Introduce Yourself

[Tarvini]

I thought it might be nice to have a "sticky" thread to allow people to introduce themselves and perhaps describe their background a bit. I will boldly start by describing my own wonderful self...

I spent the large majority of my life as a professional musician, including many years of live work as well as many dozens of recording sessions (as a guitarist), nothing chart-topping, but with some truly great players (they were great people too). I've done lots of work with solo guitar, synths, midi-guitar + wind-controller, samplers, and sequencing, as well as with other actual humans playing actual instruments:) I am now happily returning to music after working as a computer weenie for a large company for the last twelve years. If all goes well, I hope to get a bit of work doing synth/guitar/orchestral sweetening sessions with the local studios, assimilate myself back into the musical community, and produce some non-trivial (well... to me anyway) music in the process.

I'm working with a variety of sequencers and hard/soft synths/samplers, and, of course, The Guitars.

[pipelineaudio]

This is probably a good idea

[Lawrence]

In the spirit of the community here I'll play.

I'm a keyboard player (not very good), music lover and an engineer. I attended an audio engineering school many years ago (RID - Recording Institute of Detroit) and later partnered with 3 good friends in a commercial studio, Integrated Sound Studios, in downtown Detroit, MI.

As luck would have it (and Murphy's law) this was just before the city decided to build 2 new sports stadiums. The landlord, smelling big bucks for the land, didn't allow us to renew our lease. We got booted and never made a splash. The building is empty and decaying as we speak, 3 blocks from Ford Field where the Superbowl was last year.

BTW, I was on the Seattle sidelines... www.theaudiocave.com/XL

I moved the audio gear that I owned home, remodeled my basement a little and went on alone with the current studio, The Audio Cave. www.theaudiocave.com ... nothing fancy. Cubase SX, Vegas 6, Fruity Loops, Acid 6.

My software programming pursuits are meager at best. NFL Pool 2006 was my most succssful "Internet" sales app, a sports pool application which I terminated as of this upcoming season. I rewrote it for the upcoming 2007 season but I didn't have time to support it so I let it go.

http://theaudiocave.com/NFL/assets/images/main.JPG

http://theaudiocave.com/NFL/assets/images/standings1.JPG

http://theaudiocave.com/NFL/assets/images/contacts.JPG

http://theaudiocave.com/NFL/assets/images/setup.JPG

That's all folks...

[haggan]

this thread is a good idea, so i continue:

Actually i started to play music at a late age (when i was over 30). 1990-1997 I played 7 years in a hardrock band, did many workshops and played with some known german artists (Frank Itt, Ralli Lewitzki of FEE, etc.).
I have 20 years live and 3 years studio experience, and 2000 i recorded a cd with a friend.
I do homerecording, did online sessions on Rocket Network and produced my friend´s songs. 2001 I had an own 1 hour airplay about Rocket Network on local radio.
2003 - 2006 i played bass in a punk´n roll band, we recorded 2 cds; highlight with this band was a gig with an audience of about 2500 people last year. Just 4 days ago, a part of my productions was broadcasted on nationwide radio.
Now i start producing people, and try to establish my own internet business. Also i will start a music production company via the net in the future.
well, think enough so far,
cu around

[Bebop52]

I was born in 1955, which makes me an old dude. Met my wife when I was 17. I was a guitar player, learned to play in Gibraltar from William Gomez, who was a classical player of some note. She was a classical pianist. We moved to London in 1973, penniless, and full of rock n' roll ideas. Played in numerous bands all over London. Then discovered jazz. Grew a beard (not my wife, me)formed Ordinary Listeners, and made two albums. Played all over Europe. Got tired of living in transit vans and carting Fender Rhodes up staircases at 4 in the morning. Won a jingle writing competition for Capital Radio. Got commissioned to make 2 library music albums. Ran out of money in commercial studios, so bought a Fostex 8 track and an Allen and Heath 16:8:4 desk and recorded the albums in our back bedroom. She left me 8 years ago after 25 years together. I fell to pieces, ended up in psychiatric wards and rehabs. I stopped playing for years, couldn't do it without my wife, who could play like McCoy Tyner. Then, in a rehab in Devon, I discovered Cubase. Suddenly, instead of a room full of junk, I could record amazing stuff on a PC. Shaved me beard off, got a haircut and started playing and recording again. Still very ill, I have been in hospital 30 times in the past 4 years. Discovered Reaper a few weeks ago. Uninstalled Cubase, got me strusty Les Paul out, and started playing some mad Allan Holdsworth lines again. Where will it all end? Probably in jail. But I will die playing an altered diminished 13th scale. Cheers.

[harphunt]

I'll bite, too.

I also live in the Detroit area (recorded a cd at the White Room). I used to play in a local favorite band, Sunglasses After Dark (no corey jokes please) in my late 20s and early 30s. We had a sponsership from Miller Genuine Draft and a number of different music suppliers. Received more than my 15 miniutes of fame allotment. We had a few songs on local radio and did some cool shows. I quit the bar life to teach middle school history, get married, and raise a family.

I used to fiddle about with a four track fostex, but as of late have been trying to do the same and more on my computer. It's difficult to get much done between the hours of 8 and 12 on Friday and Saturday nights (can you relate?). Thank you to all of you that have taken my questions seriously.

I still play with a band, but it is more like guys night out. We play the occasional biker club parties and a bar once in a while for kicks. We're known as Dead in Dog Years.

I guess that's enough. Look for my stuff in the Reaper music forum. I'd like to see more of us post and comment about the ends as well as the means.

PEACE

[J Kennedy]

Hi All,

Must be the collective mindset. I was going to suggest this thread as a sticky, was getting ready to post the suggestion and there it was.. My feeling is that there are a lot of real gems out there. All we know about you may be a suggestion to get a driver working. Some have the incredible grace to be fultime musicians or producers.

Many of us are working stiffs in some field remore from music. This means that there is a lot of varied and valuable expertise in other areas of life that can be shared.

My suggestion was that the thread have an original post by each person, not a continued thread with everybody adding at random. The thread is early enough that this could be fixed, each thread started by a single individual with his/her background. Hence, the focus is better and you can ask questions from the drywall expert, or get advice on a plumbing problem, or how to troubleshoot an engine check light.

This thread can be unique among the forums and very useful. Plus, this is kind of like a family of very special individuals, and I want to know who you are, what you do and how you get high.

Respect to all,

John K

[Bebop52]

Anyone know how to fix a blocked U-bend? I was taking a leak, and accidentally dropped John Coltrane's Giant Steps long playing gramaphone record down the pan. I think I may have droped me plectrum in there, too. It was a Jim Dunlop, saved from a Jimi Hendrix concert in 1965. Cheers.

[LabbyRoad]

Okay, here goes ...

I'm an I.T. Manager by day. I dabbled in electronic music back in the early to mid 1980's until my paying job became too soul sucking and I packed my Synthesizer up in a box for 20 years.

How fortunate for me that I discovered Justin and Reaper, just as my creative energies were finally returning. I'm now recording new compositions as well as re-recording some old ones.

I'm so excited about what Reaper has enabled me to do, that I have created a Blog (see URL below) where you can read my thoughts (not telepathically) and listen to what I've recorded so far, as well as some samples of my efforts from decades past.

I hope you'll come visit and drop me an email if you feel moved to comment on what you read/hear.

Call me Labby!

[Alistair S]

I'll chip in too.

I will be 50 this year. I have no idea how that happened.

I was born in the Far East of British parents, and brought up in my earlier years in the Middle East, but have lived in the UK for most of my life.

I kind of dropped out and left home when I was 16, when my parents headed out to the States (they are back here now) and drifted, growing my hair and "freeing my mind" for a few years.

I started writing songs when I was in my early teens. First on a piano at my school and then on a guitar that my mother brought home when she decided to learn to play (she never did).

I carried that thing around with me for a long while until I bought a better one, and had a number of friends who were "proper" musicians. For myself, I busked a little and played in a few of the London folk clubs ("folk" back then really meaning acoustic music). Nothing much though.

Really, I always thought of myself as a lyricist more than a musician - but you have to make music or you just end up with a poem.

I married early, at 21, and settled into earning a "proper living". That started in IT, and enabled me to travel a fair bit. These days I work as a Management Consultant and have two kids that are pretty much all grown up.

My daughter plays a bit of guitar, saxophone and pretty much anything she can lay her hands on. I had fallen out of the habit of playing much, and she had my guitar for a while. When she left home to go to university I got it back, bought myself an electric guitar (as I had started to mess around with hers, and that went away with her) and started writing again.

I was looking for something to let me record songs, just as a means of storing them really, and discovered a whole new world. I also discovered that I needed to work harder and that I seemed to have forgotten how to sing.

I looked at a few options, but Reaper was the first host that just "clicked" with me, and I loved the spirit in which it was being created.

I feel as if I am coming out of one phase in my life (parenting) and entering a new one. It is almost like deciding what I want to do when I grow up, and I have found a whole new area to explore and that will help me to write differently. I am less easily satisfied these days, and writing anything takes longer - but I am patient and have no deadlines, so I am just enjoying the process.

Midi is something I never really looked at, and is now a growing interest. I will never be an audio engineer, but there is a whole new learning "kick" I can get from that too.

I look forward to growing with Reaper :)

[Diogenes]

I'll be 44 this year... don't care as long the birthdays keep coming around. :)

I am Engineering Manager for the company I work for although I am technically NOT a degreed engineer of any type. Industrial electricity/electronics, process control and Human-Machine Interfaces are my bag but these days are mostly consumed with project management.

I grew up in a family electronics business including pretty much all consumer entertainment stuff. I ran live sound for about a half gazillion events over the years, mostly Bluegrass festivals either sponsored by my dad or when we were contracted to do the sound reinforcement. While I like pretty much all music, after about three bluegrass bands at these festivals, they all start to sound the same. LOL! It was fun and I learned a LOT about sound reinforcement and audio in general.

I've been a guitar hack since about age 10. There was always a guitar lying about so... unfortunately, I still sound like I did back then! LOL!

Played in the usual classic-rock bands in high school and such. HATED the bar/club scene so I bailed on that. I've been playing at church for MANY years now. Audience of one and all that... :)

Been recording since childhood but went digital with a Tascam 788 Digital Portastudio some 7 or 8 years ago. I found out editing and mixing was much easier in the PC so I got hold of n-Track Studio off the web and started bringing my tracks into the PC. I now have at my disposal;

AMD Athlon XP3200+ based PC, EMU 1820M, Behringer ADA8000, various mics and doo-dads plus a Presonus FireBOX and Tascam US-122 for portable use.

*EDIT: I forgot me nearfields... EVENT TRS-8's. Best money I ever spent on recording gear.

n-Track Studio - once a GOOD app but falling behind...
Cubase LE
Sonar 4LE
Magix Music Studio Deluxe 10 - good audio facilities, lousy MIDI.
ACID Music Studio 5
FL Studio 7
Adobe Audition 1.5
Band-In-A-Box 2007 - (Composing, sketching out songs... LOVE IT!)
PTPro 11 - Fantabulous MIDI tools and perfect companion for BIAB.
A few "paid" virtual instruments and BUTTLOADS of freebies...

**My new LOVE... REAPER**

Reaper just plain WORKS. THAT is what sold me. It has great editing tools, great audio performance etc... Cockos just seems bent on making this thing the BEST there is period. They are not far away IMO...

So... there I am in all my flakiness. Darn glad to be here!

D

[jamester]

I'll keep this quick:

Been playing guitar since my teens, have a jazz degree from Berklee College of Music, been teaching guitar for ten years, gigging steadily as well (though not as much these past few years).

Been recording since the PortaStudio 4-track days, mostly for myself but semi-pro at times as well, making demos for local bands and singer/songwriters. Was a Sonar fan for years and years, but now I'm into Reaper. I mostly make jazzy hip-hop with semi-abstract lyricism.

[moonknight]

My name is Jeff Sanders.

Some of you know me from the Sonar and KVR forums...I have a band called Mountain Mirrors, which is basically me and some friends and studio musicians.

I've always been into metal...old school Metallica and 90's Seattle sounds. And Mountain Mirrors is my modern take on all of that...the modern, acoustic version. Blended with my love for dark, ambient folk music...Nick Drake, Beck, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom tec.

Anyway, I have used Sonar since version 3. It's a good program, but I never fully "got it". Tried Tracktion a couple of months ago and decided to switch...because I felt so much more creative and empowered. But for me, it has a lot of stability issues.

So I tried Reaper. I am in love with this program. Cheers!

[alex zonder]

This is probably a good idea

It is, but there has been a thread exactly like this before, now somewhere on 80+ pages of this forum, but if I remember well with quite a lot of entries. We may need to glue these selected items...

[kenn]

OK, this is my C.V.:

- AV & electronics geek in high school
- electrical engineering dropout
- at age 16, I scored an "apprenticeship" in electronics maintenance at a radio/TV broadcast operation. This spun out into a career of approx 22 years as a broadcast/production tech at several places, including a stint as Technical Director at a 14-studio post-production centre.
- experienced and serviced the golden age of analog recording: 2" multitracks from Studer, MCI, Lyrec; consoles from Neotek, MCI, AMEK.
- worked on some of the first digital multitracks (SONY 3324) and the first 16-bit digital mastering formats (SONY PCM 1630, PCM 601, DAT)
- tried the fore-runner of Protools (the name escapes me)
- bought a copy of SAW in 1995
- as the old "big" studio world crumbled, I jumped across into Internet programming in 1996.
- still a webserver programmer (nice pay, little responsibility)
- audio electronics, recording & editing are now mostly a hobby (again)
- I can't play music for sh!t, but I keep a guitar and a MIDI keyboard around, and I still delude myself that I have some interesting music in my head.
- if I spent as much time playing music as I did downloading VSTs (or Reaper versions) or bullsh!tting on forums, I'd have an A.F.M. union card.

[polar69]

Heck I'm just a bloke who likes to make a noise

[SRR]

http://mysite.verizon.net/resq6asf/pinestreetstudiossunprairiewi/id5.html

Tells ya all about me. Although the diagnose has changed to Schizo Affective/Bipolar disorder, from just straight Bipolar, since that page was typed up.

[scum]

i am 30, have masters degree in economics(marketing), working as accountnant(for now, i hope so..), drum player 1990-2000 with some death/grind/industrial local bands, but currently i play not, even have no drums..now doing some noise for fun at home, with reaper and boss dr5 drum machine, and waiting for the linux-reaper version. nice to meet you:)

[eightnine]

Hi all, I'm a 23 years old musician from Italy, I'm a frontman/singer/guitar/songwriter in a Death Metal band (still without name) and in a pop/rock/punk outfit called EightNine ( http://www.eightnine.net http://www.myspace.com/eightnineband ) the latter of which is kinda on hold for now as I'm trying to do a solo album.

In the meantime I work in a small label and I'm learning studio engineering, hope to make a living out of it someday.

Softwarely ( :rolleyes: ) speaking I come from Cubase SX and Pro Tools, but I want to produce my solo record with less corporate bloated and expensive stuff (wanna try to stay under 1000€ of budget for the whole thing, and that includes hardware).

That's when I stumbled upon EnergyXT and Reaper, both of which I'm using and loving seriously a lot.

Nice to meet y'all :D

(hope the links are ok, haven't checked the tos before typing this huge thing)

[ODZ]

Howdy folks! ODZ here, been poking around awhile on the GS forum and got turned on to Reaper. I haven't been able to dig too far yet, but at first glance I gotta say it's lookin' pretty good.
Visual customization is big for me. As we all know with audio, its all about the look, right? ;) I am blown away at some of the great things I see yous guys doin' with the look of Reaper. Once I get a good grasp of the workflow and operation of Reaper I'll dig in on the sonic level. Life gets in the way, ya know?

To honor the purpose of this thread, I'll give a little about myself.

I'm a NO native who moved to Seattle to start a new life and carreer as an engineer. Spent many years in Seattle as a house engineer/install tech, live sound engineer, tech support specialist for a major pro audio manufacturer and was recently offered a position as technical supervisor for a rapidly developing Audio production program at a private institution here in Atlanta. I've been in ATL about 8 months now and am still trying to adjust.
I'm PT certified (though not a whore-I embrace alternative DAWs) and have a couple of records under my belt: some major releases, more indie stuff.

Gotta bail for now, but you haven't seen(read)the last of me.

WORD

PS-I'm all about PT keyboard shrtcts and themes, just to make jumping back and forth between DAW simpler.

[crowning]

G'evening,
I'm a bit new here.
After Steinberg dropped DirectX support with Cubase 4 I'm
evaluating software alternatives for it right now and obviously
found Reaper a couple of days ago.

I do compose New Age music, do collaborations with musicians who
need some classical arrangement for their music, and the occasional
mixing job.

Tom

[caleb]

I once named myself King Waffle and this post will probably demonstrate why.

Currently I'm an IT Manager (not manager of people though thank God). I'm 34 years old and I like to think I'm a fairly interesting person. :D

I went through my school taking very much an "academic" path which meant dropping things like art, drama and music fairly early on. Still to this day I'm not sure whether or not it was the right decision but I guess at least I decided.

I wasn't really interested in University and I didn't actually know where I wanted to go in life so I settled on learning languages and joining a Bachelor of Arts. This was not a great path for me. I did not like University in many ways and eventually I dropped out and entered the work force.

Using some natural aptitudes I managed to (over time) forge a career in IT admin/management and it's a career I'm doing well at. I would have thought possessing common sense and the ability to pick up things quickly was not great enough an asset until I met the people who work in the industry ;).

But now - to move on to more creative matters. I was really a buried artist in so many ways. I'm not a fantastic singer although I can sing - and love singing. I have enjoyed writing poetry and lyrics (although the content can be quite dark). I love performing and think probably my greatest raw talent would have been in acting. I love movement/dance but haven't really explored that side of me much. I love expressing myself through music and have written music (at various degrees of quality I might add) since my early teens.

I did write church hymns back in school which was purely a music thing for me being labelled a Catholic when I'm pretty much an Agnostic inside.

I have written a small amount of music for television (just community stations).

I wish I didn't have to worry about the audio engineering/production side of my music as I really just like composing, writing lyrics and singing. I would love to perform but find the concept a bit strange as all my music production is individual and without hiring people to take up stage space, I just don't know what it would look like.

I'm gathering from karaoke days of old that my voice isn't too bad, but I don't think much of it when I listen to a recording of it which means either that I'm totally fooled about the pleasant nature of my voice or that my voice works OK in a live setting but reveals itself to be very ordinary and uninteresting in a recording where you tend to hear nuances (or more to the point lack of nuance) much more clearly. (I think the latter might be the case *sigh*)

I've spent the last couple of years foundering in my music creation for various reasons, but I've suddenly become determined again to produce SOMETHING. So I've targetted some of my partially finished projects to put together a small (or large) CD. I will definitely be seeking help/advice when it comes to mixing/mastering as I would NOT say that I have golden ears.

From a tools/technology point of view I started trying to get serious with my music composition dreams by investing in a Yamaha QY700 which was really the best money I could have spent at the time because I put together many songs - even in just 1 year my productivity was impressive by my standards. Of course a hardware sequencer is not a recording studio and so music was composed but never finished with vocals etc..

I moved into the computer world and started with n-Track Studio. I managed to actually "finish" one of my songs, but I started to become open to a new concept called synthesis (which I didn't really know anything about). I don't know how much time I frittered away pretending that this was the answer to my problems. To this day I'm still a fairly crap sound designer and I've moved most of my sound generation to sample-based VSTi.

n-Track Studio proved itself to be woeful at the time for composition/VSTi integration and so I went on a bit of a search.

I bought FLStudio (Fruityloops at the time) and Orion (to become Orion Platinum). I wasted quite a bit of time with these devices without really producing anything and started to move away from the music I started writing in the first place.

I really found nothing so far matched the composition quality of the Yamaha QY700 which was quite like Band In A Box in the sense that you could create patterns that could then be used in various progressions. Lovely.

Anyway I stumbled across MBooM which became Muzys and this was fantastic even with its limitations. I started becoming more productive. invested in a Pulsar and a Scope card and a dedicated music computer because I thought it was time to get serious. God what a waste of money. I don't use either the Pulsar or the Scope card anymore and I stuffed up the music comp. *sigh*

Muzys died a death while I was waiting for some much needed enchancements and my partnership with that program ended. Very unfortunate, just like my partnership with CE2000 ended when the Syntrillium/Adobe deal killed it.

EnergyXT came up next and this is my main host now. Still inferior in quite a few ways to the QY700 in terms of midi, it of course had many benefits over it. In the end, I've never really got a full production done in EnergyXT despite my affection for it. This was partly because of higher pressures at work, an increasing inability to finish of initial ideas, lack of a good audio recording interface etc etc etc...

I bought REAPER recently because it gave me a few things in the audio area (such as stable recording/playback) that EnergyXT 1 was not giving me. XT2 is being developed and I'm expecting it to probably take over from REAPER for me in the future, but given that the price was low and the program quite excellent and worthy of support - in the end the investment was a no brainer.

I'm just about to upgrade my computer to either a new laptop, a laptop combined with something like a Receptor or an OpenLabs Miko or something. I'm still deciding. But the size of the investment is putting me off so I'm currently procrastinating and trying to do what I want to do on my shitbox home computer.

OK - that's more than you ever wanted to know about me. Unfortunately for everyone else, I'm always happy to blah blah blah about myself, my thoughts, my life, my loves etc. etc. etc. so if you ever feel like a long, boring, meandering read - feel free to ask me any questions. ;)

Regards
Caleb

[Mradyfist]

Hello everybody. I just downloaded Reaper a few days ago. My studio partner emailed me (he's currently in Texas visiting family) with a number of links he'd heard about from his uncle. When I saw http://www.cockos.com/reaper/, I thought "Cockos? Must be really vulgar band." Two days later, I'm spending all day reading forums, and considering switching DAWs instead of upgrading from Cubase 3 SX to Cubase 4. Anyhow, here's my story:

Both computers and music have been a passion of mine for most of my life; my family was also a traditional folk band, and I remember putting my first stick of RAM (a 4mb) into my first serious computer (a Mac IIci). I kept upgrading computers, and playing music, until sophomore year when I finally combined the two. I was in a band, and decided that all we needed to be famous was to have a CD to sell, so I picked up an M-Audio Delta 2496, fired up Cakewalk, and started tracking. I wish I still had those old files; from what I remember, I somehow decided it was a good idea to record each instrument on a separate project file, playing to a click track, and then taking the best 2 measures from each and looping them.

I actually met my current studio partner a year before, at a church youth conference. We connected due to our mutual love of They Might Be Giants, and when the time came to find a guitar player for the band I was in he hopped on board.

Anyway, fast forward to senior year. I picked up a Delta 1010LT (cheapest 8 channels of analog out there), switched to a cracked version of Nuendo (I know, it was wrong, I've repented) and proceeded to make my first serious album. We printed 1000, and while they sold well to family, friends and fans, I wasn't ludicrously wealthy and was forced to make some sort of plan for the future.

So I made a decision: I would stick with recording music, and see where it took me. I went to Musictech for an AAS in Recording Technology, and in the meantime my studio partner went through a different engineering program, and picked up some nicer gear (like a MOTU 24i/o, some Shure SM81s, etc). The band kept playing, and I finally recorded an EP with them during my last semester and using studio time that I was supposed to be spending on my final project for school. By the time my final review came up, I gave all of my teachers a copy of the EP along with my project; they were much more impressed with the EP.

Let's skip ahead again to the present. About 4 months ago, I signed a lease for a space above a warehouse that was already home to a studio. My studio partner and I have our own control room, and we share a live room with another engineer. A month after that, I end up quitting the band over personal issues, and a couple weeks ago the other engineer we share the space with told us that he's going to be moving out, so we'll be renting the entire space. So all of a sudden I find myself the proud owner of a multi-room studio complex.

So that's my life story when it comes to engineering. Of course, that's not all I do; like nearly half the people on this board (apparently), I 'm also an IT guy by day. However, I work for a high school, which means that I also get 3 months off every year to do whatever the hell I want while still getting a paycheck; this means that every summer is a chance to build a business that I can support myself with.

