LIVE Change My Mind About REAPER with Myk Robinson 

I was a protools guy for 10 yrs,, had a perpetual license, ($600.00) and when they switched to subscription, I felt the absolute greed was too much.. went to Reaper and absolutely love it.. it's a bit overwhelming with all the parameters and 3rd party extensions. But again, totally loving Reaper..🤘👍

Reaper power user here and I’ve been using reaper on all projects from major to indie my entire career now. The render que is indispensable

I really like Reaper's attitude towards licensing. It is very refreshing and harks back a little to the spirit of the early computer music scene. The Amiga, ST, Tracker days.

It’s fantastic to see you exposing Reaper to a wider audience Warren, thank you. It’s probably fair to say that if Reaper was where it is now and had the marketing budget of Pro tools back in the day it would have become industry standard without a doubt. All I can say is don’t be put off by the massive customisation available, you don’t have to use it until you’re ready. Just jump in and give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

I remember when a mentor of mine switched from Cubase to ProTools and told me "it feels like switching from a Toyota to a Cadillac"... When I switched to Reaper a couple years ago (from Studio One, but ive used pretty much everything but Logic), I reflected on that memory and realized my current transition felt like switching from a Cadillac to a 787 cockpit... So many reasons I prefer it, but for me: -ReaPack/actions (how did I ever live without "auto track color/icon"!?) -paramater link/modulation -plug-in organization folders with redundancy (meaning I can put my LA-2A plugs in my "compressors" folder, and still have them show up in my "vocals" and "bass" folders) -performance (in practice, similar to a ~$400-800 PC upgrade)... All combine to put Reaper in a completely different league from the rest...

Switched from pro tools to Reaper and I'm in love with it

After being with Cubase and PC since the Atari days I switched from PC to Mac M1 and got tired of waiting for Steinberg to release a Silicone version I tried Reaper last year. I had tried it several years ago and couldn't get one with it. The latest versions are different and much more intuitive. Cubase 12 is now out, I have it, I rarely boot it up now. Reaper is way more powerful and the support beats Steinberg outta site (not difficult really). Killer feature for me is that I can set up a custom remote (or several) on old tablets or phones without having to buy any other software or apps.

It'd be neat to see this with Kenny Gioia!

the problem is that many DAW users don't spend time mastering one software first, they learn a bit of this DAW then jump to another DAW, then when they settle on one that they get to know very well, they claim that DAW is better than any other but they never really get to know others DAW DEEPLY.

Reaper is like climbing a mountain. It takes som effort to learn and understand it, but when you are there (at the top) maaaaan what a view. Then you can make it as simple or as complicated as you want. So you need to understand it first . . . I've used Cubase and Logic . . and tried Pro-Tools. But Reaper did it for me.

reapers design at heart, is the concept of an high track count tape machine attached to a unlimited routing high track count console.

the bedroom producer college drop out experience of going from Audacity to Pro Tools to Reaper only to wonder why you didn't try Reaper sooner

Reaper is definitely one of the best overall DAWs - given the price and stability it’s just a no brainer - and for pure mixing purposes it’s definitely one of the best. The automations work like a dream, and routing is just the best. However I do find song writing and creative sound design more inspiring in some other DAWs.

Mikes has an amazing channel loaded with Reaper knowledge.... good stuff, thanks Warren!

Angel delight, butterscotch flavour! Also "Instant Whip". The important ingredient of beans on toast is HP sauce!

Iam a strange guy, I am a apple/ reaper user. I had a 2009 basic 21.5inch iMac, not the strongest apple machine, and reaper being so light was working fine for years. Until almost last year when a peak of power on the grid burned almost every electronic device in my house. Then I bought a used bargain 5.1 Mac Pro from 2010, a basic one, with the hope that prices of graphics cards will drop and I could built a beast computer for cheap (while m1 Macs where not compatible yet with a lot of my plugins etc). That never happened so I was stacked with a unsupported Mac os, logic was not an option, reaper was there for me. I was working in an old studio occasionally, that had a old windows 7 32bit pc due to old interface and its drivers etc, there cubase was starting to have problems working, again, reaper saved the day. Now I've just moved to a m1 Mac and reaper surprised me again, while I've seen people opening logic through rosseta for unsupported plugins and natively for supported, reaper just works natively until you put an unsupported one and then switches automatically to intel based and through rosetta instantly. Ive worked with cubase, pro tools ,logic etc and I've seen others with a lot of daws, I like the workflow of a lot of them, but I consider reaper as the one that will be there for you every time, working fine from the best to the worst computer

