as the finger to other DAW that take so much space, which is the play so much more. Especially since the demo version is unlimited. I bought the license by bad conscience and to encourage the guys from Cockos.

Choice again? Sure, and if I had known I would have done well in advance! But well before it existed.

Downloaded, installed, launched, selected my midi keyboard and my ASIO sound card .... 10 minutes is packed at work!

Zero crash (except with a vsti not very clean)

not yet read the manual!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

My PC: AMD Quad Core, 6GB RAM, Sound Card SB Audigy 2 Platinum
as stated above, no crash unless it uses vst gratos programmed with your feet!
Perfs exellent (but good config pc too ...)

No problem either with my MIDI keyboard: Evolution mc249c and M-Audio Axiom 61

OVERALL OPINION

installed to March .. I never had before sequencer (apart from a Quartz almost 10 years ago!), I had a MIDI keyboard récupperé
and I wanted to test it .... without reading the manual a few hours I re-Fade To Grey Visage
with excellent vsti ElektroStudio free! What else? !

Everything is simple and intuitive, I'm going to go read the doc really into it ..
Frankly, buy it .. for the price it is an amazing tool

The installation is done it without problems?

No problem very fast and more

The general configuration is easy?

Very Easy

Have you experienced any incompatibilities?

few VST does not work, can be just ca Reaper Reaper himself or VST

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

What is the configuration of your computer? (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Disk / sound card ..)

Ace Rock - 3.20 GHz Pentium IV - 2 GB - 400 GB - Line 6 TonePort UX1 - UX2

This software + hardware is stable?

Perfect

The software works he correctly on this configuration?

Perfect

What performance? (If quantifiable)

N / C

OVERALL OPINION

For how long have you been using it?

1 year

Did you try many other models before getting this one?

Cubase, ... Reaper and for me the best

What thing do you like most/least about it?

Plus: Soft light a few MB, cheap, complete, powerful, intuitive, easy to take in hand.

The least:?

Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice? ...

Unhesitatingly

no CD!
just an installer (version winsows seven 64-bit) 5.32 MB!
ah ah ah j'me tired ...
after a few minutes: it works!
management options, define my midi and audio cards

go hop! at work!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

my setup
OS: Windows 64 7 pro
COMPUTER: Dell Studio 1747 with a core I7 + 6GB RAM 2x500 GB HDD including one reserved solely for recording audio

Reaper works perfectly: a clock!
Stability TRANQUILITY AND ESPECIALLY in my work that I had lost my old Cubase and Logic ...

Only a few have not turned VST old.

OVERALL OPINION

used for 6 months
I have all switched to Reaper!

What I like most?
- Tracks are assignable to each other
- Tracks created on the fly becomes: midi, audio, vst synth or folder
- The effects provided dx and vst
- Scripts!
- The connection matrix

What I like least?
- Duty franciser menus (but is it mandatory?)
Ah, if the facility could do so directly .... (5 MB says this setup!)
- Management of the south, perfected against the "old" software that has the advantage of age for editing noon.

value for money? a joke! FREE as long as you want! without restriction other than a screen that asks you for a few seconds to pay the license!
The cost of the basic license (if non-commercial use) $ 60!
How Cubase already?

A MUST then it is a software Agile!
Ie UPDATES ALMOST EVERY MONTH!
according to the needs of users!

the community is very active!

I'm going cow, I am not 10 because of the translation!

Installing the speed of sound
Configuration child (such as the cube and square the ball into the circle)
No conflict (except maybe one or two mistimed gratos VST)
One day, maybe I'll read the manual.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Config: PC Corei7 XP64bits (soon seven?), But sometimes the Mac osx (imac core 2 duo)
The software is extremely stable and very light for the machine, allowing plugins to override in your projects.
The only crashes I could get were related to hardware, the OS (Windows in particular)
Tried on various sound cards:
Motu-8pre
-Motu Traveler
Edirol UA25-
Well, it happens everywhere, without any need to redo the config ASIO with a jewelers screwdriver.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 years, he has replaced virtually all of my audio software.
Indeed, this ability to Reaper to make you work. No frills, no buttons and sub-sub menus designed by hordes of designers and ergonomists overpaid and alcoholics!
In this app is a button, a feature, clear, fast and efficient.
I do not want to dwell on all the functions has already been said previously.
It might be objected that this app just is not part of a suite or Digidesign and Steinberg that if you work for a large Hollywood studio, you may be (and I said well "maybe") concerns export in a Broadcast Channel.
That aside, it feels good to regain the spirit of "shareware" from the big time and we feel that developers (former project WinAmp) have rolled up their sleeves to lay a software free of defects and well thought for our little brains full of grease.
Go! Cockos Go! Go!

+ Light
+ Super Audio Engine
Lighter
+ $ 60 (free if you have no morals)
+ Makes me want to work
+ Config simplissime
+ VST host any bôôôté
+ Waveforms sublime
+ Frequent updates
+ Support ReWire
+ Queue is not his money to shareholders, but to enthusiasts
+ ....

- Bugs? of teething? surely, but as I write these lines, they will already be fixed.

Difficult to make simple, you buy the software via the website, the download and installation takes only 5 minutes to break it all ...

The license works with a file sent by mail, it is recorded on the hard drive and it suffices to indicate its location in the software to start using it.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

I use Reaper on CW VAIO notebook, I3 processor 2.13GHz, 4GB of RAM, all under Windows 7 64Bit.