I've been tracking with Cakewalk (a very old version) Nuendo (a cracked version), Cubase (a legal version) and Pro-Tools (I had to learn it at school), and each has had their problems. (search the Nuendo forums for "lanes" if you want to find out just why that program is ridiculously broken) I would have to say that one of the main reasons why I've never considered switching to another app is the fact that each has plenty of problems, and I don't see the point in paying hundreds of dollars to discover that Sonar, or Logic, or anything else is really just the same as Cubase. I've only worked with Reaper for a few days, but I've decided that I'm going to entirely switch for a while and see if anything comes up that I can't handle, and I can do that because IT'S FREE TO TRY!! The way it's going so far, I'm pretty sure that my Cubase 4 upgrade money is going to be redirected in the near future.

edit: I just read the post two spots above me. Why would Steinberg drop DX support?? Why? It was slow and buggy, but it still pisses me off. Yet another reason to get Reaper instead of upgrading.

[neural_rust]

it'a slow day at work so wahet the heck,I'll play along..

I'n 27 years old musician fron Nokia,Finland(and, no they don't make the phones here:)).Been playing bass for 17 years,guitar for about 10 and been programming/sequencing/sound designing about 3 or 4 years..learned the ropes with the tascan 244 4-track(I seriously think that everyone should),moved on to analog 8-track and from there to the digital media(standalone and finally to the DAW world).
Been playing in local bands from the getgo,won a few band competitions etc..Mainly blues based guitar music,but i'm VERY intrested in the electronic music(ambient,IDM..)

Used to be a heavy metal kind of guy,untill I first heard Dark Side Of The Moon,And it totally changed the way I feel and percieve(SP?)music..no turning back any more..

At the moment I'm starting to build my first commercial (project)studio and live sound bussiness,as I have collected a vast amounts of stuff and knowledge over the years about PA sound and recording..And the feedback has been very positive.

Used to use Cubase,and live for recording,but since I've found Reaper it has become my one and only DAW at the moment(I still use Live but I think of it now as a sampler or instrument rather than DAW).

Slowly but steady I've been praising reaper among my friends(BTW you should have seen my writing partners face when I told him that I've had bought a licence to reaper for 40€,as he had b ought cubase couple days before and paid full price on it..HEHE)

Current gear is pretty decent;
New dualcore AMD
Focusrite saffire
Event TR-8
buttloads of mics and HW effects(mostly use soft these days)..

Will post pics and detailed info on gear once I get the keys to the bombshelter where I will start to build
Synesthesia Sound And Vision Inc.

[NoWo]

well, I am.

Yesterday I decided to give Reaper a chance after endless frustrating sessions with Cubase SX3, Wavelab 5, ProTools. I also tried all the other hosts like Samplitude, Sonar, Tracktion and all the rest. Nothing could give me the satisfaction what I was looking for.
What I was looking for: SOUND.
I realized that alot has been said about Reaper on the Web, but nearly never have I read a word about its superior sound quality. Reaper will be my number 1 for mastering from now on.
I will pay for it within the next days.

NoWo

BTW: Before I search through all this new plugins Reaper delivers is a Deesser included? This is my most searched plug since long. If you have an answer please PM me. Thanks -:)

[homebrew]

Hi. I'm new to REAPER but will probably be sticking around. I write songs, sing, play guitar, bass, and tinker with keyboards and drum pads as a hobby. I design web-based, educational products for the U.S. Air Force to make a living. My tastes in music are eclectic. I cut my teeth on hard rock and classic rock (Rush, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull). I also listen to alternative, indie, and folk rock. I get a thrill out of making music, but I have a hard time getting past the rough demo stage. I'm constantly looking for that perfect fit of software that won't get in the way or bog me down. Garageband on the Mac was close, but has a few serious limitations.

I started recording music about 20 years ago with a 4-track cassette recorder. In the early 90's I got my first taste of computer music recording on a Mac Performa 475 with an add-on audio dongle and MIDI sequencing software. I eventually bought Cakewalk HomeStudio and went through a few versions of that before ditching it all for Tracktion a few years ago. After a brief time with Garageband, I'm back to the PC and feeling restless again. I've tried almost every demo out there, and finally settled here to check out REAPER for a while.

I'm encourage by what I've seen so far of REAPER. Like Tracktion, REAPER is much more intuitive than anything else I've tried. After skimming through the *excellent* user guide, I felt I had a pretty good grasp of the basic functions and even had no trouble setting up an FX bus. The most appealing feature: that I could possibly contribute to this product myself, by requesting features that I think would improve it, and actually have a chance to be heard.

[The Oracle]

Wow, nothing as extensive as most of the veterans I see in here. Not even close really.

24 year old self trained producer. I started dj'ing and learning to beat mix and scratch at the age of 12. By age 14 I was getting into making my own music. I've used many programs ranging from Acid, Cubase, Fruity Loops, Gold Wave, Reason, and some of them I can no longer remember. I made my first track with Windows Sound Recorder on Windows 98. Over the years I've sample collected like crazy, bought more software, and hardware. It wasn't until a friend of mine said this was to replace Nuendo for him that I decided to check this out. Overall, I'm just your average joe producer always looking to learn more and grow.

[jaydottcomm]

This is ya kinfolk Jammin J. I dont know, but i think Im the first African American registed Reaper user. So if the ghetto comes out dont be a hater. I do rap music, not hip hop, but country Rap tunes. And im from Houston Texas. Whut it do baby? Ive done a couple tunes in Reaper that ima post for your listening pleasure... ya dig? My current mixtape is the number one underground independant release..and im workin on Almighty Texas Boiz Vol.2. I do all the beats, Jaydottcomm, and mixing and id like to think im pretty good but im still learnig so far so id love to hear some critiquing. Get atcha Boi.

[jamester]

I do rap music, not hip hop, but country Rap tunes.
I'll definitely check out your stuff, I do hip-hop and rap as well, but it's far from conventional. Country rap, eh?

[stelzbock]

I've started with makin music 12 years ago. I was learning e-organ. Then tought myself guitar, piano, saxophone and clarinet to play in a jazz band in school.

Some years later, I started doing german HipHop with some friends, recording them with CoolEditPro. Then switched to english language, and a more RnBish style with two talented singers. When CEP was sold to Adobe I used Audition and FLStudio until I found REAPER :)

I'm actually an electrical engineer, working, doing studies for my master of science and writing and recording music in part-time with some female singers in a lot of styles from Jazz to HiHop, but mostly RnB.

Jan

I wonder, if anybody reads all of that... :D

[inthepipeline]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to Reaper. I've decided to become a reaper user on the basis that I just don't trust steinberg after the fiasco with SX3. I had been considering going over to Fedora Core and ardour, but like so many others I want to be writing and producing, not playing around trying to get software and hardware to function the way it says on the tin.

So reaper gets a trial with a view to moving away from Cubase entirely as soon as I'm happy with the workflow.

My gear (or at least some of it):

RME Fireface 800
Steiny Midex 8
Dual core Athlon 64 3800 with 4GB of RAM at 667mhz
4 x SATA, 1 x removable IDE drive arranged as: Dual boot OS, Pagefile and Archive, Samples, Projects, Removable Backup.
/3gb switch on Windows XP
2 x 19" LCD monitor
Tannoy Super Gold main monitors, 4 x Dynaudio BM5a
Microphones from all over the place. Some of the nicer ones:
SE Z3000, SE Z5600a, SE1a, Tannoy Ribbon, Calrec Senheisser MKH405, Shure SM7, 57's, 58's I could go on...
DTxpress for triggering Battery2
Roland A33 MIDI Keyboard
Mixing: Amek Classic (cut-down to 16 input channels)for tracking
Soundcraft BVE100 for grouping, mastering and monitoring,
Alesis HD24 for live multitracking.

I do a few live shows which get recorded and work as a live engineer. In my spare time I run an open mic (Busman's night off and a chance to inflict some of my own material on the un-suspecting public).

I write music varying from Folk, Rock and Funk right the way through to Swing. My main instruments are Guitar and Bass.

To me REAPER represents a possible real alternative to being hooked into using one of the mainstream DAW apps. I've been following it's progress since v0.98 with great interest. The guys at Cockos must have been working at least 26 hours a day to get it to the stage it's at now.

Great work guys. It's a privelege to be here with REAPER's supporters.

[FrettedSynth]

Hello All

See a few from the detroit, michigan area :-) that would be me also.

45 year old guy, played since 1970 (bass) played live in local clubs in the 70's and 80's since then I just can't quit, way too much fun.

Did a few little SE plugins, if you would like to check them out go to http://frettedsynth.com all free

Just wanted to say hello and thanks for all Justin has done in creating Reaper.

Fretted Synth

[alex zonder]

Did a few little SE plugins

Fretted Synth

Good to read you here, welcome! But man, you're too humble. For those who don't know: FS is the creator of the FreeAmps (nr. 3 is in construction and promises to become big deal) and LOTS of other great free guitar/bass/synth fx. Check his pages out!

[bong hits for jesus]

Hello All Good People!!

...and bad ones too!

[bardo]

Grew up in the sixties listening to the background vocals of the Beatles.
The 70's spent learning all the Deep Purple,Zappa and Alice Cooper songs I could.
Went to High school from '76 to '79 and feel in love with the band "Yes" spent my later years of high school learning all the Steve Howe licks I could.
By the time I was Twenty I shut down on learning other peoples songs to writting my own.
Did my first multi tracking at 20 years old using a Boom box and a hand held tape recorder.
Spent my '20s living the life of a rock star(without the being famous part)
Met my drummer at 28 years old.
We proceeded to write creative music(sound painting)using his Fostex 4-track.
Had my first child at 33 and stopped the partying but continued to write music for my 12-string.
About Four years ago,my drummer I I started to write music again(this time with Tascam 8-track)
Got my first taste of digtal recording with the Kristal audio engine
Found Reaper last year and love it.
Still "yet" to "finish our first tune.
It's up to 23 tracks now,just need the last verse and Mastering.

Bardo

[Pentankh]

Hi there!

I've had little to no experience with any kinds of music production bar learning to play the guitar when I was about 8. Given that it was 28 years ago, there's not a lot I've remembered.
I've been interested in music production on computers, but never given it a go.. particularly with the price of DAWs. I was recently in Sydney for the weekend and bought the latest Computer Music (UK) magazine to read on the plane. Someone had written into the letters page about getting into music production and they suggested Reaper as a cheap option to get into the biz and also to get practice with DAWs.
So, I downloaded Reaper and a big bunch of VST's to go with it (along with free VST's on the mag DVD) and started mucking about with it last night.
I ripped a song from CD to play around with, layered my own voice doing the lyrics over the top and am thinking of trying to do a kind of dance remix of the song. It'd be nice if I could find filter settings to filter just the voice out of the original song. I know it can be done, it's just a matter of finding the info on what settings to use. I've been chatting to the band members on MySpace and they are very cool and are sending me a free signed CD along with another of mixes they've done. Maybe if I do a good job with the remix they might send me the original vocals? ;) heh! One can dream.
I figured the easiest way would be to work with an existing song to learn the ins and outs of Reaper and plugins, etc until I get the hang of it and maybe later start producing my own music. I've also been talking to another band via MySpace so maybe if I get the hang of remixes they will let me do one of theirs. They live in Brisbane and I saw them a couple weeks ago live.

Now, whenever I listen to music on my iPod I'm mentally stripping out instruments and FX and filters and working out how they put together a song. It's quite interesting to do heh.

[scum]

this is great, mr.FrettedSynth is here:)

[FrettedSynth]

Good to read you here, welcome! But man, you're too humble. For those who don't know: FS is the creator of the FreeAmps (nr. 3 is in construction and promises to become big deal) and LOTS of other great free guitar/bass/synth fx. Check his pages out!

Thanks! Humble, umm yeh! but when I look at what the likes of Justin, Jorgan and Jeff are doing in creating these wonderful thought out applications! it makes what I am doing seem ummm! little\small. I will continue to keep trying though.

The only thing I feel at this point I have in common with them is the "J" Joseph is my first name. Funny how the letter "J" keeps popping up in all these new audio app's.

Thanks Scum for the welcome also :-)

Sorry for the OT
Fretted Synth

[rickie]

Heres my bit for what its worth:)

Reading all these threads its cool how similar some tales are to my own, thought I was the only middle aged born again guitarist!!

Born in London, UK, spent most of my teens in the standard pub band playing Guitar and doing Led Zep covers etc, great days:) played quite a few of the good clubs also (100 club etc), then came the age old dilemma work or play, weren't good enough to be signed up, so Got into Video engineering, and now at 48, married with 2 kids, and an IT Training Manager for the NHS(UK's health service). Dug out my 1980's Yamaha SG 2000 (Fantastic Guitar) from under the stairs a couple of years ago, changed the strings, bought an amp and havent looked back, what was I missing!!. Started dabbling with the computer recording world and discovered Reaper and Line 6. Now I spend hours creating sounds, Kids think im mad and are slightly embarressed at their middle aged dad/rock god, and fall about laughing when I play my creations.

There it is

Richard

[doombie22]

I guess michigan has a good representation here. so here is another. except i am from the frozen north about 8 hrs north of the motorcity. been playin for 36 years and doing daw's for about 5.love Reaper and will be paying for it in the real near future.
Used all the current sequencers and love the simple elegance of Reaper.Try to play all styles but rock and country are the one you get hired to play up here. love the program. i think the big boys are gettin a little nervous. keep up the good work,

[doombie22]

been a cubase user for 4 years and i can't believe what a civilized forum this is. i love it. everyone seems to have a spirit of cooperation and passion for this program. i might never open cubase, samplitude, sequoia, sonor,or SAW again. still like acid but that could be on the chopping block too. i can audition loops in acid. haven't figured out how to do that in reaper yet. but i am only two weeks into this app. man this is cool.

[jamester]

i can audition loops in acid. haven't figured out how to do that in reaper yet.
Simply dock the Media Explorer, then just click on a loop to hear it - there's a volume slider and everything!

It might be that the loops don't audition sync'd up though, IIRC. Haven't messed with loops in a while, so I can't remember...

[billybk1]

It might be that the loops don't audition sync'd up though, IIRC. Haven't messed with loops in a while, so I can't remember...

Yes, the loops do not auto sync (start time) to the beat when previwing, like in ACID. What you have to do is select the loop, on the beat yourself when previewing. IOW, when your project is playing back and you are previewing loops you need to select a loop to preview right before the now time crosses the next measure boundary and the loop will be in sync with your project. In ACID, you can select a loop at any time and it will auto sync it's start time to the project. Once you drag & drop a loop to the timeline it will auto sync it's start time.


Cheers,

Billy Buck

[woodslanding]

Hi All!

Well, I've been so delighted to find a solid, lightweight dongle-free recording platform at ANY price, never mind something with one low easy payment. I started out just looking for an audio networking solution. Didn't expect a platform switch.

I'm a professional musician, working as a Keyboardist. I did sound and product design for Alesis for many years, while I ran a demo studio in LA, and before that was the primary offsite beta tester for the Kurzweil K2000 and K2500. I guess my biggest brush with greatness was running Logic for Bjork on the American leg of the State of Emergency tour. I also toured as Nina Hagen's keyboardist in the late 90's. Around 2000, I taught myself Java, and got a job doing interface design in Swing for several years. But now I'm back to making music.

Lots more detail, as well as audio samples, at:

http://ericmoonmusic.com

my first reaper project is up at:

http://ericmoonmusic.com/audio/EricMoon-SilverEngagementRing.mp3

cheers!
eric

[CoffeeMilkshake]

Hi you all!

Have been a Cockos forum visitor for some time now, and today I join in.

Reaper is quite awesome. Congrats to Justin.

Everyone here has been doing some fine job!!

CM

[Orfilinn]

Hello.
I discover Reaper some weeks ago, and I discover a powerful tool.

I just begin to play music (again)
In the past, I worked a bit on BuZz some Years ago, and played some instruments in some bands (a little, not a professional way).

For now, at 33 y.o., I begin to learn piano and musical theory, a bit seriously, and to play guitar too. I just want to try to create some music with my computer.

I hope my english level will be enough to take part of the forum, if I can help (or just for myself just understand what people say :-) )

[Dangnear]

Hi All,
First I am expressing my appreciation for Reaper and for you all who made and make this software and data base and amazing community what it is.
Actually I may be the oldest Reapernaut.Just turned 60.Also originally from Michigan.Bass player,electric and acoustic
Since 1961 ,yikes! Most styles.
Learned recording(gopher/intern) with Stephen Barncard (Grateful Dead,CSNY,New Riders of the Purple Sage,Brewer and Shipley)in the early '70s.Then moved to Arizona to do some projects and ended up staying.Cause the desert,to me,appears 'magic' Most days the sun shines brightly and so does my perspective.
Got away from music and recording for a while to develop my jewelry business and raise a family.For the last 10 years recorded first with Logic then went to Sonar 1,2,3,and stopped at 4.Record as session bassist in a local studio that uses Cubase(Hey Steiney,I got your dongle right here!lol)Used Reaper for 20 days and got me license.I'm hooked and loving it.Mostly record audio just getting into midi.
I am thankful to be part of the Reaper Paradigm and would like to collaborate on some tunes with you all too.

[Rann]

In the past few months the creative juices have started flowing again - and the thought of going back to cubase made me ill. So Here I am - a registered reaper user. nuff said.

rann

[sharkfin73]

I have been an on again off again Reaper trial/user. I want reaper to be my #1 program but the loops thing kept me away.

Each time I come back to it it keeps getting better and better. As of this release (and maybe before) ACID loops are snaping to tempo when I drag them in!!! Very excited as this was what kept me from using it before.

I have been a Cakewalk Guitar tracks user for all my home recording time so I am at near the bottom of the barrel user wise. So please keep that in mind.

I am in the middle of doing a few things right now. One is I am reading the manual (dooh!) And I want to say congrats guys!!! This manual is rocking!!

Also I doing the hands on while readding the manual and am learnig a lot.

I am also playing with VST stuff and the MIDI punch notes (this is all new to me but I'm making noise!!)

Also I'm runnign this on a 512MB stick (that is freeking rocking!!!!)

The one thing I love about Reaper to date is so many times I go to do something and it is well thought out more so than in Cakewalk. I kee having these "why doesn't Cakewalk do that?" moments.

On quick example. After renderig to an MP3 a box is there to launch the MP3 you just made!!! Small detail but a major pain in Cakewalk (go find the MP3, open it, findout it dod not render right (usually the selected area I forgot to unselect LOL!!). It is the little details like this the blow me away.

So far I am just tweeking and playing, making notes but once I get through the manual I am gonna try this for a real full throttle project and see how it goes. If it goes well this time he's getting my money and bye bye Cakewalk.

sf

[ReaDom]

hello everybody,
i'm a fighter musician from munich/germany....i'm fighting against the mafia and all other stupid's things around.i will never get involved with stupid people,any more,so,i leave it and now i feel much better and much more free!
my message is: don't listen to a piece of crap....but don't die about it...
respect and guide and work hard....

[nebulae]

Hello everyone. Just joined this community. Downloaded Reaper yesterday and testing it out before plunging in with my hard earned cash.

I'm a long time Live user and a heavy poster on the Ableton forum. I've been producing music for 15+ years, working on album number 11, which is leaning toward the progressive house genre. I love Live for creating ideas and performing, but I'm also looking for something that is damn efficient for production.

I love communities where there is a tangible and cohesive support network. I have lots of friends on the Ableton forum, and I see many of those qualities on this community. Also, I'm a LONG TIME supporter of Winamp, and I love the philosophy of Reaper. Justin's ideas of rapid and frequent development and high degree of user involvement are excellent.

I'm looking forward to work with all of you.

-Neb

[sonicmass]

I am a working freelance sound engineer hailing from Bristol,UK. I came across Reaper by accident and am very intrigued. Having used nuendo and protools, it is great to see a new product like this getting off the ground. I use Radar24 most of the time and do admit to being biased towards its old school engineer usability (and its better than protools sound)and i am lucky enough to use a lot of lovely outboard gear with it. For my personal use i am going to look into Reaper as i like its independant approach (much the same as Radar) and i think it will be a big wake up call to the software giants of Steinberg and Sonar. From my exhaustive readings of this forum, i am excited at the prospect of seeing what Reaper can do, at a fraction of the cost of Nuendo. :)

[rwillson]

hello... i am NEW, name's rich but i rarely go by it (instead i go by rwillson or dana9, family thing, and often sign replys to threads and topics as r... mostly with those i don't know to well (i guess that prim and proper New England conservative upbringing is to blame for that, last names seem more proper for introductions)...

i am new to Reaper but i like what i see and have done with it so far (in a weird way it reminds me of Logic in it's intuitive work flow and use, with a few bonuses, yea it lacks some things (audio editor, i think the MIDI editing is coming about after looking at previous versions), i imagine in time support for Acid Loops will come about, i do miss having a Track Freeze, but the routing capabilities almost match having that function (i love that you can record one tracks output to another completely new track), miss little things like an ARP or a Chorder but those things come a dime a dozen as plug-ins (most of them free)...

what i Love the most is the DIY and Screw the System attitude Cockos and Reaper present and offer the user, ever since my MAC died i have been looking for a simple yet GOOD Quality sequencer to take the mantle of what i used to use most often. i hate Cubase as well as all other Steinberg products, i have managed to work with Cakewalk's Sonar but 1 out of 5 times it pisses me off to the point i uninstall it (although Cakewalk's Project 5.2 has some promise)... thankfully i never had to give up Ableton's Live which i love for improvastional work (amazing program for working with loops) but i still found i desperately needed much of the structure of a traditional or at least an off shoot of the typical sequencer that is widely accepted... and with Reaper i have found it, the structure as well as the creative inovations and features that the newer and next generation of DAW's offer...

i think i am home, so HELLO r...

[drumist69]

OK, well I'm new to Reaper, sort of. Been watching it for over a year, but never could bring myself to delve into it. Been recording with Kristal Audio Engine for the past three years or so, building up my gear, skills and such. Been playing music for, well, 22 years now, various bands, many CD's, nothing that went anywhere. Mainly drummer, also play guitar, bass, and sing to limited ability. I play drums in my new band Moksha, and record us.
Finally felt I've hit the wall with KAE's simplicity and lack of features. Been playing with Reaper the last few days, and think this will be the deal for me. I've looked at various "pro" softwares, such as Ableton, Protools M-powered, and Cubase...but Reaper can do the same, so I'm good. After probably 4 to 6 hours spent messing with the details, this is looking like the way to go from now on. I still plan on using KAE for simple stuff like recording rehearsals, throwing down quick ideas, and such, but for any "finished" tracks, I'll be moving to Reaper from now on.
Gear I'm using is a modded Dell PC (2.96 P4, 1 gig RAM, couple HD's, etc), two M-audio Delta44 cards (for 8 ins), Mackie VLZ1202 board, ART and M-audio DMP3 preamps, ART Pro VLA compressor, bunch of mics (AT2020 pair, MXL 603 pair, MXL2001 pair, SM57, SM58, Naiant Studios omni condensor pair...MSH-1 I think, AT4040, and Sennheiser MD421 at the moment, always looking to add mics!)

[drumist69]

Hey Bardo! I remember you from the KAE forum! How's it going? ANDY

[couser]

Hello everyone...my name is couser (pronounced as "koozer")...and used to perform in the late 60's/70's...almost 2 years ago, got into home based recording i play mostly guitar...i've been using reaper for 2 months now...purchased it 1 month ago...before that, it was vegas...i love this app...great forums here, and i'm learning quite a lot...great support here...you can find my first reaper recording here which is also posted on the recording website...i'll post it just as soon as i say "cheers"......
cheers....couser

[nyarla]

hey all... i'm 26, from the top of australia.. i started making electronic music in '96 or so with Scream Tracker, then went on to Impulse Tracker and eventually Jeskola Buzz, which is still my main "composition" tool... released a dodgy low tech "tekno" (more the listening kind than the dancing kind) album in 2001 - 'Insect Eating' by Nyarlathotep...

somewhere along the way i got into recording.. i did a music tech diploma at the local uni here, and every now and then get a gig recording someone at the uni studio, which is fun, and has paid for most of my own audio gear so far (so i now do a bit of freelance recording with my laptop) :)

So yeah, i have minimal experience with analogue gear, and in the world of DAWs ProTools is what i've used the most. Personally I love it (maybe just because i'm used to it, i dunno. the whole "it's the industry standard, maan!" thing doesn't mean much to me, it's quite isolated from the industry here.. i just like PT's vibe).

