Jul 16, 2015 - A new Cubase inspired theme was recently posted by Cube13 and it looks great. Eyssina by Cube13 is an advanced theme for REAPER V5.

I am a Reaper user and I have found my health like we say in Greece. I just want to say that Reaper can handle x100 times more plugins than any other DAW. Cp goerz berlin serial numbers. A friend of mine who is a Cubase user thought that,Cubase 8.5 would solve this.

But he can load minus 10 times the plugins I use in Reaper without any lag. I don't know if the Cockos guys are aliens and have the best coding, or their 32bit bridge rocks, but I though Cubase 8.5 would be good in handling lots of plugins! Failure though. My friend thinks to buy more powerful cpu etc. Why Reaper can handle so many plugins without problem? Are these guys aliens after all? Or just smarter programers?:D Your thoughts?

Reaper ( Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording) is a very underrated daw. I migrated from Cubase to S1 to Reaper.

It was initially annoying because of the workflow and I used to keep coming back to S1. Mind you most people loose interest just in the beginning because of the default workflow but Reaper's strength lies in tweaking it to fit into your workflow which I did, now I am happy for my decision. It is installed on my i5, 8GB only laptop but rock solid, loads tons of vsts(i's) without me thinking twice of cpu hiccups as there are none. On the other hand, freeze + render in place (two different features) + kontakt purging feature literally free my poor 8GB RAM.

And then the giant feature, 'offline fx', comes in which helps running big templates. For a few weeks now I am not using my desktop computer.

I have modified Reaper which is behaving almost like my previous daw so I feel home now. For expression maps you can use BRSO articulate which is an intelligent plugin and seamlessly fits in workflow. SWS extensions and Reapack make things super fast. Theme-wise, I tried many themes but the best I found for my laptop 1366 x 768 display is. I think I've made this comparison before, but Reaper is to DAWs what Linux was to OSes circa 2000.

At first blush, it looks completely viable. But once you get into it, you will quickly find things that piss you off about it.

The key difference from other DAWs is that almost always there are several options to unfuck Reaper's default behaviour. If customizing workflows is important to you, and you're a bit technically savvy, Reaper -- as with Linux -- is quite special in what it allows you to do. (I make this comparison as a full time Linux user since 1994.) The piano roll is one of the most glaring aspects of Reaper that requires serious customization. ED mentioned mouse modifiers, but also you'll almost certainly want a series of third party scripts to provide various MIDI tweaking functionality, plus the obvious shortcut tweaking and macro creation. It can be made tolerable, I think, and a bit of training and muscle memory to cover most of the remaining gaps. There are still a few stupid UI behaviours that induce a psychotic rage in me like few other applications are able (e.g. Activating some actions suddenly causes the MIDI editor to lose keyboard focus).

If you just want something that's pretty and mostly functional out of the box and you don't mind adapting yourself to the software rather than the other way around, I don't think Reaper would be the best choice. But if you're a workflow nut like I am and/or you're willing to invest the time tweaking and scripting Reaper, a world of possibilities opens up. One more thing, with the help of a very helpful Reaper's forum member, I have finally managed to run Reaper and Harrison Mixbus side by side with Reaper being the recording/composing daw while Mixbus as mixing console. And it was all possible via Reaper's indigenous Rearoute.