@@ChaceBonanno I honestly expect it to be 2k+ That's how much it worths if we use other DAW pricing as comparison (Or maybe most of the other daws are just utterly overpriced)
@@dirg3music that’s where all the extra file size comes from. All those beautiful UIs on the DAW and its plugins. However, the customization of reaper gives it the potential to outperform or at least match the features and plugins of other DAWs, if your willing to put the time into setting stuff up. For example, you can use ReaEQ (the EQ with endless bands in the video) and have a side chain compressor go into it to make a dynamic EQ, tie their automation lanes together so if you mess with the band on the EQ, the frequency changes in the compressor as well in real time, then save the entire plugin chain as a preset so you never have to set it up again on other projects. Now you have something that can do what fabfilter can do, for free, saved as a preset to be used at any time. And it’s not just the plugins either. Everything about reaper, the UI or thousands of actions, can be changed, put together, and made into its own custom thing. And since it’s open source code, there is a never ending supply of user created plugins and actions that can be added to the DAW. Reaper is intimidating the first couple of days. Mostly because of the way it looks. But if you sit there and think about what action your trying to do that you used to do on another DAW, chances are that reaper can do it and, with some user customization, can probably do it better.
@@ranajoyshil definitely talking about UI. It's functionality is certainly robust, nothing about it you can't do in other DAWs though, it's ultimate appeal is it's barrier to entry.
Great overview of the program. Reaper is my DAW. You missed out on mentioning Reaper's secret weapon. Kenny Gioia {Reaper Mania} who offers endless first class instructional tutorials that are priceless and that truly speeds up the learning process. Nice work.
A really important part that I think you really missed is the Reaper community with third party scripts and actions through reapack which opens up the daw in an insane way, just look for Sai'ke's effects or Geraint Luff, Sexan, MPL, and more! you'll be blown away, for me that community of people sharing incredible high quality tools is a winning point. Kind of like Ableton's Max devices but native and free. It's awesome 😎🤙
Great! I was waiting for this one! Reaper is the daw for me, it helped me to start making music without having to worry about money from the start. One thing about the prize is that you can technically have free trial for life. You are not obligated to buy it and can still use all the features of the daw! But I recommend to people to buy a license when you can to support reaper if you are gonna use it, it is worth it!
Yes and when you buy it you own it. Unlike many other companies, who do produce a good product, make you endlessly pay to keep using it. I made the purchase and have it on two computers of mine and the product works great.
I have recorded, edited, mixed and mastered full albums that saw a commercial release, sometimes all in just one project using only reaper. I paid the 60$ license and would easily pay the 225 one even though I don't generate that level of earnings with my productions. I just love it and I'm so biased towards it.
After a few months of using REAPER, I can feel how devoted the developer of REAPER is. It is just like someone had built software to be used by himself. I find all controls to be intuitive and easy to remember but I got to admit I watch lots of youtube videos since this is my first DAW (maybe 2nd if you consider AUDACITY a DAW.)
Audacity is a mix between a multi-track recorder and DAW, only lacking the compose with midi feature most DAWs have. So, Audacity is a good DAW if you already have the audio recorded, kind of like Audition.
I had never been involved in music so reaper was one of the first DAWs I ever used. Didn’t know he created Winamp. I loved that player back in the day.
Yeeah you really did my "whish", thank you so much! As a longtime Reaper nerd, there were few important things missing for me like the unbelievable community (SO many tutorials channels like Reaper Mania or whatelse), customisation (user actions) & themes, and maybe as well the fact that more and more big names (Spectresoundstudios, White Sea Studio, etc) switching and swearing to Reaper, what makes me so happy after everything several ProTools nerds were saying about Reaper without knowing anything 😄 Thanks for your video! 💪
It's my go to DAW. For recording audio and it's Midi functions are getting better and better. The ability to stretch Audio and quantize audio are unmatched it just works awesome.
Thanks ! Very nice vid to catch up on the history for new users. I’m learning reaper as a protools power user for over 15 years. Everyday I’m blown away with reaper and while I’m still using pro tools for work I find myself opening reaper first as much as I can.
As someone who uses Reaper, I have to agree that it's certainly one of the most easy to use DAWs. I tried out the trial versions for FL and Ableton and those DAWs are a bit too confusing for me, which is funny because my keyboard came with a free copy of Ableton Lite. Reaper is just less confusing to me because everything is just... there.
As long as you’re doing new kids on the block, please consider a history of Bitwig. I’ve recently discovered (after years of Cubase and Studio One) and am blown away by its uniqueness. I’d love to learn more about its original development from ableton-land. Thanks - and great series!
Bitwig doesn't have the long track record yet to deserved this type of content. also Bitwig fanboy was a big turnoff, they often came in hordes with the mission of spamming their "Bitwig Nazi" on every youtube DAW channels. which is very annoying. at this point, i rather use any Daw as long as it's not BItwig. i just don't want those vulgar bunch to win
@@jensenraylight8011 I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about re “Bitwig Nazis” LOL. Annoying fanboys are ubiquitous on the web and can be found everywhere hawking virtually anything. Irrelevant. If anything my biggest issue is that it’s such a relatively small community of expert users it’s hard to find the quality/quantity level of tut vids found elsewhere. “How to sidechain” in FL or Live will probably yield hundreds of results. Not in Bitwig as there’s just not as many people using it (which is not a judgement at all, just a fact). You may have a point re it’s historical length. It IS pretty new and will not amount to historical research back to the 90s. I just find it a uniquely creative DAW (and I’ve been on many) especially the built in modulators and it’s own internal modular synth environment. The entire DAW feels as much an instrument as a trad DAW and thus amazingly suited for electronic music production.