I am down with PT's, ahem, paradigm - i really like the whole slip mode/grid mode/etc way of working.

So i've mostly been using PT HD with a Control|24 at uni, and then a few months ago I bought a not-fancy-at-all-but-does-the-job-ok-enough-for-me audio interface (m-audio firewire 410) and protools M-powered..

It would have been fine, except PTMP doesn't like my laptop much.. it's usually stable, but every now and then will do this thing where it maxes out the cpu when you *aren't* doing anything. So I might have a big session with lots of plugins, and it will play fine, but as soon as I hit stop, everything grinds to a halt and i have to wait for ~3-4 minutes before i get control of the pc back...bit odd eh.. and just a tad annoying..

Which is why I had a look at REAPER. Very glad i did, cos it's ace :) I still like PT's slip and grid modes more than REAPERs way of editing, but *love* everything else in REAPER. So i'm sticking with it i reckon... (saving up for commercial license now).

BTW, i personally love how PT looks.. prefer no eye candy.. so to me, REAPER looks fine at the moment. The thing i mostly care about when it comes to the look of the interface is having no flicker, so everything looks really solid.

Anyway. I was recording my friends' band a couple weeks ago and they asked me to play bass for them, so now i'm a bassist. I'm enjoying jamming immensely... first gig in 2 weeks. Eep!

rock on dudes.

[CloudStreetsMusic]

Hey all;

By day, I am a performance consultant and project manager for a major US corporation. I run training programs to help folks get better at whatever they do.

I also give inspirational workshops. My latest, "Reclaiming Choice" is well-received.

I hail from Connecticut, USA. I grew up in a household where high-end audio gear was everywhere, as my father was in the business of selling it to retailers. Thus, I started out as a gear-loving knob-turner...but...

In HS, a was sitting doodling with a friends guitar, and another "friend" who played guitar said, "Put that down, you will never be any good". Now, that was exactly the right thing to say to me at the time to gear me up to prove him wrong. LOL.

So I said, "In three months, I'll be better than you". What hubris! But it happened. Life was so simple then.

I played guitar seriously and not so seriously on and off for years, and doodled with songwriting, but mostly played covers. I also did some classical singing and theater stuff.

It wasn't until my forty-fourth year that I suddenly got serious about songwriting. Three years now, and I am having fun writing mostly acoustic ballad type stuff that bores some folks to tears but some folks seem to like quite a bit.

I am enjoying it all, the music-making, the hardware, the software. We all have our frustrations, but overall, I have to say what an amazing time in history to be making music.

Best of luck to all of you in your musical pursuits.

Mark

[e.maynard]

Hi. I'm a Radar II user, and was looking at purchasing Damsel about a year or so ago to do transfers to my mac. Well, Damsel folded. So I use a MOTU 2408 to transfer instead. It works OK. Then I heard of Reaper. I'm prowling around the site looking for info on Mac compatibility as well as Radar II transfer ability.

This looks like a great product!

[Doc]

Hi everybody!
I´ve just registered my license for REAPER, I couldn´t resist.
:)

REAPER has got quite good recommendations over at the Rayzoon forum and German Line 6 forum, which I happen to have the pleasure to moderate a bit...


Originally I´m a guitarist, singer (and play a bit of bass, too) and home recordist for many years. No band or live playing ATM.
I used to work with Cubase since VST 5 days.
Since Steinberg Headquarters are only 3 km away from my home, I always was on the "support your local DAW manufacturer" train, but over the last years I got tired with the overall tone on the Steinberg forums, the unresponsiveness of the company and the bloody Dongle-ism of course.
I still hold a license for SX 3 but couldn´t bother to do another upgrade to 4.
3 Years ago I started looking for alternatives and discovered Ableton Live, which brought fresh air to my accustomed workflow.
Ableton Live is excellent for sketching and manipulation of Audio material but I feel there are still some basic functions missing in terms of Midi and linear recording (e.g. no lanes, no time sig changes possible).
I considered REAPER first about V 0.9x but it wasn´t quite there, then. Now it´s different! REAPER´s evolution over the past months is truly amazing.
I get done in REAPER what I have to get done in a very fluent manner.
I like the responsiveness and the overall very helpful tone of this forum and REAPER´s developers and I´m looking forward to be part of this community.

In case anyone cares about my daytime job: I´m a GP and run my own practice in Hamburg...

Ah, yes, P.S.:
One or two wishes what REAPER should have in the future:
The things I miss most is a drum editor which means basically support of drum maps in REAPER´s Midi Editor.
And a bit of warping functionality like in Ableton Live would be great, too.

Cheers! :)

[Diogenes]

HiYa' Doc!

Nice to meet you! We are getting quite a few of your countrymen here. Don't you guys have anything better to do besides cruise music/recording forums? :D LOL! (Oops... look at me... :) )

I've visited Germany several times over the years with the day job. Cool place. Cool people. GREAT food!

D

[Doc]

Howdy Diogenes! :)
Pleasure to be welcomed by a true philosopher and artist of life! :)

[animix]

Started playing my grandparents old Hammond chord organ when I was 6 years old. Fairly accomplished accordianist by the time I was 11. Started playing guitar after I heard From Me To You play on AM radio in 1964.

Started playing in Beatles and Byrds cover band in '65.

Got picked up by a management company in 66.

Opened for/toured with a few national acts between 66 and 68.

Burned out and quit bands in '69.

Moved to Austin and went to college and didn't pick up a guitar again until....

Met future wife ( a songwriter from Boulder) in '93.

Started writing songs, recording demos and gigging in '94.

Started getting publishing contracts in '95.

Started getting interested in engineering in '96 because we were needing to do lots of rewrites.

Started building recording studio in '97 "to save money".

Primarily record other people now because I've been so busy with/obsessed and fascinated by learning to engineer that haven't picked up my guitar and/or written a damn thing in years (though my wife continues to do so)

When I think of all the money I've *saved* over the last 10 years, I also think about the house I could have built and paid cash for.

;o)

[Dr Bob]

OK. I'm Rob. Yes, that is one of my old cats! Old timer from 1950. Always been into producing music, rubbish player. Started with school bands in the early 60's, then at university. Was live mixer, recording guy etc for 2 groups - one a Caravan-esque band and another a good old 6 piece rock and roll crowd! Was always interested in what synths could do. Built my own from sealed parts. Was president of the Electonic Arts Society and we had a EMS Synthi-A (the VCS-3 in a briefcase!). Did a PhD, but still worked on helping musicians record stuff. Played with PDP-11's with digital and analogue I/O. Wrote some fun digital fx in pdp11 assembler ...

Started building home studio when I finally could afford it. At present it's a few PC's, 26:4:2 mixer, various fx boxes, Yamaha aw16g. Music instruments, shared with my kid, are: saxes (tenor, alto and sop), violins, clarinet, recorders, flutes, piccolos, piano, Kawai 2 manual+pedal organ, dx-11, djx, various casio kbds, fender lookalike, mandolin, piano accordian (120 bass) and probably some more things which make noises I've missed. Various mics, shures, cheap rolands, red5audio, various headphones, NAD monitor amps, monitor speakers, el cheapo 5.1 setup, 24 port hp switch etc ...

Had my music on early IUMA (Jeff Patterson, you around still?), mp3.com, mp3.com.au, uksounds, and many of the other places you dumped music!

Now much more interested in making it happen for others - oh, in a sense that was what I always did!

Collaborative systems. High performance networks (1-10 gb/s p2p stuff, yes, dedicated 1-10gb worldwide). Integrated audio and video and graphics experiences (wow, man! Sounds like the 60's again!).

Like to get hands dirty with programming. Sadly still a C fan (but have to work in C++ of course).

In the main, an ideas person. Have a good ear for production (well I think so and others have thought so as well, but that's another story).

Enough.

db

[andyya]

Yup...another old fart who has been playing guitar and singing for 30+ years here. It's been years since I've had the time to be in a band, so I decided it was time to just do it all myself.
The folks on this forum have taught me everything I know about digital recording, and Reaper rocks. Thanks to all who contribute here.

[mcatalao]

Hi folks!

My name's Miguel, and i'm from Portugal.

I've been a user and a fan of Steinberg's products and have been using them till now!

Yesterday i came across Reaper in a web forum, and thought i'd give it a try.

So... I got to install it on my portable, get the try out projects and... I'm astonished!

I'm still in the try out process, but i think i'm going to "crossgrade" to this amasing software!

Keep on the good work Cockos!!!

[rodabt]

Hope REAPER spreads worldwide...sure I'll do my best to promote it at least here in my country.

Well, my name is Rodrigo and I'm 31, from Chile. I'm working as a gov employee. Have a degree in industrial engineering and statistics. I've been playing guitar since I was 15, not virtuous but trying to make it happen. I been recording my own music for almost 10 years and never had budget till now. I also play bass, keyboards and drums (no comparisons please) and I'm a proud self-taught musician. I'm into hard-heavy-metal-pop-psycho-kind-of-rock music.

I started recording with old-fashioned 4-track machines but quickly switched to pc recording. Tried lots of recording programs: SAW, Cubase, Logic, Nuendo, Cooledit, Tracktion, but never felt comfortable with none of them. I've been always searching for Open Source alternatives because I was not willing to pay anything for nothing...till I found Jamstix and REAPER. Surely these are the best, and only, paid investments I've made with software. They really deserve it. Now I'm a really happy registered user.

i am 30, have masters degree in economics(marketing), working as accountnant(for now, i hope so..), drum player 1990-2000 with some death/grind/industrial local bands, but currently i play not, even have no drums..now doing some noise for fun at home, with reaper and boss dr5 drum machine, and waiting for the linux-reaper version. nice to meet you:)

+1 To that.I will also be VERY happy with a JACK-AWARE .deb version of REAPER.

[ScrapDawg]

Hi All,

I'm an ex-Cubase user and have now moved to Reaper I hope for good. I primarily mix tracks previously recorded on my Mackie MDR 24/96 hard disk recorder. I also use my three UAD-1 cards with all their available effects to mix with.

I'm concerned about the UAD-1/Reaper compatability issues and I do have a Core 2 Duo machine but since I find myself only using the UAD-1 effects, I'm not taxing the processor yet. One day in the future this will become an issue unless corrected. I have no reason to beleive this will not be worked out between the two companies.

I look forward to riding the Reaper ride as far as it takes me and becoming a part of this forum. Rock on Reaper!!

Larry aka ScrapDawg

[gmaniaxe]

I am the singer in a heavy metal band, and use REAPER to track my vocals.

Registered this morning.

I am finally legal! My wife will be so happy.

I have been more productive in the last week and a half using REAPER than I was for the two months prior to discovering it. What an amazingly good piece of software.

This forum was one of the selling points of REAPER to me. The experienced users and audio engineers on here, plus the developer available, and everyone is so helpful. Great community for a great product.

[fly keyz]

Hi guys, I'm Thomas, and I've been doing production and engineering for about 9 years now, and I have to say I've stumbled upon something great.

I've worked with all types of formats/ DAWs but Reaper takes the trophy. I currently use Sonar 4 Producer Edition, and I must say I am now a convert.

I'm happy that I came across this before I upgraded to sonar 6. I mainly produce, and record R&B, and mostly midi. Yesterday I tracked my first production in Reaper.......

Flawless!!!!!! what I put in is what I got out. Normally with Sonar I have to use various plugs and eq to achieve the sound and feel prior to tracking.

The Low end seems to be reproduced in a lot more detal as well as my high frequencies. I definitely plan on purchasing a commercial license once I've completed a few projects, and all the bugs on the programming side are worked out

[bardo]

Hey Bardo! I remember you from the KAE forum! How's it going? ANDY
Hey Drumist69,
How are you?
I left you a PM
Brado

[DaveS]

Hi

Just a quick introduction.

I'm 45 and I've been into music since a small kid. Started off playing around on my mothers organ, then piano lessons when I was nine or ten. I joined the junior section of the local brass band learning to play trombone. I took up guitar at around twelve or thirteen. I played in several different cover bands, orchestras, small brass groups, pit bands etc until 1994.

I got into recording in 1999 with Cakewalk Home Studio and have been a Cubase user since 2000 (VST5 to SX3). I haven't upgraded to Cubase 4 yet. I', waiting to see what happens. SX3 is great IMHO, but there is no 'perfecr' DAW IMHO and I'm enjoying using Reaper very much.

Cheers
Dave

[gollumsluvslave]

I'm a Cubase user of some number of years who is currently disillusioned with the direction that Steinberg/Yamaha are taking the DAW.

I stumbled upon Reaper a few months ago, and have been trying to move myself away from SX3. As mentioned in another thread there a couple of outstanding FR's for Reaper that are making that harder than I would like it just now, but I'm hoping they will appear at some point (Drum Editor/Drum Map + Mixer View Sets/Mackie Control integration).

I've been songwriting and in and out of bands for 16 years or so now, and have built up a decent project studio, and now help out some of my friends doing demos and so forth.

I'm currently only putting my own new compositions through Reaper, whilst still using SX3 for existing and new projects with other folk.

Major props to Justin and crew on a great DAW, and also to this forum - it seems a genuinely decent vibe as internet forums go!!

Rich

[Buddah_Sonik]

Hello i am Buddah_Sonik.

I trust my 'nic' does not cause too much offense to some
of you 'Jesus' types out there.

I work in many fields - my latest passion is Gui development.

But i have many others.

I am a Generalist. in the vein of http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Richard+Buckminster+Fuller&btnG=Search&meta=


I hope to put together a team of highly focussed individuals (human beings)
that can move forward the concept of Software Development.


I have used Cubase for a couple of decades.
That should give you some idea of age...

And have recently in the last year or so had a mind-storm in the
revelation that is Logic Pro....


My current weapon of choice is Energy XT.

I would weep for the personal bullshit that goes on between the
holy wars of "My Host Is Bigger Than Yours"...
but i am a Buddah, after all....


I recently tried to read through the thread that was White Tie's...
Gui Fest.

Do you know how hard it is to filter the bullshit?
No one listens.
No one cares....


EnergyXT and REAPER are a life-force.
complimentary in the xtreme.
but i am no fan boy.
though i am a fan of both.
integration.
consolidation.
and Synergy are my game.

if you flame, i will ignore.
i will back my shit up with files.
all totally legal.


I like this place very much.
I have lurked for a month or two....


As for the programs i use.
I use them all, as they 'all' say...

REAPER is a revolution...
I think many on this board don't know how to use it fully yet.
Though i learn everything i know from them.
Thankyou.


It is a privelege to be here. and have the developer hoi-polloi with us.

And i talk to you seasoned heads as well...

This is a great place with a great meeting of minds.

The hard work is being done for us....



Now, can we play?





I'm going to do some 'Crack-Packs' for you.
Gui's, templates, samples...links to other programs....
All free and open source.

[CloudStreetsMusic]

Do you mean Buddha?

;)

[CloudStreetsMusic]

Hi

Just a quick introduction.

I'm 45 and I've been into music since a small kid. Started off playing around on my mothers organ, then piano lessons when I was nine or ten. I joined the junior section of the local brass band learning to play trombone. I took up guitar at around twelve or thirteen. I played in several different cover bands, orchestras, small brass groups, pit bands etc until 1994.

I got into recording in 1999 with Cakewalk Home Studio and have been a Cubase user since 2000 (VST5 to SX3). I haven't upgraded to Cubase 4 yet. I', waiting to see what happens. SX3 is great IMHO, but there is no 'perfecr' DAW IMHO and I'm enjoying using Reaper very much.

Cheers
Dave

Hey Dave! Good to see you here! (Mark/jeraz/MKP) ;)

[Buddah_Sonik]

Buddah.
Buddha.

What's in a name?

ahha hahhah hhah hahh .
yes i did.

good call.

i also spelt sonic wrong too.

never seen Sonik the hedgehok hav' ya?

no.


Do i now have 'credability' -1 point?
sorry, 'credibility'.

[scottdru]

Buddah.
Buddha.

What's in a name?



Heh . . .


Syntax
Taken from Of Flesh & Spirit

She walks to a table
She walk to table

She is walking to a table
She walk to table now

What difference does it make
What difference it make

In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought

Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed.

-- Wang Ping

[Flame]

yep its ya boy Flame I am in a group called goone mafia/trunk loose music.i do rap and anything thats fresh.i found reaper about 3 months ago and have been watching the forum ever since.

[scum]

i do rap and anything thats fresh.
heh i don`t think rap is fresh, ask turbo b. :)

[mr. moon]

Who: Mr Moon

What: A guy who works in IT ("real job")

What #2: guitarist - musician - producer - engineer ("fun")

What #3: Last band --"highdroplain" -- I was a member of this band until our bassist fell on some hard times and had to move out of the area a year and a half ago or so to help take care of his family. He's since returned to the area, but the "band" as a collaborative group will most likely not ever be again, due to issues between the bassist and the drummer (who had been friends since grade school) which I don't understand ...but what's a guy s'posed to do? Anyways, I am still collaborating with the drummer/vocalist, and may begin collaborating with the bassist/vocalist again, now that he is back, is interested in collaborating with me, and has some new gear on the way

I've been in "bands" on and off since way back in the 70's when I used to dress up as Paul Stanley from KISS, with some other friends and do lip-synch KISS concerts for the neighborhood. (attendance was free, but we charged for popcorn and soda) ...it's all been downhill since then.

:)

Tried the "professional musician" thing, but here in the Twin Cities there are too many original bands ...not to mention that most of the bands I was in really sucked. However, I was in a few that did really well, but it always seemed that at the last minute when we were about to get a big break, we'd find out who was mentally unstable *before* we "made it". So I quit the band scene, went back to school for 5 years, got a Bach degree and my MCSE certification, and got a job that I made more money in one year at than I did during my entire time at college.

Now, I work in IT (build/support/administrate 250+ PCs and 5+ servers in an enterprise environment) and do well enough between my paycheck and my wife's paycheck to run a small home-based studio and pay all the bills. My wife and I have bumped heads a few times about the "musician thing" that I do, but she really warmed up to it (especially the recording studio) when I began recording local bands in trade for labor around the yard. No sh1t! Last year we had packs of musicians building a storage shed, sanding and staining our deck, and doing landscaping/tree planting in our yard.

...Needless to say, I can pretty much talk my wife into most purchases nowadays, as it make both of our lives easier!

:)

BTW: The little one in my avatar is the pride of my life, and the reason I am able to put a smile on my face every day! Never thought that having a child would change my perspective so much on literally *everything* ...but it has!

Sorry for rambling.

-mr moon

[jez]

Allow me to introduce myself.

Musical: Did recorder at primary school. Took guitar lessons @ 7 for about a year but didn't stick with it. Tried trumpet but it gave me headaches. Took piano under duress until I got my primary grade and then jacked that in too. Didn't really touch another musical instrument until I picked up an electric guitar when I was 18. Since then I've been an axe devotee but still have an Evolution keyboard knocking around and some Arbiter Flats (though I can't do the drummer thing). Played in a "classic rock" band but currently without portfolio.

Technical: Been trying to make music with computers since Music Maker on the ZX Spectrum (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr12/yr12_45b.gif) and OcatMED on the Amiga (http://boyeightbit.podomatic.com/2006-11-06T05_03_06-08_00.jpg). More recently, I've flirted with Buzz Tracker (can make some cool sounds, but I'm a metal-head...go figure) and Muzys (or however the fek you spell it). It was my dad's recent desire to record a guitar and vocals on his PC that got me looking again and I'm blown away with REAPER.

IRL: Manufacuring Engineering graduate, work in IT; 3D CAD. System build to software support. PC & Xnix.

Kit: Cranky old AMD Athlon 1800+, 640MB RAM, on-board VIA AC'97 (Reaper's not given me an ounce of trouble). Ibanez/Ovation guitars, VOX ToneLab FX. Lots and lots and lots of WIRES.

Cheers,
Jez.

[stringtheory]

Hey there all,

41 y/o guitarist/bassist dable on keys, drums, mandolin. Been playing for 30 years and still doing the "band" thing (I like punishment I guess).

Using reaper for about 2 weeks now and I'm liking it more everyday, haven't touched cubase in all that time. I see another audio purchase in my near future.

Been messing with recording since my old TEAC 3340 back in '87 but haven't seriously gotten into it until a few years ago. Now I drive my wife crazier than ever.

So to all who have helped develop this amazing program, my wife thanks you.

[aeon]

i'm a 23 y.o. UK-based producer, working mainly with psychedelic trance and ambient music. i'm currently putting together the basis for my second album and experimenting with surround sound for live performances. i play the electric violin & keys.

i've only just started my first track exclusively in REAPER (i'm usually an ableton user) and i love it :D thanks to all involved for providing us with such an awesome tool.

oh, and my fiance thanks you (;))

[Guitar Edman]

Hi all,

I decided to register here with my Second Life name because I have jammed with a few of the guys in there using Ninjam and Reaper. I have been a cakewalk user and abuser since the 2.0 dos version on but really like where I see reaper going and have decided to add my voice to the chorus here. I have been using reaper for about the past month after reading the manuals and videos and think I am up to speed but I have a lot of questions specific to my own needs that I hope the community here can help with. However,I will try to place them in the appropriate threads rather than here.


Anyway, if your a SL'r (you know who you are) please add me to your friends list I have an available Ninjam Server up and ready to go that can stream to shoutcast and SL in specific places. I am getting alot of the musicians I have worked with over the years in here with me and hope to become a big part of the Ninjam / SL music community but new friends are always welcome!

Thanks

[Patch2007]

Hello I am James. I am new to the board. I am from New York, and I am an ameatur producer. I am a drummer(mainly)but I mess around on the guitar and the synthesizer, as well as on vocals.
My specs are in my signature.
I like using reaper, and I plan on buying it once i get the money.
i am 25, and I am going to college for music education/performing.
I have been playing the drums since I was about 8 or 9 years old, and I purchased my vintage Ludwig red sparkle set when i was 15. It still plays well. I have upgraded it with different cymbals, and I added on a different tom to it for kicks. Also I have been playing the electric and acoustic guitar for over 7 years since I was 18. i have been playing piano since i was 12. I am still learning and my playing will never be finished.
So kudos to all of you and keep on rocking.
peace

-James-

[Captain H]

Hello there ..

I'm an airline pilot wanna be rock star with a wife, four kids and no dog. Used to be in a noisey pop sorta band in college and now spend the few spare minutes I have trying to put together the songs we wrote at the time for posterity.

I work in FL studio but I bought a Reaper code yesterday coz I'm so impressed with the of pace of its development since I first looked at it some months ago.

As most would recognise the routing capabilities are exceptional and I really like the Cockos Rea-plugins as they have all the functionality without the unnescessary frills.

In me first bit of fiddling, it allowed me to get rgc sfz+ soundfont player running the full ns_kit 7 to 6 separate channels plus a separate channel each for tambourine, bass, 2 lead guitars and a horn section of 5 individual instruments. Essentially most daws can only get 8 stereo outputs from that thing but Reaper allows access to all 16 mono. I was expecting the whole thing to grind to a halt but not a glitch even after vocal tracks and effects were stuck on.

Having said that, one of the requsets I would have for the future would be a slight improvement to the sampler to allow multi-layer velocity triggering so I wouldn't need sfz+ at all.

Also the ability to write my own sample titles in the midi editor piano so that I don't have to remember which note I stuck 'em to would be great.

Other than that, keep it up .. tis great stuff!

Thanks

Harry

[fester2000]

37 yr old, longtime guitar player (hobbyist, primarily), noobie to recording. Active member of the Line6 Pod user's forum (same name). Love Reaper thus far, just getting into using some of the plugin features (just bought Jamstix and am working to figure out how to use it).

[Mc UB]

Well here goes!

My name is Frank, but I go by the name Mc UB, because being a hosting MC on parties and events is my game. I'm 38, living in Arnhem and working in Amsterdam every weekend on several gigs.

I've been doing that for about ten years now, and worked with all the major Dutch and some foreign dj's and organisers in the areas of trance, club, electro, groove, hardstyle, techno and UK-hardhouse. My interest in music and the microphone for that matter go back about 25 years when I first picked up a mic in a youthcenter.

Apart from that I've been fascinated by music on a PC. That started out long long ago, when I created my first (saddly lost) song in nothing but Goldwave, a simple audio-editor. It was basically just cut-and-mix of samples in one tracked timeline.
Later I discovered Rebirth and that really rocked me. I had been doing some stuff in Fasttracker and Screamtracker, but Rebirth (and later Arturia's Storm) to me was the future. Of course it was rather limited, but you could make some banging hardhouse tunes. I even managed to do two 45min live-performances in a club with a PC, windows 95 and Rebirth. I think I was one of the first to do a PC-only live gig back then (1996), hehehe...

