4/1/2023 0 Comments Reaper daw![]() Compared to Pro Tools, it is far less resource intensive but will all of the tools, flexibility, and power you need to get editing done. The DAW is configurable, skinnable, expandable. The ripple edit function makes it incredibly simple to edit interviews, dialogues, and host wrap-arounds quickly and efficiently. This takes a lot of power off of the processor, which means I can use all the plugins I need to without burning out all my available processing. “It can run on a potato”Īnother super easily accessible feature of Reaper is the ability to render audio quickly on the fly. ![]() This is incredibly useful, if like me, you tend to build your designs into a space. Reaper allows me to configure groups of people, settings and grouped builds under a master folder that acts as a bus for all of its subfolders. Both Pro Tools and Audition have grouping functions, but nothing like this. Probably my favorite feature is the folders. That said, Reaper also incorporates a lot of new functionality that I will definitely be implementing. The first day was slow but eye-opening: I had before me a suite that made designing feel like designing again – an artistic process, rather than a technical one.ĭespite the learning curve, I was still able to flow and work within Reaper, and it required almost none of the special tweaking I have to do to get Audition or Pro Tools running smoothly.Īll total, it probably took me about 45 minutes to get my computer setup into a reasonably workable configuration and start designing. I had one week to edit a half-hour audio piece, Vultures over Low Doves. ![]() If I didn’t like it, I could always go back to a prior DAW or find something better. So, I decided to challenge myself by giving Reaper a try. Audition set me back $330 and has terrible MIDI implementation, which I use for some of my SFX process.īy comparison, Reaper has a 60 day free trial period, costs $60 to register, and has full MIDI sequencing. Pro Tools is costly and at the time, required you to have proprietary equipment and an iLok to run. At the time I worked in Pro Tools and Audition. So the DAW also had to work well cross-platform. In order to work together remotely, we wanted to use a DAW where it was easy to share project files.Įli works on Mac. I was sound designing and Eli McIlveen of Alba Salix was doing the dialogue editing. The first year was just a group of us that got together and recorded in Lowell Massachusetts. We enlist folks internationally to collaborate on horror audio dramas that are recorded and post-produced in the month of October over the course of 28 days. I first started working in Reaper for an annual horror podcast series I produce called 11th Hour Audio Productions. My Introduction to the Reaper Recording & Editing Software But at home, when I design and edit, I work almost exclusively in Reaper. In college and in the studio world, I work in Pro Tools. Then Cool Edit Pro all the way up until it was Audition CS6. Voyetra’s Digital Orchestrator Pro was my first. I’ve worked in a number of DAWs over the years. The only limitations are your computer’s processing ability and the availability of a good quiet space to record in. Home Recording – Todayīy comparison, the DAWs and plugins of today feel virtually unlimited. There was no way that they would pass for the real thing. And the MIDI instrumentation sounded like… well, MIDI instruments. But we still had to record vocals in my bathroom to get good verb. In my twenties I graduated up to a four-track recorder and some midi software on my 486 PC. ![]() ![]() And the results were often lacking in flavor and texture, as I had no effects aside from the compressor pedal from my bass, and the spring reverb from my brother’s guitar amp. I would record a track to one tape and then basically duplicate the tape while recording another track over it. My first recording system was a boom box with a dual-cassette player and a microphone input. Over the past several years as an audio professional, I have worked with a lot of multitrack recording systems and DAWs. So is Reaper a good fit for you and your own podcast? Read on and find out. It’s an alternative option to other programs such as Audacity and Adobe Audition, and ‘podcast maker’ apps such as Alitu. Reaper is a piece of audio production software that you can use to record and edit your podcast. And as it happens, our go-to production guy Matthew Boudreau is a recent convert to the DAW (that means Digital Audio Workstation, by the way) so we thought we’d ask him to give us the scoop. We’ve been keen to get a Reaper review on the site for some time now.
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