I heard about reaper since its v2 but i was using anouther DAW at a time (sonar),, after (sonar) had its problems and discontinued i forced my self to start using reaper,, and i started using it (V5) in a recording session in my studio right away,, it took some time to fully understand it but now i can't go back to any other DAW 'coz REAPER spoiled us with its many many great features ❤️

switched from logic, cubase and fl studio to Reaper... Just one week and really pleased. Reaper just nails so many needed things and almost nothing i miss with respect to the other 3😊

I started on Steinberg Pro 12. Then Pro 24 on an Atari 1040ST, The first computer to have on board midi ports. I used a Steinberg SMPTE dongle on the parallel port to stripe one track on the multi track (Fostex 1/2" 8 track) recorder with code to sync the analogue audio with the midi sequencer. We went to a lot of trouble back then to record. I use Reaper now after using Pro Tools and a few of the others. Oh and I still have that Steinberg SMPTE dongle. As far as DAW's go Reaper works best for me. It's efficient and powerful and fully customizable. Good for midi stock plugins are pretty good too. If folks want an all in one DAW with instruments, samples and Amp simulators etc, then Qbase Logic or Studio One might be better.

I went from making songs on a Roland vs1880 to Reaper back in the version 3 days and never felt the need to look at anything else. It does everything I need and if there is anything I'd like to do but don't know how, I can research it and it has always been possible.

Thanks for continually adding Reaper content Warren, great to see more and more of it!

The closest I can imagine to be similar to beans on toast is, my mom's egg and refried beans on a flour tortilla. I'm with you, that is comfort food. This brings back memories from my early days in grade school.

love reaper...used all possible daws ... i wish that reaper and ableton can create some kind of collaborative daw, with sound engine by ableton and flexability by reaper...and thanks for this video....always pleasure to watch your videos

N-Track! That was my first DAW, recommended by my guitar teacher at the time. With a Superlux condenser mic and a Behringer mixer, straight into my PC’s sound card: the 2004 equivalent of the teen with a 4-track, recording countless songs in my bedroom.

No one will change my mind about REAPER. It's tops.

You didn't mention that Reaper was made by the same guys who made Winamp.

I love Reaper. I used Logic before and Pro Tools before that - Sound Forge before that (way back)

My progression Tascam Portastudio 4 tracks on Minidisc -> Fostex 8 tracks on Harddrive -> "pause for several years" -> GarageBand -> LogicPro

Reaper user......love it, 2-3 years or so....before it was Cubase and Cakewalk

Something Else to mention about Reaper is the way it handles processing. Reaper distributes processing evenly across all the computer cores available in your system, where most other DAWs use the first two cores until they are maxed out then start spreading processing to the rest of the cores. This was the main reason I moved to Reaper, and then I fell in love with the ease of routing capabilities. I like to use Acustica plugins and found I could run 3Xs the amount of instances than any other DAW (the usual suspects) before it would start taxing the system. The switch was a no brainer for me.

As Myk mentioned, being new to audio production and a new Reaper user I find it overwhelming! The mods and settings are, IMO, limiteless!! So, finding out what way is a better way to work with Reaper, as far as ease of use is HUGE!!!

Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition was my first daw. Tried all the others but, gravitated to Reaper and, learned about the Winamp connection.

im looking forward to watching that course for the slip editing in groups knowledge

I started it in 2007. Loved it ever since.

I've tried Ableton Live, Logic Pro X and I'm still happy using Studio One.

I used N-Track around versions 3-5, even wrote some plugins for them :-) Cubase started out as Pro16 and Pro24.. I got to that after Notator!