Over the years I've made it my hobby to dabble with music creation on a PC. I've tried funky progs like Mixmaster (saddly does not run on win XP anymore) which was actually very good for it's time, a sort of mix between an early Reason and something like Orion or so. Without the VST's and all.

I've also triend at mixing on a PC, using the early Mixman dj-controller DM2 (which can also be used as midi controller btw)together with Tractor. But mixing just wasn't really my thing. Creating is!

My first WOW moment came with Acid, which introduced a lot of stuff that was difficult before, like automation and timestretching on-the-fly. But it was audio only. I did try things like Cubase, Orion, Cakewalk... But didn't find them very userfriendly. I started with an idea, and before long I was busy figuring out the software instead of laying down my idea.

Then I stumbled onto Fruityloops and instantly fell in love. It had severe limitations too, but with a mix of Fruityloops, Orion Platinum, Cakewalk and Acid I usually found my way around.

As Fruity developed into FL Studio, I gradually ditched all others and now use FL Studio only, combined with an M-audio Radeon 49 keyboard/controller.

But I was looking for a linear sequencer for mastering of finished tracks, or to use with FL studio as a plugin. Through Computer Music magazine I stumbled onto Reaper (after the disapointing Zynewave Podium) and instantly felt at home with it. It has a very relaxed learning curve which allows me to create and learn as I go. It has all the good parts of my earlier DAW's and none of the downsides, and it is still developing to be better every day, respect!

Upto now, making music was just a hobby, but I'm considering doing serious stuff with it. Some of my tracks were judged by some notable Dutch dj's, who recomended me to go to a label and have them released, so that is positive incentive...

Three of my more 'finished' tracks can be heard on my Hyves-profile: http://mc-ub.hyves.nl/
They are all created in FL Studio. Especially the T-gate thing, I'm going to polish up that one and going for a release. Maybe add some vocal in there...

Sow... now I'm getting into setting up my soft-studio with FL-studio (and it's lifetime free updates :) ) and Reaper.

I might... even... be tempted to... switch entirely to Reaper if it holds up to the promise allready there... glllp... Hard words to utter for a true FL Studio fan...

Right now, I'm working on my first project where I want to add my own vocal to the whole... And am wondering which of the two I will use for the recording bit.

[rictheobscene]

I am Ric (the) Obscene. I play with a group titled The Razorwire Ballet. I am a recovering Yamaberg customer.

I've recently bought the commercial Reaper license, and I have been integrating it into my setup. I use Sonar and Samplitude as my primary DAW programs, and I run Reaper as a ReWire client. I like the approach the developers have taken with Reaper.

[Mawkish1983]

Hi there, I suppose I could introduce myself, as I do use Reaper now.

My name is Keith (nickname is Mawkish). I have been playing the piano since I was about 8 years old and started to write music when I was 14. I'll confess, the music I wrote wasn't very good.

When I turned 18 I went to university and had to leave my piano behind. It was only last December (2006) when I got my piano back and started playing again, over four years later! Well, I was a little rusty, but I'l picking it up again.

I used to write music on a combination of software packages. I would start by recording the midi tracks on Evolution Audio Lite. I would then render the midi track into a wave file via some sound font and some program that I cannot remember the name of. I would then use Cool Edit Pro to multitrack and edit the wave files. Finally, I would make the mp3 file.

Well, I lost all my software, so when I decided to start writing music again earlier this year I had to find all new software. I managed to re-obtain Evolution Audio Lite, and I got a midi renderer and a (rather dismal) sound font. The problem is that the most 'recommended' free-to-use multitracker was 'audacity', which I didn't find very good at all for multitracking. Then I came across this.

This is perfect for what I need, except I still need to use audacity and Cool Edit 96 to edit the wave files. It would be nice if Reaper had flanger and phaser feactures (maybe it does and I haven't found them yet - please let me know!). Still, Reaper works just fine for me.

To prove it, I wrote a song. It's not great, but it's the first song I've written in five years so forgive me. Go to http://www.myspace.com/mawkishjazz to listen to it.

That's all, I suppose.

-Mawkish

[elmcity]

I have been into software recording a lil over 2yrs and have always been putoff by other programs until reaper! I have a host other programs that were just to busy for me to get into but with reaper i actually recorded my 1st track in 5min! (the whole time i'm thinking this can't be that easy) and that's a 1st for me.
Thx so much for this app!!

[mrbungle]

Hello,i got introduced to this software via the Sound On Sound review.I like the fact that Reaper gets updated almost daily.Being a Cubase user Reaper looks like they will be more pro active.Here's hoping it continues to grow.

[Synn]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to music production and new to Reaper. First I want to say that Reaper is awesome, thanks for developing such a cool program and making it affordable!

I tried to learn Cubase first and got frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to do simple stuff. A friend told me about Reaper and so far it's been a lot easier to learn.

I have a few questions that I'll post up in the forums and I hope I can find some help here because I'm a total n00b.

Cheers!

Synn

[tony richards]

a houndawg howdy to all y'all
first off ... I'm a touring musician hired gun kinda guy and have toured many big names ... I have my own studio at home when i am off the road I do lots of songwriting and recording ... been using cakewalk products since early '91, before that voyetra seq+ and before that roland mesa for you timers here ... my point being i been around the block with midi, sampling and the likes ... I been a real devoted 12 tone guy .... it's really bugging me this whole weighted down heaviness and bloat. I got a new 64 bit machine with vista ultimate sonar 64 bit etc etc ... always wanted to try reaper just for the shitzles and giggles and because I like to check out what's going on with other apps just didn't have the time .... tour 6-9 months pretty much all of the time and when home it's in the studio .... well .... I'm buying this thing man! ... I just gotta get my head wrapped around some of these ridiculously easy features and the simplicity of the gui ..been taxing the crap out of the program all day today with the demo and not a crash in site ... so I'm buying ...prolly by the end of the week.. end o story .... nice to meet you

[lowest form]

i've just started using Reaper after being a long time user of a cracked copy of logic 5.5 that won't work on my new VAIO laptop... but let's face it, it was time to find a new DAW. I also use Audiomulch and Ambiloop as well as other hardware stuff. you can find all about me at my website (in user profile details i guess).

Reaper seems like an excellent program, although I have yet to spend enough time using it to get a proper feel or make anything with it, and life stuff has stopped me making music for a while.

Anyway, looking forwards to learning lots of new stuff about this cool piece of software from you all.

[stodge]

Just bought a license for Reaper - it's an amazing product for the price and it is easy to use the basics. I'm trying to convince my brother to try it on OSX before splashing on ProTools.

Oops forgot the important stuff.

I'm a s/w engineer, married with a one year old daughter. And zero musical talent. ;)

[Shiny]

Just found this site from a link posted on another forum (thanks Dave).
I am a drummer from way back. Got out of the music biz in the early nineties after my daughter was born and one of my last bands broke up (right after recording a CD). Been getting back into playing now for a couple of years but haven't done much serious practice until the past six months or so. The big thing is that I haven't played with any other musicians for about 14 years (well except at a family reunion a couple of months ago but that was C&W).
I'm into Rush, King Crimson, Yes, Floyd, etc but also like to play around with jazz. Most importantly, I like to create.
Lookin' forward to getting my stuff together so I can join in on the jammin' and get to know some ppl here.

[onyxashanti]

hello...my name is onyx ashanti. i live nowhere and everywhere. i go where the music takes me and i depend on my software religiously, so i dont shift DAW's very often (ableton live, which i have been using for live performance a bit and as a daw, which it does "ok"), but when i found that i was able, for the first time ever, to use traktor with fl studio together at the same time, stable!! traktor likes to steal the whole asio system. i even tried a demo for a product called effektor that was supposed to do what reaper and ReaRoute does with such ease and no latency hit. that was enough, but then the to have an extensive and useful routing matrix, 64bit bussing, quality effects, and low cpu...AND 2.2MB IN SIZE!!! its like the pucnchline to a great joke...on the industry. if i was cubase, sonar, et al, i'd be freaked out.

I use reaper to do my own personal style of music called Beatjazz. www.myspace.com/onyxashantisinterstellarribshack i use lots of horns, layered by playing each individual horn, one by one. i usually end up with 30-40 tracks of horns, all coming from my vl70 physical modellling synth. before reaper, cpu overhead from my DAW with the requisite compression, reverb, eq, etc, limmited me to, maybe, 12-16 tracks. now, with reaper and the built in effects, i get 30-40 witht the same hardware.

i am glad to be here and will contribute what i can.

onyx

[kenTheriot]

A friend from the Adobe Audition forum told me about Reaper, and so I am trying it out starting today. I have been really frustrated with all the problems in Adobe Audition and I have high hopes that Reaper will be a much more streamlined and efficient program.

Oh, the introduction...I've been recording audio in my home studio for 20 years. I have used Cool Edit Pro/Adobe audition for the entireety of the computer portion of this time (about the last 10 years). Music is a hobby for my wife and me. We record music and sell CDs, mainly to our main market, the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a world-wide medieval re-creation group.

Hope to see you on the boards!

Ken

[HomoNeophilus]

Hey!
I'm pretty new to these forums (have checked them out a few times during evaluation period a few months ago). Decided to buy a license of Reaper yesterday when I decided to start using it again to support future development. Before this I'm a long time Cubase user but have never been really satisfied with it. Too much focus on fancy graphics and copy protection, too little on fixing the issues and being what it should be (a good tool for handling audio and midi sequencing without hassle). I think Reaper is going there, although there's still some obstacles to conquer...

I'm from Sweden where I currently work as technician at a digitalization factory for audio, transferring reel-to-reel etc to digital (or rather instructing others on how). On the side I run a small company with a friend making the occasional recording job, and some educational stuff. Currently we're building a new studio and I'm thinking about using Reaper once it's up and running.

Some of my musical work, if anybody's interested, can be found at http://www.psyjuntan.se or at net label http://www.reunionstudio.org (under same name as here). I'm into lots of different kinds of music but these two are mainly electronic.

Cheers.

[GougeAway]

Hi everyone. Wow... I am blown away.

3 years on Logic, then 3 years on Cakewalk. And now 20 minutes reading the forums here and 20 minutes using Reaper and I'm totally hooked.

What an awesome piece of work this is... everything from the program itself to the manual to the community here (and the fact that the devs read the forums and act on them!). I was seriously considering forking out for the latest Cakewalk... due to 5 pissing me off for too many reasons to mention. I can't tell you how stoked I am I found Reaper before I did.

This is one piece of software I am going to be happy paying for. Thanks a million to all responsible.

[bsr2002]

How's it going? I will have alot of midi and sequncer questions here...total noob as far as this is concerned, but an experienced road musician :) See yall soon

[sceyefeye]

In true keeping with my MO I have been posting away merrily without a simple hello (or perhaps I have and have overlooked my previous hello - anything is possible ;)

So hello all. Love the spirit of this forum, compared to some that I play in, this really is (as someone put it elsewhere on the site) a Love Fest ;)

I masquerade as and architect and graphic/web designer by day. Full time dad and when the opportunity arises I attempt to compose/produce Trance music of the Psychedelic and Goa varieties. So far haven't hit the nail on the head.

Am primarily a Reason user - though looking for something to extend the sequencer capabilities and to allow some VST support along with better audio (Frankly the Prop's are smoking their socks when you look at the price they want for Re-Cycle)

Anyway great to be here and a part of this

[pphen]

Hi guys,

First of, I would like to congratulate Cockos for this fantastic software.

I'm always in search for good shareware to try. I've tried many DAWs, some either support wavs or midi. One day, I came across this software. I just stunned, it's simple, powerful, and light.

It's rock!

[Xaake]

I feel a bit ashamed not to have posted in this thread yet, but here we go:

I am 29 years old and live in a little town in Sweden called Rimforsa, here I work as a youth minister.

I love music of all sorts, and have always done so. There are exceptions of course. When I was little my father used to drag me and my siblings (we are five in total) around hospitals and homes for old people playing the accordion and we the children would sing. This probably was the start of me loving music (and hating the accordion).

In the last couple of years I have turned my head towards daws and recording, and I love that even more that performing live (mostly since I have come to realize that my voice is actually not suitable for solo singing, and in the computer it can be fixed to at least be passable). This led me to invest in some cheap but ok computer equipment (monitors, soundcard, microphone etc.) So now I am recording my own songs as well as help some people record theirs.

My main instrument is the acoustic guitar, but I love to play the piano and electric guitar too although I am not any good at it.

If you want to hear what I have recorded most of it is on my myspace page:

www.myspace.com/xaake

Please visit my girlfriends myspace too, I have helped her record the song/songs you can hear there.

www.myspace.com/majalenaolsson

[nieghel]

Hi everyone!

I am Norbert Tapodi alias Nieghel from Hungary! I live in Kiskunhalas, it is a little town in the south. I make inquiries about music from the time when my brother brought the first and biggest music maker software, the FastTracker2! :) I like all kinds of music but I do nu skool breakbeat.
I use reaper for a short time, but I love it and I hope I can help make it better and better!

Wish the best: Nieghel!

[Si Waters]

Hi Everybody!

I'm 30 years old and have just completed the first year of my degree in Music Technology. I'm hoping one day to get into music production for media/film/television, but also would like to do some studio work, professionally. My options are at this stage still well and truly open.

My first degree was in Biology, but that only really led to an unfulfilled 10 year sales career in various jobs. Since I joined my first band a few years ago I realised that there was more to life than sitting behind a desk selling uninteresting things to uninteresting people!

So, I took all my money and ploughed it into re-educationg myself in something I love. Quite a risk I have been told - I don't really see it that way.

I really have only been using DAW software for a year or so, and have learned a lot. Mainly I use Cubase SX3 at college. Even with the student rate it's still going to be pricey if and when I eventually buy it for myself in a year or two, so Reaper is a real alternative that I will try out over the summer to see how I get on with it... I also just ordered an Intel Core 2 6600 and motherboard to upgrade my aging AMD 3000 2GhZ single core which is having a hard time of it at the moment. I also recently purchased a MOTU 828mkii which is lovely.

I'm a guitarist (rhythm, none of that fancy lead stuff) and currently play bass (as it's only got four strings and therefore "easier"!), but I'm probably going to take a back seat from performance in the future as I'd rather do the technical side of it.

I'm also a (very) amateur mechanic and love putting things back on my 1969 VW Beetle which occassionally fall off.

Well, thanks for reading - looks like there are some nice people on here!

Simon

(Oh, and a plug for Sound On Sound magazine in the UK - they reviewed Reaper in this month's edition and so that is how I heard of it.)

[Andrew Cockburn]

Hi All,

I've been playing with Reaper for a few days now and posted a little so I thought I'd introduce myself!

I've been playing guitar for around 30 years (and I'm only 40 years old), and recording original material for fun for at least 15 of those - starting with a Casette based Portastudio, then a Fostex Hard Disk setup, then finally moving to a totally digital world using Cubase/Nuendo.

I'm a Brit by extraction, but married an American girl and now live in Connecticut USA, about 40 miles north of New York.

I work as an IT Consultant, and I spend my copious (hah!) spare time practicing guitar, collaborating with a UK based friend, and I am the musical theory instructor over at guitarmasterclass.net.

I found my way here via the Sound on Sound review, and its like a breath of fresh air - I reported a bug, and in less than 24 hours Justin gave me 4 new builds to try and nail it down ... still not fixed, but that level of service and attention to users has sealed it for me - goodbye Cubase, hello Reaper!

So far the forum has furnished me with many important tips and made a lot of this a painless transition - thanks for your help so far guys, looking forward to chatting to you all some more.

Right, better go and register my copy right now ...

[tonymatt]

hi,

i'm older and old schooler. i haven't done much in reaper yet just transfers from a roland vs1680 that i then sold.

i purchased reaper the other day. since last wednesday i have reading up on the whole midi thing, samples, ... because i now nothing about it.

right now my goal is to use a borrowed dk10 kat going into my emu1616m, into addictive drums, into reaper.

so, i will be posting questions in the discussion forum to get some help. god, i really need it, lol ... hope some folks will help me out.

have a good one,
tony

[JDilla2380]

Good topic.

Well. I'm Justin and I live in Toronto Canada.

Not a musician really, but an emcee since I was like 10 I guess. Or at least I liked to think I was an emcee way back then.
I attended Trebas Institute in Toronto for engineering. Been out of the music and recording thing for a few years. Just getting back into it since I bought a laptop a few months back, along with a Presonus Firebox and Kontakt 2.
I'm trying to make Reaper my main sequencer since I do like software that's reasonably(extremeley actually) priced and I don't want to use cracked programs. They crash and work like garbage.
I'm just waiting for all the MIDI issues to sort themselves out so I can register this program like I did for DJ Decks. I like to support the little guy with who has new ideas.

Been using Cubase LE and the lack of Bus Mixing and multi core support kills the workflow. So here I am.

[jamesp]

I've been hanging around here for a few weeks so I guess I ought to let people know who I am.

I've been interested in sound recording since the age of 10 when I was given my first cassette recorder. I grew up messing around with analogue tape recorders - creating strange noises and recording whatever I could find. I started playing in bands at the age of 17 although I'm one of those strange people who is happier recording people than actually playing.

One of my early studios was in a shed at the bottom of my parent's garden where I started off with a Philips 2 track machine, moved on to a Revox and finally went for a Fostex 8 track.

By the mid 80's I was starting to make a name for myself as a sound engineer locally so I teamed up with a friend of mine to open a small commercial studio with our combined gear - he had a bunch of synths and effects while I supplied the mixer and recorders. We ran Watershed Studios for around 12 years - moving up from 8 track to 16 track analogue then ADAT and then 2" 16 track.

While we ticked along nicely recording a wide variety of music, the studio was never quite successful enough for me to give up my day job. Eventually I decided I wasn't into recording bands all my spare time so I moved into a large house and built myself a studio where anyone sensible would have a living room. While running Watershed I had found myself doing more and more mastering and audio cleaning for a few local record labels so the new studio was focussed more towards that area.

I've been mainly using Adobe Audition for my recording over the last few years but I've been looking at Reaper since I first heard about it on the Sound On Sound forum a few months ago. Reaper seems much stronger in the areas where Audition is weak so the two programs seem to complement each other nicely. I've not used Reaper on a paid project yet so I only have a non-commercial license but it looks like I'll be upgrading soon.

Cheers

James.

[artkau]

Hi all...

I'm a gearhead from South Africa. I love outboard stuff but am blown away by Reaper, this software is about to convert me. Going to pick up MIDI USB adapter today to use my AW16G Control Surface.

I'm in a band called The Branches. I play most things mediocrely, and LOVE the art and science of recording.

Great to be here!

art

[Tallisman]

Tallis at birth.
-washed-up rapper that hates hip-hop music
-unaccomplished real musician that produces crap closely related to what some might call hip-hop music.
-bass and guitar learning
-world traveller
-papa thrice
-husband once (and still)
-IT guy for Parks Canada (until the mat-term is done)
-Software Junkie
-midiot
-ex-pirate
-one-time Cubase fanatic
-current Reaper fanatic
-workflow obsessed
-love soccer and other fine sports
-hate beer
-perpetually trying to quit smoking.

http://tallisman.dmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rkrdspnnr
http://www.zed.cbc.ca/go?user_id=14617&c=contentPage
http://radio3.cbc.ca/nmc/artist.aspx?name=TALLISMAN

[mission]

My name is Mission.

I worked on the Italian Job score and did menu music for Tony Hawk Pro Skater and NBA Live franchises.

Now I live in Atlanta and own a marketing firm focusing on sports teams and golf courses (pointmarketinggroup.com). I also run the Mission Music Group which does producer development, management and placement.

I also work at the Grand Hustle studio for T.I. doing pre-production and vocal tracking/engineering for big rap guys.

I mainly use Pro Tools and Logic but have been incorporating Reaper into my pre-production studios. Found out about it from Antonym on the MPC-forums.com website.

I rarely sleep, live on energy drinks and can't keep a girlfriend.

[rictheobscene]

Tallis
-one-time Cubase fanatic

Me too. I have been Borg free for a while.


-current Reaper fanatic

Oh Hell Yeah!


-love soccer and other fine sports

West Ham United and Kansas City Wizards.


-hate beer


Now that's just not right. Boo.... creepy forum beer hater guy. Hooray beer. Just clowning a bit with you mate.http://www.live-drums.com/lgt/phpBB/nerg_images/icon_28XX.gif

[Tallisman]

Now that's just not right. Boo.... creepy forum beer hater guy. Hooray beer. Just clowning a bit with you mate.http://www.live-drums.com/lgt/phpBB/nerg_images/icon_28XX.gif

No worries... i get that all the time. But rarely at parties, oddly enough. :D

[scottdru]

-ex-pirate

Heh . . . my 4-year old nephew is *totally* into playing pirates. One day he noticed the earring in my left ear and started asking about it. I explained to him that, when seamen travel across the equator (which I have done, but nothing to do with getting the earring), they get their ear pierced to commemorate the occasion. Then, suddenly, he asked me if I was a pirate. Of course I said yes! :D He was quite thrilled with this, and he totally bought it. (Mind you, my family lives half way across the country from me, so I only get to see them a couple of times a year.)

So he asked me where I keep my pirate ship. I told him that, of course, I keep it in New York Harbor (given that I live in NYC and all).

So now he's bugging me incessantly to let him come visit me in NYC and take him for a ride on my pirate ship, and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to swing this one.

So my sister says "You can take him for a ride on the, uhh, Staten Island . . . err . . . Pirate Ship Yeah . . . the Staten Island Pirate Ship!" :D




-perpetually trying to quit smoking.

Dude . . . it's totally EASY . . . I swear! I've quit smoking hundreds of times!

[BaldByChoice]

Hi guys,

I just wanted to introduce myself.
My name is Henrik Andersson (a.k.a. Hea).
I'm a 31 years old (in September) singer from Sweden.
I've been foolin' around with various DAWs the last couple of years but nothing really seemed to fit me.
Finally with REAPER I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
Great program!
Like I said I'm mainly a singer but I also play keyboards/piano, bass and I'm also trying to learn to play the guitar.
I sing in the Swedish hard rock band Dogpound. We've released two albums so far and we'll release our third album the 27th of June in Japan and in the rest of the world the 14th of September.
If all goes well I'm planning on using REAPER (after purchasing a commercial license of course ;) ) to record our fourth album.
Anyways, I just wanted to say hi. :)

[Tallisman]

Heh . . . my 4-year old nephew is *totally* into playing pirates. One day he noticed the earring in my left ear and started asking about it. I explained to him that, when seamen travel across the equator (which I have done, but nothing to do with getting the earring), they get their ear pierced to commemorate the occasion. Then, suddenly, he asked me if I was a pirate. Of course I said yes! :D He was quite thrilled with this, and he totally bought it. (Mind you, my family lives half way across the country from me, so I only get to see them a couple of times a year.)

So he asked me where I keep my pirate ship. I told him that, of course, I keep it in New York Harbor (given that I live in NYC and all).

So now he's bugging me incessantly to let him come visit me in NYC and take him for a ride on my pirate ship, and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to swing this one.

So my sister says "You can take him for a ride on the, uhh, Staten Island . . . err . . . Pirate Ship Yeah . . . the Staten Island Pirate Ship!" :D




Dude . . . it's totally EASY . . . I swear! I've quit smoking hundreds of times!

nice...
My kids dig pirates too... a b-day party pic:
http://stashbox.org/filez/23/23822_Pirateman.jpg

[alex zonder]

.. a b-day party pic

so your kid now thinks pirates actually looked that friendly? :)

nice pic -

but good old Keef (as seen on the right) might be a more fitting illustration:

http://captainjacksblog.com/wp-content/uploads/keith-richards-thumb.jpg

Good to know that one can end a musical career as a pirate.

