I've been using it for a while now and I think I underestimated how good it is. I recently got Ableton Live and I love Ableton for creative purposes, but recording vocals on it was a nightmare. Even after recording MIDI as audio, disabling plug-ins and freezing tracks my vocals end up having clicks in the recording and it sounded horrible. My computer is a bit outdated so its understandable and I'm not knocking Live, but when I tracked out the project and recorded in Reaper I was like holy shit.
Everything was so much clearer with the Reaper audio engine, and the raw recordings in Reaper sounded much better. No glitches, clicks, nada, and the ASIO settings were exactly the same. The noise gate for Live would cut into my vocals even at its lowest threshold while with Reaper I have A. less need for a noise gate (i'm interested in figuring out why the recordings sound cleaner) and B. a better working gate that wouldn't mess up the vocals.
Having both programs is a mean 1,2 combo though, with Ableton handling creation and MIDI and Reaper handling recording and mixing. Now I just have to see how rewire works, and if it goes smooth I'll be extremely happy.
Everything was so much clearer with the Reaper audio engine, and the raw recordings in Reaper sounded much better. No glitches, clicks, nada, and the ASIO settings were exactly the same. The noise gate for Live would cut into my vocals even at its lowest threshold while with Reaper I have A. less need for a noise gate (i'm interested in figuring out why the recordings sound cleaner) and B. a better working gate that wouldn't mess up the vocals.
Having both programs is a mean 1,2 combo though, with Ableton handling creation and MIDI and Reaper handling recording and mixing. Now I just have to see how rewire works, and if it goes smooth I'll be extremely happy.