Reaper really does have a cult following. And I think that is because in many ways it is sort of the underdog and the "every-man" DAW. Pro-tools has gotten ridiculously expensive. Logic is an incredible deal considering what it comes with stock, but you can only get it if you use a Mac. Meanwhile Reaper is not only cheap, but payment is based on the honor system and people really respect that. No iLok, or special licensing software. No sign-up or joining an email list. You just download it and if you think it's worth it, you send some money. The whole business model of reaper and the customizability make it something that the average joe can latch onto and something that thrives on community engagement. And I think Reaper users want to convert others to Reaper because 1. The larger the community it is the stronger it becomes and 2. Average Joe's love seeing the pro's using the same tools they use. I just saw John Mayer in concert. The guy uses a $200,000 Dumble Amp and a signature guitar made for him by PRS. That's an unattainable rig. A lot of guys are out there with just unattainable, amazing rigs. But there's something about seeing someone at the top of the game using the same affordable rig as you that makes you feel better about yourself. You feel like what you have is adequate. It's confirmation that the only thing keeping you from success if yourself. Many Reaper users feel Reaper is not only more affordable than pro-tools, but that it's actually better. And they want to see pros out there doing great things with it. And I know I'd love to see Reaper's low-cost, user-trusting business model completely own the expensive subscription business-model of pro tools.

Cool to see this. Myk is such a good dude. Then there's Warren... also such a good dude.

i went Reaper 4 years ago and will NEVER go back. you can do ANYTHING any other daw can, AND create your own workflow to get there.

Started on Protracker 1 (Amiga 500). Ended up at Logic, Vegas, Protools(via a wealthy friend who owned it and a lot of great mics), to Reaper.

I purchased the Reaper license early simply for the fact that it IS based on the honor system and they don't seem greedy. I love that I can use it on all of my PC's so I can track on the go when needed and don't need to purchase additional licenses, carry a USB key etc etc. I don't have a problem giving money for tools when I don't feel like I'm being nickel and dimed. Besides the fact that the software is damn amazing.

Started out using Cakewalk on Windows 98, they gave you 4 tracks of audio along with MIDI. Over the years I spent time on Sound Craft, Cubase, Ableton Live, Sonor, and went out of my way to buy Logic Studio with an Apogee interface. I loved Logic, but then I had the rug pulled out from underneath me when I upgraded. Now, I use Reaper. Love it, it can do everything that Logic can do and more. But without all the bloatware, and software crashes. You will not find a better DAW for what you get. and they do business the right way. 👍

Im a REAPER user, I was, Cubase Nuendo DieHard, since the Times of Cubase as sequencer 1995 or so, I've changed to REAPER, 5 years ago and I cant find anyhing near as excellent and complete DAW as REPEAR, simply love it and can't change even if offer paid

Reaper user since 2008

Trying not to die, but marvelous❣️❤️😅🧘‍♀️Thanks y'all! The most important ingredient on beans on toast, is cheese. 😺

I have owned a few Pro Tools HD rigs over the span of 13 years. I loved Pro Tools for its features. I didn't know Reaper well but I used it occasionally on my laptop when I was away from studio. Until one day I mixed a song in Reaper. Then I mixed another one, and after a week of playing with it, I decided to use two DAWs simultaneously. It took about a month when I became so much faster and my mixing became better and more efficient that I dropped Pro Tools. Ironically I started working less and earning more money using Reaper.

I have been using Reaper since the original Beta. Love it

I started with Audacity, then Ableton, tried Pro Tools and had to laugh at all those with my purchase of REAPER. The stand alone headphone mixes that you can have from this DAW is awesome! I have six fire-pads that I hand out to the musicians to get their own HP mixes! I don't have to worry about that at all! I use it pretty much stock like Myk does! What a cool laid back dude! I'm in West TN also! Would love to have you stop by some time! Ghostnote Studio in Mid-town Memphis! Thank you Warren!

