From Cakewalk To Reaper 

If only I'd seen this when moving my projects over - I went through a world of pain :)

Reaper is amazing....just be careful about spending all your time customizing it. Its so easy to get carried away. Thanks for the video and link.👍

This is great! 😄Now there's a actually version of "Cakewalk" that's even better than the one they can't seem to ever release! I just put all the necessary files into Reaper you had in your video/ description and it's hilarious how much it resembles Cakewalk. What's better is you then get the benefit of Reaper's advanced features. I've used Cakewalk / Pro Audio/ Sonar stuff since the 90's I've been using CbB but I'm fed up with the extreme hassle involved in simply activating a "free" DAW. I started using Reaper and discovered it's way better than Cakewalk. Now that one can basically open CWP projects minus whatever tools are missing (not really a problem) and have all the edits , levels, etc intact there's no reason to put up with anymore activation / version shenanigans and delays from Cakewalk / Sonar I'm happily dumping Cakewalk after almost 30 years. Reaper is great. Playback rate!! The ability to easily change the rate of playback AND recording speed? That alone sold me right there. With Cakewalk it's a HUGE PITA. I really appreciate your videos and this one was an eyeopener. 👍👍

Hi XEL Ohh, your video came just at the time when I was getting impatient because of the eternally long wait for the prices for Sonar. Thank you so much for that - it got me hooked straight away and I've watched several introductory videos from you and others. After working through many tips, I can say that Reaper is far ahead of CbB in terms of workflow and the little helpers (flexible customisation of content and appearance, large faders, space-saving channels, tangible velocity lines, etc.). I absolutely cannot understand the displeasure of some Cakewalkers about your video. Everyone can use the DAW they want. In any case, I'm going to test the cwp import and I can well imagine switching to Reaper. And thanks again for your Learning Reaper channel.

I switched from cakewalk and studio one to reaper....it's been more than three years and I'm more than satisfied

OMSoul That Beat At 18:28 Was Crazy 🔥🔥🔥

Quality content young man.

Brilliant video as always. Thank you so much. Among the things I have learnt so far: - 7.15 is now out - while the ReaPack packages are installing is a really good time to get a coffee 😄

great stuff - thanks a lot!

made the same move recently. Reaper is fantastic, much better IMO. Thanks for all your Cakewalk videos, they were great

You're echoing exactly how I feel about Cakewalk, I love Cakewalk, but I don't I don't know what they are going to do about pricing so this is why I'm making the move to Reaper. To me Cakewalk looks and feels "prettier", but Reaper is totally tweakable and only $60. I feel Sonar will NOT be $60 it will probably be a subscription model or hundreds of dollars. Terrific video thanks for enlightening us.

It's been 2-3 years now that I've been using cakewalk, after recent updates my cakewalk got buggy and my projects randomly weren't saving and were crashing and that's why I left cakewalk and started using reaper

My reasons for moving from Cakewalk to Reaper: - Cakewalk lagged and crashed even on a pc with a good spec. Reaper is extremely light on CPU, it's like night and day - Cakewalk would randomly crash - Cakewalk didn't seem to have a proper grid. Reaper has a fully customisable grid which works exactly the way I need

nice idea xelohh...never dived into cakewalk (installed it once and never used it much) and since now the move to payed some cakewalk users might get into reaper easier

Thanks so much. Very helpful. Have you ever had any trouble with Reaper finding the audio files when importing a cwp file?

So far I'm a little disappointed with ReaCWP, sadly. I appreciate that it's a free utility from an independent developer - so kudos to him - and it's better than doing it manually as at least everything lines up, and of course if for some reason you no longer had Cakewalk it would be a life saver, but after a cursory glance at one converted project... 1. It created groups for buses instead of tracks. Is that the preferred method in Reaper? I don't like that routing mechanism at all. I would much rather the conversion preserved the type of routing from CW. Quite honestly routing in this way in Reaper seems like a poor alternative to bussing to tracks. (And in addition folders in CW are for a different purpose so it's visually confusing for people newly moving over from CW too.) I would have to do rerouting work on every project to get them how I want them, ie as they were in CW. 2. It doesn't transfer colours of tracks (and buses obviously). I can't think of any good reason why not as the same colour palette - same dialog box for it in fact - is available for tracks in Reaper. I colour extensively and it is a huge part of my organisation. To have to (re)colour every track will/would be a major pain. 3. It doesn't transfer arranger sections. I appreciate that you could have multiple arranger tracks in your CW project but if it just picked the first one, or the one with the most sections, or just any one, it would be better than nothing. 4. For some reason my project doesn't sound the same. I can't hear the drums at all and the relative volumes of other things is different. This is not a complex project. It doesn't even have any automation. As with the other points I'm sure this is recoverable but losing my mix does not seem like a good place to start. (In the case of the drums I can see the meters moving so that's probably a routing issue.) 5. Actually on closer examination I don't seem to have any midi at all. That can't be right. Does anybody have any quick solutions to any of these things? Am I missing something?

Cakewalk to Cubase to Reaper to Studio One

ARE YOU MOVING TO REAPER AND LEAVING CAKEWALK???

This Windows Recall feature simply call everyone "Hay, you. Use Linux and free stuff only" so I simply I am moving to Linux, Zorin 17.1 Unfortunately, I have too many projects on Cakewalk Windows. Will Reaper installed on Zorin open a Cakewalk file that came from Windows?

Link to Theme just goes round and round.

Well done XEL O, what can I say about the new look of Reaper, can I impersonation because I haven't seen Reaper looked like this before or Am I the one who doesn't get it, I can say they clone Cakewalk knowing it was great and it was going to shut down, I don't het it, especially what You just showed that received cakewalk project like that and copying copying cakewalk plugin like Cubase, it looks almost exactly like Cakewalk. wow. Thanks for sharing this video. But new Cakewalk Sonar has more better features ever than before ,which makes work flow better and also enhanced and cleaner audio engine and You just have to be patient Heaven is not going to fall.😅😅😊

reaper also understands what an update is. it doesnt take the producing out of producing. most daws are making us lazy and unoriginal with every update. idk...#getoffmylawn😒 . .... ....

Xel Ohh is it true that Reaper does not come with any Instruments at all ? or did i something wrong because i did not do most of the stuff you show here. maybe thats why i have a so empty reaper. if it has no Drum vst nor any other Instrument i hope they are gonna add tose aswell because i do like reaper allthough i had issues with recording beats ...kind of out of beat allways and i dont know why. Thank You Xel Ohh

I switched from cakewalk to fl studio. I waited for cakewalks new programs but they took to long and from what I see today they still ain’t dropped.

Reaper - the DAW that needs customization that all other DAWS except Cakewalk call common sense built ins.

two free cakewalk themes link just goes round and round after entering email.

Hi bro, You move to Reaper?

pronounced re , not re-uh... it's a pun so to speak. don't focus on the a . .... ....

i almost rippedmyself tryn to using it few months ago ...'i got too small mind for it i guess ......it ocuppies my mind atention so much to do anything on it that i forget music and inspiration and get stressed from it ....i'm tellin you i almost RIPped i self from atemprt using it ....m tryn out FL now ....much better but i was trn to use fewyears ago and did not like it ata ll