08:51 Actually this is the REAPER 5 logo, not the REAPER 4 (see in your title bar how desaturated was the V4 logo) 😉 Maybe already reported but JSFX can be run outisde reaper with ReaJS by cockos ^^ (and ysfx project someone on the reaper community) For v5, the game changer feature was adding Lua for scripting which opens the softwares to thousands of reascripts other the year. Anyway, well done for the video, software history is always facinating :P
Best DAW on linux, bar none. I was tech support for a company that shipped reaper as standard on our workstations, it's actually stupidly powerful, but you have to really spend some time on tutorials and such. FL rewired into Reaper is pretty incredible. Today i use it just for audio tracking, trying to keep computers out of the creative process as much as possible.
@thychairman5782 just chiming in: Rewire allows you to create your track in FL using all of FL's tools and fun, then track that entire song into Reaper for a proper mastering environment. So you aren't really using FL inside of R as a daily thing. Tbh, FL has probably matured past the need of rewiring.
It's sorta bitter sweet. I'm a creative, I like to create but with reaper you really need to take some time to get it setup the way you want. However the fact that you can change everything to your liking ultimately building the most efficient work flow for you makes it simply the best!
Reaper is what I started on. Absolutely amazing DAW. Everything I learned there translated over to Logic and Pro Tools very quickly. I still recommend it to people everyday. Its sad the amount of people who just downplay this DAW...
Good stuff, was curious about the exact history of Reaper. For people considering downloading here's some extremely useful features to point out: - user scripts and even a user-made package manager called reapack drastically upgrades workflow and performance. Think Max4Live but free and open-source. -can freely remap shortcuts and build macros via the action list (Ctrl + ?) - Reaper can do video editing alongside audio editing. Can even do visualizers - the Rearoute ASIO driver let's you send audio from other DAWs, trackers, synths, and audio programs into reaper. I use it with Renoise and VCV rack. Great for recording live jams. - reaper's routing matrix is extremely helpful for mixing, audio sends, etc. - Reaper has a portable installation that can be stored and booted from a flash drive, custom themes, scripts, and all. - never have to specify "midi" "audio" or "fx" track. All tracks can hold any media item and any effect.
@@kid_missive True, I was making the comparison because of how JSFX are incorporated directly into Reaper and allow users to make custom plugins like Max4Live devices with Ableton.
Reaper is so efficient, lightweight and effective, highly appreciated. It's top tier. I can't remember it ever crashing, except maybe for external plugins. And it runs on Linux as well as raspberry pi. And there is no subscription paywall kind of shit going on, customers are treated well and fairly.
I got my first professional sequencer in 1992: Cubase 2.x That was the standard at the time, and it was capable (MIDI-only, of course), but not very user-friendly. In the early 00s, I acquired some, um, "unlicenced" software that let me make a different kind of music (glitchy, droney, looping noisescapes). This is where I got into using the relatively new VST (and DX! Remember those?) plugins? A few years later, I was making real, adult kinds of money and committed to paying for the software I used. I tried every then-available DAW I could find in KVR Audio that had a free trial. Many powerful apps, with amazing features...and workflow that made little sense to me (the idea that a track could only have MIDI or audio in it seemed a particularly unnecessary limitation). Tracktion had the workflow most like what I wanted. Then Mackie bought it, and it went a bit off the rails. Then I found REAPER, some time in 07 or so. (I looked it up: I registered my COCKOS forum account in mid-08 to make a feature request. A request Justin and the boys incorporated a few releases later!) and it made total sense to the way I wanted to work in a DAW. A little later, I bought a v4 license at the non-commercial level, and enjoyed almost weekly application updates (COCKOS's philosophy of shipping the code when it was ready, rather than when a Marketing department determined there was a holiday or other event to tie it to remains one of their best company features.) That $60 purchase would see me through 6 years(?) until version 6 came out. Name one other commercial DAW that gave you free updates for 6 years! (Ok, yes, FL Studio. My point still stands! :) ) I bought a v6 license when it was released, because it's the right thing to do, and it's an incredible investment. Updates happen closer to monthly than weekly, but that's a mark of the product's maturity. 10 years ago, 2 acquaintances of mine, both Mac users (I'm a Windows user, though I had an Intel iMac from 06-09, and only then because it would dual boot) and LOGIC die-hards laughed at me when I told them I prefer REAPER. I get it: they were paying 100s of $ every few years to upgrade (and they HAD to upgrade, because Apple would leave older users in the dust every few generations!), and REAPER cost less than a decent dinner for 2, came in an 11MB(!) installer, but didn't include some world-class, commercial, bought-by-Apple-to-keep-for-themselves synths and FX. "How good could REAPER be?" They're still using LOGIC, and good for them, they like it, know it, it works for them. And I'm still using REAPER, AND VSTs that were released in 2002(!) and every VST I've purchased since the mid-00s (if I want to, if the registration server still works :( ) Ok, that was a whole essay, wasn't it? But, you get it: COCKOS made a brilliant product, at a fair price, with an amazing development philosophy. And it inspires people to stay with them and stay engaged with their products.
@@trevor_mounts_music as I said above, it's great that Logic works for you - you've found the right tool. Logic is also heavily subsidized by Apple from your hardware purchases; I doubt you're still running your 2014 Mac hardware for Logic, right? To continue to update Logic for new features/etc, you'll need to buy a new Mac every few years. (Acknowledged: I'm not running the hardware I had in 2014, either! But I could, and still use the current version of REAPER.)
@@trevor_mounts_musiche meant that eventually newer logic versions will not be supported by your OS anymore and they will force you to upgrade to a new mac some time in the future. Logic is still one of the most bang for your bucks daw tho, it's just that the apple tax comes from somewhere else (keeping you in the ecosystem and what I described above)
You really missed probably one of the biggest thing about Reaper, and that's ReaScripts. Reaper has the most powerful and intensive scripting capabilities which is why there are 1000s of scripts created for Reaper to emulate workflows and features of other DAWs and also features that don't exist so you can have some truly unique workflow and tools in Reaper.
