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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 09-19-2022, 09:42 AM   #161
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Like i said enroe, what you are trying to achieve here is wonderful, but maybe you could setup the categories so people could select percentages of what they do with each category.
Hello Tod,

I understand that the limitation of only being able to select a single
point is difficult for some Reaper users. Because Reaper is multifunctional
and can be used in many areas. It's great that you explained your concerns
here in detail - I understand you very well.

But if I had allowed several votes and a percentage weighting, I would
have needed a separate item "Multiple users" to get an idea of the
heterogeneity of use: There are also users who use Reaper 90% only for
audio sample processing. Then there are users, like you, who cover very
different areas with Reaper. The ratio of individual users and multi-area
users would say something about the heterogeneity.

In fact, many more points would have to be added, and the survey would
increase considerably in complexity. This would have the advantage that we
would get a lot of accuracy in the statement about user behavior. However,
the number of options would increase significantly - their wording would be
longer and more differentiated.

Approaching such a social science work could also have some disadvantages:
Reading through all the options alone would take longer and many users
would feel deterred from participating at all. We now have - after at
least half a year - only 250 votes. The evaluation would also be more
complicated and impossible to grasp at first glance.

That's why I decided to make the survey as simple as possible. With the
small disadvantage that everyone has to think about how they mainly use
Reaper. This makes the survey easier and the result can be quickly viewed
at any time.

But of course .... I'm already thinking about a new survey. It will be a
bit more extensive - I will take into account your suggestion and that
of many others as far as possible. However, I will not start this new
poll until this ongoing poll has reached 314.159 votes. Let's see how
long we need to reach that number.

Thanks for your suggestion, Tod!
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Old 09-24-2022, 11:43 AM   #162
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Of course something like this was obvious, as the question was about "mainly".
Yes, for this rather simple survey, the word "mainly" is crucial!

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And even more obviously many categories are missing.
-Michael
Haha, the current list for a future high-volume survey looks like this:
What do you mainly use Reaper for? Possible answers:

--- Analysis of car door noises
--- Scientific explorations of sounds
--- Psychological research of vocalizations
--- Animal sound studies
--- Routing experiments
--- Learn coding generally
--- Network + spaghetti art with track wiring
--- Art with theming and experimental color combinations
--- Anatomical Vowel Analysis
--- Controlling cnc-machines with spindle speed and tools
--- Transcribing conferences
--- Control light installations + snoozel rooms
--- Realtime theater noises and ghosts
--- Imagine visions of one's own glory and stardom
--- Necromancy and exorcism
--- Something with music

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Old 09-24-2022, 06:27 PM   #163
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Yes, for this rather simple survey, the word "mainly" is crucial!



Haha, the current list for a future high-volume survey looks like this:
What do you mainly use Reaper for? Possible answers:

--- Analysis of car door noises
--- Scientific explorations of sounds
--- Psychological research of vocalizations
--- Animal sound studies
--- Routing experiments
--- Learn coding generally
--- Network + spaghetti art with track wiring
--- Art with theming and experimental color combinations
--- Anatomical Vowel Analysis
--- Controlling cnc-machines with spindle speed and tools
--- Transcribing conferences
--- Control light installations + snoozel rooms
--- Realtime theater noises and ghosts
--- Imagine visions of one's own glory and stardom
--- Necromancy and exorcism
--- Something with music

No need to be facetious here enroe, for what it's worth I took your little pole quite seriously. It's just that later on, as I looked over your list, I realized I used Reaper for nearly everything on the list, as well as things beyond the list.

Maybe if you'd have just had everybody check mark the things on the list that they use Reaper for, it may have been a little more concise. I don't know. I do know though, that I do commend you for your effort.
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No need to be facetious here enroe, for what it's worth I took your little pole quite seriously. It's just that later on, as I looked over your list, I realized I used Reaper for nearly everything on the list, as well as things beyond the list.

Maybe if you'd have just had everybody check mark the things on the list that they use Reaper for, it may have been a little more concise. I don't know. I do know though, that I do commend you for your effort.
Haha, thank you - I see your point.

In the first impulse for this survey I still thought that one could
establish a relationship between the way Reaper is used by users -
and the development of features.

On closer inspection, this turned out to be impossible: Both the variety
of uses is very large - and the further development is too branched and
complex to be able to crystallize a clear relationship or focus.

So the evaluation as such remains interesting - but only as long as it
is representative.
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Haha, thank you - I see your point.

