why reaper? - tons of actions - actions can be stack as macros - tons of themes - sws extension (specially the cycle action and screen sets) - scripts and jsfx via ReaPack (MPL, Lokasenna, X-raym, Kawa scripts, Amagalma, Zaibuyidao and Saike tools by Joep Vanlier and much much more!) - extremely customizable - light weight (tightly coded) - 60 bucks for personal use best plugins/scripts by the community: Sonic Anomaly (amazing GUI) MK Slicer (destroying all daws stock slicer) MK Shaper Stutter (new but its the best) LKC Variator (for sound design/game audio) I barely scratch the surface of reaper. Its deep and overwhelming in such a good way. 😃
If you're using it at home for yourself you only need the $60 license. If you're using it in a commercial studio where you charge money for people to record and you need the more expensive one, but the software is the same.
I don't remember how I got started with Reaper, but as of now, I like it and it's easy to use. As for the sound, about 60 years ago I bought an Ampeg amp, the last thing it said in the instructions was This amplifier was designed an built by professionals,,, if at any time your not pleased with the sound it puts out,,,, "we suggest you practice". I've found this still holds true with Reaper
I just switched to Reaper. I was a long time Cubase lover until my dongle intermittently stopped working and it stops working. Worst customer serviced even there at Steinberg! So 5 or 6 years ago I changed to FL Studio. And it worked fine! One time fee nice plugins (best ever to edit drums). But then after Apple went to Big Slur, I had FL Studio randomly stop recording. Or hanging! Very frustrating! And last week it happened again in the middle of a great tale of a guitar solo. And I was so fucking furious that I have reaper a try. It’s very Spartan, no bells whistles, it’s like Linux vs MacOS and I am a Unix guy so I feel at home 😂And just like Unix/Linux it’s so fast! Starts up in an instant! And it never had a hiccup! In the 8 hours straight usage. And FL Studio the sudden recording stops literally happened every 15 minutes. And my god, the MIDI just works! The routing is simple unlike Cubase where hardware synths are a pain! With FL Studio with device numbers port numbers and channels it’s a hassle. Here I just select the midi in, the midi out and the channel and it just works!
@@soundsfromYYBY I actually haven't used it since it got VST support. I have an actual reason/record boxed copy and the red dongle. I am not unfamiliar with it.
Mark, your video on Reaper is becoming my go to. Dedicated to your channel.. Lots of good stuff. I AM going nuts trying to figure all this out. Everyone seems to make it more complicated than easier to understand. I am hoping that I can at LEAST record ONE song following your instructions. Thank you for for this.
I have used Reaper in the past and as well as it being low cost it can score in manuscript as well as piano roll! I was taught to read music at a early age and means I get a good idea when composing how something will sound in my head before I touch a keyboard etc!
I used to do a lot of video and audio editing years ago, and just recently got back into it, and much to my surprise, all the high-end software I used has all gone subscription based forcing me to look for less expensive alternatives. Reaper and Cakewalk are what I decided to try for audio. Reaper is a great DAW once you get it set up to your personal workflow, and it's very customizable. Cakewalk was a little easer out of the box for me because its workflow was a little more like I was used to with Pro Tools. However, now that I have Reaper customized to my taste, I like using them both equally. There is a learning curve to using any DAW that you are not already familiar with. However, I don't believe there is a "best DAW" but there is a best for each individual person. Use what works for you!
ProTools vs early DAWs reminds me of the differences between Rockwell Automation and Siemens PLCs. Rockwell was electrician focused, Siemens was engineer focused. Now they meet in the middle.
I've only tried a few daws and reaper is the best and easiest to learn. I came into daw recording from 4 track tape 20 years ago and zero computer knowledge. I've only scratched the surface because of limited time but recording and mixing is pretty simple to figure out.
Thanks dude. I'm an amateur self taught on recording and mixing for about 1 year. After trying studio one, cubase, pro tools. Reaper is the only daw i could use bcs of the ease. Can't believe how easy it is and user friendly as someone who isn't familiar with gain staging with mixer. And the most important thing is there are no track difference. No midi track, instrument track, audio track. Midi or audio track is just a track in reaper and that's safe me from cubase and studio one to use virtual instruments without thinking what track should i use lol. Just insert a track to import midi and add fx for whether it's midi or audio
That is it! I am convinced to use Reaper again. Used it in the past for my metal projects and now I am into all sorts of different music which as blues and rock. Time to double down on Reaper and pony up the $60 bucks . Cheers great vid and explanation. Thanks to all who commented as well, helps
Mark thank you for all the advice, I haven't tried Reaper yet. I am very pleased with Studio One, but I am open minded and would love to try Reaper considering that everyone agrees that is stable and crash free.
Studio One is my second favorite after Reaper. If you already have it and like the workflow then you should probably just continue down that road of mastering one DAW. On the other hand, if you don't feel totally in sync with S1 or have had some of the VST crash problems I've heard about but haven't experienced, or you find that Studio One is just too RAM hungry for your setup then give Reaper a shot. It's free to try the entire thing.
I use reaper and I am very happy. The only other DAW that I would plan to buy in the future is Mixbus 32C. It is also cheap but midi is still not as good as other DAWs but it sounds awesome.
Your convo here caused me to check out Mixbus32c. It's an interesting DAW. What I'm finding is that it accomplishes what I get by using the SSL channel strips as a plugin on each Reaper track. Basically the channel strip and color it lends is baked in. It's also a great layout for people who love the analogue workflow.
I tried so many softwares and I tried Reaper. Felt in love with it and never looked back at other DAWs Warning:- the more you use Reaper the more you'll use it xD
no no no, PC nerd liars.... dream cum true if reaper can really replace pro tools-logic-cubase etc, on a Mac...but it cant, the only few videos of reaper looking like pro tools are photos or screenshots, I yet to see a complete download of reaper with pro tools skins and key commands....let alone features from the daws like clip gain, high resolution/definition un destructive editing in one single window, pop up floating fader, a mix window or even additional features like in logic such as low latency mode switch that calculates freezes or shuts off un necessary memory hogs so your not playing or recording with latency., I can go on...but my point is if reaper is really all that customisable why has no one yet to show its pro tools power off?
@@mr.mikehunt4286 what I meant is using it at its full potential with all the customization. Not just simple hotkeys but also all the awesome function scripts from fx to features and also what's the problem with using PC. You can make music with PC as same as Mac. Or is it that only Mac users can make better music with using ios. Lmao. What a narrow mindset you have mate
@@kedskies understood dawg…im talking bout da hype ppl put out claiming its better then pro tools or can do the same all in one window none destructive high res/definition editing, clip gain etc etc, yet no one has posted a video proving anything but a gui since 2013…9 years past and its still no where near pro tools 10 cracked 😂
Reaper Features 1. 128 audio channels per mixer track 2. Advanced routing features 3. Advanced "side chaining" & modulation for All parameters on any plugin 4. Built-in pitch correction (both auto & manual) 5. Great stock (fx) plugins plus use any 3rd party plugin format {including CLAP, LV2} 6. Extremely Advanced render options & render queue with flexible naming options when rendering multiple items. 7. 32 customizable tool bars 8. Create your own keyboard shortcuts 9. Create custom macros which automates multiple commands into 1 action then map that to a keyboard shortcut 10. Portable install 11. Advanced multiple layered "track freeze" with the ability to go all the way back to the original state even after closing the project 12. Load project in offline mode to troubleshoot buggy vsts 13. Extremely low RAM & CPU usage 14. Amazing noise removal 15. Vocal alignment function built-in 16. Versatile time Stretch options 17. Open & switch between multiple sessions 18. Remote session collaboration tools (NinJAM) 19. Online repository with over 2000 community based enhancements including plugins 20. Sub-project linking. Great for Mastering workflow 21. Remote control daw via any web browser ON ANY DEVICE 22. ChordGUN for Key/chord degree music theory workflow 23. MIDI key lock 24. Save "undo" as a part the project for unlimited "undos" even after closing & reloading sessions 25. Loop record & create take lanes for both audio & midi to capture the perfect performance or use comping to achieve the perfect take 26. Tempo lock samples to your project with built-in sample browser 27. Delta solo 28. Ara support 29. Agnostic tracks... Meaning there are no specific track type. 30. Put Midi, audio, mono, stereo, video or image files, all on the same track 31. Media browser can show 🎶 notes (C, C#, Gb etc) being played in the sample being previewed 32. Video editing & rendering 33. Oversampling for any individual plugin 34. Oversampling for any plugin chain 35. Spectral audio editing 36. Separate GLOBAL slots for Monitoring FX 37. Parallel & multi-band processing for any plugin 38. Advanced automation clip editing & manipulation 39. Midi side processing workflow for any plugin available for any plugin 40. Support for CLAP plugin format 41. MPE Support 42. Markers & Mult-layered Region Marker Reaper 7 43. Create & save plugin containers 44. Track spacers 45. New parallel signal workflow on a single track. Both with plugins & plugin containers 46. New take lanes workflow with new "swipe comping" tool., while still retaining the old comping workflow 47. Gain reduction read out for compressors & limiters that support it 48. Supports 512 physical inputs & 512 physical outputs 49. Advanced Surround sound panning 50. Retroactive midi recording 51. Advanced time stretch algorithms
I really appreciate your review and pragmatic presentation. After quite some time (months or years) using different DAWs e.g. Cakewalk/Sonar - when using Windows, and (for Mac): Audacity, Logic, Protools, or more recently Adobe Audition (exclusively for voice over), I never really got proficient/comfortable with any of them - well, other than moderately with Audacity. From what I gathered here, it seems that I can finally commit to a single software to manage all of my sound recording needs - electric guitar and voiceover. That along with the VERY reasonable price point including updates, seems well worth it. Thank you. Have an awesome day. 😊
Interesting. I hadn't looked at processor utilization from one to the other. I can say that I've never run into a situation where my CPU was peaked out while I was using Reaper. It's been quite some time since I've had to back off unplugins or combine tracks into a sub mix because my computer couldn't handle when I was doing. Thankfully!!
