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loudfunk « The sleeping giant... »
Published on 01/31/12 at 13:06Runs great on Mac or PC. Never any issues. Constantly being update. A picture book example of how a company should deal with software.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Rock solid on PC,and OSX, also on OSX the 64 bit version that is still a public beta is rather stable as well.
OVERALL OPINION
I was turned on to Repaer at version 2 by one of the guys writing code for one of their competitors.We're talking a DAW that cost 20 times as much.
I was intrigued and tried it.
The first thing I noticed is the amazingly small foot print it has. We're not talking bloated couple of 100 mB software. We're talking 10 mB. Put this a thumb drive and use it anywhere. Better yet put the Mac and PC version on there and you can just connect the drive to any computer and you're good to go. i also believe they make a Linux version. So they got all their bases covered.
The GUI looks a little bit like Sony Vegas, which was my first DAW, so the learning curve for me was non existent. And seems to be rather small anyways.
The routing options inside the program are more than I'd ever use. And I rather have too many options than not enough.
The fun part is that summing inside the box actually sounds good. Unlike some of the more expensive DAWs out there where you really have to go out to a mixing board for it to sound right.
It comes with a slew of usable, good sounding plug-ins, and reads all the typical VST, AU, DirectX etc plug-in formats.
The only down side is that it doesn't do OMF or AAF import, so when you want to bring a project out of another DAW in you will have to bounce out stems.
Bottom line...it's a great DAW, and for the price no one can touch this.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Rock solid on PC,and OSX, also on OSX the 64 bit version that is still a public beta is rather stable as well.
OVERALL OPINION
I was turned on to Repaer at version 2 by one of the guys writing code for one of their competitors.We're talking a DAW that cost 20 times as much.
I was intrigued and tried it.
The first thing I noticed is the amazingly small foot print it has. We're not talking bloated couple of 100 mB software. We're talking 10 mB. Put this a thumb drive and use it anywhere. Better yet put the Mac and PC version on there and you can just connect the drive to any computer and you're good to go. i also believe they make a Linux version. So they got all their bases covered.
The GUI looks a little bit like Sony Vegas, which was my first DAW, so the learning curve for me was non existent. And seems to be rather small anyways.
The routing options inside the program are more than I'd ever use. And I rather have too many options than not enough.
The fun part is that summing inside the box actually sounds good. Unlike some of the more expensive DAWs out there where you really have to go out to a mixing board for it to sound right.
It comes with a slew of usable, good sounding plug-ins, and reads all the typical VST, AU, DirectX etc plug-in formats.
The only down side is that it doesn't do OMF or AAF import, so when you want to bring a project out of another DAW in you will have to bounce out stems.
Bottom line...it's a great DAW, and for the price no one can touch this.