In the first impulse for this survey I still thought that one could
establish a relationship between the way Reaper is used by users -
and the development of features.

On closer inspection, this turned out to be impossible: Both the variety
of uses is very large - and the further development is too branched and
complex to be able to crystallize a clear relationship or focus.

So the evaluation as such remains interesting - but only as long as it
is representative.
Don't be afraid to do another one, now that you have a better idea.
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Old 09-27-2022, 04:09 PM   #166
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Wow, didn't expect to have so many Music Producers in the poll!

Personally using it most for sound design.
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Old 09-27-2022, 07:50 PM   #167
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For composing songs from midi and audio recordings

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I see that the majority of users have chosen this item. I think developers should pay more attention to the MIDI Editor and MIDI working. Every time I rejoice when something new appears and I react painfully to bugs and shortcomings.
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I see that the majority of users have chosen this item. I think developers should pay more attention to the MIDI Editor and MIDI working. Every time I rejoice when something new appears and I react painfully to bugs and shortcomings.
This is very very true cool, but with the special scripts that are coming out of the scripting department, along with the ability to create our own custom macros, I put it way at the top.

For everything that bothers me, there are many things to be thankful for. At least that's my experience.
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At least we now have 251 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 8%
5. Band recording --- 27%
6. Composing ------- 57%
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Old 10-04-2022, 03:25 AM   #170
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We now have 254 votes. And the result looks like this:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 8%
5. Band recording --- 27%
6. Composing ------- 57%

If you haven't voted yet, you are of course invited to cast
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Old 10-04-2022, 04:19 AM   #171
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Default I use Reaper after composing.

I am more comfortable composing with sheet music than with midi, so I use Musescore to write music. My original idea was to print out the sheet music to follow while I recorded, which works, but I am discovering that Musescore has a few tricks up its sleeve.

I use MT Power Drums which I like to set first. If I save my score as a midi file, I can place it in track one and it sets the tempo and the length of the song. I hit record on my drum track and let it run to the end of the score, then use the midi editor to add and edit the drums. The little dots on the midi track for the score give me a graphical representation of the music and where the changes are coming which helps while I am laying the bass guitar.

With all the available midi instruments in Reaper, I can use Musescore to write those parts. It opens up all the possibilities of midi without having to go too deep into the woods to learn midi.
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... so I use Musescore to write music ...
Musescore is an interesting tool especially for composing songs.
Thank you for describing your approach.
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So now it's 257 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 8%
5. Band recording --- 27%
6. Composing ------- 57%

Again: If you haven't voted yet, you are of course invited to
cast your vote here.
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We now have 262 votes, actually still a small number compared to the spread of Reaper. So if you haven't voted yet, you can do so here (above!).
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Old 10-18-2022, 07:53 AM   #175
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We now have 262 votes, actually still a small number compared to the spread of Reaper. So if you haven't voted yet, you can do so here (above!).
I can't really vote because it wouldn't be accurate.

Like many others, I use Reaper for *anything* pertinent to audio.

I would need to tick several boxes, because my work is pretty evenly spread.
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I can't really vote because it wouldn't be accurate.

Like many others, I use Reaper for *anything* pertinent to audio.

I would need to tick several boxes, because my work is pretty evenly spread.
Then you are one of the few users who use all possible ways of using
Reaper in a completely equal way. I'm amazed!
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Old 10-21-2022, 12:35 PM   #177
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Mostly for feeling bad about myself because I'm too tired to make music regularly lately.
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... for feeling bad about myself because I'm too tired to make music regularly lately.
Woohoo, that's a new user category that no one has thought of before.
Of course, this must also be taken into account (in a future survey).
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Well, the number of votes is slowly increasing. We now have 269 votes and thus this result:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 26%
6. Composing ------- 59%

If you haven't voted yet, you are of course invited to cast your vote here.
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We now have 270 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 6%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 26%
6. Composing ------- 59%

If you haven't voted yet, you are of course invited to cast your vote
here.

Nevertheless, we have arrived here - after half a year - probably at
the end of this random sample. Although there are certainly a few
thousand users using Reaper, the sample remains below 300.

We can state that almost two thirds use Reaper for the composition
of new songs. About a quarter uses Reaper for band recording.
The proportion of video processing and pure audio processing stays
well below a tenth.
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Ok, so now we've established that most of us use REAPER for MIDI sequencing and audio sample editing, perhaps we can stop telling each other to 'get a better take of the band' when giving mixing advice.

