When I decided to drop Adobe Audition (which is somewhat similar in UI flow) as I tired of the damn subscription model, I went with Reaper and have not looked back. I still use Cool Edit Pro 2 for wave editing however.
@atomicbob Reaper's also more affordable by far which is a boon. I do have a copy of Ableton I got for "free" with my mic interface but wow it's very Cult of Apple in feel and design, and in its community too.
Reaper it is! Have been demoing it and have been happy, just wondering what I might be missing out on cuz FL Studio is more popular among musicmakers here it seems.
Reaper is good for working with audio. Watch Kenny Gioia videos. Download or buy a better eq, compressor, and reverb than what comes with it. Free JS:ReEQ is good. Paid Sonnox Oxford EQ and Fabfilter Pro-Q 3. Freemium Tokyo Dawn compressors. Klanghelm MJUC is cheap and fun. Buy a real, easy to use reverb like the Eventide SP2016 that can do both dirty and clean sounds.
If you’re making beats and working with MIDI, Ableton and FL are designed for electronic music. Logic and Cubase started as MIDI sequencers and are more suited for it and featured than Reaper. The quality of the included inserts is still almost always horrific though.
So far I'm feeling Reaper is really intuitive to work with since I've grown accustomed to Audacity over the years and other layouts just feel amazingly prohibitive. Creature of habit I suppose.
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