I currently use Reaper on one of my systems on Win 7. I have used other DAWS since 1996 and found Reaper is really intuitive to use and the price is really inviting when you don't have a lot of spare cash to splash. Thanks to the Reaper guys for a Fantastic DAW.
yeah I dont know if you are aware but it's just 2 guys. 2 guys putting out much more updates and maintenance features than any other 50+ people daw developers
@@adrianpaul3749 I have since, installed another (purchased) Reaper into my win10 machine. Precisely because it seems to be the best out there. I even have no problem making random donations to the team in view of what you just pointed out. A superb effort, superb daw.
Great video. I tried Reaper but as a first time newbie who's not as tech savvie as many others, I found the interface and all the options a bit troubling. I wanted to get straight to recording and editing. However, it may still be a DAW I come to later. Love the ethos as well as its system efficiency. Maybe I'll revisit sooner rather than later!
I used Cubase for 10 years. The Steinberg license price push me to Reaper and... I knew it 5 years ago and fell in love with it. It is the most ridiculously useful, complete and flexible music tool in this world! Ps.: I'm fan of Winamp since 1997 and still using it today!
REAPER is one of those DAWs that has that feel of other DAWs like Avid Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Adobe Audition and FL Studio for that matter. The first version of it was like Garry's Mod 9 back in the days, technically a sandbox program that could let you get the job done right as long as you can master it. As time goes by, updates come out where more features are added within, as well with their popularity growing exponentially, people would come together and work on things for it, whether it be themes, plugins, whatever that may be, while still keeping at an affordable price for commercial use, or for free. I find it a bit odd as to why I have Pro Tools and REAPER installed on the same hard drive, and on the same computer of mine, since REAPER can do a lot of things that Pro Tools could do, and either way, I still recommend those that are starting out to use REAPER as the possibilities for REAPER is not only endless, but it's also lightweight and more optimized with plugins like Spitfire LABS, Kontakt, Ample Sound, Perfect Drums in comparison to Pro Tools where it'd go to a halt immediately, or with FL Studio constantly lagging because of how many effects there would be. All in all, it's cool to see how REAPER has gone far over the years, while REAPER doesn't limit you after the 60-day Evaluation Date, since it's best to go for the customer having the time in the world to use it for free, or to use it for a commercial/personal license instead of limiting the person to forcefully pay them to continue using the software, AND I'M LOOKING AT YOU, ADOBE!!! Viva la REAPER.
I use Reaper now after using Cubase. Both are great but Reaper just suits my thing more. Such a good bit of software. The parts of the interface, especially the plugins, can look a bit windows 5 and needs a tidy up but other than that it's great. Though I disagree that it's simple to learn, once you get your head around the configuration and how to develop your own set up then it feels more simple and easier but for beginners it will be tougher, but worth the effort.
REAPER is the only DAW I've worked in - so I don't know how other's compare. But when I watch mixing videos - with people working in others DAWs - they seem clunkier than REAPER. Setting up Sends and Buses in REAPER is super simple by comparison. I love the Actions menu - the custom 'skins' available. The resource videos available are insane (Kenny Gioia: I'm looking at you). Love REAPER
I'm still evaluating reaper for about a year. I agree with the flexibility 100% ,the only downside on that it needs some time invest to learn actions/how to set them on a toolbar or via a key shortcut and pretty much to know which actions work together well if you want to make a custom or cycle action(I'm not so experienced to make my own actions/cycle actions). All that I learned is from Reaperblog, Reapermania, Reapertips, wodzu beats(for template creation) and learning reaper channels...In general as of many in this lifetime I started music production back in 2017 with a cracked copy of a DAW, and I was feeling kinda bad .this was the main reason I gave a try to reaper because all that learning curve can hold you back but in the end you just export your configuration for safety back up, that doesn't mean you stop learning action list stuff etc. As much as I learned some things in reaper you just set it and leave it i.e: if you set up a grid note resolution toolbar icons in that example you just have to remember the way you set them up to adopt it for a different action...of course that isn't comparable to ableton live where you can change the grid with ctrl + 1,2 and 3(for triplets). But you can emulate that in reaper too. So from last year I went almost dawless when I bought roland's verselab mv-1. And I need a daw only for special edits or further mixing. For now because I'm jobless and I don't make any money from my music I can't buy a discounted license but this is my first investment I thinking seriously to make in the near future. And about the UI you mentioned yes it's not so appealing but in my opinion that is good first for the cpu and lastly it brings an old school vibe in general. I said a lot, my english isn't so good, But I wanted to share my overall experience with reaper. Have a nice one & take care😁
Reaper> every other DAW and its not even close, the versatility, the stability, the minimal HD space taken up, the ability to run on almost any system, the customisation of the skins/work flow, the cost. Pro Tools is currently the "industry standard" but I think in the next 10 years Ableton and Reaper will become the industry standards, because SOOO many people start on these programs, and they both can do plenty if not more than other DAWS.
Ableton and Logic Pro are top contenders for the next industry standard because the majority of music schools teach on those DAWs. Honestly though, it’s much more likely that Pro Tools simply remains the industry standard. To make the switch industry wide would be a shit show. Records in the industry can float around for years before getting published. Couldn’t expect anybody to bounce the stems for their entire unreleased catalog just for the sake of switching DAWs and having to commit any edits. Nor would they start recording/mixing songs going forward on a different DAW when their entire back catalog, and every artist that they collaborate with are on PT. Avid is making upgrades to their DAW just as much as the other manufacturers, if not more. If I’m not mistaken, they’ve pioneered features like elastic audio and playlists.
Never used a DAW or thought id be able to. Got Reaper and in 24 hours I'm blown away with some of the music I made. Love this thing, also using REAPER for metal is just cool haha
as someone who has used pro tools, cubase, logic and ableton extensively Reaper is amazing and I think it's the best and fastest for mixing & recording. I don't think any other Daw loads as fast as Reaper! nor shutdown. it's unreal! for production i would still give the edge to ableton... it's just simple. I wouldn't say reaper is easy to learn though. because it's default settings are not good, you have to make it your own... there is a learning curve...
