Changing looks and prefs before knowing what they do. The biggest mistake most who try out Reaper does, is to try out all the OPTIONS long before knowing the basics. Reaper is very stable indeed, and actually very logical. With the added bonus of Snaphots (close to Import Session Data). Be we'll.ĭisclaimer: I only use Reaper for mixing (also Cubase and S1).įor mixing Reaper is probably the fastest of them all. I can live with that.Īnyway have fun locomoPL! Good luck with your choice. Reaper wins this one but it's not by more than say 10 seconds.
I've only found one DAW that's an actual loser with startup and that's Pro Tools. With Reaper, I found my creative side was being interrupted by my technical side and doodling with skins, and over tinkering.
I will without hesitation put my money (and have) on Studio One due to the simple fact it finds the right balance of color, while allowing me to "be done with the graphic nostalgia". I found I spent entirely too much time doodling with Reaper and not getting down to the purpose in which to have a DAW. Clearly one might point to Reaper, and I'd be inclined to agree, but IMO, form follows function.
With Studio Ones latest additions of scratchpad, but Reapers very customizable docking, I'll call this even.Ĭolor, and skin custom control. In this case less is WAY more.ĭrag & Drop. Quite honestly, I find Reapers plugs extremely basic, one dimensional, little to no better than web freabies (largely worse), and a bit dated. (True, Reaper has more flexibility there, but way too archaic in track assignments and creation).īundled Plugin quality: winner: S1 by a longshot. *streamlined creation of mixed aux's, midi, audio and Rewire channels. As to S1 or Reaper? Here's my winners list. That drops Reason from the pack, though I do enjoy Rewiring to PT with Reason. At that point of stability, these 3 DAW's shine, so I'd say you then better look to workflow functionality, access to a greater selection of plugins such as VST's, and greater plugin integration to sort what's best. That said, I didn't feel the need for a public "screw you Sonar" tour of the forums before switching to S1.įor stability, I've found the top 3 DAW's to be Reason, then Reaper, followed by Studio One.
But if they sorted out a few key things (namely stability, and made smaller/scalable UI elements, particularly the console) I could one day envision myself returning. I refrain from doing it, because you never know when a future version might add THAT special feature, and I have to come back with my tail between my legs.Įxactly. There's a lot about Logic I could complain about, but at the end of the day, who cares? The Logic community certainly doesn't. I stopped using Logic a few months ago (S1 and Reaper meet all my needs) but I didn't go to the Logic forums to announce it. I just fail to understand the need to take "a parting shot" on the way out. Modern daw users are rather transient (no audio pun intended) in general.Īgreed and I get it. Same thing happened when Studio One 3 released. Reaper 5, Cubase 8, Logic X, Bitwig, whatever. On every major daw release somebody says that. Graytermedia wrote Lawrence wroteI wouldn't read too much into it.
I'd also warn the OP that in my experience, the longer you use a particular DAW, the longer the list of gripes (feature requests) about it grow as you ask yourself questions like "why isn't this simple feature from X DAW implemented in my current DAW, I didn't even notice that at first." It's all about finding a DAW that does most of what you want well, and maybe keeping another DAW or two (and/or a notation editor) around in case you need a particular feature. If we're going to have threads like this at all, I just wish posters would focus more on "how to improve Studio One" versus the "I found a better DAW haha" tone that these posts all too often have. That said, Studio One lets me work more intuitively and efficiently. For instance, yeah, Reaper's startup time and CPU efficiency are HUGE advantages over S1. These posts are always kind of obnoxious in that they're completely unnecessary (if you like Reaper better, fine), but there is some useful information to be gleaned from comparing strengths and weaknesses of one DAW to another.