It's 2022.
Except when it's a recording of a band...
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Old 11-05-2022, 05:27 AM   #182
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Without doubt, I use Reaper for audio and post production work. Having said that, I also use the video capability from time to time.

Being a bit of an elder statesman and coming from a true tape editing background, I have always admired how Reaper treats audio. I evaluated many systems before I chose Reaper. It had the best jog methodology I had come across and that is useful when you like to edit with your ears and not just a waveform.

I have been using Reaper for 11 years now and have no intention of changing. Kudos to Justin and all the developers for a continuing, superb product.
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Ok, so now we've established that most of us use REAPER for MIDI sequencing and audio sample editing, perhaps we can stop telling each other to 'get a better take of the band' when giving mixing advice.

It's 2022.
Mmmh, I still always say "let's get a better take" ...
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We now have 276 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 25%
6. Composing ------- 59%

The individual percentages still change a bit.
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Ok, so now we've established that most of us use REAPER for MIDI sequencing and audio sample editing, perhaps we can stop telling each other to 'get a better take of the band' when giving mixing advice.

It's 2022.
Yeah, terrible advice! We'll fix that in the mix!
... fast forward to the mixing session...
They'll fix that in mastering!

Who are "they"? That's they.com online mastering, of course!
20db of 10k high shelf and a 20db brick wall limiting boost later... It's 2022!
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What I mean is, because it's MIDI and VSTs that people are mostly using, you can still change the arrangement during the mixing stage. There are no 'takes' to get a better take of. If you read between the lines too much you'll fall through them.
That's an interesting point: we see that a quarter is doing "band recording".
This is essentially linear audio recording - basically the same as it was 60
years ago when the Beatles were still recording on a 4-track tape machine.

But also the big point "Composing a song" is mostly a combination of midi
recordings and audio recordings. Here, too, the problem remains of getting
the best possible take.
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I guess you could ask people to quantize harder.
Or do another take until they get it right.
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You could choose these:

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We now have 279 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 25%
6. Composing ------- 60%

Maybe we can still reach the three hundred?
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... I evaluated many systems before I chose Reaper. It had the best jog methodology I had come across and that is useful when you like to edit with your ears and not just a waveform.
How true!
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For composing songs from midi and audio recordings.
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Says I've already voted in this poll but won't let me click on anything around the poll (on my phone) so how do I find out what I voted? I presume the last one, composing songs using midi and audio one.
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The text of your vote is in italics.
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For everything that bothers me, there are many things to be thankful for. At least that's my experience.
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I am new to reaper and getting use and learning, but no new to DAWs, used Cubase SX3 mainly for years, although i tinkered a bit with few of the players back in the day.

I intend to use it(still getting used and preparing templates) to record, edit and mix bands and ocasional instrument recording (i.e. somebody wants to record drums only or a voice) in my humble homestudio, and also for myself, which implies the last option of the poll.
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On the last day of the year the picture looks like this - with
286 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 26%
6. Composing ------- 59%

There are still small changes in the percentages.
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I am new to reaper and getting use and learning, but no new to DAWs, used Cubase SX3 mainly for years, although i tinkered a bit with few of the players back in the day.
Ok, then generally you know how to use DAWs. 15 years ago, Cubase SX3 was already
a full-fledged DAW with all sorts of features.

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I intend to use it(still getting used and preparing templates) to record, edit and mix bands and ocasional instrument recording (i.e. somebody wants to record drums only or a voice) in my humble homestudio, and also for myself, which implies the last option of the poll.
Thanks Adn!
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Now we can slowly end this thread - there probably won't be
much more than 287 votes:

1. Video editing ------ 0%
2. Postproduction ---- 5%
3. Audio+Radio ------- 2%
4. Sounds+Samples -- 7%
5. Band recording --- 26%
6. Composing ------- 59%

-----------------------------------------------------------

What does this poll mean?

Well, yes, this question works over to the topic "Features":
Which ones do you need for what use? And which of these are
how well developed in Reaper?

With video, postpro, audio and samples you need item-based
features. That would be item markers, region features,
spectral edits and render features.

With band-recording and even more so with composing, higher-
level features such as quantization, groove features and
modularization become important. Regions and references, in
Reaper called "pooling", are crucial for modularization.
From my point of view, these features are underrepresented
in Reaper - and I thought that was the case because most
Reaper users are not in the "band recording" or "composing"
categories.

But that's not true: Almost a third record bands or music
groups - and almost two thirds deal with "composing".
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