Even funnier, a recent DAWBench podcast cued me in that the developer I was trying this with before Justin was actually one of the founders of Amazon!!! And he never said anything about his past either :) Super creative geniuses are crazy man!@@afunnylookingsquash
My first contact with daw was ableton live lite. I switched to Reaper because of the price, Camellia had also to do something eoth my decision, but damn, only 15mb and there is so much you can do with the software!
As a Reaper user you missed SO many cool features! But that's OK! - works on Linux. Natively as in you don't need WINE. Stable on Linux as well. Actually it works on a Raspberry PI too; I've tried it on one and it's great! - Can be run offline and you keep your registration and all features. Very useful if you're somewhere without internet. - Can be set up for voiceover work such as book narration. In fact along with Adobe Audition I'd say that Reaper has become very popular amongst narrators. Best resources: Reaper's own site, Booth Junkie [voice over side], Hop Pole Studios [music production with Reaper.]
You should do a history of Mixcraft. Since I'm using Mixcraft as my main DAW & Mixcraft 10 is in development, You should also do a history of Bitwig Studio as well. That would be very cool, So consider doing both of them separately.
Being a long time Reason and Pro-Tools user, I was a bit confused in the beginning of my Reaper journey. Then I found Kenny Gioia and his tutorials. I would recommend anyone considering Reaper checking them out. :)
"REAPER was originally an acronym. . . "? (0:59) As far as I know, it is still an acronym. The REAPER website always spells the name in all caps. Despite common usage, "Reaper" is no more appropriate than claiming that the first nation to put a man on the moon was the Usa or that Nasa is the name of its space agency.
Cubase MIDI comparison has a loooooooooooooooooong way to go yet! However the best version of Cubase for MIDI was on the Atari ST, and to a slightly lesser extent Cubase VST 5.1. It's gone downhill since then.
We Await Silent Trysteo’s Empire. If you know, you know. Ah, Justin, if you see this, I hope you’re doing well. I still remember that night at The Redwood Room witn Paul oakenfold. What a strange time that was back then.
I know you're mainly into music production software. But I would love to see these detailed videos for programs Blender, adobe, or other visual art related software. Not many channels with these type of videos are so detailed while easy to listen to as yours.
I am waiting for Justin Frankel to reach the status of someone like Lord GabeN, although he's quite humble, his approach and vision is very commendable
You missed some small things like one of the reason that he eventually created Reaper is that he was using pro tools, and especially logic, and he couldn't do the things he wanted and understand how things are happening under the hood.
I can't believe you didn't mention one of the most important reasons people start using Reaper: Kenny Gioia's REAPER tutorials. I would never have purchased Reaper without his excellent videos. He's the best tutor I've ever had.
I watched the other history of daws and really loved them, believe it or not I first used Reaper in 2008, I was a long time cubase and FL user but I'd recorded something at too slow a tempo and needed something with varispeed...that thing was Reaper, and even at that time it did it flawlessly! I never made a conscious decision to switch but a year later nearly all my new projects were in Reaper...I feel like you can do pretty much anything audio related that you can imagine in this thing. When I first started using it it looked terrible, now I think it looks pretty decent plus of course you can customise it to look like anything if you wish. I already had a lot of plugins that I was using but it's something to factor in if you don't, the stock ones can be great really but I think visually they're unispiring whereas other daws like Logic come loaded with very high standard plugins so in that sense Logic works out much cheaper.
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The 60 dollar license CAN be used for commercial use. The $225 is only if you make more than a certain amount of money with your music.
I’d honestly expect a DAW like Reaper to be free
@@ChaceBonanno I honestly expect it to be 2k+
That's how much it worths if we use other DAW pricing as comparison
(Or maybe most of the other daws are just utterly overpriced)
@@ChaceBonanno yeah it definitely lacks the level of polish that pretty much every other daw has, especially when it comes to stock fx.
@@dirg3music that’s where all the extra file size comes from. All those beautiful UIs on the DAW and its plugins. However, the customization of reaper gives it the potential to outperform or at least match the features and plugins of other DAWs, if your willing to put the time into setting stuff up. For example, you can use ReaEQ (the EQ with endless bands in the video) and have a side chain compressor go into it to make a dynamic EQ, tie their automation lanes together so if you mess with the band on the EQ, the frequency changes in the compressor as well in real time, then save the entire plugin chain as a preset so you never have to set it up again on other projects. Now you have something that can do what fabfilter can do, for free, saved as a preset to be used at any time. And it’s not just the plugins either. Everything about reaper, the UI or thousands of actions, can be changed, put together, and made into its own custom thing. And since it’s open source code, there is a never ending supply of user created plugins and actions that can be added to the DAW. Reaper is intimidating the first couple of days. Mostly because of the way it looks. But if you sit there and think about what action your trying to do that you used to do on another DAW, chances are that reaper can do it and, with some user customization, can probably do it better.
@@ranajoyshil definitely talking about UI. It's functionality is certainly robust, nothing about it you can't do in other DAWs though, it's ultimate appeal is it's barrier to entry.
Great overview of the program. Reaper is my DAW. You missed out on mentioning Reaper's secret weapon. Kenny Gioia {Reaper Mania} who offers endless first class instructional tutorials that are priceless and that truly speeds up the learning process. Nice work.
Yeah, Kenny is DA MAN, all hail King Kenny ha ha
Yes, Kenny rules! He talks weird but that's ok lol
A really important part that I think you really missed is the Reaper community with third party scripts and actions through reapack which opens up the daw in an insane way, just look for Sai'ke's effects or Geraint Luff, Sexan, MPL, and more! you'll be blown away, for me that community of people sharing incredible high quality tools is a winning point. Kind of like Ableton's Max devices but native and free. It's awesome 😎🤙
Helgoboss playtime plugin is a must-buy IMO. Adds the clip launching functionality of Ableton/bitwig to an already powerful DAW.
Great! I was waiting for this one! Reaper is the daw for me, it helped me to start making music without having to worry about money from the start.
One thing about the prize is that you can technically have free trial for life. You are not obligated to buy it and can still use all the features of the daw! But I recommend to people to buy a license when you can to support reaper if you are gonna use it, it is worth it!
