I'm in a similar boat moving from Garageband to Reaper. In short, you've got nothing to lose if you want to move on from what is basically the equivalent of a virtual 4-track recorder to a full-featured mixing desk, which leaves even Logic looking rusty. If you can't seem to do something and it's actually because Reaper can't do it (unlikely but possible), the development of it is like nothing I've ever experienced before (other than maybe Curve by Cable Guys a virtual synth where community-driven feature requests are voted on and added in updates), and new features are added/improved upon regularly. So, if you like the way Garageband does things then all you need to do is work out what you like about it and make Reaper work like that - this forum is a great place to ask for help with certain actions and workflows to help you on your way. Having said that, I can't deny that a few of my personalised editing tools/actions/workflows are set up the way they are because of Logic. Garageband can never offer you that kind of satisfaction. It takes a bit of effort to get to that kind of level of personalisation where everything feels just right, but do a little bit every day, like switching a new keyboard shortcut or two between takes or edits when you realise that you want the "g" key to open the Groove Tool or the "s" key to solo the active channel for example, and before you know it you have your own ideal working environment. I'd have to say Reaper is arguably the best option available for audio work if you like to work how you like to work, rather than being constrained by a developer's vision of how you should be working. ![]() I've now had Reaper purring like a kitten for the last four of those six months, and for the last few weeks I've been confident enough to start coming up with new actions which had would never even occurred to me as possible in a DAW when I was still of the mindset that Logic was the be-all-and-end-all. I finally switched about 6 months ago, when something just clicked with me with Reaper 4 that hadn't done with v2 or 3. I had the Logic way of working and its keyboard shortcuts engrained in my brain and couldn't be bothered to put the effort into understanding the fundamental differences in Reaper (the whole "every track is a send" thing, and the sheer number of recording/in/out options for MIDI and audio on every channel alone was quite a challenge to fully grasp when I was used to separate MIDI and audio tracks) On top of that, remapping keys and setting up actions for the way I wanted to work seemed like a chore. ![]() I moved from Logic to Reaper last summer after 3 or four previous attempts that I gave up on because of similar problems with finding the workflow different to what I was used to, and not realising just how customisable Reaper is. ![]() I tried Googling this thread's name but it didn't yield anything very useful. Is it worth my sitting down and reading the REAPER manual cover to cover? Are there particular sections I should focus on?.Tell me a way in which REAPER, to quote the Perl community, "makes the easy things easy and the hard things possible." Is there something you do often in REAPER that would be extremely tedious or impossible in GarageBand?.So I want to know what's good about REAPER's interface. If you switched, how did you get used to the REAPER workflow? Apple's known for their intuitive interfaces did you find REAPER's less intuitive when getting started, and how did you get around this? Is there a "Zen" of REAPER that it helps to understand? I'm a Vim user so I'm not opposed to interface learning curves, but GarageBand works for me about 80% of the time.I've basically been stumbling around in it and trying to replicate what I can do in GarageBand, but I suspect this really isn't the way to compare them, as I end up getting hung up on little things (Cmd-R to record? Why not just R? Why do I have to select something from a context submenu just to lengthen a MIDI item? Why is merging MIDI items so counterintuitive?) rather than really getting into the REAPER way of doing things.įor those of you who have tried both or, better yet, switched from GB to REAPER, a few questions: ![]() So I'm in the process of trying out REAPER and seeing if it's worth my hard-earned when I'm already used to GarageBand.
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