REAPER vs. Audition
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Posted on Jan 17, 2010 06:30 pm
smoore528
Member Since: Dec 24, 2009
I've been using Reaper for some time now, and I like it, the licence is brilliant value, but it does make me wonder, is the money spent on other software well spent? I've been looking into Audition and I think its about £350 to buy. I'd just like to hear from someone whether or not it would be a monumental waste of money, but if it's worth it, I'd do some saving.
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CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Jan 19, 2010 12:35 pm I've been using audition since 1.5 and am now at 3.0
I personally love Audition but have never used Reaper. The positives about 3.0. It is stable, has some nice built in plugins, supports multicore CPU, has a great interface and some pretty nice routing options. I also like that it does all conversion/dithering when burning a CD so I can dump a mix of 96Khz waves to .mp3 and have them all converted correctly with no input on my part.
From what I hear, reaper is pretty full featured though, I learned audition back in the cool edit days and just stuck with what I knew.
edit: one last thing, I love Auditions layout for mixing, it looks like a standard mixer but with a spot for plugins per track.
Jan 19, 2010 04:20 pm Audition certainly seems like a good piece of kit. Im just wondering whether or not its worth all the money, when Reaper is so much cheaper.
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Jan 19, 2010 04:23 pm I think in terms of good DAW software it is not very expensive but $350 is alot of money right now.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Jan 19, 2010 08:21 pm Well, as a reaparian (hah, nice word) I haven't found stuff I can't do, though I'm not a full on super-user either.
Reap's got some of the same look, and it's got a bunch of very good plugs included. The routing is very easy and works well.
One thing that's been brought up from time to time, is there's no built-in EQ, which is good and bad. It would be nice to have one there all the time, but Reaper lets you make templates from a track, and store it so when you insert new track, it will have all your pre-set stuff in the track already. So that's good. Plus, it's up to you to pick one you like, not just use the default one. Personally, I use a contributors home-built 12 slider EQ for a lot of what I do.
I would think that if you're not up against a wall, then have fun with what you have. When you say "i can't do this, but program X does", then you're ready to change.
Be aware, that I've not used Audition, so I'm certainly not knocking anything AA can do. It may be head and shoulders above reaper, but I wouldn't know it =).
Personally, I'd be hard pressed to leave reaper. Not just for the $$$ involved (it helps) but it does all I want, and lets me (you) change it's actions up to whatever you want.
Oh yeah, if you want a plug that you can't find, then you can make one, with the Jesusonic programming language (of sorts). You can create your own plug-in, which the 12 bar EQ person did. Also, you can create hotkeys for just about anything you can think of. I don't do this much, as it's pretty easy already, but there are a few on reaper boards that have made whole extension sets, super macros, etc. to add functionality.
For instance, there's a macro set that lets you take a long recording, of say 10 songs, that are in 1 track. Put markers at the beginning of each song that names the song, and this macro will cut, render and package each of the songs, to their own file, either wav or mp3. it's totally slick, and is super for band practices, concert recordings, etc.
DJ_RATHEThey call me DeeJ!Member
Since: Jan 19, 2010
Jan 20, 2010 12:26 am I've been using Audition 3.0 for few years now and have never have had a problem with it.
Super easy to adjust I/O for speakers and recording devices, VST and Direct X plugin's are easy to install (Drag and drop to VST folder) and crash protection saves your current piece if there is a problem (saved my a _ _ once or twice =P ) when i ran a huge number (15) effects on 1 track in multi-session.
Worth getting a second screen so you can fully utilize the workspace in both Multi-track session, or single track.
I personally have not used Reaper, so i can only give my side of the story on Audition 3.0.
Waste of time is Adobe Soundbooth CS4.... Audition is cheaper, has more grunt and easier user interface to wrangle.
Hope this sort of helps ;)
Cheers,
Justin
