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View Poll Results: What do you mainly use Reaper for?
For video editing 1 0.34%
For video or film post production 15 5.15%
For audio podcasts and radio plays 6 2.06%
For general processing of audio sounds and samples 20 6.87%
For band recording and/or subsequent production of a song or album 77 26.46%
For composing songs from midi and audio recordings 172 59.11%
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Old 02-05-2022, 06:35 AM   #41
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1. Video editing --- 1%
2. Postproduction --- 5%
3. Audio+Radio --- 1%
4. Sounds+Samples --- 8%
5. Band recording --- 26%
6. Composing --- 59%
It's interesting that the category that seems to get the most usage (6) seems to get the least attention from the development staff. If it did get the attention it seems to deserve, we would get more bug fixes and at least some minor enhancements to the midi editor, especially the notation editor.
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It's interesting that the category that seems to get the most usage (6) seems to get the least attention from the development staff. If it did get the attention it seems to deserve, we would get more bug fixes and at least some minor enhancements to the midi editor, especially the notation editor.
Possibly because composing music likely means very different things to different people. A looping function is just as much a composing tool as the notation editor, so it becomes a very wide definition in terms of method.
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Old 02-06-2022, 12:36 PM   #44
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None of the above

Mainly I use it to learn songs - there's nothing that comes close with REAPEER's "varispeed".

I import a wave, flac, etc. Then tempo map it so I can section the Verse, Chorus, etc. Then I can use a metronome, and I change the "speed" to learn the licks etc.

Works great.
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Old 02-07-2022, 03:30 AM   #45
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Game audio

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Old 02-07-2022, 03:43 AM   #46
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Game audio
I would classify "Game audio" under point (4): "Sounds and Samples".
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... Mainly I use it to learn songs ...
Oyeah, that's an application variant that I haven't actually
considered here.
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Old 02-09-2022, 01:41 AM   #48
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We now have 114 voters, and the intermediate result is:

1. Video editing --- 1%
2. Postproduction --- 5%
3. Audio+Radio --- 1%
4. Sounds+Samples --- 8%
5. Band recording --- 25%
6. Composing --- 60%

The result seems to be consolidating with these percentages.
Of course, anyone rereading this thread is encouraged to vote.
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Old 02-11-2022, 03:30 AM   #49
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Bump: More voters are welcome!
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Old 02-13-2022, 01:23 AM   #50
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We now have 118 voters, and the result is:

1. Video editing --- 1%
2. Postproduction --- 5%
3. Audio+Radio --- 1%
4. Sounds+Samples --- 8%
5. Band recording --- 26%
6. Composing --- 59%

With 118 voters, I'm guessing this is the bottom line.
Is it also representative? I don't know ...

This result shows that about two-thirds are engaged in
song composition. A quarter does band recording. And
the remaining 15% use Reaper for all sorts of other
video and audio work.
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Old 02-13-2022, 08:11 AM   #51
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Polls can only show what you set them up to show and percentages only apply for the people who have taken part in the poll. Even for them just as accurately as they have actually answered the poll. For example, I have had to participate in polls where none of the options were correct, yet one option had to be chosen regardless. That surely makes one to question the validity and agenda behind the poll. Especially if the percentages shouldn't necessarily be the main point of the given poll anyway. Are they here and why?

Here my first problem is with "mainly". It might be one thing at one time period and something else in another time, so what is the correct answer? It might be easy if you do basically just a few things most of the time. But if it's divided amongst a wide selection and any given thing might be done even for weeks at a time, or split between several daily?

Another thing are the categories themselves. Where is theming? Coding? Plugin testing? Audio measurements? Learning and teaching aid? Audio + radio, is there radio without audio? Video editing and post-production, aren't they the same thing if we have just big categories? Band recording? So if I record only solo artists, that doesn't apply? IOW, is it the band or the (live) recording that you actually want to differentiate there?

When anything else fails, the Other category could fill in nicely. And multiple choices allowed, for sure.
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Old 02-13-2022, 02:08 PM   #52
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Thanks, Xpander!

Yes, yes, the design of votes is very important. The selection of
options should be fine and as disjunctive as possible - i.e. without
overlaps. I think it worked out well here. And secondly, there is
always the question of how to achieve "representativeness". That's
more difficult, because only certain people vote at all - and this
already introduces a distortion.