Yes and when you buy it you own it. Unlike many other companies, who do produce a good product, make you endlessly pay to keep using it.
I made the purchase and have it on two computers of mine and the product works great.
is it like winrar?
I guess it is.
I have recorded, edited, mixed and mastered full albums that saw a commercial release, sometimes all in just one project using only reaper. I paid the 60$ license and would easily pay the 225 one even though I don't generate that level of earnings with my productions. I just love it and I'm so biased towards it.
I've recorded on a pro level since 1995, and after years w/Logic, I switched to Reaper in 2018 - it is AWESOME.
Reaper is too unbelievable in every aspect. it's out of this world and i am sooo sooo lucky that i even found it, great video btw.
Absolutely love these documentaries.
hi ;)
@@DM3-Music hello!
After a few months of using REAPER, I can feel how devoted the developer of REAPER is. It is just like someone had built software to be used by himself. I find all controls to be intuitive and easy to remember but I got to admit I watch lots of youtube videos since this is my first DAW (maybe 2nd if you consider AUDACITY a DAW.)
Audacity is a mix between a multi-track recorder and DAW, only lacking the compose with midi feature most DAWs have. So, Audacity is a good DAW if you already have the audio recorded, kind of like Audition.
I had never been involved in music so reaper was one of the first DAWs I ever used. Didn’t know he created Winamp. I loved that player back in the day.
Same
Same here.
Awesome video, who would've thought that the same guy created winamp of all things lol also non scalable windows are the worst thing ever!!
Yeeah you really did my "whish", thank you so much! As a longtime Reaper nerd, there were few important things missing for me like the unbelievable community (SO many tutorials channels like Reaper Mania or whatelse), customisation (user actions) & themes, and maybe as well the fact that more and more big names (Spectresoundstudios, White Sea Studio, etc) switching and swearing to Reaper, what makes me so happy after everything several ProTools nerds were saying about Reaper without knowing anything 😄
Thanks for your video! 💪
Reaper has the most stock plugins out of all DAWs, when I used it, the amount of plugins fried my brain
It's my go to DAW. For recording audio and it's Midi functions are getting better and better. The ability to stretch Audio and quantize audio are unmatched it just works awesome.
I was waiting for this all this time.
Thank you!!!!
I would love to see one of these about tracktion aka Waveform
Thanks ! Very nice vid to catch up on the history for new users. I’m learning reaper as a protools power user for over 15 years. Everyday I’m blown away with reaper and while I’m still using pro tools for work I find myself opening reaper first as much as I can.
As someone who uses Reaper, I have to agree that it's certainly one of the most easy to use DAWs. I tried out the trial versions for FL and Ableton and those DAWs are a bit too confusing for me, which is funny because my keyboard came with a free copy of Ableton Lite. Reaper is just less confusing to me because everything is just... there.
As long as you’re doing new kids on the block, please consider a history of Bitwig. I’ve recently discovered (after years of Cubase and Studio One) and am blown away by its uniqueness. I’d love to learn more about its original development from ableton-land.
Thanks - and great series!
Bitwig doesn't have the long track record yet to deserved this type of content.
also Bitwig fanboy was a big turnoff, they often came in hordes with the mission of spamming their "Bitwig Nazi" on every youtube DAW channels.
which is very annoying.
at this point, i rather use any Daw as long as it's not BItwig.
i just don't want those vulgar bunch to win
@@jensenraylight8011 I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about re “Bitwig Nazis” LOL. Annoying fanboys are ubiquitous on the web and can be found everywhere hawking virtually anything. Irrelevant.
If anything my biggest issue is that it’s such a relatively small community of expert users it’s hard to find the quality/quantity level of tut vids found elsewhere. “How to sidechain” in FL or Live will probably yield hundreds of results. Not in Bitwig as there’s just not as many people using it (which is not a judgement at all, just a fact).
You may have a point re it’s historical length. It IS pretty new and will not amount to historical research back to the 90s. I just find it a uniquely creative DAW (and I’ve been on many) especially the built in modulators and it’s own internal modular synth environment. The entire DAW feels as much an instrument as a trad DAW and thus amazingly suited for electronic music production.
It reminds me a lot of an old program called Jeskola Buzz
08:51 Actually this is the REAPER 5 logo, not the REAPER 4 (see in your title bar how desaturated was the V4 logo) 😉
Maybe already reported but JSFX can be run outisde reaper with ReaJS by cockos ^^ (and ysfx project someone on the reaper community)
For v5, the game changer feature was adding Lua for scripting which opens the softwares to thousands of reascripts other the year.
Anyway, well done for the video, software history is always facinating :P
Best DAW on linux, bar none. I was tech support for a company that shipped reaper as standard on our workstations, it's actually stupidly powerful, but you have to really spend some time on tutorials and such. FL rewired into Reaper is pretty incredible. Today i use it just for audio tracking, trying to keep computers out of the creative process as much as possible.
@ThyChairman You can run the whole FL Studio DAW as a plug-in inside Reaper.
@ThyChairman Upon installation, FL Studio adds a VSTi to your plugins folder that enables you running it as a plugin in other DAW.
Reaper's audio routing plus the audio routing you get with Pipewire is second to none. That alone keeps me using it.
@thychairman5782 just chiming in: Rewire allows you to create your track in FL using all of FL's tools and fun, then track that entire song into Reaper for a proper mastering environment. So you aren't really using FL inside of R as a daily thing. Tbh, FL has probably matured past the need of rewiring.
Love this DAW, it's so smooth and very rarely crashes, still runs perfect on an old laptop from 2012!
This video randomly popped on my feed. You just earned yourself a sub! Great content!
The Reaper inventor, team & community are the best by a mile
I missed some credits to Kenny Gioia as part of Reaper's always growing community (maybe in a future video, I guess)
It's sorta bitter sweet. I'm a creative, I like to create but with reaper you really need to take some time to get it setup the way you want. However the fact that you can change everything to your liking ultimately building the most efficient work flow for you makes it simply the best!