[Jason Brian Merrill]

Good to know that one can end a musical career as a pirate.

of course, some from this generation may be STARTING their musical careers as pirates ;)

[DrJ]

[-perpetually trying to quit smoking.


do or do not, there is no try...

i havent had a cigarette for 6 months, and i dont even think about them anymore - i think the trick is to actually really not want to smoke anymore. i smoked about a pack a day for 12 years and then i had a fucked up hallucination where i remembered telling my late grandad to quit smoking and it was so real in my head (no drugs involved, honest) that i fuckin freaked and i aint touched one since. of course, the day they find a cure for lung cancer i'm goin straight to the tobacconist to buy myself a carton...

ps. i really dont wanna be a preachy wanker, but i also wanna discount those mutherfuckers out there that tell you that once your hooked, thats it. fuck those assholes, the power is yours.

love j

[cerendir]

I've already posted a few things here but I don't think I've introduced myself properly. So here goes.

Well, uh, I'm a 33 year old Swede, guitar player originally (started playing in 1988 or so) but I dabble with other instruments as well, mainly keys, bass and voice. I've been using computers as a musical tool since the mid/late nineties and I've given up the band thing totally. It's much more rewarding to write and record on your own than standing around in rehersal rooms trying to piece together songs from ideas that never really fit together.

I'm mainly into progressive rock and orchestral music; big fan of Rush, Kansas, [Gabriel-era] Genesis, Marillion, IQ -- among others. As for the orchestral bit, my preference is soundtracks rather than your typical classical fare (Mozart, Bach, Bethooven etc). I like Wagner and Dvorak and a couple other classical composers, but my biggest hero is really John Williams.

I also write prog and orchestral mostly. Currently I'm composing some orchestral stuff for the open source strategy game Battle for Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org/), but I'm also working on some new material for my neo-progressive pet project Momentum (http://www.scriptorium.se/west/index.php?id=23).

Um, I dunno what else to say. Equipment maybe? Nothing fancy at all:

- AMD Athlon 64 3200+
- 1GB RAM
- 2 Samsung SATA drives (160GB/250GB)
- SB Live! Value with kX drivers
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- Cubase SX 2 (definitely planning to migrate to reaper tho')
- Edirol Orchestral
- Tons of free plugins and soundfonts
- Ibanez RG760 (heavily modded)
- Williams bass (some kind of Musicman clone)
- SX steelstring acoustic
- M-Audio Keystation 49e MIDI keyboard
- Quickshot MIDI keyboard
- ZOOM 9150 valve preamp
- Proteus 2000
- Various mics

That's basically it. So... hello guys :)

[RichStudio]

Hello,
My name is Rich. I have been playing guitar for 25+ years. I have been recording for 17+ years (started on a Fostex X-15).

In 1995 I became a partner in a recording studio in Las Vegas (Sound Masters). I became the "live" recording guy (my partner is a sequencing monster) and the mastering guy. I also became the computer tech / software guy of the studio.

I moved back to Phoenix in 2003 (I run a construction company by day) and now have a computer based home studio where I collaborate with local muscians as well as mix and master third-party music.

I love playing guitar and recording. You can check out my stuff & studio at www.myspace.com/richstudio.

I own almost all the major DAW software. I usually use Vegas (for its simplicity and sound). But after checking out Reaper (easy side chaining, yeah!!), I had to make the purchase.

It is wonderful to see the support and updates this program is getting. Reaper is on it's way to becoming the DAW master of the universe!

[willowhaus]

Hi all,

I've been following Reaper since before the 1.0 release, and I just now purchased my license! :) I've used various DAWs, most recently Ableton Live; I still like Live very much, but for straight recording I've decided to go with Reaper.

About myself: I'm a family guy; an audio engineer-turned-IT guy, working in radio at the moment. Played music...forever. ;) Being a Dad, though, I'm pretty much at home messing around with recording when I can. My wife & I play together, & we're trying to get out & be active again.

I spend too much time on the internet already...but I'll be hanging around some. Let's pick each other's brains!

[parc]

My name is Juan Pablo Arceo, I'm a Mexican musician & producer who lives in Mexico city. I'm an avid Reason user now and I started with the first version of ACID and well I've been using different types of DAW's. I look forward to register my copy of REAPER any time soon -promise- :), let me congratulate the people behind this excellent program. It let's you get things done quickly, it just doesn't interfere with creativity at all, I think it's an excellent rewire host. Honestly this is one of the BEST D.A.W. I've come across in a long time. thank you very much.

[Eject Audio]

A few words about myself as an introduction.

New Brunswick, Canada. Acadian.
Studied sound engineering in 95 (ataris... and the good old mac classics)
House live sound tech for close to 3 years
Chief engineer of community FM radio station for over 1 year
Managed a Radio Shack for 2 years
Doing the call center thing for cash
Very recently started small mastering studio
Play guitar for fun (experimental-pseudo-jazz)
Avid reader
Aways looking to learn something new about audio, sound and the whole thing
Poet.

Andre @ Eject Audio
(website coming soon)

[Dan The Loung]

Hey up chucks.

Found Reaper after ages trying to find a decent DAW that would work on a crappy PC and didn't cost an arm and a leg.

It seems unbelievably good so I'm talking all the band into getting it so we can start using it as a sketchbook before we go into the studio.

Good stuff indeed.

[earlabs]

I have been living in Holland for the past 46 years. I have done mainly experimental electronic and electroacoustical music. Set up a website called EARLABS.ORG which hosts the thoughts and music of many kindred spirits. Have been beta tester for Cool Edit, CE Pro and Audition for years but lost interest when that nice app was being sold to Adobe in order to become just the audio part of Premiere. My worst fears became true when the interface of CEP/Audition was torn apart in order to fit the kitsch interface principles of Adobe. Also I think that with Adobe's acquisition the focus was no longer on (slower but) state of the art sound editing but on fast(and less precise) editing.

So, I bought reaper yesterday, simply because of the (huge) value for (little) money that's involved with the deal. I have already covered a lot of the features (incl. the midi controlling, which is very nice) and will research the niches. I hope Reaper will keep the eyes on quality editing instead of the buckies.

js
www.jossmolders.nl
www.earlabs.org

[alex zonder]

I have been living in Holland for the past 46 years. I have done mainly experimental electronic and electroacoustical music. Set up a website called EARLABS.ORG which hosts the thoughts and music of many kindred spirits. Have been beta tester for Cool Edit, CE Pro and Audition for years but lost interest when that nice app was being sold to Adobe in order to become just the audio part of Premiere. My worst fears became true when the interface of CEP/Audition was torn apart in order to fit the kitsch interface principles of Adobe. Also I think that with Adobe's acquisition the focus was no longer on (slower but) state of the art sound editing but on fast(and less precise) editing.

So, I bought reaper yesterday, simply because of the (huge) value for (little) money that's involved with the deal. I have already covered a lot of the features (incl. the midi controlling, which is very nice) and will research the niches. I hope Reaper will keep the eyes on quality editing instead of the buckies.

js
www.jossmolders.nl
www.earlabs.org


jos, van harte welkom! Ik denk inmiddels zeker te weten dat REAPER de juiste keus is al 't gaat om kwaliteit in de diepte i.p.v. glamour en tierelantijnen in de breedte.

Goed om een componist aan boord te hebben; mooie sites heb je met veel interessant materiaal (dat ik in alle rust nog ga bestuderen). Is er online werk van je te beluisteren?

REAPER heeft werkelijk een geweldige, heel gevarieerde gebruikersgroep; iedereen staat met goede adviezen en oprechte belangstelling klaar. Veel plezier dus met REAPER!

(= a word of welcome in Dutch to a fellow Dutchman...) :)

[idragosani]

Hi there!

My name's Brett, in Maryland, near Washington, DC. I am new to Reaper but not to digital recording. I have a small basement project studio, and I started out with Windows and Cakewalk a few years ago, but moved over to Linux audio for a few years (although still using Windows for some things). I have recently reorganized my home project studio with new computer gear, and came across Reaper and I have decided to use that on Windows now instead of Cakewalk Sonar. For one thing, I love the Reaper interface much more, Sonar's is too cluttered for my taste and there's just too much clicking on stuff.

I have to admit, Reaper is very similar in many regards to the Linux DAW Ardour, very clean and lean, so I feel more comfortable using it! Also, I can't seem to record with IK Multimedia's Amplitube on Sonar (I get dropouts, for some reason)... but no problme with Reaper, even with multiple instances.

So... nice job, folks!

-- Brett

[okdac]

Pierre speaking from France
I'm new to Reaper and I must admit that it is very very impressive. I've been married to Cubase (for PC or laptop) for a long time and never thought I would cheat on "him" so easily. But now it's done. I'm so ashamed!..but so happy. Quite impressed too by this forum. As a very humble musician, i've been switching from flute playing (for about 15 years) to keyboards "hammering", as this is the easiest way for me to write music on my computers and play in a band. I'm much jazz-rock-fusion oriented and try to compose in that way (still humbe). That's all. Hope everybody here is enjoying any kind of music, because it really makes life better.
See you.

[nicholas]

Bonjour, Pierre, et bienvu!

[imaschiz]

Good evening. My name is Imaschiz. I have a confession to make, I have been fooling around with Reaper for the last 6 months or so, unregistered! Well, I'm here now to declare that I have just PAID for my non-commercial license! I feel good about supporting such dynamite software. Reaper does what I want it to, very smoothly indeed.

I don't pay for much software - basically because there is so much excellent freeware out there! But I will always fork up the bucks for software that is reasonably priced & does the job I want it to WELL.

Anyway, I've moved from Audacity & my onboard AC'97 to Reaper and a new M-Audio 2496 soundcard lol! So the future looks bright for my INTERGALACTIC SPACE PUNK ha ha ha ha ha ha....

[merv]

Hi

Been using Reaper for nearly a couple of months now and paid up a week or so ago.
I live in London and started out playing guitar and bass in various bands, mostly pubs & clubs but did appear on telly once for all of 2 seconds (13 more to go).

I've always messed around with recording on 4 tracks & 8 tracks and then got into computer recording using Cubase on a PC.
I bought an MBox last year and started learning Pro Tools LE - which is ok but I find Reaper so much quicker and easier to use. I wasn't really planing on changing DAW after spending a lot of time on Pro Tools but I downloaded Reaper at work to mess around on and was quickly hooked.

ps. well done DrJ, I've just got past the 6 month mark as well - feeling good but still get the odd urge.

[remi_2]

Hey hey !

just bought my non-commercial licence a few minutes ago, so here I am!

Started playing guitar and drums when I was 14 years old after listening to Dinosaur Jr's Where You Been LP (been a Dinosaur Jr fan ever since, never heard a better fuzz !), started a band at that time that lasted 6 years and gave birth to a bunch of nice concerts and a full length home recorded album back in 1999 :). The whole album was recorded on a PII266 with 64 megs of ram using cool edit pro 1.0 and a 4 gigs HDD :) damn that was fun cause we never knew if the computer could handle the end of a take without starting to swap!

So I'm Back into the music business after a long interruption of 7 years, during which I morphed from a brainless indie guitar player into a full blown computer geek (I do software dev for a living now), just starting to get my music skills back together :) and using REAPER to lay down ideas, and perhaps mix and master whole songs if I ever get good at it!

So watch out, 'cuz I'm back from the dead, with the holy spirit of fuzz guiding my thoughts !

[spoon]

Hello all.

This is David from Chicago.
SX3 user who stumble across Reaper from the GS forum.

I love the design perspective: form THRU function. It does indeed feel more like an app that an end-user would develop (which it is). (Though, I cant wait for basic EQ on the mixer!!!)

Cheers,
spoon

[christopher page]

Hey whats up everyone my names chris, Im 20 years old, come to think Im probably on of the youngest on this forum. Im a guitar player picked that up when i was 12, my english teacher taught me a few chords and I picked up from there. Once you learn how to play guitar, bass is pretty easy...and once you learn chords music theory comes naturaly, then you learn all the keys.
LOL, I remember I wrote something that sounded much ike aladins theme song "a whole new world." It was quite beautiful, so I played it for the class in Piano 1. I failed, because i didnt play the "moonlight Sonata."

I was first introduced to digital music when Mac's version of "Band in a Box" was used in some practice sessions we were doing in jazz band in 10th grade. It was cool, like an entire rythym section at our disposal. Shortly after my bestfriend told me about this software that came out, Sonar xlv2.0 Since we had already been playing a bit, I thought we'd get together with some friends, drummer and saxaphonist I played guitar, my bestfriend played bass, his father was in a covr band and had a room full of equipment (PAs guiatsr, Pearl drumkit, Mics, an old Triton keyboard, etc.) So I used a "Y" spliter stereo to stereo and went from the aux out then pluged it in the "mic" in put on the back of my computer lol. We found out the mic input itself on the soundcard was only mono, so we duplicated the take, and panned em out. lol. Man, sooooo bad.

Then we all broke up found it wasnt working, I moved to Rhode Island, and I lost contact with everyone. I started playing with some MIDI a lil but put all the recording stuff down, and got together in this bluesy band at a club I had a job at being a server.

We were called "The amazing Mudsharks," I was still quite young only 18 so it was a secret to half the establishments we went to, the girls were nuts guys...then I graduated highschool.
After 6 months of that my father was about to retire from the military but he was shipped off to iraq. Just as our band was starting to make it big he asked me to go with power of attorney to Ohio, and build his home for him.

Considering this an honor I moved out to Ohio built this big ass house in this BFN town. It was a 50 miles to cincinnati, but I made it daily. I met a beautiful girl who was this cheerleader a junior in highschool only 17 and we were in love. We broke up after I stared going to school at this college that was a bit far from her home. I went as an audio/video major.
Later found out the program was a joke, and misunderstanding what it should have been called, Videography. The majority of what i was doing was lighting, script writing, and helping with these video shoots. They had a 24 track studio with a digi 002 and Pro Tools 6.4le but it could only record 2 tracks at a time.
Hence forth I dropped out.

Although while I was there I met another friend, who had a pro tools setup as well...it was modest. So we recorded and mixed an alternative expiermental hip-hop album. He was a rapper. I did ALL the music he wrote the lyrics and did his thing.
We made about 12 songs together.
After that i was getting fed-up we did about 500+ takes with this guy, and still not a keeper. He would never let me mix down the sessions.

So I made instrumentals of them all, and ill post em shortly.
As soon as I figure how to. not like all you other IT people.
I got back together with one the girl i met, she graduated high school, we started to date more seroiusly and we became engaged very happily.

Now to the present...

She decided to go to college in University of North Carolina and I was all up for the idea. But you see I'm in a crucial decision and I need some help. I didnt exactly spend my time in highschool studying, I ditched math class to play a 9' stienway. And I got away with it too.
But now it's gunna take some serious work to get into college, I want to continue my lifes admiration in music. But, more and more each day Im told that this career isnt a career at all.
Should I take it all to the end, say screw em all and jump in without looking.
Or try to go to school for medical, or IT lol, because it seems to be the norm in here. Still staying true to my roots, I was looking for computers found "Woot computers," you should check em out. then I stumbled on to "Reaper," and met all of you guys.
Still dont have a setup or a computer to record or even a mic, but i have my strat, and a passion.
Just tell me I'm doin whats right guys, take care and I would appreciate the advice on what to do next.
Thankyou all much.

[Ja.x]

My 1st visit to this forum, and once there's an "Introduce Yourself" thread it would be rude to not introduce myself. Here it goes: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=102378239

In the past I used a lame sequencer that came with my keyboard, then Muzys, then currently eXT, and I'm having a peek at this Reaper thing. I came to this forum because I have a problem but will place it in another thread. Take care.

[Europanaut]

Well, not really a kid. I just feel like it, and sort of act like it I guess.

I've been using computers for music since around 1986, starting in DOS with Personal Composer. (128k of ram, and NO hard drive! But I actually did like the amber monitor.)

Since then, I've gone through the usual software, hardware, and platform experiments, ending up in the Cubase and PT worlds for the last few years.

Last week I downloaded Reaper after reading the SOS review, and haven't had much sleep since. This is an amazing program, with so many benefits over the "competition" that it's difficult to grasp the depth of this design and implementation achievement.

I'm going to try a full session/mix in Reaper over the next few days, and if all goes well, I'll be registering shortly after.

Thanks to all for the great information posted daily on the forum, and thanks to Cockos for an astounding product.

Jim

[crisismusic]

New guy on the board, I've heard about Reaper in the past on other boards but they always seemed to turn into arguments. When mcatalao posted his review of Reaper on the Studio Central board I was expecting much of the same, but I noticed that all the arguments that Reaper nay-sayers use no longer apply. So here I am, 8 days into my 30 day trial period and already convinced that this is the software for me.

A little bit about my background, I'm currently in college so I may be one of the younger users on this board. I've played guitar and bass for about 9 years now, and started making music on the computer around the same time with Fruity Loops. Of course back then I didn't know anything about making music so I was just making cheesy techno tracks using the default sample library and exporting the results to laugh at with all my friends.

Fast forward to today, or 8 days ago, and I was still using FL Studio and hating every second. The midi implementation is disgusting and the lack of multi-out VST support was what ultimately drove me to pursue other options. I have spent a large amount of time with Live, Sonar and Cubase demos over the last 6 months, but none of them were really addictive enough to justify the steep pricetags.

So as it stands I will be purchasing a personal license, and if I ever do get around to actually producing a CD I will gladly upgrade to the commercial license. In the meantime I look forward to following the development of Reaper with all of you fine people.

[GermanFafian]

Hello there!
I finally decided to support Reaper and bought a non-comercial license. I really have no use for it right now, as I make mostly electronica music and only record my guitar thru POD XT sims, but I might be doing some live recordings of a friend's acoustic band in the guitar shop I work at.
I Love FL and EXT, but Reaper seems more suitable for this task so i have fooled a bit with it for a while and thought it would fit the bill perfectly.
Whenever I get around these recordings I will post links here.
See you around and best wishes to this team of cool independent developers ( I have this mania about independently developed software )
Germ

[Eccentrica]

Hey guys I'm rob, 21 from the UK. Been playing music since i was eight years and given the ever so trust keyboard lessons (not piano) got into music so much that by the age of 9 was told to stop trying so hard or i'm going to burn out (yea i thought it hilarious too lol). sank into music to hide from the bullies lol suprising hhow bullies wont go anywhere near the music room. Anyway crossed over into playing piano picking up classical music by ear which pissed off anyone who spent years sight reading. was given a PC as a christmas present at the age of around 14 with cubase AV (thats why i like reaper) got into recording from there age of 15 introduced music tech to my school like some sort of juju man saying there will sound throughout the halls played in a a couple of really iffy bands which introduced me to the wonders of rock music (I didnt have MTV) couldnt find anyone who could play the guitar the way i wanted so taught myself been playing that since then. got into vai (can play something similar lol) stopped the keyboard lessons/piano lessons to go to universty/college to study music production. now at the age of 21, 22 next friday no job seomwaht socially inept and a seriously crazy muso (touch my instruments and you will die lol) looking to now collaberate with anyone and everyone local or online.

That be me

robs life = music

[Wiggum, Ralph]

Hi guys,

Been trying out Reaper for awhile, but it never "clicked" with me. Until I discovered "Younsoft" skin on kvraudio.com. Gave Reaper another chance and so far it looks like I'm going to stick with it. I currently use Logic Pro, and will hopefully replace it with Reaper. Audio editing in Reaper is top-notch. While midi/vsti still has a way to go(ie: timing issues, etc.)

About myself, I Live in Miami and New York. Play keyboards(piano), and a little bass and guitar. 27. Love music & just looking for a solid bloated free DAW that won't get in my way.

See you guys around!!!

[Kerry]

I've been a Christian minister for 22 some years. Singer, song writer. Married, four kids...two mostly grown, two just starting out. I play guitar, keyboard, tenor banjo, uke, trombone, bass guitar, and the radio.

I started out recording about twenty years ago on portable stereo recorders, graduated to Roland VS recorders for several years, then recently bought up to the Akai Professional DPS24 recorder (the unit failed within days of purchase, Musician's Friend sent me another which failed after two weeks).

When the second Akai unit crashed, I decided to re-think my approach to recording. I remembered an article I'd read in Tape Op magazine about an up and coming DAW program called Reaper. I downloaded the evaluation copy to my workstation at work and after only a couple of hours knew my recording world would never be the same again.

To replace my Akai units, I called Dell and ordered a workstation...2.0 ghz Quad Core XEON w/2gb ram. I use Presonus FirePods as my interface, AKG, Apex, and Shure mics, and I master using Steinberg Wavelab. As an external controller, I have a Mackie Control Universal.

That's about it for now. Glad to be here!

[juanito]

I'm just a Juanstah.

I play Keys, do Vocals and write songs. More often than not, I get asked a lot to perform Keys and/or backup vocals for peeps at various studios. Been at this Keys\midi\DAW thing since the days of the Ensoniq EPS\ASR Reign of evil Terror. Props to the makers of Vegas, Acid, Reason, Cubase and now Reaper for their contrbutions to all things Digital.


"Trunicate this muthaphucka!!!" ;-)

- juanster

[arbogast]

Hello everyone. New User wants to present himself:

Having worked professionally as a pianist, arranger and teacher for 12 years I began noodlin' around with digital audio a cpl of years ago. I've progressed beyond the newbie treshold long ago but still have lots to learn (may the day when nothing's left to learn never come!)

While Cubase and Sonar holds few mysteries to me(apart from ACT)I've only got basic knowledge w Ableton and Reason (last of which isn't really a host, I know)

Along comes Reaper. What a fantastic piece of work.

I've now pledged myself to ditch other hosts and work exclusively on Reaper for the next year. Mainly because I want to, sec because I feel almost morally obliged to support a product this good and cheap.

One of my teaching jobs involves a lot of 'music technology' (I teach youngsters 15-20 yrs old). Its great to be able to recommend reaper & I'm seriously considering ditching Cubase on the school machines in favour of reaper.

tata & 'appy polly loggies' in adv for poor english

[desertskies]

Howdy. I presently reside in south central New Mexico. Born in '48 in Southern California, I've been playing some instrument since 13. I play guitar, drums, bass, harmonica - play around on a few others. Played in various bands, acts and solo through the years. I've worked live audio and as recording engineer for about 20 years. I started out old school on analogue tape. Still use my Tascam TSR-8 for much work. My recent digital experience is with Cakewalk Pro9 and PG Music PowerTracks. I stumbled onto Reaper looking for something to the point with a low learning curve. What a beautiful program.

--Vern

www.desert-skies.net

[Gtr65]

Hey Everyone,

Just registered my copy of REAPER. I had come thisclose to upgrading my demo of Ableton Live 6 Lite, but I REALLY didn't want to spend over $300 when all I really want to do is record guitar with a Line6 Toneport, a Variax, and midi drum tracks.

Reaper offers everything I need (and more), and as a lurker here for the past four weeks, I've seen that everyone here is really knowledgeable and very helpful.

[Anton Farmer]

Hi there

Just a quick line to say hello

I'm probably the oldest 'git' on this forum but that don't mean I'm wiser I've just had more chances to screw things up!

I have just registered 'Reaper' because I thing it's great and deserves support

I've tried most of the others - Cubase, Logic, Pro-Tools etc. and currently use Sonar 5 Studio but I think 'Reaper' is really something special

I intend to make it my DAW of choice for 16/24 track location recording

I'll let you know how I get on

Cheers
Anton

[efaithfarm]

Heck, why not...

Like several others I've seen, my day job is in IT. But in college I was a rock star (maybe more like a rock flashlight, but still...). I went to Bible College to work in Christian Ministry, but instead I found myself working for state government in Middle America. Then i got married to an amazing woman, we have produced two children, and I started working as a computer nerd, all the while harboring a secret desire to get back to rock flashlight status through the tried-and-true method of recording stuff and posting it on the internet. It'll work, I'm sure. Right?

I play guitar, I sing, I can play drums and bass and I even have a little tiny MIDI controller keyboard that I hook up to my super-budget Dell laptop to make music. I have been writing songs on and off for the past 12 years or so, and a few of them have probably been worthwhile (be the judge at www.emptyseatsband.com). I have a big dream to eschew IT and become an entrepreneur, create a recording studio in the basement of our house and work with music all day long. It probably won't happen; it probably shouldn't happen, but I'd still like to have some good recording equipment someday. I have an Epiphone Les Paul and a TonePort UX1 that I do my recording with these days, and it gets me by without too much trouble.

Reaper was a revelation for me, because it was a real, full-on DAW that I could actually consider buying on my minuscule hobbyist budget. I'm a rather habitual forum lurker, and my lurkings have shown me that choice of DAW is based on what works for you, and sometimes based on what you tried first. I can't imagine using anything else besides Reaper, because it has everything I need, a lot of stuff I might never need, and anything I might like to see will probably be implemented someday anyway. Kudos to Justin and the Reaper crew for creating such a fantastic product.