It seems that it is inadvisable to make the computer music on a laptop, but honestly it works so stable and so with such ease that I can hardly believe I'm from mac world and I'm pretty demanding the aspect of "functional" software, nothing wrong in this case.

I carry my music with a MIDI keyboard prodipe some analog synths and guitars recorded through an external sound card M-Audio devices pose no concern for compatibility, no waste of time ... I want to record, I record!

OVERALL OPINION

I have long sought a software DAW that offers a good compromise between gas plants (Cubase and co) and software for the general public (Garageband, Magix Music Maker) is done with Reaper.

I bought it last month and have already made some songs composed over, it's really stunning to see how simple it is running, you do not spend 3 hours searching for a hidden function in a menu, the editing midi is intuitive, my vst are easily recognized and is produced loops from recorded sounds (same simplicity as garageband but with much more functions).

Much for so cheap (30 EURO!) I wonder how developers can earn something on such a product.

Implementation? What implementation?!

An executable of 4.9 MB downloaded in seconds and moved as quickly is the exception confirming the rule.

Payment is made online and you get the installation code at once: a simple copy / paste and you're done. Reaper works even on an external support such as a USB key!

In fact, most publishers are worth zero points in this area, particularly those who are emm ... (To say the least) with other dongles and quick to eat junk food resource machine for nothing.

Well, it said. Yes

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

performance is oddly quantifiable Reaper crushes everything I've tried so far in this area (Logic, Cubase / Nuendo, Sonar, Ableton ...). Moreover it is possible (and advisable) to follow precisely what use of memory and processor cores is made by any plugin: it's very informative ...

Better yet, some of my older plugins like the M-Tron bought in 2003, which did not work very well on other hosts, lost its settings between backups or does not support automation, are now behaving in a manner completely reliable in Reaper.

Again, if there is a problem, it is especially among the other editors ...


OVERALL OPINION

Not content to make the most flagrant mismanagement of machinery or the instability of other DAW market, Reaper is also indicative of a real big problem generalized optimization and design on the all tools, all fields, which we bill at full price.

For in addition to being efficient, it also pays for the luxury of being an exemplary and innovative flexibility in routing of signal (welcome to the matrix!), Management and the chaining of plugins, features " batch, modulations of parameters or the overall ergonomics. In summary, Reaper has just a couple of years ahead of the competition.

Another point on which I have always had problems more or less painful at "other": the "mapping" of midi notes to the electronic drum set with the corresponding VSTi. It is done by editing a simple text file used by the plugin KeyMap with the right incoming note, left the note so that changes in leisure. Simple, effective, lightweight, fast and usable several times on the same track with different parameters, for example, compare several VSTi assignments of different notes.

The icing on the cake, the curve of ownership is very fast thanks to a particularly well done documentation and a summary of keyboard shortcuts very clear. In short, I could start working right away without losing too much time. Again, this is not the case with other DAW, far from it.

And let no one tell me that its interface is not "sexy" because it is due to a growing majority of users attached to the form more than substance that we peddle applications increasingly demanding reliability doubtful. It's a tool I need, not a Christmas tree beneath which hides the gift wrap indescribable junk!

Ah yes, I forgot: the changes then it cost me 29.90 euros to acquire the license for non-commercial with maintenance until version 4.99 ... Looks like the other, there's less well but is more expensive! In fact, I have read with some pleasure that this application was not recommended for professional use, definitely in the realm of the blind are not blind ... well seen!

Implementation? What is it?

Have you experienced any incompatibilities?

On MacBookPro yes, several crash .. but on PC it runs without problems.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Probook HP 4720 Professional 64bit Windows Seven
Msi X600 Slim Home 32 bit Windows Seven
Audio Card: Lexicon I-ONIX U42S

On both he turns Nickel Reaper, even with a UV 9600 (X600). On the MSI I got 18 tracks, 4 Virtual Instruments (Sampletank, Kore Player, FM 8, Miroslav Philharmonik) 14 MIDI tracks + 4 audio tracks. Superstable even on a "quasi-netbook"!

OVERALL OPINION

What is your opinion about the value for the price?
Great!

Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice?

Reaper for life!

What thing do you like most/least about it?

+ Flexibility
+ Design, developers who are passionate and not a "Holding"

- .. I hesitate to say, but the next chart is a bit "old style" ... So I changed the background skin. My favorite?? Apollo skin.

Video made the first few days that I mess with ..

Extra fast installation, lightweight file (very well planned, compact and unadorned graphics that may take place)
Basic authorization and fast
Configuration without problem
Textbook perfect: clear, educational, full, but in English unfortunately. It says everything is super intuitive for basic use. After if you want to get into the intricacies of the machine is worth reading. I tested

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

reaper on multiple computers, and each time it is the highway.

OVERALL OPINION

Reaper I know for quite some years. Version 3 is truly baffling and very stable.
I worked before in several DAW with Sonar (which I find very good but still heavy, but I do not know the latest version), live, etc..
In reaper, everything is a simplicity and ingenuity crazy. The software is completely customizable through extensions sws. MIDI editing is for me very full in the piano roll window (contrary to what has been said here and there) and in the main window, you can change clips in midi midis windows editions damn fine and intuitive. In terms of ergonomics, speed is gained, it's really a pleasure. One or the other thing is still perfectible but these are details. Besides the interface'm sober, she is not ugly either. And you can change it.
And the craziest is the price of this beauty: 30 euros!

The total class