";s:4:"text";s:3973:" That's not a knock on reaper … It will never null. Ableton, Bitwig, Reason (and others) all provide smoother animations or skeuomorphic feedback.
I started with Cakewalk and stuck with it through its transition to Sonar (back when it was very expensive) before switching. It's almost magic. A 'casual' test is a bad as no test at all, because it creates the illusion of objectivity where no objectivity is possible. Con. Just take the plugins off. Reaper punches way above its price range in terms of sheer brevity.Without prior experience with DAW, you can install Reaper, set up ASIO drivers, connect to your amp and mikes, get the hang of recording/re-recording tracks, and render an mp3 in just a few hours. If you are more a loop person, there are probably better programs than either, if you are doing high end midi, where you are editing midi files all day and need a high level of control, Cubase might be better. Reaper's cursor is extremely intuitive. You can then select what parts of which take you need. That’s not a question, but I understand. Total: 1,728 (members: 321, guests: 1,186, robots: 221) Mainly Universal Audio plug in, some waves, echoboy and Kazrog compressors. Some of them are gimmicky and/or not of use to people who actually write their own music (e.g. A comp and soft limiting on master buss... This test was made to be shared between a small circle of friends.. but maybe you find it interesting :-) The track was made messing with some audio files on Ableton Live (so the productions sucks for this reason :-P), then exported and mixed I would be really surprised if you found any limitations with Cubase LE. You can only get the discount if your salary does not exceed 20,000 USD.Although it may seem otherwise, Reaper is shareware. Everything you need to see is there or reachable.