I think Reaper is more akin to a lighter Pro Tools than a fully featured software daw. I prefer Sonar over Cubase for making electronic music since it these days come with a very very good suite of plug-ins that blows most bundled daw-software away. Now i love my imac and macbook to pieces, but i still also use pc's. So if you're just starting out and want to record for fun and mess around for a bit to get into the basics Reaper is the to go, but if you want something more evolved, complete and "professional" it just depends on wheather you've got a Mac or not. Logic is the one that does the job for me, and actually makes it enjoyable!įirst the obvious, If you got a pc then Logic Pro isn't an option, if you got a mac Sonar isn't an option and Reaper costs a tenth (no-commerical license) of the others. We tried to record two tracks in sonar and got drop outs! Summed it all up for me! I was using my MBP and Logic and recording 8 tracks for two days solid there, not a glitch.
To give you a case in point, I was tracking last weekend in a studio which the guy had just brought a new PC and Sonar 7. Please don't think I am knocking Sonar, it is a great application, but Logic to me is something I can rely on to get the job done, rather than pressing control + S every two minutes! With pressing deadlines that is the most important thing!
I do actually like reaper, it's midi is lacking but in terms of audio it is pretty cool and also in my experience more robust than Sonar Things along the lines of "hey jack ass what do you know about recording.what is this SMPTE stuff, some plugin, that is why you can't get it to work"!!! That was the mild stuff! The other gripe I have is that I find the user forums apauling, I was called all manner of things because I dared to ask about the items above. No proper rewind/fast forward functionality No ability to move the cursor by anything other than a bar (i.e need to move by frames.you can't unless you do it in the video window and then click back to the arrange window, at which point 9 times out of ten you loose the spot) No ability to lock a clip to SMPTE time (there rendering it useless for film work) Sonar specific (at the point in time I switched) No need to spend a day configuring a PC to work with a soundcard only to get drop outsĬonfidence, the are both great programs, but Sonar has crashed so many times on my that it feels scary to use it, you never really know if you are going to make it to the end of the track (I should mention this is on a specialist built PC) The main reason I use Logic over the others :. I have to say that I don't have the latest version of Sonar 8, so some of these comments may have been rectified.
I have used both Sonar and Reaper (as I am forced to us a PC in some circumstances).
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