I jumped into Reaper in 2009 from Cubase SX2 and haven't looked back. Resource usage was a huge thing for me at the time, nobody was doing multi-processing across cores properly except for Reaper. Cubase very specifically, locked a channel to a core, so it didn't take much to 100% an entire core and need to freeze something, even though the other cores were doing very little. The rationale was simple, buy an expensive upgrade or try reaper and if it works, buy some new gear :)

Here's a good one to ramp up the flavour on cheese on toast if you're skint - sprinkle an oxo cube over it before grilling ;-)

Man, it's supposed to be Autumn here in Australia .. it was over 40% Humidity today! worse than the middle of summer

Wish I had been live with this one. My first DAW was a Sonic Solutions. Went from that to Frameworks, than to Merging Technologies, than ProTools, Now very Happy on Reaper, Oh an was both Apple and Windows user.

I'm a reaper user for about 2 years now and from what I know it's the same company who made also winamp. And that's also the reason why the guys from reaper already maked enough money, so reaper is not so expensive like other daws.

Old thread but why not...Started with SOS on an Akai 4000ds in mono...then two in stereo, then an R8 1/4" 8 track sync'd to Atari 1040 STFM and Cubase......Cubasis 4 & 5.......and Cubase 4 over a period of decades. Moved to Reaper because of expensive upgrades and the ditching of VST support for a large selection of VST and VST2 32 bit plug-ins. Been along for the ride since reaper 4.0 and am committed.

I dabbled with Cakewalk in the early 2000s. Used CoolEdit Pro in high school.. and Reaper was pretty close to that, probably even easier to use. My experience with Cubase, Logic, Ableton etc has been painful, some are just really annoying to get VST's working on 9and really expensive).

Not a user am a Nigerian producer that’s majorly into Afro beats but having a pro music has been the hardest for me both from concepts to using

Dude's sound deadening in the background looks like the Black Flag jailbars ;)

have used Pro Tools, Cubase, Ableton to name few. love them all. I use Reaper.

I use Reaper in Debian Linux and I'm vegan, so you got a big lol from me at about 19:00. ;) Still using Windows, too, because I just can't part with some of the plugins got so used to and I still don't use WINE, but I will probably get to it one day. I've heard it is very efficient and it doesn't create much of a processing overhead, so it's definitely an option for using Windows plugins in Linux.

"Originally called Cubeat, later on Cubit, but changed to Cubase due to trademark issues, this was the successor to Pro-24." [ Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinberg_Cubase ] From 1987 to 1990, I used Pro-24 in my first endeavors trying to make music ;-)

I moved from sonar/cakewalk to reaper. I am staying with reaper. Rock solid and powerful. And as is being evidenced by Myk right now, the community is amazing. The availability of great tutorials is unmatched. Hail reaper!!

YES YES YES! I've been using Reaper for many years now and I find it perfect. I made my bachelor's degree thesis entirely on Reaper. Best DAW ever you can't change my mind 🤣

So happy to hear I wasn't the only N-TRACK studio user on the planet hahaha!

Just got the Loc Ness plug-in. Can't wait to use it on my future projects. From the first few minutes of testing, it's absolutely killer. :)

I used the most important DAWS on Windows during the 2000's and Reaper seduced me with its efficiency and its free and clever workflow. I agree with many comments : at the begining, Reaper is strange, but mostly because some weird choices in the default settings. For example : the right drag mouse had to be optionnal and not THE default selection method. Same thing with these scary reapeaks that invade everything. They should always be stored at the same place or in a subfolder. But apart from this small criticism, reaper is and will stay my preferred DAW.

i use reaper because the super limited lite edition of cubase that came with my keyboard sucked and then i realized just how expensive music equipment and software is. reaper also got bonus points for not crippling itself during the trial.

Yes I moved from Studio One to Reaper. I have not looked back. Reaper does everything I need it to do and more.

Great vid!

Holy crap. I also started with N-Track. Thought I was the only one... 🤣

Music Maker is from Magix, the same company which makes Sampltude. Great software.

Awesome upload guys \m/ where would we be without all those bootlegged copies of Cubase 2??!! the 90's would not have even happened...and the mind blowing possibilities when they invented audio tracks!!!! I have always been a sample tweaker...might have to blow the dust off my Akai S950...fully expanded 2 and a quarter meg baby \m/...and can you remember which track had the intro " I like beans, I like sauce...I like sexual intercourse"

7:30 - Oh wow! I thought I was the only person who dabbled with n-Track back in the day. The 3 note "watermark" was a SUPER pain in the rear-end.

