Obitheincredible
Your Mom's Best Friend!!!
Obi is kinda sick of this. I understand, no really I get it. You like what you got, I don't blame ya. I understand Protools is great, or logic, or samplitude or cubase or live or whatever else you wanna add as your DAW of choice. I also understand loyalty. I just wanna say a few things. I own Cubase SX, FL, Reason, Protools and my main choice is FL and REAPER!!!. Alot of you know this, but people keep having basic questions about it and PM'ing me about them. Well this thread is dedicated to any questions you have about REAPER!!! I am not biased towards just one because it is all I know I love reaper for a few reasons...
1 - Support - TOP NOTCH! Great forum, great documentation, wiki, manual and a bunch of great tutorials.
2 - Updates - I kid you not when I say there are literally 2 updates a month. Not little ones either. The most recent as of this writing 2.5 supports rex 2 support! There are great updates every time!
3 - Programming! - I have yet to find such a tightly coded program. Seriously. 2 people. Thats it. This is the same guy who created winamp. It is a 3.4 MB download with a full effects sweet, including a sampler, synth and a whole library of JS (proprietary) effects! Great stuff!
4 - Layout - I know, I know. It looks horrible. Need I remind you..THIS IS THE CREATER OF WINAMP! The same guy who invented fully skinnable programs! This is where it shines! You can get it to look like anything! Logic? Check. Cubase? Check. Protools? Check. Most people look at it and say its too boring. True if you leave it with a default. Think about it this way also...It is less CPU resources being used for that so you can use them towards your MUSIC! Crazy notion right? Plus everything is "dockable".
5 - Routing - Wow. One of the first programs that really does remind me of hardware in this sense. It just makes sense. So easy. Took me all of 30 seconds to figure out!
6 - Portable - This can be run from a USB Flash drive! So anybody saying that protools is the most widely used and the indusrty standard can shut up. Sure you can take your sessions to other people with protools. What if it is 50 tracks an recorded on HD and you bring it to LE? Opps Only48 tracks? What!? What about plugins not always being on everybody's computers? Opps! Well with reaper you can have a 4 gig flash drive with REAPER!!! a bunch of vst's and vsti's and be good! No matter where you go! Any computer anywhere! Plus all your settings and preferences are the same!
7 - POWERFUL - 64 bit from the get go! Streamlined, tool-less work flow with context menus and item handles for fades, volume, per-item effects, etc. Unlimited sound processing - tons of included FX,audio support and support for thousands of third party virtual instruments, sample players, audio and MIDI processing plug-ins (VST, VSTi, DX, DXi, JS, WAV, AIFF, OGG, FLAC, ACID, APE, WavPack, MP3) compatible with TONS of EVERYTHING! Yep I said it! TONS of EVERYTHING! (ok I know that was lame but if people can come in here and say nah'meen then I can say TONS of EVERYTHING!) Plus with features like Integrated network FX processing - use spare machines for additional processing power how can you go wrong!?
8 - Light - If a PC with a 500Mhz processor, 128 MB RAM and Windows 98 can runs this then your dual or quad core will rock this! Not to mention Rock solid Multi core processing!
Now I know this is more of a rant but this thread is open for any questions people have about REAPER!!! or need any themes, skins, plugins, effects or the sampler template ReaDrums Let me know! If I can even create any template ask for them here....
This has been a P.S.A. by Obi The Incredible Boy Wonder. That is all. For now.
1 - Support - TOP NOTCH! Great forum, great documentation, wiki, manual and a bunch of great tutorials.
2 - Updates - I kid you not when I say there are literally 2 updates a month. Not little ones either. The most recent as of this writing 2.5 supports rex 2 support! There are great updates every time!
3 - Programming! - I have yet to find such a tightly coded program. Seriously. 2 people. Thats it. This is the same guy who created winamp. It is a 3.4 MB download with a full effects sweet, including a sampler, synth and a whole library of JS (proprietary) effects! Great stuff!
4 - Layout - I know, I know. It looks horrible. Need I remind you..THIS IS THE CREATER OF WINAMP! The same guy who invented fully skinnable programs! This is where it shines! You can get it to look like anything! Logic? Check. Cubase? Check. Protools? Check. Most people look at it and say its too boring. True if you leave it with a default. Think about it this way also...It is less CPU resources being used for that so you can use them towards your MUSIC! Crazy notion right? Plus everything is "dockable".
5 - Routing - Wow. One of the first programs that really does remind me of hardware in this sense. It just makes sense. So easy. Took me all of 30 seconds to figure out!
6 - Portable - This can be run from a USB Flash drive! So anybody saying that protools is the most widely used and the indusrty standard can shut up. Sure you can take your sessions to other people with protools. What if it is 50 tracks an recorded on HD and you bring it to LE? Opps Only48 tracks? What!? What about plugins not always being on everybody's computers? Opps! Well with reaper you can have a 4 gig flash drive with REAPER!!! a bunch of vst's and vsti's and be good! No matter where you go! Any computer anywhere! Plus all your settings and preferences are the same!
7 - POWERFUL - 64 bit from the get go! Streamlined, tool-less work flow with context menus and item handles for fades, volume, per-item effects, etc. Unlimited sound processing - tons of included FX,audio support and support for thousands of third party virtual instruments, sample players, audio and MIDI processing plug-ins (VST, VSTi, DX, DXi, JS, WAV, AIFF, OGG, FLAC, ACID, APE, WavPack, MP3) compatible with TONS of EVERYTHING! Yep I said it! TONS of EVERYTHING! (ok I know that was lame but if people can come in here and say nah'meen then I can say TONS of EVERYTHING!) Plus with features like Integrated network FX processing - use spare machines for additional processing power how can you go wrong!?
8 - Light - If a PC with a 500Mhz processor, 128 MB RAM and Windows 98 can runs this then your dual or quad core will rock this! Not to mention Rock solid Multi core processing!
Now I know this is more of a rant but this thread is open for any questions people have about REAPER!!! or need any themes, skins, plugins, effects or the sampler template ReaDrums Let me know! If I can even create any template ask for them here....
This has been a P.S.A. by Obi The Incredible Boy Wonder. That is all. For now.