Using Reaper Is Painful

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Why is Reaper so ugly?
Is Studio One better than Reaper better than FLStudio better than Ableton? No. Is Reaper better than Studio One better than FLStudio better than Ableton and also the best DAW in general? Also no. They all suck. I'm in DAW hell, and so are you, and so is everyone. Let's put this responsibility on Tentacrul so he fixes it like he fixes everything he touches.

[DJGeorgeDisco]

This is why it is called Reaper. You die a little more every time you use it.

[AmiliaCaraMia]

1 thing I've noticed about Reaper is that the cpu consumption seems to be less than Cubase, Logic, and Ableton. I can get away with using more multi out Kontakt instruments and configure sound design layers in real time before I render them out. That headroom is super helpful for working quickly. It's definitely not a DAW for everyone, and looks pretty plain. But it works, never crashes, and is flexible. So I can't complain 👌

[SandNigah]

I hated reaper at the beginning…

I never thought I could ever use it to a high enough potential, but the more I worked in it, the more I found that it was molding itself to fit my workflow.
But honestly, I wouldn’t want it to be any other way.

My session of reaper to someone else’s might literally feel like learning a whole new daw, and that would be my only actual faux pas critique of the software. (It seems like it is less standardized, thus hindering collaboration in a way)

[trushreitsam]

Actually setting Tantacrul on this might be an awesome Idea...
I have my perfect setup for me, but he might be really able to change the starting-experience, which is a bit terrible for Reaper (though it taught me how mold it to exactly what I need to be fast, efficient and have fun while doing so)

[neilslade]

Been using Reaper for years. Hardly ever read any instructions. Works perfectly, and have done hundreds of projects. Tried many others. Reaper is intuitive, simple, and does everything. Looks just fine.

[nwndr]

I have a love hate relationship with reaper. On one hand its features are killer and it's great at what it does well. On the other hand, you need to spend a huge amount of time customizing every little thing to get it to work how you need it, and I often feel that I spend more time tinkering with workflow hacks than actually writing any music when I use it

[paulmix]

I've heard this before, "once I start Reaper then what?". Empty screen can look a bit intimidating but tracks are just a double click away. But I agree, IMO menus are most confusing part of the whole program. Reaper is very tweakable but at the expense of clarity.

[neilingle]

I've been trialing Reaper, and it's a fracking eyesore! The music accompanying the naff menus and themes in your video just cracks me up! As a GUI developer, those menus are criminal. And my middle-aged eyes are falling apart peering into my screen to read anything...

...but somehow I'm still drawn to the DAW. My previous DAW was Mixcraft, and version 10 looks lovely! But I had so much bugginess and performance issues with Mixcraft 9 that I don't trust them anymore. So, Reaper it is (for now).

[shannonmccarthy]

So basically it’s the GIMP of the DAW industry (take me to photoshop and I’d die trying to figure any of it out but gimp gets me) also hate delete not deleting or ctrl+z not undoing, etc bc what else am I meant to do???

[zachskatesstreet]

those painful preferences settings are the least of a trade off for how beast of an efficient & low intensive on your PC program that reaper is... ive come to accept the menus, and say - it is what it is, and i now kind of dont bat an eyelid about it, and just appreciate that i have a software that is the fastest opening daw i can ask for to get my creativity out there.

[DWrex-kmje]

As somebody that grew up using Windows 95, I rather enjoy the Reaper aesthetics. It's simple, straightforward and not convoluted beneath "looking gorgeous."

[ninterofficial]

glad that i moved to reaper after 10 years of FL

[garyvenuti]

Agee 100%. Would love if there was a simple version with a lot, lot less options, more automatic options etc. I recently refused to upgrade to 7. Seems pointless to spent all my time learning how to spent money (even trivial amounts) to get hard to learn options that make no difference to my ease of use.

[amdenis]

I started with Sound Designer / Sound Tools in the 80’s (became Pro Tools, which I used for about 30 years)and have used Logic, Live and others for many years as well. I now use Reaper (for PCM) and Pyramix (for DSD) for the resultant quality, capabilities and efficiency gains. My Reaper install, in terms of themes, customizations and extensions are aesthetically/visually, functionally and otherwise beyond anything that I know or have worked with. It required time and learning to get there, but so do all other DAW’s of any significance.

[doriyaki]

first daw, audacity to cubase, then FL studio and studio one, and now Reaper is my main daw

[someoneontheweb]

This was funny af haha. Just started using Reaper and i was like.. this is better then every daw in terms of workflow for mixing ect but then you try to do anything in the midi editor i'm there like uhhh

[arkarmoethouk]

You can set up your FL Studio playlist like traditional DAW tracks.

[NinetyRalph]

why can't you delete tracks with the delete button on Studio One frrrr 😭😭

[stillavenue]

Deleting track in Studio One is like that so you don’t accidentally delete tracks.

[danieltrabalho]

I recommend taking a look at the ReaperTips channel, he is a programmer and programmed several things for Reaper, for me the daw is much more beautiful, apart from the action keys which are much more logical, I don't know of a daw that was better than what he did