All user reviews for the Cockos Reaper 3

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