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I love Reaper, it’s my daily driver at home and the 2 studios I work at… you can use it free indefinitely, you just have a pause screen and wait 4 seconds before clicking ‘still evaluating’.

Paid £60 for 2 version numbers and I can use it on as many machines as I like!

Super customisable and someone’s even made an Ableton interface for it, although I’m yet to try that…

Check for Kenny Goia and ReaperTips Blog for help getting started.

Was originally a Pro Tools user, then went to Logic but Reaper defo my fav now, no bloat, just does the job.

I still use Ableton for live but may well try the ‘Ableton’ script once I finish the Liotia album.

7fqx 6mo ago

I did see the Ableton theme they have on offer. I sort of agreed with a comment on Reddit about that tho. You could get used to this theme and then be stuck if the dev stops updating. Not sure if there is a live performance mode for reaper,

I do miss ableton's operator tool. And being able to put an lfo on an lfo on an lfo etc etc (not worked out how to do that on reaper, and not sure if it's possible, I know you can put an lfo on stuff, but not seen a way to put an lfo on an lfo lolol).

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inpc 6mo ago

Yeah the LFO side of stuff exists but it's not as smooth as the Max 4 Life stuff tbh (unless anyone's made an updated one for Reaper). Good point about the Live shell, hadn't considered that. Good info. I've been using Ableton for live stuff for years (also with VideoSync) and long term I really want to be off Apple products but at the same time, I'm so used to it, and it's served me very well... The only issue I've ever had at a gig is when I stupidly thought I'd put a bitcoin node on the machine I used for gigs! Didn't realise I was online and syncing the whole blockchain in the time between soundcheck and showtime. 10 seconds into the first song, major crash and I had to work on it for 10 minutes in front of 300 people lol, not fun!

In fact just about to press go on an order for the boss for his next tour, moving away from an Allen and Heath ICE multitrack to Ableton, big step for him but it means we can sync video with the band (and stop loads of headaches I currently have with the ICE... long story).

7fqx 6mo ago

Lolol