Reaper

[pipelineaudio]

Originally Posted by Arji

I'm pretty sure if they wanted to fix the issue, they could. I believe they are happy with what they have and really don't give a crap about trying to make their drivers work better.

There was some speculation in a few forums that the drivers for all of these cards are actually built by a competitor with a vested interest in seeing them fail. I'm not sure that it just wasn't plain incompetence, because the company who they claim is building the drivers' DICE-II soundcard also works like crap.

There may be some legaleze involved, I just don't know

[MetalDave]

I am going to have to check this out soon. I never liked audacity much but I am always willing to try something new. So far nothing has done it for me but, CEP 2.0 I even tried the upgraded adobe audition 3.0 and thought it wasn't all that and a bag of chips.

[Arji]

RE: Audacity

Looks like Steinburg now has three versions of Wavelab. I used to have a bootleg copy of Wavelab 5 and it was impressive. I dumped it after I checked it out. I'm very interested in Wavelabe Studio, the mid price version for us home recording fools.

[cloroxmartini]

Just downloaded Reaper for the same reasons: Cubase LE not correclty talking to my Fast Track Ultra 8R (had a Presonus Studio and returned it). Reaper sems to be working very well so far while just playing around with a vocal mic on each of the XLR inputs on the 8R. Now to record a song tomorrow and see how it does. Plus the Reaper interface looks way cool. If it all works out well, I'll spring the $50 for the non-commercial license.

[Arji]

Is the fast track a firewire device?

[Charlie_M]

I have to agree with the OP. Reaper is great. I started with PTLE and went over to Reaper later. If I had it to do over again I'd just go straight to Reaper. Nothing against digi per se... they have a good product and all that, but having tried both I prefer Reaper. Only thing I would say is that if you're going to do much midi using Reaper, you may want some other utility for your midi stuff. For my modest midi needs Reason 3.0 is enough, and it rewires into Reaper just fine. Native midi capability is present but it's not really the strong suit. With Reaper it's the audio, intuitive routing, ability to easily create & recall fx chains (which can be more or less arbitrarily complex as far as I could tell), nice workflow, etc... that make it great.

Charlie

[cloroxmartini]

Originally Posted by Arji

Is the fast track a firewire device?

USB 2.0. The firewire version is a couple hundred bucks more.

[Arji]

That's why it works (USB). The issue with Cubase(and other DAWs) is the firewire drivers for any firewire device. I believe the drivers could be better written but it appears only TI or Sis firewire chipsets are good enough to be reliable. I was able to prove that out with two different machines, one with TI and one with Ricoh. The Ricoh chipset doesn't work and the TI chipset works great. I have a Presonus Firestudio Tube and it works fine with the TI system.

[357mag]

I also use Reaper. My first DAW was Sonar 7 Studio Edition. And I still have it sitting on my floor. I only used Sonar for a short time and I discovered Reaper. Reaper has so much to offer and simply works. If you load these other DAW's you see lots and lots of windows and buttons and toolbars and visually it's kind of a mess. Reaper is more simple and to the point. Plus the Reaper GUI is the smartest looking of any DAW on the market. And the install program is only like about 13 MB and installs fast, not to mention loads in a fraction of a second.

Reaper is a goldmine.

[DT Chris]

Originally Posted by MetalDave

I am going to have to check this out soon. I never liked audacity much but I am always willing to try something new. So far nothing has done it for me but, CEP 2.0 I even tried the upgraded adobe audition 3.0 and thought it wasn't all that and a bag of chips.

Blasphemer!


Looks like Reaper could work through Linux, through WINE.