An important point that I decided in advance is: How fine-grained
should the survey be? I.e. do I want an academically precise, very
finely graded survey with many options? Or do I prefer a strong
simplification with roughly outlined options?

The former would certainly have deterred many users from even
taking part in such a survey. And the evaluation would also be
finely chiseled and difficult to grasp at first glance. You would
first have to write an academically and sociologically meticulous
evaluation.

The latter has the charm of being simple and quick to evaluate at a
glance. The disadvantage is exactly what you are describing here:
the evaluation is somewhat coarser, the results somewhat less
precise.

This simplification includes, for example, the term "mainly" and
also the fact that you can only select one option. Which also means
users who do pretty much anything with Reaper aren't included
here. But this is deliberately designed - just to achieve simplicity.

The topics "Theming, Coding, Plugin-Testing, Audio-
Measurements, Learning & Teaching" are deliberately not options,
because they are NOT part of the Reaper application. These are
all activities that prepare and optimize an application. But they are
not the application itself. But this poll is only about the application
itself. Perhaps such an option would still be helpful, simply so that
these people are not excluded from this survey.

Video and post production, that's right, they sound very similar.
There are people who discovered Reaper to edit their videos, add
opening and closing credits, and do crossfades. They use Reaper
for "video editing".

But when it comes to bringing audio and video together in a complex
way, i.e. not just adding an audio file underneath, but adding
dialogue and effects, then we speak of "post production", as is
common in film and TV.

"Band recording and/or subsequent production of a song or album"
focuses on recording a song that has already been composed and
that has already been and is to be played live. This is exactly what
comes closest to "linear tape recording". The lonely songwriter with
his guitar songs is just as much a part of it as the singing theater
ensemble.

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Xpander, in any case thanks for your many suggestions -
and yes: the next survey will definitely come - and I will
take your suggestions into account.

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Old 02-13-2022, 02:49 PM   #53
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From this poll we can deduce 90% of people use Reaper for music lol
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I would classify "Game audio" under point (4): "Sounds and Samples".
It’s not ”general processing of sounds and samples” in a lot of cases, though!
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Using Reaper to playback live sequences!!!
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Old 02-13-2022, 08:32 PM   #56
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I use Reaper like a mixing console...

Most of the topics in the forums these days... I haven't a clue what they're even talking about.
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Thanks enroe for the details and decisions behind the poll choices.

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The topics "Theming, Coding, Plugin-Testing, Audio-
Measurements, Learning & Teaching" are deliberately not options,
because they are NOT part of the Reaper application. These are
all activities that prepare and optimize an application. But they are
not the application itself. But this poll is only about the application
itself.
This part is not clear though. I see some of that exactly the opposite. By the very title, this poll is about what Reaper is used for. Point is, there are people who do not use Reaper "mainly" for music, video or other listed things. They could use Reaper only for what you describe as optimizing and preparing. Or testing, or teaching etc. It's still done with Reaper, or for Reaper, as it may be...but what does that matter? It's still activity involving Reaper.

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From this poll we can deduce 90% of people use Reaper for music lol
I thought good options would've been Music or Other...
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This part is not clear though. I see some of that exactly the opposite. By the very title, this poll is about what Reaper is used for. Point is, there are people who do not use Reaper "mainly" for music, video or other listed things. They could use Reaper only for what you describe as optimizing and preparing. Or testing, or teaching etc. It's still done with Reaper, or for Reaper, as it may be...but what does that matter? It's still activity involving Reaper.
Yes, my main argument is: Anyone who uses Reaper for music, for
whatever music area, will initially also deal with "theming, coding,
plugin testing, audio measurements, learning etc." for a while.
That's not just the case with Reaper, but with every DAW. That's
why "Theming, Coding etc" is almost a preliminary exercise that
accompanies each and every one.

But - after some thought - I agree with you: There are also people
who only use Reaper for this or really mainly deal with it. It is
therefore essentially a missing option. You describe it very
convincingly! The next poll will definitely include this option,
something like this:

"For customizing, testing, learning + teaching"

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I thought good options would've been Music or Other ...
Haha, there may also be people who use Reaper as a template for a
socio-philosophical consideration or who just want to learn LUA, EEL
or Python ... well: you can't take every activity individually into
account in a simple survey. Therefore an option "other" would also
make sense.