[Sleep opposed]

hey folks!

Im Dave, I write for and sing in The Snakes of Eden, and besides from the band side of things being an overpowering obsession, im also right into the programming/experimental side of computer based music. I really enjoying following various things being developed and trying new plugins/software etc, and seeing what i can then apply to more conventional songs.

Ive been periodically trying reaper out for a few months now....Initially i could see the obvious appeal, but if if dont like the GUI of a program, i just cant use it. I spend a LOT of time in front of the screen tweaking, chopping and general FSUppery, so thats important to me.

What really made me sit up and take notice was a post on the gearslutz forum about the new white-tie skins. I decided to put a bit more time into checking out the latest version. Ive been using sonar for several years now and am pretty fast with it, but have had several excrutiating crashes and am pretty sick of the aniticipation of something going wrong.

Consequently ive been reading this forum like crazy for the past 24 hours, as well as reading the manual front to back and seeing if i can assign all my sonar hotkeys to the same functions in rea[er (i can), ive tried the drum map plug in (works!) and a few of the multi-out templates.

Im 99.99% in the Reaper camp now, i really like the sense of community on this forum and the attitude of Justin and everyone else involved. This is something i really want to get behind!

All i need to do now, is backup and export all my songs from sonar, and get back to work.

I really would like to use nothing but reaper with the odd bit of reason, but i may have to keep sonar around for a little while longer in case something needs tweaking. I hope not though.

Reaper should have the other developers shitting themselves. This is how a product should really be developed!

[ivansc]

Brit by birth, gipsy by nature.
Currently own homes in England (1) and France (2)having sold houses (2) in Tennessee and moved back to the European side of the pond a few years back.

Musically, I not only have the T shirt, I actually have several wardrobes full of the bloody things.

Just turned 63 and decided to come off the road after touring for some years.
Best decision I ever made. Me and my mate Kev now make a decent little living doing local gig work only - I get to sleep not only in A bed, but MY OWN bed!

Old timers in Tennessee may remember the Beat Poets in the late `80`s.
Very old timers may remember Wages of Sin, Chameleon and later the dreaded Blotto.

Currently trying to learn the double bass but still playing guitar and bass when people wave money under my nose.

Best part about coming off the road is I get to play with all my studio stuff, but it`s been so long I don`t remember how it all works any more! *sigh*
I am going to be one of those PITA newbies, I`m afraid...

Not entirely sure how I will get on with Reaper but it sure doies seem to be going a long way in a very short space of time.
Certainly like it better than Cubase, Logic (Oh, really?) and all the other major players apart from Sonar. I have made a fair amount of progress with Sonar and quite like it.
But there again the price on Reaper is so much lower and the development does seem to be going at warp speed.

[OutofEther]

Hi Folks,


Long time 'listener,' first time 'caller.'

I've been hanging out here for about a year; absorbing, listening (reading) and learning.

I took a couple years off from the 'Biz'
I just got tired of having my life booked two years in advance.
In the meantime, built a studio in my home. And now I'm having a great time recording music with Reaper!

I've done a lot of studio work in the past but usually someone else Produced and/or Engineered.

Now I only have myself to blame ;-)

If you get a chance, I'd love some feedback on the first song I 'produced' with Reaper:

It's called "Unstoppable" and you can hear it at www.myspace.com/outofether

I re-mixed two other songs using Reaper, there as well.

Thanks again everybody for sharing your wisdom. It's much appreciated.

[StudioDave]

Hi, Dave Phillips here. I've been using Reaper only a short while, I needed a lightweight powerful sequencer for Windows and Reaper is the best I've found so far. I'm not a Windows user myself (strictly Linux here for about 8 years, been into the OS for about 12 years), but my students use it and they needed a recommended sequencer. Oh, and I'm a registered user. So much for Linux users never buying software (I also monetarily support Ardour development).

So, about myself: I'm a professional musician, I make my living performing, teaching, composing, and writing about music. I'm a staff writer for the Linux Journal, I've been published by a variety of technical journals, and I'm the author of The Book Of Linux Music & Sound. I maintained http://linux-sound.org for ten years, and I'm a founding member of the Linux Audio Developers group.

Yeh, I'm hard-core about Linux. But I'm also practical enough to stay at least somewhat current with the Windows music software scene, and I like a lot of what I see there (such as Reaper, naturally). I'm especially attracted by the variety of VST/VSTi plugins, and I'd really like to see better support for them in Linux.

I have a small home studio, nothing fancy, just a nice room and some nicer computers. I run the JAD distribution on my 32-bit box and 64Studio on my 64-bit iron, with a variety of audio software that includes Ardour2, JAMin, QJackCtl, QSynth, amSynth, some favorite LADSPA plugins, and many other items. Other hardware includes a couple decent Ibanez guitars (bass and 6-string electroacoustic), some standard mics (SM58), and an M-Audio Delta 66 interface.

I'm also a retro guy. My favorite MIDI sequencer was and is Voyetra's Sequencer Plus Gold, which runs stably under the DOSemu emulator for MS-DOS under Linux. I started using this sequencer in 1985, I know it pretty well by now. ;)

A lot of my music is online, you can hear some of it at these links if you wish :

http://linux-sound.org/audio/malted-milk.ogg

http://linux-sound.org/meditation-improv.ogg

http://www.archive.org/details/TrioForFluteGuitarAndBassoon

http://www.archive.org/details/PromenadeForEPiano

Okay, enough advertisement. I've introduced myself here, but my music will tell you more about me than words ever will.

Oh yeh, other interests: Latin poetry (classical and Medieval), t'ai chi ch'uan, shar-pei dogs, movies, and my life's best friend Ivy.

Best regards,

dp

PS for AlexZ: Willie McTell RULES !!! :)

[Tomek]

Hello,
Please allow me to introduce myself.
I live in Vancouver Canada for about 10 years now.

I have been producing music for 6 years,
and been into computers for, well.. my whole life (on and off) since I was 13 years old.
(I’m turning 34 in November)

Professionally I’ve been doing IT for ~10 years,
as well as a year here and there doing graphics, and DJing.

Thus far, I have enjoyed radio play for two of my singles,
which was an honest surprise, as I’d never expected them to go anywhere,
but I guess someone really liked them. hehe

I’ve been using Sonar since version 1,
and have always enjoyed their cutting edge features, but always longed for something more..
(engine stability to be more precise)

Within 10 minutes of trying Reaper, I knew she was for me 
I’m just scratching the surface, but am blow away w/ every feature I try.
The workflow step reduction is excellent, as are the routing, and stability / performance.

I am strongly considering / attempting to make Reaper my only DAW.
Cheers to everyone for contributing to this excellent team / product.

Consider me, yet another convert.
I will be purchasing a non-commercial license any day now,
and am looking forward to a long relationship with Reaper, and it’s community.

I feel like it’s love at first sight!

Cheers,
Tomek.

PS- I don’t care what style music is, so long as it’s good!

[sticknick]

Hey All,

I'm a musician from Ottawa, Canada and have been using Reaper for a few months now and thought I'd finally sign up and see what's happening here in the forums - not that I haven't trolled from time to time ;-).

Reaper has been a pleasant surprise after having a hard time working with various other multitrack programs; most notably nTrack which I could get nothing done on due to unpredictable, and constant, crashes. One of the members of that forum suggested Reaper and here I am.

I am also excited that Justin is working hard on an OS X version as I am planning on making the switch in the new year (well, somewhat of a switch - still need the Windows box for work) and I'm stoked that I'll now be able to migrate all of my programs over without having to resort to Bootcamp.

I've been recording music digitally for about five years now, and my band has just finished recording our demo. It's being mixed using Reaper and I have to say it's been one of the best experiences I have ever had. The damn thing just works (and I'm constantly amazed at the small footprint considering Reaper's power).

That's it for now I guess...

[spikemullings]

Hello, I'm Spike.

In another life I made a couple of albums with a band back in late eighties/early nineties.

I mostly play bass but have played keyboards, mandolin, guitar, hammer dulcimer, percussion and ukelele with varying degrees of aplomb (and lack of same).

When I was recording in pro studios they were just starting to run cubase on ataris and we had a couple of tracks which needed some sequencing. It stuck in my mind and though I didn't do hardly any music for a decade (job, SO, kids) when I wanted to get back into it I thought I'd try to do recording on the computer.

So I mucked about with a soundblaster card and cubasis and although I've not done much and remain a cretin at this stuff, I've had a blast with it.

I am now playing mandolin occasionally in a low key three piece folk outfit and doing some even more low key solo acoustic stuff with the uke (just to scare myself really - I'm not much of a singer!)

Got myself an Alesis IO 26. I was disappointed with some of the limitations of Cubase LE which bundles with the Alesis so when I strated reading about Reaper on various forums I thought I'd give it a go.

Love it - bought the licence today.

I'm scratching the surface at the moment and don't get as much time as I'd like to learn it. But my two current thoughts after about a fortnight or so of mucking about are:

1. Love the skinning thing. Currently using Reabendo with Cubase colour theme. Thanks Tallisman! Can't wait for White Tie's Troublemaker which just looks terrific.

2. Struggling at the moment to properly set up multiple output VST (Battery 2 stereo, 6 mono). I've got the track folders set up and playing nicely (thanks Mc UB and Tallisman again!) but I can't get the solo-ing to work. I know I've just got to concentrate harder, muck about with the routing and I'll get there.

**edit** cracked this solo thing now - I thought the "solo in place" thing in preferences was not working but in fact I just forgot to click apply (sigh)

Anyway, Reaper is just terrific and I love the philosophy behind the whole project - including the best of this forum.

[djc]

I'm 53. I love sunsets, walks in the the park, and drinking heavily. All seriousness aside though, I started playing guitar at 12. Played in a couple bands around town till I joined the Army at 17. Played in a few bands in the Army till I got out. And I've played in numerous bands since then. I don't play in bands anymore. I like tinkering around at home with recording. It's a lot more satisfying to me. The present state of recording is a dream come true for me. I've wanted to be able to multitrack for decades. Computers and software have finally made it so that anyone can write, record, and produce their own music. Although I've used Cakewalk software for many years now, I've taken a great interest in Reaper. It's an incredible value at $40.00. And the fact that Justin corrects bugs very quickly, and listens to his customers requests, makes it even more of a value. Also, the incredible themes that users are coming up with just blows my mind. There's no doubt in my mind that Reaper is going to become even better as time goes on, and eventually leave the other apps behind in the dust. Kudos to Justin and friends for a great application. Keep up the good work guys.

[nicholas]

Got myself an Alesis IO 26. I was disappointed with some of the limitations of Cubase LE which bundles with the Alesis so when I strated reading about Reaper on various forums I thought I'd give it a go.

Love it - bought the licence today.


Welcome Spike (I was born in the East End of London myself, or so I'm told :)).

Good choice of soundcard, good choice of software ....

[spikemullings]

Hey, many thanks for the welcome Nicholas.

Feeling very good about Reaper and this forum. Jeez, I've only been here 10 minutes or so and I helped Pioneer sort out his keyboard with VSTi's. God knows that's not because I know anything - its just that the Reaper way of doing things just seems to allow one to share the few things one has learned to very great effect. Now that's the sort of thing that makes you feel good.

[phoenix-69]

Hello,
I am new to Reaper and to this Forum.
I am a VSTi coder hobbyist.
So, I use VSTHost for simple tests and now Reaper for extensive tests. Its routing capabilities are great :D

I started to play with computers at 13 with Sinclair microcomputers (ZX81 known as timex 1000 in the US).
Since that time I never stopped to play with computers.

I started playing with music with an AtariST520.
And then there was the PC and for quite a long time they were not good at music. But now, they are !

[SawUser]

I have to say first that I am really happy that a person or persons took the time to make a DAW that is this good and powerful and has very, very good support for pocket change in todays world. THANK YOU!

I have been playing and recording for over 30 years. I play Drums, Guitar, Keys and Bass .... write my own stuff and have lost of fun.

I am a SAWStudio user but I just had to buy Reaper and find out what it is all about and I really like it... its not SAW and SAW is not Reaper.... just too cool.

[glt]

Hi there,

my name is Gero and i'm from Cologne Germany. I just want to introduce myself. This programm and this forum is a new part in my life as producer and musician. I worked with logic 5.5.1 all the last years and didn't had the money to get me a Apple and the newest version of Logic. So this is the best thing that could happen to me. To my person as musician or producer. I play the drums in a band (www.myspace.com/fitband) and i produce drum and bass on my own (www.myspace.com/geromeleturbo)...
Registered today as i think this here is a new era for the Sequencer Scene....

thanks for this tool...

[b-pole]

I am b-pole from Germany.
Making music since 7 years more as a hobby.
Studied economics in Germany, married and have an 3 months old son.
Details about me (concerning music) you will find on my homepage at www.b-polarity.de

I am here because I am searching for an alternative DAW on iMac Intel in order to avoid buying Logic. Please come on and finish the Mac version as promised in Q 4, but please do it at the beginning.
Greets from Germany

Marcus

[BlackIce9]

Hi all, I'm new to the forum, but a big fan of Reaper. I primarily work in Reason but like to rewire to take advantage of other VSTis and audio that Reason doesn't deal with very well. Was using cubase for this previously, but when I saw the sound on sound review a while back it piqued my curiosity and I've been really happy with Reaper so far. Looks like a strong community here and great responsiveness from the dev team to continually improve the product.

[henge]

Hello everyone. I'm using Logic on P.C. and was getting ready to make the switch to Sonar 6 PE.Seems like a powerful daw with a nice group at their forum.Heard about reaper, and after trying it out for a couple of days I'm left wondering a few things.
First of all is this app at least as stable as logic or sonar?
I'll be building a quad core, built to the specs on the DUC site so eventually that's what reaper will be running on.
I can't believe the power and flexibility you get with this program compared to logic and sonar.The audio routing is brilliant and the editing is right on par with the big guys (including PT).
This app seems to good to be true.It's even true 64 bit.
Henge

[jeromee]

Hi All
I am a professional photographer by day and a weekend musician. I've been playing out for about 20 years, writing my own stuff for about 25 years and have been recording for almost 20 years. I have to say that reaper is a super program!!! I have used Cubase and own Samplitude8/9pro, Saw studio Basic, Ntrack5 & Pro Tools 7 M powered and I really love the ease and uncluttered interface of reaper. I printed the manual out and realised that there is a lot under the hood of this program. I still love Saw Basic... I have never and seriously, NEVER had a crash in the almost 2 years that I have been using Saw. It looks as though Reaper will be able to perform the same way:) You guys have done a really great job developing a very intuitive program that is priced extremely affordable to the public. I love not having to deal with dongles!!!:):) To the developers of Reaper... my hat goes off to you!! GREAT JOB!!!
also
This community seems very positive:)
J

[TusterBuster]

After a lengthy spell of lurking and toying with the demo I've today ordered a non-commercial license. I now feel a warm virtuous glow inside. It was the lovely new look of 2.0 beta that swung me, together with the threat of having to pay more in a week or so! Writing and recording is a hobby for which I don't have enough time, but when I can get a few hours at it, they fly past. I'm sure Reaper will add to the pleasure.

Thanks to J & C for a great programme and to all who make this community so friendly and useful.

Cheers!
TB

[betty rumble]

Complete newbie with Reaper. I play alittle bass, sing alittle and just love making music. Our good friend and my future extra hubby as we call him, Beezelbubba turned us on to reaper on Monday . I have only used it once so far, and am ready to register today when I get home from work. My Husband has been playing the guitar since he was a kid. This is our first time ever recording on our computer. All of our music has been done on our Tascam 788, until now!!!

[bardo]

Welcome Betty!
I have seen and heard you around the other forums.
Your music ROCKS!
Your gonna love this program.
Bardo

[ugh]

Hello,

I call myself ugh on the internet, I am 35 yo and come from Germany. I work at an office.

I made music until 1996 (Wave-Rock and later Trance) using C64 and C-Lab and later on Atari ST (cannot even remember what seuqencer program I used that Computer with).
I also had a number of hardware synths, sampler, mixing desk, guitar, effects, four-track recorder and so on.
Played a couple of Gigs back then but tbh the music was never any good :)
Later I found other hobbies and sold all my musical equipment.

Lately I have become aware of the technical evolution that has been going on in the past 11 years. The concept of VST Synths is still completely new to me :)
And everything is cheap compared to back then where you had to use hardware synths.
So I decided to pick up the music hobby once again and bought hardware equipment (MIDI Keyboard, Guitar, Guitar Rig 2 (a dream come true...), Better Speakers, better Soundcard, more RAM...) and installed various software (mostly freeware, but I also bought some programs like Phoscyon (another dream come true), and Novation V-Station.

I tested a number of Programs similar to REAPER in the past weeks (FL Studio, Cubase, n-track, Samplitude and others).
I was not completely satisfied with those programs and their manuals for various reasons.

I realized that what is most important for me now is a proper program with a good manual and a good forum with helping users, because I have to learn so many things about producing my music with a DAW.
So that is how I ended up here, just working myself slowly through the manual and figuring out the technical issues.

I hope I found the right tool with REAPER (we will see) and it does everything I need it to do and I can learn how to make REAPER do that ;)

So If I may post newbie questions in the next months (I´ll use the search function before) , please pardon me :)

Have a great Sunday everybody !

[Till]

I play the drums in a band (www.myspace.com/fitband) and i produce drum and bass on my own (www.myspace.com/geromeleturbo)...

that is some nice drumming, cool music, too! you guys remind me of a band from around here: http://www.myspace.com/fabulousissue

cool drum'n'bass, too...

[halftone]

I used Sony Vegas for my music production for a long time, and briefly Cubase until I discovered Reaper. I actually hated Cubase the whole time I was using it, but I had no choice since its mixdowns were better than Vegas' and it offered some essential features that Vegas lacked. I was ecstatic when I first tried Reaper, because it gave me the best from both worlds - features that Cubase had which were lacking in Vegas, plus the exceptional workflow which was present in Vegas but terribly lacking in Cubase. Basically Reaper is a dream DAW that I had always known I wanted to use, but never existed (until now). I'm also delighted that I'm no longer maxing out my CPU on my brand-new machine, which I frequently did in Cubase.

[xsonar]

All i did was install vista64 to check out sonar6.2 in 64bit and with every problem found myself on this forum. That was 15 days ago and payed up today. Feels good to.

I grew up in band playing woodwinds, and hung out with the drumline in marching band, now I play drums also. Only took 30 years.

Help my father-in-law with a project studio where we have what I call an analog setup with a computer as a tape deck.

setup#1 my home where I am set up to master

1 motu828mkll
1 delta 44
1 delta 66
krk v4 1 pr
krk rocket 10 sub
Allen&Heath mixwiz16
and some old Furman EQ's

set#2 the barn

2 m-audio 1010's
Allen&Heath GL2200 16x16x6
Event8's
a few patch bays, and as much outboard gear and mics we could buy before the wives cut us off. Lots of yard sale gear, (some of my best stuff I get this way) We mix down to a master link when we need to.

I love live takes and hate to punch in
I also love first takes because that is the magic!


Cheers

John Mackey

[neilwilkes]

Well, so far I have only read about this application and look forward to seeing what it is capable of.
I work mainly in Multichannel - and hope this can handle 4.0, 4.1 & 5.1 with relative ease. I shall see.....I know it can handle 5.1 but would like to know about the Quad options as well.

Lots of High Resolution, for DVD & DVD-Audio formats.

[Goseba]

After many months of installing/uninstalling Reaper to have a look at its latest version, I finally bought the non-commercial licence tonight.

Music is just a hobby, which in the past couple of years has been a fairly barren period for me. I have spent the bulk of this year getting myself set up with what I need/want. Now I just have to find the time.

Regards,

Goseba

[spijtig]

hi everybody,
like lots of people i'm exited about Reaper, i used to work with Cubase SX for years and was amazed when i first installed this little new app! Its so easy to use, wonderful options, great skins and the best best best of all is YOU GUYS!!

the developers and people in this forum are amazing

keep on rockin!

.......
about myself:

record 'freelance' in my demostudio. Mostly amateur bands that want their first cd to get live gigs. Back in the beginning i was crazy about software and plugins but as i worked with smelly dusty hardware i lost my soul... to buttons!! Most of my sound comes from my mics and rack eqs+compressors. I mainly use the computer as a harddisk recorder, and for editing. Thats why the 'workflow' in Cubase is NOT as good as in Reaper, for me that is. Recording goes faster with Reaper.

Some people have a lavalamp, i don't, there are impressive skins out there that give enough atmosphere in "the studio"...héhé

Just installed version 2.0 beta2 and am going to test how easy it is to use external hardware as plugins on my tracks :D

cheers,

J

[BattleCat]

I am 29. I work a day job as a Mechanical Engineer who designs and tests front loaders and backhoes. I met my wife in college and we now have kids. I like repairing old tube radios and I am into MMA (UFC style martial arts). I help a friend get ready for matches and belong to a club.

I love old style blues.

As a youth I traveled around from state to state with my father. We were very poor and homeless at times. I have always had an "itch" to express my thoughts through music but could never afford an instrument. When I was about 10 or so, I found an old trumpet (at least it resembled a trumpet) that someone had either lost or thrown out. I use to sit outside on silent winter nights in the solitude of the falling snow and breathe my soul through that thing.

Being a blues fan, I had to eventually get an acoustic guitar. At age 23, I found an old one of a kind modified Fannin at a garage sale for next to nothing. I went home and practiced being Muddy Waters.

I never really joined any bands as a teenager, where I'm from the thing to do was to battle with words (witch sometimes led to fists) in smoke filled basements that we dubbed dungeons. Sometimes there would be some spinners or maybe a mic that got handed around, but mostly just the raw acoustic human voice being bounced off of old musty basement walls. Most of these “battles” consisted of a circle of someone talking about someone’s clothes or shoes or whatever was easy and apparent. But sometimes there would be one who slipped into a trance like state, spewing pure lyrical genius that seamed to be channeled from the atmosphere into their brain and out of their mouth, with no latency! Possessed they were and inspiring it was.

I spent a lot of time in local punk/metal clubs with misfits, outcasts, bad asses and rebels in general. I learned a thing or two about solitude and determination, anger and rebellion. I also learned some math; Pantara + Jagermister = breaking shit^2.

I am now on a mission, not to get a record deal or a nation wide tour or have thousands of adoring fans; but rather to hopefully inspire that young mind who hears to try and change the world in which we live; to spark the young mind. Not with that “bling-bling” “blink 182” image is everything crap but with feeling and thought.

Justin has made that easier.
Nuff said

[DonPedro]

Hi ladies/guys

I am an IT guy from Israel. As well as a music/home studio hobbyist. Kinda hard rocker/metal kid from early 80s. Promise you won't see me flooding a lot here :)

Love your great community, that IMHO helped Justin & Co to create the best product on the block.

Could not resist to become a registered user, recently.

Good luck, reapers.

[historic stork]

Well, I downloaded Reaper 1.8x a while back, installed it and looked at it for about 30 minutes. Fast forward to yesterday, I had been wanting to switch, and finally decided to jump into the reaPool. I started changing colors, making track templates, and toying around with settings here and there. It was nice to find some of the settings I had been wanting for years buried just under the surface in the prefs. And the program starts so quickly! I really appreciate the Performance Meter window. It's much better than the almost inexistent cpu meters in other apps i've used. The editing functions (for drums especially) are what I am perhaps most excited about. With all the rea plugs, maybe I won't need many other vst's.

My band will begin demoing the next album in a week or two, and I can't wait to stretch my legs in Reaper. I have a feeling I'm going to love it. There is an Echo Audiofire coming in the mail, and the day it arrives, I'm going to record till I pass out.

And I can't wait to contribute to/pay for the program. Maybe in my down time, I will start making Reaper video tutorials. I've certainly learned more than my share from video tuts on other software.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[nicholas]

Maybe in my down time, I will start making Reaper video tutorials. I've certainly learned more than my share from video tuts on other software.


That would be wonderful! :)

Oh, and welcome, by the way ...

[betty rumble]

Welcome Betty!
I have seen and heard you around the other forums.
Your music ROCKS!
Your gonna love this program.
Bardo

Thanks Bman. We really owe our new found toy to Beeze. He helped us completely.