guess the Ryzen wave of bringing more than 4 cores to the mainstream hasn't really caught wind with Pro Audio, at least in a sense of multithreaded optimization.
You are forgetting the major thing around Pro Tools in the past. We had weak computers back then, so to be able to use effects without bringing the computer to it’s knees, Pro Tools had outboard rack equipment to lessen the load and reducing latency, which was to expensieve for the small studios. Then Cubase and Cakewalk came along, but there where still limitations with computer resources to do full scale tracking, hence why many still tracked to tape and used the daw’s for mastering, just like we can do with modern digital mixers that have multitrack recording.
ProTools is not only producing software but also extreme interfaces to allow literally 100s of tracks to play back. Something required for movie productions. And that’s where protools is different. But we as “home” musicians or even a band doesn’t have a 42 piece orchestra that’s mic-Ed up with half a dozen of mics per section. So we can do with a nice simple daw.
Hi Marky, thanks for the video - and I like the way you explain things - also the first one to explain what DAW stands for! 😅🙏 I hope you can help me out - I haven't been doing any music production for 20 years, and at that time I was in Cubase, but I don't remember much. So I got a Mac and I find that Garageband is a little too "light" for what I wanna do - I'm looking for better control over my track-effects (for instance compressor effects tweaking), so what should I look for? I really don't want a complicated UI as I can see a lot of the "DAWS" already have when researching. It's gotta appear simple, and then detailed when you dive in. Thanks 🙏
Thanks for the info. I have Studio One Two Six Four Pro or whatever it's up to now. I originally bought it because it was easy for me to understand, but it's a lot of files. I've been looking for something smaller that does the basics. I have an RME Fireface UCX so I should be able to use anything.
@BecomeTheOne actually im using a cracked version of cubase and it is perfectly working. But i really love the mixer of studio one more than any other daw. So much options there and more comfortable than other mixers.
@BecomeTheOne don't im stil a beginer for cubase but the setup says its cubase 11 pro. May be you are right cuz we cant expect the original qualities and features in cracked versions but those cracked features enough for me to make a good quality music track.
Reaper is the best for the price of $60. However if you need synths and easy to program midi you might consider other DAWs that come with those. I have Mixcraft and FL Studio. Since I am not recording drums or hardware instruments those work for me. And so far had no issues recording guitar on Mixcraft. If you are one man band Mixcraft is a good choice. This is not paid advertisement.
How nice it would be if all DAWs could do the same in just a matter of a few updates. In reality, these softwares behave way different from each other, and people are jumping back and forth in them because of features, workflow, stability, compatibility etc... Try to make a beat in Pro Tool, try to import AAF to Reaper for post prod, try to edit a multitrack drum recording in Logic, try to do film scoring in FL, fine tune /align a vocal in Ableton, you get my point. I know most of those differences are irrelevant for (most) home studio users, but once you get into production and collaborations, you'll (at least) have to know Pro Tools, Logic and Ableton. Also I'd argue why Reaper is actually not the cheapest production suite out there, and why it is Logic Pro instead. In order to make music on your own, and you don't play and have every instrument (and the recording gear) you'll need in your arrangement, you'll need quality sampled instruments, virtual synths maybe a couple of easy to use effects and vintage hardware emulations, which Logic Pro is packed with, and the UX is well thought out, it's very user friendly. Reaper on the other hand is like a well written host, there's really no "default" way of using it (or it is just very inconvenient for 99% of people), comes with next to no quality sounds, synths and virtual instruments, (i.m.o. it's free downloadable stuff doesn't even sound anything close to usable) and as a beginner, you will need to invent, setup a workflow which you have zero experience in. Considering the additional costs in thirds party plugins and the time it takes for you to learn Reaper, I'd say it is more towards a specific type of audio professionals who work mostly alone, doesn't really use MIDI, mostly work with audio, and would like to customise their workflow to the last detail. But definitely not a home studio owner.
I'm not versed in the genre, so I can't comment on this, but hopefully someone will pick it up for you. Have you looked at all the skins at the reaper.fm site?
The only thing that makes me remain a cubase client for over 10 years is the logical editor feature that comes with the pro versions. Otherwise i would jump ship in a heartbeat. Only 60$?! That is a bargain for what you get.
@@SwainBjornstrandt it's when you convert audio into editable chunks that lol like they are in a midi grid. For editing vocals it is better than any other thing I have used even Melodyne. I would say just look up variaudio on TH-cam here and you'll get a bunch of videos on it.
@@MusicWithMarky Will definitely give it a whirl as long as i get to work on vocals. That is a thing that rarely happens to me though. Cubase has always been loaded to the brim with goodies. Even its compressors and eqs are well worth it. I use fab filter for the most part, but the steinberg ones are also very very nice. But as I said. Logical editor, ESPECIALLY for the drums is essential to me.
I don't see many videos comparing Reaper with BandLab Cakewalk which is indeed totally FREE. I am relatively new to DAWs so I admit and don't know the ins and outs of each, but to my untrained viewpoint, they seem very similar and capable. Could you do another video comparing the two, please?
Cakewalk is a DAW that I've always liked, even before Sonar. I tried Cakewalk by Bandlab about a year ago and I loved it, I love its tools, its windows, the inspector, and many other features, but unfortunately I had to abandon it because it had crashes with virtual instruments, errors everywhere, noises, and other details that unfortunately they made me leave Cakewalk, and now I am very comfortable in Reaper, since I do not have those kinds of problems. Also, I can get Reaper to get used to my way of working, and not the other way around. If it wasn't for the problems I had, I'd still be at Cakewalk.
What plugins, samples and instruments and presets you get is also impprtant. You get a lot more with cubase than with reaper. The daws May be the same, but the whole package if you Just want to start is better.
I'm a Cubase user but before I committed to Cubase I tried Reaper and it didn't work for me at all. BUT... I do agree, the pricing of other DAW's (yes, I'm looking at you Steinberg) is very often ridiculous. Every single update costs money and in many cases a lot of money.
I was a die-hard cubase user for the longest time. Now I only find myself using it for the vari-audio. That is mostly because I have just become used to the workflow and keyboard shortcuts and skin that I have on Reaper, though.
Right, yes. A full version change is a new cost. To the spirit of the comment though, Reaper doesn't charge for that either. If you bought 4.0, 5 and 6 still came free.
We use Cubase at my band's studio. I like it well enough, but there's only one feature I like better than Reaper (it's called Variaudio) and it's far more expensive.
I hope it's never bought out and buggered up like Adobe buying Cooledit back in the day, then turned into bloatware. Sometimes I like to keep an archive of old versions of software just in case.
When budget is in consideration i would say Cakewalk by bandlab is biggest competitor for Reaper since it's free. Reaper has more customisation options but CWBBL is little bit easier to approach for new users, in my opinion. Both are great options for recording artists but if you need virtual instruments or sample libraries you need 3rd party options.
