I was looking around online last night and ran across some people talking about a program called Reaper. They were discussing this really cheap digital audio workstation that packed a lot of cool stuff for the money. I also thought it was cool that they were saying the inventor of Winamp created it, which I think rocks.
I went and downloaded it and played with it for about an hour and I must say, NOT BAD. The software is uncrippled, unexpiring shareware for windows. Reaper is available for download without technological limitations for evaluation purposes. Once you have evaluated REAPER, you can purchase a license. Its is 50 dollars for a personal license or 225 dollars for a commercial use license. If you use it past the trial it will still work with full functionality but will make you wait 6 seconds or so every time you open it and remind you to buy it. (cmon now, its 50 bucks)
Some of its features are: 64 bit audio engine, Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI, Support for VST, VSTi, DX, DXi effects, and it supports running from USB keys or other removable media so its portable too. Like I said, that's a lot for 50 bucks.
It looks pretty easy to use. I only played with it for a little while but I had no trouble finding my way around it. If you are comfortable with recording software you should be alright, if not its a cheap way to get started and who knows, it might be all you will need.
Here are some screenshots.
Here's where ya download it.
Give it a shot.
Tell us what you think.
I went and downloaded it and played with it for about an hour and I must say, NOT BAD. The software is uncrippled, unexpiring shareware for windows. Reaper is available for download without technological limitations for evaluation purposes. Once you have evaluated REAPER, you can purchase a license. Its is 50 dollars for a personal license or 225 dollars for a commercial use license. If you use it past the trial it will still work with full functionality but will make you wait 6 seconds or so every time you open it and remind you to buy it. (cmon now, its 50 bucks)
Some of its features are: 64 bit audio engine, Direct multi-track recording to many formats including WAV/BWF/W64, AIFF, WavPack, FLAC, OGG, and MIDI, Support for VST, VSTi, DX, DXi effects, and it supports running from USB keys or other removable media so its portable too. Like I said, that's a lot for 50 bucks.
It looks pretty easy to use. I only played with it for a little while but I had no trouble finding my way around it. If you are comfortable with recording software you should be alright, if not its a cheap way to get started and who knows, it might be all you will need.
Here are some screenshots.
Here's where ya download it.
Give it a shot.
Tell us what you think.
2 comments:
Play with it for a while. Learn it. Then, after a few weeks you may think "all the other DAWs are not bad but Reaper beats them all". This is mostly because most of the real awesomeness of Reaper is under the hood, sometimes hidden in some menus. Tiny example: There's a "guitar tuner" amongst the 200 kickass plugins that come with Reaper. Then you click curiously on the second tab of that window and discover a full-blown "Melodyne" style pitch correction plugin.
YMMV of course, if you're into editing strange crap out of innocent MIDI events, Reaper is maybe not your #1 tool. But when it comes to audio it's not an alternative, it runs circles around the competitors. Period.
Sweet, I'll have to give it another shot. I did not know about the pitch correction. That's awesome. Thanks for the feedback and thanks for reading.
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