[RWP] Reaper vs. ProTools?

[Chris Belle]

Nobody has ever cared what daw I use here, and I do everything from 
hiphop to country to audio books.

Joe publoic just cares if you can do a good job, and the days of working 
in a big commercial facility are pretty much done.

But you are right, pt still has brand weight.

On 5/12/2014 5:49 PM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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?
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>> 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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