@@audiosounddoctor5834 I agree. Free often translate as "bad" or "not worth it". I just wish they would include all sonar era cakewalk plugins with CWWBL, especially intruments. UI functionality needs some polishing imo as well.
so is not Ableton best for live and effects plus VI's? Studio one gets a lot of love. Bitwig only in passing. Cubase few talk about . Logic is popular, a Garage Band upgrade. Bandlab is okay. Mixcraft maybe a little basic. Digital Performer gets forgotten as does FL Studio, Magix is pretty powerful and lastly Pro Tools, sucks at midi & live but is excellent for big sessions and mixing, only one with massive processing power due to outboard processing.
Hello, i saw that there are 2 versions that I can buy Reaper with. I want to make music and after some time to make money of it. Am i safe with the personal version or do i need the commercial?
You can use Reaper for free. Eventually it just has like a wait screen until you can enter the app. I can't think of anything else better, although some people here have mentioned other favorites but I haven't used them.
No difference. The commercial license is for users who will be using it to run a for hire studio, for instance. It's just honor system, saying you will pay a higher license fee if you are using it to earn wages.
You may use the discounted license($60) if: You are an individual, and REAPER is only for your personal use, or You are an individual or business using REAPER commercially, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or You are an educational or non-profit organization.
I just switched to Reaper. I was a long time Cubase lover until my dongle intermittently stopped working and it stops working. Worst customer serviced even there at Steinberg! So 5 or 6 years ago I changed to FL Studio. And it worked fine! One time fee nice plugins (best ever to edit drums). But then after Apple went to Big Slur, I had FL Studio randomly stop recording. Or hanging! Very frustrating! And last week it happened again in the middle of a great tale of a guitar solo. And I was so fucking furious that I have reaper a try. It’s very Spartan, no bells whistles, it’s like Linux vs MacOS and I am a Unix guy so I feel at home 😂And just like Unix/Linux it’s so fast! Starts up in an instant! And it never had a hiccup! In the 8 hours straight usage. And FL Studio the sudden recording stops literally happened every 15 minutes. And my god, the MIDI just works! The routing is simple unlike Cubase where hardware synths are a pain! With FL Studio with device numbers port numbers and channels it’s a hassle. Here I just select the midi in, the midi out and the channel and it just works!
@@MusicWithMarky With Spartan I don't necessarily mean the main UI (I like it actually) but the plug ins, just do what they need to do and nothing more or less. But I just re-use the plugins i have anyways, so it doesn't hinder me.
@@MusicWithMarky well my experience currently is limited. And I mainly already used only vintage synth models form Arturia and AmpliTube for guitar. The only things I used from FL and Cubase are the EQ, Reverbs (although I’m partial to Valhalla) and the limiters and compressors. So it wasn’t a big departure. And to me the most important thing is stability, and speedy workflow. And thus far I found it very easy and quick to use. And extremely reliable and that all my MIDI synths just routed with ease and structurally worked was a breathe of happiness 😁I love playing real hardware but both in Cubase and in FL Studio (although a little less) it was a massive headache to setup. Especially complex deep synths like the JD-XA with all its different channels for different things and the System8. Yeah I’m really impressed and I wondered why it took me so long to move to Reaper. Because I’ve heard about it already 6 years ago when I went back into synths after a 26 year hiatus. But then chose Cubase. I guess you choose familiarity 🤣Which it wasn’t at all since the old Atari ST days. My goodness we’ve came a long way in home recording. Btw dude, you are a great guitar player. Watched some of your videos. Great sound, skill and nice axes!!! Keep up your great work!
Hello thanks for this vid really helps. Got a question really appreciate if you can help with.My Reapers is connected to a Allen & Heath Q 16.If I press 'Mute' on any channel will reaper still record?.Or will that particular channel be muted?.
If I am understanding you correctly, you have instruments plugged into the 16 and then that signal goes into the computer for Reaper to record. If that is the case when you mute the channel on the 16 there is no signal from that specific channel being sent to Reaper so we will record silence or whatever else is coming in on the other channels that are not muted.
HAHA I love your T Shirt!!! NEVER FORGET!!! WHAT ABOUT URNAUS! .... jk.... Anyways, I malice long Multi Instrumentalist and have recently started to get back into recording on at first PC, but then I justgt this Mac MiniM2. ( Base Model Sadly... 8gig ram or whatever and I am going to get a dock with a extended SSD drive for it... But sadly the RAM is way to expensive even when buying it used.. its like $200-300 more for 16gigs! I wish I could have swung the 16gig version but I couldn't.. le sigh) Anyways... With hat all said.. I ave been using Traction Waveform Pro. And I have REALLY been enjoying how intuitive ( for me at least) its been... I am a person who is coming from the like.. Analog Studio and a big ass mixing console point of view on a Micced up Marshal and so my mindset when I realized how amazing and wonderfully the modern stuff like Amplitude works.. Anyways, I REALLY WISH there was more videos about Waveform.. I did pay for license because I truly enjoy it and have found way easier to use than retool Lite or whatever that came with some Mackie monitors I bought..( The Routing and just... it was frustrating to use and figure out just how to record my guitar amp on a mic and I gave up on it quickly..) I wish there was some Videos that could go fairly in depth and cover why or why not and what the major functional differences and ease of use and work flow differences are between Reaper and Waveform... waveform is Free for the most part and I just got 13Pro which I think is a pay version but was fairly affordable compared to most DAWs. I really dig it myself.. but then I am fairly "new" to recording... again..lol. I have a sub to UA Spark and don't have an Apollo or any Satelliteds ( took me a bit to realize that the "DSP" chips were being used to process the PLUGINS... pretty awesome.. I always think of some smaller cheaper mixing consoles on board "MULTI-FX DSP" processor unit that his essentially useless for anything but a half descent delay or reverb fr lifve sound.. but I do utilize a UA Spark 276 interface... I'm contemplating wether the Apollo interface is worth getting to achieve being able to utilize the DSP powered UA studio plugins , and if the Mic Preamps are worth, ( I don't really have any nice mics yet and I operate on a fairly low budget.. a very low budget actually lol) or is I should just try to utilize a UA Satellite for DSP ( if I can without the Apollo...ive been told yes I can as long as I have the Spark or some UA interface... id tnt know... I asm going to be buying this stuff on eBay anyways..used.) so... anyways. Ice love it if ANYONE if not SEVERAL FOLKS would try Traction Waveform Pro and the free version ( not a big difference form was I understand) and make some more in-depth comparison videos to especially REAPER!!! Since I want to be using the most common and best DAW...( but I must admit, I'm a bit intimidated to try and switch with all the experience ive accumulated using Waveform since last year about midway when I began this home studio in my Appartment and a Roland TD-07 and a Orange Micro Terr and a single 12" speaker hooked up to a used Carvoin MTS 3200 I got at a pawn shop and repaired... to record on some cheap ass condenser mics and a Sterling PG-10 ( great analog for a Sure sm-57 btw, although I still need a couple SM-57s!) * anyways.. sorry for the rambling as hell comment. Please compare Waveform to Reaper for me!!!?? Anyone???
From what I'm seeing, Waveform costs $199 after the trial ends? Maybe it's like Reaper and you can keep using it anyway? With Reaper, you can keep using it for free, but it has a countdown screen that delays entry for a bit. I wish I could do a comparison for you, but I'd have to spend enough time with the other DAW to do it any justice. What I can say is that if you are used to the workflow of something and you aren't wishing it had features that it's missing, then it should be fine to stay with. Does it work with all the plugins? Once you get good at the workflow of one, it's usually best to keep going with it so you can focus on creating music and not finding where to click.
It'll run on just about any new equipment at this point. The thing that will slow you down is using many plugins on many tracks and then you'll want plenty of RAM and a faster cpu. But, if you're not doing huge projects like that, a simple 8gig ram machine with any modern cpu should be fine. Also get a good size SSD drive and maybe an external USB drive to move old projects over to when you need to clear space.
I have an Honor MagicBook with 16GB/512GB and a Ryzen 5. Got it new for 650€. It comes with 32 bit Windows, so you might wanna upgrade that to 64 bit before you do anything with it because i didn't and now i regret not being able to install so many great plugins that are only available in 64 bit.
The main thing is memory and a fast hard drive. For basic audio recording with reaper any modern laptop CPU will be plenty. You're going to want a good recording interface like a Motu M2, at least 8 GB of RAM preferably 16, I'm plenty of space on that fast hard drive whether it's SSD or a really fast normal one. The last thing is that anytime I have used graphics cards with ray tracing, they have not gotten along well with vsts and other audio software. So, I wouldn't try to get a laptop for advanced gaming and also use it for Reaper recording because of that weird interaction between the best video cards and audio.
