![]() ![]() When importing the tracks, just make sure all the files start at exactly the same moment in time within your DAW’s timeline. For maximum mixdown flexibility, the contributors have made every effort to provide audio ‘raw’, in other words without additional effects or processing (beyond treatments printed during tracking/editing). All these projects are presented as ZIP archives containing uncompressed WAV files (24-bit or 16-bit resolution and 44.1kHz sample rate). Neither of those are horrible cons by any means, but they are "reservations" I have.To support readers of my book Mixing Secrets For The Small Studio, as well as music-technology students/educators in general, here’s a list of multitrack projects which can be freely downloaded for mixing practice purposes. I recommend Reaper for people who just can't really afford one of the "mainstream" DAWs, and who maybe aren't going to be switching to or between a lot of other DAWs. I really did WANT to like it - but in the end, I had access to Logic (which drives me crazy in completely different ways) and it was just a cleaner choice for me. I will say, part of my issue with Reaper was my own issue in that I spent so much time trying to customize it to get it to work like other DAWs that I finally just gave up and used other DAWs. They seem to make changes in the software based on input from a select few people, rather than adding features that many many people have requested for a very long time (but that's probably true of Apple as well.).īut, all that said, for $60.00 it is a no-brainer - if you watch the videos and don't really need to have it work like Logic or PT or Cubase. This doesn't affect many nowadays, but the way it supports external MIDI instruments is not implemented well at all (not as bad as Logic, but not as good as Cubase). Now, they constantly update it, so things may have changed, but the lack of the Inspector was a real annoyance. Even those people who are familiar with all the other DAWs have a bit of difficulty with Reaper because it's so non-standard. Now, you can use it "as is", or customize it a bit, but here's the problem - it's much harder for people who start on Reaper to transition to all the other standard DAWs than it is for people who learn Logic to work in Cubase, or Pro Tools to work in Logic, and so on. But with Reaper, there's also a learning curve to learn how to make it work like all the other DAWs. People are mentioning the learning curve - with most DAWs, there's a learning curve to use the DAW. He'll even mention many of the ways he's customized it (to make it work more like other standard DAWs!). I do agree if you watch Kenny Gioia's video tutorials - which you can even do before you download it, you'll get a lot more out of the program. Reaper is incredibly customizable though, and people will actually write code for it, so someone has written "more normal menu" so it works like all of the other major DAWs. One of the first things most people do is download the REAMenus (I think that's what it was called) because the way the Menus are organized and more especially - some of the names they use - it's pretty clear it was designed by programmers and not musicians. On one hand, Reaper, out of the box, is very much not like most other industry standard DAWs. ![]() I'm going to be in the minority and list a couple of cons: But that might swing your decision towards Logic or something else. Again, I prefer third party software for that stuff so it doesn't bother me. The only other con, depending on what you want out of a DAW, is Reaper doesn't have the VSTs like Logic or Ableton. Don't get me wrong, the stock plugins sound good, they just have too many controls for a beginner. I prefer 3rd party plugins for most of my tools, though I still use ReaGate, ReaEQ, and ReaComp, as well as some of the included JS plugins often as well. The GUI's are bare bones (except for ReaEQ which has a handy spectrum analyzer) and some are flexible to the point of being confusing at first (looking at you ReaComp). The only downside IMO is the stock plugins look like butt. As mentioned above, there's a strong user community with many excellent Youtube tutorials out there for support. It's flexible, easy to route audio, handles nearly all file formats with ease, and tweakable (you can create new hotkeys for any action, create new hotkeys, and change the GUI with any of the free user-created templates on the website, some of which are quite good).
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