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Discussion in 'Critique & Feedback' started by Louis Calabrese, Sep 20, 2017.

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  1. #141 Aaron Venture, Dec 4, 2017
    Yeah. I switched over from Ableton Live nearly 2 years ago. I'm never going back unless it's for a specific project. Completely customizable, super light, frequently updated. Almost infinite potential for community-driven resources. Just the other day Tack posted on VI-C about his open source Expression mapper. Generally if you run into a barrier and find something that Reaper can't do, there's a high chance that someone wrote a script for it and you just have to Google it.

    I've only used Cubase a few times on certain occasions and not at home, so I can't really speak for it. I'm currently very, very happy with Reaper; until I run into a gamebreaking problem with it, I'm staying right here :D Plus it's dirt cheap and the licence you buy today will be valid until v.6.99 (currently 5.62).

    Sonar being abandoned is very sad. Are there any serious issues with the latest build?
     
  2. #142 Louis Calabrese, Dec 4, 2017
    Sonar is pretty stable for me now but without official support, one update to Kontakt, Play, or Windows could put it out of commission. And it came as a surprise, many people are thrown by this move.

    Since your doing similar things as I, I'm guessing the MIDI editor is a bit better now? The notation editor is the reason I left Reaper but I hear it's added now- how is it?
     
  3. #143 Sylvain Provenzano, Dec 4, 2017
    You can download and try Reaper for free, just try it ! If you go into Cubase and not planning to get the PRO version, be careful of which features are included (e.g expression maps are in PRO version only).
     
  4. #144 Louis Calabrese, Dec 4, 2017
    I have it installed, mostly setup and a few old projects in it. I'm gonna look into it more and decide if I need to shell out the money for Cubase or can roll with it.

    Reaper does have an active strong community
     
  5. #145 Aaron Venture, Dec 4, 2017
    Yeah, that makes sense. You'd have to stay on current software to be 100% sure.

    Compared to Ableton, MIDI is godlike. I don't know what else could I want for. I have everything mapped to keyboard shortcuts. Invert vertically, invert horizontally, moving notes in the grid with WASD, move by octave, duplicate by octave, duplicate by 5th, cut on cursor, cut on grid, join... It's a blast and really fast. I don't have problems with CC either - everything I need is either in there or there's a script for it (CC Compression/Expansion).

    As for the notation, I guess it's fine. It has an option to snap quantize notes for the notation view only so that they're properly displayed, but legato transitions will still throw it off. Before exporting notation, duplicate all MIDI into new takes, then quantize the start and end, and correct any mistakes, especially note lengths. You can then draw slurs, write in articulations, text, a whole of things. Like Sylvain said below, try it out, it's free. If you select multiple tracks, it will display them one below another, like a real score. It supports export to PDF and to XML (for easy import into Sibelius or other notation software). It's not as powerful as Sibelius, but it's pretty good. The images I posted previously were from Reaper notation.
     
  6. #146 Louis Calabrese, Dec 8, 2017
    Alex

    I hope you are well. I will post music updates of mine soon but man am I having issues building pieces completely without a click (that and I worked on switching my DAW thanks to Cakewalk's demise). Sample delay and I guess my own playing are really killing me, not sure what to do outside of tons of separate piano practice.

    I'm also experimenting with adding tempo changes in the project after the fact (better then nothing right?). Thoughts?
     
  7. #147 Alexander Schiborr, Dec 9, 2017
    you can use also click..there is no law saying that short compelling pieces need free tempo. Of course you can practise that as well if you like the idea.
     
  8. #148 Louis Calabrese, Dec 10, 2017


    Good evening, I hope everyone is well. I tried to take some of your suggestions and add them to the piece (balance, Rubato). Please let me know what you think of my changes.
     
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