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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 04-01-2022, 01:48 AM   #81
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I use it for Reaping what I sew
What does that mean? What do you sew?
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Old 04-01-2022, 05:30 AM   #82
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What does that mean? What do you sew?
Hems.
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Old 04-01-2022, 09:30 AM   #83
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I get it. Like weaving what your tapestry tells you to.
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Hems.
Sure! Maybe that should also be a point in the next
survey:

--- sewing open and tied hems.
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Old 04-07-2022, 10:00 PM   #85
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175 votes - the result will probably remain the same as now:

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

Of course, anyone who hasn't voted yet can add their vote.
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Old 04-09-2022, 02:57 PM   #86
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Video editing
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Old 04-20-2022, 02:20 AM   #87
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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.
This is of course an interesting variant of using Reaper,
especially if you want to analyze guitar riffs or parts of a song.
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I get it. Like weaving what your tapestry tells you to.
For the longest time I assumed they were voices in my head when it was just the tapestry.
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Old 04-20-2022, 04:14 AM   #89
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I think the most accurate answer for me is "for up multi-track recording of live instruments and sequenced midi instruments".

Basically I want reaper to act as a multi-track tape recorder with impeccable midi timing whether reaper is master or slave.

Secondarily I want it to be good for editing and arranging and composing.
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Old 04-22-2022, 03:11 AM   #90
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Now we have 180 votes - with this result:

1. Video editing ------ 1%
2. Postproduction ---- 3%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 3%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 30%
6. Composing ------- 58%

Interesting: The result has changed a bit due to the last votes.
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Old 05-27-2022, 07:48 AM   #91
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I think the most accurate answer for me is "for up multi-track recording of live instruments and sequenced midi instruments".

Basically I want reaper to act as a multi-track tape recorder with impeccable midi timing whether reaper is master or slave.
Roughly I would assign that to (5) "Band recording". The
linear recording is also typical of this, a bit like all
tracks were recorded on a tape machine in the past.
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Old 05-27-2022, 07:53 AM   #92
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Funneling my money to plugin developers. Thanks for asking.
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Old 05-27-2022, 09:18 AM   #93
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Don't forget about the creation of orchestral, symphonic and film music, which many Reaper users use it for. Also, you might have mentioned Reapers' excellent score editor, the best of any DAW.

In addition to the above, I use Reaper because I can use it on Linux. There is no other DAW I can use that is as powerful, has great midi editing, a great score editor and can be used on Linux.
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...a great score editor...
Did I miss a meeting? Pray tell!
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Don't forget about the creation of orchestral, symphonic and film music, which ...
Well, that is point (6): Composing. This means any
kind of song composition - from audio or midi or both.
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Old 05-27-2022, 11:49 AM   #96
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Making animation from frames generated via an A.I., then recording some sort of track to go along with the resultant video.

Not sure exactly which option suits that
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Making animation from frames generated via an A.I., then recording some sort of track to go along with the resultant video.

Not sure exactly which option suits that
Well, the animation is in the broadest sense: (1) Video editing,
the recording of audio is probably: (6) Composing.

Which of these two activities do you spend more time on?
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Old 05-28-2022, 02:11 AM   #98
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1. Controlling 30 dental milling cnc machines. Including spindle speed and tool wear monitoring.
2. Administration of thousands of milling stl parts using custom system of master/slave luascripts shared along cad/cam software host machines and milling machine.
3. A bit of sound design and production.
4. Running reaktor/vcvrack/jsfx patches live with my band.
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I am using it both for processing sounds and composing music
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Old 05-28-2022, 02:46 AM   #100
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If I am honest, I mostly use it to listen to the songs I am working on on repeat before they hit Spotify.

I mark this down as productive time, but it is probably not. In a 5 hour session I usually tweak an EQ. It sounds better some of the time.

Yesterday I spoke to my psychotherapist about not being able to release more songs. She said that it might not be procrastination but narcissism.
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Well, the animation is in the broadest sense: (1) Video editing,
the recording of audio is probably: (6) Composing.

Which of these two activities do you spend more time on?
Hmm. Im trying to get it down to zero time for both The A.I. art is all one take, no editing needed apart from creating the video from the frames, and the audio is generative via synths setting themselves off
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Hmm. Im trying to get it down to zero time for both ...
Nice!
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Nice!
Stick that in your narrow poll holes! Am I an artist? Am I just lazy? Am I skilled? Am I doing any of this?

What am I? IM THE FUTURE!

Seriously tho, I'm not going to be online for a while, and the A.I. stuff being a remote colab project, I dont have to be online even tho its a net service of sorts. Everything gets saved to a google drive, and someone can send me the files via snail mail once every month or two on a usb stick. I wont even be spending any time downloading the files I AM THE FUTURE OF THE PAST!

Maybe if I win the lottery I could buy a gfx card that does this stuff at home, but I dont lottery and cant spend a fortune on gfx cards...

I suggest a 7th option - slapping a load of crap together in the laziest way possible

EDIT: Scratch that, colab needs to go, financially unviable.