[sessionthree]

I should quit procrastinating and make a post to this thread since I just registered Reaper a few weeks ago. I'm partially copying this from my website (sessionthree.com (http://www.sessionthree.com)) since I'm lazy!

I'm a 32 year old engineering manager for a semiconductor company by day. The group I manage does something called Molecular Beam Epitaxy, and we supply layered semiconductor wafers to another part of the company which processes them into micro chips that go in cell phones. (If you have a cell phone, there's about 50% chance it has one of our chips in it.)

Music has always been my avenue of choice for relieving the work-related stresses that build up day-by-day. Music has been a hobby of mine since junior high school. I never had professional aspirations in music. It was always hobby, and it always will be. I have a very eclectic musical taste, and this comes through on the music I write as well. It is very difficult for me to put a label on what I write.

While I was in junior high school, I became very interested in making music with MIDI instruments. I started out on Casio keyboards and went through a few different models. My first professional synthesizer was a Roland Juno 106 which my mom bought for me at a pawn shop when I was 15 years old (it was already a classic synth at the time, but I didn't realize that!) When I got my first job as a "dollar-store" stock boy at age 16, I bought my next two professional keyboards: the Peavey DPM3 and the Baldwin IKE (same as an E-mu EMAX, but with the Baldwin name on it.) Using mainly the DPM3, I wrote several songs while still in high school. I put these songs into a collection which I named "Tonal Breeze" after one of my favorite songs in the collection. I wrote the song "Tonal Breeze" at a summer camp titled "MIDI - from Bach to Bytes" when I was in the 10th grade.

When I went to college in 1993 I sold my gear since I really didn't have time to write music anymore. I regretted this decision until after getting married in 1998 when my wife convinced me that I should buy a keyboard so that I could get back into writing music. I bought a Roland XP-80 and kept buying items here and there (including building a new computer to use for MIDI sequencing and digital audio recording.) I've gone through quite a few pieces of gear since 1998, but ultimately came to the conclusion that simpler is better when it comes to making music. My setup is now mostly computer based, and I currently have no outboard sound generators or synthesizers.

In addition to keyboard, I also play guitar and bass. I have never mastered any musical instrument, but I'm willing to try and play anything that makes music. In that way, I'm somewhat of a "jack of all trades; master of none."

I owe my love of music (and what little talent I do have) to my parents. My mom loves to sing and my dad sings and plays guitar (his music can be heard at bill.workmanmusic.com (http://bill.workmanmusic.com)). Ever since I was a baby, there was always the sound of someone singing or playing music around the house.

Reaper is certainly not my first DAW. I started out with Cakewalk Pro Audio then moved to Logic (before Apple bought it), Cubase, Sonar, and now Reaper. I'm excited about Reaper and plan on sticking with it for awhile!

[knight46]

I found Reaper through another site (GFB&B) and just bought and registered my copy. Thought I would stop by and say Hi ya'll.

[sws]

Hello all,
I've recently built an over-the-top home studio, "Standing Water Studios", and was looking for something to relieve my love/hate relationship with Logic 5.5. After some recommendations, and downloading 2.0beta, I committed to using entirely Reaper and purchased a commercial license. Yay, no more $%#* crashing and latency hell!

I play bass guitar in a few original rock bands, and do recording for bands on a budget. My day job is electrical and software engineering; I definitley relate to Justin's effort in creating the magical software that is Reaper. Here's to a long relationship with this fine online community, now time to get back to the music! :)

Standing Water Studios during an April session:
http://www.standingwaterstudios.com/sws.jpg

[Emo]

Hello everyone,

Just thought I'd stop in and introduce myself. I 37, living in Oklahoma. I've been writing and playing since I was about 12. Right now I pretty much do solo singer/songwriter gigs. I play guitar, bass, drums, mandolin, a little keys and harmonica on all my own recordings, but I sure would like to find some musicians who are better than I am! LOL

I've mostly used Cakewalk, Cool Edit, and a little bit of Cuebase. I'm using an Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire and like others posts that I've read, was really disappointed with the limitations of Cuebase. A good friend recommended Reaper to me, and so far I've been pretty impressed.

Keep up the good work!

Rock on

-Emo

[steadyrev]

I'm new to this forum, but I've been following Reaper for a while
I'm a priest of the Anglican Church in Jamaica and was a musician for 25 years before ministry. I was originally church organist before that and continued through all the years as pro playing and touring the world.
I continue to be interested in music because i believe the church needs to embrace technology to advance its conemporary ministry.
I am developing courses to teach recording skills to teens in church across Jamaica so they will be able to record media and events in church and for church.
Reaper may be a great way for them to learn a skill that serves church and community and may eventually lead to a carreer in music
I love whatI have seen in Reaper!!
No other app has grown so fast so openly to the best of my knowledge. NONE!! I am not sure I've ever seen a more available developer either.
The interactions I have observed as a lurker was excellent and i hope to join in the dialogue as it unfolds.
Happy, very happy to be here.

[fetidus]

I'm a new Reaper user and thrilled with the whole concept of what Justin is doing. I just posted an open letter to Justin ( http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13368 ), but it's sort of an open letter to the whole Reaper community too, I guess. The direction of Reaper is very exciting and inspiring, and I wish Justin and Co. all the best, and send a greetings to fellow Reaper users.

[bluedad]

Well, as I just purchased a license today, thought I'd drop in and introduce myself. My work is being a piano technician, tuning and repair. If my business skills were better I could make much money than I do...I still play in a 'classic rock' band, but have made the transition spiraling downward from playing in bars to restaurant/sports bar and looks like various lodges may be in the future. Well, don't do that for the money that's for certain.
I got into music when the Beatles came out, and got my first guitar in 1964. Started writing songs over Christmas holidays 1968 when I got a new guitar, The Beatles 'White Album' and the sheet music book to go with it.
Got my first PC in the late 80's (forgot how much it was to upgrade it to 64k, but it was several hundred!) First sequencer was from Voyetra, but I forget the name. Well, I've gone through quite a few hosts now, and dearly love Cubase, but can't justify the expense of upgrading (still on SX2).
So, I've been trying out Reaper off and on through the summer. Only in the last month have I begun to really try and work with it. The midi improvements over the last couple of weeks convinced me it's worth staying with.
oh, and I'm a mod at kvr but don't hold that against me.

[nicholas]

I'm a new Reaper user and thrilled with the whole concept of what Justin is doing. I just posted an open letter to Justin ( http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13368 ), but it's sort of an open letter to the whole Reaper community too, I guess. The direction of Reaper is very exciting and inspiring, and I wish Justin and Co. all the best, and send a greetings to fellow Reaper users.

Welcome, and thanks for your supportive posts, I'm sure they're appreciated. :)

[robh]

Im robh.

Ive been making music and recording the stuff for years and im soooooo fu**** tired...!

Its great to see such excellent quality software like this.

I think that'll do for now.

[Ludorf]

Hi.

Antonio, from Spain. Yes... spanish time. I hope to grow up in this community and to jam with some of they users.

I was born in somewhere of Spain. I'm 37 y.o. and I love to play blues in E (haha).

I don't know how to do it with Ninjam yet, but I thougt fastly.

Waiting for your invitations to jam!.

Ludorf.

[plgrmsprgrs]

Hi all - got a license just before 2.0 came out. Been around a bit longer than that trying to pick up some pointers. Glad to be aboard.

[nickdahl]

Hi, I'm Nick, and I've just started demo'ing REAPER 2.0 on my DAW. I've been playing guitar for 30 years and spent the last 15 years teaching college, so music has been an involved hobby for the past few years.

I've always liked recording music, and had a bunch of 4-track and a few 8-track tape recorders, but I hated the hiss. I bought Opcode Vision and ran it on my Mac in the early nineties but couldn't get it to sync to tape right. About five years ago I started recording again on my computer, using n-Track for a while, before getting a PTLE system. I've had an 002R for a long time.

I don't like Digidesign's way. I need the Fxpansion wrapper to run VST and FX Teleport. I need Music Production Toolkit to do MP3 stuff and get 48 tracks. Something's always messed up, and I spend more time doctoring the DAW than making and recording music. I moved from Ithaca, NY to Portland, OR this summer, and I decided to spend some time getting my new project studio running right. After about a month, I know now that it's the DIGI way that's keeping me down, and I'm tired of it.

I've built a couple of powerful computers (Quad-core Opteron and Dual-core AMD), have a good RME card, a gigabit network, and a few nice plug-ins. Everything's in place. Now...to give REAPER 2.0 a try.

Thanks a lot for being here. I can tell already that I like your way.

Nick

[rockandrollmark]

My name is Mark Boudreau. I publish the Rock and Roll Report music blog as well as host Rock and Roll Report Radio once a month on CKUT FM. I play and promote unsigned and indie bands that I personally like and that I believe would not be out of place on a commercial rock radio playlist.

I am starting a weekly podcast to continue on from Rock and Roll Report Radio and while I have been intending on using Audacity to start I just discovered Reaper and feel this might be a better piece of software to build the Podcast with. If you have experience producing a podcast with Reaper please let me know so I can pick your brain!

As far as background, I am a non-practicing lawyer who has been involved in music through various bands up until my late twenties. The Rock and Roll Report is currently merely a creative outlet for me but who knows what the future holds!

[cricket@iafrica.com]

Hi all, I was born in 1953,, definately old fart brigade, came to South Africa from UK in 1976 and went from Hotel Management to music, turned Pro in 1978 with a duo called Abbott and Crabb,,,,,that's it ...we're still goin' 29 years later. In the process love of music spawned a studio called DaStudio which I do for fun, used Logic Audio Windows since about 1999 but it's beginning to get long in the tooth so I tried Reaper for fun, couldn;t believe how "immediate" it is, from ideas to music is pretty quick, Anyway I'll use both for a while see where things go

Cheers all Dave

[dirtythirtyix]

Hello! By day I'm a computer programmer, and by night I'm the bassist and de facto audio engineer for our band. I'm using a Roland VSR-880 and RPC-1 card to interface with the PC. So far I've just been recording tracks to the VSR, then bringing them home and dumping them on my home computer. I'm picking out parts to build a studio PC so we can start recording direct, just using the VSR as a AD/DA converter and skipping its HD.

Not knowing much about DAW software I first tried out Sonar, which works great, but is expensive (for me). Looking around for cheaper solutions I discovered Reaper, and I'm extremely happy with it so far. Does everything I need it to (plus tons more I'm sure).

Seems like a great community surrounding this software. I look forward to chatting with you all!

[Denaeus]

How's it going, everybody? My name is Denaeus and I am pretty new to digital, though I've had Reaper for a few months - I have not had time to really work with it, though I've got some material I'm very psyched to use it for. In any case, hope to talk with some of you and look forward to learning as much as I can. Ciao.

[june]

Hi,i'm june here.Have been a Cockos forum visitor for some time now, and today I join in.

[stratman]

I’m one of the oldies. I was born in 1955. My involvement in music started when I got an unplayable acoustic guitar just before my 14th birthday.

In about 1970, two songs had a massive impact on me and cemented my obsession with the guitar music.

Free got to number 1 in the UK with Alright Now. They were on TV and my parents were appalled by Paul Kossoff, who had this great mane of hair and a scraggly beard. My mother said “don’t you dare grow up to look like that”. That was it; my first guitar hero had arrived. I thought Paul Kossoff was the coolest guy on earth, with his low slung gold top Les Paul, his wall of Marshall amps and his amazing wailing vibrato.

The next song was Voodoo Child, which reached number 1 in the UK, sadly because of Hendrix’s death. I couldn’t believe the sounds he created. Unless you’re an oldie like me, in these days of samplers and stuff, where it’s possible to create any sound, it’s hard to get across how radical and new this was. Nobody had heard anything like it.

I’ve mainly learned to play by ear, but I did eventually take a few jazz guitar lessons after I heard Larry Carlton’s solo in Kid Charlemagne and I couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. I recently saw Larry Carlton with Robben Ford: two of my favorite guitar players. I’m also a big fan of Jeff Beck and Guthrie Govan (if you haven’t heard Guthrie Govan, check out his Youtube clips).

I started off in original material bands, but we never really got anywhere. Eventually I ended up playing in covers bands. I also play in a tribute band that plays James Bond theme tunes. It may not be you’re kind of stuff (truthfully it’s not exactly mine) but is great to play in a big band with classically trained musicians.

Now I want to start getting back into recording original material, which is why I’m getting into using Reaper.

I’ve been checking some of the links on the forum and there’s some really great music. I’ve recorded quite a lot over the years, but it’s all on tape. At the moment all I’ve got to show are a few ‘warts and all’ live Youtube clips. To see them paste the links below into your browser:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIgb3aRR0E

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKRX_h7Ts8

The Bond Band:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPINf5gXu0

I’m the uncool grey haired bloke with the big nose, whose mouth makes funny movements because I can’t stop myself from speaking the notes that I play.

[brother_karnov]

greetings, all. i discovered REAPER earlier this year and have been tinkering with it for a few months. have recorded about 4 little demo projects with it and am hoping to get some serious writing/recording going in the near future. i've been saying that for five years, though. "tinkerer" definitely fits what i've been doing with home recording since i started.

started recording in '96 w/ a Yamaha cassette 4-track. got another one after that, a Tascam that was smaller and easier to use. jumped to Cool Edit 2000 w/ the 4-track plug-in in 2000. went to Cool Edit Pro 2.0 after that, used it for a few years. upgraded to Audition 1.0 when Adobe bought Syntrillium. still use it from time to time, but haven't upgraded to 2.0 or the upcoming 3.0 release.

gear: 4 year-old Dell PC (nothing fancy), Roland MA-8 speakers, Line 6 TonePort KB37 (recent buy, very happy with it), Schecter guitar, Yamaha bass, Taylor acoustic (primary axe), Nady large diaphragm condensor mic, little Behringer mixer

i love REAPER cos it's cheap and awesome. or awesome and cheap, in order of importance. plus it has Justin's stamp on it, which kicks up the "cool crazy genius" knob a few notches.

my website: www.honnold.org

has some of my music and my friends'. also has a message board for my friends.

[johnnymosh]

Hello all,

I will not bore you all to tears with yet another life story of a rock-star wannabe who ended up with a day-job, wife, kid, mortgage, bills, etc... Suffice it to say, I never gave up the muse, and have been playing and recording in NY as a professional amateur on and off for quite some time. I moved to the digital realm in the late 90's from the portastudio 464 (c.f. jamester's intro) with a copy of Cubase 3 I purchased used from a friend (with the LPT port dongle) and simple fell in love with computer-based recording. I have tried quite a few DAW program since then (purchased or demos, of course), including Logic Audio 5, Cool Edit, Audacity, Acid, Fruity Loops, to name a few. I also tried CakeWalk HomeStudio which I got on sale at Gutter Center. I immediately felt at home with this program. It was just intuitive and easy for me (though I did enjoy learning Logic a bit too). Anyway, CakeWalk ran one of their promotional upgrades, at which time I upgraded to Sonar 4, then 5 and 6. Love the program, but I have a keen interest in Reaper for a few reasons. First, a few compatriots from the Sonar and Line6 forums have been working with Reaper, and most reports are pretty positive. Second, I have been coaxing a few friends of mine to get off their butts and start collaborating electronically on some music. Thing is, convincing them to shell out 3-5 ben franklin's for a good program might kill the deal. However, I can probably coax them out of $50 to get a licensed copy of Reaper. And if they're too cheap, I will spring for it (muah-ha-ha-ha). And with the ReaNinJam plug and a session mode server setup, this might be just the thing to get a project off the ground. So I am gonna give Reaper a walk around the block and make sure its simple enough for my technically-challenged friends to get their hands around, yet powerful enough to get a good end product. From all I have read so far here and in other forums indicates that this will be the case. Last, but not least, I have been "lurking" here a bit, reading the posts, and for the most part this is an extremely dedicated group of users who are all to pleased to help each other out. Believe it or not, this is a huge thing to me. The power of cooperative minds is exponential. Since at this stage, our efforts will be the development of personal content, I believe the non-pro license will do (correct?). If good things come out of it, I will definitely spring for the commercial license. In closing, and with heart-felt gratitude, I would like to thank Justin and the Reaper-team for all of their incredibly hard and dedicated work and sacrifice. It means alot to me and to everyone here how much you strive to improve this program and your efforts are appreciated. I wish you great success with it!!! Nice to make everyone's acquaintance, and I bid you all a fond a-choo!!


PEACE!!!

[bobby hill]

Hello,
Very happy to be here.

[teejb43]

Hey folks, another teej, if not THE teej (my little girl would say otherwise ;)

Not here to bore everyone with a life story, but briefly here's a capsule bio: Old has-been rocker from the late, great 80s. After my budding music career died a wimpering death, I actually gave up playing virtually altogether for more than 15 years. Back in the day I played in everything from top forty bands to southern rock and finally heavy metal.

About a year ago I reestablished a vanished friendship with my old bass player, an event which precipitated a lot of music discussion and reminiscing about the glory days (much of which I don't fully recall due to mass quantities of alcohol and illicit pharmaceuticals). This sparked a renewed interest in actually playing, so I bought a basic combo amp and a new guitar (still have my last guitar too, but I wanted some new blood to kick things off).

One thing led to another, and we decided to work on some music together. He's been a little slow getting started with the whole digital recording thing, but we have managed to get together to add som bass lines to stuff I have been working on. He's fixing to kick it up a notch with some new gear and get into the DAW world. I've been dabbling right along with some other programs, and finally REAPER, for which I recently bought a license. He's a mac guy and is eagerly awaiting a full version of REAPER. Things should heat up with our collaborations shortly. In the meantime, I've recorded a few projects of my own. It's been a poke-and-hope learning experience, since I'm new to the DAW universe.

I've got a really bare bones setup: HP notebook 1.5 Ghz, Presonus TubePre, Creative Soundblaster card (it doesn't like me), M-Audio Studiopro 3 monitors, and an outboard Seagate drive just for audio. Not great but it works. I find I have to do multiple mixdowns on any given project and to render stems to keep my CPU from catching fire :) I have 2 BC Rich guitars, and a Charvel bass. I use a software drum machine that uses samples, which has served me pretty well so far. I'd like to try midi drums, but I'm intimidated by that for some reason, probably cuz I have no idea how to get started.

Anyway, that's about it. Great to be here as a happy registered user. I hope you all will forgive me if I ask the occasional dumb newbie question, as I seem to be flying by the seat of my pants here!

Cheers,
T

[roguetitan]

Hello
I am a new Reaper user, I just downloaded it a few minuites ago
I currently use Kristal Audio Engine and Wavosaur,
I really like both progranf fairly well however I have heard a lot of good stuff about Reaper
so now I am here to see what I can see.

[DivineChemical]

Hello, everybody!!!

I'm a 25 year old industrial musician who's worked with Mentallo & The Fixer, Sleep Now Yes, and Dax in the past. (Those have been fun, but I always prefer to work on my own music.) Most of my experience has been as a live monkey, studio junky, and recently doing mixing/mastering as well as being a hired voice. I play guitar, keys (badly) and my passion is in programming synths and percussion samplers. I do vocals also, but as I damaged them beyond repair in a death metal band a few years back, all I can really do is aggressive black/death vocals. Right now, I've got a modest studio that's crowded with Behringer gear (I don't use it because I can't afford better, I use it because I'm sick of people that act like using it is some sort of mortal sin) and a butt-ton of synths.

Initially, I'm coming from recording on hardware recorders (namely, the VS series from Roland) and only migrated to getting a DAW a year and a half ago. Right now, my primary platform is Sonar, but I'm going to be spending the next few weeks trying to get intimate with Reaper, and I may just make the switch. I don't use software synths or effects at all, so I'm mainly just looking for something that is straightforward, to the point, and easy to use (which Reaper is already better than Sonar in some ways.) This should be fun!

[pianoman]

Hi folks here I introduce myself.

I bit resume to not bore you eyes with too many text

My name
Guilherme Schroter:

Nationality
Brasilian

Awarded pieces
Sonatina for Piano Op.4 (around 5 minutes) - Bach Trophy - São Paulo/SP - Brazil
Concerto Op.180 No.3 - F minor (around 20 minutes) - Masterworks of the new era vol. 12 - USA/Kiev - UK
Concerto Op.209 No.4 - Bb minor (around 23 minutes) - Masterworks of the new era vol. 13 - USA/Prague - TCHEK

Pieces writing on Notion
Piano Concerto Op.209 No.4 - first mov. (Bb minor)
Canzonetta for Flute Oboe Clarinet (Bb) Bassoon and French Horn Op.163 (F Major)
Serenade for Clarinet and Strings Op.208 (C Major)
E-mail: rachmaninnov@gmail.com

My Biography
My name is Guilherme Schroeter
I born in Rio de Janeiro, January, 16, 1960.
I am From tradicional family of musicians I have one descendant
like Johann Samuel Schroter (the first composer pianist)
I make my first recital in 1976, so I work with music for around 30 years.
I won my first award with 16 and My first soloist performer
with orchestra with 25 (Chopin E Minor Piano concerto)
I begin write music with 16 in 1976 and with Computer in 1995.
I am graduate degree in Music (1988), a lot of Piano competitions
One travel to Seatlle (USA), making concerts, and 3 Germany Master Classes in 1992/3 (Jorg Demus Peter Rosel and Sebastian Benda)
As a composer, I wrote 29 preludes op.1 11 Nocturnes, 5 Etudes,
5 Fantasies One Ballade, 2 Piano Concertos,
One Sinfonic Abertura and much more (200 works)

Awards: pianist and composer
-Best Interpretation of Villa-Lobos, Brasília 1976
-Compositon award in em São Paulo, 1984
-Winner orchestra soloist competition - OSPA/Porto Alegre-1985
-Internacional Piano Competition in Montevidéo(ROU)-1985
-Chopin national competition in Curitiba-1986
Em 1993/94 was travel to Germany
("Master Class" with Ceslaw Kacinsky, Jörg Demus and Peter Rösel.)
- Masterworks of The new era record award (2006-7) - Concerto no.3 and 4 recorded by Kiev Philharmonic and Prague Symphony Orchestra
- Canzonneta Selected by oregon Literary Review, 2006

Sincerely,

Guilherme Schroter
ASCAP Composer, Pianist
Professor
Graduate degree in Music
Computer music educator

[pianoman]

My name
Guilherme Schroter:

Nationality
Brasilian

Awarded pieces
Sonatina for Piano Op.4 (around 5 minutes) - Bach Trophy - São Paulo/SP - Brazil
Concerto Op.180 No.3 - F minor (around 20 minutes) - Masterworks of the new era vol. 12 - USA/Kiev - UK
Concerto Op.209 No.4 - Bb minor (around 23 minutes) - Masterworks of the new era vol. 13 - USA/Prague - TCHEK

Pieces writing on Notion
Piano Concerto Op.209 No.4 - first mov. (Bb minor)
Canzonetta for Flute Oboe Clarinet (Bb) Bassoon and French Horn Op.163 (F Major)
Serenade for Clarinet and Strings Op.208 (C Major)
E-mail: rachmaninnov@gmail.com

My Biography
My name is Guilherme Schroeter
I born in Rio de Janeiro, January, 16, 1960.
I am From tradicional family of musicians I have one descendant
like Johann Samuel Schroter (the first composer pianist)
I make my first recital in 1976, so I work with music for around 30 years.
I won my first award with 16 and My first soloist performer
with orchestra with 25 (Chopin E Minor Piano concerto)
I begin write music with 16 in 1976 and with Computer in 1995.
I am graduate degree in Music (1988), a lot of Piano competitions
One travel to Seatlle (USA), making concerts, and 3 Germany Master Classes in 1992/3 (Jorg Demus Peter Rosel and Sebastian Benda)
As a composer, I wrote 29 preludes op.1 11 Nocturnes, 5 Etudes,
5 Fantasies One Ballade, 2 Piano Concertos,
One Sinfonic Abertura and much more (200 works)

Sincerely,

Guilherme Schroter
ASCAP Composer, Pianist
Professor
Graduate degree in Music
Computer music educator

[Mr Soul]

Hi - I'm Mike Cressey aka "Mr Soul". I earned that nickname because I played in a Neil Young tribute band for almost 3 years (it was a lot of fun but we didn't make much money).