I stand for reaper number one with it price better than other studio. 2 cubase. then fuck other daw waste of money. but i haven't tried pro tools or logic pro so they are exceptional.
But, the instructions for Reaper are long and difficult to troubleshoot problems. after spending over 40 hours just reading the manual, I still run into problems such as sound no longer coming out of the DAW. Then, after hours of creating a backing track, the sound shuts off. The manual does not help with resolving problems and I have spent many hour to end up with nothing. Time is money and Reaper with its advanced features does not address the basics.
I haven't found support for other software to be any better. The online community and boards for Reaper have more users and generally got me answers more quickly. Your problem sounds similar to what I experienced when I had my studio machine installed with a new graphics card that had ray tracing. Something about the nVidia cards with it refuses to get along with ASIO drivers and causes drop outs. I went back to the old card and it was fine.
I have no experience with it and so didn't want to speak about something I am not informed about. I had always thought it was not so much DAW for capturing analog performances and using VST style plug-ins, but rather for people creating electronic music.
Unfortunately it needs quite some development for people making electronic music, especially when you look at the competition (Albeton, Bitwig, FL, etc)
The electronic creation end of things off not something I'm particularly knowledgeable about. I did mess with FL a few years back and was impressed, though.
Oooohhhh yeah okay gotcha. I also find that annoying. They are so good about improving the program always that I wonder if people said something in the forum, of they would offer it as an option.
Then again: www.creativefieldrecording.com/2020/10/14/reaper-tip-how-to-set-custom-navigation/#:~:text=Choose%20Editing%20Behavior%20from%20the,be%2C%20just%20like%20Pro%20Tools.
did this one with ableton all stock sounds. th-cam.com/video/tdX503WEt5c/w-d-xo.html you can tell most of the sounds are stock but it showcases some pretty good ones you can use
@@MusicWithMarky hey thanks bro i appreciate that. i switched to reaper a while back and i found i love the workflow alot better just not as many stock sounds that are good but amazing for recording live instruments
I dont agree at all about they all sound the same. Actually, the way they calculate, the algorithm that they use is different. I have all of them, plus the mixbus, and i assure they sound all different. The pretty same wave sounds different. They do color the signal. Reapper and protools sound pretty close studio one is another kind of sound, complety different, the daw thar better sounds is the mixbus, but its not as advanced as others and takes a lot of processor. Some people use it just for steam mixing.
Your ear is better than mine then. I can't discern an appreciable difference. Makes sense what you are saying, though. I think it's going to be subtle whatever it is and certainly, to my point for a basic home studio enthusiast here, any of these medium will produce quality sonic results.
No. The language used in all audio algorithms are based on C and C++. Thats the mother language of every DAW's API's. So its the same. Why we hear it differently? Because of hardware and drivers - audio interfaces had different hardware and drivers - speaker, studio monitor and headphones also - even room acoustics can alter what you hear - latency conclusion: It doesn't matter what daw you use because they share the same algorithm in the back end. edit: every daw just calculate audio differently. You can try print or record a wav file on a different daws and playback it in the same music player. You'll hear nothing different.
It not the same and if you believe that then you think all Audio Interfaces are the same too and that's not true. If you have more the one DAW in your setup you can hear the difference. Every little nudge in recording that improves the sound gives you a better recording. From the speakers, audio interface, and software.
why reaper?
- tons of actions
- actions can be stack as macros
- tons of themes
- sws extension (specially the cycle action and screen sets)
- scripts and jsfx via ReaPack (MPL, Lokasenna, X-raym, Kawa scripts, Amagalma, Zaibuyidao and Saike tools by Joep Vanlier and much much more!)
- extremely customizable
- light weight (tightly coded)
- 60 bucks for personal use
best plugins/scripts by the community:
Sonic Anomaly (amazing GUI)
MK Slicer (destroying all daws stock slicer)
MK Shaper Stutter (new but its the best)
LKC Variator (for sound design/game audio)
I barely scratch the surface of reaper. Its deep and overwhelming in such a good way.
😃
Reaper is incredible
Hey there can you please elaborate on the difference between 60$ license and the 225$ license?
I am confused
If you're using it at home for yourself you only need the $60 license. If you're using it in a commercial studio where you charge money for people to record and you need the more expensive one, but the software is the same.
@@MusicWithMarky now would it be ok if I use the 60$ version even if I charge people to record in my home studio?
I think it's really just the honor system here. The software is going to work the same.
Reaper is also not bloated software, has a great community, and many many excellent free tutorials.
Yes for sure!
I don't remember how I got started with Reaper, but as of now, I like it and it's easy to use. As for the sound, about 60 years ago I bought an Ampeg amp, the last thing it said in the instructions was
This amplifier was designed an built by professionals,,, if at any time your not pleased with the sound it puts out,,,, "we suggest you practice". I've found this still holds true with Reaper
This is exactly the kind of thing I want to watch, so much knowledge
Thanks!
PERFORMANCE. The reason why I use REAPER on a Threadripper is PERFORMANCE. Nothing comes close.
THAT is a big difference between reaper and others
I just switched to Reaper.
I was a long time Cubase lover until my dongle intermittently stopped working and it stops working. Worst customer serviced even there at Steinberg!
So 5 or 6 years ago I changed to FL Studio. And it worked fine! One time fee nice plugins (best ever to edit drums). But then after Apple went to Big Slur, I had FL Studio randomly stop recording. Or hanging! Very frustrating! And last week it happened again in the middle of a great tale of a guitar solo. And I was so fucking furious that I have reaper a try.
It’s very Spartan, no bells whistles, it’s like Linux vs MacOS and I am a Unix guy so I feel at home 😂And just like Unix/Linux it’s so fast! Starts up in an instant! And it never had a hiccup! In the 8 hours straight usage. And FL Studio the sudden recording stops literally happened every 15 minutes.
And my god, the MIDI just works! The routing is simple unlike Cubase where hardware synths are a pain! With FL Studio with device numbers port numbers and channels it’s a hassle. Here I just select the midi in, the midi out and the channel and it just works!
you must havent use reason
@@soundsfromYYBY I actually haven't used it since it got VST support. I have an actual reason/record boxed copy and the red dongle. I am not unfamiliar with it.
Two years went by...still reaper is the only daw using all cores on my m2
You can use reatune in the manual pitch correction tab as a kind of melodyne, works fine for small details
Mark, your video on Reaper is becoming my go to. Dedicated to your channel.. Lots of good stuff. I AM going nuts trying to figure all this out. Everyone seems to make it more complicated than easier to understand. I am hoping that I can at LEAST record ONE song following your instructions. Thank you for for this.
So happy to help! Check out my "In the Studio" playlist if you haven't already. I have a few videos on there which you might find useful.
I have used Reaper in the past and as well as it being low cost it can score in manuscript as well as piano roll! I was taught to read music at a early age and means I get a good idea when composing how something will sound in my head before I touch a keyboard etc!
I used to do a lot of video and audio editing years ago, and just recently got back into it, and much to my surprise, all the high-end software I used has all gone subscription based forcing me to look for less expensive alternatives. Reaper and Cakewalk are what I decided to try for audio.
Reaper is a great DAW once you get it set up to your personal workflow, and it's very customizable. Cakewalk was a little easer out of the box for me because its workflow was a little more like I was used to with Pro Tools. However, now that I have Reaper customized to my taste, I like using them both equally. There is a learning curve to using any DAW that you are not already familiar with. However, I don't believe there is a "best DAW" but there is a best for each individual person. Use what works for you!
Well said!
I‘ve been using Cubase since 1997, and I will do so for many years to come. But I do recommend anybody new to the space to learn Reaper.
Its super easy to record and set up too! Excellent video thank you!
ProTools vs early DAWs reminds me of the differences between Rockwell Automation and Siemens PLCs. Rockwell was electrician focused, Siemens was engineer focused. Now they meet in the middle.
That's a good take on it.
I've only tried a few daws and reaper is the best and easiest to learn. I came into daw recording from 4 track tape 20 years ago and zero computer knowledge. I've only scratched the surface because of limited time but recording and mixing is pretty simple to figure out.
Any tips on recording and mixing on reaper? I usually go to professional studios but I need to start doing it myself and not rely on other people.
@@gabzriel3540
Just get in there and experiment.
I have a step by step get started guide here: th-cam.com/video/cJIwwYFRNOI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks dude.
I'm an amateur self taught on recording and mixing for about 1 year.