Reaper is what I started on. Absolutely amazing DAW. Everything I learned there translated over to Logic and Pro Tools very quickly. I still recommend it to people everyday. Its sad the amount of people who just downplay this DAW...
Really wonderful video, thanks for making it!
Best DAW ever!
I started use DAWs 20 years ago.
Good stuff, was curious about the exact history of Reaper.
For people considering downloading here's some extremely useful features to point out:
- user scripts and even a user-made package manager called reapack drastically upgrades workflow and performance. Think Max4Live but free and open-source.
-can freely remap shortcuts and build macros via the action list (Ctrl + ?)
- Reaper can do video editing alongside audio editing. Can even do visualizers
- the Rearoute ASIO driver let's you send audio from other DAWs, trackers, synths, and audio programs into reaper. I use it with Renoise and VCV rack. Great for recording live jams.
- reaper's routing matrix is extremely helpful for mixing, audio sends, etc.
- Reaper has a portable installation that can be stored and booted from a flash drive, custom themes, scripts, and all.
- never have to specify "midi" "audio" or "fx" track. All tracks can hold any media item and any effect.
free open source Max/MSP is called Puredata
@@kid_missive True, I was making the comparison because of how JSFX are incorporated directly into Reaper and allow users to make custom plugins like Max4Live devices with Ableton.
Dude awesome! My friend in high school got me into Reaper back in 2014. It's my favorite and I feel I'm quite proficient with it now :)
I really love this whole series. Thank you
Reaper is so efficient, lightweight and effective, highly appreciated. It's top tier.
I can't remember it ever crashing, except maybe for external plugins. And it runs on Linux as well as raspberry pi.
And there is no subscription paywall kind of shit going on, customers are treated well and fairly.
I got my first professional sequencer in 1992: Cubase 2.x That was the standard at the time, and it was capable (MIDI-only, of course), but not very user-friendly.
In the early 00s, I acquired some, um, "unlicenced" software that let me make a different kind of music (glitchy, droney, looping noisescapes). This is where I got into using the relatively new VST (and DX! Remember those?) plugins?
A few years later, I was making real, adult kinds of money and committed to paying for the software I used. I tried every then-available DAW I could find in KVR Audio that had a free trial. Many powerful apps, with amazing features...and workflow that made little sense to me (the idea that a track could only have MIDI or audio in it seemed a particularly unnecessary limitation). Tracktion had the workflow most like what I wanted. Then Mackie bought it, and it went a bit off the rails.
Then I found REAPER, some time in 07 or so. (I looked it up: I registered my COCKOS forum account in mid-08 to make a feature request. A request Justin and the boys incorporated a few releases later!) and it made total sense to the way I wanted to work in a DAW.
A little later, I bought a v4 license at the non-commercial level, and enjoyed almost weekly application updates (COCKOS's philosophy of shipping the code when it was ready, rather than when a Marketing department determined there was a holiday or other event to tie it to remains one of their best company features.) That $60 purchase would see me through 6 years(?) until version 6 came out. Name one other commercial DAW that gave you free updates for 6 years! (Ok, yes, FL Studio. My point still stands! :) )
I bought a v6 license when it was released, because it's the right thing to do, and it's an incredible investment. Updates happen closer to monthly than weekly, but that's a mark of the product's maturity.
10 years ago, 2 acquaintances of mine, both Mac users (I'm a Windows user, though I had an Intel iMac from 06-09, and only then because it would dual boot) and LOGIC die-hards laughed at me when I told them I prefer REAPER. I get it: they were paying 100s of $ every few years to upgrade (and they HAD to upgrade, because Apple would leave older users in the dust every few generations!), and REAPER cost less than a decent dinner for 2, came in an 11MB(!) installer, but didn't include some world-class, commercial, bought-by-Apple-to-keep-for-themselves synths and FX.
"How good could REAPER be?"
They're still using LOGIC, and good for them, they like it, know it, it works for them.
And I'm still using REAPER, AND VSTs that were released in 2002(!) and every VST I've purchased since the mid-00s (if I want to, if the registration server still works :( )
Ok, that was a whole essay, wasn't it? But, you get it: COCKOS made a brilliant product, at a fair price, with an amazing development philosophy. And it inspires people to stay with them and stay engaged with their products.
I paid for Logic Pro X one time in 2014 and that was that - updates are free🤷♂
@@trevor_mounts_music as I said above, it's great that Logic works for you - you've found the right tool. Logic is also heavily subsidized by Apple from your hardware purchases; I doubt you're still running your 2014 Mac hardware for Logic, right? To continue to update Logic for new features/etc, you'll need to buy a new Mac every few years. (Acknowledged: I'm not running the hardware I had in 2014, either! But I could, and still use the current version of REAPER.)
@@trevor_mounts_musiche meant that eventually newer logic versions will not be supported by your OS anymore and they will force you to upgrade to a new mac some time in the future. Logic is still one of the most bang for your bucks daw tho, it's just that the apple tax comes from somewhere else (keeping you in the ecosystem and what I described above)
it’s the seemingly endless personalization possibilities that got me to adopt Reaper
you can run JS plugins in other daws in the reaplug wrapper. but sometimes they don't compile properly 😔
Great video man but I think you should've mentioned the actions list as it is definitely the most powerful tool that sets reaper apart from its peers
Cubase and Studio One have actions as well AFAIK, maybe the plethora is not as vast as REAPER's, but it's no longer unique in this respect
@@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP ahhh thanks for letting me know :) that's good to hear
@@ranajoyshil they can be combined into macros as far i'm aware
cycle actions are an SWS extension tool and as such aren't part of REAPER
You really missed probably one of the biggest thing about Reaper, and that's ReaScripts. Reaper has the most powerful and intensive scripting capabilities which is why there are 1000s of scripts created for Reaper to emulate workflows and features of other DAWs and also features that don't exist so you can have some truly unique workflow and tools in Reaper.
