[RWP] I need all of your input, please. Abandoning Reaper vs. ProTools, should I stay or go?

[Chris Belle]

Mastering should be only on a 2 track stem anyway, so why do they even 
need a protools project for that?


On 7/12/2014 5:15 PM, Crystal Dennis wrote:
> I don't think you can - I was going to collab with a friend on an
> original song and he said he had to use Reaper to do anything with my
> .RPP files, so I believe you would have to either export all of your
> tracks and email them to the mastering engineer or save it as a
> Protools project.
>
> On 7/12/14, Jes <jessmith at samobile.net> wrote:
>> Great points guys! Kevin, like you, I love System Access and it works
>> great with Reaper and reaaccess. Now, let's talk about collaboration
>> between Reaper and ProTools. Reaper, as we all know, saves projects in
>> .rpp files. ProTools saves its projects in its own proprietary format.
>> I'm not sure how people who work in both daws can realisticly
>> collaborate together on a project, since Reaper doesn't seem to want to
>> be compatible with ProTools session files. I am in the process of
>> composing an album, and someone who uses ProTools 11 kindly offered to
>> master it. However when I use Reaper to record the tracks, save the
>> stems, then load a project just using the stem files which are in wav
>> format, sometimes the timing of the stems is horribly off! So how can
>> any possible collaboration take place? I don't want to have to tell the
>> mastering guy, okay man, the piano should come in at measure 8, that
>> guitar track doesn't come in until measure 27, oh great, the drums
>> don't start until measure this and that. Way too much time and
>> confusion for that nonsense! Am I missing something?
>>
>> Original message:
>>> I'm going to have to mess with system access a bit more, that's the
>>> screen reader I haven't done enough with yet.
>>
>>
>>> On 7/12/2014 3:51 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>>> Lots of great points!,...I am one of those guys who likes to spend the
>>>> time tweeking, and bolting things together...
>>>> So,...Reaper works fine for me,...then again, I am not as advanced as
>>>> many of you on this forum...
>>>> Another point for me is, I am totally hooked on system access, and I
>>>> find that reaper works very well with system access...
>>>> I like some of the points you made Cris,...I may look into getting a
>>>> windows machine custom built,...but, I am still going to use
>>>> reaper,...I just love this DAW...
>>
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