It can add a lot of functionality not built-in, but sometimes to replicate certain functionality available in other DAWs, you have to use and be reliant on 3rd party scripts. Scripting can be both a positive and a negative. For a paid product, I feel that this should be more of a priority. Developers don't seem to be focusing on UX as much as other DAW developers do. While plugins are numerous and useful, their interfaces are very utilitarian and extremely uninspiring to look at Things I personally don't like about Reaper: Seems as if the few developers seem to be doing this out of passion and are less financially driven Many different themes available, although I'd probably stick with default Studio One can kind of do this as well with "Play Overlaps". Multiple audio files simultaneously playing back on one track, useful for not having to create multiple tracks when doing non-crossfaded edits for a vocal comp. Seems very stable, and runs even on very low powered laptops
Whether you pay the $60 or $225 for the commercial version, that money goes a long way in terms of updates Scripting support to add your own functionality Very powerful and detailed routing system Waveforms visible for samples/loops in the media explorer.
Region render matrix for fast exporting of large amounts of sound effects at a time. Spectral editing, sort of like Izotope RX or Spectralayers. * Feel free to correct me on any of the following:
#Reaper for mac trial#
I'm now looking to make either Reaper or Studio One my new DAW.Īfter playing around with Reaper in trial mode, playing around with Studio One 5 Prime, and watching a ton of youtube videos on both, I made an admittedly very biased list of pros and cons for both in relation to my use cases (songwriting/composing/sound design for games).
#Reaper for mac pro#
I used Cubase for many years, then switched to Pro Tools, then back to Cubase. Sometimes I lean towards going with Reaper, sometimes towards Studio One. It's funny to find a thread with this name, as I've been looking into Reaper vs Studio One for the past couple of weeks.