Thanks, xpander!
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I remember people wanting to try crypto currencies and stock market analysis in Reaper, but I don't know, if they tried or just trolling.

Another thing that I would suggest as an option for future polls is: scientific research. Reaper is so highly customizable, you could probably use it as a simple tool for scientific things, where other applications are simply to over the top for.

Using JSFX for realtime waveform analysis is probably quite powerful.
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I remember some thread discussing automotive use like designing/analysing the most pleasant sound of shutting car door, that was pretty cool and unusual
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Editing voice-over for training videos.
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Old 02-18-2022, 04:17 AM   #62
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My thanks to all participants. The result is very
revealing - also because we find out what areas of use
there are.

And precisely because of the many applications and
suggestions, the next survey will look like this:

What do you mainly use Reaper for:

--- Analysis of car door noises
--- Scientific explorations of sounds
--- Psychological research of vocalizations
--- Animal sound studies
--- Routing experiments
--- Network + spaghetti art with track wiring
--- Art with theming and experimental color combinations
--- Anatomical Vowel Analysis
--- Something with music

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You forgot cryptocurrency use! For every rendered project with "test" in the name you receive one ReaCoin. Our blockchain works on Proof-of-Suck (POS) principle.
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Recording my own stuff mainly. But Reaper's video editing capability is excellent, at least for basic splicing and dubbing. My heart bleeds for all the home video editors using the mainstream stuff.
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Thanks enroe for being open to suggestions about other possible options. I apologize if I was too argumentative with my replies. However, you might be surprised how close to reality for example this light take was:
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You forgot cryptocurrency use! For every rendered project with "test" in the name you receive one ReaCoin.
Our blockchain works on Proof-of-Suck (POS) principle.
Haha, exactly, I really left that out. Part of it, of course.
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We now have 140 voters, and the current result is:

1. Video editing --- 1%
2. Postproduction --- 5%
3. Audio+Radio --- 1%
4. Sounds+Samples --- 7%
5. Band recording --- 27%
6. Composing --- 59%

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If you haven't voted yet: Every vote is welcome -
and the more people who participate, the more
accurate the result will be.

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We now have 148 votes, and in fact the bottom line
has changed a bit:

1. Video editing ------ 1%
2. Postproduction ---- 4%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 29%
6. Composing ------- 57%

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We currently have 154 votes. Maybe we can still make the 200?
The current result is:

1. Video editing ------ 1%
2. Postproduction ---- 4%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 6%
5. Band recording --- 29%
6. Composing ------- 58%

The changes are already minimal.
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Now there are 157 votes. Here we are:

1. Video editing ------ 1%
2. Postproduction ---- 4%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 6%
5. Band recording --- 29%
6. Composing ------- 58%

The percentages have not changed.
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Recording, editing, mixing, mastering, composing/arranging - no particular order, because i am working on different tasks/stages for different projects at the same time.
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None of the above, just mastering here, with the very occasional recording, mixing, or DJ mixes.
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None of the above, just mastering here, with the very occasional recording, mixing, or DJ mixes.
Oh yes, that would be part of option (5) here in the broadest sense.
But I also see that in a new survey, "mastering" alone will be one
of the options.

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Some good music, and interesting locations,

"Welsh abbatoir in Gabon", and " on my arse in Glasgow"

Some humorous people here.

It would be good to hear the music from the person that writes for adult swim.
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What do I use Reaper for?

FUN !!!

That's it. Not trying to accomplish anything.
Just tinkering with audio and smiling at the results - good and bad.

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Now we have 170 votes. The intermediate result looks like this:

1. Video editing ------ 1%
2. Postproduction ---- 4%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 29%
6. Composing ------- 58%

The changes are minimal. Haha, the fact that the percentages
add up to 101% is due to truncation errors.
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the fact that the percentages add up to 101% is due to truncation errors.
You need to dither them...

Boom/tish.
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I use it for Reaping what I sew
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You need to dither them...

Boom/tish.
Geez', I totally forgot!

You really are completely immersed in audio expertise ...
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