Reaper Tops With Instructional Tutorials

I am not a big fan of Reaper.
 
There are things that I just don't like at all about the DAW, so  I will not be purchasing it.
 
But boy oh boy do they offer the best Tutorials I've seen on the Market for a DAW!!.
 
If only Cakewalk had video's like this.
 
REAPER VIDEO TUTORIALS

Jesse G
I am not a big fan of Reaper.
 
There are things that I just don't like at all about the DAW, so  I will not be purchasing it.
 
But boy oh boy do they offer the best Tutorials I've seen on the Market for a DAW!!.

REAPER tutorials are good. But that is not the only top side of this DAW.
 
It Tops at least in: size, portability, performance, license, scripting and project files format. And in all that it Tops with a big distance to any competitors.
 
Many will also say it Tops in stability, the speed of bug fixing and price. While the last, unlike in spread rumor, is the only questionable point in the list since there are free CbB and Tracktion.
 
There are properties of REAPER which some people can dislike. Again, unlike in spread rumor, the GUI is the very last in the list of questionable properties, if it really can be put there at all.
 
There was time when I was thinking nice video/tutorials can push CW upwards. No. CW is a brilliant concept... of the last century. The time is moving forward. So as a program, it will stay archaic till re-written. Nothing wrong with that, I still periodically play Tetris, HMM3 and Civ3/4. But no videos can make these games "modern", they are and will stay vintage

Reaper's performance is rock solid. I have been using Reaper for over six months and I have not had one crash. I can't believe how little CPU is used compared with other DAWs. 

Reaper is flexible almost to a fault.
That does put-off some folks... 
If you have the time/patience, you can configure Reaper to look/respond exactly as you choose.
 
From a "performance" perspective, nothing touches it.

Honestly, if it wasn't for Kenny's videos I never would have understood Reaper.  It really is a great DAW if you give yourself the time it takes you to learn it well enough and the video tutorials really are at the top.
 
If I don't resolve these crashes with CbB I'll likely switch to Reaper.  Although I have heard Reaper is un-crashable....I was able to crash it on my first try.  Maybe it's just me...?

My main question is, how is Reaper with 3rd party plugins, especially Wave Plugins.
 
I have a lot of Waves Bundle and plugins and they need to work in Reaper.
 
I watch some videos on YouTube about folks having to create alternate ways of getting the plugins working right in Reaper. Has this been addressed in any of the updates this year?

BobF

Jesse G
 
My main question is, how is Reaper with 3rd party plugins, especially Wave Plugins.
 

I've used Waves Gold with Reaper a lot.  Never had a problem with Waves plugs or any other plugs for that matter.

Agree with Bob. Never had an issue with Waves in Reaper.
 

poetnprophet
If I don't resolve these crashes with CbB I'll likely switch to Reaper.  Although I have heard Reaper is un-crashable....I was able to crash it on my first try.  Maybe it's just me...?

As any other DAW, REAPER by default run all plug-ins inside itself, following general rules for dealing with plug-ins. Plug-in can do anything: crash or corrupt memory, freeze, generate under-runs, etc.
 
But unlike in other DAWs, in case you have such plug-in and have a reason to continue using it, REAPER has a plenty of compatibility options you can tweak. Also the diagnostic of what is the problem is top.
 

Jesse G
My main question is, how is Reaper with 3rd party plugins, especially Wave Plugins.
 
I have a hows of Waves Bundle and plugins and they need to work in Reaper.
 
I watch some videos on YouTube about folks having to create alternate ways of getting the plugins working right in Reaper. Has this been addressed in any of the updates this year?

REAPER keeps track of known plug-ins in simple text files (the same for settings and projects). Waves is known for fancy compatibility issues since unlike most other suppliers they use a "shell", which basically is responsible for authorization (any company except Cockos, since several years including CW, assumes that any consumer is a thief).
Recognition problems are normally solved by manipulating these files, usually just delete and re-scan, in worse cases by editing.
 
REAPER continuously improve plug-in compatibility (which always was good, but there are always things which can be done to workaround plug-in bugs). This year is not an exception.
 
 
 
 
 

OK all,
 
Thanks for the information on Waves and Reaper. 
 
Are you all using it as a replacement for Sonar, or is it just another add DAW to play around with?
 
 

Reaper is a great DAW. I was inches away from making it my go to DAW.
 
Then Studio One Pro V4 came out. I upgraded to it. Now it's my go to DAW.
 
I have one more project to complete in CbB and it will be relegated to back seat status, but of course I will keep it updated (since it's free) in case I need to open old projects for any reason.

Reaper is my main DAW, but I still use Sonar, and Samplitude for some things. 

bapu
Reaper is a great DAW. I was inches away from making it my go to DAW.
 
Then Studio One Pro V4 came out. I upgraded to it. Now it's my go to DAW.

That's where I am right now also. Having and using Notion was a bit of a tie breaker for me.
 

Grem

Starise
 
people are going to need them. 
 

And the d/l size of Reaper is still only 11mb!! 9mb for the 32bit version! That's unbelievable!! 

And supported on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 and offers a portable install!

It's my go to now. I already had a license, but the Novembergate thing made me actually use it. Once I made a few modifications and found a theme I like I haven't looked back.