Reaper vs Studio One and why I chose Reaper

Reaper is the best.

Welcome to the club.

I like almost everything about Reaper. It's fast, light on resources, scriptable, can be ran portably, super customizable, etc etc. Tried using other DAW's before and always go back to Reaper. Great video

I used almost every daw, starting from cakewalk sonar, pro tools, studio one ,cubase,fl studio and finally find peace with cockos reaper...the best ever!

Cubase and studio one are just amazing daw so complete I can tell as a cubase user myself but as soon you progress you find you don't need a lot of those stock plugins, sound and instruments that came with your daw that's why reaper is a really minimalistic daw for those who been already decades in the industry and have a lot of third party licenses. Love reaper!

Thank you for sharing this. After about five years of using Reaper, I've been tempted recently to return to Studio One, but what you've shown us here has helped me avoid that mistake. I'm sticking with Reaper. It has extraordinary power and flexibility.

I think it should be noted that Reaper has a "higher learning curve". Yes, once you have been using Reaper for some time it definitely is the most powerful and flexible DAW out there but for many people they just want to make music without having to learn even more stuff - they simply do not have the time for that. I think that and Reaper's GUI is what puts a lot of people off from using it. I switch constantly between Studio One and Reaper - Studio One when I want to just get on with making music and Reaper when I want to continue exploring the learning curve.

Pretty much used every daw under the sun; Reaper, Pro tools, FL, Ableton, S1, Cubase, Bitwig, Reason etc. etc. and they are all great and can help you to make any music you wanna make but the more I used other daws the more I appreciated Reaper and realized there's nothing like Reaper in the market, yeah it's not perfect just like every other daw, but it's in a league of its own. To this date, there's nothing I could do in other daw but couldn't do in Reaper but easier and faster.

What is your reaper theme? So dope. Recently I just decided to switch daw from s1 to reaper, thanks for your sharing!

Enjoyed your customisation and glad you're happy with your choice

Hey! Studio One user here, but looking for a change. I got really curious about the script you used to edit the sample start of the VST’s. Is it dynamic or does it require template? If you add a new instance of the vst will the script automatically update its state? I can kind of achieve this feature in studio one (or any other daw) using bluecat’s remote control but it’s a PITA to setup and it requires a template already pre assigned. Thanks! Abraço!

I tried many DAWs and Reaper wins in all cases :face-red-heart-shape:

Reaper is the Ikea of DAWs

I started making music with FL, and after three years I decided that it was time to move on and chose reaper as a reference, and in literally an hour I had already learned everything I could do in FL, but now it has become faster and more optimized, and yet I only completed an hour of use, in general, I was not mistaken in choosing reaper

Thank you. This was very interesting, but I had just looked at moving from S1 back to Reaper and found I was constrained to stick with S1. The big issue was hardware. My main devices on my desk are an NI Kontrol Mk3 keyboard and an ioStation 24c control surface. Neither of these are supported on Reaper. If you can get the Kontrol approximately working, it has a reputation of crashing. And there is no current way to use the ioStation - ReaSonus suggests it could work with the (logically identical) FaderPort 2, but I could not get it to recognise my hardware. So ... I will keep monitoring it. But unless hardware compatibility improves, Reaper won't work for me - and that's a shame.

I made the same decision 4 years ago, from S1. Congratulations ;)

Before I love using both. Studio 1 for production and recording and reaper for mixing but I had big issue with studio when I notice that my recorded sound after opening it again in a few days I would hear a out of phase like sound. It seems that the audio is corrupted or something that’s why i stopped using it.

Браво. Личи си, че имаш добър доктор.

You will be back on Studio One in a while. Give it some time...I have the T-shirt.

Reaper is like an early access to a prototype