After trying studio one, cubase, pro tools.
Reaper is the only daw i could use bcs of the ease. Can't believe how easy it is and user friendly as someone who isn't familiar with gain staging with mixer.
And the most important thing is there are no track difference.
No midi track, instrument track, audio track. Midi or audio track is just a track in reaper and that's safe me from cubase and studio one to use virtual instruments without thinking what track should i use lol. Just insert a track to import midi and add fx for whether it's midi or audio
That feature is brilliant! I love that I can drag midi bits onto audio tracks to just to put them in a place while I edit the one right above it.
That is it! I am convinced to use Reaper again. Used it in the past for my metal projects and now I am into all sorts of different music which as blues and rock. Time to double down on Reaper and pony up the $60 bucks . Cheers great vid and explanation. Thanks to all who commented as well, helps
Damn. This is one of the best explanations I have come across in years 😂
Mark thank you for all the advice, I haven't tried Reaper yet. I am very pleased with Studio One, but I am open minded and would love to try Reaper considering that everyone agrees that is stable and crash free.
Sure thing.
Go for it, you can download the full version for free as a demo.
Studio One has been a beast for me! I used to use ProTools and learned everything so easily.
Studio One is my second favorite after Reaper. If you already have it and like the workflow then you should probably just continue down that road of mastering one DAW.
On the other hand, if you don't feel totally in sync with S1 or have had some of the VST crash problems I've heard about but haven't experienced, or you find that Studio One is just too RAM hungry for your setup then give Reaper a shot. It's free to try the entire thing.
very well done. Reaper is terrific for so many reasons.
Thanks!
Ueaaaash,,,,Reaper n Jenny Gioa,,,,No 1 💪💪💪. Tq Kenny, I'm on Reaper and I'm a newbie,learning alot from you. Your Reaper God.
Don't forget that reaper has the most comprehensive and comprehendible video manual of any software, period.
Excellent point!
I use reaper and I am very happy. The only other DAW that I would plan to buy in the future is Mixbus 32C. It is also cheap but midi is still not as good as other DAWs but it sounds awesome.
I use Reaper to mix and Mixbus to master in
@@syndicatebeats4827 Yeah good idea. Some people use MixBus for stems mixing too. Where are you located?
@@alexgwiza I used to use Mixbus for stem mixing but the workflow of Reaper is almost unrivaled. Also, I am based out of DC.
Your convo here caused me to check out Mixbus32c. It's an interesting DAW. What I'm finding is that it accomplishes what I get by using the SSL channel strips as a plugin on each Reaper track. Basically the channel strip and color it lends is baked in. It's also a great layout for people who love the analogue workflow.
@@syndicatebeats4827 You are right. Myself I don't leave reaper for anything right now
I tried so many softwares and I tried Reaper. Felt in love with it and never looked back at other DAWs
Warning:- the more you use Reaper the more you'll use it xD
no no no, PC nerd liars.... dream cum true if reaper can really replace pro tools-logic-cubase etc, on a Mac...but it cant, the only few videos of reaper looking like pro tools are photos or screenshots, I yet to see a complete download of reaper with pro tools skins and key commands....let alone features from the daws like clip gain, high resolution/definition un destructive editing in one single window, pop up floating fader, a mix window or even additional features like in logic such as low latency mode switch that calculates freezes or shuts off un necessary memory hogs so your not playing or recording with latency., I can go on...but my point is if reaper is really all that customisable why has no one yet to show its pro tools power off?
@@mr.mikehunt4286 you haven't tried Reaper yet then. To see it's full power in glory
@@kedskies right, so your saying that everyone who tried it cant share proof of its power and glory lol. PC user I presume? lol
@@mr.mikehunt4286 what I meant is using it at its full potential with all the customization. Not just simple hotkeys but also all the awesome function scripts from fx to features and also what's the problem with using PC. You can make music with PC as same as Mac. Or is it that only Mac users can make better music with using ios. Lmao. What a narrow mindset you have mate
@@kedskies understood dawg…im talking bout da hype ppl put out claiming its better then pro tools or can do the same all in one window none destructive high res/definition editing, clip gain etc etc, yet no one has posted a video proving anything but a gui since 2013…9 years past and its still no where near pro tools 10 cracked 😂
Reaper Features
1. 128 audio channels per mixer track
2. Advanced routing features
3. Advanced "side chaining" & modulation for All parameters on any plugin
4. Built-in pitch correction (both auto & manual)
5. Great stock (fx) plugins plus use any 3rd party plugin format {including CLAP, LV2}
6. Extremely Advanced render options & render queue with flexible naming options when rendering multiple items.
7. 32 customizable tool bars
8. Create your own keyboard shortcuts
9. Create custom macros which automates multiple commands into 1 action then map that to a keyboard shortcut
10. Portable install
11. Advanced multiple layered "track freeze" with the ability to go all the way back to the original state even after closing the project
12. Load project in offline mode to troubleshoot buggy vsts
13. Extremely low RAM & CPU usage
14. Amazing noise removal
15. Vocal alignment function built-in
16. Versatile time Stretch options
17. Open & switch between multiple sessions
18. Remote session collaboration tools (NinJAM)
19. Online repository with over 2000 community based enhancements including plugins
20. Sub-project linking. Great for Mastering workflow
21. Remote control daw via any web browser ON ANY DEVICE
22. ChordGUN for Key/chord degree music theory workflow
23. MIDI key lock
24. Save "undo" as a part the project for unlimited "undos" even after closing & reloading sessions
25. Loop record & create take lanes for both audio & midi to capture the perfect performance or use comping to achieve the perfect take
26. Tempo lock samples to your project with built-in sample browser
27. Delta solo
28. Ara support
29. Agnostic tracks... Meaning there are no specific track type.
30. Put Midi, audio, mono, stereo, video or image files, all on the same track
31. Media browser can show 🎶 notes (C, C#, Gb etc) being played in the sample being previewed
32. Video editing & rendering
33. Oversampling for any individual plugin
34. Oversampling for any plugin chain
35. Spectral audio editing
36. Separate GLOBAL slots for Monitoring FX
37. Parallel & multi-band processing for any plugin
38. Advanced automation clip editing & manipulation
39. Midi side processing workflow for any plugin available for any plugin
40. Support for CLAP plugin format
41. MPE Support
42. Markers & Mult-layered Region Marker
Reaper 7
43. Create & save plugin containers
44. Track spacers
45. New parallel signal workflow on a single track. Both with plugins & plugin containers
46. New take lanes workflow with new "swipe comping" tool., while still retaining the old comping workflow
47. Gain reduction read out for compressors & limiters that support it
48. Supports 512 physical inputs & 512 physical outputs
49. Advanced Surround sound panning
50. Retroactive midi recording
51. Advanced time stretch algorithms
Love your T-shirt!
9 years reaper user, never looking back!
I really appreciate your review and pragmatic presentation. After quite some time (months or years) using different DAWs e.g. Cakewalk/Sonar - when using Windows, and (for Mac): Audacity, Logic, Protools, or more recently Adobe Audition (exclusively for voice over), I never really got proficient/comfortable with any of them - well, other than moderately with Audacity.
From what I gathered here, it seems that I can finally commit to a single software to manage all of my sound recording needs - electric guitar and voiceover. That along with the VERY reasonable price point including updates, seems well worth it.
Thank you. Have an awesome day. 😊
Happy to help!!
I´m using Reaper since last year I´ve found that it manage better the multiple CPU cores, than others.
Interesting. I hadn't looked at processor utilization from one to the other. I can say that I've never run into a situation where my CPU was peaked out while I was using Reaper. It's been quite some time since I've had to back off unplugins or combine tracks into a sub mix because my computer couldn't handle when I was doing. Thankfully!!
guess the Ryzen wave of bringing more than 4 cores to the mainstream hasn't really caught wind with Pro Audio, at least in a sense of multithreaded optimization.
@@MusicWithMarky Usually DAWs, use no more than one or two, because that´s the way the are designed long time ago.
@@MusicWithMarky Also I got an old HP Z800, it runs very well, but I have to buy a new one.
Thanks. What I was looking for 😊
Happy to help.
Thanks for this Mark, thinking to switch to Reaper from Garageband
It's free to try
Great overview and music producing history insight
Thanks!!
You are forgetting the major thing around Pro Tools in the past.
We had weak computers back then, so to be able to use effects without bringing the computer to it’s knees, Pro Tools had outboard rack equipment to lessen the load and reducing latency, which was to expensieve for the small studios.