I currently use Reaper on one of my systems on Win 7. I have used other DAWS since 1996 and found Reaper is really intuitive to use and the price is really inviting when you don't have a lot of spare cash to splash. Thanks to the Reaper guys for a Fantastic DAW.
yeah I dont know if you are aware but it's just 2 guys. 2 guys putting out much more updates and maintenance features than any other 50+ people daw developers
@@adrianpaul3749 I have since, installed another (purchased) Reaper into my win10 machine. Precisely because it seems to be the best out there. I even have no problem making random donations to the team in view of what you just pointed out. A superb effort, superb daw.
I love everything about Reaper including its appearance.
1:19 WAIT NULLSOFT???? THE GUYS THAT MADE WINAMP????
Please do Studio One next.
Great video. I tried Reaper but as a first time newbie who's not as tech savvie as many others, I found the interface and all the options a bit troubling. I wanted to get straight to recording and editing. However, it may still be a DAW I come to later. Love the ethos as well as its system efficiency. Maybe I'll revisit sooner rather than later!
I used Cubase for 10 years. The Steinberg license price push me to Reaper and... I knew it 5 years ago and fell in love with it. It is the most ridiculously useful, complete and flexible music tool in this world! Ps.: I'm fan of Winamp since 1997 and still using it today!
foobar for me with windsp and enhancer plugin ftw. new winamp isn't winamp
Good stuff.. I've just got into reaper, love the UI.
BTW: 'Porridge' not soup.... 😉😉
You should do mix-craft or studio one next
REAPER is one of those DAWs that has that feel of other DAWs like Avid Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Adobe Audition and FL Studio for that matter. The first version of it was like Garry's Mod 9 back in the days, technically a sandbox program that could let you get the job done right as long as you can master it. As time goes by, updates come out where more features are added within, as well with their popularity growing exponentially, people would come together and work on things for it, whether it be themes, plugins, whatever that may be, while still keeping at an affordable price for commercial use, or for free.
I find it a bit odd as to why I have Pro Tools and REAPER installed on the same hard drive, and on the same computer of mine, since REAPER can do a lot of things that Pro Tools could do, and either way, I still recommend those that are starting out to use REAPER as the possibilities for REAPER is not only endless, but it's also lightweight and more optimized with plugins like Spitfire LABS, Kontakt, Ample Sound, Perfect Drums in comparison to Pro Tools where it'd go to a halt immediately, or with FL Studio constantly lagging because of how many effects there would be.
All in all, it's cool to see how REAPER has gone far over the years, while REAPER doesn't limit you after the 60-day Evaluation Date, since it's best to go for the customer having the time in the world to use it for free, or to use it for a commercial/personal license instead of limiting the person to forcefully pay them to continue using the software, AND I'M LOOKING AT YOU, ADOBE!!!
Viva la REAPER.
Best DAW
yay new video
Man, this video is awesome
I use Reaper now after using Cubase. Both are great but Reaper just suits my thing more. Such a good bit of software. The parts of the interface, especially the plugins, can look a bit windows 5 and needs a tidy up but other than that it's great. Though I disagree that it's simple to learn, once you get your head around the configuration and how to develop your own set up then it feels more simple and easier but for beginners it will be tougher, but worth the effort.
Thank you so much for this videos. What do you think about an idea of "History of plugin companies", for example Waves, Fabfilter, Soundtoys etc. ?
REAPER is the only DAW I've worked in - so I don't know how other's compare. But when I watch mixing videos - with people working in others DAWs - they seem clunkier than REAPER. Setting up Sends and Buses in REAPER is super simple by comparison. I love the Actions menu - the custom 'skins' available. The resource videos available are insane (Kenny Gioia: I'm looking at you). Love REAPER
Thank you! Bro I love these vids, it be cool to see Universal Audio’s history!🙂
reaper is insane with flexibility and the stuff you can do with it plus its super cheap
but the ui...
I'm still evaluating reaper for about a year. I agree with the flexibility 100% ,the only downside on that it needs some time invest to learn actions/how to set them on a toolbar or via a key shortcut and pretty much to know which actions work together well if you want to make a custom or cycle action(I'm not so experienced to make my own actions/cycle actions). All that I learned is from Reaperblog, Reapermania, Reapertips, wodzu beats(for template creation) and learning reaper channels...In general as of many in this lifetime I started music production back in 2017 with a cracked copy of a DAW, and I was feeling kinda bad .this was the main reason I gave a try to reaper because all that learning curve can hold you back but in the end you just export your configuration for safety back up, that doesn't mean you stop learning action list stuff etc. As much as I learned some things in reaper you just set it and leave it i.e: if you set up a grid note resolution toolbar icons in that example you just have to remember the way you set them up to adopt it for a different action...of course that isn't comparable to ableton live where you can change the grid with ctrl + 1,2 and 3(for triplets). But you can emulate that in reaper too.
So from last year I went almost dawless when I bought roland's verselab mv-1. And I need a daw only for special edits or further mixing.
For now because I'm jobless and I don't make any money from my music I can't buy a discounted license but this is my first investment I thinking seriously to make in the near future.
And about the UI you mentioned yes it's not so appealing but in my opinion that is good first for the cpu and lastly it brings an old school vibe in general.
I said a lot, my english isn't so good, But I wanted to share my overall experience with reaper.
Have a nice one & take care😁
Great Video series
Well done - thanks!
Nicely done, dude! Respect!!
I like when everytime he said the word "absurd amount" on the app size and updates
Reaper> every other DAW and its not even close, the versatility, the stability, the minimal HD space taken up, the ability to run on almost any system, the customisation of the skins/work flow, the cost.
Pro Tools is currently the "industry standard" but I think in the next 10 years Ableton and Reaper will become the industry standards, because SOOO many people start on these programs, and they both can do plenty if not more than other DAWS.
