ORIGINAL: John

May I ask a few simple questions? Why are you on this forum extolling the virtues of a competing program. Do you think it is right to advertise for a competitor here?

Do any of you care about how you look? Do you really think that the developer of the program you are advertising wants you to do this here?

I really don't care what answers you give I just want you to consider the questions.

Best
John

ORIGINAL: p8ddy

I know. But they are doing such a good job...Don't you agree?

I know that I'm likely to speak highly of the installed user base. I've never, in my life seen such a defensive and agressive bunch of users as the ultras on the Preacher forum. And I work with Apple Macs!

/p

That is a scary thought. Preacher (my new name for Reaper) and Linux....a marriage made in heaven methinks.

ORIGINAL: yep

Users essentially must figure out the application by simply clicking around and seeing what happens.

Cheers.

Out of curio, if it's so great , why aren't you just using it, instead of annoying happy Sonar users

ORIGINAL: yep


I'm sorry, but this is just dumb.

Digidesign initially released protools HD as a cheaper, easier alternative to expensive tape-based analog recording systems. That's right folks, the widespread use of ProTools is because $20,000 was WAY CHEAPER compared to a high-end mixing desk and tape system.

Then products like Cubase, Logic and Sonar come along and provide a simple, affordable, recording studio in a box that even hobbyists can afford.

Cakewalk has been doing this digidesign for years, and digitdesign basically drove the tape makers out of business. Complain about computer audio and home recording driving commercial studios out of business left and right or about cheap digital destroying high-quality analog if you will, but to gripe that a $40/$200 DAW is BAD but a $400 one is NOT is ridiculous when 15 years ago a professional recording platform cost hundreds of thousands of dollars...

Whatever you think of Reaper, the fact that a couple of talented garage-band programmers have in a few short months created a product that is even competitive with the big DAWs, and which is in many respects superior can be nothing but GOOD for customers. It case you never took economics, the whole idea behind a free-market is to make products better, cheaper, and faster for consumers.

And are you serious about comparing inexpensive shareware to illegal dumping? Do you even know what that means? Have you ever used a free plugin, or flash player, or javascript thing? If two guys make a better product in their spare time than a massive conglomorate can make in years of R&D does that mean that the two guys should be FORCED to charge millions of dollars for their hobby, or should be barred from distributing a better, smaller product to protect the corporate interests? If that is your contention then you have a very unique view of antidumping regulations...

Finally, you may have been unaware of this, but for years, cakewalk has been producing very full-featured sequencer under the name of Music Creator that sells for like $30. Similar offerings are available from the other big developers, and freeware/shareware products such N-tracks and Magix have been around for years.

What has really made Reaper a hot topic in the audio world is not that it's a cheap sequencer (there are tons of those), it's that it is actually a legitimate contender/competitor to the big names, and that it implements a lot of features that many audio professionals have been clamoring for for years (real side-chain ring a bell?). It's smallness and cheapness and indie vibe are just extra fuel for a fire that wouldn't exist if this were not a heavyweight contender. And a small, cheap, heavyweight contender that introduces new functionality and better implementation will force ALL DAW makers to become that much more competitive, which is a good thing for consumers.

Cheers.

ORIGINAL: johngree
...Be careful. That is how Cakewalk started out! The development of Reaper is eeringly similar to 12 tone systems early days!

ORIGINAL: MajorUrsa

One reason for the test migration of a small midi-project is to compare the sizes of the project-files as well. I noticed that all of the midi of my testproject only amounts to 17K, while the project file for Sonar is around 900K. I wonder whats's in the other 883K.

I can't post a link any more, because you deleted your input to that thread. It doesn't change the material fact that I viewed said thread and your comments. In a way I find that action even more amusing than having to post a link.

ORIGINAL: Rednroll

I can't post a link any more, because you deleted your input to that thread. It doesn't change the material fact that I viewed said thread and your comments. In a way I find that action even more amusing than having to post a link.

LOL!!! You're liar. I never posted in that thread and I'm sure there are plenty over there that could attest to that fact. The rest of your post I didn't bother to read, because it's probably full of more B.S. just like your opening statement about me deleting my posts. Keep up the good work, because you're either a liar or have me confused with someone else. In either case you can't get any facts straight and therefore, you're just a moron overall not worth debating with.

ORIGINAL: p8ddy
Now my work collegues are wondering why I'm sitting grinning like a fool in front of my PC.