Then Cubase and Cakewalk came along, but there where still limitations with computer resources to do full scale tracking, hence why many still tracked to tape and used the daw’s for mastering, just like we can do with modern digital mixers that have multitrack recording.
My first DAW was an early version of Cubase, so I might have mixed that period.
ProTools is not only producing software but also extreme interfaces to allow literally 100s of tracks to play back. Something required for movie productions. And that’s where protools is different. But we as “home” musicians or even a band doesn’t have a 42 piece orchestra that’s mic-Ed up with half a dozen of mics per section. So we can do with a nice simple daw.
Reaper has limitless tracks
Looking at retiring my Sonar Producer X1 after more than a decade of using it. I think I'll give Reaper a try. Thanks.
Hi Marky, thanks for the video - and I like the way you explain things - also the first one to explain what DAW stands for! 😅🙏
I hope you can help me out - I haven't been doing any music production for 20 years, and at that time I was in Cubase, but I don't remember much. So I got a Mac and I find that Garageband is a little too "light" for what I wanna do - I'm looking for better control over my track-effects (for instance compressor effects tweaking), so what should I look for? I really don't want a complicated UI as I can see a lot of the "DAWS" already have when researching.
It's gotta appear simple, and then detailed when you dive in.
Thanks 🙏
Reaper has a Mac version as well. I would highly recommend it!
4:56 what theme is this?
Thanks for the info. I have Studio One Two Six Four Pro or whatever it's up to now. I originally bought it because it was easy for me to understand, but it's a lot of files. I've been looking for something smaller that does the basics. I have an RME Fireface UCX so I should be able to use anything.
Excellent!
Reaper > Cubase > Studio one😅 Studio one is something like all in one.
@BecomeTheOne actually im using a cracked version of cubase and it is perfectly working. But i really love the mixer of studio one more than any other daw. So much options there and more comfortable than other mixers.
@BecomeTheOne don't im stil a beginer for cubase but the setup says its cubase 11 pro. May be you are right cuz we cant expect the original qualities and features in cracked versions but those cracked features enough for me to make a good quality music track.
Reaper is the best for the price of $60. However if you need synths and easy to program midi you might consider other DAWs that come with those. I have Mixcraft and FL Studio. Since I am not recording drums or hardware instruments those work for me. And so far had no issues recording guitar on Mixcraft. If you are one man band Mixcraft is a good choice. This is not paid advertisement.
Your t-shirt is amazing!
Thanks. I try!
Right to the point. Thank you
Happy to help!
How nice it would be if all DAWs could do the same in just a matter of a few updates. In reality, these softwares behave way different from each other, and people are jumping back and forth in them because of features, workflow, stability, compatibility etc... Try to make a beat in Pro Tool, try to import AAF to Reaper for post prod, try to edit a multitrack drum recording in Logic, try to do film scoring in FL, fine tune /align a vocal in Ableton, you get my point. I know most of those differences are irrelevant for (most) home studio users, but once you get into production and collaborations, you'll (at least) have to know Pro Tools, Logic and Ableton.
Also I'd argue why Reaper is actually not the cheapest production suite out there, and why it is Logic Pro instead. In order to make music on your own, and you don't play and have every instrument (and the recording gear) you'll need in your arrangement, you'll need quality sampled instruments, virtual synths maybe a couple of easy to use effects and vintage hardware emulations, which Logic Pro is packed with, and the UX is well thought out, it's very user friendly. Reaper on the other hand is like a well written host, there's really no "default" way of using it (or it is just very inconvenient for 99% of people), comes with next to no quality sounds, synths and virtual instruments, (i.m.o. it's free downloadable stuff doesn't even sound anything close to usable) and as a beginner, you will need to invent, setup a workflow which you have zero experience in.
Considering the additional costs in thirds party plugins and the time it takes for you to learn Reaper, I'd say it is more towards a specific type of audio professionals who work mostly alone, doesn't really use MIDI, mostly work with audio, and would like to customise their workflow to the last detail.
But definitely not a home studio owner.
Excellent points.
good sound quality.
Still trying to customize my reaper layout to fit my EDM/DRILL/Hip-hop production workflow. Any suggestions reaprr community?
I'm not versed in the genre, so I can't comment on this, but hopefully someone will pick it up for you.
Have you looked at all the skins at the reaper.fm site?
Take this question to the Reaper forum or subreddit.
The only thing that makes me remain a cubase client for over 10 years is the logical editor feature that comes with the pro versions. Otherwise i would jump ship in a heartbeat. Only 60$?! That is a bargain for what you get.
Yeah at that price is so crazy good! It's as good as anything 10x the cost.
Do you use Variaudio in Cubase as well?
@@MusicWithMarky what is this???
@@SwainBjornstrandt it's when you convert audio into editable chunks that lol like they are in a midi grid. For editing vocals it is better than any other thing I have used even Melodyne. I would say just look up variaudio on TH-cam here and you'll get a bunch of videos on it.
@@MusicWithMarky Will definitely give it a whirl as long as i get to work on vocals. That is a thing that rarely happens to me though. Cubase has always been loaded to the brim with goodies. Even its compressors and eqs are well worth it. I use fab filter for the most part, but the steinberg ones are also very very nice. But as I said. Logical editor, ESPECIALLY for the drums is essential to me.
Reaper doesnt hammer the CPU like Ableton. Very Well coded for certain.
So true... its truly remarkable
I love reaper!
found this video really helpful
Happy to help!
I don't see many videos comparing Reaper with BandLab Cakewalk which is indeed totally FREE. I am relatively new to DAWs so I admit and don't know the ins and outs of each, but to my untrained viewpoint, they seem very similar and capable. Could you do another video comparing the two, please?
I would have to spend time using Cakewalk to be able to do that properly. I'll have to download it and have a look.
I have not had a sufficient amount of time to look at the other software yet, but thanks for the reminder!
Cakewalk is a DAW that I've always liked, even before Sonar. I tried Cakewalk by Bandlab about a year ago and I loved it, I love its tools, its windows, the inspector, and many other features, but unfortunately I had to abandon it because it had crashes with virtual instruments, errors everywhere, noises, and other details that unfortunately they made me leave Cakewalk, and now I am very comfortable in Reaper, since I do not have those kinds of problems. Also, I can get Reaper to get used to my way of working, and not the other way around. If it wasn't for the problems I had, I'd still be at Cakewalk.
That part about getting Reaper used to your way of working is the huge one!
@@MusicWithMarky Yes, of course, once you get used to working the way you want in Reaper, you see the other DAWs further 🙂
Very well scripted video, truthful and on point👍
Thank you!
Great video! thanks for posting
Sure thing!!
I love the shirt!
Thanks! I try.
Just saw your video, I've been using Sound Forge along Vegas for a long long time, guess I'm gonna try it, it time for me to update LOL.
What plugins, samples and instruments and presets you get is also impprtant. You get a lot more with cubase than with reaper. The daws May be the same, but the whole package if you Just want to start is better.
That's a very good point.
Good info here! Very useful.
Thanks!
Very lightweight for the PC, and does the same other pro DAW's do.
Thanks. Good info
Sure thing!
I'm a Cubase user but before I committed to Cubase I tried Reaper and it didn't work for me at all. BUT... I do agree, the pricing of other DAW's (yes, I'm looking at you Steinberg) is very often ridiculous. Every single update costs money and in many cases a lot of money.
I was a die-hard cubase user for the longest time. Now I only find myself using it for the vari-audio. That is mostly because I have just become used to the workflow and keyboard shortcuts and skin that I have on Reaper, though.
Cubase updates does not cost money. Upgrades does.
Right, yes. A full version change is a new cost. To the spirit of the comment though, Reaper doesn't charge for that either. If you bought 4.0, 5 and 6 still came free.
@@MusicWithMarky Have you tried Cubasis yet? I feel like that might as good as Reaper… but haven’t tried it myself.
We use Cubase at my band's studio. I like it well enough, but there's only one feature I like better than Reaper (it's called Variaudio) and it's far more expensive.
informative and to the point
Thanks. I try.
I hope it's never bought out and buggered up like Adobe buying Cooledit back in the day, then turned into bloatware. Sometimes I like to keep an archive of old versions of software just in case.
Me too!
You know it’s the creation of the same guy who created Winamp, he’s in NO need of money and it’s his baby. Doubt he’ll sell it.
