Hey All,
New to reaper, and newish to digital recording in general. Remember recording on tape a decade ago, and just barely messing with Cubase when it first came out, but then pretty much stuck with playing music and focusing on education. Now over a decade later, all grown up with college, marriage and kids all checked off my "todo" list, I am learning how to record/edit/produce.
After a couple years with a trusty Fast Track Pro and audacity + ableton lite and cubase se, I have moved to Reaper and upgraded to an RME Fireface UFX interface. Largely because I wanted a lot of flexibility, but without sacrificing a lot of quality. Also wanted a minimum of 12 channels without needing to buy additional convertors.
So far, I am very happy. It seems to work very well with Reaper (and I am really enjoying using Reaper as my learning platform and will likely stick with it for the long haul). I am still at a very early stage of my recording education, but I think I have some great tools to learn with. I would recommend the RME UFX to anyone who needs the channels and wants a lot of I/O flexibility (firewire or usb). It can even record on its own to a USB drive without a computer, and then be imported into Reaper later.
I have no idea how it compares to other stuff like the Lynx, Apogee, Motu or whatever, because I have never owned them, but I am happy with my investment. just bought my license for Reaper yesterday too. Admittedly I used it for a couple months before paying, but it gave me the time i needed to really decide it was for me. Props to the Cockos team for their avoidance of horrible DRM/licensing. It was a large part of why I decided to stick with Reaper instead of the competitors who force hardware on you (at worst), or are simply overpriced and have crappy trials at best.
Well, getting way off topic, sorry, but just excited to be getting involved from this side of the glass. Have been recorded plenty, but this is a whole new (and fun) animal!
Here is what the RME looks like: