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> (But, I use Reaper, so who am I to talk) Reaper is a fantastic DAW, at a great price point IMO. I've had a side hustle for a while now editing podcasts and d

by dvtrn 5y ago

> (But, I use Reaper, so who am I to talk) Reaper is a fantastic DAW, at a great price point IMO. I've had a side hustle for a while now editing podcasts and doing voice overs for a couple of corporate clients (my former job being one of them) and Reaper is the chefs knife in my kitchen of sound

delgaudm 5y ago
I couldn't agree more, Reaper is awesome and totally worth the learning curve. I'm a voice actor by trade and I consider Reaper my "IDE of choice".
- darkteflon 5y ago
  I saw your comment and thought, “could it be…”, clicked on your profile and sure enough, it’s Booth Junkie. Love your work. You have great energy and really helped me to find a sound that works - thank you.
  - delgaudm 5y ago
    Aw, man. Thanks for that -- I really appreciate the kind words and I'm so glad I've been able to help you, and I wish you continued success!
squarefoot 5y ago
I'm also a Reaper user. The Windows version is so snappy that it runs perfectly under WINE and, as a Linux user, I didn't feel the lack of a native version before it existed. And I still use it; unfortunately something happened on my 6+ years old installed machine and I'm not able anymore to run Linux VST hosts under native software; all attempt to use linvst now fail, etc, so I'll be soon building a new machine dedicated only to music. Anyway, one feature I'd like to be addressed in DAWs is pattern based drum programming, just like we did with old drum machines in the 80s, but on steroids. I wouldn't use it for electronic music however; I'd like to quickly create patterns with an UI that for example let me show them like boxes on a flowchart (double clicking for editing), then drag, move, connect, copy them, apply variations, different time signatures, etc. The mouse interface would allow extremely quick creation and managing of a rhythm track, but unfortunately all we got is piano/drum tracks that are good for fine editing but IMO aren't the best tool when composing. They surely allow selecting areas then copying, moving etc, but in most DAWs the interface is so much crammed with objects that can be dragged and dropped that mistakes are a regular thing. We lack something in between that helps organizing drum tracks areas as patterns, then treat them as such.
- mackrevinack 5y ago
  are you familiar with yabridge? im not sure if it will fix your vst problem but it's the only vst bridge i could get reason's rack plugin working in, and ive tried pretty much every vst bridge out there
  - squarefoot 5y ago
    I never heard about it, thanks. I moved to wine-staging and tried building it but it failed probably due to my screwed up install. I'll keep a note to try it on the next reinstall however.

by dvtrn 5y ago

delgaudm 5y ago

I couldn't agree more, Reaper is awesome and totally worth the learning curve. I'm a voice actor by trade and I consider Reaper my "IDE of choice".

darkteflon 5y ago
I saw your comment and thought, “could it be…”, clicked on your profile and sure enough, it’s Booth Junkie. Love your work. You have great energy and really helped me to find a sound that works - thank you.
- delgaudm 5y ago
  Aw, man. Thanks for that -- I really appreciate the kind words and I'm so glad I've been able to help you, and I wish you continued success!

squarefoot 5y ago

I'm also a Reaper user. The Windows version is so snappy that it runs perfectly under WINE and, as a Linux user, I didn't feel the lack of a native version before it existed. And I still use it; unfortunately something happened on my 6+ years old installed machine and I'm not able anymore to run Linux VST hosts under native software; all attempt to use linvst now fail, etc, so I'll be soon building a new machine dedicated only to music. Anyway, one feature I'd like to be addressed in DAWs is pattern based drum programming, just like we did with old drum machines in the 80s, but on steroids. I wouldn't use it for electronic music however; I'd like to quickly create patterns with an UI that for example let me show them like boxes on a flowchart (double clicking for editing), then drag, move, connect, copy them, apply variations, different time signatures, etc. The mouse interface would allow extremely quick creation and managing of a rhythm track, but unfortunately all we got is piano/drum tracks that are good for fine editing but IMO aren't the best tool when composing. They surely allow selecting areas then copying, moving etc, but in most DAWs the interface is so much crammed with objects that can be dragged and dropped that mistakes are a regular thing. We lack something in between that helps organizing drum tracks areas as patterns, then treat them as such.

mackrevinack 5y ago
are you familiar with yabridge? im not sure if it will fix your vst problem but it's the only vst bridge i could get reason's rack plugin working in, and ive tried pretty much every vst bridge out there
- squarefoot 5y ago
  I never heard about it, thanks. I moved to wine-staging and tried building it but it failed probably due to my screwed up install. I'll keep a note to try it on the next reinstall however.