This isn’t something you’d normally care too much about, but REAPER weighs in at a microscopic 11mb before installing. Whether you just want an MP3 AND and Wav of your track rendered, or whether you are rendering multiple formats of multiple files in a single session, there is no good reason to have to sit back down to the computer every 3 minutes to adjust settings. On the topic of rendering, users of After Effects will recognize this feature The Render Queue. If your computer can handle it, so can REAPER! And if it can’t it will render at slower than realtime. Though most DAWs have reached this point anyway, faster than realtime renders are always a plus. If it is important, it is obvious, and placed right where it should be. This is venturing into the realm of personal opinion, but I rarely find myself googling where any particular function is within REAPER. This has made dropping stretch markers on an off time track, tabbing to transient, locking them to the grid, and any other functions needed for that job quick and painless in my workflow. Anything you can think of as a function, is there to be assigned to a hotkey. Where the fun stuff kick in, is the Actions menu. You’ll find everything from stability functionality, Multi-Computer processing through ReaMote, and the obvious stuff. The preferences menu would be a nightmare, if it didn’t have a built in search function that works much like a Ctrl+F find, between all option tabs. If you are a plug and play kind of guy, this might not be the DAW for you, but if you want everything running EXACTLY how you like it, you’re in luck. Now we are venturing into what really makes REAPER fantastic. I’d say this is the first spot REAPER fails to impress, but it is quite easy to get used to, and is more than worth where the software excels. I’ve come to like the default look of it by now, but there is a wealth of different themes on the internet, some which replicate other popular DAWs which can fix that up for pickier users. REAPER isn’t the prettiest looking DAW right out of the gate, but the visual doesn’t fail to get the point across. The full commercial license runs $225 USD. With the trial version of the software being fully unrestricted for 60 days, REAPER is priced more than fairly. That is pretty much all of us, by my judge. The discounted license covers individual or business use, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or an educational or non-profit organization. With a discounted license costing 60 bucks, the pricepoint is quite lean considering the 300-500 standard cost for similar software. ![]() ![]() Does Cockos deliver a DAW that can compete with the likes of Pro Tools, Logic, and Cubase, or will it fade away as software that just didn’t make the cut? Let’s find out! COST I’ve been using Reaper for a little over 3 years now, being my primary DAW for most of that time. Jake Duffie here from The Underground Alliance, and today I’ll be giving my two cents on the quickly popularizing recording Software, REAPER! Justin Frankel, the lead designer of REAPER is best known for developing WinAmp in 1997, which is still being used today.
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