A few weeks ago I sent out a message to the newsletter subscribers simply asking, “What is your biggest frustration with REAPER right now?”
Here are the results. Let’s keep it going, add your answer in the comments section below.
- The scale in the volume envelope being logarithmic instead of linear makes VERY difficult to adjust levels unless you zoom the track vertically. Under -20db is very hard to adjust properly
- The size of the send knobs in the mixer (could be bigger, or a small fader) or the lack of metering for sends.
- My biggest frustration with Reaper is that, as a newbie to DAWs, I’m struggling to learn the basics of operating the system even after watching some tutorials.
- That it’s audio engine actually is less effective than BlowTools ones these days..
- how to import third party plug-ins into Reaper… I seem to be able to download them, but am missing a step to let Reaper recognize them.
- Once in a while, I’ll be editing (splitting regions, typically), and I don’t know if I hit the wrong key shortcut by mistake, but all the regions in my project disappear. Undo history doesn’t show anything that looks look deleting, so I can’t undo it. I need to go to the bkp file, which fortunately is saved every few minutes. Other than that, I think Reaper is awesome!
- The inability to use VST3s
- Biggest frustration…Reaper totally rocks in almost every way – but I would like better MIDI editing capabilities. While I can program anything I need to in the current editor, it still feels fussy and twice as much work as working in other environments, such as Machine, Cubase, or FXpansion Geist.
- I can hear that my guitar sounds fine through headphone amp, and registers on Reaper track when armed. The wave form looks normal when I am recording. However when I save the take the wave form appears abnormal/segmented , and sounds horrible on play back. I have reset Reaper back to original default settings, it and does the same thing
- I would be really grateful if the good people at REAPER could implement a score editor.
- This has become extremely important to me as I get a lot of background scoring projects and it becomes really tough for the musicians to understand the score just by listening to it rather than reading the notation.
- my biggest frustration is how long is taking to learn to do things, even very basic things, with it. I am more writer/performer than tech guy at this time; maybe that is part of it, I am deeply into something else when I need to learn the recording stuff?
What is there to learn from this?
Some users don’t know what Version 5 features are coming. Some are overwhelmed with the options. Some are confused about basic computer and DAW setup.
For me, I struggle to keep up with all the new features, scripts while constantly discovering things that have been in REAPER for years. It’s frustrating because it feels like I’ll never have time to try everything, but it’s also exciting that so much is possible.
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