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by **DonM** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:11 am

All:

Cockos Reaper is my personal favorite full featured 'almost free' digital audio workstation. I have used it on client projects as a parallel backup and it has performed flawlessly. Big features and unbelievable price. (US $60). I believe version 3.0 was released today. Worth the look imho:
reaper dot fm
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-D

by **relayer66** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:45 am

I agree with Don. I have hundreds invested into SONAR with numerous upgrades paid for, not to mention the countless hours pursuing its finer points, so obviously I just can't let it go.
But with everything I've seen and read about Reaper, it seems like an unbelievable bargain for the money. Go to the major recording forums and you'll see many raves.
Then again, this is a powerful multitracking program, and probably a lot more firepower than a typical Classical Guitarist would need.

by **DonM** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:54 am

R:

I own Pro-Tools, Samplitude, Sonar, Cubase, Sound Booth, Logic, and even Garage Band. For the work that I do I have to maintain compatibility with other studios. I am fond of several, others I just tolerate. Reaper is a real nice tool for many things. I had some issues with 3 on my Mac Book Pro - I'll to figure out what's going on with it, but the 2.58 has been fine.

-D

by **byron** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:17 pm

D, how is Reaper compared to Garage Band on the mac?

by **DonM** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:20 pm

byron wrote:D, how is Reaper compared to Garage Band on the mac?

Wow, this is like comparing apples to giraffes. So, I'll do my best.

#1 If I were recording only myself and I wanted to create virtual bands to play rhythm behind me - Garage Band is the tool
#2 If I were looking to record clients with multiple inputs, (32 channels in simultaneously - probably more are possible) and I needed to set up multiple cue mixes for headphones and then I wanted to sum all of that to a 64 bit double precision floating point mix engine - Reaper would be the tool for that.

-D

by **byron** » Sat May 23, 2009 4:53 pm

D;
Ha! Thanks. I think I could come up with a useful giraffe/apple comparison like that in my own field. Well done. I understand and the comparison is helpful.

Byron

by **Kris** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:58 pm

Wow, Reaper seems to have come a long way. Last time I tried it it both looked and acted just like somebody's weekend project. If it functions as well as the new UI looks slick, it should do really well. I broke down a while ago and invested in Cubase 4 though, so I'll stick with that

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