Reaper

Reaper

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About

GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and an incredible selection of session drummers and percussionists. With Touch Bar features for MacBook Pro and an intuitive, modern design, it’s easy to learn, play, record, create, and share your hits worldwide. Now you’re ready to make music like a pro.

About

REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more. REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more. From mission-critical professional environments to students' laptops, there is a single version of REAPER, fully featured with no artificial limitations. You can evaluate REAPER in full for 60 days. A REAPER license is affordably priced and DRM-free.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Musicians

Audience

Musicians and Audio Engineers looking for an advanced Audio Editing solution

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.2 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.2 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Simple system with easy plug and play. Plenty of instruments to choose from that sound fantastic. For any beginner music maker, this is a no-brainer.
  • Free, easy to use, comes with my Macbook, more user-friendly than the competitors, although the competitors have more functions for hardcore musicians. I utilize a Focusrite Scarlett interface to sing and play guitar directly into Garageband, which eliminates background noise.
  • So. Many. Features. You'd be hard-pressed not to find a way to use Garage Band in your mix. Whether practicing at home, or recording in the studio, GarageBand does it all! And the mobile app is even better for working on the go!
  • GarageBand is an excellent tool for recording music and mixing it together. I've used it for many music recordings and it is very user-friendly.

Cons

  • Only works on Apple machines. The barrier to entry of their systems is more than other hardware.
  • There's only so much you can do with Garageband, but it's phenomenal for casual music creators.
  • The only con would be it requires an Apple product like a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. However, that is all I own so I have no complaints!
  • I wish the learning curve was a little bit easier.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Best DAW ever! It's easy to use, has so many features that you will never use, has a great design, active support and very cheap! 10/10!
  • Reaper in comparison to Cubase is very stable and CPU efficient. The total download installation for windows 10 64 bit is 14Mb, which is indicative of it's efficient coding and also reflects that reaper doesn't come with sample libraries. What it does come with, is a set of mixing, mastering and creative effects that can do those jobs well, eg multiband compressor, limiter, compressor, delay, impulse response reverb, eq. These effects are nearly on a par with fab filter in terms of features and tweakability but lack the sophisticated gui. There is also a large library of user designed effects all of which are freely available. Reaper is unique in it's ability to let the user write custom actions that carry out many different steps and to loop them. This makes some jobs much quicker on Reaper than other DAWs. Reaper is also unique in its use of tracks - there is only one type of track - and anything audio/midi/video can be placed on the same track. It also has unique routing flexibility, any track can be routed to any other. As well as setting up busses via routing, there is a folder system which does something very similar with much fewer mouse clicks. Reaper will run just about any kind of effect including legacy 32 bit, with efficient and stable automatic bridging. I am amazed at other DAWs, that won't accept several different fx formats. Reaper is great value, £60 gets you a full licence with frequent updates, before that, they offer the full version for trial, with no limitations other than a short nag screen. It frustrates me that some commentators think this low price is indicative of a DAW inferior to more expensive ones. This not the case. It simply represents the best value for money out any purchase I have ever made.

Cons

  • I don't want to say anything bad about this DAW. But I will say, that it's not popular enough. It's underrated yo!
  • Reaper does not come laden with sample libraries and VSTi's. Reaper's fx are fully functional but lack sophisticated GUI's. MIDI editing is fully and comprehensively supported, but other DAW's have better looking MIDI editors. Beat detection is not as straight forward as some other DAW's

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Apple
Founded: 1976
United States
www.apple.com/mac/garageband/

Company Information

Cockos
Founded: 2004
United States
www.reaper.fm/

Alternatives

Ableton Live

Ableton Live

Ableton

Alternatives

Ableton Live

Ableton Live

Ableton
ACID Pro

ACID Pro

MAGIX
Logic Pro

Logic Pro

Apple
PreSonus Studio One

PreSonus Studio One

PreSonus Audio Electronics

Categories

Categories

Audio Editing Features

Audio Effects
Batch Processing
Export Audio (Multiple File Types)
Record Live Audio
Record Multiple Simultaneous Tracks
Scrub, Search, Bookmark
Sound Editing Tools
Spectral Analysis / FFT
Speech Synthesis (TTS)
Swappable Patches
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Mixing
Voice Changer

Audio Editing Features

Audio Effects
Batch Processing
Export Audio (Multiple File Types)
Record Live Audio
Record Multiple Simultaneous Tracks
Scrub, Search, Bookmark
Sound Editing Tools
Spectral Analysis / FFT
Speech Synthesis (TTS)
Swappable Patches
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Mixing
Voice Changer

Integrations

ERA Bundle
NEXUS4
SYQEL
Vanguard 2
Animoog Z
AudioKit Synth One
Beatformer
Krotos Concept 2
Krotos Dehumaniser 2
Neutone Morpho
Regroover
RipX DAW
Visibox
iZotope Neoverb
iZotope Neutron
iZotope Ozone
iZotope Plasma
iZotope RX
iZotope VocalSynth
nvk.tools

Integrations

ERA Bundle
NEXUS4
SYQEL
Vanguard 2
Animoog Z
AudioKit Synth One
Beatformer
Krotos Concept 2
Krotos Dehumaniser 2
Neutone Morpho
Regroover
RipX DAW
Visibox
iZotope Neoverb
iZotope Neutron
iZotope Ozone
iZotope Plasma
iZotope RX
iZotope VocalSynth
nvk.tools
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