What make and model is the silvery guitar front and center on the rack? Dayyyyuuummmm that thing is sick
That's a Skerveson Raptor. You can see more of it in this video: th-cam.com/video/r8y3GBQudQg/w-d-xo.html
When budget is in consideration i would say Cakewalk by bandlab is biggest competitor for Reaper since it's free. Reaper has more customisation options but CWBBL is little bit easier to approach for new users, in my opinion. Both are great options for recording artists but if you need virtual instruments or sample libraries you need 3rd party options.
Cakewalk by Bandlab a great choice compare to other daws not because it's free , because it offers a lot
@@audiosounddoctor5834 I agree. Free often translate as "bad" or "not worth it". I just wish they would include all sonar era cakewalk plugins with CWWBL, especially intruments. UI functionality needs some polishing imo as well.
@540マンモス Used to be Cakewalk Sonar user so this version is CWBBL. LOL
Music With Marky Please
4:56 what theme is this ???
That is the Concerto theme. There is a thread about it here: forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=185083
@@MusicWithMarky THANKS!
Did you ever check out Mixcraft? and if so your thoughts?
This is the first I've heard of it. I'll have to have a look this week.
So does this mean reaper is as professional as pro tools and logic? Like it sound the same rite?
Yes.
so is not Ableton best for live and effects plus VI's? Studio one gets a lot of love. Bitwig only in passing. Cubase few talk about . Logic is popular, a Garage Band upgrade. Bandlab is okay. Mixcraft maybe a little basic. Digital Performer gets forgotten as does FL Studio, Magix is pretty powerful and lastly Pro Tools, sucks at midi & live but is excellent for big sessions and mixing, only one with massive processing power due to outboard processing.
is it a big difference between the purchase version and the free one?
No difference at all.
Thanks sir🙏🏻
I'm a home pirate, for Reaper I would make an exception, reasonable price.
It's so worth it!
Great video! Subbed.
I also made a Top 10 List of why Reaper is the best DAW
Is it going to be a headache to get izotope plugins to work on reaper?
It wasn't for me. They installed with no fuss.
Hello, i saw that there are 2 versions that I can buy Reaper with. I want to make music and after some time to make money of it. Am i safe with the personal version or do i need the commercial?
Personal is fine. You wouldn't get the other unless you incorporated and had a big studio.
@@MusicWithMarky alright thank you for your help! Really helped me out!
That's why I do it! :)
Where are my FL Studio and Ableton Live
I don't have experience with them so I can't confidently do a video talking about either product.
What's the best DAW that is completely free, to get started with?
You can use Reaper for free. Eventually it just has like a wait screen until you can enter the app. I can't think of anything else better, although some people here have mentioned other favorites but I haven't used them.
@@MusicWithMarky cool thanks. I would like to try it. but won't have equipment to record for a while. I was afraid it would block using after 60 days.
Does it have drum tracks?
Reaper doesn't come with drum tracks. I recommend something like EZ drummer for that.
Wait what’s the difference between the $60 and $225 version of reaper?
No difference. The commercial license is for users who will be using it to run a for hire studio, for instance. It's just honor system, saying you will pay a higher license fee if you are using it to earn wages.
@@MusicWithMarky so if I’m an indie musician and want to release a record the plain license is fine?
Correct.
@@MusicWithMarky dope
You may use the discounted license($60) if:
You are an individual, and REAPER is only for your personal use, or
You are an individual or business using REAPER commercially, and yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000, or
You are an educational or non-profit organization.
Yup. Reaper
you left out the new Sonar that is free by Band Lab
I have no experience with it and prefer not to speak out of turn. I'll have to have a look.
I just switched to Reaper.
I was a long time Cubase lover until my dongle intermittently stopped working and it stops working. Worst customer serviced even there at Steinberg!
So 5 or 6 years ago I changed to FL Studio. And it worked fine! One time fee nice plugins (best ever to edit drums). But then after Apple went to Big Slur, I had FL Studio randomly stop recording. Or hanging! Very frustrating! And last week it happened again in the middle of a great tale of a guitar solo. And I was so fucking furious that I have reaper a try.
It’s very Spartan, no bells whistles, it’s like Linux vs MacOS and I am a Unix guy so I feel at home 😂And just like Unix/Linux it’s so fast! Starts up in an instant! And it never had a hiccup! In the 8 hours straight usage. And FL Studio the sudden recording stops literally happened every 15 minutes.
And my god, the MIDI just works! The routing is simple unlike Cubase where hardware synths are a pain! With FL Studio with device numbers port numbers and channels it’s a hassle. Here I just select the midi in, the midi out and the channel and it just works!
For sure!!! You can also use other skins with it if you don't want the Spartan look.
@@MusicWithMarky With Spartan I don't necessarily mean the main UI (I like it actually) but the plug ins, just do what they need to do and nothing more or less.
But I just re-use the plugins i have anyways, so it doesn't hinder me.
Oh right yes for sure! I do a lot more with third party plugins on Reaper than I had with Cubase.
@@MusicWithMarky well my experience currently is limited. And I mainly already used only vintage synth models form Arturia and AmpliTube for guitar. The only things I used from FL and Cubase are the EQ, Reverbs (although I’m partial to Valhalla) and the limiters and compressors.
So it wasn’t a big departure. And to me the most important thing is stability, and speedy workflow. And thus far I found it very easy and quick to use. And extremely reliable and that all my MIDI synths just routed with ease and structurally worked was a breathe of happiness 😁I love playing real hardware but both in Cubase and in FL Studio (although a little less) it was a massive headache to setup. Especially complex deep synths like the JD-XA with all its different channels for different things and the System8.
Yeah I’m really impressed and I wondered why it took me so long to move to Reaper. Because I’ve heard about it already 6 years ago when I went back into synths after a 26 year hiatus. But then chose Cubase. I guess you choose familiarity 🤣Which it wasn’t at all since the old Atari ST days.
My goodness we’ve came a long way in home recording.
Btw dude, you are a great guitar player. Watched some of your videos. Great sound, skill and nice axes!!! Keep up your great work!
Thanks so much!
I'm a big fan of Valhalla as well. Sounds like you've been around as long as me. :)
Hello thanks for this vid really helps. Got a question really appreciate if you can help with.My Reapers is connected to a Allen & Heath Q 16.If I press 'Mute' on any channel will reaper still record?.Or will that particular channel be muted?.
If I am understanding you correctly, you have instruments plugged into the 16 and then that signal goes into the computer for Reaper to record. If that is the case when you mute the channel on the 16 there is no signal from that specific channel being sent to Reaper so we will record silence or whatever else is coming in on the other channels that are not muted.
@@MusicWithMarky Hi, tks for your reply much appreciated.Exactly as how you summarised it.WIll it still Reaper still rec with a particular ch 'muted'?
When does the video start?
Not sure I understand?
HAHA I love your T Shirt!!! NEVER FORGET!!! WHAT ABOUT URNAUS! .... jk.... Anyways, I malice long Multi Instrumentalist and have recently started to get back into recording on at first PC, but then I justgt this Mac MiniM2. ( Base Model Sadly... 8gig ram or whatever and I am going to get a dock with a extended SSD drive for it... But sadly the RAM is way to expensive even when buying it used.. its like $200-300 more for 16gigs! I wish I could have swung the 16gig version but I couldn't.. le sigh) Anyways... With hat all said.. I ave been using Traction Waveform Pro. And I have REALLY been enjoying how intuitive ( for me at least) its been... I am a person who is coming from the like.. Analog Studio and a big ass mixing console point of view on a Micced up Marshal and so my mindset when I realized how amazing and wonderfully the modern stuff like Amplitude works.. Anyways, I REALLY WISH there was more videos about Waveform.. I did pay for license because I truly enjoy it and have found way easier to use than retool Lite or whatever that came with some Mackie monitors I bought..( The Routing and just... it was frustrating to use and figure out just how to record my guitar amp on a mic and I gave up on it quickly..) I wish there was some Videos that could go fairly in depth and cover why or why not and what the major functional differences and ease of use and work flow differences are between Reaper and Waveform... waveform is Free for the most part and I just got 13Pro which I think is a pay version but was fairly affordable compared to most DAWs. I really dig it myself.. but then I am fairly "new" to recording... again..lol. I have a sub to UA Spark and don't have an Apollo or any Satelliteds ( took me a bit to realize that the "DSP" chips were being used to process the PLUGINS... pretty awesome.. I always think of some smaller cheaper mixing consoles on board "MULTI-FX DSP" processor unit that his essentially useless for anything but a half descent delay or reverb fr lifve sound.. but I do utilize a UA Spark 276 interface... I'm contemplating wether the Apollo interface is worth getting to achieve being able to utilize the DSP powered UA studio plugins , and if the Mic Preamps are worth, ( I don't really have any nice mics yet and I operate on a fairly low budget.. a very low budget actually lol) or is I should just try to utilize a UA Satellite for DSP ( if I can without the Apollo...ive been told yes I can as long as I have the Spark or some UA interface... id tnt know... I asm going to be buying this stuff on eBay anyways..used.) so... anyways. Ice love it if ANYONE if not SEVERAL FOLKS would try Traction Waveform Pro and the free version ( not a big difference form was I understand) and make some more in-depth comparison videos to especially REAPER!!! Since I want to be using the most common and best DAW...( but I must admit, I'm a bit intimidated to try and switch with all the experience ive accumulated using Waveform since last year about midway when I began this home studio in my Appartment and a Roland TD-07 and a Orange Micro Terr and a single 12" speaker hooked up to a used Carvoin MTS 3200 I got at a pawn shop and repaired... to record on some cheap ass condenser mics and a Sterling PG-10 ( great analog for a Sure sm-57 btw, although I still need a couple SM-57s!) * anyways.. sorry for the rambling as hell comment. Please compare Waveform to Reaper for me!!!?? Anyone???