Ableton and Logic Pro are top contenders for the next industry standard because the majority of music schools teach on those DAWs. Honestly though, it’s much more likely that Pro Tools simply remains the industry standard. To make the switch industry wide would be a shit show. Records in the industry can float around for years before getting published. Couldn’t expect anybody to bounce the stems for their entire unreleased catalog just for the sake of switching DAWs and having to commit any edits. Nor would they start recording/mixing songs going forward on a different DAW when their entire back catalog, and every artist that they collaborate with are on PT. Avid is making upgrades to their DAW just as much as the other manufacturers, if not more. If I’m not mistaken, they’ve pioneered features like elastic audio and playlists.
goat pulled thru again
very good ............. and it is a great DAW - efficient, customizable, stable,
Thanks for the video
Lol I absolutely did not expect Camellia to show up here. Now it’s strange to know that all those Nanahira songs are from Reaper haha
oh god this takes me back!
thanks to the all reaper team ... & thanks for this information
Yeah relatable, I think all of us chose REAPER for its name
Never used a DAW or thought id be able to. Got Reaper and in 24 hours I'm blown away with some of the music I made. Love this thing, also using REAPER for metal is just cool haha
as someone who has used pro tools, cubase, logic and ableton extensively Reaper is amazing and I think it's the best and fastest for mixing & recording. I don't think any other Daw loads as fast as Reaper! nor shutdown. it's unreal! for production i would still give the edge to ableton... it's just simple. I wouldn't say reaper is easy to learn though. because it's default settings are not good, you have to make it your own... there is a learning curve...
Can't wait if you decide to make one for Cakewalk... these Videos are great!
I haven't watched this yet...Excited to see if the two thirds of the original developement team who are usually forgotten are mentioned
Not sure, I researched it a while ago with not much information online about it.
It was early internet days before your every breath was tracked so its no failure on your part if not.@@afunnylookingsquash
Even funnier, a recent DAWBench podcast cued me in that the developer I was trying this with before Justin was actually one of the founders of Amazon!!! And he never said anything about his past either :) Super creative geniuses are crazy man!@@afunnylookingsquash
My first contact with daw was ableton live lite. I switched to Reaper because of the price, Camellia had also to do something eoth my decision, but damn, only 15mb and there is so much you can do with the software!
As a Reaper user you missed SO many cool features! But that's OK!
- works on Linux. Natively as in you don't need WINE. Stable on Linux as well. Actually it works on a Raspberry PI too; I've tried it on one and it's great!
- Can be run offline and you keep your registration and all features. Very useful if you're somewhere without internet.
- Can be set up for voiceover work such as book narration. In fact along with Adobe Audition I'd say that Reaper has become very popular amongst narrators.
Best resources: Reaper's own site, Booth Junkie [voice over side], Hop Pole Studios [music production with Reaper.]
Love your videos
I bought it😊
Justin was also the guy behind the Gnutella P2P file sharing network which became huge after Napster was shut down.
How do you resize plugins like shown at 9:42? I can't get that to work
You should do a history of Mixcraft. Since I'm using Mixcraft as my main DAW & Mixcraft 10 is in development, You should also do a history of Bitwig Studio as well. That would be very cool, So consider doing both of them separately.
Great video. I would like to highlight v5.20, where they added a MIDI notation editor!!!
Being a long time Reason and Pro-Tools user, I was a bit confused in the beginning of my Reaper journey. Then I found Kenny Gioia and his tutorials. I would recommend anyone considering Reaper checking them out. :)
Could you do a complete history of sonar
"REAPER was originally an acronym. . . "? (0:59) As far as I know, it is still an acronym. The REAPER website always spells the name in all caps. Despite common usage, "Reaper" is no more appropriate than claiming that the first nation to put a man on the moon was the Usa or that Nasa is the name of its space agency.
Wow.... I didn’t know he wrote Winamp. I wonder where reapers midi implementation is versus cubase
Cubase MIDI comparison has a loooooooooooooooooong way to go yet! However the best version of Cubase for MIDI was on the Atari ST, and to a slightly lesser extent Cubase VST 5.1. It's gone downhill since then.
We Await Silent Trysteo’s Empire.
If you know, you know. Ah, Justin, if you see this, I hope you’re doing well. I still remember that night at The Redwood Room witn Paul oakenfold. What a strange time that was back then.
Tried them all and stick to Reaper. Full love
omg, he is the same guy who made winamp. i used to love winamp
I know you're mainly into music production software. But I would love to see these detailed videos for programs Blender, adobe, or other visual art related software. Not many channels with these type of videos are so detailed while easy to listen to as yours.
I am waiting for Justin Frankel to reach the status of someone like Lord GabeN, although he's quite humble, his approach and vision is very commendable
You missed some small things like one of the reason that he eventually created Reaper is that he was using pro tools, and especially logic, and he couldn't do the things he wanted and understand how things are happening under the hood.
Reaper is the best DAW nowadays
I can't believe you didn't mention one of the most important reasons people start using Reaper: Kenny Gioia's REAPER tutorials. I would never have purchased Reaper without his excellent videos. He's the best tutor I've ever had.
any chance of doing Reason? please?
Very good video, interesting all the way through
I love you Reaper 💚💙♥
Long Live Reaperrrrrrrr
I watched the other history of daws and really loved them, believe it or not I first used Reaper in 2008, I was a long time cubase and FL user but I'd recorded something at too slow a tempo and needed something with varispeed...that thing was Reaper, and even at that time it did it flawlessly! I never made a conscious decision to switch but a year later nearly all my new projects were in Reaper...I feel like you can do pretty much anything audio related that you can imagine in this thing. When I first started using it it looked terrible, now I think it looks pretty decent plus of course you can customise it to look like anything if you wish. I already had a lot of plugins that I was using but it's something to factor in if you don't, the stock ones can be great really but I think visually they're unispiring whereas other daws like Logic come loaded with very high standard plugins so in that sense Logic works out much cheaper.
"I feel like you can do pretty much anything audio related that you can imagine in this thing." - Isn't that true for most top dog DAWs?
I understand it is a figure of speech, but you thank god a lot for things you know exactly who to thank for actually. :)
From Winamp to Reaper. I think the developer has a future lol.
Reaper is very underrated I used the software still