Re:Reaper: Digital Audio Workstation
by taffronaut on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:20AM
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Likewise FLStudio - thanks to its lifetime license model I have been using it as a paid license DAW for more than 15 years. It has a very active and collaborative user base especially for hip hop and indie game music.
Like Reaper, it was built by one man (gol) and I believe he's still the lead programmer for it. The quality on stock plugins used to range from ok-to-great, but they've updated most everything old to newer tech (while not removing access to these older plugins if you need/like them) and have added tons and tons of features. Pitch correction (like Melodyne), a fully modular DSP platform (like Max or Reaktor), a full-featured WAV editor (like Sound Forge or Audacity), a very good 303 emulator (like Rebirth), a bunch of very high-quality (if sometimes experimental and difficult to program) synths and samplers, and a considerable content/sample library.
(I'm just a happy 15 or 20 year customer, not paid to write this in any way)
Oh, and the Wave Editor (called Edison) is probably my favorite to use, between it, Sound Forge, and Audacity