From what I'm seeing, Waveform costs $199 after the trial ends? Maybe it's like Reaper and you can keep using it anyway? With Reaper, you can keep using it for free, but it has a countdown screen that delays entry for a bit.
I wish I could do a comparison for you, but I'd have to spend enough time with the other DAW to do it any justice. What I can say is that if you are used to the workflow of something and you aren't wishing it had features that it's missing, then it should be fine to stay with. Does it work with all the plugins? Once you get good at the workflow of one, it's usually best to keep going with it so you can focus on creating music and not finding where to click.
besides the point I'm here but I like the shirt lol
Thanks!
What laptop would you recommend for reaper
It'll run on just about any new equipment at this point. The thing that will slow you down is using many plugins on many tracks and then you'll want plenty of RAM and a faster cpu. But, if you're not doing huge projects like that, a simple 8gig ram machine with any modern cpu should be fine. Also get a good size SSD drive and maybe an external USB drive to move old projects over to when you need to clear space.
I have an Honor MagicBook with 16GB/512GB and a Ryzen 5. Got it new for 650€. It comes with 32 bit Windows, so you might wanna upgrade that to 64 bit before you do anything with it because i didn't and now i regret not being able to install so many great plugins that are only available in 64 bit.
So it can run all the plug-ins and 3rd party plugs that ProTools can?
It will run any VST which every major plug-in I have ever seen comes in. It does some other formats too but VST is the only one I use.
@@MusicWithMarky does it bog down the cpu?
@@shayvalenz not at all
Did you ever get that t-shirt?
I did not.
I am going to buy a laptop almost exclusively for reaper. Can you suggest minimum specs for the laptop?
The main thing is memory and a fast hard drive. For basic audio recording with reaper any modern laptop CPU will be plenty. You're going to want a good recording interface like a Motu M2, at least 8 GB of RAM preferably 16, I'm plenty of space on that fast hard drive whether it's SSD or a really fast normal one.
The last thing is that anytime I have used graphics cards with ray tracing, they have not gotten along well with vsts and other audio software. So, I wouldn't try to get a laptop for advanced gaming and also use it for Reaper recording because of that weird interaction between the best video cards and audio.
@@MusicWithMarky thank you!!!!
Happy to help.
Good information
Keep it up sir
Make a daw tutorial
Thanks. What would you be looking for in a DAW tutorial?
Complete tutorial
Creat beats
Record vocal , mixing & mastering
Daw - Ableton live or protools or fl studio
I don't know those DAWs, so I wouldn't be qualified to do a torturoul in them.
Which daw u familiar
Reaper and Cubase. Reaper is the only one I have setup in the video production studio.
The best Daw is…the one “you” like.. whatever one that turns out to be
Well said!
I stand for reaper number one with it price better than other studio. 2 cubase. then fuck other daw waste of money. but i haven't tried pro tools or logic pro so they are exceptional.
But, the instructions for Reaper are long and difficult to troubleshoot problems. after spending over 40 hours just reading the manual, I still run into problems such as sound no longer coming out of the DAW. Then, after hours of creating a backing track, the sound shuts off. The manual does not help with resolving problems and I have spent many hour to end up with nothing. Time is money and Reaper with its advanced features does not address the basics.
I haven't found support for other software to be any better. The online community and boards for Reaper have more users and generally got me answers more quickly.
Your problem sounds similar to what I experienced when I had my studio machine installed with a new graphics card that had ray tracing. Something about the nVidia cards with it refuses to get along with ASIO drivers and causes drop outs. I went back to the old card and it was fine.
Your shirt is hilarious
Thanks, I try!
Why didn't you mention FL
I have no experience with it and so didn't want to speak about something I am not informed about. I had always thought it was not so much DAW for capturing analog performances and using VST style plug-ins, but rather for people creating electronic music.
@@MusicWithMarky ah I see, whenever you get a chance, try it. Its more than an electronic music daw.
The weird side of the thing is the worst is Pro tools...used by many professional studios...and you have to pay every update...
Yup
@5:40
...But why?
..What did she do?
..And who is she?
Sorry I don't understand? I'm talking about updated for free at 5:40
6:33 THAT SAID = BLAH BLAH
Unfortunately it needs quite some development for people making electronic music, especially when you look at the competition (Albeton, Bitwig, FL, etc)
That's one area I'm not familiar with. This was more intended as a review for people doing instrument based recording.
@@MusicWithMarky Yup, when I read the title about Reaper being the best DAW, I realized this video was about recording instruments.
The electronic creation end of things off not something I'm particularly knowledgeable about. I did mess with FL a few years back and was impressed, though.
No, it's not.
Reaper is a good daw but the zooming sucks.
Please excuse my ignorance here, but what do you mean?
@@MusicWithMarky It zooms from the play cursor not from the mouse pointer. You can't zoom the arrangement from the ruler by click and drag.
Oooohhhh yeah okay gotcha. I also find that annoying. They are so good about improving the program always that I wonder if people said something in the forum, of they would offer it as an option.
Then again: www.creativefieldrecording.com/2020/10/14/reaper-tip-how-to-set-custom-navigation/#:~:text=Choose%20Editing%20Behavior%20from%20the,be%2C%20just%20like%20Pro%20Tools.
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Calling it a "home" studio daw is an insult as far as I'm concerned. Reaper trumps them all
Hey suggest me best mixing headphone under $50.
Beringer bh770.
did this one with ableton all stock sounds. th-cam.com/video/tdX503WEt5c/w-d-xo.html you can tell most of the sounds are stock but it showcases some pretty good ones you can use
Hey man, that sounds really good! Love the vox!
@@MusicWithMarky hey thanks bro i appreciate that. i switched to reaper a while back and i found i love the workflow alot better just not as many stock sounds that are good but amazing for recording live instruments
I dont agree at all about they all sound the same. Actually, the way they calculate, the algorithm that they use is different. I have all of them, plus the mixbus, and i assure they sound all different. The pretty same wave sounds different. They do color the signal. Reapper and protools sound pretty close studio one is another kind of sound, complety different, the daw thar better sounds is the mixbus, but its not as advanced as others and takes a lot of processor.
Some people use it just for steam mixing.
Your ear is better than mine then. I can't discern an appreciable difference. Makes sense what you are saying, though. I think it's going to be subtle whatever it is and certainly, to my point for a basic home studio enthusiast here, any of these medium will produce quality sonic results.
@@MusicWithMarky indeed subtle. Yes for home studio not big deal. I dint mean to criticise you video though. Actually is very instructive.
@@delvisrecords I took no offense at all! I learn plenty from comments on these videos that I wasn't aware of. That's half the enjoyment!
No. The language used in all audio algorithms are based on C and C++. Thats the mother language of every DAW's API's. So its the same.
Why we hear it differently?
Because of hardware and drivers
- audio interfaces had different hardware and drivers
- speaker, studio monitor and headphones also
- even room acoustics can alter what you hear
- latency
conclusion:
It doesn't matter what daw you use because they share the same algorithm in the back end.
edit: every daw just calculate audio differently. You can try print or record a wav file on a different daws and playback it in the same music player. You'll hear nothing different.
It not the same and if you believe that then you think all Audio Interfaces are the same too and that's not true.
If you have more the one DAW in your setup you can hear the difference. Every little nudge in recording that improves the sound gives you a better recording. From the speakers, audio interface, and software.