Big league electronic artists who use Reaper?

I doubt it. I'm still the only pro studio in the south west of england who use it (afaik)- I'd love to be wrong though :) Kind regards Dave Rich

Me! Ok... "Big league", uh? No, actually I don't know. It took Fruity Loops many years to be considered "pro" (just before they switched to FL Studio). I guess Reaper will follow the same path (... and will become ReaStudio, lol)

Actually, come to think of it, there's a psytrance producer with a few releases who uses it, I can't remember his name, but he hangs out on Isratrance(which I occasionally read, but have never signed up an account). He's not uber-famous, but he's established enough to be considered big-league IMO. Dogsonacid also is a forum that's quite a few Big League DnB producers have sprung out of, and Reaper has a disproportionate amount of market share there, but I'm not specifically aware that any of them are particularly famous yet...

Slightly off topic but it seems there are some pro outfits using Reaper for various purposes usually for purely audio recording tasks. Especially in the classical recording field. Not very glamourous but these guys don't want anything falling apart during a long critical performance. ns

It seems like this thread is getting towards recording bands and not electronic musicians, so... Cubase and Logic have always been "it" for electronic producers, but there are plenty of signed producers who have been known to use Fruity Loops, Reason, and such oddball DAWs as Synapse Orion Platinum, Magix Sequoia, Sony Acid Pro, and others... People say that the MIDI implementation is lacking, I'm sure that's been true in the past(I started using Reaper@ 2.4), but what features is Reaper lacking now that are show-stoppers for electronic music? I used Cubase for many years, it definitely has some MIDI features that Reaper does not, but how useful are they really? I can work 10x faster in Reaper, that trumps any of the missing MIDI implementation for me.

Question: When will Reaper have arrived? Answer: When it's users stop worrying about who else is using it... and what their "status" is. Observation: It's gonna be a while... ;) Notice how you never see PT users asking those questions. You see fewer and fewer Cubase, Sonar, Samp users even caring... it's the new ones who ask those kinds of questions. Would it change anything one way or another for YOU? If not, what's the point exactly?

In relation to people in music stores talking about Reaper. I run a high tech department in a big music store and I am not aloud to talk about Reaper. Simply because we can't sell it. It does not relate to the business. If someone comes in to buy ProTools 8, I'm not about to start talking about Reaper. I have to admit to kind of liking the undergound nature of it all. There should be a special handshake ;-p I run a studio and get regular comments asking, "what the hell are you running. It's so fast". I recently explained to a group of electronic producers how I mixed a biggish album. When I was asked what I used, there was a bit of shock and muttering when I said I mixed the whole thing on Reaper. It was cool. He Heh! Oh, and a tip:. Get one of those Logitech (G9 I think) mice with the weighted scroll wheel that just flies, it will speed up transport like nothing else, and the momentum looks cool.

That's a cool story. I've probably turned on a good 30-40 people to Reaper just by using it on my laptop. They just ask... "...what is that?". "Reaper. Free for 30 days. Check it out. Google it."

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