Reaper Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• What is making my right-click menu look like this? Windows 11 22H2

  Looks like something to do with reaper.fm... Even mentions Reaper in the top item of the last section (5 from the bottom). - Source: Reddit / 24 days ago

• (Unusual request) What synth type does this use?

  If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, you can download a DAW like Reaper frhttps://www.discodsp.com/obxd/om reaper.fm and then download each of the vst synth plugins and install one of of the free ones, and go thorough some of the presets yourself. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• What paid DAW is most like audacity?

  Cakewalk is fine but if you want to try something else, you can download Reaper. It will do any of the things listed above. Go to reaper.fm. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• Recording advice for digital piano & vocals -> MacBook?

  One thing I would suggest, well you are new to recording, is ditch garage band. Try downloading and learning a program like Reaper http://reaper.fm it’s free to evaluate for 60 days and then it’s only $60 to purchase a full working licence. It will be worth it for you to learn on a program like reaper, as it is much more capable and has a lot of advanced recording and mixing functions that a program like... - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• Games for disgustingly long flights (without wifi)

  Download Reaper from reaper.fm and get some free sample loops from MusicRadar https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/free-music-samples-royalty-free-loops-hits-and-multis-to-download. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago

• Best (preferably free) production software for DnB

  Reaper.fm might be worth a look. It's fully featured music production studio. Might be a bit much for a beginner, but it's worth considering. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Complete newbie to making music, what should I know / buy / download

  I'm on PC, and I'm currently trying out the free version of FL Studio. I'll follow your advice and try reaper.fm after (you mentioned that the free version works as winrar's one, which could be the best for a beginner like me). - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Complete newbie to making music, what should I know / buy / download

  Ok, now with that out of the way you can start making some music TODAY as in RIGHT now. Just download Reaper from reaper from reaper.fm or if you wan to test out Logix if on Mac or FL Studio or Ableton you can do that too. Ableton has a 90 day trial for example which is plenty of time to get your feet wet. Do keep in mind that each DAW is a bit different in it's workflow and UI but in the end they all do the same... - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Help with a DAW for my wife

  Last month I started using Reaper and it's awesome. There's a huge amount of Youtube tutorials (see reaper.fm), and a solid community. Also, you can try it for 2 months free before buying. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• East West Opus Voices Cutting Out

  You can also try downloading Reaper from reaper.fm and test Opus out in that to see if it's the DAW or not. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• How to get events from Reaper DAW?

  The key question is - How do I get events from a program on a PC? Especially from Reaper? About which track is selected, which button is pressed, etc. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• advice for learning reaper

  Go to reaper.fm and click on Videos. Everything is organized there, watch all the "getting started" videos. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• if I ever wanted to make beats, where do I start?

  You don't need a keyboard or even have to spend any money, you can literally download REAPER right now for free and start making beats. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Getting started with a DAW.

  I use Reaper and learned most of what I know from Kenny Gioia, who works for Cockos, the company behind the DAW. He has tutorials on the absolute basics as well as the weirdest shit that only 1 in 100 people would find useful, but you can't blame him for not being thorough. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• Reaper running suuuuuper slow

  At this point I'd suggest you take this one to the reaper forums at reaper.fm for the experts to check out - my gut instinct is that some settings are in a weird state, but it's not anything immediately obvious. Good luck. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

• Looking for a midi software to send midi to synth to accompany GarageBand.

  Http://reaper.fm/ is pretty light-weight, but you could skip the middleman and use Reaper only without needing GB. - Source: Reddit / 6 months ago

• Waveform vs LMMS vs CakeWalk

  Go wither either Reaper, reaper.fm or save up and buy FL Studio. FL has no upgrade costs past it's initial investment price and it's target market is HipHop and EDM primarily. This is who they cater too. - Source: Reddit / 6 months ago

• I need someone to explain gain staging to me like I’m a small monkey

  Your DAW is probably already running at at least 32-bit internally. I know for a fact that both Reaper and Cubase use 64-bit mixing engines. Even if you work with 16-bit files on disk, the internal pipeline is always 64-bit floating point. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• Want to make music but dont have the resources

  Reaper is a good cheap DAW with a free demo that never expires and lots of good tutorial stuff online. You will need to track down your own virtual instrument plugins (VSTs) though as Reaper doesn't come with any like the more accessible DAWs do. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• STOP DOING OPEN SOURCE

  I use Reaper, rather than Audacity or it's forks, because it fits my use-case (making music) better: http://reaper.fm/. - Source: Reddit / 7 months ago

• Here's a song I made for my anniversary retelling the first time we fell for each other. I hope you enjoy it and please let me know how I can improve.

  Essentially, dynamic compression makes the loud parts of the voice softer and the soft parts louder, so the voice sits better in the mix. I do not recommend Audacity for serious music production, but rather a proper DAW such as Reaper (http://reaper.fm/). - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago