[RWP] Reaper vs. ProTools?

[Jes]

Thanks for the replies. I am interested in what You, the Oreo Monster, 
have done as far as accessibility on Reaper for the Mac. What is your website?
I tried going to the one Scott gave me, www.reacc.es, but got a 404. 
Maybe I typed it wrong.

Jes

Original message:
> As someone who runs reaper on the mac with voice over and is looking to 
> sell his protools license since he hasn’t used it or installed it since 
> doing a clean install of mavericks some months back, I wouldn’t say 
> reaper on the mac is not accessible. That being said kind of like 
> ReaAccess on windows, you do have to get a few things in order to make 
> it work accessibly. Pro Tools comes out of the box working with voice 
> over ready to go. At the end of the Day Reaper and Pro Tools are both 
> professional level DAW
> s and some would argue that in some ways reaper runs circles around pro 
> tools, in fact version 9 10 and 11  of pro tools slowly added features 
> reaper had almost since conception. But Reaper will not OverThrow Pro 
> Tools as king of the mountain in the pro world anytime soon. Why? 
> Reaper is a DAW done by a bunch of debs who relies on mailing list and 
> message boards/forums t  to handle support in a customer helps customer 
> and most requested/voted on features get added in later versions. If 
> you are running a major recording studio you want some amount of 
> support for the product you just bought, You are gonna want to know if 
> something goes wrong, you call your support contact and they help you 
> resolve it or ship you out a replace meant etc. If you want to go pro 
> and work in the industry, get a mac and start learning pro tools. This 
> of course is if you plan to work in a commercial facility. Though if 
> you plan to run your own studio, Pro Tools does have name brand 
> recondition and being able to advertise that you use Pro Tools may add 
> to your seeming more legit to a customer. SO at the end of the day Pro 
> Tools an d Reaper can do all the same things for the most part. Pick a 
> tool, learn it well, and get to work.
> On May 12, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Jes <jessmith at samobile.net> 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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