dubdisciple

Sanderxpander
I actually keep hearing really good things about Reaper's basic fx like ReaComp and ReaEQ.

They are not bad at all...just like the basic fx on most DAWs are pretty good. I think Mixcraft includes the Khaerhaus(sp) classic plugins which are pretty good too.  I think it's safe to say that most of us will go beyond the basics and that is non-existent for Reaper. I doubt there is anyone on this forum that only uses one compressor.

This is true...the fx with Reaper are very usable.  But they are "Basic".

They don't "add in" third party things to inflate their price. This is the beauty of the program.  They're not
trying to "entice" you with things that aren't even theirs in the first place.  It's a solid program, packed with features, for pennies on the dollar compared to others, BECAUSE they know that we "go beyond" the basics...
and will use the things we buy afterward on our own, or have already purchased anyways.

For the money....Reaper is a great program, and I think they have the right idea.

I don't know... I use audiosnap all the time and once I understood it, it works damn good for me....   

cclarry
 
For the money....Reaper is a great program, and I think they have the right idea.

Agreed that having $59 million in the bank to start a company is the right idea, but it's not always possible.

Lord Tim
While I do agree with that sentiment, that's fine until you want to lock in a live drum kit with loops and samples without any kind of flamming, though. Sync'ing a sampled kick up to a live bass drum, for instance, without it being locked in perfectly sounds terrible.

Agreed, I ran into that exact same situation when doing a remix and did mass quantization. But in most cases, I don't want a kick in the loop if I have another kick happening anyway. I did find R-Mix useful for excising kicks from loops.

Dyonight.  I don't think your frustrations with AS are unreasonable.  We were just pointing out some of the mitigating factors in comparing Reaper to Cakewalk or other DAWs.  I do think Reaper is a cool concept, but much of the value is similar to buying s stripped down version of a car.  i once intentionally bought a new car with no saudio system, figuring that for the cost of factory system I could get a decent third party solutuion that was superior.  The same is arguably true when it comes to DAW's but  i suspect that value balances out for the person who is fine using mostly stock plugs.

emwhy
Just went back to page 1 of this thread and watched the video posted by rockenobi:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH9W1MD80kk
 
The Cake guys get into AS about a third of the way into it. I followed there steps and methods on some drum tracks done last year and it did give me the desired results doing things somewhat manually. The drums were done in a big room with some distance mics so there was a slight delay in the wave files when comparing snare hits. To use a regular quantize option on this would have moved the room mics in to much and caused phase issues. Give the above link a try and you'll see what I mean.

It has been a while since I have seen this; for those interested, the AS part starts just before 24 minutes into the video.