10 yrs use ... love it

I came into the live video late and missed the intro. It's -5 Celsius where I am (23 Fahrenheit). Haven't seen 18 Celsius since last October.

i started on song scid pr 6 went to fl studio then logic now looking at reaper because something is missing from when i first started making music and want to go back to windows

se mics: vr2, se8 cardioid and Omni, t2. beyerdynamic m130s

Did anyone mention Voyetra SP Gold DOS-based MIDI only :) I had the VAPI interface - 4 banks of 16 MIDI channels on a 8286 in 1990 Whoo

i actually LOOVE "N-Track Studio DAW". they actually have a beta out right now for a new version coming out, its pretty decent. but im right now really weighing options for a new daw right now.... really overwhelming actually

Turtle Beach Systems 56K digital recording system / SoundStage software [1990 or 1991] Aspired to SPECTRAL Synthesis workstation (by company based in Woodinville, WA) but never purchased [1991-1993] SAWPro by IQS [2000 or 2001] REAPER [2020-present] REAPER is the only DAW I ever really loved.

I feel Studio One still hasn't been beat when it comes to editing audio. I wish Reaper was more organized in its menus. Its so damn overwhelming. Reaper makes me feel like I'm working and not having fun making music.

Samplitude user here and staying there 🙂

I actually did use cool edit pro for a long time. It was a good audio editing program.

Butter is the essential ingredient of Beans On Toast (AKA Skinheads on a raft)

Started using reaper for 1.5 years

Smart guy, fun interview.

I used to use very old Cakewalk Sonar 10+ years ago, before Reaper

Last I heard, Justin Frankel codes Reaper on a Mac now. So there's that.

I’ll use it for quickly laying down raw tracks. But my real workhorse is Mixbus 32c

Trying Reaper on a Raspberry Pi 400 (Linux) with UMC404HD interface, so far working well.

I'm a logic user and needed another daw for my pc. I tried reaper. First time I tried to save something, all my files were scattered on my desktop. First time I tried to record something the crackling and the latency was so bad that I spent all my energy adjusting the buffer size, Apparently reaper has at least 3 ways to adjust this correctly. After some time, it seemed that everytime I needed to do something, I first needed to search the program, adjust the parameters of what I was looking for and then proceed with my action. At the end I installed studio one and it was a sigh of relief. I really don't understand the hype for this program, for me it wasn't a pleasant experience using it. The excuse is that it's highly customazible and it's up to the user and blah blah blah but at the end of the day, I want to make music and not figure out how reaper can be the best daw if I learn how to program it

16:45 wow. i found out about reaper this year after getting a new pc and installing an old version of cubase sx2… it was just not up to par anymore, and i couldn’t install it on a older mac mini i have on which i didnt wanna spend money for Logic and the likes, and on which, so needed something more than an un-updatable Garageband…

I still have cooledit pro on my second computer

Hey there can anyone help,.. im completely lost. in reaper i've imported a bass vst and im making a bass track for my song. i've already wrestled with the altered pitch when importing a bass midi, and have that sorted. my problem is,.. every now and then i'll come across a 'silent' note. the note pitch is completely within the 'correct parameters' in the piano roll/grid view theres a note of the same pitch right next to it on either side that both play fine, but when i hit play there's a 'hole' in the sound where the note SHOULD be. - i tried altering the velocity and channel,... no help, ... when i push the note, it works, when i hit play,..its makes no noise?! when i alter the pitch up OR down,..it plays fine?!?! it just wont play at the pitch i want,..even tho the notes next to it are the SAME NOTE/pitch. i have NO idea whats going on.

would of loved a course

Ah didn't expect the linux usage

Linux User using reaper in Linux here! :)

Like Myk, I used ntrack studio (was a great DAW to start on) prior to Reaper. The attraction to Reaper was the unhindered trial, multi platform support, price and size. It is a very small download and installed footprint. I hate programs which are bloated.

Any thoughts about reapers soundengine?

Change my mind about Studio One. I keep trying to switch, but can't. It's too easy despite its sluggishness on my cpu.

Let’s talk about FL Studio next 🔥🔥🔥🙏