[RWP] Reaper vs. ProTools?

[Chris Belle]

Reaper has a lot of potential but sort of enjoys a similar status in the 
recording world that linux does to windows and mac, the low priced don't 
need much to play, can do a lot of everyone has to roll their own kind 
of thing.

Pt has gotten better, but most blind folks who are doing the best work I 
think are still using sonar even though most of us are using an older 
version because there's been the most development with that,
you have caketalking plus jsonar, plus nvda and window-eyes both have 
rudimentary access.

And it's a full blown daw, pt and sonar both come with lots of soft 
synths and loop libraries, and mastering tools, reaper has the basics 
but you have to buy everything third party and then make access for it, 
most of the devs who are doing stuff for us are doing it for sonar for 
the obvious reasons.

I do a lot with midi, and
our buddy Roy says he's groovy with midi and reaper, but most of us 
using reaper are doing audio editing and item based automation by 
splitting clips and such,
I find sonar's midi implementation second to none, bu then it started 
off as a midi sequencer anyway.
  Midi has just been iimproved in pt, don't know how much, i don't own a 
mac as of yet,
but I have been doing professional work for years with sonar and that is 
the easiest path if you are beginning.

I wish I could melt reaper and sonar together because I really like the 
way reaper cross fades audio, some audio operations with sonar are very 
tedious, but doing things like making tempo maps and such are really 
nice with sonar, and the time and pitch stretching algorithms in sonar, 
radius is vastly superior to reaper or protools
elastique.
But it takes more time to process.

so it's all down to how you like to work.

There are a couple of people here who have really customized reaper with 
the extra extensions who are getting the most out of it, but again, it's 
like the linux thing, it depends on how much time you have, and how 
deeply you want to dive, reaccess is dead,
it abandon ware, and any new reaper developoment will have to come from 
elsewhere.

Sometimes a person has to make their own way, for instance, a buddy of 
mine paid a programmer to make cubass work for him.

I paid the dev of nvda to make sonar work a bit better for me because I 
don't like using jaws all the time, and so on and so forth.

Protools may not enjoy quite the monopoly it once did in the world, but 
I hardly think reaper is going to replace it any time soon, it's still 
the defacto standard in many places.

Reaper is like the poor kid on the block but with a huge potential that 
hasn't been realized yet, atleast in our corner, but it has a great 
programming api and someone with the skill and time could make it sing 
and dance for us.

but there again is the rub, jaws scripting language sucks compared to a 
real programming language, but because it's been so well develooped
we enjoy much more functionallity with jaws that with the better 
technologies which haven't been developed yet from say nvda ppython or 
window-eyes whicfh can use any programming language.

so there you have it, pick your poison, or pick several of them and milk 
them for all they're worth.



On 5/12/2014 1:26 PM, Jes wrote:
> Okay, guys, I'm probably going to start a big controversy right about 
> now, and you'll forgive me, but I have to know this.
> Besides the fact that Reaper on the Mac is not accessible, and 
> proTools is, What are the advantages of Reaper over  ProTools? I am 
> really getting interested in going into the music business for real, 
> not just as a hobby, and I'm just wondering the pros and cons of each 
> environment. Is Reaper going to kill ProTools one day and become the 
> industry leader?
>
> Also, I have a question about the reaaccess.com website. If Ivan isn't 
> around anymore, how is the sight still running? and how much longer 
> might it be around? Is this list run off of freelists or something 
> like that?
>
>
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