This thread has been created for a tongue in cheek way to really get to the bottom of the debate, to work out once and for all which software is king!
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Many of you know I use Cockos Reaper and advertise it like a fanatic.
The only reason I use Reaper is because I was dissatisfied with the other apps out there.
Reaper has three main points I enjoy:
1> It is free until you have the meagre sum of $60 to buy a licence. (That's $100's cheaper than most other applications).
2> The sequencer is really easy to use, allowing samples to be dragged 'n' dropped directly from anywhere on the computer and timestretched just by Alt-click-dragging the edges of the samples.
3> It can actually be customised properly, unlike all of the competition. This means my toolbars, menus, graphics theme and layout are exactly the way I want them to be, not forced upon me!
If a new program came out that was better than Reaper, I'd ditch it pronto and make the switch. Until that day, I suppose Reaper will do
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Reasons for hating the shit competition:
Propellerhead Reason is too limited, and using Record is a workflow killer.
FL Studio is a mess of windows and ackwardness. Another workflow killer.
I refuse to pay over the odds for a Mac with Logic (and hate Mac OS anyway).
I refuse to be locked into certain hardware configurations with Pro Tools.
Cubendoh! has a horrible workflow yet again.
Ableton live is too clunky, and again I dislike the interface. (I own a legal version of Live Lite)
Renoise looks like a math/physics exam. (I flunked math). More killed workflow.
erm... and everything else is just shit lol.
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Add your feeble opinions below!
I havn't used most enough to know for sure but ableton definitely does...and better!
I think it's a case of it being the first thing I tried, the first thing I learnt to use semi-efficiently, and so the first thing I bought
