gbuck wrote: ↑18 Jan 2021
Creativemind wrote: ↑18 Jan 2021
Yeah I'm using the Reason Rack Plug-In in Reaper. It's superb.
I've just counted all the features I use on a daily basis in Reaper now that Reason doesn't have yet and it's 42. I don't in all honesty think I could live without any of them.
Could you make a list of these 42 features?
1) Track Folders
2) Track Templates
3) Volume and Panning Parameters on the Track Control Panel (left of the sequencer)
4) Linked Clips
5) Linked Automation
6) Being Able to Duplicate Linked Clips By Just Extending the Clip
7) Hiding Automation Lanes
8) Slice By Play Cursor (Song Position Pointer)
9) Time Markers
10) Regions
11) Transient Sensitivity For Audio Clips
12) Transient Time Displays On Audio Clips
13) Midi Chase
14) Note Displays
15) Joining Midi Notes
16) Slice By Grid
17) Having a Note Length as Well As Grid Snap Setting
18) Labelling the Piano Keys (Great for drums - Kick, Snare etc)
19) This thing where the further you click into a piano key in the midi editor, the lower the velocity is and the last velocity is applied to the next note you paste into the midi editor
20) Remember Last Note Length
21) Clicking a Different Note Length than the Last Pasted Note Length to Change the Next Pastes Note Length
22) This thing when 2 notes or items (clips) are in succession and you can shorter the one before at the end and the one after will lengthen from the start but still be directly after the one before (if that makes sense)
23 & 24) Manual Parameter Inputs with Copy and Paste
25) Bypass All Effects Button on Mixer
26) Double Clicking To Reset Parameters To Default (So Much Quicker Than Ctrl Clicking)
27) Scanning the VST Folder While the DAW is Open
28) Changing Themes While the DAW is Open
* A New Section For Newly Installed Plug-ins (Very Handy)
29) Undo History
30) Being Able to go back 50 Recent Projects
31) Being Able to see 50 Plug-Ins in Chronological Order in Your Recent VST's Folder
32) Switching Places of 2 Clips Shortcut (But I Found a Script For That Myself)
33) Left Click Adding a Midi Note (Assigned That Myself)
34) Audio Wave Display in Media Browser
35) Play Audio From Anywhere or Loop It From Any 2 Points in the Waveform In Media Browser
36) Tempo Match Audio In Media Browser
37) Pitch Shift Samples In Media Browser (+ or - 12 semitones)
38) Route Media Browser To a Track To Audition Samples with Effects Applied
39) Play Midi Files in Media Browser (Uses the sound of whatever track is selected in the Arranger)
40) All Changes (Start, Pitch Shift, Tempo Match) All Apply To the Sample When You Drag It To a Track
41) Adding Effects To Clips In Arranger (Sequencer) Not Just the Track
42) Version Saving
43) Custimization
44) Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts
Actually more than 42.
Also using VST 3 although I don't have any that are VST 3 only and I have used Video Sync a couple of times as well and learnt the other day you can do lyric video's from within Reaper itself. Also I like to switch to Notation View in Midi Editor just to see my Midi Tracks in Score for Fun and Prestige lol!
Oh and 5 other things, being able to load themes that other users have designed into it, having a full colour pallet, having the ability to load User Designed Plug-Ins (JS Plug-Ins) Into It - Someones only gone and made a free Fab Filter Pro Q3 clone (ReEQ), having more than 1 CC Event in the Midi Editor (there's literally about 15 and you go back to Reason and there's 1 - Velocity lol!) and Autosave.
Considering it's 6yrs younger than Reason (2006) it's 5 versions ahead in terms of functionality with only 2 coders. They have updates about every 2 weeks to a month with between 10 and 30 features (including bug fixes) in every update. It works out an update every 20 days (I did an average out of the last say 20 updates). The last one was I think 11th December so we're due one any day now.