jbraner
 It's kind of like linux

Exactly! And that's the only thing I don't like about REAPER.

jbraner
Oh, I've been asking away!
 
I've been playing around finding a theme that I like, and tweaking it a little, and then playing with layouts and screensets - to get a comfortable environment.
It doesn't have to be like SONAR - but I'm just trying to get to know where everything is.
 
I've got a sore head, so I'm ready to go back to SONAR for a little while and just play music.
 
Then I'll come back to Reaper, and work on it a little more.
 

Another cool thing I just learned is you can select some or all tracks, then drag select a chunk of time on the timeline, finally hold control and drag copies of all the stuff that was selected where you want it to happen again. No splitting of clips needed. No copy. No paste. Just drag-n-drop. I don't clone stuff very often, but this is how I'll do it next time I do want to clone a verse or a chorus or something like that.

the_user_formally_known_as_glennbo
Another cool thing I just learned is you can select some or all tracks, then drag select a chunk of time on the timeline, finally hold control and drag copies of all the stuff that was selected where you want it to happen again. No splitting of clips needed. No copy. No paste. Just drag-n-drop. I don't clone stuff very often, but this is how I'll do it next time I do want to clone a verse or a chorus or something like that.

Works the same way in Sonar.

About Linux... Linux is a core only. For historical reasons, the investment into it in terms of IP and money was huge. The number of people which "tweak" it is small.
What people call "Linux" is one family of OSes which is based on this core (another family is Android, but no-one call Android "Linux", yet another family are consumer devices like TVs/receivers/etc., but most users do not even know they have Linux at home...). Since most software for Linux OS is open source, it is more tweak-able then let say Windows by definition. But most of usual tweaks are the same as in other OSes...
I mean I see not too many similarities between Linux (as a core or as an OS) and Reaper.
 
Described operation (copy by dragging) has many options. So it can work exactly as someone need it to work, but when someone try it for the first time, it does that "wrong". I think that is primary concern for anyone who does not like the freedom

sorry azslow3 - when I said it's like linux, I meant that it's so tweakable, and that users are maybe just a little more geeky (neither of which is a bad thing). Also - it's maybe just a little more "clunky", in the visual dept ;-)
 
It's just an overall generalisation though - but I do get the feeling that you have to "tweak" a little to get the best out of linux. This is what I'm in the process of working out

jbraner
It's just an overall generalisation though - but I do get the feeling that you have to "tweak" a little to get the best out of linux. This is what I'm in the process of working out

I normally tweak something for new notebooks and a bit specific for server performance. Not really much.
As we know, Windows is also quite bad initially for audio processing. In the mean time, when comparing the time I spend for Windows 10 tuning with Linux installation on dual boot machines, I spend more wall time for Windows (update/reboot/update/... etc. turn off "calling home", indexes and firewall turning) then for Linux (find the page with concrete model specific 3-5 short tweaks).
 
I have decided to use Reaper default theme. And it took not so long till I am no longer annoyed by its look and feel.
 
What I think of... is opening CWP files in Reaper, could be awesome, no?

Could be awesome indeed

It's just an overall generalisation though - but I do get the feeling that you have to "tweak" a little to get the best out of linux. This is what I'm in the process of working out

Sorry - that was a brain fart. That should have said "to get the best out of Reaper "
DOH!


Anyway - open up a cwp in Reaper? That would be awesome!

jbraner
Anyway - open up a cwp in Reaper? That would be awesome!

Reaper API (THEORETICALLY (!)) support extensions which can "build" the project... But I have not found examples when that was used in respect to importing "other DAWs" files.
I am looking throw a crystal ball (called Kaitai) at CWP. So far it shows that (THEORETICALLY(!)) it is possible to extract the information (the information is obviously there, so the investigation was how hard to spot something in all these bits...). I must admit that I have decided to look after reading the thread about ProjectScope. Mark successfully spot tracks, FXes and files. That is a microscopic part of what is required for half useful import, but still.
 

Soundwise

the_user_formally_known_as_glennbo
Another cool thing I just learned is you can select some or all tracks, then drag select a chunk of time on the timeline, finally hold control and drag copies of all the stuff that was selected where you want it to happen again. No splitting of clips needed. No copy. No paste. Just drag-n-drop. I don't clone stuff very often, but this is how I'll do it next time I do want to clone a verse or a chorus or something like that.

Works the same way in Sonar.

I never really used copy and paste with Sonar or REAPER, but some Sonar user asked how to do it over in the REAPER forum and upon seeing it, was a feature I'd never seen in REAPER, so it was new to me. I generally try to record and play again any repeats in my songs, because I don't want the repeats of a verse or chorus to sound identical.