I've been doing recording 30+ years starting with cassette players, moving on to reel-to-reel and then to the digital realm. I have recorded and produced 4 CDs - you can listen by going to my web site http://www.MikeCressey.com. I've done all of my digital recording using nTrack and various other pieces of software such as Sound Forge, PSP Audioware, etc. I also build DAW's as a hobby business, basically to keep up with the hardware.

My current DAW is a 3.0 GHz PIV with Asus motherboard, RAID-0, SATA I disks, 1 GB RAM, etc. I use an Echo Audio Layla3G as my audio card and I like it a lot.

I am interested in learning Reaper because I'm getting tired on nTrack. I've tried a few of "name" brand audio recording software and I haven't been impressed. Although I do use Sony's softare to make video's with.

Mike

[Diogenes]

Hi - I'm Mike Cressey aka "Mr Soul". I earned that nickname because I played in a Neil Young tribute band for almost 3 years (it was a lot of fun but we didn't make much money).

I've been doing recording 30+ years starting with cassette players, moving on to reel-to-reel and then to the digital realm. I have recorded and produced 4 CDs - you can listen by going to my web site http://www.MikeCressey.com. I've done all of my digital recording using nTrack and various other pieces of software such as Sound Forge, PSP Audioware, etc. I also build DAW's as a hobby business, basically to keep up with the hardware.

My current DAW is a 3.0 GHz PIV with Asus motherboard, RAID-0, SATA I disks, 1 GB RAM, etc. I use an Echo Audio Layla3G as my audio card and I like it a lot.

I am interested in learning Reaper because I'm getting tired on nTrack. I've tried a few of "name" brand audio recording software and I haven't been impressed. Although I do use Sony's softare to make video's with.

Mike

HI MIKE!

Hey, it's good to see you here bud! Spend some quality time with Reaper. Make suggestions, be a part of the fun. You're gonna love it. Reaper rocks.

D

[KaoTeK]

Okey dokey.....
I'm 34 years old, a London boy who has left the UK for the sunnier, laid back climes of Thailand, swapping a career in IT for teaching Scuba....

My love affair with creating music started at 14 years old, playing bass and being heavily into the likes of Iron Maiden/Anthrax/Metallica/Slayer moving on to Janes Addiction/Soundgarden/Faith no More etc as I got a bit older.....at the ripe old age of 18 I discovered the joys of the blossoming rave scene, being drawn to a new style of music called "Jungle" and bass playing (plus the heavy/thrash metal) were unceremoniously abandoned.....I spent a brief amount of time messing around with a Boss drum machine, an old analogue synth, and Cubase on the ST, but never had the cash to get the necessary kit to take things further. So creating music fell by the wayside completely, with DJing filling the gap, and it wasn't until a year ago that my brother turned me on to Reason, for which I owe him huge gratitude as that one app completely re-ignited my passion for writing tunes. After learning Reason more or less inside out, I wanted to take the next step, and ended up using Sonar 6 + NI and Rob Papen VSTis.

Whilst self studying production techniques on the www.dogsonacid.com grid forum I came across numerous members bigging up Reaper, so I thought I'd check it out, I d/ld it, had a little play, thought "must spend some more time with this" and didn't look at again until yesterday, some 4 or so months later.

As I said in my first post, I'm hoping to use Reason as my main DAW, as I really do think the philosophy behind it laudable and should be supported, plus it's a fantastic app!

Oh and as some have revealed their football allegiances: Arsenal FC for life ;)

[pattonfreak1]

Hello, and welcome to the show, my friends.
Newbie to Reaper here, but not to recording. Some of you may know me from the KvR forums, and some of you will know me soon.
My genre? To hell with genre...
My space? /Gigawatt
My age? 35
My weapons of choice? Lexicon Alpha (soon to be replaced by a Line 6 Toneport), and up until today, I have been using Cubase Sx3 and LE. But Cubase f*cked me one times too many. That's why I came here. I am currently "evaluating" Reaper (meaning I've just dl'd it and picked out a theme to use...going with cubendo).
Prolly keep LE just for some MIDI stuff though. I'm sure I'll be getting yelled at for something eventually so, be kind.
Ummm...
Oh, I gots: Dell Dimension C521 w/AMD Athlon 64+ (2.0 Ghz), 2gb ram, 180gb HD.
I mix with headphones... Cant sing worth a sh*t but my cookie monster is pretty good.
I'M ALL OVER THE PLACE MUSICALLY.



But mostly metal...

[Mr Soul]

Hey, it's good to see you here bud!
D - thanks for the warm welcome. I remember you all talking about Reaper over on audiominds.com and so now I finally decided that I needed to try it. From what I've seen, Reaper looks great. I'm glad to see that it followed the track/file theme in the UI, because that's an easy model to latch on to.

Mr Soul
http://www.MikeCressey.com

[stanlea]

Hi there

French, 49 y.o., 5 kids at home from 2 to 15.
Still trying to play drums and write songs since so many time.
Maybe I'll tell more later.

[weemies]

Hi everyone. I'm recently started evaluating reaper. I'm seriously thinking about switching from cubendo. So far I'm very impressed by reaper for my purposes, which aren't very demanding. Mostly just recording audio, and a little bit of MIDI.

[jimmy v]

Ok,I'm a kinda old songwriter/producer very dedicated to 2"tape.Did an album a few years ago in some nice studios with some smokin players and a Grammy winning engineer.Had a blast and lost my shirt.Played with my band and sold cd's from the stage.http://stashbox.org/50505/pour%20me%20some%20water.mp3 One day my favorite girl said she wanted to sing. She jumped up with the band and,well,I have a new project now. We are well into preproduction for her 1st album,working in the basement studio.It's movin along just fine.Then I discovered Reaper. Hhhmmmm. Wonder where this will lead.

[jonahex2099]

But no time to fill in a bio just yet - not new to music, new to the whole recording/audio production thing. Found Reaper, dig it..

[space reserved for more info later] :D

Later: Been playing drums for 20 some odd years - not even close to pro but I can play - I just enjoy music as a hobby - really getting into the recording aspect as of late...fun stuff...run a site for drummers (linked in sig) and hang out at winter NAMM every year...day job as a server/storage administrator for a private company in Seattle. Outside of that I ski and fly model R.C. planes and metal detect with my wife...

[Watto]

G'day guys,

My name's Watto, or Simon Watson if you want to be formal about it. I'm a singer/piano player, and tried REAPER ages ago - to be honest, I wasn't overly into it, and also found the constant updates put me off rather than inticing me. This was simply because I didn't know how easy REAPER is to update (bloody fantastic, really), and that's one thing I think should be made clearer somehow.

Anyway, I finally took the plunge and tried REAPER 2. I got my credit card out very soon after demoing it (less than an hour, I reckon) - it's incredibly easy to use :)

[musictech1]

I've heard great things about Reaper and I'm giving it a go.

Help a newbie and respect to you all.

musictech1

[Vader]

First af all - THANKS A LOT to Reaper's creators!!!
Your program is the best I've ever used.

[CloseToTheEdge]

Hi all. I just registered Reaper and am very pleased with this software. I play guitar in a hobby music project and experimented with the pre-version 1 Reaper to mix our rehearsal recordings made on a Korg D888 8-track.

I'm so impressed, I had to pay the low price to support these guys! Hope to learn more about this stuff!

[bardo]

Welcome "Close to the edge"!
I am also a big big YES fan.
They have been a great influence on my music for years.
Bardo

[volt]

Hello to everybody! Ive been producing drum and bass since 2000, and played the guitar since 92. Currently testing this program to see if it can replace cubase. Flexible routing rules!

[xxavengeatticaxx]

Hi, My name is Ethan and im a alcoholic

[roguetitan]

well admitting you have a problem is the first step but are you sure you are in the right forum?

[Jason Brian Merrill]

I also play in a tribute band that plays James Bond theme tunes. It may not be you’re kind of stuff (truthfully it’s not exactly mine) but is great to play in a big band with classically trained musicians..

this is interesting... did you ever do "the world is not enough" ???

thats my fav james bond theme.

Also my favorite garbage song.

[stratman]

this is interesting... did you ever do "the world is not enough" ???

thats my fav james bond theme.

Also my favorite garbage song.


Yes, but it's not on the website, so maybe that one didn't come out too well on the live recording.

http://www.thebondband.co.uk/

[Blue]

Good day chaps * tips hat*
I'm but a simple guitarist that plays in a band that goes by the name of Cultivator.
Also a music tech student at Confetti studios.
I keep trying Reaper on and off for ages but for nothing serious but now, it's time to put my boots on.
I'm in a major pickle of whether or not to buy Reaper or Cubase SE3. If there was a way to import Cubase files into Reaper I'd be set.
I love the constant updates, if their's a problem it will be fixed before you know it.

[billybk1]

Good day chaps * tips hat*
If there was a way to import Cubase files into Reaper I'd be set.


I am not familiar with all the available export formats in Cubase. But, if it has Broadcast Wave File format you could export your project, as individual BWF tracks. I have exported entire SONAR projects, as BWF format. If you have MIDI tracks you would have to bounce those first. Once saved, I simply selected all the files, from REAPER's Media Explorer, right mouse click and select, Insert into project on a new track and all tracks will be added, track by track, in one fell swoop. Make sure to match the Cubase project tempo, in REAPER before importing. All the files will then line up perfectly for your mixing pleasure. ;)

Cheers,

Billy Buck

[jakerock]

<SNIP>
All the files will then line up perfectly for your mixing pleasure. ;)

Cheers, Billy Buck

Thats really cool... Im going to try that.

When I need to take something out of cubase and into another DAW, I look at the longest track in the session and put an empty region right before and right after it, then copy these blank regions to every other track in the session (using CTRL to make sure that they are all in the same time position).

Then you essentially have a vertical wall of empty regions before and after, with all of the session wav's in between.

Select the blank regions and everything in between, and hit BOUNCE, choosing "do not replace" when it pops up.
Cubase then renders new files of equal length for all the tracks.

Then I go into the project's "audio" folder, sort by creation date, grab all of the bounced tracks and put them somewhere where I can find them.

At this point, you can fire up reaper, start a new session and drag all of the bounced tracks right onto the project window in reaper... (import to separate tracks option)

Done... Except dont forget to save the project, with the "copy source material to project" box ticked.

Good luck!

[Blue]

I love this forum already :D
Thank you :)

[bokey]

I'm just playing around for now with some really rough stuff.I'm just trying to start out making a halfway OK sounding 2 guitar track mix.
I've got a rough rhythm track down I just made that is Ok for now.I also did 4 or 5 leads with some different settings I'll go into in a bit.But the thing is I'm not disciplined enough to just sit there and drool on myself and play the simple stuff with the proper instrumental rests throughout the whole song(since I'm just sitting there with guitar in my hands, ya know?)I tend to throw in the kitchen sink, but man I can bang into some clanging pipes too LOL.So none of the tracks will work for the lead track but there is enough good stuff on each one to more than cover what needs to be done.
On the lead tracks I started out in different positions each time until I got so far out of control I started hitting clinkers.
Anyway I need to mix the good parts of those leads into one part and I have to do some stuff with EQ.
The problem is I have no idea what to do next.

Also my lead guitar playing sux but I'm a much better rhythm player and vocalist and am just trying to get some simple background tracks eventually.
I cut the tip and last knuckle thingee off my left ring finger almost 20 years ago so some lead stuff is going to be sloppy and I need to learn some studio trickery to compensate.
I'd like to post the crappy tracks I have, such as they are, inorder to get some advice on EQ and editing.I'm not sure where to do that though, I don't have a website to host them on.And also I'll worry about the vocals when I can get the instrumental down.
edit-tried to upload a unrendered song to stashbox but it didn't work

[scottc]

Just wanted to express my gratitude to those that have created Reaper. I've been using Sonar for quite some time now....well, was using. ;)

Great to see developers that listen to what the community wants. Great forums, full of info on the prog, and the manual for reaper is incredible. I was up and running shortly after the install. Took me weeks to get familiar with sonar because the documentation was so poor. This is truly a refreshing experience!

My name is scott, and I'm hooked on reaper. :)

Cheers!

[nicholas]

Just wanted to express my gratitude to those that have created Reaper. I've been using Sonar for quite some time now....well, was using. ;)


Welcome aboard, Scott, you'll find many recovering ex-Sonarites here, me included. :)

[scottc]

Thanks nicholas!

Guy I work with just got sonar 7. Then I showed him reaper. I think he's pissed lol.....oops

[jakerock]

I am not familiar with all the available export formats in Cubase. But, if it has Broadcast Wave File format you could export your project, as individual BWF tracks. I have exported entire SONAR projects, as BWF format. If you have MIDI tracks you would have to bounce those first. Once saved, I simply selected all the files, from REAPER's Media Explorer, right mouse click and select, Insert into project on a new track and all tracks will be added, track by track, in one fell swoop. Make sure to match the Cubase project tempo, in REAPER before importing. All the files will then line up perfectly for your mixing pleasure. ;)

Cheers,

Billy Buck

Hey...
Does this work when the tracks arent exported at equal length?
Like the drum track starts @ 0:00 and the vox track starts a little later, like 0:30 or whatever?

[billybk1]

Hey...
Does this work when the tracks arent exported at equal length?
Like the drum track starts @ 0:00 and the vox track starts a little later, like 0:30 or whatever?


As long as you export to BWF.


Cheers,

Billy Buck

[bokey]

I wish I would have seen this thread before I rushed to the collaborators thread and posted.Always in a hurry, tsk tsk.

Anyway I am just going to copy and paste what I wrote there as an introduction.

************************************************** ****
I've always had a hard time learning recording techniques because I tend to get distracted by singing or playing the guitar.By the time I get done setting things up the machines/software for recording I've lost my creative edge or whatever it's called.Killer instinct.My mojo.That thing.
After my initial efforts using Reaper v1.88 ( 2 songs total) I kind of fizzled out because, like I said, I just wanna play and all that other stuff slows me down.
But hey, I need to accept that I have to put the effort in to learn some stuff and then the setup will be easy and non distracting, maybe even part of the creative process.
My biggest problem is motivation.If someone has some songs they want vocals done for it would help me by dragging me kicking and screaming into the actual recording part of music.
Also I can write lyrics about anything.
This song is just a crappy cover medley of the songs "Love Hurts",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Hurts

written by the great Boudleaux Bryant and the Trent Reznor song "Hurt" that was covered so hauntingly by Johnny Cash.
I was playing "Hurt" one day on my acoustic and thought " hey that would go good with Love Hurts". So I got all excited and set everything up real quick and started playing unrehearsed.This is like the 3 or 4th take, it took me a few to get the transition right.I have no idea what I did on the mix but be assured it wasn't much.
Anyway I'm more than aware of the poor quality of the recording and mix.I just kind of slammed it out since I know so little(except how to sing,that's the easy part).It's just recorded straight into a Behringer 802 mixer.probably all flat EQ'ed.I have a Behringer B-2 condensor mic.I've also got a Line6 PodXT that has a bunch of effects I've never tried.
Also at the very end I got a little vocally ,umm, overwhelming?LOL(You'll see/hear what I mean)I've got an insanely powerful voice and I hadn't figured out how to finish the song and it was like trying to stop a trainful of coal heading down a mountainside.LOL. I was just getting warmed up and not sucking to bad and it was time to stop.Another thing that I have trouble with.Sometimes I don't wanna stop playing or singing.
Oh well. I'll shut up now and check back for virtual rotten eggs and tomatoes tomorrow or so.

http://www.stashbox.org/58247/higherratehurt3.mp3


Oh yeah- I know the guitar playing kinda sucks too.I kind of had a run in with a piece of machinery years ago and had to have the first knuckle of my left ring finger amputated, so cut me some slack on the guitar.The vocals just kind of suck because I'm just starting to play and sing again.To be honest, for awhile it hurt a lot and I wasn't into it.
But I guess you can't change what you are and apparantly I'm a channeling device for music from somewhere else, cause it just kinda happens whether I want it to or not.Sometimes it claws at the inside of me trying to get out.Can't stop it so I might as work with it.
I really thought I could just give it up.

[steveo42]

Hi!
I'm SteveO !
I'm a 40 something professional musician with a small project studio and a Sonar refugee. My interests are jazz piano, pop and so forth and I also run a small business transcribing vinyl to CD/DVD.
I'm new to Reaper but have heard a lot about it.
All I can say after trying it is WOW!
Maybe cause I go back to when razor blades were used to cut 2 inch tape Reaper seems logical to me, I dunno.
I also use and like Nuendo which I feel is a fine product, but I have had nothing but clicks and pops with Sonar 7.01 and VST instruments.
I've been doing DAW work since Dr T's and my day job is as an engineer (electrical) so I know a wee bit about hardware all of which has not helped me eliminate the problems with Sonar.
I tried Reaper on a whim, honestly not expecting much, but boy was I wrong!
This is a great program and with the same system I can happily run Ivory, Addictive Drums etc all at once and all at 3.3msec and I have YET to hear a click or pop.
Nuendo is pretty much the same but I have to go to 5.3msec.
Sonar?
I can't get anywhere under 10msec and as a Jazz pianist I can "feel that".
So here I am, for better or worse and once again thank you for a wonderful product.

[millerc1214]

Hi, I'm millerc1214. Right now I'm working on a Music Technology degree at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. My principal instrument is violin, but I also play guitar, bass guitar, and keys with some proficiency. I'm not sure how I heard about reaper, I think the name just kept popping up on some audio forums I would occasionally visit so I decided to see what the buzz was about since I was in the market for a DAW. I must say that after working with many different DAWs (Sonar, Digital Performer, Samplitude/Sequoia, Nuendo/Cubase, and Pro Tools) I have Reaper to be as good or better in almost all respects. I also love the program Ableton Live, but I tend to use it more for songwriting/composing and I think eventually I'll dump my raw audio into another DAW for editing and mixing. As a 15" laptop user, the dock feature is an absolute lifesaver, as it allows me to maximize my screen space. I also love crossfades, they are like the ones in Nuendo and Samplitude in that you can see both audio tracks superimposed on each other for an extra visual aid in lining up hits. I share a studio apartment so there's definitely no space for a studio, although I do occasionally record the odd acoustic guitar track or something. I have a nice set of monitor speakers, a little Edirol UA-25 interface, a Korg Kontrol 49, and a small but decent collection of microphones. I'm hoping to expand this equipment into a small project studio once I graduate and move into a larger space.

[eximious]

Hey all. I'm working on a minor in music theory / composition at the University of Florida. I'm going into film / TV production, so music is more of a hobby for me (though one related to my field). I'm pretty new to DAWs and VSTi's, but the forum and Reaper's GUI / wiki have really helped me to break in.

I'm trained on keys, but I do have two Mountain Ocarinas that I'm particularly fond of (check 'em out if you haven't heard of them). My set-up is pretty simple (and cheap, come on, I'm a college student): Alesis Fusion 8HD, Alesis i/o2, 1gb RAM laptop, Reaper, and hopefully some decent VSTi's in the years and months to come.

[Junius]

Junius. I am a Vdrums user and arived here after some high praise at Vdrums.com. I am, for all practical purpose, MIDIgnorant but I am learning fast. I will "RTFM" and promise to avoid too many stupid questions.
Speaking of stupid, Reaper is stupid easy. As my man Cramer says, "I know nothing" and I was up and running in less than an hour. Now on the task of wading through the swamp of info.

[JayThorpe]

Howdy

My name is Jared, I'm a public radio documentary journalist (no, really, it's a real job, that pays (sorta...)). I got a 5-year double degree in viola performance and recording engineering, I play folk music, run live sound for and record all types of music, and if anyone wants to own a patent for a totally obsolete digitally controlled networked analog console, I'll sell it to ya cheap -- just pay my lawyers off (EE project, seemed like a good idea at the time...).

I haven't actually used reaper yet -- I'm a ProTools die-hard, but only need LE...Can only afford LE, for that matter -- but I'm interested in multitracking a lot of my live gigs without borrowing someone else's gear, and learning Reaper's my first step for that (now, who wants to sell me an Alesis HD24 cheap?).

So far I've only had time to download it, look at it, make sure I can get sound into and out of it in the format I want without losing anything, and realize how many extremely cool feature it's got that I don't yet comprehend... I'm totally psyched about the possibilities for using this as my go-to music DAW (PT is just too damn expensive after the initial investment ... $500 for a fricking LE noise plug-in??), it seems pretty straightforward (I learned on tape, briefly... then Sonic, o' Sonic, whither didst thou roam?... SADiE was my first 24/96 so I'll always think it's the best sounding DAW... Didn't touch pro-tools until 5.1 came out (ONE!!?? level of undo??!!), but now I can use PT with my hands tied behind my back blindfolded while sleeping and the bomb's timer ticking down at double-speed cause someone cut the wrong wire)...especially Reaper seems straightforward for someone who is 95% "real" audio, not virtual.

Well, you get the picture.

Anyway, the program looks cool, and even if I never touch it I'll probably keep coming back for the forum!

It's already been more helpful to me than 5 years as a loyal registered DigiDesign customer!

jt

[blayz1115]

Hi,

I'm a staunch Logic PC user, who has recently tried both Cubase 4 & Sonar 7, and been unimpressed. I previously downloaded Reaper but didn't actually try it out.

Yestday I had to have a ruff guide vocal laid on a backing track to take to another studio to finsih up. The track is Hip Hop for a friend who's going away in a couple of days and needs to take the track to present to some backers...(so I to get them down).

So I go to fire up Logic as normal...but wait Logic cannot find the dongle! (never had that problem before). Tried using different USB slots buit still no joy.

So what to do can't let my friend down, so quick think I thought ok let me try this Reaper.

So I download it... (I had previously uninstalled it.)

Installed it ...super quick with no issues.

Opened it up...no probs

It then took me about 1 hour to work out the basics, configure my sound card, MCU & XT and Plugins.

I then insterted the wav files for the song, created some spare channels to record on...the mic output channel set on my EMU 1820m was already showing the incomming signal.

I did some chopping up of the audio files to create some loops.

Put it into record and within a hour had the vox down, and was doing some quick mixing with vst's!

.....bloody fanatastic is all I can say! Only downside seems to be the interaction with the MCU not being as sweet as I would like (I'm spoilt by Logic) other than that Love it..

[daf]

Long time listener, first time caller.

Former user of MasterTracks PC, PowerTracks, Cubase VST, Encore, and Reason.

Current user of Acid, LilyPond, and Sound Forge. And now Reaper.

Really really like the VegasAudio-style workflow, which is very much like Acid. Really like the lack of Acid's bugginess and quick response to bug reports (true response from Sony's Customer Support: "Acid is SUPPOSED to ignore the edits you do in that window". Grrr.). Still use Acid for its awesome looping capabilities, but am repeatedly frustrated by the buggy UI.

Anyhow, bought and registered Reaper so I could have something better than Audacity on my laptop - my 2nd cpu. Then, after using Reaper for a while, I realized it was way better than anything I had used before.

I'm a keyboardist, mostly a church music guy, juggling 4 church gigs right now, Catholic and Episcopalian. Write a lot of liturgical stuff for my churches. My favorite bit right now is playing Hammond for a Detroit Gospel choir. Also going back to college (Madonna U) for a church music degree, helping out with a new Gospel choir for the school, trying to get a couple of bar bands going (one r&b/pop, the other classic rock), and day gigging as a software quality engineer. Every May I host a jam session for internet musicians at my place in Michigan's Southern Thumb: lots of drunken fun.

52, deaf in one ear, 50-60 lbs. overweight, diabetic, on all kinds of blood pressure meds, married, 2 kids, 4 grandkids, half-crazy mom-in-law who lives with us, spawn-of-satan puppy who finally seems to be calming down now that she's spayed, and a feral cat who lives in our garage and brings us dead mice. and half dead mice. And dead half mice.

And hi to Betty Rumble, DJC, Pipeline Audio, Beez, and all the other Reaperers I know from elsewhere.

Honk if you love Jesusonic!

[Consul]

Hi, Daf! You need to come over again sometime. :)

[daf]

Hi, Daf! You need to come over again sometime. :)


And hi to Consul!

I actually drove past your place last night - a neighbor of yours is working on our Blazer - but it was late and it looked like your lights were out. Plus I still had errands to run.

Definitely got to do something quick while we're between semesters though.

Daf

[jinga8]

Hi. I'm Greg. Long time Sonar user. Current Sonar and Reaper user. Just feeling my way around right now. What an app, though!!!