Hi everyone, first post here
Comparisonics waveforms were probably the only thing holding me back from leaving Samplitude as my main DAW (I'm a full-time mastering engineer), and after some emails with Ivo I dived right into Reaper. I have to say I'm extremely happy with Reaper and feel like a bloody idiot for not having made the jump sooner. The hours I could have saved.... So yeah, thank you Ivo.
Spectral Peaks in Reaper have been the number one time drain when setting up the application for my taste/workflow etc. I have spent BLOODY AGES tweaking them, flicking to Samplitude and back, etc etc etc etc. Ages. The thing is that Comparisonics just look like things sound in my head, they fit perfectly with my synesthesia.
I've attached a screenshot showing what I've (almost) settled with, though I might still end up tweaking it more. Key feature is to have 'fade non-tonal content to peaks colour' enabled, and then set the theme peaks to be something pinky-grey/grey-y-pink. This is the closest I've got it to Comparisonics at the time of typing. [EDIT: variance is hidden, it's set to 0.33]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbo342k7yh...PEAKS.bmp?dl=0
The point: Spectral Peaks are - in my opinion - better and more detailed than Comparisonics but with one major 'flaw'. The colour spectrum goes from blue to red but
never goes to black. So you can have a pure 30Hz tone and it will be blue, the same as, say, a 250Hz tone. Down below 250Hz (where I have it set, where everything else looks right) it's just all blue.
With such a huge amount of bass heavy music coming through here, better LF colour resolution (?) would be awesome. It just needs to go from blue to black as you get down below, say, 120Hz or so. Check out a track I snapped yesterday - a drum n bass track with WAY too much bass. The parts without bass look pretty close, but the Comparisonics clearly shows the full range (ie LF) spectrum detail/contrast better.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9b5fsrdll...PEAKS.bmp?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cnc45smcw...PEAKS.bmp?dl=0
Other than that I'm very happy with Reaper, so I suppose I can't complain
