dukati started an interesting thread on the forum yesterday, What do you hate about REAPER?
Surprisingly, compared to other DAW user forums, there are only a few users with real complaints in this thread.
I’m struggling to come up with more than minor complaints. I could list several things about Logic, Cubase, Sonar, and Pro Tools off the top of my head, but not so with REAPER. The worst thing about REAPER for me is how messy it can be when recording multiple takes, especially with multiple tracks.
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12 responses to “What do you hate about REAPER?”
I am still waiting for that talent plugin to come down in price. Or that plugin to tell me why my acoustic guitars sound honky. Other than that, I really haven’t found much. I think a really good tutorial series would be helpful.
There is a phenomenal video series on groove3 by Kenny Giola.
Copy/Paste feature can be a bit annoying, especially when I’m in my laptop & I agree with the multi-take sloppiness. Other than that, it gets the job done.
Ok, first off I LOVE Reaper. I should say its the only daw I’ve used though.
That being said, I haven’t felt the need to try anything else, and from what I understand, I would lose more than gain.
So, you pose a challenge, and for whatever reason, I’ll take it. Here’s my one complaint. You can’t drop mp4’s into it. All my music is in iTunes, so when I want to reference a professional mix, I can’t just drop it in there. I have to grab the cd, re rip it yada yada yada.
No biggie. Guess I was in a challenge mood.
I LOVE the workflow in Reaper. But I wouldn’t mind seeing a little more attention to making the destructive editing features more inclusive. Pro Tools has the perfect balance of Real-Time and destructive editing options, but it isn’t as fast as Reaper, or as user-friendly (in my opinion). Give me that in Reaper, and I’ll never look back from any of the other toys on my computer
Love Reaper, always have but I hate the fact that on a stereo track there is not real stereo panning!
by default its more of a balance control with width adjustment. I think it accomplishes the same task, a negative width will swap channels 1 and 2.
try right-clicking the pan knob to try some other options like “dual pan”. 🙂
Cool, thx Jon happy new year
Yeah, doing multiple takes on multiple tracks can and does make my head spin on a regular basis. I understand the folks at Cockos wanting to have their own thing, but as of right now, for me, it’s so not working. I’m totally cool with keeping the ‘lanes’ thing in Reaper, seeing it developed into something with which I can agree, but as of right now, it is not my friend. Also, I too seldom get along with Reaper’s methods of cutting and pasting.
I was doing a mix in Reaper yesterday, and I literally threw a tantrum while I was drawing in automation. Sometimes it seems to have a mind of it’s own, though after I finished my post tantrum sulk, I settled down, learned how to do it right, and to work around the few things about it I don’t like. The remaining mysteries being; Why won’t it let me place two automation points right next to each other without moving one and replacing it with the other? How the frak do I select multiple automation points to drag about? I’ve sometimes gotten it to work, but it’s never been on my terms.
This however, is one of the reasons I freakin’ dig Reaper; http://i.imgur.com/L5FDW.png
I can record and mix on my 1.6GHZ notebook with 2GBs of RAM, rather than my 2.5GHZ quad core I built specifically to run Pro Tools, which I no longer own. I seriously I hope I don’t have to do any (freelance) beat detecting in the future, ’cause that’s the only thing that would get me to use Pro Tools again.
How about a built in audio editor? Non destructive editing is cool but some wav’s need to be destroyed.
So far, everything on the Groove3 Reaper 4 Explained video has made me excited about switching to a new DAW. It has been a while since I ever got excited by a piece of software. The initial set up can be a little annoying since one has to go through some customization to get it to behave the way one wants to. If there can be downloadable themes for the software, maybe having downloadable preferences/key/mouse mappings would be helpful for the first time user too.
I also found the resources used during playback is a little high. I have about 15-20 tracks and moving the track height back and forth would create glitches in my playback. But that could be due to my inexperience and some of the settings I have in the software.
This isn’t something that I hate, but I miss having the ‘F’ key for “fit track heights in window” in Sonar. Reaper has a similar feature that would show all tracks, but it doesn’t maximize the track heights. That’s something I’ve really been depended on.
i dislike not having destructive wav editing like I have in Samplitude