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1. Controlling 30 dental milling cnc machines. Including spindle speed and tool wear monitoring.
2. Administration of thousands of milling stl parts using custom system of master/slave luascripts shared along cad/cam software host machines and milling machine.
Some things you can't dream of! I'll add this to the Reaper uses list,
yeah!
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In a 5 hour session I usually tweak an EQ. It sounds better some of the time.
Well, everyone has their own sense of time. Sometimes good things
just take a long time.

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Yesterday I spoke to my psychotherapist about not being able to release more songs. She said that it might not be procrastination but narcissism.
Interesting remark. I just wonder how narcissism is supposed to
cause delay and procrastination? I tend to think that psychotherapists
like to suspect narcissism in everything and everyone. Anyway, I didn't
think this thread about using Reaper would turn out to be so
entertaining.
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I AM THE FUTURE OF THE PAST!
Haha, yes - everyone has developed their own pattern of
working on their music. Particularly interesting are of
course the variants in which no time has to be invested
- or in which one only composes mentally - without a
physical substrate, i.e. even without a DAW ...
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What do you mainly use Reaper for?

Composing and virtual orchestration
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Old 06-28-2022, 11:18 AM   #108
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@hotzmarino: What do you mean by "virtual orchestration?"
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Old 07-02-2022, 07:01 AM   #109
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Now we have 205 votes - with this result:

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

With over 200 voters and a very low volatility of the numbers, we can
assume that these numbers are representative. They show with some
certainty what Reaper users are really using Reaper for.
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Don't forget about the creation of orchestral, symphonic and film music, which many Reaper users use it for ...
This is actually part of "Song Composing" - so option 6.

A much finer survey - even differentiated by genre - would
complicate the survey as a whole and make it more cumbersome.
And there would be even more ambiguity.
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Never thought that we got so many votes: 210 - with this result:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 4%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 3%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 29%
6. Composing ------- 57%
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Old 07-31-2022, 10:23 AM   #112
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We have now even reached 214 votes. And there are still small
changes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 3%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 29%
6. Composing ------- 57%
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Is video editing really on 0%?

All the videos on my YT channel have been made in Reaper, so I def use it for that.

EDIT: Oh, its obviously what do you MAINLY use Reaper for. I guess I dont use it mainly for that
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Is video editing really on 0%?

All the videos on my YT channel have been made in Reaper, so I def use it for that.

EDIT: Oh, its obviously what do you MAINLY use Reaper for. I guess I dont use it mainly for that
Video has one whole user tick as you can see at the top. You can chalk this up to devilment or a mistake I suspect.

Using Reaper mainly for video is somewhat akin to mainly using a car for storage or even a cupholder, though with fuel prices as they are perhaps that's a growing number!
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Is video editing really on 0%?

All the videos on my YT channel have been made in Reaper, so I def use it for that.

EDIT: Oh, its obviously what do you MAINLY use Reaper for. I guess I dont use it mainly for that
Exactly: It's about what you MAINLY use Reaper for. So if
someone primarily composes songs and then creates videos for
them from time to time, then he should still choose number (6)
"Composing" here.

On the other hand, I round the results here so that you can
perceive them better. That's why 0% comes out here, although
strictly speaking it's 0.46%. That means that every 200th user
mainly produces videos with Reaper. I also think that's plausible.

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Video has one whole user tick as you can see at the top. You can chalk this up to devilment or a mistake I suspect.

Using Reaper mainly for video is somewhat akin to mainly using a car for storage or even a cupholder, though with fuel prices as they are perhaps that's a growing number!
We already had that: Point (1) video is only for those who really
mainly assemble videos. And these are rather few.

Haja, your car analogy is apt! Great.
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As long as it doesn't give the wrong impression, I mean, someone checking out those numbers and thinking "oh, I guess nobody uses Reaper for video, huh." Even though that isn't what the poll actually tells you (as explained nicely above).

On my part: I don't mainly use Reaper for video, but Reaper is the only video editing software I use. And I do use it quite a bit for that in a professional context. This just isn't the main thing I use it for, so...
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On my part: I don't mainly use Reaper for video, but Reaper is the only video editing software I use. And I do use it quite a bit for that in a professional context. This just isn't the main thing I use it for, so...
Yeah, that. This is where I got confused I think (I'm a very confused person). I'm currently at a point where everything I finish (rare tho it is) is going to have a music video, also made in Reaper. In some ways, I'm trying to figure out how to make the video and write the music in tandem, so both are finished at roughly the same time within the same project. Not sure if that is even relevant here, or what the answer is, but... er... yeah.

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@Lunar Ladder:
@maxdemo:

Yes, yes, ...

in the video forum it is clearly stated in some threads that
Reaper is very potent for video work. Recently, even the wmf
codec was approved. You can make really really good videos with
Reaper, even if only a few users use Reaper primarily for that.

I therefore also hope that the survey result does not lead to
incorrect assessments!

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@Lunar Ladder:
@maxdemo:

Yes, yes, ...

in the video forum it is clearly stated in some threads that
Reaper is very potent for video work. Recently, even the wmf
codec was approved. You can make really really good videos with
Reaper, even if only a few users use Reaper primarily for that.

I therefore also hope that the survey result does not lead to
incorrect assessments!

I'm less bothered about wrong impressions and more wondering if a new option is needed for the poll! I want my own option!
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